Donald I, emperor of the world.

[tarric]

The workers and renters rights legislation might be well meaning but if it results in fewer jobs because employers find it too expensive to employ workers and fewer houses available for rent because private landlords just give up, then you can have all the rights you want but you won't have a house or a job. The rights that are being removed are the limiting of jury trials and the proposed introduction of ID cards. Some people will doubtless see both as a simple exercise in making things cheaper and more efficient but frankly they're being naiive. The growth figures you quote are optimistic at best and are likely to be revised down. The extra money you say that is being given to the NHS isnt spent efficiently and patient outcomes and experience are significantly worse than in similar advanced and comparable countries with different methods of provision. My feeling is that we're in absolutely terrible financial straits. Everything points to a huge financial collapse, a bloodbath in employment, civil unrest and a collapse of the government followed by years of instability. I am happy to return to this topic in future months/years and admit it if I'm wrong. As it happens I hope you're right but I have grave doubts.

The NHS has bean broken up and let out, becoming a cash cow to be milked dry by private enterprises. We no longer have a National Health Service it is now a splintered service run as little fiefdoms that won't or cannot talk to each other. It needs a complete restructuring not tinkering as it is not fit for the 21st century and beyond. Many services are only available Monday to Friday 9-5.
Consecutive governments have strangled it to near death and their only solution is to throw more and more money at it, a bit like rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic.

 

[First Aspect]

Flip sake Rachael, I'm just trying to eat my cheerios in peace here.

I thought you'd left. Have you been lurking all this time?

 

[briantrumpet]

I thought you'd left. Have you been lurking all this time?

It's taken him a long time to swim across the no-border Irish Sea.

 

[Pinno718]

My feeling is that we're in absolutely terrible financial straits. Everything points to a huge financial collapse, a bloodbath in employment, civil unrest and a collapse of the government followed by years of instability. I am happy to return to this topic in future months/years and admit it if I'm wrong. As it happens I hope you're right but I have grave doubts.

Would it be fairer (and more realistic) to say that we'll muddle through as we have always done? The long term, I agree but I don't think there will be a watershed moment - just a slide into a more impoverished nation.
I think we have a bloated, self-righteous, self entitled middle class that has never really known hardship. Too much naval gazing. Too much want.
My biggest fear, is the rise of populism.

 

[C R]

Would it be fairer (and more realistic) to say that we'll muddle through as we have always done? The long term, I agree but I don't think there will be a watershed moment - just a slide into a more impoverished nation.
I think we have a bloated, self-righteous, self entitled middle class that has never really known hardship. Too much naval gazing. Too much want.
My biggest fear, is the rise of populism.

My only disagreement with what you posted is that fluff spotting, rather than boat spotting, is the problem.

 

[briantrumpet]

My only disagreement with what you posted is that fluff spotting, rather than boat spotting, is the problem.

Naval oranges are all the rage at sea.

 

[briantrumpet]

It'll be an interesting dynamic if that video is released, if the helplessness and killing are clearly shown. Lawyers will be checking their inboxes.

 

[Pblakeney]

It'll be an interesting dynamic if that video is released, if the helplessness and killing are clearly shown. Lawyers will be checking their inboxes.

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I wonder if someone is going to fall on their sword or indeed if it is possible for shît to return flow upwards.

 

[CXRAndy]

It'll be an interesting dynamic if that video is released, if the helplessness and killing are clearly shown. Lawyers will be checking their inboxes.

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What I saw, was narco drug runners being taken out. Helping stop the runaway drug epidemic in the USA

These scenes are all over the USA

You care about these people bringing the drugs- they deserve everything the US can drop on them


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[BoldonLad]

Ya think the Daily Heil/BBC/ITV would present the pro's and the cons like wot u said?
Even Pesky Peston is just another headline creating drama queen. The positives are omitted and the electorate are intrenched. It makes for a heady mix of hedonism and 2 dimensional debate.
Most people would rather die before they think. Most people do. Or something like that.

@Shortfall may just crawl out from under his stone today as it's raining heavily and respond. He needs help like a care in the rubble package. Perhaps he should paint his walls a nice shade of green and grow flowers.

Have we lost the ball?

 

[BoldonLad]

Fair and more of what we need, differing viewpoints but some balance and healthy discussion, even if there is disagreement. (talking about what is needed in the media and the public at large by the way).

If only

 

[Beebo]

I wonder if someone is going to fall on their sword or indeed if it is possible for shît to return flow upwards.

Can Trump issue pardons to protect people from future prosecutions once he is out of office?
I know Biden pardoned his son to protect him from vicious lawsuits.

 

[Pblakeney]

Can Trump issue pardons to protect people from future prosecutions once he is out of office?
I know Biden pardoned his son to protect him from vicious lawsuits.

Well, Donnie seems to be pardoning anyone simply for saying nice things about him so anything is possible.

 

[briantrumpet]

It would be less ridiculous if this were just trolling, but it's rather off-the-scale narcissism.

 

[Pross]

It'll be an interesting dynamic if that video is released, if the helplessness and killing are clearly shown. Lawyers will be checking their inboxes.

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Why aren’t they criticising Labour though?