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Marmaduke! posted:Exactly, that stuff that Tory chairman was saying above could have actually been useful if it was "we should all be looking to reduce power consumption" instead of "Too poor to run your heater 24-7? Just get a better paid job". Of course, saying we should use less power would imply we should take action, like all that inconvenient house insulation hullabaloo... Why don't you insulate your houses? Is it a culture war thing?
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Truss in hiding. Five days later, new PM Mark Porkets appears, suspiciously blonde, wearing a comedy Groucho Marx mask.
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jeebus bob posted:The no smoking sign is a nice touch It is. I'm against smoking in any case. Smoking is bad.
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This is a good article about the budget and the events that followed. https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-157-the-bond-market-massacre Adam Tooze posted:Talk of markets at that point become euphemistic and we must ask, beyond the need for “systemic stability”, who are the principal and immediate beneficiaries of these interventions? Who exactly is being bailed out when the Bank of England steps in? The answer is not clear cut. Is it pension policy holders? The economy at large that is spared a catastrophic financial crisis? Or is it BlackRock Inc., Legal & General Group Plc and Schroders Plc who manage LDI funds on behalf of pension clients? The very fact that we cannot give a confident answer to these questions, suggests that we are dealing with a system riven with conflicts of interest. And this poses the question of reform. Does it really make sense to perpetuate a system in which disastrous financial risks are built into the profit-driven provision of basic financial products like pensions and mortgages? Yes the central bank can act as the fire brigade, but why do we such a dangerous situation as normality. Why do the smoke detectors fail again and again? And why is the house not more fire proof? It is time to ask who benefits and who pays the cost for continuing with this dangerously inflammable system. If you are a supposedly left wing comentator or politician and are talking about how about the tories are bad because they did something the markets didnt like, rather than the bolded bit above, then well maybe you are not actually left wing.
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I lived in Selly Oak at university. Nice place.smellmycheese posted:You love to see it https://twitter.com/MikeHolden42/status/1576884285977645058 Inshallah
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Now they know what it's like to get rinsed by the government, fuckwits.
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Tesseraction posted:ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh https://twitter.com/UKLabour/status/1576872043139969024 drat imagine promising to do a thing and then going back on that promise, good thing keir starmer has never
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:Why don't you insulate your houses? Is it a culture war thing? gently caress knows. I think it's a  thing. I got my loft insulated (and floored) when I moved in and I seem to be regarded as mildly weird but harmless if I mention that to people. Ed: the house was nearly 100 years old when I bought it and no one else had bothered in all that time. Runcible Cat fucked around with this message at 12:23 on Oct 3, 2022 |
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ANYTHING YOU SOW posted:This is a good article about the budget and the events that followed. This is an excellent article. It also helps frame a discomfort I’ve felt with liberals and even the left (and predictably, the Labour Party) criticising the mini budget for the market reaction as opposed to first principles: tax cuts for the rich and cuts to public services are immoral, regardless of market reaction. McDonnell was wargaming a run on the pound, and interest rates would have no doubt risen under a left wing Labour government too. That doesn’t mean a progressive, high-tax, high-investment budget is one that the left shouldn’t support.
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Runcible Cat posted:gently caress knows. I think it's a People will quickly change their tune when they're freezing to death. Like.. why the gently caress wouldn't you insulate your home
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this isnt getting the love and respect it so richly deserves
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Tesseraction posted:ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh https://twitter.com/UKLabour/status/1576872043139969024 The Irony Lady
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MaoistBanker posted:this isnt getting the love and respect it so richly deserves tbh it went over my head, I know it's Troy McClure but not what he means to the response
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So they’ve now apparently back-pedalled on everything and no tax cuts at all until next years budget lol
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Tesseraction posted:tbh it went over my head, I know it's Troy McClure but not what he means to the response troy has sex with fish
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lolquote:The government’s 45p tax U-turn overshadowed attempts today by the Scottish Tory leader, Douglas Ross, to promote the Scottish Conservatives as “the real alternative to the SNP”. y'done hosed it
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Ross: "no, NO it IS rain that's falling on your face" Kwarteng: "actually it's piss. I pissed on you all"
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Lol lol lol. It’s proper rats in a sack time https://twitter.com/NadineDorries/status/1576894518703423489
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Diet Crack posted:People will quickly change their tune when they're freezing to death. Like.. why the gently caress wouldn't you insulate your home gently caress if I know. Inertia I guess? As a general rule Brits love their status quo, so "we never needed none of this newfangled insulation in The War bulldog breed Land of Hope and Glory  blah blah"?
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Tesseraction posted:Ross: "no, NO it IS rain that's falling on your face" Great now I am imagining kwarteng telling dr eggman he pissed on his wife. Runcible Cat posted:gently caress if I know. Inertia I guess? As a general rule Brits love their status quo, so "we never needed none of this newfangled insulation in The War bulldog breed Land of Hope and Glory See this is why everyone should be forced to play, I dunno, some minecraft, or ideally a colony management game, to give them an instinctive desire to max out efficiency and plan ahead. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 12:38 on Oct 3, 2022 |
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Jedit posted:Wait, Boris Johnson stood for something? He has stood for many ladies like that one time when he cheated on his wife who was suffering from cancer
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(by "stood for" I mean that he had an erection) (when he was cheating) (on his wife)
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OwlFancier posted:Great now I am imagining kwarteng telling dr eggman he pissed on his wife. Robotnik at a dinner party with his wife when suddenly Kwasi Kwarteng enters to this music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3JZKyaucK4
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:Why don't you insulate your houses? Is it a culture war thing? The Insulate Britain protests specifically wanted social housing insulation improved, but no way our government would provide the funding. It was probably actually the closest to a two-sided culture war we've had, but of course protest is basically illegal now...
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https://twitter.com/peston/status/1576855492382842880?s=46&t=bUz3_qqDCACvjbGxFIAlvg Yes Robert, I’m sure that’s exactly what’s going on here…
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It's a miracle I survived my 20s with all the cannabis I was injecting. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63115171
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Runcible Cat posted:gently caress if I know. Inertia I guess? As a general rule Brits love their status quo, so "we never needed none of this newfangled insulation in The War bulldog breed Land of Hope and Glory https://twitter.com/gayle_writing/status/1576854168228098048
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Tomberforce posted:Guessing the weed to class A idiocy is an attempt at a dead cat to shift the outrage from the mind blowing economic incompetence on display? It is entirely probable that it's just what a tory police and crime commisioner would actually want. The government is reverting to the 1980's economically, the PCCs are wanting to do it with drug policy.
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Yass Nads, do it for Boris. https://twitter.com/ScotNational/status/1576901327539654657?t=pO457HzNLcszQ3d4LpYGqA
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Runcible Cat posted:gently caress knows. I think it's a It's just... shouldn't it be common sense when you need a volume of air kept warmer than the surrounding air? Houses can be made insulated so they don't need winter heating, even here in Sweden (by accepting a lot of building constrictions, admittedly). You've got all those gas burners and fuel poverty and seem to be cold at home all the time, and still you don't use proper argon filled insulated double-glass windows?  I recall back when swedes used to live in britane they always made a point of how they had to use swedish contractors because the british just didn't know how to build houses for british conditions. "They route their water pipes on the outside of the building!", that sort of thing. It's plain weird
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:It's just... shouldn't it be common sense when you need a volume of air kept warmer than the surrounding air? Houses can be made insulated so they don't need winter heating, even here in Sweden (by accepting a lot of building constrictions, admittedly). You've got all those gas burners and fuel poverty and seem to be cold at home all the time, and still you don't use proper argon filled insulated double-glass windows? You have been reading these threads for how long and have still not come to the conclusion that there is a significant cohort of british society that is monumentally loving stupid and will not under any circumstances accept that they are wrong about anything ever?
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