Westminster Politics

TheGame said:
God help us.

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There you have it. Typical DM readers spouting total lies and rubbish. Socialist dogma continually being thrust down our throats..... since when.

Keeping more of your money instead of it being taxed by socialists.... so it was Labour who put up the biggest increase in taxation. Rishi Sunak is a socialist.

Dinosaurs.
 
FireballXL5 said:
Want to talk about abuse of power Nadine?

Leaked report suggests Dominic Raab trying to curb judges’ powers

Exclusive: Deputy prime minister has been accused of wanting ‘a world in which the government is above the law’

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...sts-dominic-raab-trying-to-curb-judges-powers
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Not new news, though I can't remember if I heard it publicly or from one of my bosses. :lol:

They had a white paper which basically said Judicial Review is fine as is, and have been plowing ahead with making it harder to get permission to bring the claim and at the end of it give the minister the right to overrule the judge.

It's a fecking disgrace.
 
Furiou, incandescent, seething rage.

 
One of those speeches that you listen to and you're glad someone else has done the hard work of gathering all the facts in one place:


For next time we have to listen to some Tory talk about why all the Ruanda stuff etc isn't just about racism and scapegoat demonising cruelty.
 
Drifter said:
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jojojo said:
One of those speeches that you listen to and you're glad someone else has done the hard work of gathering all the facts in one place:


For next time we have to listen to some Tory talk about why all the Ruanda stuff etc isn't just about racism and scapegoat demonising cruelty.
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two great videos. rarity from twitter.
 
Cloudface said:


Still trending in the right direction here though.
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only 4 points ahead on average over last three polls. labour's lead will disappear. and it's entirely starmer's fault btw. generational living crisis and massive recession around the corner and a non party advocacy video posted above has done more by itself than starmer has in two years to hit the key messages.
 
Frosty said:
Warning energy bills to hit over £4,200 in January


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62475171
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So, I've been reading during the day and only watching the TV when it gets dark to minimise my electricity usage. They wanted to charge me £145 a month for my gas/leccy based on what I used last year but I was using a lot less due to my new habits, so I changed the direct debit to £88 because it was the minimum they allowed me to. I've used an average of £66 since March and am well under their 'estimate' of £126 but now they won't let me reduce the direct debit again and it's gone up to £101.

I'm nothing compared to the people I've seen on social media, though, some of whom have been getting bills of TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS for their annual usage, based on their usage last year and these spiralling (upwards) price caps. And the fact that they are limiting what you can change your direct debits to, even if you take steps to reduce your usage, is going to lead either to mass payment defaulting or civil unrest.
 
It’s preposterous and I’m beginning to think it’s a crisis the Tories are intentionally exacerbating in the lead up to the next GE so they can put together a huge support package and get a massive bump going into the election and win another 5 years.

It’s what they do. They create a crisis and then present themselves as the saviour of that crisis.
 
Cloudface said:


Still trending in the right direction here though.
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It will be interesting to be see what happens when Truss gets in as leader. I would guess they will go up in the polls for a bit but also this winter is going to be brutal for a lot of people.
 
Sweet Square said:
It will be interesting to be see what happens when Truss gets in as leader. I would guess they will go up in the polls for a bit but also this winter is going to be brutal for a lot of people.
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It seems to me (probably wrongly) that the best PM polls usually follow media exposure. And as the Tories and Truss are getting largely unchallenged press coverage 24/7 the polls will reflect that. I expect once she becomes PM she will shit the bed completely as the scrutiny is different.

But I'm optimistic. I think it is now a matter of how badly the Tories lose, not whether they will or not. I'm hoping Truss buries them in the deepest grave and noone ever finds them again.
 
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Frosty said:
Warning energy bills to hit over £4,200 in January


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62475171
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It's just beyond ridiculous now. Still doesn't hit me until Oct 2023 (unless Sainsburys Energy goes bust)...but the thought of pensioners giving up the best part of 45% of their pension for an absolute necessity is gut wrenching.

This whole thing needs control immediately but with departing leader not interesting in working and incoming leaders interests aligned with big profits, we've no chance.

We may have lived a low interest, false reality for quite a number of years but it's scandalous how it's all hitting us in the face under the guise of 'Russia'.

@Pexbo said it best. It's got Tory hands on it, and they will magically fix it when it's voting time.
 
jojojo said:
One of those speeches that you listen to and you're glad someone else has done the hard work of gathering all the facts in one place:


For next time we have to listen to some Tory talk about why all the Ruanda stuff etc isn't just about racism and scapegoat demonising cruelty.
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This is great
 
I know that they pick the phone ins for these clips, but yesterday I watched about a dozen james o'brien clips on youtube, and it's amazing the number of people who call in, absolutely convinced they master a subject, to just fall apart when asked something really basic about it. I get being ignorant, but why showcase it on national radio for everyone to see? The brexit calls are incredible, o'brien always asks for a positive of brexit and the brexiter callers can't give one.
 
maniak said:
I know that they pick the phone ins for these clips, but yesterday I watched about a dozen james o'brien clips on youtube, and it's amazing the number of people who call in, absolutely convinced they master a subject, to just fall apart when asked something really basic about it. I get being ignorant, but why showcase it on national radio for everyone to see? The brexit calls are incredible, o'brien always asks for a positive of brexit and the brexiter callers can't give one.
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I do enjoy listening to James O'brien on a morning working from home, but my favourite presenter for handling numpties is Nick Abbot. The collection of calls on YouTube is somewhat of a masterpiece
 
Pexbo said:
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I mean I for one applaud their ability to consistently make it rain more in Scotland

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1009810/regional-annual-rainfall-uk/#:~:text=UK: regional annual rainfall 2011-2021&text=Rainfall in Scotland peaked at,1,341.3 and 1,460.7 millimeters, respectively.

that said given that they let 38% of it leak away probably a good job they have a lot more to start with

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15340682.third-scottish-water-leaks-reaches-tap/

According to the latest report from publicly-owned Scottish Water 500 million litres a day disappears– or just over 38 per cent of the 1.3 billion litres of water the company provides.
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and for comparison if you put scotland as a stand-alone country they would be I think the third worst in Europe


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and I guess the rest of the Uk would probably fall roughly in line with france?

but yeah no hosepipe ban like most of the rest of the UK

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But surely it matters more to control leaks when you have less coming in, i.e. down South? Another way of putting it, their job isn’t to control leaks; rather it is to supply water sustainably. Makes no sense to spend billions on leaks when you don’t need to.
 
sun_tzu said:
I mean I for one applaud their ability to consistently make it rain more in Scotland

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1009810/regional-annual-rainfall-uk/#:~:text=UK: regional annual rainfall 2011-2021&text=Rainfall in Scotland peaked at,1,341.3 and 1,460.7 millimeters, respectively.

that said given that they let 38% of it leak away probably a good job they have a lot more to start with

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15340682.third-scottish-water-leaks-reaches-tap/



and for comparison if you put scotland as a stand-alone country they would be I think the third worst in Europe


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and I guess the rest of the Uk would probably fall roughly in line with france?

but yeah no hosepipe ban like most of the rest of the UK

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In the last 16 years Scottish water has reduced leakage by almost 60%, sounds like excellent progress to me and seems to be outperforming the private companies by quite a margin.
 
sun_tzu said:
I mean I for one applaud their ability to consistently make it rain more in Scotland

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1009810/regional-annual-rainfall-uk/#:~:text=UK: regional annual rainfall 2011-2021&text=Rainfall in Scotland peaked at,1,341.3 and 1,460.7 millimeters, respectively.

that said given that they let 38% of it leak away probably a good job they have a lot more to start with

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15340682.third-scottish-water-leaks-reaches-tap/



and for comparison if you put scotland as a stand-alone country they would be I think the third worst in Europe


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and I guess the rest of the Uk would probably fall roughly in line with france?

but yeah no hosepipe ban like most of the rest of the UK

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  • The report – "The Privatised Water Industry in the UK: An ATM for Investors" – shows that the 40% real increase in English water bills since privatisation in 1991 has not been due to higher investment, as claimed by OFWAT and the companies themselves, but is a result of ever higher interest payments on £47 billion of debt, accrued due to £50 billion paid in dividends to shareholders.
  • In Scotland, real bills are still the same as they were 17 years ago, whilst English bills have increased by over 16% in real terms over the same time period.
  • Publicly owned Scottish Water invests over one-third more on a per capita basis than the private English companies - £282 per household per year over the last 17 years, compared with only £210 per household per year in England - contradicting claims by the English companies and their regulator, OFWAT, that price rises in England have been due to high levels of investment.
  • Since 1991, the surplus money available to the English companies to pay dividends averaged £0.15 billion per year, but in every single year except 1995, the dividends actually paid to shareholders far averaging almost £2billion. The gap was bridged by borrowing year after year, building the £47billion debt mountain that exists today

https://www.gre.ac.uk/news/articles...er invests,regulator, OFWAT, that price rises
 
Anyone watching this cnut sunak getting interviewed on BBC1.

Literally such a patronising, condescending ignorant twat that constantly speaks over people. Does he have no self awareness, especially after previous interviews, of how much of a cnut he comes across.
 
She cited three examples as ways rights groups were, she said, abusing the current system: trying to prevent deportations of overseas offenders; allowing human rights considerations in court cases such as one in which four people were acquitted of criminal damage for toppling a statue of the slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol; and the approach to trans rights in schools.

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Black Lives Matter and the trans community, destroying the UK.
 
"Number 10 has denied that any drinking games were played during this meeting, and that any reports of damage are wildly exaggerated"
 
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