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@nprofile…pfuj Alternatively, a history nerd from the present going back in time-
"Excuse me, what's the current date?"
"It's 12thy June 1914"
"Fantastic! I'm back in my favourite time period, the beginning of World War One!"
"...one?"

2026-05-19 17:39:17 UTC

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@nprofile…x9tq That's a lot of brackets.
Anyway, looks like standard operating practice for the current Government: do nothing, then maybe ask *really* nicely if someone else will do it for you.

2026-05-17 18:32:42 UTC

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@nprofile…x9tq The NHS part might be referring to private contractors?

2026-05-14 17:34:06 UTC

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@nprofile…x9tq The funniest thing to happen would be the Greens winning.

2026-05-11 12:25:33 UTC

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@nprofile…x9tq And what about those of us who previously opted out of being part of any central database?

2026-05-09 13:30:12 UTC

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@nprofile…x9tq I wonder how well that will work considering what would be normally considered to be the largest part of that alliance- Labour- is already in power and people are underwhelmed?
Given a blue-Tory government as in 2024 then The Devil You Don't is actually an option. Given the red-Tory one we theoretically will have in 2029, it isn't.

2026-05-04 09:48:35 UTC

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@nprofile…x9tq This feels like something I've thought before- we had 'something' under the Cameron-to-Sunak Conservatives and it didn't work.
Then, according to the press, we moved left under Starmer's Labour and... it didn't work. (Mainly because we didn't move left. In fact, we didn't move anywhere at all)
There's a good chance that next time, people won't want a return to the 'something' and will skip the Conservatives out of hand on that basis, and want to try the opposite side of it- that is, Reform.

2026-04-30 20:20:58 UTC

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@nprofile…pfuj Good thing animals don't just repeat their name, like Pokémon.

2026-04-24 13:46:23 UTC

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@nprofile…v2v2 @nprofile…vlmj @nprofile…x9tq You've reminded me Windows Phone existed and now I'm sad. I miss that OS.

2026-04-19 22:14:46 UTC

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@nprofile…x9tq Shouldn't be too long before we get the usual headline...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This,%27_Says_Only_Nation_Where_This_Regularly_Happens

2026-04-16 23:10:48 UTC

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@nprofile…la7y Is this the one where it's the Wales leader?

2026-04-09 17:16:26 UTC

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@nprofile…x9tq Amazing how it managed to ricochet to "reduce populism's appeal" from "literally enforcing populism specifically".

2026-04-06 19:18:39 UTC

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@nprofile…la7y The temptation, just before the signal is cut, to scream "OH BLOODY HELL WHAT'S THAT" must be *huge*.
I mean, they'd never let you up there again, but it'd be *so* worth it.

2026-04-06 15:23:37 UTC

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@nprofile…x9tq But let's not also forget, when the Government starts crowing about how amazing they are for doing so, that they spent a long time refusing to lift the cap, justifying the existence of the cap, and kicking their own MPs out of the party for suggesting lifting the cap.

2026-04-05 19:17:52 UTC

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@nprofile…la7y Bank holiday, innit.

2026-04-05 19:17:34 UTC

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@nprofile…la7y Fair.
I have to question their commitment to this, considering how much they went out of their way to say how they explicitly wanted to build houses on top of threatened species specifically, but I think they've earned at least a chance to explain how they're going to reconcile those two policies.

2026-04-04 20:11:43 UTC

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@nprofile…la7y Presumably to save the species in the UK most likely to face extinction in the near future: Labour councillors.

2026-04-04 14:18:52 UTC

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@nprofile…la7y
https://files.mastodonapp.uk/media_attachments/files/116/346/864/976/484/716/original/9e141dd163166112.png

2026-03-31 17:16:47 UTC

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@nprofile…x9tq Or If Kier Starmer wants the NHS to succeed (he doesn't) or fail (he does).
The annoying thing is, if either of them *really* wanted to solve the strikes problem, the smart thing is to hire loads more doctors and dilute the pro-IA vote. Of course, the only way to do that...

2026-03-31 13:45:37 UTC

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@nprofile…x9tq The sole "potential" of AI is how much money it might potentially make people with far too much of it as it is.

2026-03-09 10:06:59 UTC

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@nprofile…x9tq And this is why I pushed for the P2P Lending approach.
Admittedly it's probably not large enough a market to fully neuter the bond markets as a threat, but you've got to start it somewhere, I guess.

2026-03-09 10:00:12 UTC

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@nprofile…4gxw @nprofile…x9tq What's making it hard for those with vacancies to fill them?

2026-03-08 15:56:11 UTC

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@nprofile…6nnl And what's worse is that according to that image, all your judges will be from Minecraft.

2026-02-28 18:38:31 UTC

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@nprofile…la7y At some point they're going to have to appoint a Minister of Resignations.

2026-02-26 09:53:45 UTC

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@nprofile…x9tq While the best result would be a Green win, the most interesting result will be if Reform come third- regardless of what order Green and Labour fill the two slots above, that would do the most to blow a hole in the "split vote" argument.
(The funniest would be the Lib Dems winning it somehow)
However, should Reform win, we can expect Labour to say it's the Greens' fault rather than their own for not giving people anything to vote for. Which I guess would make a change from the usual "Government doesn't normally win by-elections" excuse.

2026-02-25 22:53:30 UTC

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@nprofile…x9tq Were UK investors offered it in any meaningful way?
Do UK investors have the money to do it, considering they don't have anything coming in from all those other investments they didn't make?

2026-02-17 13:44:02 UTC

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@nprofile…v2v2 @nprofile…x9tq Considering that Streeting has said not only in the press but also in the House of Commons that the companies he's privatising the NHS into are going to be allowed infinite profits, we can safely assume that no, they won't.
Although I will point out that the entirety of the French system working better is included in your half-sentence
>French healthcare spending per capita is a bit more than ours
*that's* the bit that makes it work, not the presence of private firms.

2026-02-09 14:02:14 UTC

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@nprofile…la7y STARMER HAS QUIT smoking

2026-02-09 09:11:12 UTC

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@nprofile…la7y Fourth now? Bloody hell.

2026-02-01 13:04:52 UTC

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@nprofile…la7y Yeah, but he always said he wasn't into panda-ing to the electorate.

2026-01-29 19:21:28 UTC

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@nprofile…x9tq What hostile media?

2026-01-21 13:39:27 UTC

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@nprofile…la7y Although it's not much of a comeback considering his government has spent the last eighteen months not changing it...

2026-01-20 18:31:03 UTC

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@nprofile…x9tq Let's not give him ideas.

2026-01-12 18:19:38 UTC

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@nprofile…la7y (And it shows you how pointless the OSA actually is, since this is an existing power)

2026-01-12 18:18:49 UTC

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@nprofile…la7y Also, it's a bit disappointing that this is limited to sexually explicit deepfakes, considering how much AI is being used for generating fake videos of people saying incriminating things.

2026-01-07 18:19:31 UTC

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@nprofile…la7y [looks at NHS Covid jab eligibility, Winter 2025]

2026-01-03 20:48:20 UTC

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@nprofile…la7y Every single WHAT and every single missile? :O

2026-01-03 11:16:39 UTC

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@nprofile…la7y Now let's see if this finally crosses a big enough line for Starmer to actually criticise Trump on anything at all.

2025-12-30 14:22:13 UTC

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@nprofile…hzyj But at least we've only got another two years of dawdling before Streeting releases his report on social care and they can find some other reason not to actually start doing something!

2025-12-30 00:51:51 UTC

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@nprofile…35ec
https://files.mastodonapp.uk/media_attachments/files/115/805/775/969/443/990/original/b8f00684f166055f.mp4

2025-12-16 09:42:02 UTC

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@nprofile…35ec Dyed Stride?

2025-12-15 22:57:41 UTC

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@nprofile…35ec It was also three "fringe"- rather than "French"- hens. Not your mainstream ones, but slightly edgier, up-and-coming ones.
(this is not true)

2025-12-14 01:04:06 UTC

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@nprofile…35ec George's

2025-12-14 01:00:21 UTC

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@nprofile…35ec You should look up his Deal Or No Deal story

2025-12-08 18:48:06 UTC

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@nprofile…yfpm @nprofile…hzyj I think that's an important one- while Mr Farage is getting a little bit of an easy ride, it's more important that the press are unwilling to criticize Brexit itself for fear of blowback from the audience.
(If anything, what the press have thrown at Farage is probably evidence of that)
By primarily focusing on Brexit, I still think we're letting all Governments since off the hook for refusing to invest in the country for sixteen years straight- it lets them say "we didn't invest because Brexit" when the truth is that they didn't invest because they didn't want to- but that's not a reason to ignore it.

2025-12-07 15:17:50 UTC

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@nprofile…35ec 55,000 "subsidised job offers", or in plain English, 55,000 people are going to be laid off so companies can replace them with cheap labour, doing literally nothing for employment rates, but costing £800 million.

2025-12-05 14:18:51 UTC

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@nprofile…35ec I'm hoping a lettuce company will sponsor her

2025-12-05 09:58:11 UTC

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@nprofile…hzyj But also makes it risker for companies to dismiss someone at the upper end unfairly: before, the compensation might have been cheaper than a £119k redundancy package.

2025-12-03 21:14:26 UTC

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@nprofile…35ec Honestly fair.

2025-12-03 19:04:15 UTC

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@nprofile…35ec Hard to know who to hate more, a double-barreled surnamed Labour MP, or Kier for his inability to handle criticism

2025-11-29 21:43:39 UTC

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@nprofile…hzyj It does interest me that people in right-wing parties can be at one another's throats at all times and it's just the natural order of things and a sign of a healthy, open party- but if two people on the left have the most minor divergence of opinion with one another, it's immediately "factionalism".

2025-11-27 21:32:22 UTC

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@nprofile…hzyj Bit rich of him to accuse someone else of being "misleading" when he briefed The Times with a borderline fraudulent poll because it benefitted him...

2025-11-20 10:39:39 UTC

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@nprofile…hzyj How is the currency doing? I seem to recall the FTSE doing well after the referendum, but that being an illusion due to the pound crashing.

2025-11-18 09:48:31 UTC

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@nprofile…hzyj I was thinking about this last night, and wasn't the problem with the Oasis tour that the retailer, not secondary marketeers, were jumping up prices?
I get touts would have an upwards effect on said pricing, but they strike me as not the issue specifically...

2025-11-13 22:49:43 UTC

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@nprofile…35ec TBF, Question Time was hardly in a rush to have him on when he was Labour leader.

2025-11-09 16:57:28 UTC

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@nprofile…hzyj I wonder if this is the main drive behind them reforming Leasehold, to make it easier for banks to buy up all the houses more than it is people?
it *was* Gove that started it all off, after all...

2025-11-08 12:50:07 UTC

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@nprofile…35ec ...this "friend", does she frequently give either of you contracts?

2025-11-08 01:35:31 UTC

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@nprofile…35ec I've seen a film about this exact situation. Who is it that's telling you to go there?

2025-11-05 19:09:54 UTC

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@nprofile…hzyj There is a difference between using the language of the Right to push the policies of the Left, and doing it to push the policies of the Right.
Sadly, Labour keep insisting on doing the latter.

2025-11-04 09:41:47 UTC

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@nprofile…hzyj I can think of an easier way to stop people protesting, not just outside MPs homes, but elsewhere, too.

2025-11-01 15:03:01 UTC

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@nprofile…35ec Calling him "Brucie" rather than "Bruce" is making me think of a Springsteen/Forsyth hybrid.
As a result of me mentioning that, you're now also imagining "Brucie Lee"

2025-10-20 17:08:27 UTC

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@nprofile…35ec ...so what you're saying is there's an untapped market for hooliganism I can dominate?

2025-10-19 19:38:57 UTC

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@nprofile…35ec "You do not have the authority", etc

2025-10-19 16:59:50 UTC

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@nprofile…35ec Oh, Kier finally went along to one, did he?

2025-10-17 17:19:05 UTC

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@nprofile…hzyj This could be as simple as getting a cheap headline out of taxing 'foreign' residents- let's not read something into this that might not be there.

2025-10-15 09:23:28 UTC

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@nprofile…hzyj If only there was some way people could work from their homes, or something.

2025-10-14 21:42:35 UTC

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@nprofile…hzyj I'm loathe to say anything nice about Liz Truss, but she did manage to get one and a half things right in her 44 days.
One was slinging her hook when it was clear she was useless (hint hint, Mr Starmer) but the half was that she rapidly subsidised electricity bills for all when prices spiked due to Putin invading Ukraine, used the power of the state to help people handle at least this aspect of the Cost Of Living.
I say only half, because she failed to follow it up with actively doing something to bring those prices back down, which needed to be direct and immediate engagement in generation. Not 'regulate'- *do*, even if only in the short term- Gov't actively being the ones to set up the solar panels, wind turbines, arrays of hamsters in wheels etc- so that supply and demand does its thing and the subsidy ceases to be necessary, maybe even start to recoup its costs.
Labour just refuse to do this. The closest they've come is so lacking that it might as well not exist.

2025-10-12 16:53:55 UTC

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@nprofile…rh2x Are we to interpret that as a threat? :P

2025-10-09 22:23:08 UTC

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@nprofile…rh2x All I'm saying is that I've never seen you or this Telegraph lady in the same room.
I mean, I've also never seen you, or this Telegraph lady. But that's not the point.

2025-10-07 09:03:02 UTC

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@nprofile…60lz I've got a feeling it's less to do with financialisation as there not being regionality any more- while you were getting bored of the local music scene, the next city over were sat in a bubble developing a sound and you wouldn't find out about it- and it wouldn't influence your scene- until it matured into something it could show the world.
Now online I can flick to someone living in Puerto Rico singing K-Pop without even trying.
I'd argue that there being all these influences available, as well as a reduced ability to refuse to move on from The Classics™ is broadly better, not worse- but does lead to a certain level of Grey Goo.
(May I also recommend Pete & Bas if you're looking for some more unique Hip-Hop?)

2025-10-06 17:15:40 UTC

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@nprofile…rh2x Someone let Ian know.

2025-10-01 19:53:44 UTC

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@nprofile…60lz Far be it from me to draw any connections to any real-world events, but I'd imagine they'd start pressing Governments to discourage their citizens from investing in cash, in favour of stocks and shares.

2025-06-19 12:16:37 UTC

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@nprofile…60lz Eh, I'd say three days in is a compromise that benefits bosses more than workers- and any 'comprimose' that benefits the people who already have the advantage isn't much of a compromise.
Besides, it isn't like bosses are going to even attempt to explore offering two in instead and aren't already agitating for four.

2025-06-19 09:08:51 UTC

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@nprofile…60lz "compromise" being "bosses getting what they want", then.

2025-06-16 08:00:38 UTC

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@nprofile…60lz Now, is Wes going to actually employ more GPs to achieve this?

2025-06-12 09:01:35 UTC

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@nprofile…60lz I've thought this, particularly around WFA.
Stamer and Reeves have been very consistent around claiming the matter being due to the state of the economy: WFA had to be cut to save the economy, and they could put it back because the economy was healthier (and not because they got a drubbing in the locals), meaning surely WFA is going to be first on the chopping block when the economy next takes a knock, which isn't going to be reassuring to people worried about losing it in the first place.
To a certain extent also, I'd argue that it's Government's job to *protect* us from the economy- like how Social Security is there for when work isn't, how Furlough and all sorts of business reliefs were there at the start of the pandemic and so on- and here they are, fairly explicitly saying that isn't what they're going to do.

2025-06-10 08:46:09 UTC

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@nprofile…60lz What *will* we do, or what *should* we do?
Because, given off last form, that's "give them absolutely everything that they want" and "absolutely not that, under any circumstances" respectively

2025-06-09 13:04:49 UTC

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@nprofile…60lz @nprofile…ausg I still don't trust the idea, but isn't that a lot like David Cameron's "National Citizen Service"?

2025-06-09 07:44:57 UTC

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@nprofile…60lz I hear elsewhere that Reeves is considering subsidising electricity costs for industry- but only industry.
Even Liz Truss was awake enough to make sure that her electricity subsidies applied to everyone.

2025-06-05 09:09:26 UTC

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@nprofile…60lz I was happily nodding along and agreeing with him until he came out with this:
"Not because Starmer and his ministers are bad people, or because they have bad values or even bad policies."
...and then all credibility went straight out of the window.
Less facetiously, focusing on defence does also show a failure of priority. If I'm sat on a waiting list, four years away from an operation I need, bombing foreigners isn't going to solve that. If I'm paying all my wages to extortionate rents due to a lack of social housing, bombing foreigners isn't going to solve that.
I get Government can- has to- do multiple things, at the same time, but the order and scale they do them in matters.

2025-06-01 11:32:45 UTC

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@nprofile…60lz I believe many of them are this sort of thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuAXoQ0luR4

2025-05-21 17:23:00 UTC

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@nprofile…9vf2 ...there are 500 empty social homes (NOTE: Not luxury investment apartments) in London?

2025-05-20 21:12:20 UTC

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@nprofile…pgwc That's going to be a loud ol' cry greeting him when he walks through the Pearly Gates...

2025-04-17 08:42:03 UTC

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@nprofile…60lz Like basically everything else Streeting does, I don't trust this. The Conservative Government handled Jos Seekers' Allowance similarly- paid companies based on not sending claimants back to the job centre, rather than on getting them jobs.
What happened was they just found ways of kicking people off JSA, because it was the same amount of money for less effort than actually getting people into employment.
This will be the same thing. It won't actually get people treatment, it'll just keep them out of hospitals.

2025-04-13 18:36:55 UTC

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@nprofile…60lz This will only be a minor aspect, but I did read a thing a few years ago where small firms doing physical products use them and run their entire business from them, because they can expand and contract their 'warehouse' space as and when, and many also have much of the amenities you'd expect of a co-working space like wifi and a coffee machine, so they can do the admin part there as well.

2025-04-08 08:33:38 UTC

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@nprofile…60lz And we are assuming that these eliminated roles were actually not helping, and it's not just Streeting cutting for the sake of cutting.

2025-04-08 08:32:03 UTC

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@nprofile…60lz Now, are the NHS running that facility or is it another private form?

2025-04-04 21:57:47 UTC

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@nprofile…60lz The penny may have dropped, but not as much as the dollar!
[booing and hissing from the audience]

2025-03-24 16:00:56 UTC

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@nprofile…cuet @nprofile…60lz Time for me to once again push that petition I set up to encourage them to do so
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/708932

2025-03-15 15:14:58 UTC

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@nprofile…60lz Now is probably a good time to mention that my Government Petition for them to embrace crowd investment went live this week:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/708932
Reeves' fiscal rules are based on ideology, not pragmatism, so it's unlikely they'll take this on, but I think putting The People slightly more in charge of how much is borrowed and where might at least give the wriggle room that if the public become unhappy with how much the Government are borrowing, they can simply stop lending it.

2025-03-11 01:16:20 UTC

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@nprofile…60lz I've got a feeling being the ex-BoE governor might count against him.
When the right are constantly banging on about an 'Elite', fielding not only someone who was the head of a central bank- that of *another nation*, mind- feels a lot like doing their campaigning for them.

2025-03-03 10:06:00 UTC

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@nprofile…60lz Didn't they already confirm that the reforms are just going to be cuts and punishments?
I *do* know the main people they've been consulting on writing them is a think tank set up by Iain Duncan-Smith- not a name I'd connect to humane and compassionate.

2025-02-18 13:57:24 UTC

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@nprofile…60lz The guy that runs Iceland has already called for criminals to be sentenced to working in his shops instead of being incarcerated (link below).
I have a feeling that rather than the rehabilitative intentions we often credit Timpson with, he's more interested in getting free, easily controlled labour and displacing actually employed workers.
Given the current Labour administration's record, I'm going to assume they're going to go with something like that, which is going to be less constructive.
https://metro.co.uk/2025/01/27/criminals-sentenced-work-iceland-instead-going-prison-22445553/

2025-02-10 09:43:50 UTC

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@nprofile…60lz @nprofile…dxaq ISAs are also quite poor value at lower cash values anyway- at least in the last few years of high interest rates, there have been more high-interest 'normal' savings accounts that outperform cash ISAs and you'd make more that way while still staying in your personal allowance.
That said, I think the better answer here is to keep the cash limits in ISAs, but set a time limit instead so if you want to keep the tax relief, you have to start a new ISA after five years- a de facto upper limit on cash storage.

2025-02-10 09:34:28 UTC

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@nprofile…60lz You could see it that way, but on the other hand, had those MPs not said what they said, the Mail wouldn't have had anything to report...

2025-02-03 18:15:58 UTC

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@nprofile…60lz Not unprecedendted, but the sooner he's unpresidented, the better.