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Yep. Reform's manifesto was the height of nonsensical. Completely unrealistic in their approach, but they'll repeat it and I suspect people will lap it up as it'll be "change" and they believe they'll be better off. Although I take Duck's point above, anyone buying Reform's BS have to be either a bit daft and/or not give a monkeys about the impact of their policies on public services and those needing state support/education/healthcare.

True. Young people can be stupid too. The reality though is we live in a world where people are increasingly selfish, and expect something for nothing, so the reform policies will appeal to those who are swayed by that.

Well it has, and council tax will cease to exist in the near ish future. There'll be a much costlier replacement.

Yep, selfishness and high expectations do not go hand in hand.

Agreed, although I think they'd have got home if they'd said that the NI giveaway was unaffordable and needed to be reviewed. I also think they failed to appreciate the impact and the jib losses as a consequence.

Absolutely. The dinlo's boxed themselves into a corner over NI. The scary thing is that the changes have yet to come in. Unemployment will creep up, tax revenue will reduce, and we'll be back to the next crisis management. There'll be sweeping changes to the council tax system I'm guessing, possibly VAT, fuel duty, and inevitably massive spending cuts.

You're unbelievable. Only you would think that it's possible to believe what you believe, but not the reverse. If you can support capital punishment but not assisted suicide, for whatever reason, then someone else can support the opposite!

Ha. He's a dangerous idiot, but I'm not joining others in pretending I'm a psychologist or psychiatrist.

You've confirmed what I've posted - you oppose assisted suicide, but do not oppose capital punishment. Yet you cannot understand the logic of someone having the reverse view. You appear to have an issue with respecting people having differing opinions to you. That's the nub of it.

I've no idea what he is, but we know more about him to make a judgement than we do about strangers on a forum, and discussing him is more interesting than seeing the same old bollox being perpetually written about the same posters.

Err, but you support the state taking lives of criminals, but oppose people being able to take their own when dying. In other words, you're saying that taking your own life when dying isn't ok, but having your life taken by the state is ok. Right you are.

What's not feminine about Jeeta?

Jutta Leerdam though

I was once told by a senior mental health practitioner that people who label others as narcissistic, usually are themselves. Make of that what you will.

That's bizarre, even by your standards. Killing criminals isn't remotely comparable to terminally ill people choosing to commit suicide.

Google "miscarriages of justice".

Easily?! No, and how does that address doubt appearing after the event such as has happened with miscarriages of justice? Say it's discovered that witnesses lied or fabricated evidence that was so compelling that there was no doubt? What then if the accused is dead? Anyway, it's a non point as there's zero prospect of the death penalty even being discussed at a serious level.

I get that, but there's a conflation of issues in there. Society needs fixing, I agree, but solving societal issues to reduce possession and use of knives, at best, will take time. If not punishment, what do you suggest as a deterrent in the interim?

There have been multiple cases down the years where it was felt that there was zero doubt, only to be proven otherwise years after the event. Miscarriages of justice happen, and thankfully we're more civilised than to reintroduce the death penalty.

And phase 2, I suspect, will be to give the green light to Israel to annexe the west bank. The fella makes Putin look restrained.

Yep. We'll never stop the supply of knives (anyone can pay £3 for a drywall knife from Screwfix, for example) so sentences need to be tough on this, with zero tolerance. That said, there is nobody to pull the kids up and search them. Society is shot.

It's interesting for sure. The case against her never looked particularly strong, lots of it was circumstantial. The fact that she researched the families of the deceased though, and kept records of the deaths, was plain bizarre and must have played a part in removing any meaningful doubt from the jurors minds. Horrible case.

Wren are preferred by people I know in the trade. They'll design as well.

I'm not sure anyone has seen any of those 4 as the answer for the rest of the season, so I'm not sure why their departure is suddenly an issue. That said, SAA going surprised me.

Indeed. 'Safe havens' like tobacco giants BAT and imperial brands attracting investors legging it from tech stock, and people getting on the Smiths Group ahead of them being broken up, are not signs of support for British businesses.