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Hi Kenny,

Click the link, its timed to start on the corresponding section.

Hi kenny,

Good video, this section on a potential Russian civil war is interesting.

https://youtu.be/iQgHjbFI__0?t=1540

Hi mick,

Re CGT. Yeah, this looks likely to happen. Im not fond of double taxation, but so long as they dont go after ISA holders i can stomach it.

I would be happier if they increased the tax-free threshold on CGT, even if only back to 12 grand or whatever it was a couple of years ago, and above that taxed at the same rate as earned income. This would spare small scale investors trying to build some savings with their earned (and as such already taxed) capital.

Note: Don't mistake any criticism i make of Labour for support for the Conservatives, those guys were an abomination.

Hi mick,

The issue is Labour have so drastically limited their options to raise tax whilst on the campaign trail, that to raise a meaningful amount now requires disproportionately severe measures against select groups.

This is going to be deeply unpopular, as can be seen by the reaction to the winter fuel payments fiasco.

They could just reverse Jeremy Hunts National Insurance cut - which was effectively introduced to cause Labour this very problem.

Hi nom,

I very much want to agree with you unequivocally , but i remain somewhat undecided.

I understand the effects can be much more sudden than the ill effects of smoking tobacco - which are cumulative.

This aspect concerns me as a moment of indulgence, could potentially damage a person mental health.

Regular smoking does not carry this risk.

The notion that briefly sharing an open-air space with a smoker presents some sort of health risk is not credible, and is simply an excuse to dictate.

People live close to industry, alongside busy roads, or on regular HGV routes, houses covered in fine silt - which present genuine and continuous risk to health.

Visiting a pub garden is not dangerous.

Https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/aug/29/smoking-could-be-banned-uk-pub-gardens-outdoor-restaurants

Hey nom,

Read this in the guardian yesterday.

I didnt post it as it seemed so absurd, i thought it might be a journo using a bit of artistic licence, lol.

"At that point, they were joined by fellow special adviser Alex Boyd, who was told that Truss and Kwarteng were thinking they could still sort out the black hole with severe cuts.

“We’ve been told that they’re looking at stopping cancer treatment on the NHS,” they told him.

“Is she being serious?” Boyd asked. “She’s lost the plot,” they replied. “She’s shouting at everyone – at us and officials that we’ve ‘got to find the money!’ When we tell her it can’t be done, she shouts back, ‘It’s not true. The money is there. You go and find it.’”

Sounds completely chaotic.

Re Notting Hill carnival, clean-up operation.

"Kensington and Chelsea Council said rubbish to the equivalent weight of about 27 London buses had so far been cleared from the streets."

Hey mick.

Thanks :)

Tro,

Dont know what happened to all the capital letter in my post to you, lol.

BTW, The word that got removed begins with an R.

Mick,

Of course i realise that :)

I was just making the point that i have had dinner with people that have said worse, had heated debates with them, its part of life.

tro,

my impression is they have overstepped to make a point.

a point needed making, but with the rioters, not with people who are angry about immigration.

what the woman said is disgusting, but it doesn't read like a direct threat to me, just an ignorant ****** expressing her anger.

Hey mick,

People have been arrested for sharing misinformation, i didnt mean to imply that this particular woman was arrested for doing so.

Hey mick,

Thanks for posting.

Her message was horrid, im just very uncomfortable with people being jailed for sharing their opinions.

I've heard similar views shared over a boozy dinner, and everywhere else tbh. People do say horrible things.

Hey nom,

For example, the first i knew about the particular misinformation in question, (asylum seeker arrived on a boat etc), was via a link posted by yourself on here.

The idea that if i had acted on that information, and decided to start attacking people, that you would somehow be culpable for my actions is just nuts.

Hey nom,

Yeah, i dont disagree with any of that.

I just differentiate between rioters causing mayhem, and random members of the public with horrible opinions.

The former need locking up, that latter need persuading.

In arresting and imprisoning people who have shared misinformation online, there is the tacit implication that those who took to protest and riot as a result, were somehow justified given what they had read - a preposterous notion imo.

Imo, Starmer has likely only intensified an underlying sense of division via a draconian interpretation of free speech law.

By imprisoning the likes of the 53 year old woman - described as being an ordinarily kind and compassionate individual, carer to her husband, and an otherwise law abiding citizen with an unblemished record - for expressing her unsavory opinion online, the Gov is setting a dangerous president, open to abuse from a more authoritarian administration.

Farage and Co can continue to pedal the exact same message, free from consequence through astute use of their language.

Meanwhile, those without the tact or verbal dexterity to express themselves with subtlety, simply repeating the very same views routinely shared by some of our politicians and commentators, are being imprisoned.

This borders on persecution - of an uneducated working class, without the linguistic skills to express their anger delicately, whilst the puppet masters carry on stirring unabated.

That aside, the very idea that an adult, on reading some inflammatory Facebook post, is likely to go into the street on a rampage of destruction, without any other underlying motivation is deluded.

Rather than address the issues, the Gov seems to prefer to play an unending game of who radicalised who first, a chicken and egg type scenario - to which there is no answer.

Lols :)

GEX, CoS:

Hussar 8.8%

Mt. Winter 11.8%

Listen from 5.53 for about a minute and a half.

Timed link.

https://youtu.be/Wjs9V3de8Yk?t=353

Tuppence a bag :)

I rather like pigeons, but they are greedy, lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KLFdDFzVS8