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Post by askew on Oct 26, 2021 21:23:43 GMT
Got wood? Get bent.
Got a wood-burning stove? Literally burning money (and polluting to boot)
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Post by Danno on Oct 26, 2021 21:28:21 GMT
Anyone else feel that short talk radio clip is like something from V for Vendetta? Who the hell tunes into that. The fish lips on that horror. Has Cthulu seized the airwaves? Wait no, Cthulu knows that concrete is not a vegetable
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Post by X201 on Oct 26, 2021 21:48:58 GMT
I do wonder if they will confirm what level it will be. My money is on 2%. Which will still be a real terms cut but will start to inflate away my mortgage!!! Are they actually going to announce a figure? Sound on the news this morning that they were just going to announce that the various independent pay review bodies will be invited to conduct their reviews and make recommendations next April... which the government will as always; ignore and do it's own thing. Either way, it will still end up being a pay cut that we're told we should be grateful for. Independent pay review body to report. They get the rise next year
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Post by Aunt Alison on Oct 26, 2021 22:29:14 GMT
The Cameron guy gives me very strong Dave Perry vibes
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Post by cubby on Oct 26, 2021 23:02:02 GMT
Astonishing clip. You can criticise XR or Insulate Britain all you like, but if this is the level of ignorance on display, all power to them. I hope that guy doesn't need any carpentry work doing, ever. Jesus. Speaking of, another carpenter!
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Post by dfunked on Oct 26, 2021 23:14:52 GMT
Mark Kermode's rightfully abandoned lovechild
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Post by Sarfrin on Oct 27, 2021 0:01:18 GMT
Mark Kermode's rightfully abandoned lovechild That time Mark Kermode got really, really drunk and shagged a toad.
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Post by Sarfrin on Oct 27, 2021 0:04:09 GMT
Astonishing clip. You can criticise XR or Insulate Britain all you like, but if this is the level of ignorance on display, all power to them. I... uh... we thought The Day Today was satire back in the old days. You could slot this straight into it and no one would bat an eyelid.
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Post by 😎 on Oct 27, 2021 0:32:39 GMT
The sheer mental gymnastics some people are going to to defend that clip is insane.
“Everything comes from nature, trees break down into oil eventually, so you can grow concrete”
“Concrete factories are called plants and plants grow, so why else would they be called concrete plants?”
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Post by Dougs on Oct 27, 2021 6:46:29 GMT
Independent pay review body to report. They get the rise next year Not every public sector job has an independent pay review body though - in the Civil Service, only senior civil servants have one. Tye rest of us plebs get what we're given - like Matt, I suspect it'll be about 2% as Departments have to swallow the increases without new cash from the Treasury.
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Post by Danno on Oct 27, 2021 7:01:57 GMT
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Post by Dougs on Oct 27, 2021 7:08:30 GMT
U turns ahoy too. Those in work on universal credit will get additional help, and the government are tabling an amendment to the environment bill re raw sewage discharge. No idea if it will go far enough though.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2021 7:16:54 GMT
Would anyone really give shit about a pint being 30p more expensive it it helped the staff get a livable wage?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2021 7:17:18 GMT
Actually ignore me, forgot what country I was in for a second.
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Post by Dougs on Oct 27, 2021 7:27:56 GMT
There would be an uproar if Spoons increased their pints by 30p. Assuming that wanker would even pass anything on to his employees (ha)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2021 7:28:27 GMT
Research shows that 52% of British people (it's always the same 52%) want 30p taken off a pint, not to save money so much but so that bar staff have to live in poverty and so be clearly worse off than the 52%, and thoroughly ashamed of themselves for their lack of better job and shiny car, so the 52% have someone to be better than. The bar staff are probably leftist minorities anyway. Said so in The Express.
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Post by Danno on Oct 27, 2021 7:35:59 GMT
"Look, 30p adds up and by the end of the night I'd be one pint short and then I'd be able to remember how Sharon got those new bruises the next morning"
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Post by geefe on Oct 27, 2021 11:54:24 GMT
Lots in the budget. All I'm hearing is tax rises, interest rate rises and likelihood next year is fucked
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Post by richardiox on Oct 27, 2021 12:14:37 GMT
Wait until they get to the bit about properly funding public services and infrastructure through clamping down on offshore hedge funds, corporate tax dodging and generally getting more tax revenue from all the billionaires whose wealth went up by 20% during the pandemic.
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Post by askew on Oct 27, 2021 12:33:42 GMT
"Sunak says duty on sparkling wines to be cut as part of major reform of alcohol taxes" fuck yeah
"Sunak says he is able to make these changes because the UK has left the EU."
fucking worth it. can drink champagne for less than the french
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Post by drhickman1983 on Oct 27, 2021 12:37:55 GMT
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Post by X201 on Oct 27, 2021 12:40:43 GMT
How long until we get the translation of the budget from Tory rhetoric into plain English?
What’s going to be this year’s massive fib?
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Post by Sarfrin on Oct 27, 2021 12:54:31 GMT
"Sunak says duty on sparkling wines to be cut as part of major reform of alcohol taxes" fuck yeah
"Sunak says he is able to make these changes because the UK has left the EU."
fucking worth it. can drink champagne for less than the french
Going for the prosecco drinking vote there.
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Post by Blackmarsh63 on Oct 27, 2021 13:18:17 GMT
... and not the Frosty Jacks peasants.
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Post by Dgzter on Oct 27, 2021 13:29:34 GMT
How long until we get the translation of the budget from Tory rhetoric into plain English? Yup, as always with the budget it'll be the detail that emerges over the next few days, as it is studied more closely, that will actually matter. Tory tabloid press will have their usual field day tomorrow though, confident that their readers wont then notice the small print.
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Post by imamazed on Oct 27, 2021 13:57:15 GMT
My favourite bit is cutting domestic air duty during a climate crisis
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Post by Whizzo on Oct 27, 2021 14:37:38 GMT
It's a great look for a country our size to cut internal airfare costs just before COP26.
Cut railfares not airfares FFS.
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Post by Psychotext on Oct 27, 2021 15:50:39 GMT
"Sunak says duty on sparkling wines to be cut as part of major reform of alcohol taxes" fuck yeah
"Sunak says he is able to make these changes because the UK has left the EU."
fucking worth it. can drink champagne for less than the french
I love that. Just further proof that they can say what they like now because no-one ever calls them on anything. (UK has some of the highest duty prices in Europe and could have cut them at any time as long as they kept them above a stated minimum level)
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Post by patrick on Oct 27, 2021 15:57:50 GMT
CON+4
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2021 16:19:51 GMT
And Sunak has got away with leaking the whole budget in advance it seems. One more nail in the coffin of the Minsterial Code. They never, ever miss a chance to undermine the procedures that keep them in check, whilst of course going spare if any rules are actually applied to them, such as Paterson this week. Got to hand it to them - great politicians. Just fucking despicable human beings.
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