Labour isn't working - Thread 18

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

Bracing for the budget 😬

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

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Here you go!

https://x.com/NiohBerg/status/1985067842182558146

They're chucking quite a lot of money into entertainment/nightlife. They have a big music festival called Middle Beast which has been on for the last few years. And WWF live is also very popular.

MPs ready to make moves?

Maybe it’s that

Just requoting my post from earlier today as it’s now been approved by MNHQ.

Thanks 😊

Let's just make an even bigger black hole, eh? She's clueless and dangerous.

Thanks.
Gosh that's a huge hit economically, coupled with a rise in the black market. Will Labour learn from it? Probably not.

This

Ah Switzerland, good choice. I lived there too for a few years. Loved it!

https://thecritic.co.uk/germany-is-acknowledging-the-unspeakable/

Lord- a day of not-working and there is a new thread and 10 pages on it and counting!

Going back to the BBC bias omnishambles. On the 6 o’clock news just now, Samir Shah scratched his nose in answer to one question about why the Beeb hadn’t sorted out their reply to the biased reporting issues, he scratched his nose. In reply to a second question on the same subject he rubbed his cheek. I may be mistaken, but in my understanding of body language and ‘tells’ isn’t this is called ‘leaking ‘ ? Was he being entirely truthful or was he out of his depth ?

I know! I’ve got to not-work tomorrow - thread will probably be full by the time I get home.

The principality of Lichtenstein? Poland? Neither would let us in!

I'm really sad about this. It sounds 'nice' - who wants kids to go hungry? Working at a deprived school - the thing that made children's lives miserable was parents who didn't work, who had too many kids that they didn't have the emotional capacity to nurture. This 100% incentivise people to have more kids than they actually want. We don't have enough decent sized council housing to house large families - we had families with 4 kids in 2 bed flats, the kids were miserable as the parents weren't ever bothered to take them out.

2 kids gets you an extra £7000 on UC. Higher rate tax paper needs to earn an additional £17,600 to get that... And after tax rises that becomes £20,000

Really, an extra £7000 for two kids on UC?
This is madness.
And call me cynical but who says the extra cash injection is going to be spent on the kids?

The school I worked at, it wasn't spent on the kids in many families.

Oh that’s so bad. And so sad. 😢

@Legolava @LupaMoonhowl

I’m not sure why you feel the need to constantly refer to me. Just don’t engage?

And you mention MNHQ, which is interesting as the only post I’ve seen removed recently is from @SpaceRaccoon

But please do report me if you feel I’m not abiding by terms and conditions.

Agreed. The back filling will start again. And it’s definitely not for any child’s sake. Quite the opposite.

Same. Tattoos, bright hair dye and drugs. Sadly.

With Rachel Reeves seeming to suggest she will scrap the 2 child benefit cap, our polling shows that 59% of Britons - including 54% of Labour voters - want to see it kept in place. YouGov.

Only 26% want to see the cap abolished.

I wish they’d listen.

I really think they’ve thrown in the towel with the electorate and now it’s just saving their skin with MPs and markets.

Which means this cap change and taxes.

They’re panicking either will take them out, the electorate doesn’t feature. Perhaps knowing they can’t win the next GE. Depressing for us as the decisions will be poor.

They are going for full scorched Earth.

I wonder what will be left in three and a half years when whoever comes next takes over.

Yeh I think that's where we're at. Its going to be a miserable 3.5 years.
I don't envy the next government with the clean up.

They’re trying to appeal to people who’ll vote for them. If they give enough of other people’s money away to these people, they will vote for them. It’s labours only option.