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Reply | Do you support the arrival of illegal immigrants
at 20:29 25 Sep 2026
We currently have a situation where kebab shops are sponsoring "skilled" migrant workers. It's nonsensical. The Government have completely lost control of the situation and show no interest or ability in fixing it. |
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Reply | New car question
at 20:27 25 Sep 2026
Had my last three cars from Motorpoint. I have no complaints. |
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Reply | Charlotte Church
at 12:37 25 Sep 2026
Other nations in the Middle East have learned the hard way what happens when you let the Palestinians in. The Lebanese and Jordanians especially. The Egyptians desire to build a wall to keep them out is entirely understandable. |
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Reply | Charlotte Church
at 08:11 25 Sep 2026
To a degree this Palestinian nonsense has almost become a version of the "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch as thickos compete to see which one can be the most publically anti-Semit... I mean anti-Zionist.
By any sensible definition there is no genocide in Gaza. Calling it that is an insult to actual genocides, not to mention Israeli capability which could have wiped out the entire Gazan population a couple of years ago if that was truly their wish. The numbers simply don't have enough weight to validate the slur.
By many figures, approx 75,000 Gazans have died since 2023. That's 3.4% of the pre-war population, and according to Hamas' own figures around half of those are military age males, eg Hamas soldiers. In comparison, 8-10% of the German population died in WW2. Did the Allies commit genocide (maybe the Russians did a bit) or were those justified and/or unavoidable casualties of war?
Israel is fighting an urban war against a murderous ideology that doesn't care how many people get killed, or how many civilians it has to hide behind or under. It's surprising that the casualty rate is as low as it is. [Post edited 25 Sep 8:13]
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Reply | Has Burnham focussed yet on the National debt?
at 07:39 25 Sep 2026
Irony is he's not there much anyway. His wife is South African and at least one of his kids and associated grandchildren are in Australia so he probably spends about half the year abroad.
Add the spare cash onto a London Underground pension and he ain't short of travelling money. |
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Reply | Don't Buy an EV Until 2028- Solid State Batteries
at 17:46 24 Sep 2026
Like most new technologies they'll be expensive premium products until the manufacturing economies of scale kick in.
Expect a rollout in the premium marques for the first few years before gradually becoming standard across the ranges. |
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Reply | Has Burnham focussed yet on the National debt?
at 14:58 24 Sep 2026
Uncle of a guy I know retired after 40 years working as an engineer on the Tube. Sold his house in London, bought a four bed detached in Penclawdd and still had about £250,000 left over. |
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Reply | YOUTUBE video
at 12:35 24 Sep 2026
Was my first reaction.
Standard social media hyperbole. |
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Reply | Has Burnham focussed yet on the National debt?
at 08:22 24 Sep 2026
AFAIK, once you have "legal" status in the UK via whatever means (Refugee status, ILR etc) you have full access to the benefit system, including pensions and pension credit.
I've never worked in Pensions so there may be technicalities that I'm not aware of, but that's my understanding of it. |
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Reply | Don't Buy an EV Until 2028- Solid State Batteries
at 07:21 24 Sep 2026
I don't often drive more than 200 miles in a round trip, but when I do I prefer to be able to do it without sitting in a services for 40 minutes charging the car, even if I can find a charging point, so I'll stick with my hybrid for now.
If SSB's are as good as advertised then they will be a game changer and I'd definitely consider one. |
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Reply | Burnham wants to lift ban on drinking
at 07:17 24 Sep 2026
I am pleased and encouraged by the sheer volume of people I see talking about this subject who are dead set against it.
The last thing we want is for the place to become like a Rugby game, with idiots up and down and back and fore the bar every ten minutes, or spewing up in their seats, or tossing their drinks in the air if we score.
It's performative nonsense from Burnham. Something he thinks that the "working classes" support, when he's done his level best to avoid them for decades. |
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Reply | Has Burnham focussed yet on the National debt?
at 21:37 23 Sep 2026
People who have never paid into the system should not get pensions.
As it stands you can get away with not contributing a penny and be only a couple of quid worse off than someone who has paid a lifetime of NI. There are people who have arrived in the UK within the last five years getting a pension topped up with pension credit. That needs to stop.
Those who have been unable to work due to serious disability should be able to continue claiming an existing benefit, but not a pension. |
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Reply | Has Burnham focussed yet on the National debt?
at 18:22 23 Sep 2026
I've already been told that I've got to wait longer for my work pension now than I did when I started. Wouldn't bet against it moving again by the time I get there.
When I started work the SP age was 65. Now it's 68. By the time I get there it will probably be 70. It is what it is. [Post edited 23 Sep 18:37]
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Reply | Has Burnham focussed yet on the National debt?
at 18:21 23 Sep 2026
We have to accept as a Society that the Government can't fund everything. It shouldn't even try. People should be encouraged to have private pensions, private healthcare, private education. Offer them tax incentives to do so. I guarantee that it would save the taxpayer money in the long term.
Only thing that the Government should be providing is services that can't really be done so privately (legal/judicial system, defence, Emergency) and for those who can't afford private, which would still be most people but hopefully a lot less.
And the welfare system needs to be absolutely gutted. Torn back to the bricks and rebuilt because it's growing exponentially and nobody has the stones to put it right. |
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Reply | Has Burnham focussed yet on the National debt?
at 17:58 23 Sep 2026
Agree completely with this. The messaging around Pensions should have been changed decades ago, but Governments have all been scared to.
It is a benefit. Paid for out of general taxation rather than any "pot". I'd argue that there should indeed be a pot, or Sovereign Wealth Fund, or whatever you want to call it, where people's pension contributions are paid. Get this money out there earning and growing rather than just disappearing into the abyss.
If the average worker's NI contributions (both theirs and their employers) had been paid into an average pension fund between 1980 & 2020 instead of just going into Government funds they'd have a pot of easily over £500k, potentially much higher. So that's a pension significantly higher than the current SP, and also one that the Govt doesn't have to fund. |
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Reply | Carter Heywood
at 17:50 23 Sep 2026
Been a bugbear of mine for years that young players aren't really "looked after". It's OK for the ones who do eventually turn pro, but the many, many more cast aside in the process need better care in a lot of areas. Education, mental health support, vocational training etc.
Having something you may have dreamed about and worked for basically since the age that you became capable of coherent thought taken away from you must be shattering, especially since the vast majority of these lads have no real chance of making it and the clubs already know that. They're just being kept on to make up the numbers. Led to believe that they still have a chance.
Sure, a lot of those at the top academies may find a place lower down the pyramid, but a lot of them don't even get there. There's been at least one high profile suicide as a result, but I bet there's many, many more who go off the rails in other ways. |
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Reply | Peterborough United have sacked manager Luke Williams
at 17:44 23 Sep 2026
You probably need a sizeable ego to want to be a football manager in the first place, and when you keep failing like he does then I suppose a bit of lashing out is only to be expected.
Especially if you've got no idea why you're failing. Which he clearly doesn't since he's been sacked so often. |
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