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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Not exactly all pensioners. I just know my 40-something colleague who is a "why cant we all just get along" centrist will vote tory purely on the grounds that labour have said they'll add VAT to school fees. From what she's previously said, this is the view a lot of her friends will take. Sod everything and everyone else. That's VAT not NI though? A pensioner who actually has a job (I am just realising this is presumably you) will presumably pay NI on it but usual sources of Tory pensioner income (like...pensions, public and private) don't pay it, and I would never peg (err. no pun intended on other conversations itt) you as a Tory voter.
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 13:28 |
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feedmegin posted:That's VAT not NI though? Yeah I realised that after I posted it I was thinking more about the idea that it was only pensioners who vote tory rather than the VAT / NI thing but didn't zap/edit it because I got a phone call in the middle and forgot to. I'm not a state pensioner yet. (I get a small previous employment pension about £60pw). Still over 2 years to go. Once you reach state pension age, even if you're working you don't pay it at the moment though maybe it might change because you may have already paid in well over the number of years. I'm into my 39th year of paying it at the moment. ed sorry this post is a bit jumbled up & disorganized, I'm multitasking (aka eating my lunch simultaneously). Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 13:41 on Apr 5, 2024 |
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Regarding that Teledyne factory that was targeted by Palestine Action, a youtube auditor visited the site, and the protesters were successful in closing the factory down. There's been a hell of a lot of rain since the roof was damaged that will have leaked into the building. The protesters definitely slowed down production of whatever specialist components they were manufacturing there, and even a delay of a few days is a significant victory imo.
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 13:52 |
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Long time Private Eye reader, never look at the cartoons and always skip whatever they call the bullshit nonsense in the middle pages.
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 13:53 |
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Rarity posted:If you've never had to struggle with shame for having a harmless kink then more power to you but lots of people do and it can lead to a bunch of negative outcomes like self-esteem issues, adultery, pursuing unhealthy sexual outlets or becoming a Tory politician so you can demonise your own behaviour. Mm the amount of casual homophobia I get at work is making it harder to really tell the difference between people doing things "in good fun" and just being extremely normalized to being unpleasant.
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 13:56 |
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Hell of a vibe from that image / caption combo.
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 14:01 |
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fuctifino posted:Regarding that Teledyne factory that was targeted by Palestine Action, a youtube auditor visited the site, and the protesters were successful in closing the factory down. There's been a hell of a lot of rain since the roof was damaged that will have leaked into the building. hell yeah
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 14:05 |
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If you're gonna vote Tory because of VAT on private schools I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you probably aren't a centrist of any description.
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 14:06 |
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Lord of the Llamas posted:If you're gonna vote Tory because of VAT on private schools I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you probably aren't a centrist of any description. She thinks she's a centrist and she thinks she's representative of most of the UK* "everyone just wants to be in the middle" - she thinks private schools are centrist and the other thing she blames Labour for is the thing where if you are a couple & one earns more than £50k - her husband - and the other earns less (she's on about £14k - part time) you don't get child benefit but if they were both on £32k (giving same gross total) they would get child benefit and this is Labour's fault despite the fact that the tories have been in power 14 years - so it obviously suited them to keep the system - and didn't change it until this year which happens to be election year. *heck - maybe she's right about that and maybe this group of people - mid 40s with a kid at private school - will ignore everything else & vote tory on this, their red line? I know she's pretty clueless about almost anything politics - my other colleague & I both have left wing views & we are sometimes gobsmacked at how ignorant on any number of political issues the centrist one is (she doesn't do politics). Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 14:19 on Apr 5, 2024 |
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I don't get why folks are saying community fibre will have the best service. It might be the 'best' place for your money to go, but the best service comes from an ISP that has both the technical and organisational infrastructure to provide good service along with knowledgeable staff that aren't just reading from a script. A lot of new FTTP deployments will be like in the US where you have no choice of provider and therefore no incentive to maintain decent service. This is compounded given that most of them have had massive investment from private equity to get the fibre in the ground and eventually they're going to want a return on that investment - which means increasing margins and enshittification. I am with Zen and have been for years. I've worked in ISPs more than a decade (not Zen) and any time I've had to call, the person on the phone knows more about that technology than me.
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 14:33 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:She thinks she's a centrist and she thinks she's representative of most of the UK* "everyone just wants to be in the middle" - she thinks private schools are centrist and the other thing she blames Labour for is the thing where if you are a couple & one earns more than £50k - her husband - and the other earns less (she's on about £14k - part time) you don't get child benefit but if they were both on £32k (giving same gross total) they would get child benefit and this is Labour's fault despite the fact that the tories have been in power 14 years - so it obviously suited them to keep the system - and didn't change it until this year which happens to be election year. The HICBC came into effect in 2013 and was announced in the 2012 budget by noted Labour Chancellor *checks notes* George Osborne. So sounds like she is just deluded in more than one way. To be fair HICBC is a really stupid tax - anything that temporarily increases your marginal rate is pretty stupid. There's plenty of dumb things about our tax system that both progressive and conservative governments should be motivated to get rid of if they were interested in being a competent government and not just terrified of bad headlines if they were honest about what our tax system should look like. VAT on private schools however is a good tax; and since only a small percentage of children are actually in private school I can't imagine this middle-class-but-not-rich demographic who piss away their disposable income on a private school is very large at all. Personally I think anyone with a household income <150k are absolute fools to even consider private school. Maybe even more than that. It's so insanely expensive and just putting away that cash to buy your kid a home is going to benefit them much more.
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 14:43 |
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Lord of the Llamas posted:The HICBC came into effect in 2013 and was announced in the 2012 budget by noted Labour Chancellor *checks notes* George Osborne. So sounds like she is just deluded in more than one way. I guess they're might be some other services that are providing education that would get swept up in a change to charge posho school fees vat.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I guess they're might be some other services that are providing education that would get swept up in a change to charge posho school fees vat. Given that Labour haven't published the finer details and there is no legislation before parliament being debated then that's just scaremongering speculation?
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 14:53 |
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Labour certainly consider "publishing finer details" to be scaremongering, at least
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 15:00 |
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I think you should just read Keirs election manifesto and believe that if you vote for him he'll do any of its good stuff
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 15:37 |
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Keith's going to be doing all these things when he's PM. He signed these pledges, and he's an ex leading human rights lawyer, so he wouldn't lie about important things like this A moral case for socialism. It's there in his own words. Vote 4 Keith
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 16:01 |
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I would vote for him if I could, and yell that anyone who doesn't is betraying the moral case for socialism
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 16:09 |
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fuctifino posted:Keith's going to be doing all these things when he's PM. He signed these pledges, and he's an ex leading human rights lawyer, so he wouldn't lie about important things like this
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 16:15 |
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“Another future is possible” makes me think maybe he somehow got hold of an almanac and we got shunted into the Keir Starmer “B” timeline
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 16:30 |
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Really sad we're in the timeline where he won and Rebecca Long-Bailey didn't.
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 16:36 |
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 16:49 |
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Tai posted:Zen internet if they offer fibre to your house. You'll pay a little bit over other companies like Virgin but their customer service is good last time I used them. Do you have a zen referral code or anything? Given how fed up we're getting with all the customer service we're dealing with lately, I'm gonna go with them.
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 17:08 |
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Just wanted to say JK Rowling can go gently caress herself for today's "I'm gonna associate trans people with paedophiles, but in a really weasel-worded way that gives me just enough deniability to say of course I don't think all trans people are paedophiles, tee hee!" Twitter shiteage.
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 17:09 |
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Not even going to look at what she's said, but yeah doing the whole "gay men = nonces" remix sounds loving great, good going J.K. Whitehouse.
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 17:12 |
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I still think she's just an extreme example of the colossal failure of blairism as a personal outlook. Her and a bunch of the other 90's celebs are all just massive wankstains who imagine themselves to be cool and trendy and progressive because they thought of themselves like that in the 90's and have never actually engaged with the fundamental failings of that period or how it actually carried on a bunch of older hosed up poo poo. Less a change in substance, but a change in branding. So it is utterly unsurprising that she would repeat stuff like that. Because in the 90's she would have been saying it about gay men.
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 17:14 |
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OwlFancier posted:So it is utterly unsurprising that she would repeat stuff like that. Because in the 90's she would have been saying it about gay men. You think the person who wrote werewolves as a metaphor for AIDS, and had the major character who was a werewolf contract his wolf-AIDS as a young boy because a pack of elderly werewolves sought out young boys to infect for their entertainment, might have bought into to homophobic tropes about gay men?
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 17:30 |
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Small Strange Bird posted:Based on those pledges, I would certainly vote for Ihu Sturm! lol what a poo poo signature ihr sturer is i believe german for you stubborn lot, let's start a meme
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 17:31 |
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#meme !!!!!!!
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 17:35 |
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Tesseraction posted:Really sad we're in the timeline where he won and Rebecca Long-Bailey didn't. it's tempting with hindsight to question why they didn't (it would have torn the party asunder), but they should really have just dished the poo poo on the labour right, properly hosed them up as it turns out tearing the party apart wouldn't have mattered much because we now know the party will never again serve the interests of the country's shat upon crispix fucked around with this message at 17:43 on Apr 5, 2024 |
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My partner’s medical weed arrived today and it is both delightful and surreal reading through official documentation on “how to vape weed” E: also they sent like, quite a large amount of weed lmao
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 18:15 |
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Maugrim posted:Do you have a zen referral code or anything? Given how fed up we're getting with all the customer service we're dealing with lately, I'm gonna go with them. There is a Zen referral thing here: https://www.zen.co.uk/refer-a-friend Each person gets a £25 voucher, but I believe it involved sharing real names for if anyone does fancy doing it. I recently used it with a colleague.
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 18:26 |
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I don't see the harm there, good friend Sir Sidney Poitier.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68742551quote:Thames Water troubles swell as parent firm defaults on debt Incoming taxpayer bailout in 3, 2.... TACD posted:My partner’s medical weed arrived today and it is both delightful and surreal reading through official documentation on “how to vape weed” Please send them congratulations. TBH, it never stops feeling surreal fuctifino fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Apr 5, 2024 |
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The taps will have to run dry and people be up to their knees in turds before the Tories nationalise water
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 19:32 |
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smellmycheese posted:The taps will have to run dry and Tories be up to their knees in turds before the Tories nationalise water ftfy
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 19:34 |
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The Tories have no problems with nationalising things so long as it's done in a way that somehow transfers huge amounts of public money to their mates
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 19:39 |
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Lord of the Llamas posted:Given that Labour haven't published the finer details and there is no legislation before parliament being debated then that's just scaremongering speculation? It's discussing.
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 20:04 |
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This minuscule youtube channel is pretty great and you should watch all his woke rpg takes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_g616Eee58
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that's such a widespread kink i dunno that
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