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kennethb, 2 months ago to random

Thatcher sold of council houses but signally failed to replace that social housing with new, decent, good-to-high-quality homes. We've never caught up & are around 3 million homes short, right now. The Tories have never cared enough to recognise that, or to do enough about it.

kennethb, 8 months ago to random

Sunak is saying that poor people can't afford the changes to get to 2030 in respect of cars etc. Whose fault is that, does he suppose ?

kennethb, 6 months ago to random

A note on Starmer 'having missed open goals'.
He may have done very early doors, but since then, it has been a strategy to carefully refuse all offers to give the right-wing media any ammunition with which to attack him. Think of it like that & doors may open in your minds.

kennethb, 6 months ago to random

The best tax cuts would come from raising the lower tax thresholds by around 20%. That would put money back in the pockets of poor workers and give an instant boost to the economy. Win-win. Trickle-up economics, guaranteed to work.

kennethb, 3 months ago to random

The triple-lock for pensions is a mechanism for bringing up the level of state pensions in the UK to a level approaching that of other decent western democracies. It is necessary and right and MUST continue until that goal is reached, if it ever is. Message ends.

kennethb, 11 months ago to random

Translation of Tory position; The poor will just have to pay again when we fuck everything up. Us ? No, not us ! How dare you ?! OUR salaries MUST go up (a lot) because....because we're worth it, that's why so there ! Now shut up and eat your gruel.

kennethb, 8 months ago to random

If the Tories stay in power, things will get worse and worse. When Labour come in, they will get steadily better and better over time. Those are the main choices people. Let the electorate decide.

kennethb, 9 months ago to random

We have never stopped talking about Brexit, but it is done and can't be undone now. That is where we are. Concentrate on what we need to do in advance of being able to apply to rejoin. That must be the focus now, not how bad Brexit is. We all know that.

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kennethb, 10 months ago to random

Tony Blair is the best PM of most people's lifetimes. He was right to want go into Iraq, and the Tories would have done exactly the same. He did not make that decision incidentally, Parliament did.

kennethb, 7 months ago to random

Sunak has severely and deliberately damaged the collective futures of so many people in the North of England and Scotland with the HS2 decision. Treason is not too strong a word for that.

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kennethb, 4 months ago to random

Post Office Investigators under examination. The line seems to be that they were just following orders. Have they heard of a place called Nuremburg ? They were also being paid bonuses for successful prosecutions, it seems.

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kennethb, 1 month ago to random

Rats. Sinking ship.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68669507

kennethb, 6 months ago to random

From Ken Mulley

kennethb, 6 months ago to random

Religion doesn't exist unless you believe in it. Science exists whether you believe in it or not.
That's the difference!

kennethb, 5 months ago to random

I wonder if Sunak has admitted yet, to himself, that he was never PM material, or that the job is too much for him, and was always going to be so ?
Or does his unearned hubris blind-side him to his own clear and obvious inadequacies for the position ?

kennethb, 14 days ago to random

What Starmer did, by welcoming Elphike into the Labour Party, is to create a massive explosion in the minds of people who've always been entrenched in their tribalist boxes. It demonstrates that everything is now possible, once scales are gone from their eyes. Just Brilliant !

kennethb, 3 months ago to random

The Tories always talk up a good patriotic game, but just how patriotic are the Tories over the last 14 years who have presided over the defunding and running down of our armed forces, to have let this happen on their watch ? Money is their only god and their only country.

kennethb, 3 months ago to random

The desperate shortage of decent affordable housing in the UK is the rock on which so many other miseries are built. Message ends.

kennethb, 13 days ago to random

I suspect that the only people still planning to vote Tory at the GE are either very rich, very stupid, or still believe in Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy. Same applies to those planning to vote for Trump in November of course.

kennethb, 4 months ago to random

https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-affairs/special-economic-zones-in-the-uk-ideology-over-public-interest/

kennethb, 3 months ago to random

If Hamas laid a trap for Netanyahu, he fell right into it. Discuss.