Higher taxes is the price you pay for a Labour government. However, a large number of Labour voters don't pay tax, so why should they care?
As of 2020-2021 31 Million paid tax
17.3 million were under 25 years old
12.0 million were aged 25 to 39 years.
15.6 million were aged 40 to 59 years.
14.5 million were aged 60 years and over
Total adult population 59.4 Millon. #politics
Why would anyone who openly admits they don't have a big following consider starting a Patreon? I mean, seriously, how do people's minds work? They can't build up an audience when it's free (as in money), so why would anyone pay?
Everyone these days wants to sit on their arse on social media getting paid. #LeSigh
I've just worked out why the stupid drop-off locker didn't like my mobile. The crappy system wanted me to drop the 0 off the beginning of my mobile number, didn't it?
#resilt
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Alison Hammond confirmed as new host of For The Love of Dogs
Following the sad passing of TV presenter and animal lover Paul O'Grady,...Alex Ross (Signal 1)
The problem with Docker is their man page is wank!
$ docker service
gives you a list of commands; "Ooh! yes, ps [list all services] is what I want."
$ docker service ps
Gives you this shit.
"docker service ps" requires at least 1 argument.
See 'docker service ps --help'.
Usage: docker service ps [OPTIONS] SERVICE [SERVICE...]
I just want to know WTF the busted swarm is doing FFS!
David Bowie (Live) [2017 Remastered]
If only @currys did these, they'd be on my Your Plan quicker than you could blink.
𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗦𝗕-𝗖𝟲𝟬𝟬 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀
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#Rwanda #irregularmigrants
Home Secretary James Cleverly arrives in Rwanda to sign new asylum treaty
It comes after Mr Cleverly laid out his five-point plan to cut immigration, which included banning care workers from bringing their families over to the UK and raising the minimum salary required for a skilled worker visa.Sky News
I'm wondering if this opposition to the UK/Rwanda deal is a race thing because nobody seems to be up in arms about Italy's deal with Albania or the Turkey/Greece deal and all the other EU deals. Obviously, France believes the UK should take its migrants while paying for the pleasure. 🤷♂️
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Europe migrant crisis: Italy to build migrant centres in Albania
The centres will be able to process more than 30,000 asylum seekers a year, Italy's PM has said.By Laura Gozzi (BBC News)
Like many things there are no simple solutions, but it helps to work with the neighbours rather
LOL
And yet the news media is tearing its clothes and gnashing its teeth at how right-wing Europe is becoming, even wheeling out those knackered old accusations of "Facist" and "Nazi" labels in a desperate attempt to stop people talking about the subject or even trying to do something about it.
We will see flights very soon once we install some British lawyers out there. I'm not sure how that makes any difference but I suppose governments always seem to have to jump through hoops to get anything done these days.
I see X wants me to start arguing again? It pisses me off that I'm goaded, and people are shocked and offended when I respond.
My response to this would be:
"But EVERYONE is middle class; in fact, I would argue there's only a small proportion of so-called rich and a huge amount of working families, and if there is still a working class, then Labour has failed! One hundred years and Socialism still hasn't dragged its sorry arse out of the road to Wigan Pier."
Better vote Lib Dem if you want to rejoin the EU, although rejoining is a long way down the road, according to their manifesto. I enjoyed reading the section on Asylum & Immigration. I needed a good laugh.
Next time, someone says that the House of Lords should be abolished because it is filled with rich people with nothing better to do; tell them they're idiots and have no idea what they're talking about. They are a valuable safety net for the British people, successfully blocking the Government (Conservative) 496 times since 2010
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Lords sink plan to axe homebuilding pollution rules
Labour leads a Lords rebellion on removing restrictions on water pollution to build new homes.BBC News
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Keir Starmer vows to strike migrants return deal with EU
Tories accuse Labour of ‘surrending’ control of immigration to Brussels – as Starmer promises to put people-smuggling ‘on a par’ with terrorismAdam Forrest (The Independent)
Glad to see not a lot has changed with #ArchLinux in terms of needing a certain level of ability. Spun up my VM this morning with 437 updates available but of course pacman refused because mutter43 and mutter are in conflict. The fix for me was:
sudo pacman --remove --nosave --cascade mutter
sudo pacman -Syyu
Oh, and I had to:
sudo mv /usr/bin/WebKitWebDriver beacuse pacman moaned about that too!
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Vape starter kits for one million smokers in 'swap to stop' scheme
Pregnant women will be offered up to £400 to stop smoking as part of a push the government has said is "the first of its kind in the world".Sky (Sky News)
I do a weekly Newsletter for a customer who seems to be obsessed with "Centre-aligned"
The email has a main offer that, IMO always looks a mess and four smaller offers that look fine. Today she sent the brief over with the main offer, as usual, centre-aligned with a section containing bullet points. 🤢
I tidied it up and put the bullet points in a single cell, left-aligned and sent the now tidy results off for approval.
"𝘊𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘦-𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘴"
😭 😭 😭
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Total shock! Resigns as the leader of her country on 15 February 2023
Forty-nine days later, the rozzers come to arrest her old man.
Ten minutes before Constable Cameron turns up at the former First Ministers' home, Nikki manages to leave the house with a couple of bags.
#snp
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Looks like her old man might have fooked her career?
#snp
Nicola Sturgeon's husband Peter Murrell arrested in SNP finance probe
Peter Murrell was taken into police custody as officers searched his home and the SNP's headquarters.BBC News
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I was never a fan of the woman. While I agree perhaps Scotland should be given even more independence, I'm not in favour of them leaving the union, so for me, her going was a blessing, but I was shocked and mystified when she announced her resignation.
If I'm right and this is why she resigned, then it's definitely fishy because she's had about four or five weeks to clean up any loose ends before his arrest today.
Looks like they'll be losing a customer. 😞
Now and again, Qwertee have some brilliant tee shirts
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I saw a Nun today with one of those electric car tyre pumps putting air into her car's flat tyre. Clearly, God does not look after his own.
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Now You Can Use a BlackBerry Keyboard With Your PC
Solder Party's tiny BB Q20 keyboard lets you type with just your thumbs, like nature intended.Andrew Liszewski (Gizmodo)
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BBQ20 Keyboard top cover by n602
a simple top cover for BBQ20 Keyboard Solder Party "BBQ20 Keyboard (BBQ20KBD)"https://www.solder.party/docs/bbq20kbd/ coverplate011.stp ...STEP file coverplate011.stl ... STL file -[Revised to correct dimensional errors] coverplate012.stp ...www.thingiverse.com
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#GPT4 #AI
'Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need To Shut It All Down' - Slashdot
Earlier today, more than 1,100 artificial intelligence experts, industry leaders and researchers signed a petition calling on AI developers to stop training models more powerful than OpenAI's ChatGPT-4 for at least six months.slashdot.org
I've heard several people say they wrote the petition to convince smaller developers to stop working on AI, while they still work on it in secret.
Sounds about right.
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Millions of Germans face transport disruption in cost of living ‘mega-strike’
Monday’s transport walkout will include workers at airports, railways, buses and metro linesGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Realist, you mean.
Biden is a complete joke, even though it doesn't affect them. Americans don't like the fact Putin is doing whatever the hell he likes, and their current president appears to be doing nothing, and so they will want someone willing to do something, even if it is insane, like starting a war but let's not forget. Putin and trump are supposed to be mates.
If Labour wants to win the next GE, they need to start getting in front of the cameras more I mean, we haven't seen anything of Angela Rayner for months. Has she been sacked? Keir Starmer only appears now and again too.
The Tories have fucked themselves up. Labour just have to let them get on with it.
It never ceases to amaze me how much help people for when they are cancelling a service with you. They don't even have the common decency to offer you a small fee for your assistance either; they just expect you to help them leave with no impact on them and have no regard to what you are losing.
Donald Trump wins a second term, gets Putin to agree to a peace deal and becomes the darling of the free world. 🤣
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Thousands turn out for Donald Trump Texas rally - BBC News
Donald Trump has opened up his campaign to win back the US presidency by railing against the “dark forces” which he says are lined up against him.At the airf...YouTube
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Nobody "Grilled" him as such, from what I saw. There were two or three questions which got him flustered but sticking to the "This is what I was advised" defence seemed to let him slip through the cracks.
For all those Lineaker fans
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
-- Joseph Goebbels
I'm no particular fan of Lineker, but we may agree on a few things, like treating people decently.
You know, Richard Nixon was a liar and a crook, and yet he was still one of America's best presidents. Tony Bair lied to Parliament and the country about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, thus causing the deaths of British soldiers and countless innocent civilians.
While I understand the pain of people not being able to attend loved ones' funerals and then finding out Boris and his gang had a few sherberts for me, we have far more important stuff to worry about than whether people in the lobby of number 10 stood 2M or 1M apart and what distance rules were in effect at that time or whether a woman who lives there, namely Boris's wife, should have been at a gathering. Fooking pathetic if you ask me.
I thought you wanted politics to be entertaining?
Do we really want liars and crooks running things just because they can do some things well? What useful things has Johnson done?
I wish politics was more boring.
I believe he has been told to use a similar defence to:
WASHINGTON -- President Reagan 'absolutely' has no recollection of being told by Lt. Col. Oliver North of a proposed large private donation to the Contras by an Iranian posing as a Saudi prince, a spokesman said Friday.
Iran/Contra scandal 1987
WHAT! He got us out of the EU, didn't he?
I bet you can find that every PM throughout history has told a lie to The House and the British public. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if that was one of the requirements on the job application, so you could argue where Boris went wrong was being found out. 🤷♂️
Steve
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in reply to dick_turpin • •Everyone wants to pay less tax. It's the classic socialist mantra to squeeze those that have a few bob. IMV fairness is everyone contributing rather than folk moaning about some rich dude legally avoiding tax. At the end of the day, if there's a loophole, bitch about the loophole and get it closed.
Most people could probably pay less tax if they weren't so lazy. There are literally hundreds of dispensations on HMRC that folk can claim for under PAYE. Wear a uniform? Get a tax refund for washing it is just one example. Work in enough of them, and we could all probably save two or three hundred a year, but no, that's too much grief and not a big enough return, so let's just take someone else's money; after all, they've got enough of it. #Sheesh
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in reply to dick_turpin • •Steve
in reply to dick_turpin • • •there's a big problem with people not claiming the benefits they're entitled to.
We can't keep letting the Tories and their rich mates off the hook. They are out to increase their share of the pie.
Meanwhile the number of food banks has rocketed under Tory rule...
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in reply to Steve • •Who are these Tories and rich folk being "Let off the hook"? The ones we see have been caught I wouldn't exactly define that as "Let off the hook", so who are these escapees? As I said, if there is a loophole and someone exploits it like Jimmy Carr was supposed to have done, then it's up to people to close that loophole, not gnash their teeth and tear their clothes because somebody is doing something that is not illegal.
Food banks are like new roads; the moment they open, they soon fill up.
Steve
in reply to dick_turpin • • •The Tories who are wrecking the country and their rich paymasters. Blaming the poor for their ills seems mean. I'm sure most would prefer a better life, but they need support. The PM seems more concerned with his 'culture wars'.
What can the Tories actually offer us other than trying to buy votes with tax cuts? Resist the urge to deflect this with attacks on Labour.
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in reply to dick_turpin • •I'm mystified why you are obsessed with Liz Truss. She wasn't in office long enough to do anything, and Kwasi Kwarteng introduced the catastrophic budget that brought her down. True, she endorsed it, so I suppose one could argue that as PM, she was ultimately responsible; however, there have been many disastrous budgets over the years, and prime ministers have managed to survive.
I don't think she would have survived anyway without some extraordinary support. I suspect she was given the job because the party old guard didn't want Rishi, so it was better to have an incompetent. Obviously, they tried to make her look more viable by telling everyone she was Thatcherite, but I get the feeling her Thatcherism extends to reading one of Maggie's books.
There's no way Boris is coming back; he's done far too much image damage for the Conservative Party. My money is on David Cameron, and yet I don't want him either after his spineless performance after the referendum. Sadly, there's little choice in terms of credible leaders for the Conservatives.
I'm still convinced he will take over the reins. His appointment was stunningly bizarre. A return to the flat above number 10 is the only credible explanation for him, IMO.
Steve
in reply to dick_turpin • • •I didn't see this as you replied to the wrong one :)
As I have said, they are a shambles and not fit to run the country. I know you feel some loyalty to the party, but they are a lost cause. Maybe Labour can actually be better. We may see...
I don't mind paying more tax if we get a functioning country. Various rich people have offered to pay more.
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