O/T Trussed in Leader gone

[crashbang]

Wow.
Who'd have thought it...Farm Foods is the answer to the cost of living crisis.
Buy all your clobber from British Heart Foundation as well and before you know it, you'll be investing offshore with the best of them.

Come on then. Your advice to help.

[Redshank]

Come on then. Your advice to help.

Sorry Crash, only just spotted this (I don't camp out on this board I'm afraid)

No easy answer and that's the problem in today's society. Everybody wants things now, that's why populist poilticians have become so popular - they offer easy answers to difficult questions.

I've said before, there has to be a redistribution of wealth. My suggestions?...

Housing... build affordable homes. The government are going backwards on this and there's no onus on builders to do it. Private rents rising at the fastst rate on record (re Rightmove). Stop foreign investment companies buying up property for starters.

A proper living wage. As it is, working people need benefits to survive. You could say that the real benefit cheats are the companies forcing their staff onto benefits. Same with rent. 10% of the total welfare budget goes on rent to landlords.

Nationalise public utilities. I know it's a big ask but until it's on the agenda it will never happen. Too much public money chucked away supporting privatised industry (railways etc)... effectively into the hands of the super-rich. All they do is maintain profits for shareholders and big bonuses for the CEOs etc at the expense of maintaining a service. Look at the Water Industry, it's in the worst state it's ever been in. Rivers and beaches are a national disgrace. Profit over service every time, it has to stop and ain't going to improve until it does.

Same with NHS. It's being privatised through the back door. My Mrs works for the NHS and she says it's disgusting how much the surgery syphons off as bonus (profit!) for the practice owners (the doctors). That's all public money. It will be happening all through the NHS. It's a waste of time chucking more money at it, it just further lines the pockets of the wealthy. I've heard private health insurance mentioned on BBC Radio 4 more times in the last 6 months then in the last 6 years. It's already being dripped into the nations subconscious. The USA spend more per head on health than practically any other country... but they have one of the poorest paybacks on that investment. You don't have to be Einstein to work out where all that wealth is going.

A fair tax system.

A fair electoral system with proper accountability.

None of this stuff will happen because folk want an instant fix... and they have the press (owned by billionaires!) in their ear all the time.
We're Foo ked mate!

Other than that....Excercise, it takes your mind off sh;t

[ragingpup]

I didn't say it was easy but until it's on the agenda in some way, shape or form nothing will change. There has to be some way found to stop/reverse the drain of wealth to the top few percent.

I noticed that a couple of Labour MPs have raised this in TV discussions recently, most notably Clive Lewis. I'm skeptical about whether this indicates a change in tack for the Labour Party but we'll see. With the likes of Lewis making those comments it will be interesting to see how their career develops (or not!) over the coming months as this may be an indicator over Labour's likely stance. Starmer is certainly clamping down hard on anyone perceived as left-wing right now.

Corbyn put this on the agenda and restrained it to progressive tax from the 40k and 70k upwards but was slapped down by the electorate. However, whether the 2019 'throw everything in there' manifesto undermined/obscured that well never know. Maybe a revisit along those lines as I do think it has general popularity is the way to go but you'll have to get it through the media protectors first for whom it will be labelled 'dangerous', 'extremist' en masse again.

[ragingpup]

Latest NHS survey, 2/3rds of UK adults 16 or over, are overweight or obese.

My comment was a little tongue in cheek and with not a little hyperbole but I suspect the people who are struggling to make ends meet are not in the obsese part of the population you are referring to.

[crashbang]

[QUOTE=Redshank;40147665]Clearly, Ben van Beurden eats farm Foods spag bol....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63409687


Petrol? Link

[crashbang]

He is investing for the future.

[crashbang]

Seems to be a lot of job vacancies available. And no one wants to get out of bed.
Cut benefits.
Triple lock for pensioners will go. So cut the rest.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Seems to be a lot of job vacancies available. And no one wants to get out of bed.
Cut benefits.
Triple lock for pensioners will go. So cut the rest.

No it won't

Too many pensioners vote Conservative

[crashbang]

They cut it last year fro 8% to 3%

[ragingpup]

I don't disagree.

I just take issue with everyone blaming Brexit. I think all countries are suffering at the moment with inflation, high energy prices etc. As I've already stated, we had a vote and for me, it hasn't been respected. I get that people were totally against it but it was a once in a generation vote.

Rather than spend years willing for it to be a complete disaster, maybe idiots like me just believe, we should give it a go. I'd rather the billions we've wasted, was invested in infrastructure and to support workers. If we have to follow the German model to make it work, let's try it.

Who, in the name of the Lord's wheelbarrow, is holding brexit back? The party that won the vote have had free reign to make it whatever they wanted it to be, albeit clearly have come up against some little barriers called 'global reality' and have found that many of their main selling points don't work in the plane we all seem to inhabit.

No opponents of brexit have done anything except sit on the outside, have a bit of an unconsequential moan and now that clear evidence is showing that brexit has made our economy worse than it would have been without brexit, some are pointing this out out on a politically meaningless football message board. Your party (assuming you voted for it) have had free reign to make brexit everything you wanted it to be. To blame powerless remoaners who have had no say is screechingly laughable. You voted for it. You can see it's a mess. Own it.