But it ok to support the flag of the PLO and Hamas whom fly the flag of Palestine, let think about it in extremist terms and football leagues, PLO premier league, EDL with their hate words probably vaux wearside league
Off Topic The politics thread - Starmer/Reeves/Farage etc.
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Yawn Yawn Yawn, I was a member of a union my whole working life but as once told by my conveyor "what would you prefer to lose, 10% of work force or 100 %. It's the public sector unions that want to take the country back to Victorian times hence the crap expensive services on offer to the British people now.
I feel sorry for him, but he's embarrassing and unprofessional. Reminds me of Cleverly the way he wags his finger going "nur nur de nur nur"
He does come across like a bit of a clownI feel sorry for him, but he's embarrassing and unprofessional. Reminds me of Cleverly the way he wags his finger going "nur nur de nur nur"
Well your the union fella not me so your to blame for all the country’s ills.
Speak as you find, we had to use the nhs for an elderly relative recently, at an ungodly hour, and the service was excellent.
That said under the last Labour government we had the shortest nhs waiting lists in history and under the last Tory government we had the longest nhs waiting lists in history so I think that has little to do with the unions. Hopefully this new labour government sorts out the mess the admistrative tories created and invests. The alternative is Farage and a dismantled nhs at his backers bidding. Il be fine because I can afford private medical insurance but millions in this country won’t be as fortunate as me.
So stereotypical whataboutry there. I see no need whatsoever to fly Palestine or Hamas flags, certainly Hamas is abhorrent.
However, lets be honest we know why people are putting up flags buts its good to see the English flag flying promoting multiculturalism with the Turkish fella St George.
Can never fault the front line NHS or all other services, it is the top heavy and middle layers that need culling, too many pen pushers getting involved in things that don't concern them to keep themselves in a job.Well your the union fella not me so your to blame for all the country’s ills.
Speak as you find, we had to use the nhs for an elderly relative recently, at an ungodly hour, and the service was excellent.
That said under the last Labour government we had the shortest nhs waiting lists in history and under the last Tory government we had the longest nhs waiting lists in history so I think that has little to do with the unions. Hopefully this new labour government sorts out the mess the admistrative tories created and invests. The alternative is Farage and a dismantled nhs at his backers bidding. Il be fine because I can afford private medical insurance but millions in this country won’t be as fortunate as me.
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Too many NHS services now provided by private contractors so too much funding going out in profits rather than into service provision.
The US has always been a flag flying nation. Nothing wrong with that, they are proud of their country and want to show it by flying, maintaining, and respecting the colours of the nation on their homes and businesses. In a lot of ways I respect and admire that.
Compare and contrast to the poundshop cretins who tied cheap and flimsy flags, at what appears to be half mast, to lamp posts over here and now just leave them to be ripped to pieces by the weather. It would be funny if it wasn't so sad and disrespectful.
They are unpopular because they are attempting to govern by slogan, and completely fail to understand that if you throw billions of pounds worth of costs at employers, two things happen. And they always happen
One the costs get passed on, and two, employers start laying off and not hiring people. This is happening now, and it is the first time in a long time. Whatever else might be said about it, the UK economy has provided a lot of jobs. Now over half of employers are saying that they will reduce their workforce or stop hiring.
In the private sector world, where all the money is made, that is a very big deal. In the public sector, it doesn't register.
Even with the state obsessed and fairly useless Tories, with huge public spending and taxes too high, they had inflation at around 2% last July. The economy had grown for five months on the trot, and for ten of the previous twelve. It also grew after the election each month before Reeves budget. It won't be growing much for some time now, I can absolutely promise you that.
But the Treasury, who by the way are making the majority of the decisions here, are all anti-growth, and make no bones about it. They even have a name for it, given to them by the man who put most of them there. Gordon Brown and Ed Balls called it Post Endogenous Growth Theory. The basis of which is that, well you can't just keep on growing an economy, so lets all carve up what's there.
That is why the economy has been declining since the turn of the century.
They are unpopular because they are incompetent and have proven themselves untrustworthy.
More than a year in and the pair of them are yet to show an ounce of know how or a plan worthy of the name.
They walked into a huge majority in parliament, hailed as saviours. They were popular. It is their own stupidity that has made them unpopular. They are so far out of their depth. We need the Labour Party and its supporters to be much more demanding.
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I can see the tories ditching Badenoch within the next 12 months, lurching probably to Jenrick who will lead them to defeat at the next election, maybe then one more tory right winger before settling on a one nation type of leader who will be more appealing to the centre.
I think the Tories have a few more cycles of redemption to go through before gaining any kind of power. If the electorate decide on a right of centre government it will be Reform.
I can see the tories ditching Badenoch within the next 12 months, lurching probably to Jenrick who will lead them to defeat at the next election, maybe then one more tory right winger before settling on a one nation type of leader who will be more appealing to the centre.
Mamdami is focused on himself. He is very typical of his type. A very privileged education, (£50k a year back then- he rejected the chance to go to a more humble £5k a year one), never had a real job of any kind and appears not to have got beyond fifth form slogans with exclamation marks in them. He is also, like his father, deeply resentful and hostile to the country which welcomed him in.
If enacted, his policies would be a serious accelerant to New York's decline. He has committed to over $10bn of spending, probably a lot more, money which the city does not have. This for a budget of around $110bn. He proposes to, you guessed it, "tax the rich!". Well the top 1% in New York already pay about 50% of all income tax there. Businesses too will be targeted, and of course, they will all just stay there and pay more and more tax, rather than locate to Texas or Florida, where they have been moving already. New York also requires a massive bailout every year from federal funds. About £8bn -$10bn last year, depending on how the numbers are looked at. A lot of that money is allocated by executive decree, so a good way of getting more is to abuse and insult the incumbent POTUS.
Mamdami is insulated from all the problems that City impoverishment will bring. He won't have to walk the un-policed streets, or navigate them when the incentivised drug addicts set up camp. None of it will touch him.
But a lot of it is grandstanding, just playing to a client vote. He does not have the power to do any of the things over which he bloviates , being unable to do them without the approval of the State Legislature and the Governor, who though both left wing, are not as disconnected from the world as is Mamdami.
That is without his appalling record on crime. And much else. It is a sad day for a great city. This bloke is a bad piece of work in a cuddly mask.
Nope. I think capitalism needs controlling.I thought you were liking me liking a reform policy for a moment
Weird response that mind. What even is the flag of Hamas?
They are suggesting saving money by reducing interest rates paid to banks on money held. Thought you would have been up for that.
They won’t help us with any savings made. They’ll help their elite selves to tax savings.