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At last some common sense. You might not like Starmer but he is making progress.

Rightly so. Kier is standing up to power and privilege. Pulling a fast one 🤣 its for exactly the reason you explained. Tories using privilege of position to hold onto power. Get rid and stamp it out. Next he needs to cut the numbers. We don't need hundreds and hundreds of Lords. Charlotte Owen is a classic. Borris knows the woman 6 weeks and makes her the youngest lord ever for life???? Madness.

Great news. We'll done Kier for delivering the first part of the reform agenda. Let's get the rest chopped. Who thinks a bloated house of Lords is needed?

Very worrying indeed. I see a conference for election officials in one of the key swing states meeting to decide how not to sign off results.

I did think about it. Pensions, social care and runaway costs NHS are the killers we cannot afford. Harsh but pension out should be related to pension in. A very minimal state pension topped up with defined contribution schemes (take pension out of the hands of govt). We have a situation where pensioners expect to live well and be looked after bu the state having paid a minimum contribution. At the same time sitting on housing assets of thousands of pounds that they want to give to family. The numbers of pensioners increase by the day and those paying for it decrease by the day. We have to pay for social care with house sales if need be or relatives looking after relatives. The govt should not be picking up responsibility. NHS we are simply doing too much and it is not joined up with lifestyle choices. Tax poor health and subsidise healthy choices. Get the economy moving by targeting support to growth sectors through education, tax breaks. Settling the NHS strikes has saved a further £1,7bn.

More £ in less £ out. We can play with the small ticket items and blame everyone else all day long but to make a difference it's the big ticket items that count. Take your pick:- A lower standard of living. Re balance income and expenditure. Work longer, work harder. Less pension and other benefits. Less health care, less subsidy. Contribute to health care (? pay prescriptions, pay for doctors appointments), reduce health care benefits (change ratio of costs to outcomes), pay for social care, pay full cost of energy, pay more for education. Increase economic output. Favour growth industries, favour education in target streams (stem subjects), tax breaks for new business. Favour healthy lifestyle. Tax, sugar, tax salt, stop subsidising meat. Subsidise, health, sponsor fitness.

The law sets apart the civilised world from the terrorist. If we have no rules then we are no better than the terrorist. A terrorist that hides amongst civilians, a terrorist that kills children, a terrorist that kills just because they can. We have a choice.

I agree completely. Far from excessive but..... we cannot afford to maintain it. Own house, own car, free health care, free education, independent army, navy, airforce, road infrastructure, prison service, legal service, subsidised heating, subsidised rail, subsidised roads, subsidised care service, paid for with increasing debt we can barely service and then we vote for Brexit. Something has to give.

😁 out in the sun 🙂

👍 politics what's that? 😁

Start at the top. Capping pensions would make the biggest saving. Is that what you mean?

😁 give us a call meet up for a beer would be good.

There are two with the same name. The one in Compton Martin is a favourite. 👍

The villagers by me bought their local pub and now run it as a community enterprise. Keeping it open maintains the value of the houses. https://www.waldegravearms.com/

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I doubt very much he can save us. The country is living off the excess of yesteryear consuming a lifestyle it cannot afford with a sense of entitlement that cannot be delivered. Benefits are too high, services have to be limited. That said they have a plan for change which is way beyond the thinking that has gone before. They are starting on delivering that change which is refreshing. Fingers crossed but I won't hold my breath like all politicians they struggle to say no.

? Anglo Saxons were immigrants.

? A change for the better (at least for now) but no leader of mine.

That's someone that needs help with his inadequacy.

^^^^^ This. Too little too late on the numbers alone. The heart ache, alienation and loss of living life is worth even more. Can we even begin to imagine the pain of living through this stuff?

They said he was between holes. 🤷‍♂️

I bet the postage on that was something else 😁

Just had the same with my Cocker. Another grass seed deep in the ear.

😁 I watch about an hours worth of updates each day and I think I have seen maybe three nazi's. They were Russian. 🤣

The rate of APC's used has declined and the kit being used now is ancient. Using golf carts on attacks is hardly ideal. If they had plenty of kit they would use it. Weight of fire is important but so is accuracy. Fire rate has declined from 20 to 1 to 3 to 1 and far less accurate. The recent display of gen 5 fighters was a joke they were barely airworthy and certainly not stealth as claimed. The Russians do not have the stocks of missiles (otherwise they would use them and not be shopping in Iran and N Korea). The use of Russian made missiles is now concurrent with production and a fraction of what they had.