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Reply | No more tax raises
at 18:52 17 Jul 2025
Do any other countries pay benefits out like we do, to non citizens? |
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Reply | 16 and 17 year olds to get the vote.
at 18:42 17 Jul 2025
Your avwrage 16 year old is more concerned with football/sport, girls, xbox/PS and don't give politics a thought.
it's Labour trying to improve their chances. |
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Reply | People's Lack of Understanding of Mental Health
at 18:39 17 Jul 2025
Sorry to hear that mate thing is though, I can't even call them right wing views. To me these are just stupid views, uneducated, ignorant at best and at worst views posted to deliberately uoset people.
Every case should be treated on it's own evidence and we shouldn't lump everybody in together.
There will be disabled people capable of working and there will be those who are not.
When I suffered a patch of bad health it lasted about 4 years but I recovered and went back to work, not everybody is si lucky. |
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Reply | Underhill Park Mumbles
at 18:34 17 Jul 2025
They'll find a way I hope. We need more places like this across the city so kids have facilities. |
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Reply | Get your predictions in
at 17:49 17 Jul 2025
It's not about staying up, not for me, the proze is in getting there and using the money wisely.
Building the club is more importtant than staying up. Build it and yo-yo for a few years. |
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Reply | Underhill Park Mumbles
at 16:18 17 Jul 2025
and it;s to re-open in August after the community council and Swansea council stepped in.
Excellent news. |
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Reply | Starmer
at 16:05 17 Jul 2025
Is Starmer showing authority or just being vindictive? |
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Reply | People's Lack of Understanding of Mental Health
at 16:03 17 Jul 2025
I have no doubt some people use mental health issues as an excuse not to work, people will always find an excuse.
My colleague, in the van with me all day, he has bad mental health issues and he's on strong medication. he's a former drug addict and alcoholic, he was homeless but he dragged himself up by his own bootlaces and got his life back on track.
Every individuals experience of it is unique to them and we can't lump them all into one box and call them skivers. |
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Reply | Reform Policies
at 19:26 16 Jul 2025
I've said it before, the people we need to make those changes will never make them, largely because it might end their gravy train too. |
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Reply | No more tax raises
at 19:21 16 Jul 2025
The Senedd still uses PFI, they call it something else but it's exactly the same thing. It's been used for the heads of the valleys road upgrade and for the new cancer hospital in Velindre.
Westminster stopped PFI in 2018 with most contracts finished or close to their end.
Regardless, the fact remains that governments have wasted tens of billions of OUR money over the decades.
The credit cards, a google search revealed...
While the term "abuse" can encompass various issues, Westminster credit cards, specifically those issued by NatWest (formerly National Westminster Bank), have been subject to scrutiny regarding potential misuse and overcharging. The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) fined NatWest Group for incorrectly treating some credit cards as commercial cards, leading to excessive interchange fees. Additionally, reports highlight concerns about the potential for fraud and misuse of council credit cards, including those issued by the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead.
Here's a breakdown:
Interchange fee overcharging:
The PSR found that NatWest and other related banks incorrectly classified some credit cards, resulting in higher interchange fees than legally permitted.
Potential for fraud in council credit cards:
Reports have raised concerns about the lack of proper authorization and accounting for council credit card spending, suggesting potential risks of fraud and misuse, as highlighted in a report concerning the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. |
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Reply | Has Royal mail lost its way?
at 19:07 16 Jul 2025
Oh balls, I was relying on former colleagues to tell me when the funeral was and because I have been so busy recently I missed it. I used to work alongside Duds.
Gutted now. |
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Reply | The country has gone nuts
at 19:03 16 Jul 2025
33,000 mates, popular guy, or gal. It could be a woman? I haven't seen the latest so I don't know.
Regardless, the tories shouldn't have tried to cover it up BUt we have a moral responsibilty to those thousands who risked their lives to help our armed forces.
What next, will you be complaining about the Ghurka's who come here? |
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Reply | No more tax raises
at 18:57 16 Jul 2025
Tax rbates to corporations who make billions in profit but work the system effectively.
PFI.
Government credit cards that are routinely abused.
Not to forget the billions possed away in covid corruption, bailing out bansk with no strategy to get ALL the money back and I'm sure others can add more.
For decades the governments have been pissing away tax payers money while ensuring they have gold plated poensions and secure futures. |
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Reply | British culture
at 18:53 16 Jul 2025
Responsible for 30% of taxes, yes but according to the World Inequality Database—in almost all nations, the richest 10% hold more than 50% of personal wealth, while the bottom 50% hold at most 10.4%
The poorest 10% of households paid on average 48% of their income in tax in 2022/23. The richest 10% of households, however, paid on average just 39% of their income in tax.
Council tax is a key source of disproportionate taxation, with the poorest 10% paying 7% while the richest 10% pay just 1.2%
VAT hits the poorest harder, with the poorest 10% paying 12% while the richest 10% pay just 3%
The post-tax income for the richest 10% is £112,874, over 12 times higher than the poorest 10%’s post-tax income of £9,651.00
Inequality is massive and growing so please don't defend the super rich when they are taking far, far more than a fair share whilst millions of people, heck BILLIONS of people struggle,
https://equalitytrust.org.uk/news/press-release/uk-still-taxes-the-poorest-more- |
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Reply | The country has gone nuts
at 18:40 16 Jul 2025
Sorry, you'll have to translate that because it just reads as gobbledegook to me. |
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Reply | British culture
at 16:44 16 Jul 2025
The 1% are definitely part of the problem though, tey hoard wealth, they pay minimum wages while they make massive profits and they are the source of much of the pollution that being plastics because plastics are cheap and easy.
I'm not saying there aren't other sources for our ailments too, I agree about positions of power, we have too many idiots in places they should never have attained. |
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Reply | No more tax raises
at 16:39 16 Jul 2025
yeah, these days we recycle and then a load of it is shipped abroad to be burned.
We loterally do pay more for less, my council tax keeps rising but the streets are dirtier because the rubbish isn't picked up, it used to be.
I have never paid more tax than I do now but my NHS care is harder to get, I have to wait a lot longer, I'd struggle to get the police to come out if needed and my sons school tells (well told because he's finished his exams and won't be going back) us we have to pay for this and that when it used to be supplied. Even school iniform is a profit making exercise these days when you used to only have to buy badges and sew them on now uniform is only from "approved suppliers" and is expensive.
Have costs risen because they had to or because it's been designed that way? |
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Reply | Get your predictions in
at 16:31 16 Jul 2025
I try to avoid making these predictions so I'll stick with that but I will say this is the most optimistic and excited I have been in pre-season for a long time. |
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Reply | Tata Steel
at 19:20 15 Jul 2025
Do you think 4 years is fast then? 2020 they moved.
I'd believe Sir Jim about Ineos over you any day.
Welsh unemployment is lower now than when we were in the EU, self harm? |
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