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lol https://twitter.com/KumarAshwin/status/1573257087307612161?s=20&t=zafQ-WG5OCwGKu2sAcFmpg
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Still struggling valiantly against dogecoin
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This is gonna be the Barber Boom again except much loving stupider. I honestly cannot get over how incredibly moronic this is. Rishi is a oval office who probably actually believes exactly the same things, but at least he had a tiny amount of sense and foresight. These cunts are just diving head first off the cliff, screaming about 'supply side' and 'unleashing investment' all the way down to the loving jagged rocks below.
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kecske posted:I cannot articulate how loving stupid this whole circus of cunts is. I probably could, but I would need a paddling pool full of poo poo and several large phallic objects.
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Chinese Gordon posted:These cunts are just diving head first off the cliff, screaming about 'supply side' and 'unleashing investment' all the way down to the loving jagged rocks below. they're not going to see any negative consequences personally, are they it's more like shoving people off the cliff
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:they're not going to see any negative consequences personally, are they 
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Chinese Gordon posted:This is gonna be the Barber Boom again except much loving stupider. I honestly cannot get over how incredibly moronic this is. The funny thing about comparing it to the Barber Boom is that it was already driving inflation before the oil crisis made it even worse. This government had forwarning of the fossil fuel crisis as it is currently happening but is still ploughing ahead with their massively inflationary policies.
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Can't believe we're at such a low point in our little hell-bubble (this was recommended to me by my phone's keyboard just now, even though I've literally never used the phrase before in my life) ...that I wish Boris was still pm
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josh04 posted:Will Labour whip to abstain, that's the question. Mate, the Fringe ended nearly a month ago.
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Samael posted:You kind have to feign annoyance and anger at them but fair play, I'm not going to stop them and police never come out for shoplifting anyway. I think some of them at least rotate the shops they do it in, but there's one guy who literally lives in the flats above and does it every week. This is probably an autism thing but I've always been jarred by the disparity between job interviews for retail where they always make it absolutely clear you're not to intervene at all, and the actual practice where the manager bollocks you if people start walking out with stuff on your shift. gently caress that poo poo, they can get a security guard if it bothers them that much. Some 18 year old twat was boasting about chasing a shoplifter across the car park the other day, trying to impress the new girl disinterestedly stacking shelves next to him. Knob.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Some 18 year old twat was boasting about chasing a shoplifter across the car park the other day, trying to impress the new girl disinterestedly stacking shelves next to him. Knob. Did he actually catch the shoplifter?
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Is there any precedent for the government and the bank of England to be working against each other? If the government cuts taxes to boost growth at the cost of higher inflation, then the bank raises interest rates to cut inflation at the cost of lower growth, do we just keep going in circles until something breaks?
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Tesseraction posted:Did he actually catch the shoplifter?
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Hell same. There are a number of people at our local co-op who are 'banned' after regularly bilking an entire basket, but most staff even if they see that person, they just go tell the manager and the manager calls the police who log it and then do gently caress all. Presumably it's for insurance reasons. Also I bet if the stock goes wildly out of what the head office is going to demand an explanation as to why you're losing whiskey by the gallon.
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Hallucinogenic Toreador posted:Is there any precedent for the government and the bank of England to be working against each other? If the government cuts taxes to boost growth at the cost of higher inflation, then the bank raises interest rates to cut inflation at the cost of lower growth, do we just keep going in circles until something breaks? Presumably the Tories will undo the independence of the bank and the power to set interest rates will revert back to the chancellor. This will obviously make the pound crash even further.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Presumably the Tories will undo the independence of the bank and the power to set interest rates will revert back to the chancellor. This will obviously make the pound crash even further. This is very good if you keep your money in USD or gold or whatever Jacob Rees Mogg has that isn't GBP
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Bobby Deluxe posted:He claims he did, and shouted at them until they handed over the butter they stole. Pathetic wanker. lol bet he loving didn't and just made it up after the fact a pipe smoking dog posted:Presumably the Tories will undo the independence of the bank and the power to set interest rates will revert back to the chancellor. This will obviously make the pound crash even further. love to live in a real country forkboy84 posted:This is very good if you keep your money in USD or gold or whatever Jacob Rees Mogg has that isn't GBP Wonder if I should start getting into forex on the basis that the UK will keep making GBS threads the pound through its fingers
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Tesseraction posted:lol bet he loving didn't and just made it up after the fact 
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There was a case in the US a few years back where a shoplifter ran outside of the shop with some crap, the minimum wage employee ran out after him and fatally shot him in the back and called the police, who then charged him with murder. His heroic moment, all that daydreaming, came to that.
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Darth Walrus posted:https://twitter.com/meadwaj/status/1573275219606790144?s=46&t=CC8Z0QvRYYsNnhpL9gmUAw
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The pound is down signficantly against the ruble, demonstrating our place against a country most others on earth are currently sanctioning.
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Can people clarify the VAT thing? Does this mean someone with an Irish passport can go into the shops and pay 17% less than their neighbors, despite being permanent residents of the UK?
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As you probably haven't noticed, I haven't posted in here for a while. I was super busy with work and I missed the change from one month's thread to the next and never picked it up again - and realised that I was a bit happier for it. This is a UK politics thread, and UK politics are so loving depressing that a thread talking about all the poo poo that is happening, even if often with humour, is still loving depressing. I have a decent sense of what is happening (and why) that I don't need to read more about people bemoaning how terrible everything is. I completely understand that people might feel the need to vent, and that there is a sense of solidarity and community, but those things didn't outweigh the effect it had on me. I have been thinking about how much traffic there'd be here with Truss and the Queen dying - I am sure it went a bit crazy. (TBH the volume of posts here is also slightly off-putting. There is just too much to stay current with). Anyway, thanks for the many thoughtful responses I received to various questions. This thread can be harsh if it perceives (rightly or wrongly) people acting in bad faith but the responses to genuine questions is great. This thread (or previous incarnations thereof) did teach me a number of lessons about politics - opened my eyes in some ways, if you will. The first was cementing a general moveto the left that I had been going on. The second was reevaluating Corbyn, Labour and anti-semitism, and understanding just how much that had been skewed and weaponised. The third is Israel. I agree broadly with what most people here think and feel about politics and the world. Israel was something where there was a pretty consistent view, which differed from mine. I thought that if all ya'll were generally right about things, and this is what your views on Israel were, then it is worth reexamining mine. Again, I had been moving in that direction, and had experience of seeing what happens to people who criticise Israel even in good faith (namely Richard Goldstone), so I was open to alternative views, but they were provided. I think I have also started to see how very deeply conditioned to be pro-Israel most Jews are, certainly in the diaspora.
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The BBC just had some loving mouthpiece for the Institute for Economic Affairs, talking about supply side benefits to the tax cuts. The IEA are amongst the most right wing fuckers to have ever drawn breath, they think everything should be privatised and that the invisible hand of the market should control everything. Why the gently caress should anyone listen to anything they have to say, what a joke.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Some 18 year old twat was boasting about chasing a shoplifter across the car park the other day, trying to impress the new girl disinterestedly stacking shelves next to him. Knob. And then everyone stood up and clapped 
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quote:Anyone on the major benefits - such as universal credit - should expect a rise in what they receive, owing to the link to inflation. However, that will not come until April. Many charities have called for that rise to come earlier. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63001463 
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Scientastic posted:The BBC just had some loving mouthpiece for the Institute for Economic Affairs, talking about supply side benefits to the tax cuts. Because they run the loving country, sadly.
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therattle posted:As you probably haven't noticed, I haven't posted in here for a while. I was super busy with work and I missed the change from one month's thread to the next and never picked it up again - and realised that I was a bit happier for it. This is a UK politics thread, and UK politics are so loving depressing that a thread talking about all the poo poo that is happening, even if often with humour, is still loving depressing. I have a decent sense of what is happening (and why) that I don't need to read more about people bemoaning how terrible everything is. I completely understand that people might feel the need to vent, and that there is a sense of solidarity and community, but those things didn't outweigh the effect it had on me. A good post. And it’s always good to see someone else bought around by the discourse in this thread- ten or eleven years back it did the same for me (though on different topics.. god I was a right wing libertarian poo poo back then)
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Samael posted:Shoplifting in general has probably increased tenfold over the last six months where I work, it's a sign of things to come. Yeah, I was down at Sainsbury's early morning and saw a nicely dressed lady strolling out through the self-scan with a couple of those weetabix drinks bottles, and soon after a girl carrying something I didn't see. Foraging for breakfast I guess? Can't say I give a poo poo; if supermarkets want to get rid of cashiers to save money then they can take the shrinkage in stride.
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therattle posted:As you probably haven't noticed, I haven't posted in here for a while. I was super busy with work and I missed the change from one month's thread to the next and never picked it up again - and realised that I was a bit happier for it. This is a UK politics thread, and UK politics are so loving depressing that a thread talking about all the poo poo that is happening, even if often with humour, is still loving depressing. I have a decent sense of what is happening (and why) that I don't need to read more about people bemoaning how terrible everything is. I completely understand that people might feel the need to vent, and that there is a sense of solidarity and community, but those things didn't outweigh the effect it had on me. Yeah I don't blame you for taking some time out of here. The UK is a horrible thing and keeping it out of sight and out of mind can do wonders for the brain.
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You can tell that this is a deeply unpopular and on the nose budget because even the daily mail comments section is full of nothing but absolute scorn for it. Even people who vote repeatedly against their own self interest are asking why were just giving billionaires an extra 45 billion a year when pensioners are going to not afford to heat their homes.
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Runcible Cat posted:Yeah, I was down at Sainsbury's early morning and saw a nicely dressed lady strolling out through the self-scan with a couple of those weetabix drinks bottles, and soon after a girl carrying something I didn't see. Foraging for breakfast I guess?  i loving hate having to scan my shopping and i like having a checkout chitchat about the weather or how busy or not busy the shop is or that
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