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Unfortunately the Tory finances are far worse than they predicted them to be and rightly they won't break their spending control limits. The party in power are back peddling on promises all the time. There are hard choices to be made and each of the parties struggles to make them when they impact their voter or donor base. Among the many many problems left unresolved by the tories we need to get taxes in order, work on affordable housing, fund social care get a plan for sustainability, resolve the EU issue. A change of govt is the best way to work towards that. If any headway can be made on these issues then it will probably be time for another change.

Interesting its gone up so significantly since July 23 when according to this article it was maybe 20% more expensive. https://www.shipit.co.uk/blog/cost-of-living-in-australia Or this one Is it more expensive to live in Australia or UK? The costs of living and prices in Australia are also among the highest and are higher than in the UK. Australia, however, offers a comparable education system to the UK, higher living standards, and higher salaries. Melbourne is reported to be 25% cheaper than the UK.24 Jul 2023

Faroe islands. The last of the Grind.

Certainly Brexit kicked us in the scrotum for this one. Croatia is expensive but some good buys in Bulgaria, Hungary (you have to question if it's safe from an investment point of view). Montenegro has already sold out to the Russians so I would not bother with that although it's a stunning country. Most from third countries (UK) cannot live in any of these places without buying in. (Bulgaria 0.5m euro, Montenegro .25 to .49m euro, language tests? Some would be good off season winter rental options.

No sorry I had not heard that name b4 today. Mine is shooter king. It has everything. Inner cuff sleeves, magnetic pocket clips, secure car key clip, vented pits, sealed pocket zips.

Thumbs up 👍

I have some of there stuff. It's brilliant. It's one of very few clothing companies that tells you what the kit is made of. Look up YouTube video of coats pulled through a hedge backwards by pick up. No other cloathing company dare do that. Unlike Harkilla (also made in China) which just brags rather than demonstrates. Look hard enough and you will get the best Harkilla jackets for under £100 unbranded. That said I would try and avoid buying from China where I have a choice.

🤣 are you not concerned now? If your not the rest of the country is. Anyone not feeling the oppression that is this Tory dog pile is in a very privileged position.

This sounds so familiar from Orban's Hungary. Oust the civil servants (Cummins plan), control the inconvenient media (BBC), cut back on acess to the law (legal aid), withdraw from inconvenient institutions (ECHR, EU), blame decline on an enemy (EU, immigration, woke, Rainbow) and you have all the ingredients for authoritarianism. Be careful what you wish for.

You are joking? It was a hand picked audience with pre prepped questions. All set up in a secret location. Only the Scotsman got through 🤣

I don't wish for labour in power. I wish for the tories to be out. With our ridiculous first past the post politics we are continual victims of the irrational. No party in power can deliver meaningful change. The mandate too small the time frame too short. We can at best vear right and left and hope for periods of crossing the middle ground. 90% of us want pretty much the same thing. We have no system to protect us from the "excesses of democracy". It's hard to bankrupt the already bankrupt and broken.

You really think they could do worse? 🤦.

4/5 years? Tories have been in place for the last dozen. Recession is one thing but economic decline and the parlous state of finance is another. Record debts, record taxation. Poor public services, housing crisis, green pledges broken, power generation inadequate, legal aid broken, prison service overwhelmed, armed services under staffed, nhs short of doctors, brexit. I cannot think of one area of govt that is performing well and now we have cuts in standards and attacks on our human rights. So yes I do put the blame at the tories door. I wish we had the economic position of the German economy.

That's why we need a dose of right and left so we end up somewhere in the middle. At least they both pretend to want what is best for uk plc. The US seems to have lost the plot altogether.

It could not be clearer we are up poo creak. OK we voted to be half way up with Brexit but the rest is down to ..... Johnson, truss, sunak. Cameroon. may ? Have I missed any? Wake up smell the coffee and get real this bunch of saps is good for .... all.

Unlike this time hey? Tories have not only raised tax to highest level ever, but economy is super stuffed. Longest hospital weighting. Inflation, NHS, crime ,,,, it goes on and on and on. What next to poison the chalice? I know..... why not more tax cuts? Break the cycle and kick this bunch In the nuts.

Zelensky. I need ammunition not a ride. 👍 Enough said.

🤣🤣 brilliant. 👍 Love it. Now we have escaped. But sounds like Russians next table. Asking to sing ? It won't be oasis. 🤣 No idea what that was but I am sure she loves me.

Things are looking up. Tories out. Economy back on track then Tories can come back 😁

Wow this is shooting.

More than 2 kids is an exemption.

The bill

And? It's war. People get pressed into service. People die.

Now it's a song about a paratrooper. 🤣 Surrounded by Russians now. Dare I ask for Angy Kreyda 😇

My last night in Thailand and I end up in a Russian restaurant under Chinese New year lanterns. Everything I despise. My wife is translating. This is going to be a night to remember. Food is good 🤣