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Ad hominem attacks from people that can't actually argue on facts. Tee hee, must be Friday night.

"Migrants should pay £25 a day to live in England.
Welsh £30 a day .
Scottish £50 if approved."

Why would anyone pay to live in England? You couldn't pay me to stay. Two years living in Leeds was enough for me. Too many fat, bald gammons harassing women from their cars.

"Don't bring facts and brutal reality to this conversation! It's all about my irrational fear of everything and everyone that isn't Tory!"

"Here's some more news, latest from Scotland, upper tax bands and tax rates to rise."

Ah yes, a progressive tax policy that targets the wealthiest in society and not the poorest and a Tory doesn't like it, quelle surprise.

Sour about what? The reality of the things happening right now? Are you stuck in 2018 or have you just not being paying attention to anything that is happening? Historic nurses strike today, there's some news for you.

Oh sorry, I guess all those nurses are just sour too. Everyone is sour, just not the Tory faithful.

Lloyds is tethered to the UK economy and the Tories have done nothing to actually grow this economy in the last 12 years. They have grown their bank accounts and that of their cronies, but that doesn't trickle down

All Labour has to do is get back to basics. Investment in the future, fair wages for the working class, build from the bottom up and economy will flourish. There is enough money going around, it just needs to be directed to the right places.

It's not rocket science, plenty wealthy economies in the manage it just fine. If your main concern isn't making the rich even richer, and you have long term investment in your own countries future (and not that of corporations) it's actually possible to have a healthy society in the 21st century.

Point being, I see Lloyds doing better going forward after the GE. Scary thing is how bad it will get before then.

TheFarEnd

Yeah because without the EBRS there would likely be total collapse of the service economy, which would send the country into a massive depression. If the government wanted to do something, they would prevent energy companies making record profits on the back of small businesses and the working class.

Giving a tiny amount of energy assistance barely counts as doing anything. It doesn't offset the huge increases in cost, it is akin to sticking a bandaid on a crack in a dam. And as always, it's the taxpayer that will be footing the bill down the line.

If the government wanted to do something, they would, but they couldn't give two f*cks about anything other than rinsing the public purse until they are inevitably kicked out of power at the next GE.

The writing is on the wall, they are only going to do the bare minimum to keep the economy ticking along so that they can pilfer as much as they can while leaving a trainwreck economy for Labour when they take over.

Why exactly is anyone still supporting the Tories at this point?

It's particularly a hard time as independent service industry places (which is my field of work) already operate on tiny margins. The lack of government support for energy in particular has been utterly astounding - it's like they want every small business to go under. Complete and utter failure of gov to do anything to help anyone.

What exactly will be left on the high street once service industry establishments disappear? They are literally the only businesses still going on most of them.

Total cluster*ck.

"Anything can be recovered from phones or computers if you have deleted it, it's just a matter of how much you want to spend recovering it."

Depends how you delete it. If you delete it by writing over the data with other data, it is not recoverable at all. If you just chuck it in the recycling bin and empty it, there's a good chance you can recover it with basic recovery software.

If you deleted it by putting a screwdriver through your harddrive, good luck recovering that.

Anyway, just thought I'd chime in on that side note.

Oh look skier has scurried away when presented with facts, how predictable.

Let me give you some facts about the NHS:

- After adjusting for inflation, the real-terms salary for someone at the top of band 5 (the highest band for nurses) actually fell by 9% between 2010/11 and 2019/20. This is obviously far worse now in 2022 with rampant inflation.
- More than 27,000 medics left the NHS in the third quarter of last year, the highest number on record and approximately 2 per cent of the entire workforce, according to NHS England figures.
- If we account for inflation, the largest amounts of money spent on the NHS in England was between 2004/05 and 2009/10. Tories are not putting any more money into the coffers than Labour.
- Demand for NHS care is expected to increase because of longer lifespans and rising cost of treatments. NHS costs increased by £11bn from 2011/12 to 2016/17.

So, lower or stagnating wages for over a decade for staff who have been overworked to the point that 2% of the workforce has left in the last six months alone. Costs of medical treatment and number of patience is increasing and the Tories are, when accounting for inflation, not actually putting more money into the system than Labour were. And that isn't even taking into consideration the impact Brexit has probably has on all of the above.

So, really sorry to crash your party with actual information. Skier, just really struggles to understand numbers and sometimes the adults have to come in and talk very slowly to him.

Actually I don't know why I bother to ask for evidence when skier is a serial liar that just makes up complete nonsense on the fly and presents it as fact.

"NHS funding is growing 10 times faster than the UK population."

Any evidence to back up this nonsense?

Your daily reminder that skier doesn't understand what growth is or why it's meaningless in a vacuum.

I swear it's hilarious when people don't even understand what words mean, but like to throw them around to be little online edgelords. You know most people grow out of trying to be edgy teenagers by the end of their teens..

"Another heaving packed to the rafters large pub and restaurant.......been to a few lately all packed......gla"

This is literally the busiest time of the year for the service industry. How exactly does that disprove the cost-of-living crisis?

Why do you struggle to accept the (extremely well documented) fact that the cost-of-living crisis is a real thing and it is affecting millions of people?

"Anyone who supports partition obviously doesn't support England."

Anyone that thinks Scotland leaving is "partition" clearly doesn't understand that the UK isn't just England.

Btw how come when Scotland wants to leave the UK it's somehow hatred for England, yet when the same people voted Brexit it wasn't at all about hating Johnny-foreigner?

The same folk that clearly hate Johnny-foreigner now banging on like little snowflakes about anti-English sentiment? Pot, kettle, whitey.

Get a bloody grip man. If you can't handle some folk making jokes about a football game, you need to examine your fragility. It's a game, some folk made some jokes cause your team lost, man up.

Unlucky tonight chaps, England were the better team. Ref was woeful.

I'm angry at the state of the country because I want it to be better for the people that actually live in it. What exactly is wrong with that?

Oh don't give them that much credit, it's got nothing to do with growth or investment, it's just another way for their mates in the City to make billions of quid.

Growth comes from investment in the country. Growth comes from raising the living standards from the bottom up. This government has only enacted policies that benefit those at the very top.

If the government gave a crap about growing the economy, they would support fair wages for doctors, nurses, train drivers, barristers, gig workers, etc etc etc.

People that cannot afford heating or food are not contributing to the economy. Ease the burden of the cost of living crisis and suddenly the economy has growth. But that would require progressive, forward thinking policies that benefit the working and middle classes.

Tories don't do that.