Thread 10 Starmer: First Female Chancellor delivers the Budget

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Thanks - and thanks to all who supported 🙏. If the worst now is a regime of 12 eye drops a day, I'll have been lucky. (Obviously the NHS is amazing, but as someone who was sending emails in 1984, I can't be uncritical).

On with the thread !

On the LK show

Andy Haldane(former CE of the BoE): "The rest of the world will catch a cold if Trump wins... so if you ask me is Donald Trump a bigger threat to UK mortgage rates than Rachel Reeves... of course he is... "

Part of the problem is that anything on the LK show has a 80% chance of being utter shite.

As low as that?

This definitely meets that treshold

"People who are not wealthy but might maybe get their income from a couple of rental flats that they might have scrimped and saved to buy."

My cats are still asleep. They get up when I do. 😁

Still no sympathy. Their tenants probably have to scrimp and save to pay the rent to service their landlord 's mortgage.

They could also have their rent paid by housing benefit so it’s a double whammy for the taxpayer.

They spell her name right, to be fair.

When I lived in a Spanish tourist area back in late 90's / early 00's you always had tourist prices and resident prices.

A bit like tourist tax, we always had in the Netherlands and not just for foreigners, so I never understood that people were surprised by it.

Thanks for new thread. Saw this and thought this tweet nails it

x.com/jimcognito2016/status/1850121960707301845?s=61

Screenshot for anyone not on twitter. It's spot on.

I suspect the difference is that those rich people worked so much harder for their money.

You really have no idea of English exceptionalism.

Energy crisis, two miners' strikes, a financial crisis, growing unemployment. Then increasing support for the National Front and horrible, very overt racism/anti-immigration.

This bit from Wiki about Eric Clapton:

Eric Clapton made a declaration of support for former Conservative minister Enoch Powell (known for his anti-immigration Rivers of Blood speech) at a concert in Birmingham.[3] Clapton told the crowd that England had "become overcrowded" and that they should vote for Powell to stop Britain from becoming "a black colony". He also told the audience that Britain should "get the foreigners out, get the wogs out, get the coons out", and then he repeatedly shouted the National Front slogan "Keep Britain White".

It did, at least, lead to the formation of Rock Against Racism

I was quite a Clapton fan in my younger days but I discovered his politics and went right off him.

Me too.

This bit from Wiki about Eric Clapton:

A man whose entire living has been made ripping off black music and musicians from America.

I had no idea about Clapton. That’s absolutely abhorrent.

Nor did I. That's disgusting.

I feel your pain. A short period of 10 drops a day for shingles was wearing enough…
Better than the alternative though, as you say.

I checked his wiki entry and it seems he made similar comments over a number of years.

He has mellowed a lot and apologised for his racist rant. Except now he is an antivax campaigner. Ah well

Oh right, I thought you meant in relation to gay rights. That’s why I couldn’t see the parallel.

Rock Against Racism! Lordy, that’s a blast from the past. And the Anti-Nazi League.

Might be better to not get caught on video punching somebody in the street even if they did threaten you first.