Keir Starmer at it again..

[Del Woppio]

And that includes a fairly heft increase to the minimum wage too, outrageous

 

[Tredman]

Not sure if the credit goes to Starmer/Labour or not but they can have it anyway…

Have noticed some fairly significant road repairs going on locally lately. Not the usual lasts-5-minutes patches either, but professionally finished stretches on both sides often a 100 metres or more.

Driving on a nice stretch of road suddenly reminds you of how normalised weaving in and out of potholes and the jarred crashing over sunken manhole covers had become. Difficult to say what if anything can be read into that but either way, the outright neglect over many years has been shameful.

That's the HS2 money Rishi acquired I think, great to see it being spent in Epsom...

 

[EpsomWolf]

That's the HS2 money Rishi acquired I think, great to see it being spent in Epsom...

Ha, I wondered if that might get picked up. I know we can all make claim to having the worst roads in Britain but they really are diabolical around here. Cambridge was bad but I half expected that as it’s an anti-car City and they’ve no intention of making life easy for motorists, but the neglect and lack of investment in the roads here is shocking.

You may well be right, I dunno, but I’m looking for positives. The work needs to be done and we can only hope it’s a sign of things to come and that it’ll get rolled out everywhere eventually.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

And that includes a fairly heft increase to the minimum wage too, outrageous

It's a significant drop too.

She's just dismissed that data though, very Trumpian.

 

[Tredman]

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

What an appalling response from Reeves, in both tone and content.

Jeremy Corbyn on Instagram: "Welfare, not warfare."

4,115 likes, 384 comments - jeremycorbyn on March 27, 2025: "Welfare, not warfare.".

www.instagram.com

 

[Tredman]

Really interesting to see all the pushback HS2 gets vs spending 12bn plus on ANOTHER Thames crossing getting waved through without comment.

Best thing any government could ever do is to properly enact true divestment of government outside of London.

 

[Sniffer]

10 minutes quicker vs x for the river tunnel would be the argument.

HS2 was badly marketed from the off. It should have been based around freight and local services with a separate line being required for distance services to make the network viable for the 21st century. Instead the speed issue was trotted out as to what it would bring.
Awful decision to halt it in Birmingham and it virtually will be a white elephant now.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

 

[prawnking]

If he was 'suspicious of ideologically driven, large-scale change' and apparently hasn't changed his opinions, why does he now think he's part of the hard left, which (along with the far right) is the natural home of both?

 

[Del Woppio]

It's just a comment on the shifting of the Overton wndow

 

[prawnking]

It's just a comment on the shifting of the Overton wndow

I know that, I'm saying it's inaccurate in terms of how he's framing his political beliefs

 

[AndyWolves]

Probably because he believes in high tax on the very highest incomes to stop people becoming wealthy (and wealthier) just by owning stuff. We don't have that now. Although the definition of income probably needs tightening. I don't think he's just referring to salary

 

[Templeton Peck]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1906118377678229584

 

[AndyWolves]

How do we vote against all of *this*?

Do we need a new party called the "we're not cunts" party?

 

[Templeton Peck]

How do we vote against all of *this*?

Do we need a new party called the "we're not cunts" party?

Basically, yeah. Greens are the best bet imo.

 

[Templeton Peck]

Dunno why the ‘left wing’ Labour MPs aren't staging a walk out over the leadership implementing further austerity measures like the right wing MPs did in 2016 because the leadership wanted to end austerity. Strongly worded tweet from John McDonnell incoming.

 

[ROVERT47]

‘Sitting in a circle eating hummus and bread sticks’, that’s gotta be worth 5 yrs a piece surely.

 

[ROVERT47]

Ha, just in case as I know how serious my fellow forum friends take politics,

 

[Walshes Wolves]

‘Sitting in a circle eating hummus and bread sticks’, that’s gotta be worth 5 yrs a piece surely.

I bet their were a few silent farts after eating that.