Robo61

Given that the vast majority of those voting reform voted brexit, blaming the current mailaise of the country on the current government is absolutely an abdication of resposnsibility.

Isn't that pretty much what he has tried to say. Much more likely to have blown over had he issued a full and frank apology, but just like Trump he is uncapable of such humility.

Then why only concentrate on one side of that choice. As is usual with these debates no one wants to discuss the real choices this country faces. Yes, Starmer ans Reeves have political mistakes, they should never have promised no tax rises at the same time as promising improvements in some aspects of welfare and public services, but name one party that has been elected in the past that hasn't done similar. As usual the dabate is concentrated on the tax aspects, but not on the other aspects of the manfesto that require funding, child poverty being just one of them. It seems to me this country is no longer capable on an honest debate on these and many other issues, as we have become addicted to low taxation particulat taxes on income.

I didn't say those things weren't choices, but the need for headroom clearly wasn't. As for this choice, labours manifesto promised to lower child poverty, this measure will move that policy quicker than any other single measure could have done, at the lowest cost. The tories brought this policy in, as an attempt to reduce the number of children born to poor families, apart from that being unethical in my view (we shouldn't be blaming children for the choices of their parents) there is zero evidence that it has had that desired outcome. It also did not only effect those families that couldn't afford to have those additional children (the media narrative) at the time the decision was made but also those (the majority) who later became poorer for no fault of there own.

That is not true, if she had left things as they were there would have been a headroom of just £4b, the lowest in decades and would have resulted in the bond markets panicking.

The linesman had put up the flag for ball being out before Fatawu was clattered into, so the ref got that one right. I agree though in general he was a poor ref.

Its very difficult to make real comparisons from country to country, as demographics play a huge part in success or failure in terms of deaths per capta. Comparable countries to Sweden would be Norway/Finland/Denmark all of whom did significantly better than Sweden, so not sure it can be said that Sweden did well at all. Japan on the other hand did particlarly well given their aging populations.

What have they done??

Worth a watch for anyonre with real interest in tax policy

Then how can you explain the ever largening gap between the very rich & poor of this country. Those mega businesses you talk about are largely built on modern tech, who got their original owners very rich indeed, that can only be so if they were not paying their workers what they werereally worth, I give you Jeff Bezos. The same mega businesses that are now paying their executives millions in wages while the tax payer foots the claim bill of their employees benefits.

I wish sometimes people would sit and think about how the rich actaully make their money, increasingly its done by paying people to do work for peanuts. So who then is the really paying the tax of the rich. The majority of people now on UC are in work, the real beneficiaries of those benefits are therefore employees who are not paying wages sufficient to live on.

I wish sometimes people would sit and think about how the rich actaully make their money, increasingly its done by paying people to do work for peanuts. So who then is the really paying the tax of the rich. The majority of people now on UC are in work, the real beneficiaries of those benefits are therefore employees who are not paying wages sufficient to live on.

The last three General Elections have been won by parties promising net zero. PS electric cars are great and way superior than ICE in most repects. Modern heat pumps do work.

If landlords are going to sell up, then who is going to buy them up. I am confused by what you are claiming, the number of houses available to either rent or buy is not going to change as a result of landlords selling up.

That is not how the housing market works. You cannot look at renting in isolation to home ownership. Landlords sell up, house prices drop, those that were renting buy, demand for renting reduces.

That is strickly speaking true , but a very large part of that increase is due to claimants moving from legacy benefits to UC, so is not a true reflection of what is happening. Lies damn lies and statistics eh.

What is really crazy is that they are not learning from their mistakes on this front, being too tentative is proving to be a vote loser all round.

If that puts the public finances at risk or further austerity it will not encourage growth at all and will probably spook the bond markets leaving us in a still worse postion. This merry go round has been going for some 15 years, it needs to change radically, Unfortunately, while I think this government have done a number of things that will improve things at the margins in the coming years, it is doing no where near enough to make a real difference to peoples lifes.

You do know that its his son that plays golf everyday and not Rudkin, and he is very dedicated to his golf getting his handicap down to +4 despite having only taken up the game about 4/5 years ago. I expect he will turn pro when he has finished his studies.

No, with the exception of the prize money available for largely second rate players. It seems that going to 72 holes is an attempt to get OWGR points, though will in my view take further changes to the qualifying criteria in for it to be succcessful. If they were to get world points then I would expect them to attract a few top players.

No, but they do need to have an account.

And he managed it in five minutes. We need to wait until the end of her tenure bwfore we can truely assess where she stands in that league table. Especially given non of the last half a dozen have improved the lifes of the average citizen.

Have you never heard of charities.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgzkyk7knzo Cheek of the women, she goes onto a TV channel that is also supposed to adhere to impartialy rules, but has multiple politicians hosting weekly TV propoganda programmes., to call for heads to roll becasue the BBC has clipped two genuine speeches of Trump together. A minor breach at most.

As I said fair comment re CS, though it shouldn't have made a difference as the on boarding process would have simply bi-passed the charger and would attempt to contact the vehicle.