Off Topic JULY 4th 2024 6 months JAN 2025 ..chaos+ more fibs +roughshod attitudes+backtracking +++ C R A S H++
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there is a lot I wish I could forget about her!
they could make up pop band ... in the style of Punk as opposed to the famous " 3 degrees!" ......... the "3 SQUIRMING WRIGGLERS" ... Twoteir Harmer, Rach Rattlesnake & Ange Noclue
when will it ever end ... we have a .gov ...gifted into power who do not have a clue and are just going full steam ahead with unfunded unresearched and ill thought out legistrations OUR deputy PM ..Ange CANT BE OUSTED! IS AGAIN ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK her workers rights bill has just been re carded! The independant body [ the Regulatory Policy Committee.] overseeing "legistration" and "fit for purpose" has condemned it
The RPC, an independent watchdog that scrutinises the evidence base for policy decisions, has said the government had not given enough evidence to justify eight of the measures contained in the wide-ranging bill, including some of the most controversial changes. This meant the government's assessment of the bill's overall impact was inadequate,
The government had not given enough evidence to justify eight of the measures contained in the wide-ranging bill, including some of the most controversial changes.
This meant the government's assessment of the bill's overall impact was inadequate, AND gave a red rating, meaning the analysis was not fit for purpose,
The RPC, an independent watchdog that scrutinises the evidence base for policy decisions, has said the government had not given enough evidence to justify eight of the measures contained in the wide-ranging bill, including some of the most controversial changes. This meant the government's assessment of the bill's overall impact was inadequate,
The government had not given enough evidence to justify eight of the measures contained in the wide-ranging bill, including some of the most controversial changes.
This meant the government's assessment of the bill's overall impact was inadequate, AND gave a red rating, meaning the analysis was not fit for purpose,
Rattlesnake has given the public sector a 2.8% payrise and an increase on their pensions! ... they take a £1,400,000,000 of OAP'S THIS YEAR and give it to gold plated public workers who are already massive payouts................
Public sector workers will be handed another £1bn a year in pension contributions on top of their latest pay rise.
Millions of teachers, civil servants and NHS workers are already in line for an inflation-busting 2.8pc pay jump after Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirmed it this week.
However, the decision will also push taxpayers’ yearly bill for contributions to gold-plated public sector pensions past the £37bn mark.
Neil Record, former Bank of England economist, said the cost was being swept under the carpet, while the TaxPayers’ Alliance said people were “sick of coughing up”.
“Instead of enriching the unproductive public sector, Labour should focus on delivering the reform they promised.”
Public sector workers will be handed another £1bn a year in pension contributions on top of their latest pay rise.
Millions of teachers, civil servants and NHS workers are already in line for an inflation-busting 2.8pc pay jump after Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirmed it this week.
However, the decision will also push taxpayers’ yearly bill for contributions to gold-plated public sector pensions past the £37bn mark.
Neil Record, former Bank of England economist, said the cost was being swept under the carpet, while the TaxPayers’ Alliance said people were “sick of coughing up”.
“Instead of enriching the unproductive public sector, Labour should focus on delivering the reform they promised.”
'We do pay!' Farmer DESTROYS Reeves’ tax raid plan with staggering statistic in heated clash with Labour MP
Cornish farmer Victoria Vyvyan, who is also President of the Country Land and Business Association, was responding to a question from Andrew Pakes, Labour MP for Peterborough, in a Defra select committee meeting yesterday.
The farming champion then took issue with what she perceived to be the Labour MPs’ insinuation farmers weren’t contributing to Britain.
“I take it a little bit amiss. We do pay our taxes. We are talking about capital taxes here, not the fact that we're paying our income tax.
“We're paying our VAT, we're paying our staff, [ who then pay their taxes! ] we're paying their national insurance contributions. We are contributing.
“This is not a sector that’s not contributing. And by the way, we’re trundling out a whole fat load of food at the same time, which we are forced to sell at less than market price.
“So, you know, it's not like we're not contributing. I think that's crept into the dialogue, which I sometimes feel it shouldn't have.
“What we could contribute [through inheritance tax] is not very much money. I think it's worth a day and a quarter of the NHS spending.
“I think Mr Streeting might suggest that he'd like some more help with changing the NHS.”
NHS spending vs amount raised by farm tax raid© GB News
At that point, Pakes interjected, stating: “My question is, have you identified other routes that would raise money to put into public services in rural areas if it wasn't this?”
Vyvyan replied: “Yes. It's a long document and I'd be more than happy to send it to you.
note The farm tax is a single pixel at bottom of the line!!!!
Cornish farmer Victoria Vyvyan, who is also President of the Country Land and Business Association, was responding to a question from Andrew Pakes, Labour MP for Peterborough, in a Defra select committee meeting yesterday.
The farming champion then took issue with what she perceived to be the Labour MPs’ insinuation farmers weren’t contributing to Britain.
“I take it a little bit amiss. We do pay our taxes. We are talking about capital taxes here, not the fact that we're paying our income tax.
“We're paying our VAT, we're paying our staff, [ who then pay their taxes! ] we're paying their national insurance contributions. We are contributing.
“This is not a sector that’s not contributing. And by the way, we’re trundling out a whole fat load of food at the same time, which we are forced to sell at less than market price.
“So, you know, it's not like we're not contributing. I think that's crept into the dialogue, which I sometimes feel it shouldn't have.
“What we could contribute [through inheritance tax] is not very much money. I think it's worth a day and a quarter of the NHS spending.
“I think Mr Streeting might suggest that he'd like some more help with changing the NHS.”
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NHS spending vs amount raised by farm tax raid© GB News
At that point, Pakes interjected, stating: “My question is, have you identified other routes that would raise money to put into public services in rural areas if it wasn't this?”
Vyvyan replied: “Yes. It's a long document and I'd be more than happy to send it to you.
note The farm tax is a single pixel at bottom of the line!!!!
doing well at stopping the boats another 609 in 9 boats of "known to have crossed" what did we pay Germany to stop the suppliers £50m???
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FOLLOWING MEDIA POSTS be they tv radio or via papers is a pretty mundane flatline approach to the actual momentum of the subject matter... here is an example ..........
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In the Commons yesterday, shadow housing spokesman Kevin Hollinrake was lambasted by Labour MPs after he said most homes [ target 1,500,000 ] built under the Government’s target would go to migrants coming to the UK.
‘The majority of the homes they deliver will be required for people coming in to this country rather than for British citizens,’ the Tory frontbencher said.
Housing minister Matthew Pennycook branded Mr Hollinrake’s comments as ‘scaremongering’.
NOW we see the flatline ........
‘He knows as well as I do that the majority of homes developers sell in this country are to British nationals,’ the minister said. ‘He’s scaremongering. It’s beneath him.’
embelishing the flatline......
so in the next 5 years, the current waiting list of 100's of thousands of those currently waiting for the chance of a home ............ figures show that [ ONS? ] OVER 1.25 MILLION PEOPLE are on "council" waiting lists ..........
note:- from other sources ... in next 5 years "nett" migration figure will be around 1,700,000, so figures at present around 1.25 million British waiting for a house / residence NO it is a lot lot more because 1.25 is on council lists and many more looking for a first time buy!
so the missing part of the argument [ flatline approach ] is where are 1,700,000 migrants going to live???
info from
Accredited official statistics
Social housing lettings in England, tenants: April 2022 to March 2023
Updated 6 March 2024
Applies to England
There were 1.29 million households on local authority waiting lists at 31 March 2023, an increase of 6% compared to 31 March 2022 and the highest it has been since 2014.
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Meanwhile, separate data published yesterday showed Labour continues to benefit from visa reforms introduced by the Conservatives earlier this year.
The number of granted visas fell due to restrictions including barring most care workers and students from bringing family members to the UK, and raising salary thresholds.
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In the Commons yesterday, shadow housing spokesman Kevin Hollinrake was lambasted by Labour MPs after he said most homes [ target 1,500,000 ] built under the Government’s target would go to migrants coming to the UK.
‘The majority of the homes they deliver will be required for people coming in to this country rather than for British citizens,’ the Tory frontbencher said.
Housing minister Matthew Pennycook branded Mr Hollinrake’s comments as ‘scaremongering’.
NOW we see the flatline ........
‘He knows as well as I do that the majority of homes developers sell in this country are to British nationals,’ the minister said. ‘He’s scaremongering. It’s beneath him.’
embelishing the flatline......
so in the next 5 years, the current waiting list of 100's of thousands of those currently waiting for the chance of a home ............ figures show that [ ONS? ] OVER 1.25 MILLION PEOPLE are on "council" waiting lists ..........
note:- from other sources ... in next 5 years "nett" migration figure will be around 1,700,000, so figures at present around 1.25 million British waiting for a house / residence NO it is a lot lot more because 1.25 is on council lists and many more looking for a first time buy!
so the missing part of the argument [ flatline approach ] is where are 1,700,000 migrants going to live???
info from
Accredited official statistics
Social housing lettings in England, tenants: April 2022 to March 2023
Updated 6 March 2024
Applies to England
There were 1.29 million households on local authority waiting lists at 31 March 2023, an increase of 6% compared to 31 March 2022 and the highest it has been since 2014.
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Meanwhile, separate data published yesterday showed Labour continues to benefit from visa reforms introduced by the Conservatives earlier this year.
The number of granted visas fell due to restrictions including barring most care workers and students from bringing family members to the UK, and raising salary thresholds.
Between July and September, the UK economy managed to eke out growth of 0.1 per cent.
This represented a slowdown from the stronger 0.4 per cent increase recorded between April and June.
Rattlesnake Rach at work embellishing her CV ................. !
the much heralded drop in interest rates [ BOE ] DUE in December is now in doubt ... is it a "Liz Truss type blip" or something more sinister!
BOE earlier in year was forcasting rate to be around 4 - 4.25% come December it is now 4.75% but last month mortgage rates rose because it is not just the BOE rate that defines it ... her fiddling with things affected gilts and bonds and notes so so new mortgages cost more
This represented a slowdown from the stronger 0.4 per cent increase recorded between April and June.
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Rattlesnake Rach at work embellishing her CV ................. !
the much heralded drop in interest rates [ BOE ] DUE in December is now in doubt ... is it a "Liz Truss type blip" or something more sinister!
BOE earlier in year was forcasting rate to be around 4 - 4.25% come December it is now 4.75% but last month mortgage rates rose because it is not just the BOE rate that defines it ... her fiddling with things affected gilts and bonds and notes so so new mortgages cost more
flip flop at it again ... basking in the previous .GOV attainments
Keir Starmer has been slammed for a major Brexit flip-flop, as Britain formally joins a major new trading deal with some of the world's biggest economies.
Negotiated under the previous government by Kemi Badenoch, the UK today enters the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), the biggest post-Brexit trade deal yet.
Formed of 11 other countries, including Japan, Australia and Canada, it represents over £12 trillion-worth of global GDP.
While Ms Badenoch and the Tories hailed it at the time as a major signal of Britain's new global trade plans after leaving the EU, Sir Keir poured cold water on the achievement.
Speaking in March 2023, the then-Labour leader bemoaned: "I have to say we need to bear in mind that the new contribution to our economy will be something in the order of 0.08%."
Keir Starmer has been slammed for a major Brexit flip-flop, as Britain formally joins a major new trading deal with some of the world's biggest economies.
Negotiated under the previous government by Kemi Badenoch, the UK today enters the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), the biggest post-Brexit trade deal yet.
Formed of 11 other countries, including Japan, Australia and Canada, it represents over £12 trillion-worth of global GDP.
While Ms Badenoch and the Tories hailed it at the time as a major signal of Britain's new global trade plans after leaving the EU, Sir Keir poured cold water on the achievement.
Speaking in March 2023, the then-Labour leader bemoaned: "I have to say we need to bear in mind that the new contribution to our economy will be something in the order of 0.08%."
This latest feature is the death knell of the UK .....
Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of forming an EU “surrender squad” to reverse Brexit as part of his plan to reset the UK's relationship with Brussels.
A team of over 100 civil servants is being assembled to run the UK’s negotiations with Brussels, with insiders saying its purpose is to invalidate the 2016 vote to leave the EU.
Friday evening, critics cautioned that Starmer was about to throw away the freedoms and opportunities of Brexit to permanently bind the UK to an EU power, returning the country to the role of rule-taker rather than rule-maker.
Insider sources have said the new team will aim to ensure that concessions given to Brussels will be nearly impossible to undo by a future Tory Government.
The source said: “The officials are being drawn from every government department, and they have been told that they will have full powers to demand whatever they need from any corner of Whitehall to make the reset work.”
Kemi Badenoch has hit out at the Prime Minister, saying he was taking the country backwards.....
She claimed: “In every negotiation – from trade union pay deals to the Chagos islands – Keir Starmer has given away everything for nothing in return. The question now is what price we all pay for the Prime Minister to take us back to his EU comfort zone?”
It will be run by a civil servant with a £200,000 paycheck with the title of Second Permanent Secretary, European Union and International Economic Affairs. This person will report to Nick Tomas Symonds, the Minister for EU Relations.
Boris Johnson’s former Brexit negotiator Lord Frost said Labour naturally wanted to rejoin the EU, and could not hide their plans to create the so-called 'surrender squad'.
He stated: “Everyone in this Government really wants to rejoin the EU one day. Only public opinion is stopping them.
Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of forming an EU “surrender squad” to reverse Brexit as part of his plan to reset the UK's relationship with Brussels.
A team of over 100 civil servants is being assembled to run the UK’s negotiations with Brussels, with insiders saying its purpose is to invalidate the 2016 vote to leave the EU.
Friday evening, critics cautioned that Starmer was about to throw away the freedoms and opportunities of Brexit to permanently bind the UK to an EU power, returning the country to the role of rule-taker rather than rule-maker.
Insider sources have said the new team will aim to ensure that concessions given to Brussels will be nearly impossible to undo by a future Tory Government.
The source said: “The officials are being drawn from every government department, and they have been told that they will have full powers to demand whatever they need from any corner of Whitehall to make the reset work.”
Kemi Badenoch has hit out at the Prime Minister, saying he was taking the country backwards.....
She claimed: “In every negotiation – from trade union pay deals to the Chagos islands – Keir Starmer has given away everything for nothing in return. The question now is what price we all pay for the Prime Minister to take us back to his EU comfort zone?”
It will be run by a civil servant with a £200,000 paycheck with the title of Second Permanent Secretary, European Union and International Economic Affairs. This person will report to Nick Tomas Symonds, the Minister for EU Relations.
Boris Johnson’s former Brexit negotiator Lord Frost said Labour naturally wanted to rejoin the EU, and could not hide their plans to create the so-called 'surrender squad'.
He stated: “Everyone in this Government really wants to rejoin the EU one day. Only public opinion is stopping them.
I’m not sure public opinion is stopping them if I’m honest. I think if there was a vote now we’d probably rejoin. BTW for clarity, I’m not suggesting there should be another vote, I’m merely saying imo if there was we’d vote to rejoin.
What the UK needs, irrespective of politics is what Elon Musk will shortly be delivering for the US taxpayers
Someone with actual business experience who can come in, identify waste, whether that’s bloated Civil Service jobs, NHS mismanagement of money, unnecessary foreign aid, woke funding of the arts, chasing eye watering net zero ideals, ridiculous hotel bills for illegals etc etc and slash the lot.
Where is James Dyson, Richard Branson, Jim Ratcliffe or anyone who is good at their job and who has built lean and cost effective businesses that don’t tolerate waste ?
They are saying the average cost of putting an illegal in a hotel is £146 per night
Funny how the rest of us can find a Premier Inn or a Travel Lodge for well under £100
Waste everywhere you look and it keeps taxes way too high paying for stuff we don’t need
Build cheap accommodation along the lines of the Nightingale Hospitals that were thrown up in next to no time
Tell the Human Rights lawyers to f*ck off because if these people are genuinely refugees (ha!) they should be grateful for anything they are offered in my humble opinion
Someone with actual business experience who can come in, identify waste, whether that’s bloated Civil Service jobs, NHS mismanagement of money, unnecessary foreign aid, woke funding of the arts, chasing eye watering net zero ideals, ridiculous hotel bills for illegals etc etc and slash the lot.
Where is James Dyson, Richard Branson, Jim Ratcliffe or anyone who is good at their job and who has built lean and cost effective businesses that don’t tolerate waste ?
They are saying the average cost of putting an illegal in a hotel is £146 per night
Funny how the rest of us can find a Premier Inn or a Travel Lodge for well under £100
Waste everywhere you look and it keeps taxes way too high paying for stuff we don’t need
Build cheap accommodation along the lines of the Nightingale Hospitals that were thrown up in next to no time
Tell the Human Rights lawyers to f*ck off because if these people are genuinely refugees (ha!) they should be grateful for anything they are offered in my humble opinion
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IT IS QUITE CONFUSING reading all the reports on this, as some learned lawyers ... proper ones who have experience and proper knowledge! ... that he trying to overturn the "illegal vote" of 2016!
then there is the over inflated suicide squad set up to give everything for nothing [ a flatliner .. has stated that so EU WILL KNOW THEY ALREADY HAVE US OVER A BARREL ! ] and then there is the cost they reckon it will take 2 or 3 years! so start with £600,000 for top man .. then 100 employee's at at least £60,000 per annum plus the pension and NICs so average out over 3 years at £75,000 = circa £23, 000,000 plus top man so Round up to £24,000,000. then hotels and costings to go to EU for meetings and office costs probably wont get much if any change from £100,000,000 after 3 years!!
promised none of this and getting it all!
ALL my costings were based on hotel bill average of £91 pn with oddments of extra's £700 per week! Premier inns and travel lodge wont discount rooms because illegals are not the cleanest or tidiest [ from a friend who is employed in one ] have no respect for decor etc and often 3 in a room becomes 4 or 5 !
I can’t believe that the woman who threw the milkshake at Nigel Farage has been given a suspended sentence
Whether you like him or not, this is a perfect example of two tier justice that the government deny exists
It also leaves the door open for any oik to assault any of our politicians and after the murders of Jo Cox and Sir David Ames it’s absolutely shocking. We just don’t learn the painful lessons !
Disgraceful
Whether you like him or not, this is a perfect example of two tier justice that the government deny exists
It also leaves the door open for any oik to assault any of our politicians and after the murders of Jo Cox and Sir David Ames it’s absolutely shocking. We just don’t learn the painful lessons !
Disgraceful
News that over 21,000 illegal migrants have arrived since Labour came to power comes as no surprise. The government has no mechanism to deter them. ..... [ indeed YC stated we could fast track 100,000 with a free pass! ]
On the contrary, it continues to offer every incentive to new unauthorised arrivals. The bundle of inducements includes immediate free hotel accommodation, travel passes and cash allowances, together with a high likelihood of permanent settlement in Britain with full access to our social and other benefits.
And these rights to our welfare system are gained without those benefitting having made any contribution to it.
The colossal financial costs of asylum migration to Western societies are finally emerging via research findings in states such as Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands.
A seminal study authored last year by economists from the University of Amsterdam (Borderless Welfare State, van de Beek et al) estimated the lifetime net cost of some categories of asylum migration was greater than €620,000 per person. ..[ in £'s thats around £500,000 ]
If such costs are in any way equivalent in Britain, then the +21,000 recent [ since July4th ] illegal arrivals could saddle our society with literally billions of pounds of future costs. [ circa £11,000,000,000 for those since July 4th ]
That is an alarming prospect for a state like the UK, which is running huge public sector deficits every year and whose stock of public debt is relentlessly expanding. I have no hesitation in describing those responsible - both Labour and the Tories - as utterly reckless and bereft of any sense of duty to protect social harmony or to secure national unity.
No doubt the public will deliver their verdict at the next election. In the meantime, the illegal flow of illegal migrants will grow, the social and economic costs will escalate and society will suffer.
On the contrary, it continues to offer every incentive to new unauthorised arrivals. The bundle of inducements includes immediate free hotel accommodation, travel passes and cash allowances, together with a high likelihood of permanent settlement in Britain with full access to our social and other benefits.
And these rights to our welfare system are gained without those benefitting having made any contribution to it.
The colossal financial costs of asylum migration to Western societies are finally emerging via research findings in states such as Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands.
A seminal study authored last year by economists from the University of Amsterdam (Borderless Welfare State, van de Beek et al) estimated the lifetime net cost of some categories of asylum migration was greater than €620,000 per person. ..[ in £'s thats around £500,000 ]
If such costs are in any way equivalent in Britain, then the +21,000 recent [ since July4th ] illegal arrivals could saddle our society with literally billions of pounds of future costs. [ circa £11,000,000,000 for those since July 4th ]
That is an alarming prospect for a state like the UK, which is running huge public sector deficits every year and whose stock of public debt is relentlessly expanding. I have no hesitation in describing those responsible - both Labour and the Tories - as utterly reckless and bereft of any sense of duty to protect social harmony or to secure national unity.
No doubt the public will deliver their verdict at the next election. In the meantime, the illegal flow of illegal migrants will grow, the social and economic costs will escalate and society will suffer.
Glad to see Labour are keeping their promise of shutting all asylum hotels where the chancers are treated better than many Brits
AND there is more ............ they slammed the Tories for not getting it done!! ..... in the year before the GE the labour opposition member for pensions stated " there is no reason the tory .gov should not paty the waspi money ... NOW ... everything is in place to do it! ... so what do they do .....read on
Women affected by changes to the state pension age will not receive compensation, Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall has announced.
Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) have advocated for support for women who were born in the 1950s and say they did not get adequate warnings about changes to the state pension.
“The Government does not believe paying a flat rate to all women at a cost of up to £10.5 billion would be fair or proportionate to taxpayers,” Ms Kendall told the Commons.
Women affected by changes to the state pension age will not receive compensation, Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall has announced.
Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) have advocated for support for women who were born in the 1950s and say they did not get adequate warnings about changes to the state pension.
“The Government does not believe paying a flat rate to all women at a cost of up to £10.5 billion would be fair or proportionate to taxpayers,” Ms Kendall told the Commons.
besides missing the "date requested " to answer why she falsified her CV .. .. RATTLESNAKE GETS ANOTHER TIMELY REMINDER! .. the December BOE rate instead of being 4 to 4.25% it is 4.75% so a blow to the wage packets of all those people with mortgages and prospective ones. Although not made a really big noise about when the treasury notes bonds etc interest rates went up so did the future base rate mortgages are set at .. so since end OCTOBER .. new mortgages have been "higher"