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Bertram

Please go spew your anti-science BS elsewhere. The global concensus among scientists and governments alike is that the acceleration of climate change is manmade - and this has been the vast, VAST global consensus for decades now. It's maddening to have to still argue this in 2022 when we have data going back to the 70s that demonstrate the dire reality of the situation.

People like you are literally holding back society from enacting the clear change that we need to prevent catastrophe in the very near future. Catastrophe that will affect us all.

And since climate change skeptics always seem to be right-wing loons, let me say it in a language your sad little mind might understand: when temperatures in the Middle East and Africa make land there entirely uninhabitable, where do you think all the undesirable brown people are going to go?

Absolute roasters.

One day I'd love to hear if a Tory can explain what offends them about someone being aware of racial prejudice and discrimination (which is what "woke" means) without admitting it's just a wolf-whistle for ******s.

(Even if I disagree with a fair few..)

Commend 67Sam for making actual points! What a rarity on here.

Bloody workshy youth with their zero-hour contracts, wage stagnation and roaring inflation. If they just stopped eating avocado and watching Netflix, they too could afford a second home!

The British have a longer workweek than every other country in Europe, so calling the youth workshy is laughable. But as always, it's typical Tory fare to pick a fight with the poorest in society and blame them, and not the system they control, for the problem.

And as if it needed saying, older generations ALWAYS think the ones that follow are lazy. It's a tale as old as time.

And I'd still love to hear what SNP policies you hate, pal.

Lol Gate, I know you love me, my little cherub, but I ain't in politics sweetheart. I'm flattered you compare me to BoJo, but I'm just a guy on a forum, I'm not running the country...

Why do you hold a random person on a forum (me) to a higher standard than the person running the country?

Generally I block people that just spam the chat. I don't block people I enjoy a good argument with, so gimme a kiss Gatey.

Oh for the love of God stop making posts directed at me, I have you filtered so I can't and won't read anything you say. Miserable little weirdo.

The reason "beergate" was a dud was because they were working and had a beer with some food. That is a world away from numerous parties at Downing St, where staff were so drunk they vomitted on the walls and sang karaoke.

It's not even in the same ballpark. That's why dozens of Tories were fined by the police for breaking the law.

Whatever your politics, you should fall on the side of reason. A government forcing everyone to stay indoors and isolate, criminalizing those that don't, should have followed those same rules to the letter of the law.

Everyone should have condemned them, not just non-Tories. Yet the right-wing are the same people raging against lockdowns and against the "elite establishment", while simultaneously defending the people that made those rules (the "elite establishment") in the first place. It makes no sense. It's indefensible, yet Tory voters keep twisting themselves in knots because they cannot fathom the idea of criticizing their almighty leader.

It's maddening, honestly.

When Starmer gets cleared of wrong doing he is in cahoots with police, when Johnson gets fined it's a big nothing-burger. Rabble rabble rabble.

I remember hearing he was just as bad as Johnson and Partygate, now it's been proven he isn't, and once again the goalposts are moving.

Law and order when it suits Tories...

The Tories are made up of a majority of private school oldboys, so chances of it not being a toff are slim to none. My money is on Sunak tbh. I don't agree with his economic policies at all, but he seems the most sensible of the lot. Although I loathe at the idea of a billionaire being in charge of the country, what in God's name do they know about the average person? They live in a completely different world to the rest of us.

"You only have to look at sterling’s demise to know the prospects for U.K. property market will tank a la 2008/2014 period, Lloyds with its mortgage biz and no trading desk is basically fxcked. Your looking at a target price for these of sub .28p."

The property market does seem unsustainable, but with the lack of new housing being built and the ever-increasing amount of stock being taken off the market for holiday homes, AirBnBs, rental etc I struggle to see how prices will go down. They rose by another 2% last month, so it seems like a strong market. Lloyds gambling on it remaining strong I guess.

Lloyds SHOULD be making more money on interest rate rises hand over fist in the coming years (I don't see it ever going back to old levels) so a sub .28 seems crazy to me. Tbh this stock feels cheap as it is, but the UK economy has been buggered by years of Tory policies.

Hell you can see as soon as the Tories came to power the SP absolutely tanked and has never recovered. Perhaps when Labour take over we might get the economy back on track ;)

Democracy functions exactly as intended... "That's not MY bloody democracy, the almighty leader is gone, this is rubbish communist state socialism Corbyn lefties!"

Knuckle draggers the lot. Honestly I'm amazed they manage to work a computer.

"Britain’s public finances are on an “unsustainable” long-term path with a debt burden that could more than treble without further tax rises to cover the mounting cost of an ageing population and falling fuel duties, the Treasury’s independent forecaster has warned.

"The Office for Budget Responsibility said that if economic shocks continued to hit the public finances, debt was on course to reach almost 320% of annual national income (GDP) in 50 years’ time – up from 96% now – unless successive governments raised revenues to offset rising costs.

"“The pressures of an ageing population on spending and the loss of existing motoring taxes in a decarbonising economy leaves public debt on an unsustainable path in the long term,” the OBR said."

Eat the rich etc.

"Well, why is the population in free fall you absolute weapon"

Why you asking me? And what does that have to do with my statement? More English people move to Scotland than vice versa, that's a fact and that is all I said. It is also such a miniscule number that it has little impact on the overall population.

Why are you taking a fact so personally, "you absolute weapon"?

I sold a little while back, expecting it to go lower and will try and catch the knife. Something has to give at some point. House prices still going up somehow while half the country can't afford groceries. The daily swings are too much, it's teetering before it flies off the handle.

Gate13 is someone that can't equate with saying "Go back to Israel" to a person of Jewish decent is about the same as saying "Go back to Africa" to a black person.

But nah, instead of condemning that, he'll join in on the attack. As he always does. And then cry when he gets called a bigot.

Oh look Gate13 has appeared to defend the bigots too! Full house.

The vast majority of my colleagues are non-Scots. We are nothing if not welcoming, as long as you aren't a *******.