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Britain is spending £24k a year on every adult
at 12:34 17 Jun 2025

https://www.cityam.com/britain-cant-afford-to-spend-24000-on-every-adult/
If you hate austerity, please read this article. Our government (whatever the political colour) is slowly going to run out of money
This can be funded by borrowing, but the bond markets are already making this prohibitively expensive.
Higher economic growth would help, but how likely is this? Not very.
Higher taxation - there aren't enough super rich to fund the gap & if you tax middle to higher earners, you hurt the economy & your tax revenue falls.
No politicians are being honest about this as no-one votes for higher taxes or austerity.
The furore and u-turn over winter fuel payments show that the government doesn't have the political will to take even small, unpopular decisions.

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Cricket at the Oval today
at 10:42 3 Jun 2025

I have 2 tickets for the last ODI today. Weather doesn't look good - can anyone living in South East London confirm if it's as grim there, please?

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Trent to Real Madrid
at 12:55 30 May 2025

Apparently, Real are going to pay Liverpool a fee so that he can play in the Club World Cup. Rather odd that they think it's worth doing so for such a farcical competition, but I suppose they also have the certainly of signing him.

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