Tuesday 22nd April 2025
Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2025 5:29 am
Morning all.
/uk/politics/article/starmer-close-to-eu-arms-deal-at-the-expense-of-fishermen-fwckp5btrOne outstanding area of disagreement is over an EU youth mobility scheme. Brussels wants a deal that allows 18 to 30-year-olds to move temporarily to the UK.
Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, wants the number of visas capped and is demanding any scheme is limited to one year, to avoid the numbers being included in migration figures.
Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, is understood to be in favour of the scheme after studies showed that it would boost the economy
They don't see it that way. They genuinely appear to believe that come the next GE enough of us will hold our noses and vote for them to keep out the Tories/Reform. It's utterly delusional, they can't hide anymore, we've seen who they are and everyone I know who voted for them is disgusted by what's been revealed. I genuinely can't think of a single person who still has a good word to say about them.refitman wrote: Tue Apr 22, 2025 5:33 pm Ok, I'm convinced that Labour are trying to speed run annihilation
In other words 'we're happy to starve kids if it pleases the Tory/Reform voters we're desperate to attract and everyone else can go fuck themselves'. This isn't a government, never mind a centre left government, it's a soulless husk concerned only with its own survival being dragged into the gutter by dubious polls and focus groups. And let's not pretend they don't want to be in the gutter, there's plenty of popular things they could be doing like nationalising utilities or rejoining the single market which have them recoiling in horror. A fluke once in a generation majority, which we know the Tories would have used ruthlessly, being squandered because Starmer has surrounded himself with mean spirited dullards who possess neither the imagination or inclination to grasp the opportunity and change this country for the better. It's infuriating and pitiful to behold.Government sources said charities and Labour MPs who were concerned that wider benefit cuts would push more families into poverty should “read the tea leaves” over Labour’s plans.
“If they still think we’re going to scrap the cap then they’re listening to the wrong people. We’re simply not going to find a way to do that. The cap is popular with key voters, who see it as a matter of fairness,” one source said.
I watched a documentary a while ago about hermaphrodite hermit crabs and they were having an absolute whale of a time. Dozens of them piling on top of each other with both sets of generative organs. Sadly the documentary makers didn't overdub it with some wakka wakka 70's funk porn music with a CGI pimp crab watching on in a brown leather jacket smoking a reefer.