Farmer Saint

https://youtu.be/5OaXTd7__Ys?si=FLRMuRcHfC3gUZOI

Newsround?

Don't forget they thought that was one of the best budget's ever.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c709r8ekn8no Also some good news here - need to continue this as a deterrent.

Interesting after the "horrendous" budget we are seeing monthly highs in the pound as businesses and investors buy into the UK fiscal plan. Expect to see this increase when interest rates fall again this month.

I've taken some time off from posting, but this got my goat. Radiohead, Pink Floyd, ELO and Blur. Fucking hell SOG.

The French way of dealing with things.

I assume you're talking social media type locking up? Got a solution for that as well - ban social media.

We still have a problem with overcrowding prisons. I think reducing crime is the best idea.

Maybe we should stop people doing as many crimes?

Alright Manuel.

His detractors will blame him for absolutely everything. No keeper is saving that.

Aribo can hold onto the ball well, where as Robinson tends to do the opposite.

Jay's doing his wife.

Scar tissue.

Ick-hert...

It couldn't, could it? May as well stop paying and invest the money in employing staff and speeding up applications.

WTF is the point, and what are we paying for?

Here we're back to my oft made point with regards Government systems and processes. Any changes to both need to made hand in hand, and with a view to a complete overhaul combining system enhancement and process innovation and engineering. However this takes a huge amount of money and time, with ROI low at first and over a long period. No government will commit to that money for the next government to benefit. It's why, and I will repeat this ad infinitum, I am so disappointed with Starmer and his "country before party" rhetoric that he is not following through on.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1kpmm20zwwo We'll see if it happens, but positive if it does. We seem to have a far better relationship with France, and the EU as a whole, under this current government.

And this is why the benefits system needs drastic reform as those that really need it tend to not get it at levels needed and vice versa. Essentially benefits should not be to maintain your current standard of living. It's to supplement you so that you are not left destitute. If you own a house, perhaps you need to sell or release equity, downgrade your car etc. The complexities of people's finances make it very difficult to apply rules that allows for all circumstances.

That's not the argument, so wind your neck in. His literal reasoning was that he has no problem seeing some children in poverty as collateral for not having this in place, as long as it doesn't mean we have feckless people having more money to spend on Tennents Super, fags and Sky TV. If he had just said he doesn't agree with it, and the money should be invested in a different way to help, then that's fine, it was the fact that he is happy to see the children suffer and is happy to see them in poverty to punish the parents. Take your faux outrage at my posting style, and don't get involved in my debates. Thank you.

Mate, you would prefer kids to be in poverty than to allow people child benefit for if they have more than 2 kids, and as the above studies prove, child poverty causes child deaths. That's bordering on evil, so don't you dare try to take the high road. I'll add those questions to the long list of questions you have refused to answer in the past.

I think we're all waiting for Sir Ralph's responses, or will these just be added to the long list of questions he is yet to answer...

So you thought you'd respond with a word that doesn't make any sense?