[davidjay]

I don't see any comparisons there, just two dickheads throwing insults at their betters.

[Tubby Isaacs]

More heavyweight policy. That’s a huge chunk of the country where no private housing at all would be built.

[The Weeping Angel]

Why are we shooting down Iranian drones and missiles going towards our bases?

[Yug]

These cunts don't even want to defend our own people.

Edit to add

Or our friends and allies and innocent bystanders. They're just as bad as that orange cunt across the water.

[The Weeping Angel]

It's what happens when you're terminally online and try to pander to online weirdos.

[The Weeping Angel]

[Boiler]

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[Tubby Isaacs]

I like the cut of Jim Dunlop's jib.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Who are these designers of the economic system? I the past, this stuff has led in the worst possible direction. I expect Zack, if pressed, will pull a few names out to tickle the fancy of the base.

It's tempting to say that he doesn't have any policies in mind, but perhaps he does on this occasion. I expect he's realized that the Bank of England will be a pretty major (and quick) obstacle to Richard Murphy economics. Is Zack planning to take back interest rates from them, I wonder?

[Tubby Isaacs]

These cunts don't even want to defend our own people.

Edit to add

Or our friends and allies and innocent bystanders. They're just as bad as that orange cunt across the water.

He's going to organize an alternative to NATO, where he's already shown he won't defend allies. How'll that work?

There's a bunch of online people who show up to insist he didn't say he'd leave NATO. It's laughable. The most ridiculous waffle passes for "nuance" with this stuff.

[Tubby Isaacs]

The Scottish Greens haven't impressed me much, but the IFS give them credit for a decent attempt at balancing tax raises and spending.

The IFS are less impressed with the England and Wales Greens efforts for the Senedd Election. Then again, they aren't going to be in Government, so why should they bother? Just promise as much as you like, don't bother about how you'll pay for it because that'll be (presumably) Plaid Cymru's problem as the main party of government.

https://ifs.org.uk/articles/initial-res ... -manifesto

[Tubby Isaacs]

Do I spy more bollocks, unconnected with green policies? Actually the universal energy guarantee is the complete opposite of green Distinct absence of funding too, I'm sure.

Companies would get round this by splitting different salary groups into different companies. And anyway, why the particular concern with inequality within a company, not within society as a whole?

Very strict rent controls, combined with nimbyism and high immigration is a dire combination for affordability.

Nice that he's chucked in such a trifle as universal free school meals there too. Do you reckon the schools have big enough kitchens sat around ready?

[Oboogie]

I like the cut of Jim Dunlop's jib.

But you don't know him like I do...

[soulboy]

Do I spy more bollocks, unconnected with green policies?

Nice that he's chucked in such a trifle as universal free school meals there too. Do you reckon the schools have big enough kitchens sat around ready?

Piece of piss. Industrial kitchens in industrial estates. Twizzlers on wheels.

Thank goodness that we have a populist that has stepped outside the Westminster/Islington bubble and considered the practicalities in rural communities.

[Boiler]

Plankski's as much of an irritating twat as Farage.

[Boiler]

Piece of piss. Industrial kitchens in industrial estates. Twizzlers on wheels.

Isn't that what all these "food service" operations are that I see in vans travelling down the A1 every day?

[Tubby Isaacs]

I don't like some of the ways that the Premier League operates, but hard not to say it's a massive UK cultural export, and indeed a big employer here too.

Applying the 10:1 ratio to it would mean that Man Utd could pay their lowest paid member of staff £100k a year, and still not be able to pay their manager or any player more than a million. From memory, this is about what Eric Cantona got paid in 1995.

It's easy to pick out footballers who are massively overpaid, but someone like Bryan Mbeumo probably isn't for his £7.5m a year. I think the chance of him sticking around for an 85% pay cut (on the basis of that £100k lowest employee) is pretty remote. He could earn a lot more than that in the Dutch League, never mind Spain, Germany, Italy, France, US...

[kreuzberger]

Plankski's as much of an irritating twat as Farage.

Farage isn't irritating He's appalling, he's a Russian placeman, he's a racist, and he's a liar.

Indeed, "They" are not all the same.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Polanski can't even say that Zionism isn't racism (when 80% of Jews are Zionists), supports pulling out of NATO and does a Farage-like line in being upset when his own words are quoted back at him (eg about drug legalization, he did say that).

I think the parallels are mounting up, even if he's nicer, though I appreciate that it's not a great comms strategy to say so.

[Oboogie]

Dunno whether Polanski's a "Placeman", but he's certainly a Russian asset as well as being a racist and a liar.

The biggest diference between him and Farage is that, so far, Farage has been more successful.