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« Reply #13185 on: Wednesday, March 27, 2024, 21:08:54 »

Not looking at Wales it doesn’t and they have more money per head than England
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« Reply #13186 on: Wednesday, March 27, 2024, 22:54:29 »

Narn Iron wins that league and they're run by Bejasus!!
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« Reply #13187 on: Thursday, March 28, 2024, 02:19:59 »

What an odious prick this twat is....a nobody trying to be relevant .

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/george-galloway-uk-moscow-attack-isis-obama-russia-b2519381.html
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« Reply #13188 on: Thursday, March 28, 2024, 07:26:42 »

So Wales and Scotland get more per head then England. Sadly, all three are underfunded and have been for years. That is the issue and discussing regional calculations is a great diversion from the fact that our NHS/care system has been neglected, either willfully or by sheer incompetence, for many years. I would say the former.

Blaming all are woes on destitute people in boats coming across the channel is another great distraction. Let's all hate those 'illegals' coming here and making me poorer/stealing my tax/jobs/subverting my culture....endless bollocks. Instead of focusing on the very rich who are laughing their heads off whilst pocketing all the assets and leaving you and your kids poorer.
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« Reply #13189 on: Thursday, March 28, 2024, 07:34:13 »

Correct. They get more per head and deliver worst outcomes that’s what they will do to England as well. Don’t get me wrong I’m hardly a fan of this government but I do know they will be worse as history has always proved.

Yes - and given the fact that Wales is a massively rural community it costs a lot more to deliver health services to 4.5 million people living there than it does to deliver to half of London. But don't let little details get in the way to the endless drivel being fed to you by the Tories and you hanging on every word. The people of this Country are so stupid it would be funny if it wasn't so fucking sad.
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« Reply #13190 on: Thursday, March 28, 2024, 08:44:14 »

Yes - and given the fact that Wales is a massively rural community it costs a lot more to deliver health services to 4.5 million people living there than it does to deliver to half of London. But don't let little details get in the way to the endless drivel being fed to you by the Tories and you hanging on every word. The people of this Country are so stupid it would be funny if it wasn't so fucking sad.


No rural areas in England then?
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« Reply #13191 on: Thursday, March 28, 2024, 08:45:58 »

And yet in "everyone hates Drakeford" Wales, the most recent polls...

LAB: 49% (+4)
CON: 16% (-6)
REF: 15% (+2)
PLC: 10% (=)
LDM: 5% (=)
GRN: 5% (=)

via RedfieldWilton , 23-24 Mar

In "everything is worse in" Scotland, the most recent polls...

Westminster Voting Intention (Scotland):

LAB: 34% (=)
SNP: 34% (+1)
CON: 16% (-2)
LDM: 6% (-2)
REF: 4% (=)
GRN: 4% (+2)

RedfieldWilton, , 10-11 Mar


Either a large number of people haven't got the memo, or people blame the Tories in Westminster far more than their local assemblies/parliaments.


No rural areas in England then?

Surely you aren't going to argue that the population is more rural on average in Scotland and Wales than in England?

I'll repeat again, I'd just really be interested in hearing an argument for voting Conservative which isn't purely based on Labour being worse. What are they good at? Why should I be excited to vote for Rishi Sunak?

Narn Iron wins that league and they're run by Bejasus!!

Most of the time recently they've been run by nobody at all, Stormont has hardly bothered for the last few years. Maybe we should try having no government for a bit, it seems to work better than you'd think!
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« Reply #13192 on: Thursday, March 28, 2024, 08:50:21 »

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Don’t get me wrong I’m hardly a fan of this government but I do know they will be worse as history has always proved.

define worse.

happy to pay more if I can actually get seen by someone
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« Reply #13193 on: Thursday, March 28, 2024, 09:08:35 »

define worse.

happy to pay more if I can actually get seen by someone

That is the eternal conundrum. Eradicate waste, improve efficiencies then review expenditure. Sounds simple, in the commercial world it generally is. In anything that is tax payer funded or the government has a say, local or national, it isn’t.

Anyway, the noise on this thread has started to wake up like a scene from Independence Day when the alien mothership approaches. The latent hostilities on this thread will reach a crescendo till election day. So I’m not going to drop by on this thread anymore. I’ve made my position on voting clear in that I’m not going to for the first time in my life. So good luck with a Labour administration I’ll keep my fingers crossed and hope by the time Labour lose an election in the future things are not to fucked up. Just remember young ones, you’ll be paying for it.
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« Reply #13194 on: Thursday, March 28, 2024, 09:23:09 »

This. We have Welsh family in Wales, as opposed to English family in Wales, dyed in the wool Welsh Labour. Say the same as Outletred. You, Posh Red cannot accept that anything going bad could possibly be the fault of a Labour run organisation or funding by a Labour administration. Drakeford was and will be for a long universally hated by both sides of the voting public. The situation is even worse in Scotland via the SNP. You’ve heard of the Barnett formula I’m sure. All the devolved parliaments receive more funding per head of population than we do in England. So money isn’t the issue.

I'm Welsh in Wales and while nobody likes Drakeford (who just seemed to enjoy getting some attention), the thought of the whole country being governed by the Tories for any longer than we need to be is widely regarded as being a non-starter.

Brexit was (and still is) a disaster, they've shown themselves to be a bunch of liars on many occasions, lined the pockets of their mates (Michelle Mone etc) and allowed the water companies to poison our waterways whilst allowing them to make huge profits. And they keep going on about the bloody boats like immigration is the cause of all our problems (it isn't). They just know its an emotive subject tahat might win them a few racist votes. Sadly for them Reform will likely pick those votes up and the Tories left with nowt.
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« Reply #13195 on: Thursday, March 28, 2024, 10:08:56 »

I do find the 'stopping of the boats' rhetoric a little bit odd, sometimes/usually followed by 'the country is full etc' yet in reality I think 30,000 people used that crossing last year, which as a % of the population won't touch the surfaces.

That's not to say I want people to attempt to travel across the channel in dangerous rubber boats, risking their lives. Of course not. To me it just seems like a very easy stick to grab onto, when there is probably a hundred other issues that need to be looked at.

As LL said, this thread is likely to get very busy between now and election time. Lets just hope we can keep things civil.(ish) 
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« Reply #13196 on: Thursday, March 28, 2024, 15:53:32 »


I do find the 'stopping of the boats' rhetoric a little bit odd, sometimes/usually followed by 'the country is full etc' yet in reality I think 30,000 people used that crossing last year, which as a % of the population won't touch the surfaces.

As LL said, this thread is likely to get very busy between now and election time. Lets just hope we can keep things civil.(ish) 
 


I've posted numerous times over the years regarding real stats when it comes to immigration/refugees/asylum seekers/illegal immigration {all of which are different things, unless a person who doesn't like anyone different, just see's them bizarrely as some form of threat/vermin etc} and they've never, been close to or a patch on anything to generally concern the larger issues of the UK with.

It's madness we continue to have these discussions about it nationally - especially when the real cost of the asylum system to each of the c30m UK taxpayers is around about... 13p per day - but let us not have that large tax burden impact our job prospects, pension funds and any other false excuse that we'll pretend is the reason of impacting our own privileged prospect and that of any future or existing DNA...

This nation {yes even in relative austere times} can definitely afford this mostly nominal-problem and I bet most who buy their Starbucks or Costa every morning likely ''throw away'' more than what it costs to fund the asylum system. Also add to the fact it would help if the current government had actually processed any asylum applications {most of which actually do end up getting declined anyway}, instead if having their fingers up their arseholes or preferring to spend time just having a good old boys club slanging match in the HoC.

RE: Keeping things civil...nahh BO, we want fecking carnage of course  Wink
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« Reply #13197 on: Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 08:05:39 »

Oops  Embarrassed

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« Reply #13198 on: Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 08:07:31 »


I can't imagine many of our political leaders having a punch up. I doubt Sunak or Starmer have every thrown a punch - Prescott obviously would have cleared house in the Parliamentary Royal Rumble, but not sure who the modern winner would be. Probably a couple of the ex-military guys.
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« Reply #13199 on: Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 09:30:12 »

Angela Rayner would be up for a scrap no doubt
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