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Reply | Starmer's bill and two party system
at 18:28 1 Jul 2025
If you're aware of someone fraudulently claiming benefits, why don't you report it? The relevant agencies probably don't have the resources to do as much investigating as they would want, so actively being given leads will be a massive help.
Anyone can anonymously report benefit fraud here: https://www.gov.uk/report-benefit-fraud |
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Reply | Bob Vylan at Glastonbury..
at 16:31 1 Jul 2025
No, the IDF is not all Jewish. All male Israeli Druze also serve in (through mandatory conscription) it and some Bedouin enlist voluntarily.
[edit: Sorry, seen WWZ also responded to this, at which point there was a convenient disappearing act] [Post edited 1 Jul 16:34]
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Reply | Starmer's bill and two party system
at 15:59 1 Jul 2025
The rationale for legalising cannabis can come from the right or the left. From the right, it's in line with libertarian economic thinking, similar to his views on health insurance etc. |
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Reply | Bob Vylan at Glastonbury..
at 23:17 29 Jun 2025
According to Hebrew Wikipedia, around a quarter of the standing IDF is career military (they will largely be the senior officers). If you take into account reserves (which the IDF is currently heavily reliant on due to the extended conflict in Gaza), the career military makes up about 7% of total manpower. |
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Reply | Bob Vylan at Glastonbury..
at 15:17 29 Jun 2025
How can you so relentlessly clueless about British politics? Starmer is hugely pro-Israel and was supported in his run for the Labour leadership by those who wanted the previous anti-Israel leader gone. Do you not remember Starmer defending Israel's right to shut off water to the Gaza Strip?
People who are fans of Starmer are largely Labour Friends of Israel types. The people who hate Israel almost all hate Starmer as well. |
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Reply | AirBnB Question...
at 00:28 28 Jun 2025
Apologies, I wasn't aware that downvotes needed justification.
Anyway: I'm originally from Lavenham, but like many nicer Suffolk villages, locals have been priced out by retirees from London, second home owners and (more recently thanks to the likes of Airbnb) tourists (and of course the Thatcher legacy of selling off virtually all the council housing, of which there was once quite a lot of in Lavenham). You talked about keeping corner shops open, but if locals can't actually live there, having corner shops is pointless anyway.
Airbnb is massive problem in touristy areas. I lived in very central London for ten years and saw the effect first hand - not least because the flat below me was illegally rented out, making most weekend nights a misery. Dozens of flats on my estate ended up on Airbnb, depriving the area of much needed housing. The vast majority were listed illegally (in London planning laws means you can't do whole-flat short-term lets for over 90 days a year. Airbnb claim they stop people doing this, but people get around it by creating multiple listings for the same flat and then deny they are the same place when it's raised with them; some listings were even flats with council tenancies).
I have no objections to people using Airbnb to rent out a spare room or something, but it needs regulating to stop the loss of housing in areas where there is already a critical problem. IMO it should be a requirement to get permission from the local authority to rent on Airbnb (which is done in some countries) and councils can then stop the loss of housing. |
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Reply | Disability cuts
at 16:11 26 Jun 2025
Prepare for Nigel pushing even more people into poverty? |
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Reply | Wales
at 21:39 9 Jun 2025
Now they've scored (another) fourth goal as a result of a corner that should have been a goal kick. |
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Reply | Winter Fuel Payment
at 21:15 26 May 2025
Has the press ever suggested they are all from war-torn countries?
Also, who are the lunatic left-wing press? |
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Reply | Winter Fuel Payment
at 20:05 26 May 2025
The UK has reduced its emissions, in part, by outsourcing manufacturing to other countries such as China. We have one of this highest levels of imported emissions in the world (ranked 11th, higher than any other large economy).
The electrical grid is not 'on a knife edge'. The lunatic right-wing press has been predicting blackouts due to the increase in renewable power for at least 15 years.
Do you really think that people from war-torn countries don't have trainers, baseball caps and mobile phones? |
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Reply | Reform
at 16:44 2 May 2025
People are upset with poor roads and local services, so they've voted for a party that wants to reduce public spending? |
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Reply | Truss Social
at 16:14 16 Apr 2025
The stupidest person I've ever worked with (also one of the rudest) went on to become an MP.
There is something deeply wrong in our political system to allow these people to end up in parliament, let alone in the cabinet. |
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Reply | Far right thief found guilty
at 15:53 31 Mar 2025
Five years seems to be standard here - Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman was removed from office for electoral fraud but was allowed to run again (and did successfully) after the five year ban expired... |
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Reply | The Spring Statement
at 15:17 26 Mar 2025
There needs to be an equivalent to Godwin's law for that note. Anyone referring to it (other than to explain the context for the five millionth time) has automatically lost the argument. |
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Reply | Rachel Reeves
at 12:10 21 Mar 2025
I also find the term 'wealth creators' misleading. They do not create wealth - they accumulate it. If someone invents a new product that people buy, those people will spend less money on something else; there is no new wealth created, it simply moves from one place to another.
It could be argued that someone creating a product or service that is cheaper helps free up money to be spent elsewhere, but using Dyson as an example, their products are generally more expensive. |
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Reply | Who lives near the mega shed
at 00:36 18 Mar 2025
He's a planning officer; his job is to apply planning law to applications. If it's a legal application and it is rejected for whatever reason, the decision will get appealed by the developer, the appeal will almost certainly be successful and then the council probably has a six-figure bill to pay. |
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Reply | Migrant "crime crisis"
at 20:01 11 Mar 2025
I would suspect that it means that the OP does not actually have the political leanings they repeatedly claim to have, on the basis that their posts on political matters suggest their views are on the other side of the spectrum. A more sophisticated version of Pecker's "I'm a remainer but" effort perhaps.
I think Clive was spot on with his analysis of the OP a few weeks ago. |
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Reply | That meetings going well ( not)
at 15:31 3 Mar 2025
The figures are based on people who voted Labour in 2024, which I think is quite a different subset of people to 'Labour supporters'.
It would be interesting to see a Sankey diagram of where people who voted last year are now intending to put their crosses if there were a general election imminent. |
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Reply | Energy price cap up 6.4%
at 14:59 28 Feb 2025
Utterly clueless. Many councils have budgets running into the billions. The amounts senior management are paid are a tiny fraction of the overall budget and salaries are generally far lower than their equivalents in the private sector.
As for there being too many, I'd love to see people who spout this kind of nonsense have a go at drawing up an organogram for an organisation employing thousands of people across hundreds of speciality areas if they think seven or eight directors is too many. |
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Reply | £10k fine for this
at 00:39 21 Feb 2025
Absolute shame on those who downvoted the sole female voice on this thread. Disgusting. |
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