Tory Country

[Section_31]

Read that before it's absolutely spot on. 

 

I don't reckon they're in denial though, they just don't care. It's going to be a case of waiting until things ae bad enough where a bigger chunk of society realises it's got nothing to lose anymore. 

[Scott_M]

@Fugitive - After todays news of paying Interest Only for 6m with no credit file impact, you should get onto your landlords ASAP.

 

If they are friends, they’d allow you to pay the IO amount for 6m, save the rest and either resume higher payments or give you time to sort something else out. 

[No2]

1 hour ago, A Red said:

Fugitive is saving the property owners quite a sum in capital gains tax when they sell the property but also income tax on the rent they receive from him. (Mortgage payments are not tax deductible)

 

I would suggest that the benefits of him renting off a friend only flow 1 way.

He's already said he's paying well below market rate.

[Carra_is_legend]

1 hour ago, Section_31 said:

Read that before it's absolutely spot on. 

 

I don't reckon they're in denial though, they just don't care. It's going to be a case of waiting until things ae bad enough where a bigger chunk of society realises it's got nothing to lose anymore. 

 

Hardly a month goes by without us hearing about some sort of scandal connected to a MP. How the fuck can they do their jobs (not that they ever did in the first place!) when the whole party is just shite and corrupt to fuck.

 

Economy, inflation, cost of living and all that do not even feature in their priority list. We have a chancellor who did his absolute best to fuck up NHS after all. Reward for failure, time & time again. 

[Arniepie]

5 hours ago, Kepler-186 said:

You know the central conceit of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, of course you do. A lad of sun-kissed beauty is presented with a stunning likeness of himself. Disturbed at the notion that he will grow old while the painting doesn’t, he locks it away – where it is the portrait that ages and uglifies while Dorian stays boyish and beautiful. But perhaps you’ve forgotten what happens next.

 

The story has come to my mind many times, as the foulness of British politics becomes ever harder to ignore. Genteel liberals wonder how their land of cricket whites and orderly queues could be ruled by a grasping liar such as Boris Johnson and I hear a whisper on the wind: Dorian Gray. The New York Times and Der Spiegel report in bewilderment on a country with pockets of deep poverty and unslaked anger, and again rasps that hoarse voice: the horror was hidden here all along.

 

Now it’s all out in the open. In one of the richest societies in human history, inhabitants are starting to twig that by 2030 or thereabouts they will earn less per head than the Poles they so recently patronised. Whatever the politicians and pundits may argue, this debacle owes nothing to Jeremy Corbyn or Brexit or any supposedly un-British “populism”. It is homegrown and has deep roots.

 

Like Dorian Gray, Britain has for too long presented one face to the world while concealing the awful truth. The author of that novel, Oscar Wilde, was the son of an Irish nationalist and a graduate of Oxford, where he became a fine student of the British upper classes and their mellifluous hypocrisy. He would have recognised much of the mess we’re in, because it grew among shadows and cover-ups.
 

From Tony Blair’s Cool Britannia through to George Osborne’s “march of the makers”, our rulershave trumpeted every false success, while ugly facts have been waved away as anomalies: from the former manufacturing suburbs and towns turned into giant warehouses of surplus people, to the fact that 15% of adults in England are on antidepressants.
 

We’re winning the global race, claimed David Cameron, even as the population’s life expectancy fell far behind other rich countries. We shan’t stunt future generations with debt, he boasted, as our five-year-olds became the shortest in Europe.

 

 

Or take the housing bubble that politicians pretended was true prosperity – until this week, as the Bank of England hiked rates for the 13th time in a row and the prospect of it bursting began to terrify them. Yet the Westminster classes blew their hardest into that bubble. As soon as estate agents were out of lockdown, Rishi Sunak gave up £6bn of taxpayers’ moneyfor a stamp duty holiday – an act as prudent as pouring petrol on a fire. Many of those he lured up the property ladder will be hardest hit by rising mortgage rates. 
 

Analysis done for me by UK Finance suggests that 465,000 house purchases during that tax break were financed with two- or three-year fixed rate mortgages – the very ones running out right now. In other words, nearly half a million households took the chancellor’s inducement; many will plunge into dangerous financial straits; some face losing their homes. They were mis-sold a dream by Sunak. Still, at least the Tories enjoyed a bounce in the polls.

 

“Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man’s face,” Dorian is told by his portraitist Basil Hallward. “If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even … But you, Dorian, with your pure, bright, innocent face and your marvellous untroubled youth – I can’t believe anything against you.”

 

The picture of Dorian, which would have revealed the grotesque truth, is hidden away.

 

So, too, has the UK avoided admitting its ills. Even now, in a country where patently so little works for people who rely on work for their income, commentators and frontbenchers still blame supposedly all-powerful interlopers: Boris, Nigel, Jeremy. And from Sunak to Starmer, all push growth and jobs as the remedy for what ails us.

 

Yet growth in this country is falling and not because of Ukraine or Covid or Brexit. Since the 1950s, the growth rate adjusted for inflation has been on a gentle but insistent downward slide.

 

Our economy has become ever more stagnant and dependent on debt. It is fatuous to pretend this is going to turn around through magicking Britain into an AI free-for-all or a jolly green industrial giant. Employment? One in four employees are on low weekly wages – either because the pay is too low or the hours aren’t enough – while the average real wage has flatlined for many years.

Much of this analysis comes from a new book, When Nothing Works, written by a team of scholars. Although specialising in economics and accountancy, what they have produced is an essential text for understanding British government: the polarised politics of a highly unequal and increasingly stagnant society.

Take the issue at the top of today’s agenda: wages. Why can’t you and I take home more money? Because of a lack of productivity, politicians will say. Yet the researchers point to how labour has got a smaller and smaller share of economic output since the 1970s.

 

If the same share of GDP was paid out in wages today as in 1976, the average working-age household would have an extra £9,744 a year. We haven’t lost that 10 grand a year through laziness at work but because politicians from Thatcher onwards smashed up trade unions, undermined labour rights, and crowed over the result as a “flexible labour market”. What they really created was a low-wage workforce, in a low-growth country ruled by politicians with low ambitions for everyone bar themselves.

“The prayer of your pride has been answered,” Basil counsels Dorian, when he finally sees the portrait and its horrific truth. “The prayer of your repentance will be answered also.”
 

When Nothing Works will inevitably be termed pessimistic, but it is no such thing. Realism comes from facing who we are and dropping the pretence that a growth miracle is just around the corner. Instead of trying to boost “the economy”, it is high time to boost our people: to ensure they have the basics they need to live a life free from indignity and free to flourish. This will come from redistribution rather than growth, from replacing extractive businesses with fair ones.
 

Such ideas will not go down well in SW1, where both Tory and Labour are increasingly hostile to pluralism and brittle in their dogmatism. Self-knowledge is the hardest knowledge, as one of the book’s authors, Karel Williams, says. And self-delusion leads eventually to disaster.

 

Unable to face his loathsome self-image, Dorian slashes that portrait. He is found by servants. “Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled and loathsome of visage. It was not till they examined the rings that they recognised who it was.”

Spot on that 

[johnsusername]

6 hours ago, Carra_is_legend said:

 

Hardly a month goes by without us hearing about some sort of scandal connected to a MP. How the fuck can they do their jobs (not that they ever did in the first place!) when the whole party is just shite and corrupt to fuck.

 

Economy, inflation, cost of living and all that do not even feature in their priority list. We have a chancellor who did his absolute best to fuck up NHS after all. Reward for failure, time & time again. 

 

They're not there by accident mate, they've been placed there. They aren't the ones running things, they're just faces to front the whole thing. 

 

There is an ongoing mass transfer of wealth - from normal people into the pockets of the rich. 

 

I sound like a conspiracy theorist but I'm convinced it's happening. 

 

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/ten-richest-men-double-their-fortunes-pandemic-while-incomes-99-percent-humanity

[Bobby Hundreds]

In one fell swoop my mortgage payments have gone up by £200 a month just like that zoink we will have that my son you don't need it and we do. Cunts.

[Bjornebye]

They will leave the biggest shit state mess for Labour knowing that any thoughts of doing anything better will be put on the back burner while they clean up after these cunts …. And guess whose fault it will be 6 months in when the country is still burning? They know what they’re doing and people struggling is just a means to an end. Trough gobbling gammon racist Tory cunts. 

[Arniepie]

9 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

They will leave the biggest shit state mess for Labour knowing that any thoughts of doing anything better will be put on the back burner while they clean up after these cunts …. And guess whose fault it will be 6 months in when the country is still burning? They know what they’re doing and people struggling is just a means to an end. Trough gobbling gammon racist Tory cunts. 

6 months?

 

within a day, the daily mail will be running stories of how they have fucked the country up.

[Bjornebye]

3 minutes ago, Arniepie said:

6 months?

 

within a day, the daily mail will be running stories of how they have fucked the country up.

Labour have let a million migrants in a day. To be fair they’ve been saying it for years. 

[TD_LFC]

Homoerotic Last Tango in Paris parodies wasn't the direction I was expecting Lee Anderson to take GB News in when his show was announced.

 

 

Very progressive.

[Bjornebye]

7 minutes ago, TD_LFC said:

Homoerotic Last Tango in Paris parodies wasn't the direction I was expecting Lee Anderson to take GB News in when his show was announced.

 

 

Very progressive.

 

SAYS IT FUCKING ALL!!!!!!! Bean eating tory twats 

[TD_LFC]

Beans are the least of the worries, in the next clip he takes a handful of Utterly Butterly to the crack of Brendan Clarkes arse.

[Creator Supreme]

19 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

 

SAYS IT FUCKING ALL!!!!!!! Bean eating tory twats 

Oi, I've warned you, baked beans are a good socialist dish!

[Bjornebye]

5 minutes ago, Creator Supreme said:

Oi, I've warned you, baked beans are a good socialist dish!

 

You look like Stoke

[Strontium]

18 minutes ago, Creator Supreme said:

Oi, I've warned you, baked beans are a good socialist dish!

 

They are in Stig's house because they're left in the tin.

[Bjornebye]

1 minute ago, Strontium said:

 

They are in Stig's house because they're left in the tin.

 

And rightly fucking so my bingo buddy 

[Creator Supreme]

16 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

 

You look like Stoke

I don't look that good!

 

All hail baked beans!

[Bjornebye]

1 minute ago, Creator Supreme said:

I don't look that good!

 

All hail baked beans!

 

Hoggle 

[Mudface]

As a deflection tactic, 'wokeness fucked the economy' is desperate beyond belief. Still, it probably stirs the gammons up, and they can console themselves by railing against black lesbian transgender drag queens while their house gets repossessed.

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12230531/Governor-Andrew-Bailey-blamed-crippling-rise-mortgage-bills.html

 

[YorkshireRed]

Isn’t allowing interest only switches and longer payment terms, just kicking the can down the road? 
 

I get that it’s partly aimed at buying time for the millions facing difficulties in the hope that things improve eventually.

 

The cynic in me thinks there might be an element of extending the cliff edge until after the next election when, in all likelihood, it will be another governments mess to try and sort out. 

[TD_LFC]

April Fools.....

 

In other news.

 

Doctors are now looking at the potential to bring back Michael Myers after becoming concerned about Laurie Strode's ability to care for her family.

[Strontium]

I really want to move house in the next 12 months so I'm hoping all this turmoil brings house prices down, precious little evidence of that so far though.

[Jack the Sipper]

1 hour ago, Mudface said:

As a deflection tactic, 'wokeness fucked the economy' is desperate beyond belief. Still, it probably stirs the gammons up, and they can console themselves by railing against black lesbian transgender drag queens while their house gets repossessed.

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12230531/Governor-Andrew-Bailey-blamed-crippling-rise-mortgage-bills.html

 

 

To save anyone giving the site more clicks, they're claiming that the Bank of England's Governor was too distracted with their Museum's decision to include information beside the exhibits about the slave trade (that the City was inexorably linked to) to worry about inflation. As if he would've have any input at all into that decision. Still, shifting blame from the government and onto the woke for the shit we're in is a double win for the cunts at the Mail.

[sir roger]

The one benefit of all this woke shit is that it has saved me lots of time. As soon as anybody uses the word, I know immediately to ignore them completely.