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We have had to endure through brexit and the last general election the polemic of the absurb against the intellectually obvious. Sold to the gullible who thought 'levelling up' was a political reality rather than just another lie. Still we have taken control of our borders, so nobody can get in or out. Unless the borderless island of Ireland is in focus. May this bunch of self serving evil ****ers go to hell and I use the word evil advisedly, look back through my posts. The worst government in living memory, no integrity, no honesty, rip off merchants throughout Covid. Rip off merchants per ce. May they rot..
 
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Yep. We have corruption and cronyism running through every nook and cranny of parliament.

We have economists & politicians globally lying about inflation. Then lying that we aren’t in a recession.

We have policies which are designed to enrich a few and burden the rest. Shell just made $11.5billion this QUARTER. Beating the previous record set.. last quarter. This insane profit applies to so many other energy companies, oil companies, pharma companies, transport companies etc. Does any of this money go toward helping the consumer, or improving the experience for users? Barely any. It goes to share buybacks and dividends to make the asset holders even richer. Government policies enrich & protect asset holders and destroy the middle/working class.

Something has to give soon. I don’t know how long this can go on for but we are nearly at breaking point.
 
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On that, the bill that (shockingly) appears likely to move through Congress in the US is a good first step. It includes a 15% corporate minimum tax, which is the threshold of the hoped-for global agreement. While 15% obviously isn't enough, and hopefully would be increased over time, ending the race-to-the-bottom on corporate taxation globally would be a big move in the right direction, and having the US be one of the first to actually codify it would greatly increase its chances of coming to fruition.
 
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She’s not wrong. We are long past the point where you can blame previous governments. A long way past. Probably 6 years past at least

My dad was very much one for harping on about that story from when labour finally left and there was apparently a note in the treasury office saying “there’s no money left” or something. He talked about that years after the fact. Leaving aside that is was probably not true and also likely something that happens with every outgoing admin but there is a gentleman’s agreement not to publish it - we are well past that. I said as much to him the other day and he couldn’t dispute it at all
 
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Gregm1988 said:
She’s not wrong. We are long past the point where you can blame previous governments. A long way past. Probably 6 years past at least

My dad was very much one for harping on about that story from when labour finally left and there was apparently a note in the treasury office saying “there’s no money left” or something. He talked about that years after the fact. Leaving aside that is was probably not true and also likely something that happens with every outgoing admin but there is a gentleman’s agreement not to publish it - we are well past that. I said as much to him the other day and he couldn’t dispute it at all
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Apparently it's a standard joke note left by the outgoing administrations.
 
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Yeah my friend suggested this to me the other day. And that normally it was just never mentioned. But Cameron's lot where particularly underhanded. I guess they must have felt they needed to do that given they were only in coalition (basically they under-performed in the election)
 
The Aslef union has accused the transport secretary of “lying” about negotiations over this summer’s rail strikes.

From Guardian live
" Grant Shapps had written in the Times: “The ‘two Micks’, Lynch of the RMT and Whelan of Aslef, are taking the taxpayer for a ride, but not in the way they are meant to.

“RMT is stalling on reform and Aslef is dragging its feet in negotiations while both call more strikes. Enough.”
Mick Whelan's response.
"I say Mr Shapps is lying, quite simply, quite clearly.

We’re not dragging our feet in negotiations, we negotiate with 14 private companies, we do not work for the government or the DfT [Department for Transport].”

I would like Mr Shapps to get us out of this catch-22 situation that he misrepresents at every opportunity."
 
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