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^^I predicted this a few threads back. I said London would soon see Hong-Kong style cage people. Seems I was right.
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Zephro posted:^^I predicted this a few threads back. I said London would soon see Hong-Kong style cage people. Seems I was right. Camerons_hong_kong.txt It's almost as if there was some sort of law that priced housing according to demand and supply. All joking apart though, that's loving terrible. A miserably graphic story in the Daily Mail has more detail. In other news, we've lost the latest boss from the Universal Credit scheme a few months ahead of his contract expiring. A commentard suggests that's 7 in four years now. quote:The Department for Work and Pensions' deeply troubled Universal Credit project has lost yet another chief, after Howard Shiplee quit the role on Monday.
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I read that man's name as Harold Shipman. It makes sense IDS would resurrect him to koin his army of the Damned.
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Prince John posted:Camerons_hong_kong.txt Incidentally I've long thought that the official figures for rents are misleading. They're given "per dwelling". They should be given per square metre (Britain is almost unique in the world with its bizarre insistence on measuring home size by number of bedrooms). That might reflect what feels, ancedotally, is going on - that people are subdividing houses into ever smaller chunks and renting them out. I bet rent per square meter would have gone up dramatically over the past ten years, much faster than plain old rent per dwelling.
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Labour will win the election though. I mean Ed loving Miliband couldn't botch the most basic of tasks when faced with a bumbling set of idiots like this could he? He certainly wouldn't try to appeal to the wankers who look at the current government and go "Yes, this is all fine." would he? Sorry, going to retreat to the world where Scotland voted Yes and I don't have to pretend there's hope in the current system.
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TinTower posted:Raising the tax allowance to £13,500 isn't that bad of an idea, though, as it would take minimum wage people out of paying income tax.
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:
If this was applied honestly* it'd cover most Tories and UKIPers. Result. *hahahahahaha no.
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It's an incredibly dangerous law that she wants to bring in. Hidden under the mask of 'stop the evil preaching turning young people into jihadists' is a very easy way to restrict people they don't want able to move or talk freely.
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serious gaylord posted:It's an incredibly dangerous law that she wants to bring in. Hidden under the mask of 'stop the evil preaching turning young people into jihadists' is a very easy way to restrict people they don't want able to move or talk freely. Well, they banned protesting in most parts of London and basically no-one in the mainstream media batted an eyelid. Make it about brown people, though, and they're all over it like flies to poo poo.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...hn-Redwood.html They seem intent on gagging, right now. Alongside that ban on people who "want to overthrow democracy" it looks like they want to rig the media ahead of a euro vote to ensure it passes. I'm guessing the scottish referendum scared their guts off and they're pulling out all the stops in advance to get their way if the euro question ever comes up.
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Sep 30, 2014 23:32
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She's celebrating the 30th anniversary of 1984 with more, new doubleplusgood controls. 
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Spooky Hyena posted:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...hn-Redwood.html Crameltonian fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Sep 30, 2014 |
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How high are the chances of Redwood defecting to Ukip within the next month?
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"Gordon Brown has called for 100,000 Scots to sign a petition demanding that Westminster keeps its vow on further powers for the Scottish Parliament." http://www.heraldscotland.com/polit...olut.1412093013 I thought 2 million people already signed that petition a few weeks ago, but apparently you need to beg now.
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serious gaylord posted:How high are the chances of Redwood defecting to Ukip within the next month? Pretty low I think - for all that he's a hardcore eurosceptic, he's a Tory lifer and former Cabinet member. I can't see him abandoning that.
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serious gaylord posted:How high are the chances of Redwood defecting to Ukip within the next month? Not as high as him defecting in 9 months.
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Broniki posted:"Gordon Brown has called for 100,000 Scots to sign a petition demanding that Westminster keeps its vow on further powers for the Scottish Parliament." Wait, Westminister reneging on promises? But they signed a pledge 
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LemonDrizzle posted:Pretty low I think - for all that he's a hardcore eurosceptic, he's a Tory lifer and former Cabinet member. I can't see him abandoning that. The way hes banging on and embarrassing himself I would have thought the chief whip would take him out back to be put down. Oh, Its October now. I've made the new thread here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3668819
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Kickstarted my documentary series where I go around Scotland asking No voters what the gently caress they expected.
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serious gaylord posted:It's an incredibly dangerous law that she wants to bring in. Hidden under the mask of 'stop the evil preaching turning young people into jihadists' is a very easy way to restrict people they don't want able to move or talk freely. All I can remember are Theresa May (contempt of court over asylum claims, Miranda detention, ignoring ACMD advice, this recent attempt to gut scary speech), Jacqui Smith (42 day detention, ignoring scientific advice, "You cannot compare the harms of an illegal activity with a legal one."), and David Blunkett (ban everything, no rights for terrorists, machinegun rioting prisoners  ). There were a few in between that I can't remember anything particularly terrible about but I'm probably mistaken.e: I forgot the 'burying a report on immigration because it was too positive' and 'handling of the case where that Ugandan lady was killed by private security' for May. I think it's clear who isn't going to win this one. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 00:12 on Oct 1, 2014 |
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serious gaylord posted:The way hes banging on and embarrassing himself I would have thought the chief whip would take him out back to be put down. If the Tory whips commissared every backbencher who said something dumb or offensive, they would very quickly find themselves with no backbenchers at all.
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LemonDrizzle posted:It also gives a tax break to everyone in the country who's earning between £10k and £120k (or potentially £170k if we assume that people earning six figures+ will max out their pension contributions), the inevitable implication of which is a reduction in the availability and/or quality of public services and support that will disproportionately affect those on lower incomes. If you want to increase the disposable income of people earning the minimum wage, increase the minimum wage. Even so, that tax break is going to be much more valuable to those on lower incomes than higher incomes. Taxing money that you have to get by law just allows a flashy minimum wage rate that doesn't actually reflect reality (like Miliband's £8/hr rate which is actually lower than inflation-linked estimates). Something like 16% of the Living Wage is actually taxation. And even at the most pessimistic estimates, bringing back the 50p tax rate would easily pay for a tax threshold linked to NMW. Guavanaut posted:Who has been the least poo poo recent Home Secretary? Probably Douglas Hurd or Ken Clarke, who were pretty much uncontroversial safe hands on the tiller compared to their predecessors or successors. TinTower fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Oct 1, 2014 |
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Just to bring the level of debate way down for a moment John Redwood has a very thin head that looks like its been systematically squished every night since birth to create a body modification that looks like a bellend with a wig. For this reason I cannot support any of his policies, thank you.
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serious gaylord posted:The way hes banging on and embarrassing himself I would have thought the chief whip would take him out back to be put down. Thanks for the new thread.
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TinTower posted:Even so, that tax break is going to be much more valuable to those on lower incomes than higher incomes. Taxing money that you have to get by law just allows a flashy minimum wage rate that doesn't actually reflect reality (like Miliband's £8/hr rate which is actually lower than inflation-linked estimates). Something like 16% of the Living Wage is actually taxation. And even at the most pessimistic estimates, bringing back the 50p tax rate would easily pay for a tax threshold linked to NMW.
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Gonzo McFee posted:Kickstarted my documentary series where I go around Scotland asking No voters what the gently caress they expected.
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Spooky Hyena posted:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...hn-Redwood.html Is this real? It's almost pathological in tone.
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Metrication posted:Is this real? It's almost pathological in tone. You evidently havent heard of Redwood before. He's the Swivel Eyed faction of the Tory party that makes most UKIPers look normal.
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Serotonin posted:You evidently havent heard of Redwood before. All I really know of him is this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIwBvjoLyZc
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Oh, is this thread still open? Thought everyone was already posting in the October thread.
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Thanks to serious gaylord for making the new thread for this month. Really.
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