Granny Danger Posted November 22, 2022 Share Posted November 22, 2022 53 minutes ago, carpetmonster said: To be fair, both sides of Westminster have already come out and said they won't be using it - Sunak himself for the Tories and Jess Phillips for Labour. Both speaking on a personal basis but the way Sunak worded it seems very much an instruction/warning to Tories not to come the c**t. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/prime-minister-mps-ipsa-jess-phillips-independent-parliamentary-standards-authority-b1041727.html#r3z-addoor If Sunak blocks Mad Nad’s and Alistair Jack’s ascension to the HoL (as has been reported) then their publicly funded Christmas parties will be of Bacchanalian proportions imo. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpetmonster Posted November 22, 2022 Share Posted November 22, 2022 26 minutes ago, Granny Danger said: If Sunak blocks Mad Nad’s and Alistair Jack’s ascension to the HoL (as has been reported) then their publicly funded Christmas parties will be of Bacchanalian proportions imo. Booze has been specifically excluded from claimable expenses so I’m not sure what Nadine would spend money on apart from a thousand life size cardboard cutouts of Boris Johnson. Which she will; fair point well made GD. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted November 22, 2022 Share Posted November 22, 2022 30 minutes ago, carpetmonster said: Booze has been specifically excluded from claimable expenses so I’m not sure what Nadine would spend money on apart from a thousand life size cardboard cutouts of Boris Johnson. Which she will; fair point well made GD. She'd have to pay for the wine herself but there’s no spending restriction on satyrs and nymphs. These don’t come cheap. Err…apparently. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MazzyStar Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 (edited) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-63729772 Quote Some people have questioned the expenditure during a cost of living crisis in Britain. But cabinet minister Mel Stride defended the lavish banquet saying the visit would boost trade and help the economy grow https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/new-tory-welfare-chief-wanted-28364687 What a country. Edited November 24, 2022 by MazzyStar 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 19 hours ago, oaksoft said: Leaving aside the fact that someone has dredged comments that he made 10 years ago, things like maternity pay are extremely onerous for small businesses and with many of them barely breaking even, something needs to be done there. The unintended side effect of this sort of thing is that a lot of small businesses simply avoid hiring women of a certain age and that clearly doesn't help anyone. Like what? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/dec/03/why-inheritance-is-the-dirty-secret-of-the-middle-classes-harder-to-talk-about-than-sex Quote By 2025, £100bn – more than half the annual budget of the NHS – could be changing hands every year, according to a landmark analysis commissioned by estate administrators the Kings Court Trust. By 2047, they estimate that number could more than treble. Around £5.5tn in total could flow down through families over the next 30 years, both in conventional legacies and increasingly in living gifts like Isobel’s, which don’t attract inheritance tax if the donor survives for seven years after handing them over. Research for the Institute for Fiscal Studies thinktank last year showed that for children born in the 60s, a quarter of the difference in living standards between rich and poor was explained solely by inherited capital. For 80s children, a third of it is. Get this taxed to f**k then. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 Got our oil tank filled the other week, courtesy of Jack, although he'll get most of the money repaid whenever our fuel payments come through. But at least we know we've a full tank and don't need to ration the heating. When we get our chimney swept we'll be really in business. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crùbag Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 As heard on Frankie Boyle the other night, 'Let's hear the case for the Union'. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clown Job Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 4 minutes ago, Clown Job said: I’m absolutely certain that if Putin wins in Ukraine it will be the nurses’ fault. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 It would send a very clear message if outgoing Leave-supporting MPs agreed to work low-paid jobs for the rest of their lives in order to cover for the absence of EU migrant workers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 "Here, Vlad, the British nurses have agreed a real terms pay cut". "f**k, the game's a bogey, get the lads out of Ukraine sharpish" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 29 minutes ago, Mark Connolly said: "Here, Vlad, the British nurses have agreed a real terms pay cut". "f**k, the game's a bogey, get the lads out of Ukraine sharpish" If nurses in the 1930s hadn't been so demanding we could have avoid WW2 altogether. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Jean King Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 Army.....training......fight....Ukraine, nope it's right here and they are being prepared to "fight" the Unions.Classic Dalily Heil red meat. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin_Nevis Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 2 hours ago, Billy Jean King said: Army.....training......fight.... Ukraine, nope it's right here and they are being prepared to "fight" the Unions. Classic Dalily Heil red meat. What are squaddies going to do exactly? Most of the ones that signed up from around here did so because they couldn't be arsed/were too thick to get into an actual trade 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee-Bey Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 There will be much disappointment from the Express and Mail readers when they realise are brave boys will merely be sent to scab rather than machine gun picket lines. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soapy FFC Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-64003237 Nice to see the Govt is thinking about some of the ways people save a few pounds every month. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clown Job Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 Pouring one out for the landlords tonight. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jan/15/priced-out-uk-house-hunters-turn-to-lorry-sized-tiny-homes Trailer Parks but for hipsters. These are my favourite genre of articles where the media takes something dystopian - in this case living in rented wooden box in a field - and tries to make it sound aspirational. The guy who grew up in a 7 bedroom Victorian villa, works 6 days driving a lorry and can't afford to buy a one bedroom flat so he's spending 30 grand on a wooden trailer to park it on "land his parents own" seems totally legit.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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