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  • pangolin
    pangolin Posts: 6,670
    rick_chasey said:

    pangolin said:


    Pross said:

    Incidentally, I started a new pension with AJ Bell last month and have lost 2.5% in the first month so I'm going to panic and sell then stuff the money under a mattress instead.

    My current work pension has done nothing over the 2 years I've worked there. In fact over they last 12 months it's 6% down.
    Markets had their worst year since ‘08 last year. Absolute shocker.

    RIP my ‘23 as a result 😑
    Why the '23 result, companies being more cautious in their hiring?
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    pangolin said:

    rick_chasey said:

    pangolin said:


    Pross said:

    Incidentally, I started a new pension with AJ Bell last month and have lost 2.5% in the first month so I'm going to panic and sell then stuff the money under a mattress instead.

    My current work pension has done nothing over the 2 years I've worked there. In fact over they last 12 months it's 6% down.
    Markets had their worst year since ‘08 last year. Absolute shocker.

    RIP my ‘23 as a result 😑
    Why the '23 result, companies being more cautious in their hiring?
    Yup.
    _
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,932
    Joe Lycett's open letter to Liz Truss...😏
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,477
    An opportunity for Labour


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  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    Apparently Remain are saying Matt Hancock owned 20% of his sisters company which he awarded the PPE contract too. He then denied this and tried to cover it up allegedly.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,993
    WTF is she doing?

    https://www.facebook.com/unanglaisendiois
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,745
    I dunno mate, that is literally what she is for...

    She has one job.
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,993
    Sometimes the Telegraph is just funny. Glad to see that Janet Daley has returned to her previous unhinged form.


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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,308
    Meanwhile in the world of the representative of one's constituents

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/naked-tory-mp-wakes-up-in-brothel-unable-to-find-clothes-and-phones-for-help-at-4am/ar-AA19ndKW?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=75d33d67d1924897e02f70b66de99cd6&ei=17

    This is April 2nd not 1st right? #toryscum
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 62,022
    orraloon said:

    #toryscum

    You are Angela Rayner and ICMFP :)
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,640
    briantrumpet said:

    Sometimes the Telegraph is just funny. Glad to see that Janet Daley has returned to her previous unhinged form.

    I am currently in Fiji and have had first hand dealings with their health service. Let me assure you that the locals dream of a service like ours, even at it’s worst.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,932
    briantrumpet said:

    WTF is she doing?

    Desperately trying to distract from her party's failures.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,702
    briantrumpet said:

    WTF is she doing?

    To be fair to her (something I never thought I’d say!), wasn’t this something that came out of the inquiry into Rotherham with the criticism that it was allowed to happen because no-one was prepared to state the facts?
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,932
    edited April 2023
    Pross said:

    briantrumpet said:

    WTF is she doing?

    To be fair to her (something I never thought I’d say!), wasn’t this something that came out of the inquiry into Rotherham with the criticism that it was allowed to happen because no-one was prepared to state the facts?
    Not really. The Home Office's own investigation showed that sexual abuse of minors was pretty evenly spread across the population. The issue was less PC over-sensitivity than various authorities not taking victims seriously (viewing them as just "troubled teens"). Latterly the criminal justice system is so underfunded that it doesn't really matter whether local authorities take victims seriously because it will be years before anything gets to court if you are lucky.

    Braverman is just making sh*t up, again.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,932
    edited April 2023
    Double post
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  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    pblakeney said:

    briantrumpet said:

    Sometimes the Telegraph is just funny. Glad to see that Janet Daley has returned to her previous unhinged form.

    I am currently in Fiji and have had first hand dealings with their health service. Let me assure you that the locals dream of a service like ours, even at it’s worst.
    in fairness to Zoe the headline does not say "envy of Fiji"

    Foreigners tend to see the NHS as a bit sh1t and are baffled by our deification of it
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited April 2023
    surrey_commuter said:

    pblakeney said:

    briantrumpet said:

    Sometimes the Telegraph is just funny. Glad to see that Janet Daley has returned to her previous unhinged form.

    I am currently in Fiji and have had first hand dealings with their health service. Let me assure you that the locals dream of a service like ours, even at it’s worst.
    in fairness to Zoe the headline does not say "envy of Fiji"

    Foreigners tend to see the NHS as a bit censored and are baffled by our deification of it
    Has anyone actually been in a Western hospital that's not British?

    Night and day. You can spot the socialist model a mile off.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited April 2023
    Inflation in the restaurant industry is off the charts.

    I'm pondering a wahoo computer at £200, and possibly a nice automatic watch at £400 (probably won't) and i'm just putting in expenses for a 2 course 2 person dinner, no booze at an up market but by no means fancy fish restaurant at £200. WTF is going on.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,640
    edited April 2023
    surrey_commuter said:

    pblakeney said:

    briantrumpet said:

    Sometimes the Telegraph is just funny. Glad to see that Janet Daley has returned to her previous unhinged form.

    I am currently in Fiji and have had first hand dealings with their health service. Let me assure you that the locals dream of a service like ours, even at it’s worst.
    in fairness to Zoe the headline does not say "envy of Fiji"

    Foreigners tend to see the NHS as a bit censored and are baffled by our deification of it
    No fairness required “Foreigners” includes Fiji.
    I have seen perspective and the result of race to the bottom along with the direct results of us (amongst others) poaching overseas resources. People dying in understaffed and under resourced hospitals.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,196
    edited April 2023
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  • wallace_and_gromit
    wallace_and_gromit Posts: 3,700
    rick_chasey said:

    Inflation in the restaurant industry is off the charts.

    I'm pondering a wahoo computer at £200, and possibly a nice automatic watch at £400 (probably won't) and i'm just putting in expenses for a 2 course 2 person dinner, no booze at an up market but by no means fancy fish restaurant at £200. WTF is going on.?

    Market forces. If folk won't pay those prices then they wont get charged.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Sure. Look it's not my money. Was full too.

    Fish was pretty good, FWIW.
    _
  • wallace_and_gromit
    wallace_and_gromit Posts: 3,700
    rick_chasey said:

    Sure. Look it's not my money. Was full too.

    Fish was pretty good, FWIW.

    I was t disputing any of that. Just answering your question!
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,932
    Aaaaah... Braverman's constituency is being revised so she needs to be reselected. Which explains her suddenly appearing to spout nonsense.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,932
    Looks like nearly 200 of their MPs would rather pretend to be nothing to do with their party.



    Wonder why that might be.😏
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,932
    More on the party that has screwed its image so much it has to pretend to be another party.


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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,993
    This was lurking behind my comment about what Braverman was doing making comments about Pakistani gangs. From Ray's subsequent posts, Braverman certainly seems to have stirred the anti-Pakistani racists.

    https://www.facebook.com/unanglaisendiois
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,932
    Had thought that might be behind it as well.
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    Part of the anti-growth coalition
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,932
    Oh, and the 'fixing social care' is now halving the existing level of funding.

    Always breaking stuff.
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 62,022
    rjsterry said:

    More on the party that has screwed its image so much it has to pretend to be another party.


    It's a bit like the Fib Dums round here, whose electoral selling point was that 'at least we're not Labour, who haven't got a chance so please please give us a try'.
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