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Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Sun Jun 08, 2025 10:18 am Assume there are quite large tax rises, and quite right. How are they going to keep the promise of not raising the big taxes?

John Rentoul believes that Reeves is being undermined by a spend now, pay later PM.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/ra ... 65667.html

This is a cause for concern.

I'd never heard of Looking For Growth so I spent a few seconds Googling them. So far I've found out that Guido Fawkes likes them, Dominic Cummings is a supporter, they hate Starmer and are running a campaign to get rid of Sadiq Khan.
I wonder who funds them?

https://order-order.com/tag/looking-for-growth/

I'm sure that if you ask them where their money comes from you'll get a full and honest answer.

Government sources in the actual media don’t seem particularly great at knowing things so I’ll ignore a vibes like account.

Considering it seems to run counter to what Labour say on a daily basis.

Oboogie wrote: ↑Sun Jun 08, 2025 7:01 pm I'd never heard of Looking For Growth so I spent a few seconds Googling them. So far I've found out that Guido Fawkes likes them, Dominic Cummings is a supporter, they hate Starmer and are running a campaign to get rid of Sadiq Khan.
I wonder who funds them?

https://order-order.com/tag/looking-for-growth/

I no longer tavel on the Tube regularly but I very rarely saw trains ever being sprayed with bad graffiti like 70s NYC subway.
It's all coming off very quickly

He then went and had a fight with some rollerskating guys dressed in dungarees in the toilet.

Good luck dealing with acid graff, Tom.

Oboogie wrote: ↑Sun Jun 08, 2025 7:01 pm I'd never heard of Looking For Growth so I spent a few seconds Googling them. So far I've found out that Guido Fawkes likes them, Dominic Cummings is a supporter, they hate Starmer and are running a campaign to get rid of Sadiq Khan.
I wonder who funds them?

https://order-order.com/tag/looking-for-growth/

Always look at the bottom of a website. it can be quite informative.

Youngian wrote: ↑Mon Jun 09, 2025 6:57 am

I no longer tavel on the Tube regularly but I very rarely saw trains ever being sprayed with bad graffiti like 70s NYC subway.
It's all coming off very quickly

It's apparently a Bakerloo Line thing, where the trains are very old and don't have cameras.

I quite regularly pick up litter. I've never made a song and dance about "doing what the council can't do".

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Mon Jun 09, 2025 9:50 am He then went and had a fight with some rollerskating guys dressed in dungarees in the toilet.

You’re not “clinking “ bottles on the end of your fingers by any chance

Keyboard warriors...come out to pla-a-ay!

Winter fuel allowance tweaked to include all those with income below £35,000.

I approve.

Can't say I'm happy about the government's U-turn on the WFA, particularly the ridiculous hike in the threshold to get it to £35K. I could see an argument in a slight increase in the threshold, but to hike it to the equivalent net monthly income of nearly two and a half grand a month when working-age people earning minimum wage get no help is just....grrrrrgh!

Just can't win...

How is that going to be funded? Removing the 50% IHT tax-break from the farmers whose wealth only stretches in to the low millions? That would be a start and tremendously good fun.

Excellent news on sizewell C.

Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Mon Jun 09, 2025 12:25 pm Winter fuel allowance tweaked to include all those with income below £35,000.

I approve.

That's £35K per person, so up to £70K for a well organised couple.

The Weeping Angel wrote: ↑Tue Jun 10, 2025 12:01 pm Excellent news on sizewell C.

What happened?

Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Tue Jun 10, 2025 12:24 pm

The Weeping Angel wrote: ↑Tue Jun 10, 2025 12:01 pm Excellent news on sizewell C.

What happened?

Going ahead.