Election 2024
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Whilst it is going to infuriate a few on here - personally, I don't think Keir Starmer will stand down ... and there won't be a General Election before the usual timing for such ... that's in the 'contract' (mandate) from the last GE ...
Council Elections are just that ... they govern local administrations within limited legal / financial parameters - they don't dictate, or particularly influence, government policy ...
Just my thoughts / view, of course...
Council Elections are just that ... they govern local administrations within limited legal / financial parameters - they don't dictate, or particularly influence, government policy ...
Just my thoughts / view, of course...
no way is he receiving HB of £1500 for one room .
In Hounslow, the maximum housing benefit is determined by Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates for private tenants, based on the 30th percentile of local market rents. As of 2024, LHA rates (weekly) in the area generally range from approximately £109 for shared accommodation to over £400+ for a 4-bedroom property, subject to benefit cap rules. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Some one who knows what they are actually ****ing talking about ^
I said the other day these figures can't be right, because from my experience of landlords and tenants there are caps.
I find all these local election talks all a tad boring tbph.
They are totally meaningless in the grand scale of things. It gives you a reflection only on the current state of affairs, but in the main nowt more than protest votes, and there's a long time to fix that until the next election.
Personally Reform have peaked and gone too soon, this will not repeat in a General Election, the biggest risk would probably be from a coalition if it's anything close.
Just been listening to John McDonnell, the guy has grown on me, he says everything will be on the table when they meet, including the leadership, but he made it perfectly clear everything will be on the table to look where things have gone wrong, alluding that the leadership is only a small part of that and not that anything will necessarily change regarding Starmer's position.
My first and most important change would be Rachel at accounts, she aint got a ****ing clue what she is doing and is adding to the dole queue.
If they don't get her out soon or show change of direction the hospitality sector will be absolutely decimated, and we'll be left with places only the middle classes can afford or Spoons. Support your local businesses ffs, pull out all the stops for them.
In other news... https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money...00-jobs-risk-Nissan-scales-production-UK.html
They are totally meaningless in the grand scale of things. It gives you a reflection only on the current state of affairs, but in the main nowt more than protest votes, and there's a long time to fix that until the next election.
Personally Reform have peaked and gone too soon, this will not repeat in a General Election, the biggest risk would probably be from a coalition if it's anything close.
Just been listening to John McDonnell, the guy has grown on me, he says everything will be on the table when they meet, including the leadership, but he made it perfectly clear everything will be on the table to look where things have gone wrong, alluding that the leadership is only a small part of that and not that anything will necessarily change regarding Starmer's position.
My first and most important change would be Rachel at accounts, she aint got a ****ing clue what she is doing and is adding to the dole queue.
If they don't get her out soon or show change of direction the hospitality sector will be absolutely decimated, and we'll be left with places only the middle classes can afford or Spoons. Support your local businesses ffs, pull out all the stops for them.
In other news... https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money...00-jobs-risk-Nissan-scales-production-UK.html
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Do NOT show this to @Sucky
It’s all fine meme
(I’m assuming it’s not real and someone is taking the piss out of GBN/The Greens)
It’s all fine meme
(I’m assuming it’s not real and someone is taking the piss out of GBN/The Greens)
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I blame the Muzzies - coming over here - NOT drinking are beer - Not pissing away are benefits -
Who are ya? 
2 pubs are closing everyday, 161 pubs closed in the first three months of this year another 2,400 jobs lost. Labour have been in power for two years now and they have absolutely ****ed the hospitality sector with their policies.
"The scale of these closures is avoidable because pubs are doing a brisk trade, but their profits are wiped out by a disproportionate tax burden and huge costs,"
British pubs closing at a rate of almost two per day in 2026
The British Beer and Pub Association says 161 pubs have closed in the first three months of this year.
www.bbc.co.uk
I don't agree that people will not socialise, they will if they can afford it (as per quote above) and Labour have certainly made it unaffordable. So **** off sneering on the sidelines prick.
Why you even here?
If ****s like you don't want to go in pubs anymore, then bring back smoking and let those that want to enjoy them do so.
It's decades of constant meddling in our culture, so that everything is health conscious and unaffordable. In short prohibition in all but name, tax the **** out of everything.
2 pubs are closing everyday, 161 pubs closed in the first three months of this year another 2,400 jobs lost. Labour have been in power for two years now and they have absolutely ****ed the hospitality sector with their policies.
"The scale of these closures is avoidable because pubs are doing a brisk trade, but their profits are wiped out by a disproportionate tax burden and huge costs,"
British pubs closing at a rate of almost two per day in 2026
The British Beer and Pub Association says 161 pubs have closed in the first three months of this year.
I don't agree that people will not socialise, they will if they can afford it (as per quote above) and Labour have certainly made it unaffordable. So **** off sneering on the sidelines prick.
Why you even here?
If ****s like you don't want to go in pubs anymore, then bring back smoking and let those that want to enjoy them do so.
It's decades of constant meddling in our culture, so that everything is health conscious and unaffordable. In short prohibition in all but name, tax the **** out of everything.
I see the attack on pubs as pure "England, your England" stuff.
Pubs have always been our culture and we should be protecting that as heritage, but it seems we want to do the same as we did with football and smoking, only available to those that can afford it, social cleansing, elimination in members of society (Thatchers dream) and belittle any that try to fight it by alluding to them being racist. Sad state of affairs not helped by parties such as Reform. But some people are genuinly struggling out there and they get accused by certain people on here of sponging off benefits, without an ounce of clue what their lives are like, because they are ok jack,
Afternoon Welshie.
I have to say, when I was last in the UK a few months ago, I was shocked by the ****ing explosion in ****ty US fast food places. Retail parks were packed with them.
****e like that is not helping local British businesses that's for sure