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IT'S JUST LAUGHABLE.
14 years of tory rule blah blah
no one told us it was this bad blah blah ( i told you it was a reverse from the norm for Labour. Its normally feast then famine)
14 years of tory cuts? If there's no money left, someone has had it. blah blah
So exactly how is this nationalised railway going to come about? yOU HAVE TO BUY IT BACK LOL
Green madness money being sent abroad.
Meanwhile the loading with migration, keeps draining the pot unchecked.
Even Eamon Holmes talking sense. Better buckle up, this is going to get rough
https://fb.watch/tEiEWbrvbf/
Last edited by Trickytreesreds; 30-07-2024 at 07:15 AM.
Railway? Simple. In the near future, the contracts expire. No new ones will be given. Therefore no business to buy out, only rolling stock. No need for taxpayers to pay shareholder dividends via the subsidies the rail companies get.
Which will f*** the pensioners again as their private pensions will likely be the biggest holders of rail (and water, when that follows) shares.
There's no such thing as a free lunch, just less obviously visible losers.
.. and, of course, those dumbasses at the Pensions funds won't have the faintest idea where next to invest when there's no rail company shares at the stock exchange.
IMO, if they haven't, at least, started to sell rail shares and buy other stock then they really are dumbasses.
For someone from your line of work, you do occasionally make the most amusing of ill thought out posts.
To use MA's phrase, the Red Tories are proving to be as bad as the Blue Tories. Liars, tick already. Incompetent nincompoops, jury's out. Immoral, they'll have to go some to match Boris and crew but hey they have five years. Reeves cold be the Smiling Assassin if she ever cracked a smile
I’m away and busy so not taken much notice…but ‘Liars’…why? Reeves, ‘the smiling assassin’…why?
Gather that our winter fuel allowance has gone. Not the best of news but let’s face it…it was always targeted incorrectly in terms of need and as a vote winner from the ‘grey vote’.
If it allows ‘benefits’ to be targeted more appropriately then it’ll make me £200-£300 per year worse off but that doesn’t seem unreasonable in the circumstances.
OK RA, glad you're not too inconvenienced.
However- If you're retired and have income less than £218 a week as an individual, or £332 a week as a couple, you may be due £1,000s a year in Pension Credit.
You get £219 a week or £323 as a couple you get shafted up the ass.
Let that sink in a bit. Party of the people my ass
and before you say it, THEY ARE THE PARTY IN POWER, its on them
meanwhile Milliband is going to toss £11.6 billion away abroad on his climate mission, to lead the way. It leaves a warm glow in your heart dunnit?
There is no difference in this lot or the Tories. Folks claim the Tories were far right. more like far from it. High tax, spend spend spend and now Labour wants to do its usual tricks.
This time however the kitty is empty.
Socialism works great when spending other peoples money, until it runs out, then has to swipe it back from the very people it gave it away to for nowt.
Last edited by Trickytreesreds; 30-07-2024 at 03:46 PM.
Okay Tricky…I’ve not been on here for several days and haven’t been in the country or had access to what’s going on since last Thursday but it was a simple observation…the winter fuel allowance, though very welcome, should not really be targeted at people like me…so you won’t find me complaining.
Such ‘benefits’, for want of a better word, need, in my opinion, to be properly means tested so that the money is available to those most in need.
As a matter of fact, in the village I live in, where average house prices are probably in excess of £650k, there are a lot of people of pensionable age and they actually don’t NEED the winter fuel allowance. It was very welcome, particularly when oil was so horrendously expensive a couple of winters ago, but compared with those experiencing genuine hardship we don’t NEED it.
That is my one and only point. I’m not knowledgeable enough about all the other complexities to comment, but if relatively well off pensioners have to go without their winter fuel payment that’s not the end of the world imo, providing the money saved is targeted properly.
Of course people like you will moan endlessly, as you have done ever since July 5th trying to make immediate political capital, but at the end of the day if, as you say, the ‘kitty is empty’…whose fault is that?
the kitty is empty............ what goes around comes around. Its probably the first time a Labour gov has walked into this, its ususlly them leaving a smashed piggy bank on the floor.
COVID being your main answer. Yes Tories guilty of wasting buckets loads on it, but also Labour for screaming for lock downs, that as proven since. Wouldn't have made a blind bit of difference to the end result. I know that upsets you, but the price of those lock downs, as I said at the time, would cripple the economy.
My point is that your hero, is a pathetic liar. He twists and turns and never gives a straight answer.
His answer is to hit every pensioner not on credit, who are not as well off as you, but barely above the bread line. Peoples party my ass.
Taxes are next my friend, thats a dead cert.
So all the moaning and promises are flying out the window fast and we are weeks in. They had access to the OBR and think we are all too stupid to swallow their propaganda.
Here let this refresh your memory, whilst you relax.
https://order-order.com/2024/07/30/f...-in-the-world/