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Did they do a warning about someone getting a poker up the arse? Probably a standard Friday night for some of those students.

We are just so fortunate that we went up in spite of this fuck up. Had we not it would have been a major contributing factor and would have been a millstone around our neck.

I just assume you exagerrate your reactions a tad for the forum as most people do. I agree there will be criticism whatever they do but that was also true for the Tories and probably to a more vociferous degree. Tories royally cocked up the running of the NHS so I hope they don't just give them a load of funding but look to make actual operational changes. I think I've shown I'm more than prepared to give praise to the government regardless of my ideological differences with them. I'm still hopeful that the budget will not be as extreme as some have reported.

Presumably you'd be saying similar when Sunak had the reins of power? Of course it possible for a Chancellor to have a number of options and choose the wrong ones. Like I said though, hopefully reports are correct and they've rowed back on the planned stark rise in cgt.

We have different definitions of cheap. Yes we got him cheaper than we may have done were he not injured but certainly not cheap by any means.

Good times podcast this week where they essentially say that the messaging has been complete crap. They understood that they had to make things look as terrible as possible to try to blame everything on the previous administration but it then requires a level of optimism about how they are going to fix things and about how they were going to make things better which is not a message they have communicated yet. You'd imagine the budget would be the big chance to try to start that so they better hope they have something really positive to report outside of the doom and gloom baiut the supposed black hole that hey apparently knew nothing about.

Let's hope this is correct. Perhaps some sanity after all.

Not sure I'd count it as cheap. It's up there with one of the more expensive championship transfers in history.

There's a time and a place to call out bad behaviour. It would be pretty naive to think that diplomacy doesn't sometimes mean shutting your trap every once in a while to get something you want. Hence Lammy will be staying quiet and smiling if Trump gets back in despite all the stuff he's said about him. Let's not pretend that Labour were not perfectly happy to take the P&O investment and grab the good headlines, only to have it ruined because a couple of their fringe weirdos aren't politically savvy enough to understand when to keep it shut. Hopefully they're booted out like Gray ASAP and maybe Starmer can start salvagong this thing.

It's because the ones mouthing off are the lefties used to being in perpetual opposition and able to say whatever they want without consequence. They're used to student politics but now they're in power they fail to realise that statements they make are finally listened to and there's consequences to their actions.

I think it could happen eventually. I see no positive from having her in a prominent position. She'll probably get bumped in a reshuffle in a year or so.

The left will go apeshit. If Starmer does get ousted over the next four years, they're going to be chomping at the bit to replace the Conservative in socialist clothing as they see it.

Sounds like Labour were more than happy to reward them up until the point that lefties in the cabinet mouthed off without thinking and they pulled out.

Alternatively tell some of the low IQ loudmouths in the cabinet to wire their jaws shut?

Finally. A proposal I can support.

So absolute chicken feed then. I'll be interested to see the effects if they do whack up cgt as much as predicted.

Like I said, I still think it's going to be closer than you think:

It would be great if it doesn't rise (guardian sources hardly likely to be wrong though in this instance.) because I can continue to invest and contribute to the economy in the process. Loads of people will feel the same. If it is as the Guardian predict we will be well above the German, Italian and French rate. Why would you invest here if that's the case?

Labour should be encouraging investment, not the total opposite. If the conditions become too risky and many investment become too likely to be loss making then no one will bother or will invest outside of the country. This might provide a very short term gain-maybe not- but medium to long term it will make things much worse.

As expected, Labour whacking up capital gains tax. Luckily I'll be selling my investments beforehand and then keeping it all in the bank and doing very little with it. I expect most people will do similar which is the opposite of what should be happening.

Can we not mention Graham Potter? It's embarrassing.

It's not me you need to convince. I don't actually care about a lot of that stuff but I've seen and spoken to a fair amount of labour supporters and voters who have expressed how disappointed they are in the government and how they feel duped given the language that was used prior to the election. If half the cabinet wants Taylor Swift tickets then thats up to them. If the totality of their claims have made a lot of the people who voted for them consider the to be hypocritical or at least not live up to the words they said themselves then that's something I'd be concerned about if I were a Labour MP. What are your thoughts on Labour's first 100 days?

I preferred him when he was delldays with the popinski avatar.

Indeed. Trying to pretend that the issue is simply about allowing people days from death to end their life with dignity and nothing else is indeed very tedious.

It doesn't surprise me that you would fail to understand the nuances of an issue. Besides, your morals are entirely out of kilter to the extent that anyone should generally be concerned if they're on the same side as you on something like this. According to you supporting child rape is not the worst crime in the world.