Off Topic Starmer/ Reeves: last man standing

Yet you responded to one? Interesting

 

Not trying to trap you at all mate.
I’m trying to find out where you wouldn’t accept it.
What if she said she was going to take half your salary, would you agree?
I was happy with 2, if people want more that’s entirely up to them but I don’t want to pay for them.
Maybe just people who think like you should volunteer to pay for them. I have no problem with that.

 

It probably just looks like me arguing with myself

 

Yet you seem fine to go down the road of calling me a Farage supporter,
You seem to be a hypocritical twat as well.

 

Fair enough.

Im reading the book Entitled at the moment. I would recommend all to read this book to give a greater understanding of our Royal Family and the costs of this scratter family. They certainly need more work and some of their benefits stopped imho.

However as we still live in a civil society I can’t voluntarily stop funding them like you can’t stop funding things you don’t want. As aside a dysfunctional workshy family in a palace is costing us a hell of a lot more than one in a council house.

At the risk of going round in circles, I agree with you as we do fundamentally need to address supporting families who keep producing children with no means to support them.

Getting people into work, with a carrot and then a stick if needs be and financially educating kids is the key but not letting kids go hungry in the meantime is sensible imho. If that makes me a tit, twat or mag (the slur I can’t stand) fair enough.

off now have a good day.

 

If you are not I apologise, obviously a few on here are.

Call me a twat by all means but please not a mag.

 

You too,
You can maybe answer the question when you get back.

 

4 and 1 maybe according to PRS, not enough to get him in I don’t think.

 

We could help with a lot of issues in mining communities by opening up any viable mines and coal fired power stations.
And before you bring up climate change, WHEN the UN says ALL coal power stations should close in EVERY country around the world, that is when I agree with getting rid of coal.

 

The North lakes mine baffled me why it didn’t open.

 

Inconvenient from a government environmental point of view but surely the net greenhouse gases would be lower than importing the coal we need.

 

Political class doesn't like miners now, will soon try to airbrush out of history.

 

A lass on the news announced she is £300 a month better off with the lifting of the benefit cap.
Well done lass you enjoy it, I know I would.

 

Hope you are not counting me in as one of them Rooch. I have decided that at I am done with voting until we get a party which is worthy of my vote. Unfortunately until then …….

ps just re-read your reply, forgive me if I’ve got the wrong end of the stick.

 

The royal family bring billions into the country, tourism alone would cease in London if anything happens to the royal family.
Your blind hatred clouds your judgement

 

Can we not hurry up and get rid of them, will help the leveling up in the country

 

I would suggest read the book.

this thread isn’t to debate the royal family, I was highlighting dysfunctional families which cost the taxpayer money but since you raise the point plenty visit Versailles without a royal family. I think the country would survive but good to see Charles getting rid of the hangers on as a start.

 

I think it demonstrates the folly of closing mines in the 80s and 90s when we had millions of tons of coal under our feet.

im not an expert on the mining industry but have a couple of friends who were miners and a mining engineer and we had a conversation on this fairly recently. Given a lot of mines in the NE went under the sea (Ellington the last Northumberland put went out 7 or 8 miles under the sea I was told, Durham mines likely the same I would guess) it would be pretty nigh on impossible to reopen them due to flooding and there would be tonnes of damaged and obsolete machinery in the way that was left when they were closed.

However, you do raise a good point and perhaps if the tories hadn’t been in such a rush to close them for political reasons, cleaner technologies could have been developed to ensure the burning of coal wasn’t as harmful to the environment. Who know s but if a fraction of the money that has been spent on nuclear was spent on developing cleaner coal burning the country may have been in a different position in terms of energy usage today.

Given, the effects of climate change (I’m looking at a flooded garden which previously hasn’t flooded) we need to be moving to more greener energy production before it’s too late. Perhaps listen to scientists and experts?

A mix of nuclear and renewables and a move away to less reliance on fossil fuels is just common sense imho given the effects of climate change.

Of course Reforms fossil fuel backers (look at Farage’s mate Trump entertaining the Saudis last week as another example) see things differently and it is interesting watching people become climate change deniers, taking their lead from Farage, which again for many, if not us all, would be massively against our better interests.

 

Interesting post? I take it you haven’t listened to Labour MP ian Lavery?

 

In Derbyshire we are having our local council merged into some much bigger thing. Sounds rubbish tbh. Less and less local influence. I like being able to talk to my local councillors to try and get stuff done. At least they know what I am talking about because they live here.

I might emigrate. Any suggestions?