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Reply | BSL programme tonight
at 18:20 27 Mar 2025
Great programme.
The kind that the Beeb do really well and would unlikely be made by anyone else. |
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Reply | Council Tax
at 11:12 22 Mar 2025
Appeased the paymasters - in the main agreed to independent pay bodies having to repair the Tories attempt to be nasty to public servants to cling to power.
No fault evictions - I understand you have skin in the game and I’m sure you wouldn’t behave poorly. Sadly that’s not everyone’s experience. Save you anger for the awful landlords.
Interest rate cuts - I wish everyone understood this
Planning reform - it’s a start and better than what we’ve seen recently.
Doesn’t seem to have been much? Well, you’ve cherry picked from the list so it doesn’t look as much. [Post edited 22 Mar 11:15]
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Reply | Why can't the UK
at 11:07 22 Mar 2025
I’m saying the opposite of that.
It should be means tested and no one in this country should go cold for lack of money.
That doesn’t change the fact that an age group, pensioners are the best of in the UK.
I’ve said my bit on MPs. They’re paid nowhere near enough. If they were, we could legitimately push back on expenses. |
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Reply | Why can't the UK
at 22:47 21 Mar 2025
That’s so true.
So many parents with young kids are reliant on grandparents. |
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Reply | Council Tax
at 21:04 21 Mar 2025
It’s bordering on criminal. |
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Reply | Council Tax
at 21:04 21 Mar 2025
Off the top of my head, stopped a number of strikes, reduced hospital waiting lists, banned no fault evictions, raised the minimum wage, reform of workers rights, overseen interest rate cuts, deportation thousands of illegal immigrants, launched planning reform to get us building, increased defence spending and started to repair relations with our European neighbours.
As I said, I’m dissatisfied in many ways with their start but there have been some good points IMO. |
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Reply | Council Tax
at 19:53 21 Mar 2025
These are massive things that need looking at.
Those and the ‘shadow’ public sector - Capita, G4S etc. |
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Reply | Council Tax
at 18:16 21 Mar 2025
Add the £25k transport doesn’t help either! |
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Reply | Council Tax
at 18:08 21 Mar 2025
Those figures are prior to the increase.
Even if it was, it would still be 3 times more expensive that the maintained school. |
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Reply | Council Tax
at 17:50 21 Mar 2025
There’s a bigger issue here for me.
A place at my nearest LA special school comes in at about £22k. The nearest private one comes in at £85k
This has to be stopped. Massive companies and hedge funds are ripping the public purse off the way they run these schools.
I’ve no issue at all with general private schools - good luck to them, but private, profit making specials should not be allowed. |
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Reply | Council Tax
at 17:35 21 Mar 2025
The amount of work and money wasted is unreal 😩 |
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Reply | Council Tax
at 17:28 21 Mar 2025
Spot on.
I’ve spent today at an education conference looking at the changes Labour will make.
I’ll probably be doing the same thing for a different government in 4 years time. |
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Reply | Iorwerth
at 17:20 21 Mar 2025
I get the frustration with Labour, I just think it makes sense to push Reform for their plans.
Voters shouldn’t have to go into these things blind. |
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Reply | Council Tax
at 17:11 21 Mar 2025
I’m certainly not thrilled with Labour’s start, but some of the very good things they’ve achieved done seem to get through the media. |
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Reply | Iorwerth
at 17:06 21 Mar 2025
And the irony of those talking about sheep who vote Labour no matter what simultaneously saying they’ll vote for Reform no matter what.
Surely the right thing to do is to say to Reform that you’d like to vote for them, but could you have something to vote for? |
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Reply | Council Tax
at 17:03 21 Mar 2025
It’s an old video of Starmer saying he would freeze council tax for the year in question.
Shared by the Conservative Facebook page and symptomatic of the issue they’re faced with - any time they ask Labour ‘why haven’t you done this or that?’, the answer is always, ‘you had 14 years, why didn’t you do it?. [Post edited 21 Mar 17:09]
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 18:06 19 Mar 2025
I don’t think British Gas is a success for anyone apart from those who purchased shares at the time.
They’ve just given their boss a £245k bonus so I suppose he’s happy too.
Has the customer experience from BT improved since privatisation?
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