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From the G liveblog: Johnson signalled that he was opposed to using benefit rises to help people with the cost of living because it could be inflationary. There was a risk of an “inflationary spiral”, he said. When Susanna Reid put it to him that inflation could reach 10%, he replied: “Correct”. But...

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So did anyone get the £150 council tax rebate yet? I'm trying to work out if the majority got it in April as seemingly promised or if a majority haven't yet. There doesn't appear to be much information about it.

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I can't believe Parish was actually discussing his own story on GB news as if it was someone else. That's just so f**ked up.

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My daughter prefers physics to chemistry because there's more maths in it. I don't think it's the maths putting girls off. I think it's other things being more interesting and our peculiar and outdated obsession with specialising in just three subjects from age 16.

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AnatolyKasparov wrote: ↑Thu 21 Apr, 2022 3:45 pm Starting to think the recent near-consensus that Johnson will lead the Tories into the next GE may have been a touch premature.

His position definitely seems a little bit in doubt for the first time.

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Just spotted another whopper when reading the coverage in the G: James Murray (Lab) asks if the PM agrees that it would be wrong for the chancellor, or other ministers, to benefit from investments in tax havens. Johnson says the government is cutting taxes for everybody. (Actually, overall, taxes ar...

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PMQs has now descended into chaos amid "Pinocchio" jibes which Hoyle asked to be withdrawn but not sure they actually were. Johnson looking extremely red faced and flustered at this point. He's definitely struggling to gain control over the party gate situation. Hard to say if his absence ...

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Johnson in trouble with the Speaker for addressing the gallery at PMQs. He's looking quite desperate. He may yet survive but there's definitely a sense he could potentially be in danger which we've not really seen before, I think.

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Meanwhile Johnson is turning into a liability. Depressing it took so long but a relief all the same that the public appear to be beginning to have had enough.

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Good morning. I still don't know if his dad was a humble employed toolmaker working all hours, or he owned the bloody shop and worked all hours. Wikipedia was laundered very early on . Almost certainly the latter, but possibly the former when he first started work. In which case, good for him. It i...

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https://mobile.twitter.com/campbellclaret/status/1514206178859012096 What's almost unbelievable about these tweets is that Alistair Campbell is able to openly make these assertions about Boris Johnson because he isn't saying anything that isn't easily backed up by facts already established and in th...

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So, essentially, Vladimir Putin gets the casting vote on who's to be the UK PM? plus ca change? Well quite. If anything, Ukraine is even more reason to get him out and get him out now, not less. Yes, you'll just get another awful Tory as PM but I don't think there's anyone among the options with mo...

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There's always a war going on. Clearly it's an attempt to sway public opinion as really the only thing that will unseat him is bad polls that make Tory MPs nervous about holding onto their seats. Will the public be persuaded by Fabricant's (smear) claim that nurses and teachers were all at it too? T...

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Actually, a return to local policing sounds pretty good from out here in the sticks where there's almost no police presence at all anymore. Increasing the availability of local courts would also be a good thing to concentrate on - victims and witnesses who need to give evidence are sometimes having ...

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Yes, of course, other European countries are closer to us in how they are tackling Covid than China. That wasn't my question, though. My question was - are other European countries dropping absolutely everything at the same time as they are seeing 300 (or per capita adjusted equivalent) deaths a day...

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In a word, yes. Most continental countries either have minimal restrictions already, or will do very soon. China, meanwhile, persists with a Zero Covid policy and is descending into hell. Minimal restrictions is not the same as the zero mitigation we're adopting, though. It's possible to adopt a st...

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Hurrah for the ONS. At least someone's keeping an eye on the covid situation and also confirmation of my anecdotal evidence on the number of cases locally: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/08/covid-infections-uk-office-national-statistics-coronavirus Within England, infections rose in the ...

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I'm not sure I'd consider still being Chancellor "a fall" as such.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/06/nhs-enormous-strain-england-trusts-declare-critical-incidents Families asked to take in Covid-positive loved ones as NHS faces ‘perfect storm’ Trusts declare critical incidents as heavy demand, staff shortages and Covid cases overwhelm health service Cas...

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@refitman I wasn't aware of the NFT plan until I saw your comment last night. It's really quite despairing on many levels. Not only does it feel like the last thing our Chancellor should be fiddling around with right now as the entire country faces unprecedented hikes in energy prices but NFTs are a...

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@gilsey Some people are really ignoring the sudden nature of this crisis and the very rapid rise in the gap between incomes and cost of living, aren't they? Not to mention the irritating nature of forgetting that the coal needed to fuel an open fire, even for a few hours, was never cheap, people sti...

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I was going to post about identity politics and "the slap" but decided not to. Good thinking @TC2 ! I was about to comment that I don't know who Will Rock and the other bloke were and am deliberately avoiding finding out . Life is too short for 'celebrity' chasing. 'Six of one and half-a-...

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It seems like a long time ago that John Prescott was attacked for not going on holiday but staying in the UK and playing a round of croquet while he was holding down the fort instead.

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Although I agree with Rosie Duffield's concerns about how trans ideology and proposed self-id may impact women's rights, she's very, very wrong to think Boris Johnson is any kind of ally in this issue. Johnson's views and politics are damaging to trans rights and damaging to women's rights in equal ...

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Ok. Having read a bit more about Jamie Wallis I'd like to clarify that when I said he hadn't done anything wrong I just meant in relation to what he revealed in his statement about sex and gender. In other areas he appears to be a regular Tory scumbag who is right at home among the spivs and liars t...

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I'm sorry, but just calling trans people "confused" is incredibly insulting. "I'm trans. Or to be more accurate, I want to be" This is what Jamie Wallis said in his own words. To me it sounded uncertain, which is why I said he didn't seem sure himself, but of course I could have...

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Is someone like Jamie Wallis trans, though, or could they be someone who is struggling to come to terms with their homosexuality? Being attracted to men doesn't make you a woman and it doesn't necessarily make you trans but it might feel more acceptable to someone who is ideologically opposed to sam...

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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/mar/30/public-satisfaction-with-nhs-sinks-to-lowest-level-since-1997 Public satisfaction with NHS sinks to lowest level since 1997 It's linked to waiting lists, though, and difficulty to see a GP (which is provided by the private sector ironically) rather tha...

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Everyone seems less than impressed by the government's lacklustre response to the worst cost of living crisis in decades. The budget was only generous in its scope for humour, it seems:

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Wouldn't a "Falklands moment" require the UK being at war with someone? Or am I missing something?

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refitman wrote: ↑Tue 15 Mar, 2022 1:16 pm For TC2

I believe he currently has a house near Wells, (he definitely used to have one in Bath at one point) so is a regular visitor to the UK and appears to have picked up a bit of a British sense of humour along the way

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We don't like to think of having anything in common with Putin's Russia, but 'relying on people because of their loyalty and not expertise' is a bit close to home. More than just a bit. It was very noticeable during the Question Time Ukraine special. The presence of a couple of foreigners and a pro...

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Progressive politics seem to be struggling everywhere at the moment:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... outh-korea

Conservative candidate squeaks to victory in South Korean election

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/09/addiction-russian-gas-putin-military It’s not too late to free ourselves from this idiotic addiction to Russian gas Though, of course, Ukraine is rich in resources used in renewable technologies, such as manganese, graphite and titanium, so Putin...

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Also wondering if I'm going to need to dump my Kaspersky anti-virus software.

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I was wondering when someone was going to mention Rees-Mogg's Russian connections:

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All recent Labour leaders have been in support of tightening up on UK tax havens to one degree or another, at least. Contrast with the Tory party who actually took us out of the EU at great cost to the financial well-being of the nation in order to protect them. Not to mention artificially propping ...

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https://news.sky.com/story/storm-eunice-footage-shows-high-winds-blow-spire-off-somerset-church-12545390 Storm Eunice: Village left 'terribly shocked' after high winds blow spire off Somerset church Probably also shocked to be called a village. Wells may be England's smallest city but it's a pretty ...

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It's been pretty gusty here today. The houses either side of us have both lost roof tiles. It keeps calming down and then starts up again so for those areas that are behind us I'm afraid there's probably more to come. It's been proper stormy all day.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/15/covid-impact-in-poorer-areas-of-england-and-wales-worse-than-first-thought Covid impact in poorer areas of England and Wales ‘worse than first thought’ Study of years of life lost attributable to pandemic shows hugely uneven geographical and socioeconomi...

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https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... ges-report

Tory government’s ‘tax by stealth’ will hit under-30s on low wages hardest
Report says ‘unfair’ burden on young will have significant impact on take home pay and chance to save

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Also signed it for all the good it will do. We really need to be hearing Whitty and Vallance explain why it's suddenly ok to ignore a disease that's still killing over 150 people a day and leaving thousands with long term health problems. Once the ONS survey ends in March we will be effectively bli...

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AnatolyKasparov wrote: ↑Tue 08 Feb, 2022 2:20 pm He had his faults, but its hard to imagine Mark Carney being that tone-deaf.

Carney had a career after the BofE to think about. The current incumbent appears to be angling for a knighthood.

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/08/bank-of-england-rising-inflation-workers-pay-andrew-bailey The Bank of England has only one solution to rising inflation – make workers pay Lays out quite clearly some of the problems we're currently grappling with. This inbuilt bias towards capi...

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Good morfternoon. Thousands of tenants in England could miss out on council tax cut Rishi Sunak’s rebate plan is a blunt tool to tackle a complex issue, say thinktanks and MPs (Observer) If, from the outset, I could see that as an obvious problem, you'd have hoped that the Chancellor would have bee...

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From the G liveblog: He also dismissed Labour’s call for a windfall tax on energy companies. (See 9.34am.) Although superficially attractive, that would deter investment, he said. He said the government wanted to encourage investment. The government want to encourage investment in fossil fuels :smack:

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It's all very random and local. I guess that's how the media can avoid talking about it, as it's not the same things out of stock everywhere. Still, it's really iffy that the media aren't discussing it at all. They didn't mind stoking up the panic buying over petrol last year and toilet paper the ye...

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