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Boiler wrote: ↑Fri Jan 09, 2026 1:05 pm

Youngian wrote: ↑Fri Jan 09, 2026 10:43 amWithnail?

That'd be lighter fluid.

And the finest wines known to humanity and I want them now.

I think I had my first coffee at University midway through and that was just to perk me up, I did see a general trend from then onwards so early to mid 00s

It's all Reeves's fault of course.

“Refuse to listen” and then U-turn….

Eh

I think Osborne dropped several taxes just in one budget, didn't he?

There's a real danger with the media that these things become talking points to be set in false equivalence against enormous mistakes like austerity and the Brexit referendum.

But people voted for austerity and Brexit therefore they are sacrosanct and right. The fact that polls show different feelings retrospectively is irrelevant.

People voted for Labour and now polls are bad so that democratic act is irrelevant.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Sat Jan 10, 2026 11:11 am I think Osborne dropped several taxes just in one budget, didn't he?

There's a real danger with the media that these things become talking points to be set in false equivalence against enormous mistakes like austerity and the Brexit referendum.

I think it was the 2012 omnishambles budget.