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“Many social left wingers” Not that helpful in this debate to generalise so broadly. Plenty of right wingers are openly supportive of trans rights (and vice versa for all positions)

Catty has wanged on about this in the past as well. Not just any data protection. BWITISH!!! DATA PROTECTION!! So let’s see how this one goes eh? (Spoiler: nowhere meaningful at all) “Big cheer for Culture secretary Michelle Donelan as she announces plans to replace GDPR with a new "British Data Protection" plan focused on commonsense while protecting data privacy. It will be a "British system of data protection," she says. Big cheer from the audience. #CPC22”

is it weird that Dorries is citing C4 privatisation as being wrecked by Truss (which wasn't in 2019 manifesto) whilst arguing that Truss hasn't a mandate for her own manifesto?

Nice to know fame and fortune (or at least appearing in a Guardian article) haven't stopped you remembering your old manor MM ;-)

Well, this mornings interview with Laura K went well don’t you think That will shut all the doubters up. No question

Given that all Truss and KK are talking about is “supply-side” reforms I did enjoy this “find so awful? As an aside, I don't really know what you mean by a 'supply-side' brexit, but given the sophistication of some of your previous economic arguments, I'll do you a favour and won't dig too deep.”

Range of opinions from high earners here Special shout out to Patrick in Surrey - he sounds lovely, doesn’t he? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/01/high-earners-kwasi-kwarteng-ditching-top-tax-rate?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

“. Its easy to Conflate someone who makes, say 200k (with a big mortgage and other commitments) a year with someone that makes millions or more.....” Oh I’d say it’s easy enough. Definitely easier than conflating them with majority of the people earning far less in the country anyway I’m not begrudging higher wages. I just wish the people earning them (and I do ok) don’t make out like THEY were the hard done by

So these hundreds of people? They WILL be paying higher tax into govt coffers then? That’s a good thing surely? (Compared to them being payed bonuses ) I thought the argument went “if you have a cap on bonuses, companies just pay higher wages”

it's a fair cop guv - I hold my hands up. I was dead wrong Definitely not trolling, and if you want to comment, today's the deadline. https://planning.southwark.gov.uk/online-applications/caseDetails.do?action=dispatch&keyVal=RH0E8AKB06900&caseType=BuildingControl "22/INC/01189 | Proposed internal alterations and fit out works to an existing retail unit to create a Poundland Store" "22/AP/2904 | New illuminated fascia signage above shopfront in existing signage zone" "22/AP/2903 | Replacement of shopfront and fascia sign" ext.png int.png

Meanwhile another big voice on the Leave side I posting nonsense like this today https://conservativehome.com/2022/09/28/daniel-hannan-no-the-pound-isnt-crashing-because-of-a-trifling-batch-of-tax-cuts/ we can have as many "how bad is this tory leader compared to the last one" type threads as we like - all of this madness stems from this sunlit uplands nonsense

Now that Minford has a seat at the table and the U.K. is in free fall and he is writing columns like this in todays telegraph, I think this post holds up pretty well All of this chaos stems from listening to oddballs like this from 2016 onwards https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/09/27/no-sterling-crisis-except-minds-idiots/

This is lame trolling. Why is anyone taking it seriously?

"she wants to get more people working and less people living on Welfare." No-one has thought of this before, right? And even with fair winds it's not easy. With the sort of self-imposed and external headwinds facing UK, the question is even more relevant than ever

do countries with much higher bicycle usage have registration schemes like those suggested? Does anywhere? Are they beneficial? Apart from outliers like North Korea, the answer is no. Of course not So why is it even being mooted at all? And why would anyone want to support it - genuinely?

“5 year election term” Ah now you’re making me nostalgic. Been a while since we’ve had one of those. And I don’t expect one any time soon I do agree FPTP needs to go (another thing Starmer is foolishly and needlessly ruling out )

industrial/economic plans are not nothing, they are important - but I don't think they matter to average voter much to dismiss post 2000 Labour gov is to ignore things like the massive reduction in NHS waiting lists, improvement in schools (class sizes, repair of neglected buildings - since reversed since 2010) etc https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects/general-election-2010/waiting-times People want things to work/improve - and they were. the global financial crisis of 2008 changed everything but the narrative in this country was "labour's fault" (funny how global crises are labours fault when in power but external events when tories in power etc). In any case - Labour responded well to the 2008 global crisis and the country was recovering (as well as Brown/Darling being recognised globally as instrumental in keeping the cash machines running when other global leaders panicked). Labour were nowhere near perfect but most people's actual lives (the ones complaining loudly now) were ticking along nicely. School worked. NHS worked. Jobs were plentiful. Historically speaking But - 13 years of government is a long time - and for various reasons the country saw fit to give Cons a fresh start (ish - see libdem coalition). Everything has been pretty much downhill since then. And yet the tories keep getting elected. I don't see Starmer offering much by way of vision - but if I was minded too come to his defence, the country has rejected Brown/Miliband/Corbyn before him so he is being super cautious. Say what you like about the previous 3, but they had wildly differing styles and offerings to each other - so it seems the country wants super safe and Starmer is sticking to that Interesting that Cat is asking the question about the UK and not other European countries - almost as if the problems he describes are actually UK specific and nothing to do with EU membership. Which he will now deny but has always been the case UK was a basket case before EU membership and so it is again - there are lessons to be learnt here (humility and reality being just two) but the reason there is no English long term plan is because it is inherently short term and has been for a long time. Pretending Brexit will be great in 50 years isn't "long term planning" - that's just pie in the sky abdication of responsibility Scotland and Ireland can see all this so the UK isn't a long term thing either. Tories shat the bed in 2010-now and Brexit will cement it all I know this isn't the positive vibe you were after (and wouldn't expect from me) but if you want to solve a problem you have to recognise the problem. Tory strategy has been toxic, Brexit is astoundingly bad for the UK (economically and culturally) and the long term plan is coordinating with our nearest trading partners around trade, power sources, global headwinds etc But if you want to pretend the UK can go it alone, asking for a long term vision is fools gold As one path forward, I would suggest working with EU and not being in reflexive combative mode, see green energy as the future and us UK expertise in that field to export ideas and product. (instead of current and future tories constantly badmouthing the very idea of green energy)

I made it until nearly 40 before I started suffering hay fever - the 14 years since have been pretty grim around March - April But this year it has continued right through until now, and even my daughters are showing some symptoms for first time - so you are definitely not alone! If I take my nasal spray and Claritin tablets daily I usually avoid the worst - but if I forget are don't start a couple of weeks before symptoms start, then I'm on back foot For last week or so, I would say throat irritation and even breathing is a bigger symptom than eyes/nose (that being said yesterday and today a bit better)

Nadine at the sherry again ?Out of the EU, our new Data Reform Bill will ensure everyone can take back control of their personal data. We're also making it far easier for businesses to unlock the power of data to grow the economy, while strengthening the UK?s high data protection standards 👇 ?

That 100 really hurts. Because it?s perfect

Selfies - [insert word], great or somewhere in between? As a word puzzle it?s not too tricky ?Terrible? ?Awful? Any other synonym that doesn?t single out an unrelated group of people

Have your own opinion about selfies But ?chavvy? in the context of the title of this thread is grim It?s a polluted term that refers to a specific social class and if you wanted to talk about that then by all means do But it has nothing to do with selfies - selfies exits across every single demographic.

you're the one who called people disagreeing ""Typical hyperbolic and virtue signalling" - so easy with the "welcome to Britain where..." nonsense

Someone starts a new thread policing local business and judging them on flags People point out that maybe businesses in question don't care about the whole thing (which is absolutely fair and up to them) and what does the OP come back with? "Typical hyperbolic and virtue signalling (" I mean there is one person engaging in those things and it' you dear Nigello

Ah such innocent 2014 days 8 more years of Tory rule and we can see that Thornberry was the true monster