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Trying to find some more positivity in the world.
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She said: "By the time we paid £750 for the holiday, €70 (£59.12) tourist tax for me and my daughter and an extra £450 for both of our meals, I could have been to the Caribbean on that."
And she would've probably complained about a holiday to the Carribbean too, especially the food.
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They could save £70k by sending their kids to a state school like most of the rest of us, then they could afford to go on even more holidays!
I have no sympathy for people who are unlikely to have sympathy for the people who really struggle in life.
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I must get my tiny violin out for them.
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Anything that isn't his, he says is bad and a betrayal.
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He won't take on the white grooming gangs as they're most likely either his backers, or his voters.
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The Tories have a track record of selling off publicly owned services. Short term it helps their budget, long term it squeezes the life out of us all.
I'd love to rejoin the EU and do believe it'll happen eventually. I don't believe many who voted to leave can honestly say they're better off now.
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Take essential services back into public ownership, use the profits to improve education, police, NHS, mental health services, social care services, public transport, leisure facilities.
We'll then all feel like this country is better and maybe there'll be less effective anti-immigration rhetoric.
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The Tories have made borrowing a dirty word after the last Labour government, so this one is afraid to borrow.
They're afraid to tax the wealthy more.
But ultimately, taxing will never really bring in enough revenue to improve the country. They need another revenue stream.
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I agree.
Personally I want to see things like public transport, water and energy back under public ownership. Rather than profits being paid out to shareholders and problems not being fixed, it'd be good if the profits could be invested elsewhere by the government. But they're too afraid to do it.
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Yes, it feels as if it's marginally better, but still a millions miles away from what we all hoped a Labour government would be.
Too afraid to do anything which might upset the Reform voters, even though they could do radical things to improve the country and prove them wrong.
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Apologies, I ever so slightly misread that second part.
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On the second part of your point, how would you define how a woman dresses?
Just curious because in this day and age people dress however they want, so I don't think CIS men would need to dress up to claim to be a trans woman and get into a woman's toilet or showers.
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But using that argument, couldn't you also say that there are more female sexual offenders and trans sexual offenders who get away with their crimes?
Not disputing men can be a danger, but I don't think that argument is a particularly good one.
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Lettuce Connect
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I think they know the difference, but they don't care because it helps them to label it as suppression of free speech.
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Investors love stability. It's why Brexit affected the UK so much.
With Trump in charge, investors can't predict what'll happen next and without that kind of stability, they won't hang around.
It's why I think the UK needs some sort of CU with the EU to provide stability and seem more attractive.
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Wouldn't be surprised if he just flipped a coin to make each and every decision.
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You just know Genovia is one of them 😂
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Let's be honest, they don't care. They'll play dumb to try and get away with it then do it again somewhere else.
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It's absolutely mental. They see population increase as more future customers.
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Billions of people on the planet, they don't care if a few hundred thousand or even millions die as a result of smoking their products. As long as sales increase.
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Labour seeing this as still a toxic issue is holding us back. They want economic prosperity without taking the easiest step of them all - joining the SM/CU.
It'll allow companies to trade more freely, less red tape and provide us with more security globally. But it's all about out-Faraging Farage.
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Problem with offering those tax breaks, aside from the obvious, is that what if they then decide those tax breaks aren't enough and eventually end up 100% legally paying nothing in tax?
Appeasement only ever ends in disaster.
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If only there was some sort of way we could mitigate against some of the issues.
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Do you need 'hand dryers' in that?
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I can try and become a politician and make lots of changes, including this, to try and clean up this country, but not sure how far gone the British public are to know if I'd have a chance.
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They love cancel culture when it cancels things they hate.
They hate cancel culture when people who spout horrible rhetoric against innocent people face the consequences, because they happen to share the same views.
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Completely agree that we need to renationalise without compensation.
Why should the tax payer foot the bill for years of failure where money is paid out to shareholders rather than fully reinvested to sort issues out?
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It's incredible how well he's adopted the 'control' narrative. Talking about control over our armed forces, control over our borders.
His supporters should fear that he wants to control their lives, but are too busy fawning over his "anti-establishment" rhetoric, despite being the establishment.
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Hopefully he uses AI and it points the finger at Trump.
"Any blunders ultimately fall at the feet of the President of the United States, as they are the ones who have chosen who works with them."
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And this won't help growth. Less money in people's pockets means we'll spend less, businesses will make less money, some will close and it won't end well.
Appreciate the government is trying to balance the books, but taxing us more/cutting services isn't a long term solution for balance and growth.
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And not to go on, but the Tories have made the government borrowing more money (especially a Labour government) a completely toxic idea. So Starmer and co have got themselves into a very tricky situation.
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The government needs to find a way of making money other than tax.
Profits from energy, water, and transport, all of which are vital services, going into the pockets of wealthy individuals who may not reinvest in this country, is nonsensical. They'd all be publicly owned if I was in charge.
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Absolutely agree.
Ultimately this government needs to be more radical. Taxing us all more means we have less to spend, stagnating growth, but the government needs to find the money.
Taxing the rich more is something which should be done, but I think that's a short term solution.
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I disagree that balance means you are not growing. The problem in this country is that the Tories have sold off anything remotely profitable so we tax our way to balance.
If the government made profits from energy, water, and transport, they could invest in so much more whilst balancing the books.
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Cutting budgets is only to balance the books.
Cutting budgets won't bring economic prosperity.
Not sure what their plan is for the latter, but they need to decide on something soon. They need some radical ideas.
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I took that to be the unemployment queue should they get into power 😂
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Is because they are played online against other people.
I don't think you get those good offline games anymore like Spyro. Everything has to have an online element and with that comes competition.
On top of that, the online element opens kids up for abuse through private messaging etc.
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But I noticed that as I got older and gaming became more about competing with other people online, that competitiveness removed the fun and relaxing element of gaming that I loved so much.
The reason why EA Sports FC (formerly FIFA), Fortnite and Call Of Duty are the most dominant games today...