HTG Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 1 hour ago, HibeeJibee said: Interesting quirk in local elections for Castle Point a district & borough in south Essex centred on Canvey Island (who knew?). All mainstream parties lost all their seats, and council is now divided between the localist PIP and the separatist CIIP: 24 People's Independent Party 15 Canvey Island Independent Party The People's Independent Party - Wikipedia The People's Independent Party (PIP) is a localist political party based in Castle Point, England. Formed in 2021[1] by independent councillor Steven Cole and registered in 2023,[2] PIP sought to prevent a local plan to build 5,000 homes in the borough, mostly on Green Belt, by taking control of the council from the ruling Conservatives.[3] Canvey Island Independent Party - Wikipedia The Canvey Island Independent Party (CIIP) is a local political party active on Canvey Island, in Essex, England.[2] It was established in 2004 to campaign for a separate district council for Canvey Island. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gmOvEwtDycs 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 1 hour ago, Fullerene said: I wonder what Doctor Feelgood have to say about this It's all milk and alcohol 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 (edited) Just popping in a thought that if we want continue to provide a cradle to the grave welfare state, we'll have to either have to take on a lot more family child and elderly care responsibilities on our own, or free up immigration to people willing to take it on. Edited May 5 by welshbairn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 9 minutes ago, welshbairn said: Just popping in a thought that if we want continue to provide a cradle to the grave welfare state, we'll have to either have to take on a lot more family child and elderly care responsibilities on our own, or free up immigration to people willing to take it on. You forgot Option #3 - legalise euthanasia for humans. The welfare state's being wound up, and racism's making a comeback, so I'm thinking we'll see more of a push towards that from the new, humane Conservative Party that takes over from New New Labour. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 1 minute ago, BFTD said: You forgot Option #3 - legalise euthanasia for humans. The welfare state's being wound up, and racism's making a comeback, so I'm thinking we'll see more of a push towards that from the new, humane Conservative Party that takes over from New New Labour. The other possibility I missed out was AI and robots taking over our jobs leaving us free to look after our families.. Hurrah! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D Angelo Barksdale Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 Well, assisted dying is gaining momentum, I'm sure we can make it into a culture war thing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 3 minutes ago, welshbairn said: The other possibility I missed out was AI and robots taking over our jobs leaving us free to look after our families.. Hurrah! I deliberately ignored that because it'll be for people with a bit of money/decent health insurance, well past the point that it would be entirely affordable for the paupers. More likely that, in the future, there'll be a rush to do something about the auld yins in the street begging for help changing their adult nappies, and the answer will surrepticiously be "give them/their families the option of a pentobarbital jag". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 Green Party's Sian Berry quits London Assembly just three days after election Ms Berry’s resignation means that the party’s unsuccessful mayoral candidate Zoe Garbett will take her place at City Hall. The Green Party's former co-leader Sian Berry has resigned from her role on the London Assembly, just three days after winning re-election. Her departure from City Hall means that the party’s mayoral candidate, Zoe Garbett, will take her place, without the need for a by-election. Ms Berry is running to replace Caroline Lucas as Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, though she had previously told the Standard that she would “keep representing the people of London” until the general election - and would only resign if she successfully became an MP. Commenting on Tuesday, she said: “Zoë has shown how much of a difference she will make in City Hall, listening to Londoners and bringing their voices into the political debate. “That’s why she needs to be in this job as soon as possible. She is already a brilliant councillor and will be a brilliant assembly member for Londoners.” 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lichtgilphead Posted May 9 Share Posted May 9 (edited) On 10/04/2024 at 18:11, lichtgilphead said: There's no "Daily Record Bias" thread, so I'll just put this here... https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/lifestyle/money/calls-scrap-scottish-tax-bands-32546821 This article is from yesterday's Daily Record. Effectively, it's publicising a petition to remove tax varying powers from Holyrood. It describes the petition as "new", even though the poll has been online since 8th January, and has only attracted 4700 signatures in that time (including today's boost thanks to the Record's publicity - it's gone up by over 100 since I began typing this post) The sub-headline states "All workers in Scotland earning over £28,000 a year pay more tax than elsewhere in the UK." Firstly, that's not true. The breakeven point is ~£28,850. Secondly, 51% of Scottish taxpayers actually earn less than this, so they will continue to pay slightly less Income Tax in 2024-25 than if they lived elsewhere in the UK. (source) Anyone wanting to switch to the rUK system is LITERALLY demanding a tax cut for the highest earners and the bill to be footed by people earning less than £28,850. The Record really is a scummy and devious piece of shit. I see that the Daily Record have rewritten & republished the above story. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/lifestyle/money/calls-remove-scottish-tax-bands-32754154 Let the poor pay for tax cuts for the rich. How socialist. Still scum. Edited May 9 by lichtgilphead 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MazzyStar Posted May 13 Share Posted May 13 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw4dd9lzx02o The EU and the European Commission are a bunch thin skinned losers There was also the time Ursula von der Leyen decided wolves should be culled across Europe because one killed her horse and who could forget Angela Merkels anti Greek racism. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D Angelo Barksdale Posted May 13 Share Posted May 13 As if Eurovision wasn't already an absolute shitshow this year without these bozos crying about flegs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freedom Farter Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 Better late than never. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted May 16 Share Posted May 16 On 13/05/2024 at 20:53, D Angelo Barksdale said: As if Eurovision wasn't already an absolute shitshow this year without these bozos crying about flegs. EBU said national flegs only at the Song Contest otherwise people are making a political point. I've seen saltires (and Welsh flags) waved by the crowd at previous contests- is that making a political point as it's the UK that competes under the Union fleg. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted May 16 Share Posted May 16 2 minutes ago, tamthebam said: EBU said national flegs only at the Song Contest otherwise people are making a political point. I've seen saltires (and Welsh flags) waved by the crowd at previous contests- is that making a political point as it's the UK that competes under the Union fleg. It probably is, yeah, unless the competitor came from the constituent nation of the fleg being flown. Flegs, eh. The immediate thought would be that the eejits should be allowed to fly whatever fleg they fancy, but then some arsehole would arrive with a Nazi fleg, or something else to indicate hate. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TONTROOPER Posted Monday at 12:24 Share Posted Monday at 12:24 BREAKING NEWS:- Julian Assange has been give leave to appeal his case against extradition to the USA. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted Monday at 12:34 Share Posted Monday at 12:34 No surprise that SNP MSPs receive more abusive social media posts than any other political party. Over ten times as many as any other political party. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2jd31ygxjno 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Diamond For Me Posted Monday at 12:44 Share Posted Monday at 12:44 4 minutes ago, DeeTillEhDeh said: No surprise that SNP MSPs receive more abusive social media posts than any other political party. Over ten times as many as any other political party. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2jd31ygxjno You'd expect them to get more because there are more of them and they're the government, but it's totally out of all proportion. I left Twitter a while ago, but any Scottish politics stuff had become unreadable long before the idiot Musk fucked it with the blue checks thing. Just screeds and screeds of the dullest people on the planet saying the most vile things, usually with no relevance to whatever the matter at hand was. This got much, much worse with the transphobic culture war shite, and of course any post from Humza Yousaf was 100% guaranteed to be followed by dozens and dozens of comments about his religion and Hamas. I'm not a member of and do not support the SNP, but so much of that is just totally out of order, and on a much bigger scale than the also-shite stuff that goes the other way (which certainly also exists). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Twelve Posted Monday at 12:46 Share Posted Monday at 12:46 12 minutes ago, DeeTillEhDeh said: No surprise that SNP MSPs receive more abusive social media posts than any other political party. Over ten times as many as any other political party. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2jd31ygxjno VILE CYBERNATS, or something. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VictorOnopko Posted Monday at 14:42 Share Posted Monday at 14:42 2 hours ago, DeeTillEhDeh said: No surprise that SNP MSPs receive more abusive social media posts than any other political party. Over ten times as many as any other political party. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2jd31ygxjno Fortunately, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom calmed the political tensions right down last week like a responsible leader with his speech in which he welcomed Scottish Nationalists as holding views which should be respected and engaged with. Oh no, wait, he basically called them dangerous extremists. Looking forward to his personal humiliation and his party's electoral annihilation. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted Monday at 14:47 Share Posted Monday at 14:47 2 hours ago, A Diamond For Me said: You'd expect them to get more because there are more of them and they're the government, but it's totally out of all proportion. I left Twitter a while ago, but any Scottish politics stuff had become unreadable long before the idiot Musk fucked it with the blue checks thing. Just screeds and screeds of the dullest people on the planet saying the most vile things, usually with no relevance to whatever the matter at hand was. This got much, much worse with the transphobic culture war shite, and of course any post from Humza Yousaf was 100% guaranteed to be followed by dozens and dozens of comments about his religion and Hamas. I'm not a member of and do not support the SNP, but so much of that is just totally out of order, and on a much bigger scale than the also-shite stuff that goes the other way (which certainly also exists). Twitter was a binfire before Musk - it's just a bigger binfire now as they've allowed some of the real pond life back on. Well avoided tbqh. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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