Thread 38 Starmer: Tax your Hamster

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He's not a very good businessman then.

Hardly the advert for Reform.

I am sure he got paid for his Russian tv appearances

Somebody has ‘forgotten’ they set the terms of reference for the inquiry.

Need to go and catch up - thanks as always to all on this thread, I don't often post but lurk always and learn lots. We generally spend our Saturday nights listening to music now that it's just us and Aerosmith's Living on the Edge has just come on. 32 years old and the lyrics could be written now........

I have been watching The Remains of the Day this afternoon, the rhetoric of the Nazi sympathisers is so similar to Reform, people seem to have forgotten that our parents and grandparents fought to stop that evil spreading across the world.

Reform here and MAGA in America are dishonouring the memory of the fallen whilst wrapping themselves in flags and claiming to be patriots.

1964 birth. Father in the RAF from 1939-45. It does worry me what happens when the direct personal connection goes.

Great song!

I was born in the early sixties, youngest of a large family. Both of my parents served in the RAF in WW2. Dad was captured at the fall of Singapore so spent the remainder of the war as a Japanese POW. My grandfathers both served in the trenches in WW1.

WW2 was very real to me as a child with an immediate contact to it.

@cardibach - we have something in common.

My parents are the first of the boomers so we're really not far from that direct link being lost. It's unfortunate that the collective memory loss includes so many Gen Xers. Born at the end of the 60s, my primary school years were closer to WWII than they are to now, after all.

I was born in 1968, my parents in '40 and '41. My mother spent her early years in a Japanese POW camp - she was born in Indonesia - and her father died on the Burma Railway. My father lived through most of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands and ended up with permanently shortened legs due to rickets as a result.

Both of them would be disgusted to see what is happening and the way people are repeating the past.

From YouGov

Why do people think England flags have been raised on lampposts?

White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%

Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%

https://yougov.co.uk/society/articles/53457-england-flag-has-become-a-racist-symbol-say-ethnic-minority-adults?utm_source=website_article&utm_medium=bluesky&utm_campaign=53457

My dad was born 1950.

Both his parents were in forces during WW2 and both born before WW1 so lived through both.

@DuncinToffee I just came here to see if anyone had shared that, I think it is past time for our politicians and media to call these people out. No more mealy mouthed platitudes about patriotism or excuses about “genuine concerns”

Rail fares in England to be frozen for the first time in 30 years

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwygx71g3n7o

Love the final 2 paragraphs:

Labour said passengers had faced "relentless" fare increases every year under the previous Tory government.

However, shadow transport secretary Richard Holden said: "In government, the Conservatives kept fares on the right track with below-inflation rises and consistently called for no further hikes to protect hard-working commuters."

So they did fuck all, basically!

Prescription charges are frozen again as well

I hadn’t seen anything about that - but at least the news (good news!) about rail fares is being reported by Sky and the BBC.

I considered the journey down to Harrogate for Knit and stitch. I went to Harrogate with DS1, 10 years ago, for about £40. We had a family railcard but that basically meant that he went with me for free. If I had gone, my ticket would have been £120.

Does that matter @derxa ?

WTF does that actually mean @derxa?!

I am echoing your WTF?

So??

Come on @derxa - you can’t just bitchplop something like that without saying what you mean.

That’s the default. Plop and run away.