General News Thread

[Trav Le Bleu]

29 minutes ago, South Shire Fox said:

Its for people who are terminally ill,  and are going to die anyway. If your pet is seriously ill then they are taken to the vet to be humanely put to sleep to stop any more suffering. Why should it be any different for humans? People deserve the option to die with dignity on their terms instead of turning into a vegetable

Yeah, so long as they have the money.

[Izzy]

Regardless of the result of the assisted dying bill vote, it was nice for once to see our politicians acting like grown ups.

 

From what I saw and heard, they debated it with the respect and diligence it deserved.

 

Refreshing to see legislation discussed with no party political nonsense involved.  

[Torquay Gunner]

1 hour ago, Md9 said:

Not sure but I think he is a bit upset that he hasn’t had a noble peace prize. Clown

Do you think he wants a Nobel peace prize? 🤣  His sworn enemy Barack Obama got one and it’s all about a competition for him. 

[Md9]

5 minutes ago, Torquay Gunner said:

Do you think he wants a Nobel peace prize? 🤣  His sworn enemy Barack Obama got one and it’s all about a competition for him. 

Yeah that’s the only reason he wants it. He doesn’t care about anything else other than beating him at least one thing. Good to see him losing his tiny mind though seems to be the only thing that annoys him even though the world is going to sh**

[South Shire Fox]

1 hour ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Yeah, so long as they have the money.

Where has it been said how much it will cost? I imagine an injection will be a lot cheaper then 6 months of pointless drugs to slow down the inevitable while the patient wakes up in agony every day

Edited 21 June 2025 by South Shire Fox

[Torquay Gunner]

1 hour ago, Md9 said:

Yeah that’s the only reason he wants it. He doesn’t care about anything else other than beating him at least one thing. Good to see him losing his tiny mind though seems to be the only thing that annoys him even though the world is going to sh**

Racist that he is, he’s still probably angry that Martin Luther King Jnr got one.

Edited 21 June 2025 by Torquay Gunner

[Md9]

1 hour ago, Torquay Gunner said:

Racist that he is, he’s still probably angry that Martin Luther King Jnr got one.

He is probably working on a way to get it voided along with everyone else that won one. Never seen someone so insecure about other people getting awards and not him. 

[Trav Le Bleu]

2 hours ago, South Shire Fox said:

Where has it been said how much it will cost? I imagine an injection will be a lot cheaper then 6 months of pointless drugs to slow down the inevitable while the patient wakes up in agony every day

You have a lot more faith in humanity than I do 

[Md9]

Surprise surprise Elon doesn’t like the fact that anytime grok answers something that reflects bad on him or his mate so he is trying to change it. 

[Dahnsouff]

5 minutes ago, Md9 said:

Surprise surprise Elon doesn’t like the fact that anytime grok answers something that reflects bad on him or his mate so he is trying to change it. 

One of the most unashamed terrifying things for the future of human agency I have ever read.

[Md9]

18 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

One of the most unashamed terrifying things for the future of human agency I have ever read.

They are not even trying to be subtle about how disgusting they are any more and just hope people will go along. And maga morons are lapping it up . Hopefully one day he will be in prison for rigging the election to get trump in power again 

[Trav Le Bleu]

52 minutes ago, Md9 said:

Surprise surprise Elon doesn’t like the fact that anytime grok answers something that reflects bad on him or his mate so he is trying to change it. 

So Elon gets to write history and decide what is true?

[Alf Bentley]

16 hours ago, st albans fox said:

This ignores that wealthy people spend lots of money (supporting the economy and contributing lots of vat) - if you can ignore the property bubble at the top which they create then surely we’re better having them here rather than them being elsewhere. ????

 

 

 

Both the original Tory proposals and the current Labour plans were presented as increasing tax revenues overall. I presume those projections were made after Treasury calculations taking account of all fiscal impacts including lost VAT revenue. I presume the expectation was that the lost VAT revenue would be dwarfed by increased tax revenues from those who lose their non-dom status but stay in the UK and pay more income tax etc. 

 

If Reeves is reconsidering this, it'll be interesting to hear on what grounds: because the Treasury figures proved incorrect or simply due to political/media pressure? The article says that actual data on non-doms is imminent, so that will be interesting, too - given the claims of the expert cited that most who left after Osborne's changes planned to leave anyway and were not economically active.

 

The article makes the point that the property bubble at the top also impacts house prices further down the ladder - potentially affecting all house-buyers.

 

Of course, there are limits to which "soak the rich" strategies can be effective. A high proportion of tax revenues have to come from people with more normal levels of income/wealth and any revenue gains from non-doms are not massive compared to overall tax revenues - and if you increase wealth taxes excessively, then you do risk losing wealthy people & businesses of importance to the economy. In a way, it's also unfair that the wealthy non-doms who DO end up staying in the UK and paying more tax are likely to be those who are earning their wealth here....but until such time as there are global agreements to tackle tax avoidance, wealth that it not tied to work/business/location can be transferred to countries with looser non-dom rules or to tax havens.

 

It will be disappointing if one of the few minor attempts to get more tax out of the wealthy falls flat, given the massive growth in inequality over recent decades. Given that we live in a low-growth economy (like most of the West) with an aging population, it will merely add to the ongoing dilemma between public service cuts and higher tax for people on normal incomes - not a recipe for a happy society, given the cost of living crisis and the difficulty of achieving a step change in growth due to long-term structural trends (low growth since 70s, very low since 2008) and external factors like Trump's tariff instability, energy price turmoil via the Middle East or Russia, climate change expenses etc.

[Md9]

14 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

So Elon gets to write history and decide what is true?

Pretty much sounds like it doesn’t it and not even trying to hide it 

[leicsmac]

1 hour ago, Md9 said:

Surprise surprise Elon doesn’t like the fact that anytime grok answers something that reflects bad on him or his mate so he is trying to change it. 

 

17 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

So Elon gets to write history and decide what is true?

How about we call this system "GW"?

[Trav Le Bleu]

1 hour ago, leicsmac said:

 

How about we call this system "GW"?

What's Gok Wan got to do with it?

 

[Sampson]

2 hours ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

What's Gok Wan got to do with it?

 

According to the new update on Grok AI it’s because “the great 00s fashion guru Gok Wan once declared “the most handsome and fashionable man alive” to be Emperor Elon Musk the great. And added “And he definitely has never had a hair transplant or plastic surgery”.

[Trav Le Bleu]

41 minutes ago, Sampson said:

According to the new update on Grok AI it’s because “the great 00s fashion guru Gok Wan once declared “the most handsome and fashionable man alive” to be Emperor Elon Musk the great. And added “And he definitely has never had a hair transplant or plastic surgery”.

Leicester legend.

[The Year Of The Fox]

https://news.sky.com/story/latest-polling-says-if-an-election-was-held-tomorrow-reform-uk-would-win-a-majority-13386754
 

 

👀 👀 

[st albans fox]

2 minutes ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

https://news.sky.com/story/latest-polling-says-if-an-election-was-held-tomorrow-reform-uk-would-win-a-majority-13386754
 

 

👀 👀 

Luckily there’s another four years till they’d get a chance 

 

[bovril]

Looking forward to Reform winning, their voter base becoming disillusioned with continuing low economic growth and high immigration, and deciding as a result to vote for Nigel Farage's new party in 2034

[Sampson]

27 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

Luckily there’s another four years till they’d get a chance 

 

I do think Farage becoming PM and a party basically full of all but about 4 MPs with zero experience in politics or understanding how the systems works just hoisted in from nowhere does feel a bit inevitable at this point in time.

 

Having that said, a year or so into the last government, Tories were still way ahead in the polls and Rishi Sunak was still public darling #1 for eat out to help out and furlough. 
 

The world seems to be a reality tv show nowadays that goes at breakneck speed bouncing from one crisis to another, so who knows what world we’ll be in in 4 years time? I never remember the world changing so much (/spiring out of control depending on your viewpoint) anywhere near as quickly as it does now.
 

I think the world feels radically different today than it did 4 years ago, I think it will feel even more different in 4 years. 

[The Year Of The Fox]

I draw parallels between the lead up to the Referendum and Remainers blaséness and regarding Reform and any future GE
 

 

Edited 21 June 2025 by The Year Of The Fox

[blabyboy]

Surprise!!!!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyx5yw8y28o

[Guest TamworthFoxes]

22 minutes ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

I draw parallels between the lead up to the Referendum and Remainers blaséness and regarding Reform and any future GE
 

 

The melt down on here would be epic!! 😂😂

I would have to ring in sick and soak it

up!!