Thats not up to them to decide for feck sake
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
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There is nothing socialist in this party anymore.
I’m not convinced they could, the profile it earns them and the connections and influence they built globally is lucrative. Johnson has earned nearly £5m from the speaking circuit alone since leaving office 18 months ago. Previous to being PM he was apparently in debt. Then you have all the kick backs outside of the official fees.
Ah cheers. Your right and tbh I had no idea Boris was in debut before.
No surprise. I started saving for the first time in my life last year at the age of 43. Still probably a better idea to overpay the mortgage instead, but having been made redundant in the last few years, I need a safety net. So far I've saved about enough to keep me going for a month. So still screwed, potentially!
No they would not. Johnson would not be hired by any relevant position in the private sector even with his background. At best middle management. Being a politician opens you the doors through favours given during their tenure. They put them in a high paid position as *insert whatever name* doing jack all besides meeting other people based on the influence that they still have in the party.
Yep. All it takes is another crash and so many of us are fecked.
Such a shite economy.
He started as a writer for The Telegraph and then went on to become the editor of The Spectator. There’s plenty of well paying and useless jobs in the private sector.
Doubt that he did more than 80k-100k a year that would keep doing for the rest of his life. Sure is a great salary but just to have a comfortable normal life and nothing compared with the amounts that he is making. The choice being a writter of politics is easy. Specially he probably worked more before than now
He would have more money if he had a vasectomy.
My wife and I had savings before 2023 and they don't exist now. Just massive credit card bills to get us through the cost of living crisis.
What was her point? That parents should foot the bill or that young people can't have something because she didn't have it?
Sorry to hear that. Yeah it’s really shite at the moment.
Pretty much. She had it bad so now no one can have it good.
It's times like this you wish we were a bit more like Ecuador.
I'd love to have had it as 'bad' as she did. Would happily swap all the wonderful perks I'm enjoying now for the house prices, cost of living and job security she had in her day.
always amazes me that people who complain about not having savings don’t just dip into their trust funds.
Incoming boomer redcafe attack force about to tell you of the horrors of bin strikes and outdoor toilets! Which tbf looking back at the past(60’s - 80’s)it does look fecking awful but that’s most because everyone was really racist and voted for Thatcher.
The baby boomers might be the first generation in a long time who actively don’t want the younger generations to be better off or even have the same as they did.
She only gets one (loud) clap.The food in the 60s and 70s must've fecking been awful, given how my nan used to either cook stuff in lard or boil it to death. They only had two or three TV channels as well.
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No sooner did I discover the InfoSys link, it became hugely obvious this was the end game.
Nice it's now becoming more public.
In the early 60s, there was nothing like as much food as now.
The food in the 60s and 70s must've fecking been awful, given how my nan used to either cook stuff in lard or boil it to death. They only had two or three TV channels as well.
And nothing like as much variety.
And nothing like as many obese people either.
The food was so awful you couldn't eat enough to get fat
Infosys is an $80 billion global conglomerate. Its hardly surprising to see them on a government supplier list.
There are plenty of examples of corruption but imo this isn't one of them.
they’re also not the only company in the world to
offer their kinds of services. as with any potential conflict of interest, it’s easier to just to walk away from it and choose someone else. of course they won’t though, because money.
There were some pretty horrible sights when mini-skirts came out. You didn't see hundreds of incredibly fit girls out running the same either.
But don't you think such conflicts of interest should be actively avoided regardless of how the deals came about? Do you believe Infosys are the only company who could have delivered the contracts they got?
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If this was the case previously , my family wouldn't have existed in the UK. On the plus side I would have moved to France 30 years earlier.
Other plusses - I can never return to the UK to live with my wife - excellent, best news of all.
Other possible plusses if implemented earlier - Patel and Braverman wouldn't exist.
Stop teasing us Paul, you know you would never come back!
No but if I wanted to I couldn't, there are others who may want to come back.Stop teasing us Paul, you know you would never come back!
So you think it's fine that British people can't live in their own country?
Didn't know they could be stopped, unless they had revoked/changed their nationality/passport.
With their partner who didn't satisfy the earnings level. That's the point of the story.
From what I've read it's just getting on a preferred supplier list which is really nothing. They still have to bid on any contract against oh the likes of Fujitsu. If they started winning contracts with subpar bids, then I'd be concerned.
If it were a private company with such a conflict of interest they'd be scrutinised heavily under the bribery act. Same standards don't seem to apply to government from what I can tell.
Ever heard the VIP Lane? Most bids that came through it were sub-par.
Mate, if you were proper British, you'd dump the foreigner and move back to Blighty so you can snaffle up an English Rose
Rather be single.
The foreigner also spent the majority of her life in the UK but can't live there any more. Brexit bonus!
You are so naive.
He’s not naive, he’s disingenuous because he’s a right winger that has to excuse everything a right wing government does because he hates that this predominantly left wing forum have absolutely no end in opportunities to criticise them.