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@nprofile…x9tq That's a lot of brackets.
Anyway, looks like standard operating practice for the current Government: do nothing, then maybe ask *really* nicely if someone else will do it for you.

2026-05-11 12:25:33 GMT

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@nprofile…x9tq And what about those of us who previously opted out of being part of any central database?

2026-03-31 17:16:47 GMT

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@nprofile…x9tq Or If Kier Starmer wants the NHS to succeed (he doesn't) or fail (he does).
The annoying thing is, if either of them *really* wanted to solve the strikes problem, the smart thing is to hire loads more doctors and dilute the pro-IA vote. Of course, the only way to do that...

2026-03-31 13:45:37 GMT

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@nprofile…x9tq The sole "potential" of AI is how much money it might potentially make people with far too much of it as it is.

2026-03-09 10:06:59 GMT

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@nprofile…x9tq And this is why I pushed for the P2P Lending approach.
Admittedly it's probably not large enough a market to fully neuter the bond markets as a threat, but you've got to start it somewhere, I guess.

2026-03-09 10:00:12 GMT

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@nprofile…4gxw @nprofile…x9tq What's making it hard for those with vacancies to fill them?

2026-03-08 15:56:11 GMT

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@nprofile…6nnl And what's worse is that according to that image, all your judges will be from Minecraft.

2026-02-28 18:38:31 GMT

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@nprofile…la7y At some point they're going to have to appoint a Minister of Resignations.

2026-02-26 09:53:45 GMT

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@nprofile…x9tq While the best result would be a Green win, the most interesting result will be if Reform come third- regardless of what order Green and Labour fill the two slots above, that would do the most to blow a hole in the "split vote" argument.
(The funniest would be the Lib Dems winning it somehow)
However, should Reform win, we can expect Labour to say it's the Greens' fault rather than their own for not giving people anything to vote for. Which I guess would make a change from the usual "Government doesn't normally win by-elections" excuse.

2026-02-25 22:53:30 GMT

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@nprofile…x9tq Were UK investors offered it in any meaningful way?
Do UK investors have the money to do it, considering they don't have anything coming in from all those other investments they didn't make?

2026-02-17 13:44:02 GMT

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@nprofile…v2v2 @nprofile…x9tq Considering that Streeting has said not only in the press but also in the House of Commons that the companies he's privatising the NHS into are going to be allowed infinite profits, we can safely assume that no, they won't.
Although I will point out that the entirety of the French system working better is included in your half-sentence
>French healthcare spending per capita is a bit more than ours
*that's* the bit that makes it work, not the presence of private firms.

2026-02-09 14:02:14 GMT

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@nprofile…la7y STARMER HAS QUIT smoking

2026-02-09 09:11:12 GMT

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@nprofile…la7y Fourth now? Bloody hell.

2026-02-05 09:41:23 GMT

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@nprofile…x9tq Probably also that friendly press like the Guardian have rumbled him on his "success" on waiting lists being an act of gaming the stats, not actual good stewardship of the NHS.
https://x.com/i/status/2018594915027124225
(Although Streeting did very publicly say that this was what they were going to do ages ago and was lauded for it)

2026-02-01 13:04:52 GMT

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@nprofile…la7y Yeah, but he always said he wasn't into panda-ing to the electorate.

2026-01-29 19:21:28 GMT

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@nprofile…x9tq What hostile media?

2026-01-29 09:31:28 GMT

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@nprofile…la7y Internet security genuinely has something called "backdoor penetration testing", which I assume is for keeping that last one on the list secure.

2026-01-12 18:19:38 GMT

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@nprofile…la7y (And it shows you how pointless the OSA actually is, since this is an existing power)

2026-01-12 18:18:49 GMT

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@nprofile…la7y Also, it's a bit disappointing that this is limited to sexually explicit deepfakes, considering how much AI is being used for generating fake videos of people saying incriminating things.

2026-01-03 20:48:20 GMT

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@nprofile…la7y Every single WHAT and every single missile? :O

2026-01-03 11:16:39 GMT

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@nprofile…la7y Now let's see if this finally crosses a big enough line for Starmer to actually criticise Trump on anything at all.

2025-12-16 09:42:02 GMT

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@nprofile…35ec Dyed Stride?

2025-12-14 01:00:21 GMT

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@nprofile…35ec You should look up his Deal Or No Deal story

2025-12-05 14:18:51 GMT

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@nprofile…35ec I'm hoping a lettuce company will sponsor her

2025-12-05 09:58:11 GMT

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@nprofile…hzyj But also makes it risker for companies to dismiss someone at the upper end unfairly: before, the compensation might have been cheaper than a £119k redundancy package.

2025-12-03 21:14:26 GMT

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@nprofile…35ec Honestly fair.

2025-12-03 19:04:15 GMT

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@nprofile…35ec Hard to know who to hate more, a double-barreled surnamed Labour MP, or Kier for his inability to handle criticism

2025-11-13 22:49:43 GMT

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@nprofile…35ec TBF, Question Time was hardly in a rush to have him on when he was Labour leader.

2025-11-09 16:57:28 GMT

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@nprofile…hzyj I wonder if this is the main drive behind them reforming Leasehold, to make it easier for banks to buy up all the houses more than it is people?
it *was* Gove that started it all off, after all...

2025-11-08 12:50:07 GMT

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@nprofile…35ec ...this "friend", does she frequently give either of you contracts?

2025-11-08 01:35:31 GMT

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@nprofile…35ec I've seen a film about this exact situation. Who is it that's telling you to go there?

2025-11-05 19:09:54 GMT

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@nprofile…hzyj There is a difference between using the language of the Right to push the policies of the Left, and doing it to push the policies of the Right.
Sadly, Labour keep insisting on doing the latter.

2025-10-19 19:38:57 GMT

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@nprofile…35ec "You do not have the authority", etc

2025-10-14 21:42:35 GMT

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@nprofile…hzyj I'm loathe to say anything nice about Liz Truss, but she did manage to get one and a half things right in her 44 days.
One was slinging her hook when it was clear she was useless (hint hint, Mr Starmer) but the half was that she rapidly subsidised electricity bills for all when prices spiked due to Putin invading Ukraine, used the power of the state to help people handle at least this aspect of the Cost Of Living.
I say only half, because she failed to follow it up with actively doing something to bring those prices back down, which needed to be direct and immediate engagement in generation. Not 'regulate'- *do*, even if only in the short term- Gov't actively being the ones to set up the solar panels, wind turbines, arrays of hamsters in wheels etc- so that supply and demand does its thing and the subsidy ceases to be necessary, maybe even start to recoup its costs.
Labour just refuse to do this. The closest they've come is so lacking that it might as well not exist.

2025-10-12 16:53:55 GMT

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@nprofile…rh2x Are we to interpret that as a threat? :P

2025-10-09 22:23:08 GMT

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@nprofile…rh2x All I'm saying is that I've never seen you or this Telegraph lady in the same room.
I mean, I've also never seen you, or this Telegraph lady. But that's not the point.

2025-10-07 09:03:02 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz I've got a feeling it's less to do with financialisation as there not being regionality any more- while you were getting bored of the local music scene, the next city over were sat in a bubble developing a sound and you wouldn't find out about it- and it wouldn't influence your scene- until it matured into something it could show the world.
Now online I can flick to someone living in Puerto Rico singing K-Pop without even trying.
I'd argue that there being all these influences available, as well as a reduced ability to refuse to move on from The Classics™ is broadly better, not worse- but does lead to a certain level of Grey Goo.
(May I also recommend Pete & Bas if you're looking for some more unique Hip-Hop?)

2025-10-06 17:15:40 GMT

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@nprofile…rh2x Someone let Ian know.

2025-10-01 19:53:44 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz Far be it from me to draw any connections to any real-world events, but I'd imagine they'd start pressing Governments to discourage their citizens from investing in cash, in favour of stocks and shares.

2025-09-10 12:59:44 GMT

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@nprofile…rh2x I mean, Starmer isn't *wrong* here, but considering his choice of Health Secretary, I'm not entirely sure he's in a position to throw stones about which parties can and cannot "be trusted with our NHS"

2025-08-20 19:23:49 GMT

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@nprofile…rh2x I'm going to an event at the NEC that happens to be on at the same time as the Reform Conference, also at the same venue.
Might have a wander over and ask people outside it what they think of this sort of thing.
(I absolutely do not have the balls to do this)

2025-08-18 20:17:06 GMT

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@nprofile…8up2 @nprofile…ru80 "Dave? Dave? Where does number nine go?"

2025-08-12 08:29:48 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz What are the markets doing? I'm increasingly convinced this is less to do with tariffs and more to do with stock market manipulation, and the more it happens the more I'm convinced by it.

2025-08-11 12:29:30 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz Maybe.
I guess there's discussion to be had on where the line is between 'editorial freedom' and 'trying to have it both ways', but perhaps that's for one more familiar with post-selloff The Observer as a whole than me.

2025-08-11 08:44:07 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz Little bit rich for the observer to be saying this now after running a front page story about how amazing ID Cards are going to be in stopping immigration specifically.

2025-08-09 17:13:39 GMT

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@nprofile…pgwc I like how the last rule is "Do not promote purity politics", after a whole paragraph of demanding purity politics from its users.

2025-08-04 19:40:06 GMT

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@nprofile…rh2x I assume he exercised his right to remain silent?

2025-07-31 21:11:04 GMT

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@nprofile…rh2x I'm going to scroll back a few of your Toots.

2025-07-30 08:42:55 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz Was it a Pratchett quote about something being 'technology' until it's common, then it's just 'the thing that it is'?

2025-07-25 19:58:33 GMT

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@nprofile…rh2x If you did that, you'd probably feel like a right tit.
Or a left one, I guess.

2025-07-18 08:45:41 GMT

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@nprofile…69ly @nprofile…60lz @nprofile…3ruj I'd do it in an "they're all the same" way, personally. 😉
George Osborne and Wes Streeting were both at some think tank event for privatising the NHS a few years ago, and Osborne said to Wes (with no pushback) that it's much easier for Labour to push privatization through than the Conservatives because people are more generally on guard for what Cons are up to, but will wave it through for Labour because they're perceived as a pro- NHS party, and it's presumed their policies are good, even if they're identical.
It wouldn't surprise me if bankers took a similar approach, enough people will take a blinkered view of Labour and just assume they're actually legislating for workers not bankers. Concerningly considering the absence of criticism I see of Starmer's Labour, I think they might be right.

2025-07-17 17:18:38 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz Looks like the wrong link to me?

2025-07-16 22:09:14 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz Or at least the repopularisation of CD-R drives.

2025-07-03 20:05:41 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz If you want to subject yourself to The Other Place, then Shaun Lintern has some good critique of the Plan
He writes for The Times, which is notably the biggest pro-Starmer newspaper, so it's all coming in reasonable faith, too.

2025-06-23 21:27:33 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz @nprofile…rs4v No official statement from the Party proper, but Caroline Lucas has Retweeted Liberty's condemnation of the proscription, and Zack Polanski has also been very vocal on this matter.
I haven't been looking at the current leadership so I don't know if they have or haven't said anything.

2025-06-23 08:33:49 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz I guess since PIP isn't an out-of-work payment, there isn't really a need to?

2025-06-21 11:05:26 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz I've seen this exact comment come up in the US, as well.
Farage-as-Trump-clone once again...

2025-06-19 12:16:37 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz Eh, I'd say three days in is a compromise that benefits bosses more than workers- and any 'comprimose' that benefits the people who already have the advantage isn't much of a compromise.
Besides, it isn't like bosses are going to even attempt to explore offering two in instead and aren't already agitating for four.

2025-06-19 09:08:51 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz "compromise" being "bosses getting what they want", then.

2025-06-16 08:00:38 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz Now, is Wes going to actually employ more GPs to achieve this?

2025-06-12 09:01:35 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz I've thought this, particularly around WFA.
Stamer and Reeves have been very consistent around claiming the matter being due to the state of the economy: WFA had to be cut to save the economy, and they could put it back because the economy was healthier (and not because they got a drubbing in the locals), meaning surely WFA is going to be first on the chopping block when the economy next takes a knock, which isn't going to be reassuring to people worried about losing it in the first place.
To a certain extent also, I'd argue that it's Government's job to *protect* us from the economy- like how Social Security is there for when work isn't, how Furlough and all sorts of business reliefs were there at the start of the pandemic and so on- and here they are, fairly explicitly saying that isn't what they're going to do.

2025-06-10 08:46:09 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz What *will* we do, or what *should* we do?
Because, given off last form, that's "give them absolutely everything that they want" and "absolutely not that, under any circumstances" respectively

2025-06-09 13:04:49 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz @nprofile…ausg I still don't trust the idea, but isn't that a lot like David Cameron's "National Citizen Service"?

2025-06-09 07:44:57 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz I hear elsewhere that Reeves is considering subsidising electricity costs for industry- but only industry.
Even Liz Truss was awake enough to make sure that her electricity subsidies applied to everyone.

2025-06-05 09:09:26 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz I was happily nodding along and agreeing with him until he came out with this:
"Not because Starmer and his ministers are bad people, or because they have bad values or even bad policies."
...and then all credibility went straight out of the window.
Less facetiously, focusing on defence does also show a failure of priority. If I'm sat on a waiting list, four years away from an operation I need, bombing foreigners isn't going to solve that. If I'm paying all my wages to extortionate rents due to a lack of social housing, bombing foreigners isn't going to solve that.
I get Government can- has to- do multiple things, at the same time, but the order and scale they do them in matters.

2025-06-01 11:32:45 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz I believe many of them are this sort of thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuAXoQ0luR4

2025-05-21 17:23:00 GMT

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@nprofile…9vf2 ...there are 500 empty social homes (NOTE: Not luxury investment apartments) in London?

2025-05-20 21:12:20 GMT

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@nprofile…pgwc That's going to be a loud ol' cry greeting him when he walks through the Pearly Gates...

2025-04-28 17:19:18 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz Because that would result in people looking a little closer at the bill and realising that it doesn't really change an awful lot.

2025-04-17 08:42:03 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz Like basically everything else Streeting does, I don't trust this. The Conservative Government handled Jos Seekers' Allowance similarly- paid companies based on not sending claimants back to the job centre, rather than on getting them jobs.
What happened was they just found ways of kicking people off JSA, because it was the same amount of money for less effort than actually getting people into employment.
This will be the same thing. It won't actually get people treatment, it'll just keep them out of hospitals.

2025-04-13 18:36:55 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz This will only be a minor aspect, but I did read a thing a few years ago where small firms doing physical products use them and run their entire business from them, because they can expand and contract their 'warehouse' space as and when, and many also have much of the amenities you'd expect of a co-working space like wifi and a coffee machine, so they can do the admin part there as well.

2025-04-08 08:33:38 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz And we are assuming that these eliminated roles were actually not helping, and it's not just Streeting cutting for the sake of cutting.

2025-04-08 08:32:03 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz Now, are the NHS running that facility or is it another private form?

2025-04-04 21:57:47 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz The penny may have dropped, but not as much as the dollar!
[booing and hissing from the audience]

2025-03-24 16:00:56 GMT

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@nprofile…cuet @nprofile…60lz Time for me to once again push that petition I set up to encourage them to do so
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/708932

2025-03-15 15:14:58 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz Now is probably a good time to mention that my Government Petition for them to embrace crowd investment went live this week:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/708932
Reeves' fiscal rules are based on ideology, not pragmatism, so it's unlikely they'll take this on, but I think putting The People slightly more in charge of how much is borrowed and where might at least give the wriggle room that if the public become unhappy with how much the Government are borrowing, they can simply stop lending it.

2025-03-11 01:16:20 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz I've got a feeling being the ex-BoE governor might count against him.
When the right are constantly banging on about an 'Elite', fielding not only someone who was the head of a central bank- that of *another nation*, mind- feels a lot like doing their campaigning for them.

2025-03-07 13:26:51 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz "...well, not that shocked."

2025-03-07 09:29:51 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz It's almost as if they never had any intention to actually do anything with GB Energy in the first place, or something.

2025-03-06 10:52:23 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz Was this song written in response to Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division?

2025-03-03 10:06:00 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz Didn't they already confirm that the reforms are just going to be cuts and punishments?
I *do* know the main people they've been consulting on writing them is a think tank set up by Iain Duncan-Smith- not a name I'd connect to humane and compassionate.

2025-02-26 09:38:11 GMT

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@nprofile…j0tk @nprofile…60lz ..so, DOGE-level wrecking for wrecking's sake?
https://files.mastodonapp.uk/media_attachments/files/114/069/515/999/518/362/original/e6ef1c952427162a.jpg

2025-02-25 22:22:38 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz He does have a plan, it's full privatization. (Note which group of people the advisor makes reference to- it's not doctors, and it's not patients) We can't have an independent voice suggesting that his plan might not be the best idea, now, can we?

2025-02-20 19:00:28 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz Without reading the article in full, FT paywalls being FT paywalls, I'm going to assume that the Minister in question is a Labour minister, the current iteration of the party once again getting it the wrong way around.
I accidentally seem to keep coming back to this one as an idea- Labour don't *want* to any of the good things they were set up in the first place to do, or even feel there is a benefit to doing so, but actively resent having to do so and are only doing it to shut people up.
https://files.mastodonapp.uk/media_attachments/files/114/037/718/462/461/942/original/2b0e765e20077fb3.png
https://files.mastodonapp.uk/media_attachments/files/114/037/721/424/299/580/original/829ae2cf73bb9d3d.png

2025-02-20 18:22:55 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz "Bond, we've dispatched your equipment ahead of time, remember to pick it up before confronting the target"
"Okay, where can I expect to find it?"
"In a large yellow locker outside the petrol station on the south side of the volcano he build his base in. Good luck, 007."

2025-02-18 13:57:24 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz The guy that runs Iceland has already called for criminals to be sentenced to working in his shops instead of being incarcerated (link below).
I have a feeling that rather than the rehabilitative intentions we often credit Timpson with, he's more interested in getting free, easily controlled labour and displacing actually employed workers.
Given the current Labour administration's record, I'm going to assume they're going to go with something like that, which is going to be less constructive.
https://metro.co.uk/2025/01/27/criminals-sentenced-work-iceland-instead-going-prison-22445553/

2025-02-17 09:50:52 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz I have seen headlines suggesting that there are plenty of people already in place looking at what's happening in the US with an eye to taking influence from it.
I think it's a lot more likely than that article suggests.

2025-02-10 09:58:49 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz @nprofile…dxaq At the end of the five years, the cash value at that point should be untaxed (otherwise you've just deferred the tax to no personal gain, which is pointless), but all interest that money accrues is taxed normally, until it's put into a new ISA.

2025-02-10 09:43:50 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz @nprofile…dxaq ISAs are also quite poor value at lower cash values anyway- at least in the last few years of high interest rates, there have been more high-interest 'normal' savings accounts that outperform cash ISAs and you'd make more that way while still staying in your personal allowance.
That said, I think the better answer here is to keep the cash limits in ISAs, but set a time limit instead so if you want to keep the tax relief, you have to start a new ISA after five years- a de facto upper limit on cash storage.

2025-02-10 09:34:28 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz You could see it that way, but on the other hand, had those MPs not said what they said, the Mail wouldn't have had anything to report...

2025-01-26 22:43:31 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz Yup: https://financialpost.com/commodities/mining/canada-mexico-steelmakers-refuse-new-us-orders

2025-01-16 09:50:21 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz Despite still falling foul of the same "Starmer's uselessness is everybody's else's fault but his" trap the rest of the press do, Aditya has absolutely nailed the core of the issue here.
Labour seem to think that the answer to 14 years of Tory policy is more years of Tory policy, and seem to be surprised when it continues not to be work.

2025-01-14 14:16:53 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz (I have not. Is it worth a watch?)

2025-01-14 09:28:05 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz One day during this Government, Starmer's Labour will show an actual point of difference between it and the Tories.
Today is not that day

2025-01-11 17:19:40 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz Something gives me the idea that this isn't unconnected to the reduction in coupledom post you've also made.

2025-01-08 09:47:40 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz My distrust of Labour's alleged intention to do anything aside, I think one solution for allowing Government to borrow is to look to peer to peer borrowing.
Making direct approaches to the public to borrow should go some way to combatting banks' reticience and also stimulate the economy.
There have been examples of councils using existing firms, and I set up a gov.uk petition to encourage Westminster to build their own:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/708932/sponsors/new?token=yBFkLnSpstgdvvQaoDzt