General News Thread

[CosbehFox]

Lee Anderson must think everyone is stupid. He’s off on x spouting about what else has been hidden yet he was probably Tory party chairman when the injunction was taken out!!

[Tommy G]

Inflation up again to 3.6% and 2 months of negative economic growth, taxes up in the autumn. 
 

I wish someone had foreseen this happening when the chancellor set out her budget. 

[leicsmac]

12 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

Lee Anderson must think everyone is stupid. He’s off on x spouting about what else has been hidden yet he was probably Tory party chairman when the injunction was taken out!!

He thinks he's an elected representative of somewhere in the Southern/Midwestern US where this kind of Trumpian soundbite actually works. 

[kenny]

18 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

Inflation up again to 3.6% and 2 months of negative economic growth, taxes up in the autumn. 
 

I wish someone had foreseen this happening when the chancellor set out her budget. 

On the ground it isn't great out there.

 

It has a 2006/07 feel to it.

[leicsmac]

It's likely going to be a rather difficult next decade. Or more. 

[davieG]

4 hours ago, Jon the Hat said:

That said a lot of the Eastern European migrants were / are Christian.

For sure maybe they just settled in with the current Christian way of life here.

 

I don't profess to know the reasons as  I'm sure there are many. It's not all religious based either in my time in Leicester we had the Abbey Park Show, Lord Mayors Show, University Rag Parade none of which are overtly religious but all gone they been replaced by Riverside Festival, the Leicester Food Festival, and the Crowded Festival along with  Caribbean Festival and religious festivals The Festival of Chariots (Rath Yatra), VAisakhi, Diwali and others that I know of.

 

The new Leicester ones seem to be much more based on food and music.

[Jon the Hat]

1 hour ago, CosbehFox said:

Lee Anderson must think everyone is stupid. He’s off on x spouting about what else has been hidden yet he was probably Tory party chairman when the injunction was taken out!!

Party Chairmen are fundraisers really, they are not involved in the centre of Government.  He is a massive tool regardless, but sounds like this was kept very very tight.

[Jon the Hat]

2 minutes ago, davieG said:

The new Leicester ones seem to be much more based on food and music.

Chuck in some Booze and everyone's a winner!

[Trav Le Bleu]

16 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

It's likely going to be a rather difficult next decade. Or more. 

Attaboy, that's the spirit! 

[davieG]

2 minutes ago, Jon the Hat said:

Chuck in some Booze and everyone's a winner!

Silly me missed the most obvious reason, the days of Temperance are long gone.

[Trav Le Bleu]

18 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

It's likely going to be a rather difficult next decade. Or more. 

 

3 minutes ago, Jon the Hat said:

Chuck in some Booze and everyone's a winner!

How did I miss Jon's solution?

[leicsmac]

36 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Attaboy, that's the spirit! 

The good news is that when we come through it all, the party can, will and should be huge! 

[Tommy G]

1 hour ago, leicsmac said:

It's likely going to be a rather difficult next decade. Or more. 

For the working people, yes. 

[leicsmac]

2 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

For the working people, yes. 

There will be problems that not even the privileged can hide from. Not for long and in spite of their belief to the contrary, anyway. 

 

(One of the big ones hopefully being those working people actually figuring out how much real power they have to leverage, considering the mechanics of civilisation still runs on people.)

[st albans fox]

1 hour ago, leicsmac said:

It's likely going to be a rather difficult next decade. Or more. 

How would you describe the last eight years ??

 

 

[st albans fox]

Just been looking at events in southern Syria 

 

Any opinions on Julani ?

Can a leopard change its spots ?? 

are the west being taken for a ride ?

or is he doing his best in a difficult situation where he maybe doesn’t have enough control over his forces ??

[leicsmac]

5 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

How would you describe the last eight years ??

 

 

Bloody difficult. 

 

It's darkly humorous that those of the Millenial generation have now had, consistently, pretty much every negative social event possible happen to them (multiple financial meltdowns, pandemic, increasing climate instability, among others) apart from - thankfully - a world war. 

 

And then (possibly because of the above), some earlier generations have the temerity to criticise them for complaining about the shite hand they've been dealt globally. 

Edited 16 July 2025 by leicsmac

[st albans fox]

9 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

Bloody difficult. 

 

It's darkly humorous that those of the Millenial generation have now had, consistently, pretty much every negative social event possible happen to them (multiple financial meltdowns, pandemic, increasing climate instability, among others) apart from - thankfully - a world war. 

 

And then (possibly because of the above), some earlier generations have the temerity to criticise them for complaining about the shite hand they've been dealt globally. 

Character building !

[RonnieTodger]

Uncomfortable with a school child being weaponised in this pathetic culture war. 

[Spudulike]

3 hours ago, Tommy G said:

Inflation up again to 3.6% and 2 months of negative economic growth, taxes up in the autumn. 
 

I wish someone had foreseen this happening when the chancellor set out her budget. 

Rachel is taking us further and faster. Just a shame that it's going backwards.

[leicsmac]

One thing that the current UK government does have on its side is time. 

 

Edit: from a political power point of view, anyway. 

Edited 16 July 2025 by leicsmac

[Tommy G]

17 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

One thing that the current UK government does have on its side is time. 

 

Edit: from a political power point of view, anyway. 

Only a fool falls back on “we’ve got time”.

 

Your edit saved it.

[Sampson]

30 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

One thing that the current UK government does have on its side is time. 

 

Edit: from a political power point of view, anyway. 

I think it’s more that, as has been the case over the past decade, that political crisis and events take over.
 

I think Farage has got his base now and I don’t see those voters changing their mind regardless of what Labour do with the immigration and economy (and tbh I think a big problem is I think a lot of the issues people care about are opposed to how you grow an economy - I don’t see how you can fix an ageing population’s economy where the labour supply is buckling under those who need care and state support without immigration and/or making politically  unpopular opinions like the cutting fuel allowance or raising the retirement age - but we saw the backlash Labour got for cutting winter fuel allowance on pensioners).

 

In that way I think Farage is on course to win the election regardless of what Labour do because it’s a catch 22. However, the mitigation here is that the world over the past decade has swung violently from one political crisis to another and these end up taking control of the narrative so things like escalations/ending of the war in Ukraine, a natural disaster, another pandemic or war or such like can completely swing the public’s view. The world feels a very different place to me than it did 4 years ago and will no doubt do in another 4 years. But a lot of that is really out of the government’s control. 

Edited 16 July 2025 by Sampson

[leicsmac]

19 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

Only a fool falls back on “we’ve got time”.

 

Your edit saved it.

Yes, there's certainly issues on which time is very short. 

 

And a big part of why those issues exist is because people are spending far too much of that valuable time disputing that there is an issue and which ones are time sensitive. 

 

10 minutes ago, Sampson said:

I think it’s more that, as has been the case over the past decade, that political crisis and events take over.
 

I think Farage has got his base now and I don’t see those voters changing their mind regardless of what Labour do with the immigration and economy (and tbh I think a big problem is I think a lot of the issues people care about are opposed to how you grow an economy - I don’t see how you can fix an ageing population’s economy where the labour supply is buckling under those who need care and state support without immigration and/or making politically  unpopular opinions like the cutting fuel allowance or raising the retirement age - but we saw the backlash Labour got for cutting winter fuel allowance on pensioners).

 

In that way I think Farage is on course to win the election regardless of what Labour do because it’s a catch 22. However, the mitigation here is that the world over the past decade has swung violently from one political crisis to another and these end up taking control of the narrative so things like escalations/ending of the war in Ukraine, a natural disaster, another pandemic or war or such like can completely swing the public’s view. But a lot of that is really out of the government’s control. 

That's about right, really. 

 

There is absolutely zero guarantees about the way the world will look in four years time.

 

'Nother edit: beyond the creeping effects of thermodynamics and their consequences, that is. 

Edited 16 July 2025 by leicsmac

[Spudulike]

Just listened to PMQ's. What a waste of time. We got the 14 years of Conservatives and £22b 'black hole' in the very first sentence. At what point do they start taking responsibility? Just the same old speech about breakfast clubs. Pathetic.

 

We have a PM that refuses to answer a question. Does he not know the answer or just incompetent? The Speaker should call him out on it. The public deserve better.