Cost of Living Crisis

[Granny Danger]

53 minutes ago, carpetmonster said:

To be fair, both sides of Westminster have already come out and said they won't be using it - Sunak himself for the Tories and Jess Phillips for Labour. Both speaking on a personal basis but the way Sunak worded it seems very much an instruction/warning to Tories not to come the c**t. 

 

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/prime-minister-mps-ipsa-jess-phillips-independent-parliamentary-standards-authority-b1041727.html#r3z-addoor

If Sunak blocks Mad Nad’s and Alistair Jack’s ascension to the HoL (as has been reported) then their publicly funded Christmas parties will be of Bacchanalian proportions imo.

[carpetmonster]

26 minutes ago, Granny Danger said:

If Sunak blocks Mad Nad’s and Alistair Jack’s ascension to the HoL (as has been reported) then their publicly funded Christmas parties will be of Bacchanalian proportions imo.

Booze has been specifically excluded from claimable expenses so I’m not sure what Nadine would spend money on apart from a thousand life size cardboard cutouts of Boris Johnson. Which she will; fair point well made GD. 

[Granny Danger]

30 minutes ago, carpetmonster said:

Booze has been specifically excluded from claimable expenses so I’m not sure what Nadine would spend money on apart from a thousand life size cardboard cutouts of Boris Johnson. Which she will; fair point well made GD. 

She'd have to pay for the wine herself but there’s no spending restriction on satyrs and nymphs.  These don’t come cheap.

 

 

 

Err…apparently.

[MazzyStar]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-63729772  
 

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Some people have questioned the expenditure during a cost of living crisis in Britain. But cabinet minister Mel Stride defended the lavish banquet saying the visit would boost trade and help the economy grow

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/new-tory-welfare-chief-wanted-28364687

What a country. 

Edited November 24, 2022 by MazzyStar

[scottsdad]

19 hours ago, oaksoft said:

Leaving aside the fact that someone has dredged comments that he made 10 years ago, things like maternity pay are extremely onerous for small businesses and with many of them barely breaking even, something needs to be done there. The unintended side effect of this sort of thing is that a lot of small businesses simply avoid hiring women of a certain age and that clearly doesn't help anyone.

Like what?

[vikingTON]

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/dec/03/why-inheritance-is-the-dirty-secret-of-the-middle-classes-harder-to-talk-about-than-sex

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By 2025, £100bn – more than half the annual budget of the NHS – could be changing hands every year, according to a landmark analysis commissioned by estate administrators the Kings Court Trust. By 2047, they estimate that number could more than treble. Around £5.5tn in total could flow down through families over the next 30 years, both in conventional legacies and increasingly in living gifts like Isobel’s, which don’t attract inheritance tax if the donor survives for seven years after handing them over. 

Research for the Institute for Fiscal Studies thinktank last year showed that for children born in the 60s, a quarter of the difference in living standards between rich and poor was explained solely by inherited capital. For 80s children, a third of it is. 

 

Get this taxed to f**k then. 

[Jacksgranda]

Got our oil tank filled the other week, courtesy of Jack, although he'll get most of the money repaid whenever our fuel payments come through.

But at least we know we've a full tank and don't need to ration the heating.

When we get our chimney swept we'll be really in business.

[Crùbag]

As heard on Frankie Boyle the other night, 'Let's hear the case for the Union'.

[Clown Job]

 

[Granny Danger]

4 minutes ago, Clown Job said:

 

I’m absolutely certain that if Putin wins in Ukraine it will be the nurses’ fault.

[BFTD]

It would send a very clear message if outgoing Leave-supporting MPs agreed to work low-paid jobs for the rest of their lives in order to cover for the absence of EU migrant workers.

[Mark Connolly]

"Here, Vlad, the British nurses have agreed a real terms pay cut".

"f**k, the game's a bogey, get the lads out of Ukraine sharpish"

[Fullerene]

29 minutes ago, Mark Connolly said:

"Here, Vlad, the British nurses have agreed a real terms pay cut".

"f**k, the game's a bogey, get the lads out of Ukraine sharpish"

If nurses in the 1930s hadn't been so demanding we could have avoid WW2 altogether.

[Billy Jean King]

Army.....training......fight....

Ukraine, nope it's right here and they are being prepared to "fight" the Unions.

Classic Dalily Heil red meat.

[Benjamin_Nevis]

2 hours ago, Billy Jean King said:

Army.....training......fight....

Ukraine, nope it's right here and they are being prepared to "fight" the Unions.

Classic Dalily Heil red meat.

What are squaddies going to do exactly?

Most of the ones that signed up from around here did so because they couldn't be arsed/were too thick to get into an actual trade 

[D Angelo Barksdale]

There will be much disappointment from the Express and Mail readers when they realise are brave boys will merely be sent to scab rather than machine gun picket lines.

[Soapy FFC]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-64003237

Nice to see the Govt is thinking about some of the ways people save a few pounds every month.

[Clown Job]

[BFTD]

Pouring one out for the landlords tonight.

[Detournement]

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jan/15/priced-out-uk-house-hunters-turn-to-lorry-sized-tiny-homes

Trailer Parks but for hipsters. 

These are my favourite genre of articles where the media takes something dystopian - in this case living in rented wooden box in a field - and tries to make it sound aspirational.

The guy who grew up in a 7 bedroom Victorian villa, works 6 days driving a lorry and can't afford to buy a one bedroom flat so he's spending 30 grand on a wooden trailer to park it on "land his parents own" seems totally legit....