coprolite Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 34 minutes ago, Alert Mongoose said: I read it that the change in timeline was the primary factor but maybe incorrect. The Tories are directly responsible for the sheer ineptitude (through strangling funding) of public service organisations like DWP and HMRC though. It could be but my reading is that compo is only for the earlier failure (495 to 508 of this https://www.ombudsman.org.uk/sites/default/files/Women’s-State-Pension-age-our-findings-on-injustice-and-associated-issues.pdf) Absolutely agree that the Tories have led the charge on running down public services and that the "savings" they make through going for small government are false economies. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rael Rover Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 21 hours ago, Salt n Vinegar said: Further to the post above, I'm not sure which is less likely... Tories apologising for anything, or them agreeing to pay compensation. "We'd love to pay up but taxpayers can't afford it..." Won't just be the Tories as Labour, despite their MPs backing the WASPI movement, are not going to rush into compensation payments if/when they get back in power. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 (edited) Rachael MacLean the MP for Redditch who also has two psychology degrees. In a true show of care for people's mental well being she described Melissa Poulton the Green Party candiate for Bromsbrove who is trans as "a man who wears a wig and calls himself a 'proud lesbian'." Edited March 22 by GNU_Linux 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 Always a delight to see the Tories moving on to a new group to victimise in the eternal quest for pleasure through cruelty. I'd thought the disabled and pensioners would be off-limits until recently, but I guess they figure they're out on their arse soon anyway and voters have the memories of goldfish, so why not. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Khaki Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 (edited) 3 hours ago, GNU_Linux said: Rachael MacLean the MP for Redditch who also has two psychology degrees. In a true show of care for people's mental well being she described Melissa Poulton the Green Party candiate for Bromsbrove who is trans as "a man who wears a wig and calls himself a 'proud lesbian'." To be fair, I think with the rise of mental health awareness there is a concurrent phenomenon whereby people sometimes mistake temporarily feeling a bit down in the dumps about something that is part and parcel of normal life as experiencing Depression, but only in the same sense that you get the moron in the office who talks about "being a bit OCD/Bipolar" and makes comments like "we're all on the Spectrum". The sheer fucking brass neck of the Deputy Chair of the party that has run the UK into the ground over the past 14 years essentially telling people to expect to be miserable sometimes is a bit jarring. Psychology/Psychiatry Degrees are up (down?) there with shite like "media studies". It's a total black art, the arse-end of medicine, a bit of a laughing stock in the wider discipline, so I really wouldn't put too much stock in the faculties of someone possessing one or even two. I'm not sure what this supposed "incentivisation" is purported to be anyway. Stinks of this "my neighbour is on benefits but drives a BMW, has a massive telly and takes three foreign holidays a year" shite. I'd urge folk who think it's an easy gig on welfare to give it a try. Especially, in this case, try getting through the DLA/PIP process on the back of presenting with nothing more than a "mental health" diagnosis. Even with Consultant letters and so on you'll have a hard time getting a single penny out of them. Edited March 22 by Boo Khaki 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Jean King Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 On 13/03/2024 at 13:19, GordonD said: These c***s would forgive Jimmy Savile, so long as he came up with the cash. Forgive him ? Thatcher embraced him and brought him into the governmental fold. He's one of their own as the song goes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 20 hours ago, Boo Khaki said: Psychology/Psychiatry Degrees are up (down?) there with shite like "media studies". It's a total black art, the arse-end of medicine, a bit of a laughing stock in the wider discipline, so I really wouldn't put too much stock in the faculties of someone possessing one or even two. And how does that make you feel? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freedom Farter Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 There aren't psychiatry degrees. Psychiatrists obtain a medical degree. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MazzyStar Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 On 22/03/2024 at 16:55, Boo Khaki said: Psychology/Psychiatry Degrees are up (down?) there with shite like "media studies". It's a total black art, the arse-end of medicine, a bit of a laughing stock in the wider discipline, so I really wouldn't put too much stock in the faculties of someone possessing one or even two. Very Tory thing to say 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted March 24 Share Posted March 24 Tories trying to keep the grey vote by promising to continue the ‘Triple Lock’ in the Tory Manifesto. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68649894 It will have minimal effect IMO but it will be nice to see Starmer twist and squirm when asked if Labour will also commit to this. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted March 24 Share Posted March 24 8 hours ago, Granny Danger said: Tories trying to keep the grey vote by promising to continue the ‘Triple Lock’ in the Tory Manifesto. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68649894 It will have minimal effect IMO but it will be nice to see Starmer twist and squirm when asked if Labour will also commit to this. Making Starmer squirm was the whole point of the announcement. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 The boy Benton from Blackpool South has resigned before the recall petition gets him so another by election 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherrif John Bunnell Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 "Stop The Boats" has been downgraded to "We Might Not Let Fritzl In" https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/josef-fritzl-monster-incestuous-rapist-austria-britain-daughter-b1147522.html 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 59 minutes ago, Sherrif John Bunnell said: "Stop The Boats" has been downgraded to "We Might Not Let Fritzl In" https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/josef-fritzl-monster-incestuous-rapist-austria-britain-daughter-b1147522.html I suppose it depends on how much he donates to the Conservative Party. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ICTChris Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 Is that genuinely something the Tories put out? That is one of the worst party political broadcasts I've ever seen in my natural born life. I wonder who came up with it and who it's aimed at? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 4 minutes ago, ICTChris said: Is that genuinely something the Tories put out? That is one of the worst party political broadcasts I've ever seen in my natural born life. I wonder who came up with it and who it's aimed at? It feels like something designed to get donations from abroad, possibly Fox News viewers. It'll work with the vulnerable elderly, racists, and the paranoid who have a few grand in the bank and want to believe THEY are coming to take it away. They're all voting Tory anyway, but continuing to preaching this nonsense to the converted helps to fix minds for when the fascists decide more direct action against THEM is necessary, considering democracy obviously isn't working. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btb Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 Gotta love those Tory resignation letters, from the front line (James Heappey) and Middle Earth (Robert Halfon). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpetmonster Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 You’d think after 30p Lee they’d try and get someone - anyone - who’s less of a fanny to replace him as Deputy Chair. Nope. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suspect Device Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 2 minutes ago, carpetmonster said: You’d think after 30p Lee they’d try and get someone - anyone - who’s less of a fanny to replace him as Deputy Chair. Nope. That's what happens when you scrape the bottom of the barrel so much you reach the ninth level of hell. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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