warptubes.bsky.social
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Oh god of course not. A bit of an insult to even suggest that!
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Care to take me through that? I understand we have in the past engaged in QE, but currently in a period of Quantitive tightening. Or where are you proposing money for WFA comes from other than welfare spending?
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I was happy with the WFA before, being means tested with a full state pension. The state pension which has seen increases beyond inflation and wage growth.
If they were hoping this is a compromise, it absolutely isn’t.
They aren’t addressing poverty full stop.
They’re all spineless.
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I think you’re missing the point - earning up to £35K in retirement is quite high. Well done to them for building up a comfortable pension pot if they’re anywhere close to that. But they don’t need a WFA, especially when the people that pay for that are working full time and living on half as much.
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It’s set far too high and the people who are struggling more are the ones paying for it.
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The threshold is £35,000, so yes it could be clearer that’s the upper limit.
After factoring mortgages, commuting costs, raising a family etc, nobody in my family earns anywhere near that from working.
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Honestly don’t know. Was hoping they’d maybe grow a spine, but with today’s announcement it’s clear that won’t happen so I’ll be taking my vote elsewhere.
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“All but the wealthiest”?!
£35K income for a pensioner is akin to at least £70K+ to someone with a mortgage and commute costs.
It’s significantly above the minimum wage.
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Losing more voters.
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Sources are hard to find. There’s a paywalled HSJ article here (I’m not signed up): www.hsj.co.uk/policy-and-r...
One here: www.nhsconfed.org/news/nhs-con...
Also a summary here, though I don’t know this website: www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/breakin...
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They were struggling to make the 30% cuts already asked of them.
Nobody knows anything, it was leaked online last night and made official today through management, but they have zero details.
Redundancy pay bill could mean they have to cut 70-90% of all staff to pay off the fresh 50% being cut.
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Borrowing this graphic from the BBC. Again, to anyone reading that cares to understand, ICB staff are also being told 50% staff cuts need to made, after already cutting budgets 30% last year.
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NHS England -15,000 staff
ICB ~25,000 staff
A net 50% cut is approximately 20,000 staff over both.
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There won’t be much left of ICBs, staff there were told this morning they’ve got to make further cuts of 50% (on top of the 30% from last year). It’s not making the news for some reason. This isn’t just NHS England.
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I think I understand. I’ve tried a few years without gluten and often the substitute flours can also cause problems.
It’s still a pretty reasonable poll, but you’re definitely talking me into a chicken Caesar right now for dinner!
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Both pizza and pasta exist in gluten and dairy free forms.
I’ve always preferred pizza. Any type of pasta, while yummy in small quantities, just isn’t as flexible or as delicious as the things you can do with pizza (and with less of the gloopy carbs/heft)
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Is it time to start refusing to pay bills? Sick of the greed.
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Hey/good evening from UK. I just wanted to say that I love this video. I’ve been subscribed to you for a long time, but this specific topic really hits home. I really appreciate you going out on a limb/away from the the norm to publish it. 👍
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Fortunately phones have a mode you can enable/switch to where you won’t be in appropriately reminded about work - enable silent mode and do not disturb.
I’d encourage everyone, of any seniority or management position, to switch OFF properly.
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This is interesting but capping the return to 6% of your investment for something high risk isn’t great.
If the wind turbines do better than expected, I would like more than 6%.
I signed up and read the pdf, but im not sure I’ll proceed.
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Yes good point. Also consider people that may have learning difficulties or mental health issues: £100 cap may help them better understand and manage their money.
Essentially, it may only help the economy (slightly) by allowing vulnerable people to be exploited or for people to overpay by accident.
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I think some people don’t know they need to click the link.
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Corner shop could consider ditching cash so they can do away with the costs of storing and processing it, then pass the savings onto customers.
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Yeah I’ve experienced this on a handful of European trips. Couldn’t recall exactly which countries and it didn’t seem consistently applied, but seemed efficient when it did.
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It’s not that you don’t understand, it’s that someone at the FCA has lost their marbles for suggesting it could help the economy.
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It’s someone at the FCA that thinks having to use chip and pin is an obstacle which actually stops people making the purchase. They should have their head examined.
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And as a result, UK employees just act their wage.
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Absolutely.
Younger generations are rightfully growing up with a “act your wage” work ethic.
Unless there’s some hope of home ownership or end of austerity, they are doing the minimum only (inline with their pay).
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Our government will probably formally invite him here, for political convenience or leverage. That act of invitation will likely make it easier for laws and rules that would normally apply to common plebs to be relaxed.
I don’t like it though.
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There should be ramifications of his conviction, despite the US themselves not giving a damn.
As a felon and easily reasoned to be a person of poor standing and reputation, I’d support the UK refusing entry if he tries to visit.
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Can they not just turn off/force disable summaries of news headlines?
Headlines are often bad enough already (biased or clickbait).
We really do not need any more opportunities for distortion or misinformation right now.
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I’m still very angry at lack of proper early-on full lockdowns in UK & across the world. A coordinated effort may have stopped it in its tracks.
Sure, it would have cost £x billions. But in the long run saved £x trillions.
And you know, also saved many lives if you want to be human about it all!
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The BBC need to be reset/levelled first of all.
People that say it’s unbiased just because people of all political beliefs think it’s against them are wrong.
It is repeatedly and demonstrably right wing (and quite far right at times).
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Saw some clips on gogglebox, I think I need to watch this fully because I have some lingering doubt that you’ve ignored probability over finding best ROI.
Monopoly rule 1: Always buy property if you land on it, otherwise always buy under ‘list price’ if it’s auctioned, or sometimes buy over.
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Absolutely. But the stage is set for unchecked capitalism and greed to prosper without limits. It’s difficult to feel wealthy without taking part in a system you fundamentally disagree with, but for many people, that’s exactly what you have you have to do even just to survive.
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I feel it’s often understated that many (most?!) brits don’t have anything spare to save/invest in the first place.
If people get to a point where they have spare income, it’s a tough sell to get them to invest in the same systems that made them (or close ones) poor in the first place.
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At this point, why not just package the GPU with a suitable pre-wired PSU, with a slot for a compact PC (processor, storage, RAM) daughterboard?
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Unfortunately I think that’s what Musk is hoping for. The ultimate excuse to push home his agenda.
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I think that’s his plan. He’ll use the exposure to create yet more absurdity and division.
This all feels like a Nigel Farage style pre-planned grift.
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I just think they’ve underestimated how impatient & easily mislead most people are.
“Tough decisions” at every stage is a tall order after 14y+ of austerity. We need some real, tangible, prosperity to convince us.
But I agree that waspi compensation right now would hurt most workers too much.
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I don’t believe Labour/Starmer have anything against pensioners.
They’ve committed to maintaining triple lock, which sees annual increases that far overtake workers on low & medium wages.
However, I do wish they’d grow a pair and start reclaiming some of that lost/stripped wealth.
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You’re not wrong, but there is a slow and steady annoying trend with this labour government of not following and reclaiming our money.
We’re still a top richest nation, but with a very high percentage of poor and upset people.
Time to cull the top.
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Cut energy prices to maximum of 15p/kWh.
Pay WASPI.
Improve social security.
Etc…
Nobody seems to have the balls for it though? I appreciate we’re trying to unpick 14 years of Tory BS, but Starmer needs to start delivering some tangible relief to the masses, ASAP.
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Slowly and not fully.
The train stock itself will still be leased from overseas companies, who will no doubt continue to gouge us via supply and maintenance contracts.
And I suspect most aspects like ticket selling/IT/staffing will be outsourced to 3rd parties.
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It might be exponentially more expensive now, but at least it’s only half as reliable!
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I know, but I’m prepared to wait my entire life to see some culpability.
I suspect many others are waiting too.