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UK General Election 8th June: Shake it all about?

Started by Vanadium Gryllz, February 23, 2016, 02:54:34 PM

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Junkenstein

Quote from: Cain on May 24, 2017, 06:25:08 PM
Allegedly it's going to pay off the national debt.

I'll let you look up those actual figures for a laugh.  What it's really going into is tax cuts.

Edit: the Labout and (IIRC) Lib Dem manifestos are both fully costed.

What's even funnier is what's in that debt. The UK is still paying for the hilarious south sea fuckup, for instance.
Nine naked Men just walking down the road will cause a heap of trouble for all concerned.

Cain

Also, as the Economist(!) pointed out, Corbyn's own plan would have the UK borrowing less than it currently does, which would (indirectly) help in paying back the national debt.

I mean, if you can't even get The Economist on side, on fiscal policy, as a Tory government...

MMIX

Quote from: Cain on May 24, 2017, 06:04:52 PM
Of course, it's worth noting that under May, 17,000 police officers have left the service, at least some of that due to budget cuts and the general Tory attitude towards the police.

We've seen this before, with the Environment Agency, "let's use the Army to plug the gap in vital services we've underfunded".  The Army itself is underfunded, btw, but since they have to follow legal orders...

Anyway, all I'm saying is that we wouldn't need to call in the Army, at a time when we're debating going back into Afghanistan in force, if we didn't cut police budgets.
There are other things you can do with your police and Armed forces though, Katie Hopkins just said so:-
Quote'We need a final solution,' British columnist tweets — then deletes — after Manchester bombing
Katie Hopkins of Mail Online later said the tweet was a "typo."
:horrormirth:
"The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make and could just as easily make differently" David Graeber

Junkenstein

Quote from: Cain on May 24, 2017, 08:55:30 PM
Also, as the Economist(!) pointed out, Corbyn's own plan would have the UK borrowing less than it currently does, which would (indirectly) help in paying back the national debt.

I mean, if you can't even get The Economist on side, on fiscal policy, as a Tory government...

Well, it's not like anyone's pointed at this government with accusations of competence, is it?
Nine naked Men just walking down the road will cause a heap of trouble for all concerned.

Cain

Quote from: MMIX on May 24, 2017, 09:49:56 PM
Quote from: Cain on May 24, 2017, 06:04:52 PM
Of course, it's worth noting that under May, 17,000 police officers have left the service, at least some of that due to budget cuts and the general Tory attitude towards the police.

We've seen this before, with the Environment Agency, "let's use the Army to plug the gap in vital services we've underfunded".  The Army itself is underfunded, btw, but since they have to follow legal orders...

Anyway, all I'm saying is that we wouldn't need to call in the Army, at a time when we're debating going back into Afghanistan in force, if we didn't cut police budgets.
There are other things you can do with your police and Armed forces though, Katie Hopkins just said so:-
Quote'We need a final solution,' British columnist tweets — then deletes — after Manchester bombing
Katie Hopkins of Mail Online later said the tweet was a "typo."
:horrormirth:

Yes, I saw her comments on the morning.   Fortunately, it seems this time around there is a significant amount of pushback over her comments.

Cain


Faust

That is while still in a fractured everyone-hates-corbyn state? If that gap closes and they realise there is a real chance of victory what are the odds of the party rallying behind him.
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P3nT4gR4m

If there's a chance of labour winning, Corbyn will have to be replaced by a suit. No way corporate is going to let someone as hostile as Corbyn look like he's making the big decisions.

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
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MMIX

Well one bright spot today:
QuoteKatie Hopkins sacked: LBC staff broke into 'massive cheers and applause' when controversial radio presenter fired

and the Mail online are refusing to comment . . .

"The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make and could just as easily make differently" David Graeber

P3nT4gR4m

It's nice when the Mail refuse to comment on a thing. If this could be encouraged across the set of all possible things I could see myself growing to, if not like, then at least tolerate their existence a little more.

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
Not actually a meat product.
Ass-Kicking & Foot-Stomping Ancient Master of SHIT FUCK FUCK FUCK
Awful and Bent Behemothic Results of Last Night's Painful Squat.
High Altitude Haggis-Filled Sex Bucket From Beyond Time and Space.
Internet Monkey Person of Filthy and Immoral Pygmy-Porn Wart Contagion
Octomom Auxillary Heat Exchanger Repairman
walking the fine line line between genius and batshit fucking crazy

"computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it's not the particles but the pattern that really matters! Matter doesn't matter." -- Max Tegmark

Junkenstein

Quote from: MMIX on May 26, 2017, 12:30:48 PM
Well one bright spot today:
QuoteKatie Hopkins sacked: LBC staff broke into 'massive cheers and applause' when controversial radio presenter fired

and the Mail online are refusing to comment . . .

When they do, they'll still find a way to relate it to fucking house prices.
Nine naked Men just walking down the road will cause a heap of trouble for all concerned.

Junkenstein

So I've just had a leaflet through for my local conservative candidate which states "If you'd like to discuss and issue contact me on..."

I'll be having fun with this. Suggestions welcome, I've already asked questions about sharks, the lack of manifesto costings being lazy and how to fix my toaster.
Nine naked Men just walking down the road will cause a heap of trouble for all concerned.

Cain

Ask them if your shelving arrangements in the kitchen are strong and stable.

Vanadium Gryllz

#688
Paxman interviews Corbyn and May in 30 minutes.

Post-match edit:

Both performed pretty well - Corbyn got a hammering on his past and May got hammered on policies.

Listening to Theresa May talk makes my brain start wandering in record time though.
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Junkenstein

Quote from: Cain on May 29, 2017, 06:09:44 PM
Ask them if your shelving arrangements in the kitchen are strong and stable.

Will add it to the list. Multiple phone numbers and emails have never been more fun to use. I've got about 7 different personas on the go. My favourite at the moment in Ahmed the recovering crackhead.  If anyone wants in, PM me. I'm determined to give this one more fun than they really wanted.
Nine naked Men just walking down the road will cause a heap of trouble for all concerned.