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Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Wed Dec 03, 2025 11:00 am All over the detail.

Also that baby in a pram does fucking nothing.... God i hate that term.

I assume she includes those claiming child benefit and also Pensioners who actually work

It says something about Badenoch and her media supporters that this is considered a clever point.

Relative poverty just tells you what proportion of households earn below 60% of median income. That’s not a measure of poverty at all.

It is a bad measure because in a booming economy, as incomes rise, more people can be classed as being in poverty even though their real income is rising.

And then during a recession like we had under the last Labour government, where GDP collapsed and unemployment went through the roof, relative poverty fell even though we were all poorer.

It's obviously partisan bullshit that she thinks he has to go back to 2009 for falling real incomes- that happened at various times from 2010-24 (though flukily for Cameron, not in 2014-5). But nobody seriously thinks that you solve child poverty by inducing a recession. It's almost like the experts have thought of this point, and have a variety of measures of income and poverty.

If she doesn't want to do this percentage, perhaps she can use cash figures. Real enough for her?

Lordy.

Funnily enough, within the last half hour I have messaged my kids, urging vaccinations and masks.

I only had A(H3N2) in January 2015, and that fucker robbed me of an entire month. H3N2 is worse. Being dead is not soooo likely - all things considered - but considering that a preferable option is as good as guaranteed.

Moreover, I could sleep off by noon the following day the side effects of this vax. The Kreuzette was up and making coffee by ten.

Couldn't these Nigerians just limit their messages to the promises of untold riches?

One thing I learned about face masks this week: they're crap as dust masks in your loft. They are definitely meant to protect others from you, not the other way around.

Boiler wrote: ↑Tue Dec 09, 2025 10:23 pm One thing I learned about face masks this week: they're crap as dust masks in your loft. They are definitely meant to protect others from you, not the other way around.

Now you're just being a woke sheep.