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I know a prison governor and they were telling me this a while back - the madness of one department in effect trying to break another albeit not knowingly. Would be same in care so all the Reform voters be prepared after the tub thumping you need to face reality https://news.sky.com/story/hundreds-of-foreign-prison-staff-offered-emergency-extension-to-visa-to-stop-the-prison-system-collapsing-13485595

Welfare needs reform and not helpful Starmer couldn’t get it through. Other than the two child cap I am not aware of any ideological changes to expand. Do you get annoyed at the increase public spending required to sustain the triple lock on state pensions?

You added Ireland to your original reply. Google it? And incidentally I do yes - do you know anything about post the Tiger economy? We keep having a similar discussion- just wanting growth isn’t as straightforward as you think ie cut taxes, there are so many global factors that influence. The NI rise did not help growth, but neither does shrinking public services and lowering minimum wage. I get you blame Labour for all the gloom but the gloom isn’t easy to clear. I don’t want to endlessly repeat though as made my thoughts clear many time about ageing population, immigration, disposable income going on digital services that pay fuck all tax, as do many other corporations like Nando’s, Starbucks, Vodafone……

I wouldn’t be able to fool the missus by saying that is 5 inches

Genuine question, do you understand what you mean when levelling that as a criticism?

By ‘business person’ you probably mean Tory/Reform people and your tax dodging greedy mates. Don’t worry about exaggerating though as Caroline Leavitt literally said teh other day that 100% of all jobs created under Biden were for immigrants. We have gone past even pretending to tell he truth or being embarrassed by obvious lies Can you point to a Western European govt that has cracked theirs growth, inflation, full employment thing? With the right legislation we can blow China and India out of the water

I cannot believe these odds. If only I had a spare million and wanted to make 100k in a hour

That is probably written for children but might help a few on here

Whilst there has always been spats between posters rather than discuss, Nic takes it to a new level of never discussing or responding to any counter points. Not sure what he gets from here TBH

I miss the joy of having a two week Radio Times and TV Times for scanning

Yeah lots of smaller players going to be hit. CH4, CH5 BBC and ITV should all merge to one platform IMO, although not sure that many would pay for it

Netflix will take over the world. If they get Warners, which will give them HBO, then likes of Sky going to be massively depleted of content

We’d be moaning like fuck if we had Ellis Simms as our centre forward

Fair enough and my sarcasm wasn’t necessarily obvious