Inequality

[Creator Supreme]

Just now, Section_31 said:

Asda's advice to its staff. Buy and sell second hand clothes and get showered at the gym. Headquartered in Jersey now isn't it? Nothing to see here.

 

 

 

Yeah it's those Brothers from Blackburn who own Euro Garages too, pair of tax dodging shits.

 

Hooray, Asda is back in British hands eh?

[VladimirIlyich]

11 hours ago, Creator Supreme said:

Yeah it's those Brothers from Blackburn who own Euro Garages too, pair of tax dodging shits.

 

Hooray, Asda is back in British hands eh?

They were only able to buy it because a credit or investment company owns the other 50% or so. I think that company will eventually own it all personally as those brothers seem no better than err...used car salesmen!

[Lee909]

12 hours ago, Section_31 said:

Asda's advice to its staff. Buy and sell second hand clothes and get showered at the gym. Headquartered in Jersey now isn't it? Nothing to see here.

 

 

 

 

 

Nothing like full-time workers also needing benefits. It's almost like the keep pay low knowing the government will give workers a few pennies more so you don't have to. 

 

No spend days, yeah them days when poor people have no fucking money left so can't spend. 

 

 

Cunts

[VladimirIlyich]

2 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

 

 

Nothing like full-time workers also needing benefits. It's almost like the keep pay low knowing the government will give workers a few pennies more so you don't have to. 

 

No spend days, yeah them days when poor people have no fucking money left so can't spend. 

 

 

Cunts

These cunts obviously have no idea how hard it is to get benefits,likely never having to do it themselves,or how people would love not to have to spend all the time except cunting supermarkets make it necessary to do so.

[Lee909]

Asda, which the Issa brothers co-own along with London-based private equity firm TDR Capital, has been facing scrutiny over accusations that it's unfairly inflating food and gas prices amid a persistant cost-of-living crisis in Britain.

 

Mind you tesco are probably worse for that. Record profits while the price of food goes up. 

 

 

Paid 55ml in tax in 5 years prior to 2020 on 37.5 million of revenue but they didn't move businesses to Jersey to avoid tax. 

 

Amazing how these types and non dogs etc are clever and avoiding tax while the normal guy is illegally evaded tax and gets 10 years for it

[Anubis]

Cunts.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/12/how-one-woman-fell-victim-carers-allowance-trap-karina-moon

[Creator Supreme]

26 minutes ago, Anubis said:

Cunts.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/12/how-one-woman-fell-victim-carers-allowance-trap-karina-moon

I'd take those heartless bastards who've done that to her to the cleaners.

 

Bastards. And to think some wankers said that the events in I, Daniel Blake were nothing like real life.

[Section_31]

Me ma had a breakdown about 10 years ago because the DWP said she'd been overpaid 16k and had to pay it back. Then about three months later they fessed up and said it was their fault and she didn't have to. Damage was done by then though, she still jumps when she hears the postman.

[Creator Supreme]

6 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

Me ma had a breakdown about 10 years ago because the DWP said she'd been overpaid 16k and had to pay it back. Then about three months later they fessed up and said it was their fault and she didn't have to. Damage was done by then though, she still jumps when she hears the postman.

Sympathies with your mam mate, the DWP are disgraceful shits.

[Gnasher]

 

 

 

[Anubis]

Fucking bellend.

 

[Arniepie]

3 minutes ago, Anubis said:

Fucking bellend.

 

brilliant

[TheHowieLama]

17 minutes ago, Anubis said:

Fucking bellend.

 

 

You need a bit of that.

[Gnasher]

On 24/01/2024 at 14:43, Gnasher said:

Oh George. Go tell her.

 

 

 

As theirs a thread on Hannah Fry let's not forget this classic from George Robinson. He's not impressed. 

[Arniepie]

Of course a society that demonises poverty will try to prosecute vulnerable, unpaid carers | Zoe Williams | The Guardian

[Section_31]

Heavens no.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/may/02/i-am-moving-tycoon-bassim-haidar-non-dom-tax-status-super-rich-exodus

[Mudface]

4 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

Heavens no.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/may/02/i-am-moving-tycoon-bassim-haidar-non-dom-tax-status-super-rich-exodus

 

I was just reading that. Yet another greedy, amoral cunt who wants the benefits of wherever he lives so long as everyone else pays for it.

[Creator Supreme]

5 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

Heavens no.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/may/02/i-am-moving-tycoon-bassim-haidar-non-dom-tax-status-super-rich-exodus

Off you fuck and rot in hell in your tax free police state you greedy shithouse gobshite of a bastard!

 

Hope you choke on your money!

[Section_31]

Oh no, the talent!!!

 

Haidar said two non-dom friends had already left the UK, less than two months after the chancellor announced in his spring budget the abolition of the regime from April 2025. He said the men, who run hedge funds, had left for Dubai and Switzerland.

 

 

[VladimirIlyich]

Good riddance you scrounging cunt. I think this country is fine without you and your Tory friends. Can you take the party you donated to with you also. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

As long as we keep hold of this wealth-creator we'll be fine.

 

[lifetime fan]

Youth homelessness was debated in parliament for the first time in 40 years on Wednesday. 
 

40 fucking years! 
 

And just look how few MPs actually turned up for the debate. 

[Mudface]

Good stuff from Monbiot in the Guardian- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/10/britain-mental-health-society-neoliberalism-politicians

 

One of the most annoying periods in politics was the craven acceptance by Milliband and the Labour party that there was no alternative to austerity, allowing the Tories and Lib Dems to torch the country with barely a peep, even after the UK went into recession and lost its AAA rating. I really hope Starmer doesn't follow the same path, otherwise we're completely fucked and so will be Labour.

 

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Why is Britain’s mental health so incredibly poor? It’s because our society is spiralling backwards
 

Even as neoliberalism destroys our dreams of a better life, politicians tell us ‘there is no alternative’. But there is
The news should have stopped us in our tracks. Astonishingly, however, it was scarcely reported here. The latest map of mental wellbeing published by the Global Mind Project reveals that, out of the 71 countries it assessed, the United Kingdom, alongside South Africa, has the highest proportion of people in mental distress – and the second worst overall measure of mental health (we beat only Uzbekistan). Mental wellbeing has plummeted in the UK further than in any comparable nation. How was this not headline news?

More importantly, why has it happened? The Global Mind Project blames smartphones and ultra-processed food. They doubtless play a role, but they’re hardly peculiar to the UK. I think part of the reason is the sense that life here is, visibly and obviously, spiralling backwards.

There was a time when almost everyone in the UK believed the following promises. That a rising economic tide would lift all boats. That everybody would have a good home. That drudge work would diminish and jobs would become more interesting. That we would enjoy greater economic security and more leisure time. That educational attainment would keep rising across all social classes. That our healthcare and health would inexorably improve. That the UK would become ever cleaner and greener. That governance and democratic engagement would get better by the year.

We could easily have had all of these things. A vast amount of money has flushed through this country. Science has advanced by leaps and bounds; health and labour-saving technologies have greatly improved; we know exactly how to build good homes, treat sewage and improve democracy.

Instead (literally, in the case of our rivers) almost everything has gone to shit. The five giant evils identified in 1942 by William Beveridge, who helped design the welfare state, have returned with a vengeance. He called them “want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness”. His paternalistic language translates today into poverty, morbidity, educational exclusion, wretched housing and crumbling infrastructure, and bad employment or an inability to work.

As they come thundering back, the five evil giants have brought some friends to the party: environmental chaos, extreme political dysfunction and misrule, impunity for the powerful and performative cruelty towards the powerless, and state-sponsored culture wars to distract us from the rest of the horror show.

There is a reason for these broken promises and dysfunctions, which explains why the UK suffers more from them than most comparable nations. It’s called neoliberalism.

Neoliberalism is an ideology that sees competition as our defining feature. It insists that our wellbeing is best realised not through political choice but through economic choice. What it calls “the market” will, if left to its own devices, determine who deserves to succeed and who does not. Everything that impedes the creation of this “natural order” of winners and losers – tax and the redistribution of wealth, welfare and public housing, publicly run and funded services, regulation, trade unions, protest, the power of politics itself – should, albeit often subtly and gradually, be shoved aside. It has dominated life in this country, to a degree unparalleled in similar nations, for 45 years.

Yet it is seldom discussed in public, or even properly identified. When people on the left try to explain our predicament, they often use terms such as Thatcherism, austerity, laissez-faire economics, supply-side economics, neoclassical economics or libertarianism. All these terms are either inadequate, misleading or plain wrong. Neoliberalism is a distinct ideology, named by its leading thinkers in 1938. Its development was funded, from the 1940s onwards, by some of the richest people on Earth. They built its infrastructure of persuasion until, in the late 1970s, when Keynesianism ran into trouble, it could occupy the ideological vacuum.

Neoliberalism is the means by which capital seeks to solve its biggest problem – a problem called democracy. Unlike laissez-faire economics or classical liberalism, which prevailed before most adults had the vote, neoliberalism uses the state in coherent and repeatable ways to impose its unpopular policies. The state is the force behind market forces, the whip enforcing “economic freedom”.

Neoliberalism’s greatest triumph is to persuade us that, in Margaret Thatcher’s words, “there is no alternative”. In reality, the doctrine is an alternative to the much better lives we might have led. In the new book I’ve written with the film-maker Peter Hutchison, The Invisible Doctrine, we seek to drag this ideology and its disastrous impacts into the light and show how it can be overthrown to fulfil the promise of a better world.

The doctrine reached its apogee in Liz Truss’s 49-day meltdown, when she tried to apply neoliberalism to the ideological letter. But this was just the most extreme manifestation of what we have suffered since 1979. Labour softened some aspects but accepted privatised public services, brutally curtailed protest, deregulated commerce even further and allowed the financial sector to pursue reckless get-rich-quick schemes. It added a disastrous twist of its own, extending the private finance initiative to vast tracts of government provision – one reason for the crises suffered by hospitals, schools, prisons and other services today.

Amazingly, neoliberalism, despite all the breakdowns it has caused, continues to dominate. Labour, as the shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, demonstrates through her irrational commitment to austerity and her stated intention to deregulate capital even further, seems determined to ensure there is no alternative. Many in government believe it hasn’t gone far enough. This is what Truss and Mark Littlewood, chief engineer of her disaster, think (if thinking is the right word) and promote through their “Popular Conservatism” group, whose name will forever remain in quotes.
How have successive governments got away with it? Through the endless promise of jam tomorrow. If we keep working harder, one day we’ll pay for the public services we need; one day we’ll earn the economic security we crave; one day we’ll have more leisure time. Will this magic day ever arrive? Of course not. Strong public services and economic security were never part of the plan. But to have us working ever-longer hours on behalf of capital? That is very much part of the plan.

Interestingly, when environmentalists say we need to make sacrifices today to secure our future prosperity, the same government ministers insist that voters will never tolerate delayed gratification. In these and other ways, governance in the UK feels like one long trick played on the public.

So they keep us hanging on. And the endless promises and the endless breaking of those promises grind us down. It would perhaps be more surprising if we found ourselves anywhere else on the mental health rankings.

 

 

[Arniepie]

7 minutes ago, Mudface said:

Good stuff from Monbiot in the Guardian- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/10/britain-mental-health-society-neoliberalism-politicians

 

One of the most annoying periods in politics was the craven acceptance by Milliband and the Labour party that there was no alternative to austerity, allowing the Tories and Lib Dems to torch the country with barely a peep, even after the UK went into recession and lost its AAA rating. I really hope Starmer doesn't follow the same path, otherwise we're completely fucked and so will be Labour.

 

 

just about to post that

cracking read

[Mudface]

7 minutes ago, Arniepie said:

just about to post that

cracking read

 

I always remember Radio 5 having a phone in soon after the 2010 election. The topic was 'what should we cut?', not 'should we cut?'- summed it up at the time, a fait accompli, no alternative. The Tories repeatedly went on about the 'mess that Labour left' and the stupid note from Liam Byrne saying there was no money left, and Balls and Milliband did nothing to counter, it was thoroughly depressing.