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Post by adrianc on Apr 26, 2024 21:57:54 GMT
I also think as good labour people the fact they both got money out of right to buy (a despised by labour Tory policy) which presumably they objected to on principle, sticks in the throat of people struggling to get into council housing. Quick question... Which general election manifesto was the first to introduce the right to buy council housing? Answer: Labour, 1959... The issue isn't the right to buy. The issue is that local authorities can't replace the stock.
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Post by adrianc on Apr 26, 2024 21:52:40 GMT
QI informs me the chances of an American president dieing in office is a 8 in 44 Perhaps a decade ago - but now 8 in 46, surely? (Four natural causes, four shot, fwiw) If we introduce a bit of actuarial guesstimation, only a fool would say that either of the current pair had anything close to that low a risk of adding to the natural causes tally. But it seems a safe bet to me that while Joe might have a smallish head start on Donald, lifestyle and diet are very likely to have a say in the outcome... Biden alive at 86? Trump alive at 82? Place bets.
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Post by adrianc on Apr 26, 2024 15:19:35 GMT
If on the other hand she has broken electoral rules by registering to vote where she should not have been Strange how that didn't pop up at all until the "but tax!" story had started to die down. Lord Ashcroft (former Tory vice-chair) broke the story at the start of March in a serialisation of his biog of her. A local (wall seat) Tory MP introduced the registration as a way to get the police to re-open the closed investigation, in mid April. Only HMRC and Zahawi know for sure, but the penalty is understood to be 30% - which would be RIGHT AT THE VERY top of "inadvertent error", but low-to-mid-range for "deliberate evasion". Not that you can "inadvertently" channel a share sale through a Gibraltarian trust... The investigation into his tax affairs included the Serious Fraud Office and the National Crime Agency's International Crime Unit, came to the attention of the government when the Cabinet Office raised questions on his appointment as chancellor, then only became public later when a journo submitted an FoI to ask if any ministers were under tax investigation.
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Post by adrianc on Apr 26, 2024 11:47:18 GMT
Is that a mis-spelling of Farage or someone in the Labour party, serious question. I thought it would be the woman who kept crossing her legs in front of Boris triggering his downfall. Angela 'two homes' Rayner ... not sure she will be in role by GE. It's astonishing how much traction something so trivial has gained - along with the sheer hypocrisy of the Tories on this. Rayner *might* owe ~£1,500 of CGT from selling her former home after she got married. Meanwhile, it's only just over a year since Nadim Zahawi (formerly both party chair and Chancellor of the Exchequer) paid a 30% penalty on top of back tax, a total estimated to be nearly five million quid, to settle a dispute with HMRC over deliberate CGT evasion from funnelling YouGov share sales through an offshore trust. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nadhim-zahawi-tax-settlement-penalty-hmrc-b2266163.htmlIt's the exact same playbook as the "beergate" non-event being hyped to deflect from the Downing Street piss-ups.
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Post by adrianc on Apr 26, 2024 11:21:58 GMT
Why is it always "pensioners"...? Apart from a decade and a half of the pension triple lock, at a time when many people's real income has fallen, there's house value wealth. That's the main reason why more than one in four over-65s lives in a household with net wealth of more than £1m. To turn that round, a large majority of households with net wealth of more than £1m have an over-65 in them... It's neither sinful nor surprising that the demographic who've worked the longest have amassed the largest savings and/or property wealth. Those successful wealthy pensioners you apparently hold in contempt still pay their fair share of income and other taxes. As for the triple lock, it safeguards some of the poorest people in the land. Remember the state pension is only something like half the national minimum wage, so no committed socialist should ever resent the triple lock, for many pensioners their only glimmer of hope. "Contempt"? Who said anything about contempt? I'm merely pointing out that "pensioner" is not the same thing as poor. We know that this government do not care one jot about people in poverty, only those most likely to vote for them.
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Post by adrianc on Apr 26, 2024 8:50:10 GMT
...having defected from the SNP after losing the leadership election to Yousuf post-Sturgeon. I think she came third. Distant. 11% of the vote in the first round. That would make things interesting - she's the religious nutter one that's against pre-marital sex, homosexuality (not just equal marriage), abortion, Sunday trading, etc etc.
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Post by adrianc on Apr 25, 2024 22:31:14 GMT
Can I refer you to the wording of both ECHR and UN Universal Declaration? I think they stand for themselves. Which bits of them do you disagree with? You said the west should set an example that encourages others to follow. Or similar wording. Correct? p2pindependentforum.com/post/492456Saudi, Congo, DRC are all members of the UN and have all ratified the universal declaration. Do you think they're following it?
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Post by adrianc on Apr 25, 2024 21:41:05 GMT
That appears to give a lot of power to the single independent MP (who represents Alex Salmond's Alba party) ...having defected from the SNP after losing the leadership election to Yousuf post-Sturgeon.
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Post by adrianc on Apr 25, 2024 21:39:15 GMT
Lets rewind a little. You said the west should set an example that encourages others to follow. Or similar wording. Correct? Can you explain why ? Can I refer you to the wording of both ECHR and UN Universal Declaration? I think they stand for themselves. Which bits of them do you disagree with?
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Post by adrianc on Apr 25, 2024 21:38:27 GMT
If charismatic Keir has a stroke or gets depressed or has an affair and has to resign then we get a Putin sympathizer running the country. Sorry, Farridge would be Labour deputy PM?
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Post by adrianc on Apr 25, 2024 7:48:43 GMT
Anyway, it seems like she acted at least as some form of bulwark against the POL leadership wanting to control the 'independent' (Second Sight) investigation. In that article I think I have read some of the most inappropriate/damning words that I've seen attributed to a CEO. "Following Crichton’s resignation, Vennells wrote in a file note that Crichton was “more loyal to her professional conduct requirements and put her integrity as a lawyer above the interests of the business”."Well quite Paula. That is how its meant to be. <double-take> SERIOUSLY? Wow.
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Could you explain what you mean, please? I don't. I think human rights should be universal, and should be universally respected. The difference is that we in the democratic west should be leading by example and helping to bring those countries up to our standard. Instead, the US (in particular) is sinking to their level. Although, tbf, we're having a good crack in the UK at the moment, too. I think you're the person that has regularly stated it is Ukraine's absolute right to join NATO or do whatever the heck it wants (within the rules of the UN presumably). You forgot about countries like Switzerland somewhat needing to be neutral and thus not joining NATO but we'll park that. Why does Switzerland *NEED* to be neutral? They choose to be. That's their right. Sweden also has a history of neutrality. Portugal, Spain, and Ireland were also neutral in WW2 - despite two of them being fascist-aligned dictatorships. I said "should", not "need". Do you understand the difference? No, I didn't "base" it on that. I based it on alignment with established human rights legislation such as the UN's Universal Declaration - www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights - or the ECHR - www.echr.coe.int/documents/d/echr/convention_ENGDefine "high moral standards". Iran and Saudi think their laws are based on "high moral standards", as does the religious-right behind Trump. So, in the UK, did the mindset behind denial of universal suffrage, or the mindset that outlawed homosexuality and regarded other races and religions and nationalities as inherently inferior.
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Post by adrianc on Apr 25, 2024 6:34:48 GMT
Yeh, that certainly sounds like it might deserve some kind of context... If not binning completely. I mean, why unearth Terry and June anyway? It was dire even at the time.
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Post by adrianc on Apr 24, 2024 18:00:26 GMT
Trump is the most peaceful president in the US for many years. Could you explain what you mean, please? I don't. I think human rights should be universal, and should be universally respected. The difference is that we in the democratic west should be leading by example and helping to bring those countries up to our standard. Instead, the US (in particular) is sinking to their level. Although, tbf, we're having a good crack in the UK at the moment, too.
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Post by adrianc on Apr 24, 2024 17:03:15 GMT
I have a lawyer on the phone, says he wants to complain about defamation on behalf of dead ferrets...
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