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The current government - bitching, and whinging Thread

Discussion in 'Current Affairs' started by cbk61639601, Sep 3, 2012.

  1. Soup Ladle

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    Exactly Labour are getting the taxation all wrong, targeting the wrong people and letting others off. It's mental. They're doing a mostly poor job at the minute, they are afraid to tackle and confront the real issues, just blame it on the Tories. Yes there's truth in that but the people the Tories didn't touch are the same as Labour won't. So what's different? Nothing minus the culture war rhetoric, that's the only thing I can see that's changed.

    Absolutely dreading this budget mind if the rumours come to fruition. Voted Labour in the election but certainly will not in the upcoming locals.
     
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    This will be popular.

    https://archive.is/yte9w

    The UK Treasury is preparing to slash spending on overseas aid in the Budget after refusing to match Tory-era top ups to compensate for development cash spent on asylum seekers in the country, said people familiar with the matter.
    The decision comes despite warnings that without an emergency cash injection, UK international aid could slump to its lowest level in 17 years — at just 0.36 per cent of gross national income — and undermine the government’s ambitions on the global stage.
    The Financial Times first reported last month that UK foreign secretary David Lammy was pushing for additional money, as a ballooning proportion of the development budget was being spent on housing asylum seekers in hotels.
     
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    SkyBlueMatt The failed escape attempt

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    Without knowing the details of the rules and if they will be worth the paper they are written on. This is great.

    It's only one small step as we will always have donors but limiting the influence a 2nd job can have on a politician, is a good thing. They are public servants, their only goal should be improving the lives of all of their constituents. They are paid enough, receive plenty of benefits. There is no reason for a 2nd job.
     
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    So it's just more of the same for the Tory party then?
     
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    Clearly. Which doesn't really come as a surprise when you consider the type of **** the Tory party appeals to.
     
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    And now she's brought back Priti Patel. There is absolutely nothing that would ever let me vote for a party who gives that rancid f*cknugget a job.
     
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    Nothing to see here . . .

     
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    So Starmer has gone from pledging to scarp tuition fees to increasing them. I am not surprised.
     
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    Tuition fees are never getting scrapped. The whole system is ****ed. They never included such a pledge in their manifesto as far as I can see though.
     
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    I never agree with scrapping tuition fees anyway. We've wasted so much money on people who go to uni with zero intention of ever actually using their degree, or even finishing.
     
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    Doesn't matter. I didn't go to university but I can see how it would help shape young people in arguably their most formative years. I agree that it seemed to get a bit silly years back with everyone and his dog going onto further education but nevertheless I think most people should still get the opportunity.
     
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    Just said on Martin Lewis that only 17% pay it off in full so can't see any point scrapping the fees.
     
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    Badenoch had a bit of a mare, so unlikable. I guess she is new and will get better (you'd think). The fact she went on about trump despite trump being so disliked here is od, then the remarks about starmer reading scripted responses as she read off her own.
     
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    They didn't and, given the state that at least some universities appear to be in at the moment, they were wise not to. I don't object to the basic principle that students should pay for what is, after all, a non-compulsory education that is supposed to benefit them through the course of their working lives. Having been relatively fortunate that my parents didn't have to pay tuition fees for me when I first went to university 23 years ago, I have since paid for both a Masters degree and my current research programme. But the National Union of Students was undoubtedly right when it argued earlier this week that a review of higher education funding is now urgently needed. That need is particularly urgent when the skills of those who are being trained will be used for the public good. We cannot hope to develop the professionals we need in subjects like medicine, dentistry and veterinary science when students in these areas often graduate with six-figure debts they have little prospect of repaying.
     
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    Embarrassing start from Jenrick.

     

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