Labour isn't working - Thread 15

[TheNuthatch]

A chat thread for those who don't like this Labour government.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

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Here again x

Haha love the Matt. Thanks @TheNuthatchsteaming through the threads 😀

Checking in. Thanks for the new thread.

Was it all a bad dream???

Kebatu has been found and taken into custody. Thank F for that!

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/26/migrant-mistakenly-released-from-jail-is-arrested/

"The migrant sex offender who was mistakenly released from prison has been arrested in London, the Metropolitan Police has confirmed.
Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, who was jailed after the sexual assault of a teenage girl, was apprehended at around 8.30am in Finsbury Park on Sunday.
Kebatu, who arrived in Britain on a small boat, was released from HMP Chelmsford on Friday, when he should have been sent to a detention centre for deportation to Ethiopia.
He was arrested on a London bus after a member of the public recognised him and alerted the police, it is understood. He was wearing a dark-coloured puffa jacket with a checkered black and grey hoodie up, jeans and grey trainers.
A witness told The Sun: “He was arrested on the bus. There was one plain-clothes female officer and another woman officer in uniform.
“Two uniformed male officers wearing blue forensics gloves joined them and put him in the back of a van.
“He was handcuffed behind his back and looked pretty glum. There was no struggle. People around recognised him immediately but let the police get on with their job.”"

Goodoh.👍

Signing in! Thanks NH.

Not sure we’ve got much choice 🫣

Lammy:

I have already ordered the immediate strengthening of release checks and a full investigation into what went wrong.

(Once he has finished breakfast, presumably….)

I bet the migrants was happy to finally understand what the hell he was supposed to be doing.
What a bloody joke.

It was a bad mistake not least because he clearly had no idea where to go or what to do. As someone who presumably had asylum accommodation pre prison he was just given cash? And told to get on a train.

He wasn’t an escapee and not hiding. He was probably thinking where the hell do I go now and how can I not be cold at night.

Ik he’s a criminal and I really didn’t want him to commit another crime but it was just the farce of it.

ETA I had to change the radio as some Labour patsy was framing it as a great criminal hunt, the guy was hardly in hiding.

Rachel Reeves' class war plan to hammer wealthy homeowners with a new mansion tax was torn apart by ex-Bank of England governor Mervyn King today.
Baron King lashed out after it was revealed the Chancellor Rachel Reeves could hit those with homes worth more than £2million with a punitive levy in the Budget next month.

Under the proposals, the owners of properties worth £2million and above would face a charge of 1 per cent of the amount by which the property exceeds that value – meaning that owners of a £3million property would face a bill of £10,000 every year.

Speaking to Sky News' Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips the peer, who ran the Bank between 2003 and 2013 said the UK needed more than plans 'written on the back of a fag packet'.

'That is not coherent tax strategy and you could do a great deal by thinking it though first,' he said.

'Property taxes are an interaction between stamp duty, council tax, capital gains tax, inheritance tax.

'You don’t solve that problem by just adding another wealth tax to it.'

Morning all - and thanks, @TheNuthatch.🙂

Is there any good news, other than Kebatu being back in custody?

Yes, totally agree. It was hard to stop myself feeling sorry for him tbh. Absolute farce.
But we need not worry, Lammy is on the job 🙄.

Merv is probably panicking because it will hit him. A very naughty part of me hopes at the very least this threat of a mansion tax will stick for a little bit because I have friends who voted labour who have just stretched themselves on a two million house .
It's actually quite modest (London outskirts ) but non the less !!

Yes ‘not a coherent tax strategy’ - chatGPT could come up with a more coherent plan than Labour have - and Mervyn King certainly could…

15 already!!

15 already!!

With Lammy on the case he'll be out again tomorrow!

I did have a modicum of sympathy for Kebatu as it appears he tried to stay in prison. He's now being deported, according to the BBC. So at least that's a good result in that we won't have to pay for his incarceration.

Back later

Thanks for the new thread @TheNuthatch Had a lazy morning and I'm shamelessly placemarking while I go back to the old thread and catch up. All good news I hope 🫣

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Er, define 'good' 😂

I've managed to fix my leaf blower, does that count? 🤣🤣