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The oldies are titillated by it all, it's a right laugh when you bought your house for a song and it's now worth a fortune.  They all feel rich, and technically they're right, they are. Carefree, a government that dances to their tune, and they want nothing more than to pull the ladder up behind them and watch the rest of us pay for their whims. 

 

But it can't last. 

It's a feverish dream of the privileged to think the minority can sustain more losses while also being blamed for all the country's ills. The growth of food banks and rocketing inflation, fuel prices, electric prices and gas prices is a creeping marker for where this is all going. 

Help is not coming. The next phase to come is an explosion in crime.  This is Gotham City pre-Batman. 

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3 hours ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Authoritarian governments want to see - and film and photograph - your face. It's why they put CCTV and facial recognition cameras everywhere. It's one of the reasons why they love their racist abuse of women who choose to wear a veil.

 

I've never heard any argument why authoritarian governments would want people to wear masks.

 

I've not heard one either (outside of this pandemic), it happens though : http://en.nhc.gov.cn/2021-09/03/c_84531.htm

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1 minute ago, Bruce Spanner said:

 

Next year...

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2020/11/19/uk-space-force-ready-to-launch-boris-boasts-22-billion-boost-to-britains-military-future/

 

Yep, that's right as millions are plunged in to poverty we announce a space program.

Wonder which donor is going to benefit from successfully not setting up a space program.

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He's on R4 now taliking about the national tuition program which actually reduces funding for the most disadvantaged.

 

It's moving money from one pot set aside exclusively for disadvantaged pupils, which is hacked at every year anyway. Pupil Premium which is a set amount that schools get to distribute to help the most disadvantaged/at risk, to private companies who are providing these services at a premium. It's a closed shop as only a few companies are able to 'sell' to schools.

 

It is an absolute attack on the most disadvantaged for a good headline and will leave many worse off than they would have been.

 

Lots of state schools are looking at ways of opting out as their budgets are being decimated by this to feather the nests of the private sector for very, very marginal benefits for some, if any at all for most.

 

All of it is artifice, none of it is real.

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47 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Excellent.

 

"Today Johnson spoke as if he was delivering an after-dinner speech to a bunch of boozy business leaders - and not a very good one at that."

 

"Britain is currently facing more problems than at any time I can remember.

 

"A cost of living crisis, brutal NHS backlogs and the continuing economic, social and health impacts of a once in a generation pandemic and the mess left by our departure from the European Union.

 

"It is a maelstrom of issues that demands a serious, forward thinking, honest and competent leader.

 

"Instead we have someone who seems better fitted to closing proceedings at an end of year regional insurance industry knees up."

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The only actual coherent piece of policy he announced was 3k extra a year for talented science teachers to move to schools that performed badly. A rehash of former failed policy - the last time they tried it they managed to persuade 24 of the targeted 1500 teachers to do it

 

https://schoolsweek.co.uk/3k-levelling-up-premium-announced-to-send-best-teachers-to-in-need-areas/

 

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19 minutes ago, PestiRed said:

The only actual coherent piece of policy he announced was 3k extra a year for talented science teachers to move to schools that performed badly. A rehash of former failed policy - the last time they tried it they managed to persuade 24 of the targeted 1500 teachers to do it

 

https://schoolsweek.co.uk/3k-levelling-up-premium-announced-to-send-best-teachers-to-in-need-areas/

 

Smoke and mirrors trick, the government had a similar system in place, they scrapped it, now reinstalling it. 

 

The country's main political journalist fell for it though,

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Gnasher said:

Smoke and mirrors trick, the government had a similar system in place, they scrapped it, now reinstalling it. 

 

The country's main political journalist fell for it though,

 

 

 

Although she's acknowledged her tweet was factually incorrect she's still kept the tweet up.

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8 minutes ago, Bruce Spanner said:

I'm glad somebody has taken the time to do this, but it again poses the question on how the fuck was this allowed to happen?

 

https://costofjohnson.com/

If you showed that to a Tory voter they wouldnt read it, but if they duid it would be "but Corbyn..........."

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