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Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

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OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

bozza and lizzo fight to the death in the chequers car park

Marmaduke!
May 19, 2009

Why would it do that!?

Red Oktober posted:

Jeez, it really does bring the receipts.

Indeed, literally in some cases, though I'm not sure "this person says they're struggling but had a couple of holidays and a bit of make-up" is the stake to the heart that the author likes to think it is. A bit too close to "look at this person on benefits, but look at their flat screen telly/iPhone/fridge" for my liking. It's clear that Jack has made some mistakes, and I don't begrudge people complaining about things that affect them, but I don't think it warrants the witch-hunt. It's not much different than the crap we see about Meghan Markle (not at the same level as those crazies though).

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



Slippery Tilde
£1 = $0.01
£1 = €0.01
£1 = 1¥
lets goooo

fuctifino
Jun 11, 2001

OwlFancier posted:

bozza and lizzo fight to the death in the chequers car park

Hobo
Dec 12, 2007

Forum bum

Darth Walrus posted:

I think that there's only so far you can go in assuming that the people doing this are completely oblivious, when the alternative is that the unstable equilibrium between capitalism and democracy has finally collapsed, international capital finally has more bargaining power than the electorate, and our politicians are just going 'gently caress it, we're asset-stripping the country'.

That all this is terrible for the UK as a nation doesn't mean that it's valueless, only that the health of the country is no longer a priority for the people running it.

But the issue is that this move is saying there are no more assets left to strip - it’s time for a bit of insurance fraud from the arson. The situation you describe has been happening for decades, and at the point where the contradictions of capitalism have come to a breaking point, the response of the government is to strip the copper wiring.

Edit: you can say that there’s still the NHS and I guess literal parts of the country, but parasites still require the host body to be alive, and nobody would be able to pay money in a private system when the current choice is death by starvation or death by freezing.

Hobo fucked around with this message at 17:54 on Sep 28, 2022

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

I think it's entirely possible they just found an actual neoliberal out there, they're not all dead and dreaming in the sunken city of Ray'gann, they are still around even if anyone who handles important amounts of money for a living knows it's horseshit.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McdAI7Tje2Y

cassetteboy has a rival

fuctifino
Jun 11, 2001

Yay, it's going to be superausterity!

https://twitter.com/SamCoatesSky/status/1575157707421601799

peanut-
Feb 17, 2004
Fun Shoe

Answers Me posted:

So there’s no loving way the NHS* could survive an IMF intervention, should it come to that, right?

[*the NHS as in a National, socialised healthcare service, I’m sure there’ll always be a brand called ‘the NHS’, it’ll just be a quango that processes private contractors in the hope that nobody notices, which it already partially is of course]

The irony is that the IMF and financial markets really want the UK to spend more on healthcare. Other than energy prices, the most pressing productivity blocker and economic drag in the UK is post-covid NHS waiting lists and the huge number of people that can't work due to illness or injury.

We're like a reverse Greece in that the people in charge are absolutely desperate to dismantle the state and the international financiers want to stop them doing it.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

Die Satan!
Wrecking the economy to force NHS privatisation.

https://twitter.com/EdConwaySky/status/1574867846462685190?t=c37SJ8u1RzU9YTjD-m-6nw

Only Kindness
Oct 12, 2016
Operation Kill The Poor going as planned.

The Question IRL
Jun 8, 2013

Only two contestants left! Here is Doom's chance for revenge...

Maybe they can add Liz Truss to the list of people after Guy Fawks of entering Parliament with honest intentions.

https://twitter.com/Sideshow_Matt/status/1575167985832316928?t=HNSvjBA7QtGm-FjQjBMCkg&s=19

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Probably pretty intentional huh

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

I really wish I could throttle every one of the idiots who voted for this lot because god forbid we have nationalized industries.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug
You know if you dissolve the Scottish and Welsh governments, you should save a lot of money.....

Brendan Rodgers
Jun 11, 2014




OwlFancier posted:

I really wish I could throttle every one of the idiots who voted for this lot because god forbid we have nationalized industries.

The energy crisis does seem to be making some people consider that these people are extracting profit while adding nothing. It's one of those doublespeak things, the selling off of our national assets that were built at public expense can be explained to the public as "investment" and then that word shorts their brains.

WhatEvil
Jun 6, 2004

Can't get no luck.

Are twitter embeds still not working for everybody else, or just me?

Brendan Rodgers
Jun 11, 2014




WhatEvil posted:

Are twitter embeds still not working for everybody else, or just me?

They're working for me. Maybe you have been spared for some higher purpose.

Answers Me
Apr 24, 2012

happyhippy posted:

You know if you dissolve the Scottish and Welsh governments, you should save a lot of money.....

Can’t speak for Scotland, but in Wales funding is (mostly) pegged to Westminster spending, so if there’s turbo austerity in England this is effectively what will happen anyway

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Brendan Rodgers posted:

The energy crisis does seem to be making some people consider that these people are extracting profit while adding nothing. It's one of those doublespeak things, the selling off of our national assets that were built at public expense can be explained to the public as "investment" and then that word shorts their brains.

Unfortunately "consideration" does not do anything to quench my personal bloodlust on the matter unless we find a way to make thinking particularly excruciating.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

Die Satan!

Answers Me posted:

Can’t speak for Scotland, but in Wales funding is (mostly) pegged to Westminster spending, so if there’s turbo austerity in England this is effectively what will happen anyway

Same but Scotland can vary income tax to plug some of the shortfall from whatever brand of psychos the English choose to put in power.

kecske
Feb 28, 2011

it's round, like always

banana baked bean republic

Olpainless
Jun 30, 2003
... Insert something brilliantly witty here.

Marmaduke! posted:

Indeed, literally in some cases, though I'm not sure "this person says they're struggling but had a couple of holidays and a bit of make-up" is the stake to the heart that the author likes to think it is. A bit too close to "look at this person on benefits, but look at their flat screen telly/iPhone/fridge" for my liking. It's clear that Jack has made some mistakes, and I don't begrudge people complaining about things that affect them, but I don't think it warrants the witch-hunt. It's not much different than the crap we see about Meghan Markle (not at the same level as those crazies though).

The fact the blog post is consistently misgendering is a loving red flag as well.

Just Another Lurker
May 1, 2009


Killing the NHS, strange way to help Irish reunification... but it WILL help. :shrug:

They are one of the main things that people over here do not want to give up.

DarkCrawler
Apr 6, 2009

by vyelkin

Only Kindness posted:

Operation Kill The Poor going as planned.

More collateral damage than expected though.

peanut-
Feb 17, 2004
Fun Shoe
She's definitely a sicko

https://twitter.com/mcgregormt/status/1575178265974951936?s=20

Brendan Rodgers
Jun 11, 2014




OwlFancier posted:

Unfortunately "consideration" does not do anything to quench my personal bloodlust on the matter unless we find a way to make thinking particularly excruciating.

The problem is that thinking is excruciating, people spend their entire lives trying to not do it.

WhatEvil
Jun 6, 2004

Can't get no luck.

Brendan Rodgers posted:

They're working for me. Maybe you have been spared for some higher purpose.

Thanks, it was some stupid thing with Vivaldi tracker blocking and I've fixed it now.

Olpainless
Jun 30, 2003
... Insert something brilliantly witty here.

The whole country gets to experience someone going in dry, what more could she want

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro



Like I've been saying.

You can disagree with his world view, & I do, but Kwasi Kwarteng is an economic PhD from Cambridge, he knows full well what he's doing.

Olpainless posted:

The whole country gets to experience someone going in dry, what more could she want

More like Olpainful

fuctifino
Jun 11, 2001

https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1575192320512868372

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013


Inshallah.

Angepain
Jul 13, 2012

what keeps happening to my clothes
how's the queen doing these days

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Angepain posted:

how's the queen doing these days

I've heard recent events have made her tense up.

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

In preparation: gently caress off I know rigor mortis fades.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

Please be excited.




Can this hurry up so I can buy a drat house already?

Bacon Terrorist
May 7, 2010

to ride eternal, shiny and chrome

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2022
In reality rather than making houses more affordable wont it smash anyone who bought at market rates in the last few years leaving them in negative equity? So the house prices will be more affordable but the economy will poo poo it guts out as loads of people default on debts and interest rates spiral, making mortgages harder to get.

Good news: House prices down 20%!

Bad news: minimum 50% deposit needed for a mortgage lol

fuctifino
Jun 11, 2001

Angepain posted:

how's the queen doing these days

Fermenting nicely


"Rotting corpse of Queen Elizabeth lying in her crypt - starryAI"

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Only Kindness
Oct 12, 2016

DarkCrawler posted:

More collateral damage than expected though.

Not a problem at all. The middle class is also The Poor, they just don't want to admit it to themselves.

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