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Rich_W said:
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/lib-dems-p...
50 f
king thousand!
Just when you thought "OK I can see people who want to scupper Brexit voting for these tts."
They ramp up the tttery to 1000%
I intend to Vote Tory. Always have. I live in Tom Brakes constituency so it's likely they'll be returned anyway. (despite it being run crap!)
But fk me, it's like Corbyn but in yellow. Don't actually WANT to win. Or are so out of touch they think great swathes of the country are as cretinous as themselves!
It's a virtue signaling policy if ever there was one. They know they have zero hope of being in government,so may as well come out with a few silly polices. I'm not sure though even with the LibDems there is the desire to spend £4bn on Syrian refugees. 50 f
king thousand!Just when you thought "OK I can see people who want to scupper Brexit voting for these t
ts."They ramp up the t
ttery to 1000% I intend to Vote Tory. Always have. I live in Tom Brakes constituency so it's likely they'll be returned anyway. (despite it being run crap!)
But fk me, it's like Corbyn but in yellow. Don't actually WANT to win. Or are so out of touch they think great swathes of the country are as cretinous as themselves!
Tom Brake was on the Daily Politics trying to sell this policy. Didn't go too well when asked why his area ( Sutton ) had taken 4 Syrian refugees, where as some place like Stockton-on-Tees had had to take 800, and people wonder why such areas have a strong view on immigration and being a dumping ground for migrants.
Oh FFS
Now Farron is pledging 50,000 new homes a year. Yep FIFTY THOUSAND a YEAR!
Or to put it another way 136 a day! The fk is wrong with this guy? 
Or is to handle the 50K Syrians he wants?
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/know-uk-housing-crisis...
Now Farron is pledging 50,000 new homes a year. Yep FIFTY THOUSAND a YEAR!
Or to put it another way 136 a day! The f
k is wrong with this guy? Or is to handle the 50K Syrians he wants?
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/know-uk-housing-crisis...
Rich_W said:
Oh FFS
Now Farron is pledging 50,000 new homes a year. Yep FIFTY THOUSAND a YEAR!
Or to put it another way 136 a day! The fk is wrong with this guy?
Or is to handle the 50K Syrians he wants?
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/know-uk-housing-crisis...
50k new homes is 2500 20-apartment blocks. That's pretty easy to be honest. Or 250 200-apartment developments.Now Farron is pledging 50,000 new homes a year. Yep FIFTY THOUSAND a YEAR!
Or to put it another way 136 a day! The f
k is wrong with this guy? Or is to handle the 50K Syrians he wants?
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/know-uk-housing-crisis...
It is by no means impossible. It is a 30% uplift or so. System-building and less sprawling low-rise suburban stuff would achieve this.
Edited by skwdenyer on Sunday 14th May 00:33
jsf said:
UK built 153000 new homes last year.
We need at least 300k per year right now.
50k is no where near enough matching demand.
He is talking about 50k council houses on top of the private sector. That's still way short of what we need.
I didn't say 50k was a solution; I was disagreeing with another poster who seemed to think 50k unachievable.We need at least 300k per year right now.
50k is no where near enough matching demand.
He is talking about 50k council houses on top of the private sector. That's still way short of what we need.
We also need a population policy, and quick.
Biker 1 said:
It seems the BBC are mad about Tim Who: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-39852084
That sure is full of sugary bits as Spooner would say.Tim Who:
"Young people voted to remain [in the EU] by a considerable margin, but were outvoted. They were voting for their future, yet it has been taken from them."
Reality: Young people voted to remain [in the EU] by a considerable margin, but were outvoted by older and wiser people who were voting for the future of the country.
BBC looking the other way:
Brexit. Some 48% of the British electorate voted to remain in the European Union, and the Liberal Democrats, as the only major party to unequivocally support staying in, will hope to pick up a sizeable chunk of those voters.
Reality:
That 48% is now 25% and likely to fall further as per info posted earlier in this thread.
BBC spin:
Richmond Park - a constituency which registered one of the biggest Remain majorities in the referendum - showed what could happen.
Reality:
Richmond Park showed what happened - a constituency which registered one of the biggest Remain majorities in the referendum - in a by-election on the back of a protest vote from remoaner dreamers, rather than a general election some time down the line.
BBC:
The party's manifesto will include a commitment to another EU referendum on the final Brexit deal.
Reality:
paulrockliffe said:
Today Tim Who is going to tell us all about the evil Tories and their 1% pay-rise cap for the public sector and how it's an abhorrent policy.
I wonder if it's going to mention who was in the Government was that introduced the cap?
Or the fact that despite the cap, public sector pay has done better than private sector pay?I wonder if it's going to mention who was in the Government was that introduced the cap?
I nearly got run off the road/involved in a head on collision with the Lib Dem bus yesterday afternoon. Annoyingly I didn't have my dashcam as I wasn't in my car,so I can't post the footage up to make them look bad or make an amusing meme of them and their "car crash" approach to politics?
Fastdruid said:
Indeed. Guido nailed it."This has to be the most fantastically absurd leaflet of the election campaign."
What the lefty public sector types don't mention, is that despite the 1% pay increase cap, most public sector worker salaries are banded, so they still get regular pay rises as they move up through the bands thanks to experience and extra training.
I'm now back to earning the same salary as I was when I was 23 (12 years ago) and my employer has only just brought in a very modest pension scheme. Add in the fact that have almost total job security, they really don't know how lucky they are.
Tim Farron banging on about how it's a scandal that nurses are using food banks is just nonsense. Even on a NHS starting salary it should be possible to just about make do, many people manage on much less. It has nothing to do with poverty and everything to do with some people being feckless.
I'm now back to earning the same salary as I was when I was 23 (12 years ago) and my employer has only just brought in a very modest pension scheme. Add in the fact that have almost total job security, they really don't know how lucky they are.
Tim Farron banging on about how it's a scandal that nurses are using food banks is just nonsense. Even on a NHS starting salary it should be possible to just about make do, many people manage on much less. It has nothing to do with poverty and everything to do with some people being feckless.
Inkyfingers said:
What the lefty public sector types don't mention, is that despite the 1% pay increase cap, most public sector worker salaries are banded, so they still get regular pay rises as they move up through the bands thanks to experience and extra training.
OK fair enough, lefty public sector types don't mention that, but in the further interests of balance, progression is also available for breathing air.turbobloke said:
Indeed. Guido nailed it.
"This has to be the most fantastically absurd leaflet of the election campaign."
Guido likes to remind everyone that the Lib Dems are the dirtiest campaigners oin British politics"This has to be the most fantastically absurd leaflet of the election campaign."
https://order-order.com/2017/05/08/lying-lib-dems-...
https://order-order.com/2017/05/10/electoral-commi...
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