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The comments below this:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr5 ... o#comments

What a miserable, mean, grasping, small-minded nation we have become.

[davidjay]

The comments below this:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr5 ... o#comments

What a miserable, mean, grasping, small-minded nation we have become.

I've said this before, but when I was out of work in the eighties, if you had enough at the end of Giro Fortnight to buy a pint and mentioned to someone that you were on the dole they'd likely as not buy you another. Because back then everyone either had been, or knew someone who was, in the same situation. Do that now and you'd probably be told to fuck off I work hard just so you can get pissed.

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Pleased to hear cryptocurrency donations to political parties will be banned.

[mattomac]

Pleased to hear cryptocurrency donations to political parties will be banned.

I am not sure the Reform position will wash with most people.

[Tubby Isaacs]

The best they’ve got is “it’s only being restricted to stop Reform”?

[mattomac]

Do most people subscribe to honest hard working billionaire who made his fortune through what a lot of people see as a pyramid scheme.

[Andy McDandy]

Remember when Sunak dabbled in crypto and sucked up to Musk, just as he accelerated into full fash? It was seen as a joke. The Beano was ripping the piss out of NFTs.

It used to be that vox pops would ask people what they thought of Euro banknotes, and you'd get some miserable old bastard calling them 'Monopoly money'. I suspect that for many, crypto is either unfathomable, irrelevant, or the basis of a cautionary tale.

[Youngian]

Not all crypto is for drug dealers but saying it is will force Reform's hand to explain what it is for. Which is anonymous transactions for crooks but not all of them drug dealers and users. And a few Bucks that libertarian headbangers tuck away.

[Oboogie]

Pleased to hear cryptocurrency donations to political parties will be banned.

I am not sure the Reform position will wash with most people.

And Relapse know that, hence today's walkout - they ran boldly away before the awkward issue was raised.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I'm not really getting the argument against allowing drilling in the North Sea. I look at this account a lot, but it seems to be concentrating on rebutting the silly stuff. I agree it's very marginal in terms of what it would supply to the UK, and in terms of UK bills. But it would employ people, and raise some useful tax which could be used to invest in renewables. What am I missing? I've never really got this, and I fear it's an open goal for Badenoch and Farage (even if they make false claims about it).