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Reply		Immigration Costs an example
at 17:24 17 May 2025

We need to significantly reduce the welfare bill and people who can work must work even if it's doing something they don't want to do. The problem is that's not a vote winner. Means testing the winter fuel allowance is absolutely correct, but the bar may have been set too low.

The amount of savings you can have and still get benefits is bonkers too. £16k in some cases. Nobody with £16k in the bank needs handouts paid for by the taxpayer.

Perhaps if we could cut the welfare bill the government could contribute to an increase in the minimum wage?
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Reply		Immigration Costs an example
at 07:58 16 May 2025

Trust me. I'm not pro immigration unless it's providing a service we need.

The problem is there's a lot of services we need that British people won't do.
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Reply		Immigration Costs an example
at 07:56 16 May 2025

Yes. Completely serious.
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Reply		REFORM IN GOVERNMENT
at 22:14 14 May 2025

They clearly haven't which is why I'm genuinely amazed by the support they seem to have.

No policies, no leader and no apparent candidates. The Senedd elections are less than a year away, what are their supporters going to vote for?
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Reply		"They Sold A Million" - Badfinger Documentary ...
at 17:23 12 May 2025

I often pass Peter Ham's grave. Very sad, a hugely underrated part of our musical history.
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Reply		Johnny Workshy will soon have no excuses.
at 16:31 12 May 2025

I don't think that's harsh at all.

The majority of people on some form of sickness benefit could do something, they only don't because they don't have to. They should have to unless they really can't.
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Reply		So who cares about the environment?
at 21:26 11 May 2025

We're the epitome of Darwin's theory, it looks like we're going to knowingly destroy the planet we live on.
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Reply		So who cares about the environment?
at 07:17 11 May 2025

Too many people do. That's the problem.

Anything really, never done much river coarse but anything else.
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Reply		So who cares about the environment?
at 21:54 10 May 2025

Someone who buys a burger for £1.49 doesn't care what they do with the wrapper. To produce that burger sustainably would cost double that on its own.

We eat too much and there are too many take aways.

I'm an angler myself.
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Reply		Welsh Labour tacking to the left?
at 09:26 9 May 2025

I think Welsh Labour's biggest problem is they are too left of the Westminster party, they had the sense to get rid of Corbyn, we kept Drakford long enough for him to do significant damage.

Plaid have ditched independence for at least any first term in power they get. I think they'll beat Labour next year.
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Reply		Immigration Costs an example
at 07:37 8 May 2025

And end the ability to live on benefits unless you absolutely need to.
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Reply		Starmer reversing
at 22:19 7 May 2025

At present anyone with access to a deliveroo app or similar can work. Nobody has any idea who's actually delivering the food. It's easy to exploit.

It's similar with Uber taxis, how many people actually check the driver is the actual one pictured on the app?

Technically they're self employed so the company aren't liable. These are the grey areas that need to be sorted.
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Reply		REFORM IN GOVERNMENT (n/t)
at 22:15 7 May 2025

I think he was just an evil scumbag intent on mass murder.

He wasn't a terrorist.
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Reply		Starmer reversing
at 21:07 7 May 2025

They also have to pay the NHS surcharge.
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Reply		REFORM IN GOVERNMENT (n/t)
at 20:41 7 May 2025

And research on the IRA and mass school shootings in the states.
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Reply		REFORM IN GOVERNMENT (n/t)
at 20:15 7 May 2025

Was it? For what cause?

It didn't have anything to do with immigration or asylum either.
[Post edited 7 May 20:23]
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Reply		Immigration Costs an example
at 20:14 7 May 2025

It's not a sustainable answer but in the medium term there is no alternative.

A few years ago they would have been European transient migrants in the main, now they aren't.
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Reply		REFORM IN GOVERNMENT (n/t)
at 16:34 7 May 2025

Southport?
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Reply		REFORM IN GOVERNMENT
at 06:29 7 May 2025

We could learn a lot from the Danes, they consider Syria to be a safe country but we entertain asylum applications from Turkish nationals.

I don't fancy going to either country but millions of Brits will be off on holiday to Turkey this summer.

93% of immigrants aren't asylum seekers though.
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Reply		Immigration Costs an example
at 06:23 7 May 2025

You may not agree with it but we're running with huge numbers of vacancies in key sectors where we are dependent on immigrant labour.

Roughly 150000 vacancies in social care alone.
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