MakemineVanilla Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 I think the biggest danger when it comes to ULEZ schemes is that with so many councils in so much debt, a tory government might be tempted to sell them to private business to enjoy a quick injection of tax, only for the tax-payer to make a long-term loss. Chicago, considered the most corrupt city in the USA, sold their parking-zone schemes for short-term gains and long-term losses. The temptations will be immense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Rodders Posted October 17, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted October 17, 2023 For heaven's sake... oh hang on... Thank christ. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post blandy Posted October 17, 2023 Author Moderator Popular Post Share Posted October 17, 2023 Remember me, Liz Truss? yes, that's right, I'm the one who caused everyone's mortgages and rents to go double and caused the bank of England to have to spend billions to stop the pensions system collapsing and who caused interest rates to rocket by deciding to borrow 45 billion to give tax cuts to the very wealthy. Anyway, listen here, I'm going to be putting forward an alternative budget to the one Jeremy C-word is doing. No, no, I haven't got any self awareness - why do you ask? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Stevo985 Posted October 17, 2023 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted October 17, 2023 In other news, Gary Glitter is about to release his alternative guide to babysitting 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted October 17, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted October 17, 2023 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 1 hour ago, Chindie said: I wonder if he is any relation to Barry, Peter Osland that is. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mozzavfc Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 4 hours ago, blandy said: Remember me, Liz Truss? yes, that's right, I'm the one who caused everyone's mortgages and rents to go double and caused the bank of England to have to spend billions to stop the pensions system collapsing and who caused interest rates to rocket by deciding to borrow 45 billion to give tax cuts to the very wealthy. Anyway, listen here, I'm going to be putting forward an alternative budget to the one Jeremy C-word is doing. No, no, I haven't got any self awareness - why do you ask? In a way you have to admire the insane confidence of Truss. Destroyed the economy in less time than it takes a lettuce to go bad, yet still thinks that people care what she thinks. If it was me I would have changed my name and moved to another country that doesn't get news Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 Hopefully she can raise a rebel army against Little Rishi. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 Well, I guess that's the sort of story that helps get the vote out on Thursday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 On 17/10/2023 at 09:59, one_ian_taylor said: Ulrika has changed a lot I thought Smithers had grown out his hair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted October 19, 2023 Moderator Share Posted October 19, 2023 Highly amusing that Sunak has chosen to sod off to Israel for two days, where he'll achieve the sum total of f*** all (as usual), just to avoid the by-election results Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 Tel Aviv is the new Kyev. Johnson would’ve killed for the chance to go to Israel and misquote some Merchant of Venice or Othello. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted October 19, 2023 Moderator Share Posted October 19, 2023 1 minute ago, chrisp65 said: Tel Aviv is the new Kyev. Johnson would’ve killed for the chance to go to Israel and misquote some Merchant of Venice or Othello. Nailed on to be Shylock (the ultimate historical racial stereotyping) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 On 17/10/2023 at 12:45, Rodders said: For heaven's sake... oh hang on... Thank christ. I’m interested. She causes massive inflation in my pants. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 My people Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted October 20, 2023 Share Posted October 20, 2023 Glances at Emily Thornberry, six days after the 2019 General Election... Quote Let’s be clear: this was always going to be the Brexit election, the first genuine single-issue election in 119 years. Back then, in 1900, the Tories were cynically capitalising on their early success in the Boer war to try to win another thumping majority over the Liberals. It was also Labour’s very first election, and we went into it with noble domestic ambitions far distant from the South African veldt. Provision for the aged poor. Better houses. Useful work for the unemployed. Adequate maintenance for children. The nationalisation of railways. And the establishment of social and economic equality between the sexes. Worthy priorities indeed, but we only won two seats, while the Tories stuck to their single issue and claimed a majority of more than 130. ... And if you’re a Labour voter seized with gloom – or a Tory gleaming with complacency – just remember that in 1906, six years after the last single-issue election, the Liberal opposition won a majority of 124, with the Tories losing 246 seats. Why? Because the Tories were totally divided over trade policy and because their “single issue” of the Boer war had turned into a disaster. Will history repeat itself now as the Tories grapple with the reality of “getting Brexit done”? Well, history has a tendency to do that. And when the next election comes, I’d certainly like Labour to have a leader and team in place with the strategic vision to foresee and exploit Johnson’s failings. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted October 20, 2023 Share Posted October 20, 2023 I dont know the answer and have no suggestions, but what can the tories do that would make them electable. Not talking about undoing anything, Brexit etc. What could they do in the next 12 months that might see them win the next GE. New leader? Tax cuts? Help with cost of living? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted October 20, 2023 Share Posted October 20, 2023 (edited) 1 minute ago, Seat68 said: I dont know the answer and have no suggestions, but what can the tories do that would make them electable. Not talking about undoing anything, Brexit etc. What could they do in the next 12 months that might see them win the next GE. New leader? Tax cuts? Help with cost of living? Go full anti-woke and hoover up the loony vote. Somehow get Farage in as leader. Edited October 20, 2023 by StefanAVFC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desensitized43 Posted October 20, 2023 Share Posted October 20, 2023 1 minute ago, Seat68 said: I dont know the answer and have no suggestions, but what can the tories do that would make them electable. Not talking about undoing anything, Brexit etc. What could they do in the next 12 months that might see them win the next GE. New leader? Tax cuts? Help with cost of living? Nothing. The electorate has monumentally turned and stopped listening to them. When Sunak stood up and tried to portray himself as the “change candidate” that was the giveaway. They focus group everything and they’ve clearly had the feedback that the electorate want change, which they do, so they’re desperately and cynically acting like the last 13 years are nothing to do with them and the next 13 they’ll do things differently while showing nothing in their actions to indicate they’re capable of that. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts