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Yeah, understandably, especially with the tax trap and hammering into pensions to try to offset that. Maybe they should move out of London if they can't afford it?

Our school (and a few in our area) haven't handed that 20% down yet. We've had the usual increase.

Maybe you should cut down on the Oat Lattes, avocados and gak.

Such a favourite you can't spell it properly?

Love it at the end - pussies right out. Reminds me of a few of our angry right on this forum.

I lived between there and SF for 3 years. LA is an awful city.

Which, billionaires or working men?

I think there are a few people on this thread that need to give this song a good listen... "I'm alright Jack, keep your hands off of my stack".

True - which shows what a stellar job is being done. The data shows that. Imagine if we had that extra £100bn per annum.

Just a small reminder to those that think our economy is shit...it's not amazing, but we're doing better than a lot of others. https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-economy-grew-by-05-q2-2026-ons-says-2026-09-30/

https://www.ft.com/content/c8693313-7750-40c7-892a-101ab16dec70?syn-25a6b1a6=1 Definitely need to be more like the US though 🤔

What other factors, as all the news outlets are saying it's due to the revised growth? What do you know that they don't?

No, but the majority were.

It's not, it's due to better than expected growth for this quarter as I said above. NASDAQ, DOW Jones, S&P 500 etc all down today BTW.

Man City owners removed perhaps?

I think people will listen tbh. FTSE is up nearly 1% already this morning...wonder why? Turns out it's for better than expected growth. But I thought we is failing business business economics GB News Chat GPT tells me.

That's Labour's fault though, as business don't trust business business economics, Labour FTSE NASDAQ Chat GPT says.

And now discussions around closer ties with the EU, including going back into the EU.

Yes, but something that will take a lot of load and pressure off the NHS, whilst creating jobs and a better level of overall care. Unless you think the care system and NHS is up to scratch at the moment, which you may do.

I think it will be referred to as "Danny Thommo Stupid" from now on, where actions are so monumentally and mind numbingly moronic that "stupid" is not good enough.

Council able to take control of empty homes - excellent news - will allow a provision of more council homes without the burden being on the Government to fund the building (although renovations will likely take place).

He did stab a boat after all.

Well, the triple lock shouldn't be used as a way to increase it. If it needs increasing that should be dealt with separately. Perhaps it should be means tested as well?

It's about the increase rather than the initial amount - 2 separate things.

Absolutely they do, but you're not removing a decent pension - you're removing a better than it should be pension.