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>> No. 51753 Anonymous
11th November 2013
Monday 11:24 pm
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Switzerland will hold a vote on whether to introduce a basic income for all adults, in a further sign of growing public activism over pay inequality since the financial crisis. A grassroots committee is calling for all adults in Switzerland to receive an unconditional income of 2,500 Swiss francs ($2,800) per month from the state, with the aim of providing a financial safety net for the population.

Under Swiss law, citizens can organize popular initiatives that allow the channeling of public anger into direct political action. The country usually holds several referenda a year. In March, Swiss voters backed some of the world's strictest controls on executive pay, forcing public companies to give shareholders a binding vote on compensation. A separate proposal to limit monthly executive pay to no more than what the company's lowest-paid staff earn in a year, the so-called 1:12 initiative, faces a popular vote on November 24.


http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/04/us-swiss-pay-idUSBRE9930O620131004

http://www.businessinsider.com/behind-the-swiss-unconditional-income-iniative-2013-10

I'm not entirely sure what to make of these. I reckong that if they tried the 1:12 thing over here then the lowest paid members of staff in some large organisations would end up being made redundant and replaced with contractors.
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>> No. 93684 Anonymous
17th May 2021
Monday 10:52 pm
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>>93683
Surely if wage stagnation would arrest inflation then the past 10 years would've proved it, if not been part of a long-trend of multi-decadal deflation. Unless it's all been counteracted by the government giving free money to people with connections and property 'investors'. Oh dear I've made myself angry.
>> No. 93685 Anonymous
17th May 2021
Monday 11:31 pm
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>>93678

Theoretically, maybe, but it presents a huge co-ordination problem. One of the key catalysts of the Winter of Discontent was the imposition of pay increase controls in an attempt to limit inflation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_Discontent#Incomes_policy
>> No. 96081 Anonymous
28th June 2022
Tuesday 3:13 pm
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Wales basic income: Pilot will give care leavers £19,000 a year

A £20m experiment offering a basic income to young people leaving care will launch in Wales on Friday.

From 1 July, the Welsh government will offer about 500 18-year-olds £19,200 a year before tax - no strings attached.

One care leaver said the cash would be a "safety blanket" and others hope it will help give the 18-year-olds a good start.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-61950546
>> No. 97730 Anonymous
4th June 2023
Sunday 10:19 pm
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>A universal basic income of £1,600 a month is to be trialled in England for the first time in a pilot programme.

>Thirty people will be paid a lump sum without conditions each month for two years and will be observed to understand the effects on their lives. Two places in England have been selected for the micro pilot scheme: central Jarrow, in north-east England, and East Finchley, in north London.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/04/universal-basic-income-of-1600-pounds-a-month-to-be-trialled-in-england
>> No. 97731 Anonymous
4th June 2023
Sunday 11:25 pm
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>East Finchley

I'd be interested to see what happens if people in the multimillion pound mansions win. Let's hope their new wealth doesn't send them off the deep end.

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>> No. 92607 Anonymous
23rd March 2021
Tuesday 3:26 pm
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You know it's local election time when councillors you've never heard of start creeping out of the woodwork again.
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>> No. 97725 Anonymous
6th May 2023
Saturday 4:32 am
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Why does the BBC pretend it has published detailed election results by using hyperlinks with that exact anchor text, but when you click them the page only contains a summary of the total number of seats won by each party in that council area?

This is a cutback from previous coverage, surely?
>> No. 97726 Anonymous
6th May 2023
Saturday 5:30 pm
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>>97725
I don't remember them ever providing ward-level results. Though I do believe that calling out the seats being contested separately is relatively recent.

Also, can we acknowledge how stupid election by thirds is?
>> No. 97727 Anonymous
6th May 2023
Saturday 7:09 pm
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>>97722
Various Tory talking heads were pointing out that for their analysis of a disaster, May lost 44 councils and that 1000 seats would be a disaster. They blew past both of those marks mid-afternoon on Friday.

The Conservative Party now controls 56 local authorities in England, but 20 of those are the shire county councils. And even then there are a couple of councils where they lost significant numbers of seats but just clung onto a majority, so their 50 losses could have been even more.

At this point, I'd be expecting MPs to be announcing letters of no confidence going in but Andrew Bridgen is out of the party.
>> No. 97728 Anonymous
6th May 2023
Saturday 7:33 pm
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>At this point, I'd be expecting MPs to be announcing letters of no confidence going in

The problem for the Tories - a problem that all but the most deluded of back-benchers will be aware of - is that Rishi Sunak is considerably more popular than the party as a whole. The absolute best they can hope for is a loss at the next general election rather than a complete wipeout, which is why so many big names in marginal seats have already announced that they won't be standing for re-election. They're gloriously, irredeemably fucked.
>> No. 97729 Anonymous
6th May 2023
Saturday 10:16 pm
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It is funny to me that the number of seats changing hands for each party is basically the same as 1991.
Labour in 1991: Up 584, Now: Up 536
Tories in 1991: Down 1,035, Now: Down 1,058
Liberals in 1991: Up 407, Now: Up 405

They're not really comparable since this was under the old system where all councils had simultaneous elections so far more seats were up for grabs then, but if you're still looking for signs from heaven that Labour has tempted the gods with their hubris and will go down 1992 style for their sins, it's a good laugh.

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>> No. 97570 Anonymous
21st March 2023
Tuesday 3:52 pm
97570 American Civil War II: The Squeakquel
With the amount of airtime ol' Leatherface is still getting on both sides of the pond and the number of Republicans that still think he should run for the big chair in 2024 (over half, last I looked) it feels the implosion of the States are closer now than ever before.

It could just be a continuation of the smouldering anti-ultraliberalism and leftist infighting we've seen since Trump first rallied the alt-right from relative obscurity though. A big "nothingburger" as the, well, burgers like to say. His arrest could also be the closure that the whole thing needs so that we can go back our regular coverage of Windsor drama and knife crime.

What do you lot reckon?
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>> No. 97605 Anonymous
31st March 2023
Friday 2:19 pm
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>>97603
Just wait until you hear how they got Al Capone.
>> No. 97606 Anonymous
31st March 2023
Friday 2:28 pm
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>>97605
From what I get, he paid hush money to a porn star because they had a shag while he was married. Morally reprehensible, sure (no surprise from an amoral populist grifter) but I wouldn't think it was illegal.

Is this just a weird quirk of American law?
>> No. 97607 Anonymous
31st March 2023
Friday 2:31 pm
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>>97606
That's not illegal. He recorded it as a business expense. Falsifying business records is not legal.
>> No. 97608 Anonymous
31st March 2023
Friday 2:45 pm
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>>97607
Got it, thanks for clarifying.
>> No. 97609 Anonymous
31st March 2023
Friday 2:49 pm
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>>97604

>Elizabeth Holmes was indicted June 2018 and sentenced to over a decade in November 2022. She's still not seen prison.


Part of the reason for that was that she was pregnant at the time of sentencing. It's at a judge's discretion to postpone the beginning of a person's sentence in cases like that.

In Victorian Britain, there was a turn of phrase called Pleading the Belly, where women could hope for leniency if they were pregnant during a trial. It didn't normally end up reducing their sentence, but they could be allowed to give birth to their child prior to starting their prison term.

In Elizabeth Holmes' case, on the other hand, it's increasingly looking like she and her lawyers are using it to stall the judiciary system and buy her lawyers time to get the sentence overturned after all.

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/17/1164380277/elizabeth-holmes-theranos-prison-sentence-delay-appeal

Which makes her not a hint less dishonest than during her time at Theranos where she was defrauding investors out of billions.

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>> No. 97482 Anonymous
4th February 2023
Saturday 12:14 am
97482 ITZ
GIANT CHINESE PAPER LANTERN INVADES US AIRSPACE "Accidentally"
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>> No. 97523 Anonymous
12th February 2023
Sunday 9:43 pm
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>The US has shot down another unidentified flying object, this time over Lake Huron near the Canadian border, in what is the fourth such incident this month.
>The incident on Sunday is the third time in as many days that an unidentified high-altitude object has been shot down by American fighter jets.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64620064

Someone mind checking in with a nuclear missile silo to make sure they're alright. Just a hunch.
>> No. 97524 Anonymous
13th February 2023
Monday 11:31 am
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>>97520
They're almost certainly monitoring the War Thunder forums.
>> No. 97525 Anonymous
13th February 2023
Monday 7:03 pm
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The yanks have shot down four objects, they don't know what those objects are, they can't ascertain how they were remaining airborne and they might have lost track of where the debris landed.

2033 is continuing on a streak of being totally normal.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-64627059
>> No. 97526 Anonymous
13th February 2023
Monday 7:12 pm
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>He also adds the US government knows what the balloon was was doing, where it was going and emphasises how much larger it was - capable of carrying three school buses and flying at a much-higher altitude.
Damn they could fly higher than three school buses that's incredible.
>> No. 97527 Anonymous
13th February 2023
Monday 7:28 pm
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What?

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>> No. 97425 Anonymous
22nd January 2023
Sunday 1:05 am
97425 Why are trans people in this country so bloody stupid?
I know I'm going to get flak for this, so let me say that I have respect for trans people and think their gender is valid. But I think they're also utterly daft. It's not because they're trans, but they're Poms.

One minute, everyone from the Tories to Labour are not just authoritarian, and transphobic, but outright fascist because they sat on the fence on banning trans conversion therapy, and proposed a 'pandemic safety bill' that would've increased censorship and surveillance in protests.

Next, the same people propose a bill that would extend censorship and surveillance to Facebook and even private chats, ban any company that won't comply (like Putin did!) but because it protects trans people from harmful misgendering content it's fine and there's no way this could be used against them.

Oh, and Peter Tatchell and Stephen Fry are mysigynist fascists for speaking out against it, because of jingoism and sublte antisemitism.

Trans Poms, make your mind up ffs. Could someone please explain to me this massive cognitive dissonance?
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>> No. 97459 Anonymous
24th January 2023
Tuesday 5:18 pm
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>>97458

Should have done it for the OP image alone.
>> No. 97460 Anonymous
24th January 2023
Tuesday 5:48 pm
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I just thought it was Robert Llewellyn with a bad hangover.
>> No. 97461 Anonymous
24th January 2023
Tuesday 7:13 pm
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>>97460
I thought it was a member of Blue Man Group.
>> No. 97466 Anonymous
25th January 2023
Wednesday 7:59 pm
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>>97461
OP's pic is quite clearly white. Nice racebait, Red Man Group psyop.
>> No. 97467 Anonymous
26th January 2023
Thursday 2:14 am
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>> No. 97345 Anonymous
7th December 2022
Wednesday 7:05 pm
97345 How do you solve a problem like the Lords?
So it's more or less universally acknowledged that the House of Lords needs reform, but the barriers to actually doing it are large and numerous, to the point that even after decades of agreeing it needs to be done we still haven't capped its size or abolished hereditary peers.

General discussion and mental masturbation thread about it and what we think we could do better.
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>> No. 97354 Anonymous
8th December 2022
Thursday 6:58 am
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The best constitution you can have is something like New Zealand's, where you have a unitary state with a single-chamber parliament elected by proportional representation, in a Westminster system where what parliament says goes, with a monarchy (but not really, just a spokesman who stops you needing a stupid president) and with a bunch of nice democratic window dressing like a bill of rights which makes you feel safe and progressive but which isn't really enforceable, so you don't ever get into the tedious judicial-vs-legislative battles and constitutional debates that define the US, and you don't get the stupid upper house games you see here or in Australia.
It's the gold standard, it's as close to perfect in every single way as you can get... except that it would fall apart the moment you took the nice agreeable New Zealand politicians out and put our coterie of Daily Mail pandering aspiring human rights abusers in.
>> No. 97355 Anonymous
8th December 2022
Thursday 2:43 pm
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This could perhaps be a sneaky tactic by Labour to invoke Brexit without actually bringing it up. Rather than risking infuriating everyone by going all Daily Express about the B-word, Keir Starmer can plant the seeds in the same people's minds by talking about the Enemies of the People. I don't know of anything else the House of Lords is famous for, certainly among people who don't follow politics.

Also, if you pass a law in the House of Commons to abolish the House of Lords, surely that will need to go into that self-same House of Lords for approval. I don't think they will approve. So K-Starmz can really say whatever the fuck he wants.
>> No. 97365 Anonymous
11th December 2022
Sunday 1:00 pm
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>>97352 Keir used to be an effective lawyer for free speech (in so much as it actually exists in our Sceptic Isle) and ever since he got a peerage got really shit. It reflects so many Labour voters as well. I mean it's fun to call the Tories The Fash but I'll believe it for real when Labour types who call them Fash for a pandemic safety bill that stops protests don't do an immediate U-turn and cheer for an online 'safety' bill by the same people, just because Keir likes it.
>> No. 97370 Anonymous
11th December 2022
Sunday 8:01 pm
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>>97365

British governments in general tend to lean authoritarian to appease the hand-wringing Chealsea Tractor school run Mumsnet arsehole brigade.

That said, remember the twilight years of Blair/Brown's Labour, where we were all worried about the privacy invasion of CCTV cameras and ID cards? It all seems quite quaint in retrospect considering what has transpired over the last decade.
>> No. 97373 Anonymous
12th December 2022
Monday 3:58 am
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>>97370 You talkin' about the right wing Farmer Palmers or the left wing Malcolm and Cressida types?

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>> No. 97325 Anonymous
2nd December 2022
Friday 2:47 pm
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This man is going to be the next President of the US and it's going to be fucking awesome.
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>> No. 97334 Anonymous
2nd December 2022
Friday 5:37 pm
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>None of this is new, he's been at this for years

He's had poorly-managed bipolar disorder for years. He clearly does believe what he's saying, but it's impossible to say whether or not that's symptomatic of his mental illness because he has been very ill for a long time. The "real" Kanye, the medicated and stable Kanye is just a distant memory at this point.

It's shameful that so many people are wheeling out Kanye in a transparently exploitative effort to drum up views, but it's also shameful that people aren't recognising the severity of his illness. He isn't in control of his words or actions, he doesn't have the capacity to make decisions in his own interests and any British court would immediately recognise that fact.
>> No. 97335 Anonymous
2nd December 2022
Friday 6:19 pm
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It feels like we've been here before.
>> No. 97336 Anonymous
2nd December 2022
Friday 6:22 pm
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>>97335

Britney never endorsed the Third Reich to be fair, but she did have the haircut.
>> No. 97344 Anonymous
7th December 2022
Wednesday 7:00 pm
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>>97334
>He's had poorly-managed bipolar disorder for years. He clearly does believe what he's saying, but it's impossible to say whether or not that's symptomatic of his mental illness because he has been very ill for a long time. The "real" Kanye, the medicated and stable Kanye is just a distant memory at this point.

Also consider that he's been living a decadent life of a multi-millionaire for years and his only real exposure to the world at large is crowds of baying fans and media telling him how amazing he is, and scores of companies lining up to use his name for marketing. That can lead people to become pretty detached from reality even if they're sane to begin with.
>> No. 97356 Anonymous
8th December 2022
Thursday 4:40 pm
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>>97336

You can get a person out of the trailer park...

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>> No. 97229 Anonymous
26th October 2022
Wednesday 5:56 am
97229 O9A (glowie) Grooming Rings on Discord
https://medium.com/@voidandnil/xxtarlitdoc2-d0d0d51966f9
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>> No. 97232 Anonymous
26th October 2022
Wednesday 10:21 am
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>>97231
He's probably a /pol/fag from the other place and does what his sub-monkey brain assumes is right, despite all evidence to the contrary.
>> No. 97243 Anonymous
26th October 2022
Wednesday 7:09 pm
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>>97230
I think it might be a Parker pentagram.
>> No. 97257 Anonymous
26th October 2022
Wednesday 9:36 pm
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>>97229
Article pulled, no explanation given. Here's an archived copy.
https://archive.ph/ZTU4e
>> No. 97259 Anonymous
26th October 2022
Wednesday 9:46 pm
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>>97257
It's just some gothy weeb drama. Taking drugs, self-harming and fucking about with some vague chaos magick. I don't think anyone here gives a shit.
>> No. 97260 Anonymous
26th October 2022
Wednesday 9:54 pm
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>>97243
I thought it was some occult Star Trek thingy.

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>> No. 90725 Anonymous
6th October 2020
Tuesday 5:49 pm
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>Mr Johnson also channeled the spirit of Thatcher's 1980s revolution by pledging to save the dream of home ownership for a new generation, with the government underwriting 95 per cent mortgages for around two million first-time buyers.

>The government has yet to give details, but it seems some of the 'stress test' rules imposed on banks after the 2008 financial crisis could be relaxed to facilitate long-term fixed rate mortgages at 95 per cent of a property's value. The government could instead accept some of the risk through a guarantee scheme - although this would leave the taxpayer on the hook for potentially huge sums.

https://www.If I post a link to this website again I will be banned..co.uk/news/article-8810043/Boris-Johnson-sets-vision-post-Covid-Britain.html

Let's overheat the housing market further by softening the measures brought in as a result of the financial crisis. What could possibly go wrong?
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>> No. 96676 Anonymous
31st August 2022
Wednesday 5:47 pm
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No. This scheme will absolutely get you blacklisted by every estate agent and prevent you from ever buying a house, but a mortgage in principle only requires a soft check and you can even get several at once if you like. It's all automated so you aren't even inconveniencing the banks by applying for them all.
>> No. 96963 Anonymous
12th October 2022
Wednesday 11:05 pm
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Paying a Mortgage in Britain Is No Longer Cheaper Than Renting

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-10/paying-a-mortgage-in-britain-is-no-longer-cheaper-than-renting
>> No. 96964 Anonymous
12th October 2022
Wednesday 11:15 pm
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Sorry. It's me (and possibly otherlad's) fault for finally getting on the property ladder. This is just how it always is with me.

It's just like when I was in school, as soon as my year did our GCSEs and left, they built a big new computer lab with loads of top of the line workstations. Or like when I was trying to start a business as a young lad, and as soon as we found a suitable property to use, the council re-zoned that land so our use case would be illegal.

Everything either gets better once I am no longer there, or it goes to shit as soon as I arrive. I could probably end capitalism by becoming a banker.
>> No. 96965 Anonymous
13th October 2022
Thursday 8:05 am
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What does this mean for BTL landlords? Less incentive for renting means more availability of housing for normals? Or will Johnny Foreigner instead buy up houses as a means of parking money in a safe country? Is the English Property Market even a safe place to park money now with Bumder Truss blowing up the economy with her mini budget blunderbuss?
>> No. 96966 Anonymous
13th October 2022
Thursday 11:19 am
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The knock-on effect of a slowing of house sales has been a significant surge in demand in the rental market, alongside a fall in landlord instructions for new lettings.

“Near-term expectations point to a further strong growth in rental prices over the coming three months,” said RICS.

Increasing rental rates will help landlords when they come to remortgage their properties, but as many as 30% of those with buy-to-let loans are likely to fail their renewal test, according to a report by credit rating agency Moody’s on Wednesday.

In order to refinance, buy-to-let mortgage holders have to meet affordability criteria, based on a minimum interest coverage ratio (ICR), that soaring interest rates makes more difficult to meet.

“A 4% increase in interest rates by the end of 2023 would push 30% of buy-to-let loans below their minimum ICR requirement,” said Carmen Brunetti Llavona, analyst at Moody’s Investor Services.


https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/13/uks-13-year-housing-market-boom-to-end-in-2023-surveyors-predict

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>> No. 95589 Anonymous
14th April 2022
Thursday 7:43 pm
95589 PRITI AT IT AGAIN
So the genius plan to stop asylum seekers applying to live in the UK crossing into the UK illegally and dangerously when there are so many safe and legal routes they could take instead, we are going to pay a country halfway across the world to take them off our hands and dump them in one of their huge overcrowded refugee camps, from which people are already desperately trying to get out of and find routes back to Europe.

What could possibly go wrong?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61110237
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>> No. 95631 Anonymous
24th April 2022
Sunday 1:32 am
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>>95602 Perhaps you could ask your MP and then let us know? Maybe you could also ask why our Home Secretary is a cross between Indira Modi and Rita Repulsa?
>> No. 96511 Anonymous
24th July 2022
Sunday 12:44 pm
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Refugees pour into Ireland as Dublin blames Britain’s Rwanda policy

Britain’s Rwanda policy has triggered a surge in refugees arriving in Ireland, Dublin said on Saturday, in a seeming admission that the deal to deport asylum seekers to central Africa is deterring people from coming to the UK.

Senior figures in the coalition government, including the Irish prime minister, have blamed Britain’s new migration measures for an increase in people seeking asylum in Ireland instead, causing an accommodation crisis that has forced Ukrainians to be put in tents.


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/07/23/refugees-pour-ireland-dublin-blames-britains-rwanda-policy/
>> No. 96520 Anonymous
24th July 2022
Sunday 10:30 pm
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If someone who has debased themselves by creating an account on the Telegraph's site could screencap this I'd be interested in seeing just how much bullshit is in this article.
>> No. 96523 Anonymous
24th July 2022
Sunday 10:42 pm
96523 Refugees pour into Ireland as Dublin blames Britain’s Rwanda policy
>>96520
An increase in people seeking asylum in Ireland is causing an accommodation crisis that has forced Ukrainians to be put in tents

Britain’s Rwanda policy has triggered a surge in refugees arriving in Ireland, Dublin said on Saturday, in a seeming admission that the deal to deport asylum seekers to central Africa is deterring people from coming to the UK.

Senior figures in the coalition government, including the Irish prime minister, have blamed Britain’s new migration measures for an increase in people seeking asylum in Ireland instead, causing an accommodation crisis that has forced Ukrainians to be put in tents.

Home Secretary Priti Patel’s Rwanda policy aims to deport illegal immigrants to the African country in a bid to deter people making dangerous and unlawful Channel crossings to Britain.

The Home Office refused to comment on the accusations by Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Eamon Ryan, leader of the Greens, one of his two coalition partners.

“Recent policy changes in other jurisdictions, including the UK, as the Taoiseach referred to, may be creating the perception of a less welcoming immigration and international protection environment, leading to secondary movements of applicants,” an Irish government spokesman told The Telegraph.

“One can see, and maybe sense that that policy announcement, which I thought was a wrong policy announcement by the UK, a shocking sort of initiative in my view, to be doing some agreement with Rwanda, clearly may have motivated people utilising the Common Travel Area to come into the Republic – yes, I think it is one of a number of factors,” Mr Martin said last week.

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>> No. 96542 Anonymous
25th July 2022
Monday 3:28 pm
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>>96523
you can also just push the site through an archiver
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>> No. 90436 Anonymous
25th August 2020
Tuesday 2:30 pm
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Rishi Sunak is going to be Prime Minister next year and it's going to be fucking awesome.
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>> No. 95975 Anonymous
7th June 2022
Tuesday 1:12 pm
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BBC News again full of pro-Boris vox pop.
>> No. 95976 Anonymous
7th June 2022
Tuesday 2:02 pm
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>>95971

Sooz Kempner is the one with cracking norks who does standup shows about retro gaming.
>> No. 95977 Anonymous
7th June 2022
Tuesday 10:23 pm
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>>95976
She looks like a lass I used to know who was a serial online slag, which is quite satisfyingly as it takes me back to being 19 and watching her flash her tits on webcam. Kids these days are spoiled when it comes to sexting, back in my day you had to find a gem.
>> No. 95981 Anonymous
8th June 2022
Wednesday 4:39 pm
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>>95977
I do miss the days of AoL Chat, MSN Messenger and the like.
>> No. 96087 Anonymous
29th June 2022
Wednesday 11:00 pm
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>Senior Labour MP Harriet Harman will lead an inquiry into whether Boris Johnson deliberately misled Parliament over parties in No 10 during lockdowns. The cross-party Privileges Committee, made up of seven MPs, issued a call for evidence after meeting on Wednesday. It said it would be seeking "witness information and evidence" and that hearings would begin in the autumn.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61984704

I think the important question on all our minds is will ARE SOOZ do a follow-up top? Followed by which is her favourite clan on VtMB.

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>> No. 95927 Anonymous
26th May 2022
Thursday 11:27 pm
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LADS - RISHIS MISSUS HAS AGREED TO PAY ALL OUR LECCIE BILLS NEXT MONTH OR SOMETHING

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>> No. 95928 Anonymous
27th May 2022
Friday 1:27 am
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Can't decide whether I should spend me £650 on a new guitar or a gender bending prostitute.
>> No. 95929 Anonymous
27th May 2022
Friday 2:27 pm
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>>95928

Why not both? Get a sensibly priced Classic Vibe Squier, then get your dirtbox wrecked by a chick with a dick.
>> No. 95930 Anonymous
27th May 2022
Friday 9:18 pm
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>>95928

If you adopt a pet Ukranian, you could push it to PRS SE money and have money left over for the prozzie.

I got one last year (a PRS I mean, not a ladyboy prozzie) and after dropping some new pickups in (reproductions of the ones what Jimmy Page had in his Les Paul, allegedly) I can comfortably say it'll be the last guitar I ever buy*. Feels nicer than some top end Gibsons I've tried over the last few years, and you don't have to be reminded it's a knock-off every time you look at the headstock like with a Squier/Epiphone.

(*It definitely won't, but you know what I mean. It could be, if I had anything else to spend my disposable income on, like a social life or a family)
>> No. 95931 Anonymous
28th May 2022
Saturday 12:05 am
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>>95928
Why not get the guitar and roger yourself with the neck.
>> No. 95932 Anonymous
29th May 2022
Sunday 3:57 pm
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>>95930
If I get myself a Ukrainian then I don't need the prozzie.

I already have three good electrics so this is more of a bout of mindless consumerism and chasing after the "one" than any genuine need.

I'm sure PRS's are great but I can't get over the bird inlays most of them have.

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>> No. 95867 Anonymous
17th May 2022
Tuesday 5:51 pm
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This man is going to be the next Prime Minister of Australia and it's going to be fucking awesome.
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>> No. 95876 Anonymous
21st May 2022
Saturday 10:41 pm
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God I wish we had AV over here. I don't know much about Aussie politics but by the sounds of what I heard on the radio, it at least makes elections a lot more interesting. None of this endless hung parliament gerrymandering shite like we get over here.
>> No. 95877 Anonymous
21st May 2022
Saturday 11:09 pm
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>>95876
One thing I have found out, and like, about Aussie politics during my passing interest with this election is that they have a ban on politicians employing spouses and relatives. It never occured to me you could just stop it like that. I'd never have to hear about £60,000 a year of public money being laundered through some oafish MP's missus.
>> No. 95878 Anonymous
21st May 2022
Saturday 11:26 pm
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>>95877

What I find, being from Yorkshire, real Aussies will speak their mind. Call you a cunt until you put in the yakka. Metro Melbos fucked it.
>> No. 95879 Anonymous
22nd May 2022
Sunday 4:43 am
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>>95876
ABC coverage was available to stream on YouTube. You'll see the legend that is Antony Green talking through the numbers from time to time. He's like John Curtice but less academic and more techy.

A couple of years ago I met him and he described how it all works. The AEC decides in advance who the top two candidates are going to be. Ballots are counted at polling station, and they initially report the first preference totals and the two-candidate preference totals. If it turns out they guessed wrong or there's a closer run for second place than expected, then they stop reporting 2CP and just report out the full count, which takes longer as they need to wait for all the stations to count each round individually. They were waiting days for a result in 2016 because the AEC got a lot of their 2CP calls wrong, and so both sides were stuck in the 60s with a dozen full counts to do.

Green's evaluation of the UK going to AV was that we would need to be prepared to give up election night if we insisted on bringing all the ballot papers to count centres and only putting out numbers when complete rounds of counting were completed. He's able to make projections after a few hours only because numbers are available for individual locations.
>> No. 95904 Anonymous
24th May 2022
Tuesday 5:14 am
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>7 seats in doubt

Count faster you lazy fucking convicts.

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>> No. 94260 Anonymous
2nd July 2021
Friday 5:59 pm
94260 Back to Basics, you say?
I've a funny feeling we're going to need this thread.

This man is not going to be the next Prime Minister, and that is quite awesome.
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>> No. 94423 Anonymous
29th August 2021
Sunday 8:05 pm
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>A statement from clubnight, Pipe, said: "Thanks to all the amazing people, and Michael Gove..."
Brilliant.
>> No. 94424 Anonymous
30th August 2021
Monday 12:10 am
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>>94420

Good to see that Gove is handling his divorce with dignity.

TBH I wouldn't be surprised if this was some sort of guerilla marketing campaign to put people off going to nightclubs.
>> No. 94425 Anonymous
30th August 2021
Monday 4:35 pm
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>>94420
Apparently he tried to get out of paying the entry fee by saying he's the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

This is his attempt at creating a 'Boris' style public persona, isn't it? GOVEY, WHAT A LEDGE.
>> No. 94426 Anonymous
30th August 2021
Monday 9:45 pm
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>>94425
There's absolute no way that any reasonable human being wouldn't/shouldn't attempt to get away with skipping a five quid entry fee by using that particular aspect of their arsenal.

"But mate, I'm a knight of the realm, can you give us 2 for a fiver"
>> No. 95828 Anonymous
11th May 2022
Wednesday 9:18 am
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_wyHfkd1dw

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