Off Topic The Politics Thread

Jesus H, what a bunch of w*****s. What next ffs?

Water firms ask for bill rises of between 24% and 91% - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce55vp78n40o

 

Thames Water should be left to go bust, f*ck the shareholders...

 

Another Thatcher triumph.

 

Southern Water is owned by Australian firm Macquarie which has faced fierce criticism for the period when it was Thames Water’s biggest shareholder.

In five of the 10 years it owned Thames, the company paid out more in dividends than it made in profits, while debt rose from £2.5bn to over £10bn in the same period.

 

Loo Macquarie

 

Just wtf is the point of this exactly? For what reason would this even have to be installed?

Microsoft Copilot+ Recall feature 'privacy nightmare' - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpwwqp6nx14o

 

Rumours that Sunak is about to call an election for 4th July. Please God.

Independence Day would be an appropriate date for freeing ourselves from this shower.

 

Why would he do that when inflation is down, and the first flights to Rwanda are predicted for July? He'd be mad to do other than leave a GE until the latest date

 

Nothing will change.

 

Inflation isn't down as much as expected, so no imminent interest rate cuts. No one thinks the Rwanda flights will make any difference and they probably won't happen anyway.

He's probably already got a new job lined up.

 

He’ll cling on until the bitter end I expect. There must be a few more scandals they can stall on and dump on Labour by January and his father-in-law must be able to find a way to squeeze another couple of billion out of us for some sub-standard tech. They’re all the same though.

 

Excellent. I’ll be in Latvia.

 

It definitely won't if we stick with this lot. So even a 1% change for the better would be worth it.

 

A few million chucked to some more Tory donors will be standard

 

Riga-mortis?

 

https://x.com/adamboultonTABB/status/1793183009820033376

 

BBC thinks something political will happen this afternoon...as various ministers have been asked to attend a cabinet meeting at 4pm

Reshuffle
Recognising the state of Palestine

Or
Election called?

 

Health and care worker visa applications down by 76% in another triumph for Sunak.

What do we want? Fewer nurses, doctors and care workers!

When do we want it? Now!

 

I think we can rule out option 2, Beth.

 

How about training up our own, instead of poaching from other countries? Plenty of unemployed in the UK