Have Liz and Kwazi lost it completely?

[Ribenapigeon]

[Easy-X]

And don't forget the other side. Watching this year's Labour conference they're still mad as a box of frogs I can handle some crusty old trade union boss coming out with "comrades!" but not some pimply youth with a private education who's never done a stripe of work in his/her/they/zes life. "To quote Che Guevara..." no, please don't.

Get back to improving the lives of ordinary people, not just a select few, and Labour would be useful again.
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[Ribenapigeon]

[Easy-X]

Random YouTube video from Austria:

GAME OVER for EUROPE - People resort to desperate measures!

tl;dr security tags on butter (started to happen here) rampant inflation, people stealing wood from forests to heat their homes, suspected sabotage at an oil refinery (but in reality very conveniently timed incompetence in the maintenance cycle) flat wages, maybe no gas this winter, strained electricity supply, etc. So any problems we have in the UK are not solely down to our incompetent politicians it's a wider phenomenon across the world.

A Covid hangover exasperated by all those Vodka and Renewable Energy chasers we downed last night with Putin's war the equivalent to the workmen next door starting their drilling at 8am on a Sunday morning

Where is the economic bacon sarnie of hope?
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[bhinso]

[bhinso]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Apparently the authorities had considerable success in recent years encouraging the segment of benefits claimants who actually could do some work, back into work. However, the Covid lockdowns gave them a perfect excuse not to go back. Hence the government are reluctant to raise benefits when private-sector workers are having to suck it up and accept below-inflation pay rises. This is seen as unkind, and indeed it might be so, but what to do? The shirkers harm the genuine claimants.

[Nobby the Bastard]

Thats bollocks. We are back into the Thatcherite years of 'a large population of unemployed drives down wages'.

Deny that isn't a Thatcherite principle.
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trevor saxe-coburg-gotha:"Remember this simple rule - scooters are for men who like to feel the breeze on their huge, flapping cunt lips."
Sprint ST 1050

[Ribenapigeon]

[Ribenapigeon]

[Polarbear]

Lots of reasons we are in the shit nowadays.

Too many people with no qualifications (or even education) chasing the jobs that don't need much intelligence. It keeps the wages on the minimum wage level.

People with degrees in shite subjects that don't do anyone any good and wonder why they are serving at McDonalds.

Easy ways to get round minimum wages and other benefits by taking people as self employed.

Gig economy. (whatever that is but it's bound to be bad)

And basically too many people in the country but still we let in 200,000 a year legally and now 35000 illegally. Most of which will never leave. How many houses a year do we have to build just for those to live in.

Oh yes, lets not forget our manufacturing industry was helped into demise by strike after strike after strike by the unions in the 70's and 80's. Christ, when I was growing up it seemed like a strike happened every dayevery day.

Theres not just one thing that's brought us to where we are now but the one thing I'm sure about, it's going to get worse. A lot worse.
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Triumph Trophy Launch Edition

[stinkwheel]

My analysis of the broader fiscal situation after listening to several experts on Radio 4 is that the people managing pension funds have hung their coat on a shoogly peg and are now shitting themselves.

If I understand it correctly they have a fuckton of money in the pension fund. They used this a collateral to borrow more money then invested the whole lot (the fund and the borrowed money), much of it in government bonds. Then the interest rate changed and they aren't getting back enough to cover the cost and need to sell some bonds to service their debt, but by selling them they cause the price to drop. The more bonds they sell, the less they are likely to get for them.

So they borrowed money against the pension fund to gamble on stocks and shares and now it's biting them on the arse. Except they call it "leverage" instead of gambling. This is apparently all the governments fault.
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“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[Ribenapigeon]

[pinkyfloyd]

[Ribenapigeon]

[quote="pinkyfloyd"]

[Easy-X]

Where we are now started with allowing women into jobs (socially inevitable after WW2 as they'd all been busy in the munitions factories) which evolved into "women can do the same jobs as men!" (they can't but it's only a small lie) then on to "women should go out to work" and finally we're at "women have no choice but to work to keep the household income up."

So through some social manipulation by supposedly well meaning liberals we've doubled the workforce! There isn't any more money as such so everyone's wages have effectively gone down, combined household income roughly staying the same. The net loser in all of this is the kids but as they can neither vote nor work they're not important
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[Nobby the Bastard]

Mrs bastard hasn't worked for about 18 years.....
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trevor saxe-coburg-gotha:"Remember this simple rule - scooters are for men who like to feel the breeze on their huge, flapping cunt lips."
Sprint ST 1050

[Polarbear]

[Easy-X]

[chickenstrip]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

[Easy-X]

"My wife doesn't work!" Did you read the instructions? Have you tried turning her off and on again?
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