Credit deflation and the reflation cycle to come (part 8)

[belfastchild]

1 hour ago, Democorruptcy said:

People who are worried about Inheritance Tax liabilities don't need to give up work to make a 'saving'. They can gift surplus income away now and there isn't even a 7 year rule on it, like there is on other gifts.

I gave my sister the money to pay off her mortgage.

She bought a fucking convertible.

At least when Im dead I wont be bringing that up every Christmas when she gets a shit present.

[DurhamBorn]

3 hours ago, Yadda yadda yadda said:

If they tax bennies it will just be sad tax face in the papers and on the TV. They would argue to raise bennies to compensate. Of course that would bring home just how high benefits are. It isn't going to happen. I'd love to be proved wrong.

I agree,but its the one number that turns the roadmap off vertical.We are 100% certain of a disaster on the present path and it needs a big change,something really big.Tax more wont do it,its making it worse because they are taxing the low paid not on bennies etc.

[PETR4]

18 hours ago, ThoughtCriminal said:

Here's Britain in a nutshell. He's been here for two weeks, FIVE fucking kids, can barely speak a word of English and he gets given a free four bedroom house and God only knows how much in benefits, healthcare, translators, support worker etc. What an asset to the country. If you can't understand where this leads, that collapse is absolutely baked in, then you have to be retarded.

Enjoy the show, you're fucking paying for it.

 

Hate the game not the player! It's misguided to blame immigrants when the politicians put the country in this position.

He has 3 months to find a job before his benefits stop. And Birmingham is far from a "nice" area.

[Castlevania]

6 minutes ago, PETR4 said:

Hate the game not the player! It's misguided to blame immigrants when the politicians put the country in this position.

He has 3 months to find a job before his benefits stop. And Birmingham is far from a "nice" area.

I very much doubt his benefits will stop if unemployed in three months time.

[JMD]

3 hours ago, Yadda yadda yadda said:

I have a moral compass, it isn't perfect but no-ones is. It is the people running the country that don't have any morals. Plus the long term benefits claimants that never put in to society. Also the immigrants who come for free housing and free money. It is immoral to tax people to pay for it all. In these circumstances avoiding that tax is morally acceptable. We're still robbed by money printing and inflation.

The whole thing is doomed and morals can reassert themselves once it has collapsed. I would rather it was different but the takers are far too selfish to even consider that they're the problem.

I think that's right. I'd perhaps add that morality can be viewed in terms of being purely virtuous...  an idealised concept frequently taught at universities.

However a 'moral compass' implies direction (ie no 'zig-zag'!!) - so perhaps let's maybe extrapolate this fully into a linear/stable workable/realisable system of governance...   In practical terms, for us plebs throughout history, this has usually meant ('greatfuly' accepting?) a society which merely delivers the maximum good to the maximum number of people.

And so the majority (above or below thread-basement level) are certainly not asking for 'the moon on a stick', but yet nothing is working correctly at present, and people are rightly becoming scared and angry. However attempting to impugn peoples morality (as the OP appeared to do) is IMO - willfully or ignorantly - spectacularly missing the point.

Edited February 26 by JMD

[Axeman123]

13 hours ago, darkmarket said:

It's not a huge leap from the SNP's proposed state-appointed parent to state-matched couples. Dating app algorithmic control isn't so different.

Single women 40+ (that have "had their fun") would vote as a bloc for a solvent husband to be involuntarily allocated to them all right. If the exact equivalent relative to the male sexual imperative* was suggested however...can you imagine the outrage?

*Men that haven't built their worth yet (eg teens, broke, nerd etc) are the equivalent of women that have squandered theirs.

14 hours ago, King Penda said:

The system and women can’t have it all there own way I’m fully expecting men who use dating sites just to shag random women to be made illegal (somehow ) in the future ie false pretence or what not 

Already is. How many "date rape" or "he raped me repeatedly before we got engaged and went on a narrow boat holiday with my parents" etc stories are really "I wasn't into the sex but expected a relationship or lifestyle in exchange that didn't then happen" regrets and resentments?

Young women getting their tingles with the biggest selection of in-demand men will never be outlawed. "Sex positivity" is even propaanda for them doing it without shame as an act of liberation. Ordinary men on the other hand will be increasingly criminalised for doing better than the feminists think he was entitled to.

[JMD]

3 hours ago, Cattle Prod said:

A friend of mine's elderly Mum is bipolar, and she does this. One time he went to visit to find an entire Indian family staying at her house that she'd "rescued" from a bus stop  you have to laugh because it's just tragic, tragicomedy. But your comment made me think of the goverment in the same way: bipolar. Our governance has a collective mental defect, if only we could lob lithium into Westminster to calm them down.

Well our politicians have certainly habitualised smiling inanely (or is it insanely?), and do a lot of senseless hand and arm gesticulation. I note they also repeat the same failed policies but weirdly expect different results!

I recall that back when I was at school, parents would often describe such children who acted in that manner as being 'very excitable'. Everyone knew what that really meant, but today we elect these same loons into government.     

(begs the question who exactly are the mad ones, them or 'us'?; thread excluded as we are obviously  intellectually(++morally) superior!!)

 

Edited February 26 by JMD

[Pip321]

4 hours ago, DurhamBorn said:

Il put this here.I was running some numbers through the roadmap and there was one number that turned things away from collapse.One i never thought of before,but it turns several cross market tracks back down.It was to tax bennies the same as other income.IE you get a tax allowance the same as everyone,but all bennies over that (including PIP ,Housing benefit etc) were then taxed the same as earnings.

Its a straight forward reform,quite east to sell,its just treating parasites the same as everyone else.Of course,they could also make sure income from dividends etc are treated the same ie all income,wherever from is treated under the same tax system.

Would Hunt do it just before an election?.Very doubtful,but if he did he could maybe increase the tax free allowance straight away.Its the only number i have used that turns things.Extra tax etc,nothing works,it just speeds up collapse.

Seeing as the Telegraph pinch my work all the time without paying,maybe they would like to run this one.Tax bennies the same as all other income.There you go hacks,its the silver bullet that on my numbers slightly turns the roadmap from certain collapse to maybe not.

Several benefits are taxable already. So it’s not a huge leap. 

You have reiterated that the government is driving growth by consumption rather than production…..once you said that it began to make sense to me. I don’t mean the government are right….but at least I understood their flawed rationale.

So I imagine they ‘think’ almost all benefits are placed straight back into the economy and they get much of it back on VAT, fag and beer tax etc….but also they tax the recipient eg landlord, carer, food manufacturer, telecoms, energy supplier etc. Effectively benefits are QE.

Taxing bennies would be fairer though…..and if they have to raise them to compensate it makes it transparent that many on benefits are now better off than lower paid workers once you factor in free school meals, free rent, lower council tax, lower water rates etc etc.  So they can’t raise them too much otherwise £22k becomes £28k because it’s already a fine line and suddenly nobody goes to work anymore. 

[Axeman123]

IMO it stands to reason that the tax free allowance should be enough to survive on, since taxing a person already below such a level would be immoral. Following on the benefits cap should be the exact same sum, and absolutely rigid, since no shirker should be better off than a worker. Taxing benefits is an absolute dogs dinner conceptually, so this is the easiest solution. Otherwise: You don't have enough -> we give you more -> you now have too much -> we take some of it back, but through an entirely seperate mechanism with additional admin.

Let the govt pick a single number for both cases, benefits for a single mum with all the isms etc can get upto the 50k pre-tax PAYE level for example and yet personal allowance is literally 1/4 of that?! Perhaps a fudge (if nothing else to keep all the civil servants processing claims etc employed) would be transferrable or poolable personal allowances that also 1:1 raise the benefit cap. If a single mum needs 3k a month takehome to live on benefits, why would a working mum earing 3k a month pay tax on it? If anything the worker will need more not less; due to childcare, work clothes, and commuting.

Obviously all too simple, so will never happen of course.

[SpectrumFX]

7 minutes ago, Axeman123 said:

IMO it stands to reason that the tax free allowance should be enough to survive on, since taxing a person already below such a level would be immoral. Following on the benefits cap should be the exact same sum, and absolutely rigid, since no shirker should be better off than a worker. Taxing benefits is an absolute dogs dinner conceptually, so this is the easiest solution. Otherwise: You don't have enough -> we give you more -> you now have too much -> we take some of it back, but through an entirely seperate mechanism with additional admin.

Let the govt pick a single number for both cases, benefits for a single mum with all the isms etc can get upto the 50k pre-tax PAYE level for example and yet personal allowance is literally 1/4 of that?! Perhaps a fudge (if nothing else to keep all the civil servants processing claims etc employed) would be transferrable or poolable personal allowances that also 1:1 raise the benefit cap. If a single mum needs 3k a month takehome to live on benefits, why would a working mum earing 3k a month pay tax on it? If anything the worker will need more not less; due to childcare, work clothes, and commuting.

Obviously all too simple, so will never happen of course.

You could scrap tax credits, and replace it with a system that lets the parents use the kids tax allowance up to 18, or until they start using it themselves.

[janch]

3 hours ago, JMD said:

'low moral compass

The globalists have no moral compass according to this in ZH:

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/understand-globalists-we-must-understand-their-psychopathic-religion

Globalists assert that there is no such thing as the soul, no such thing as individual identity and no such thing as moral compass. 

 

I think this article explains a lot of what we're seeing all around us.

[ashestoashes]

22 minutes ago, janch said:

The globalists have no moral compass according to this in ZH:

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/understand-globalists-we-must-understand-their-psychopathic-religion

Globalists assert that there is no such thing as the soul, no such thing as individual identity and no such thing as moral compass. 

 

I think this article explains a lot of what we're seeing all around us.

Except if you live in Israel

[ThoughtCriminal]

5 hours ago, Cattle Prod said:

Explains where these stories about female prison wardens fucking the prisoners are coming from! If you ever wanted a vignette of societal decay, that has to be one of the worst, on so many levels. I'm sad to hear about your mates TC, where are we if we don't actually have the criminals guarded under lock and key?

I didn't even get into that aspect of it after my first reunion with the staff I actually worked with for ten years.

It was "Remember the nurse on houseblock 4? She got caught sucking off a con in the methadone room. Remember the drug worker from houseblock 3? She was fucking a drug dealer and smuggling phones for him inside trainers". On and on it went. Doesn't even go to court now as there's that many, just offer them chance to resign and sweep it under the carpet.

We're a third country with third world standards. It's just started sinking in for everyone.

 

 

[sancho panza]

53% of those on the sick have depression/anxiety as primary diagnosis.80% of those are signed off permanently.......

5.6mn on out of work bennies.Presume many more on UC/tax credits

teh crash looks baked in .Mrs P finds poaying 40% tax offputting,I can't imagine watching 62% of your earnings dissappear,especailly with what they blow it on.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-britain-stopped-working/

Why Britain stopped working

What sent the economy into recession at the end of last year? The government blames higher interest rates, ushered in by the Bank of England. The Bank in turn points the finger at shocks such as Russia’s war against Ukraine. Both are plausible answers – and certainly part of the equation. But the Office for National Statistics has offered up another explanation, one that the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will be grappling with as he prepares for the Budget in two weeks’ time: mass worklessness.

On the face of it, the work crisis doesn’t make much sense. The UK’s unemployment rate is at a near-historic low of 3.8 per cent, but it’s a deceptive measure that only includes those looking for work. Several million are not looking for work. The number on out-of-work benefits has risen to 5.6 million, higher than in any period of British history, and some 4,000 new applications for sickness benefits are submitted every day.

In previous recessions, there were no jobs available. But UK employers are currently trying and failing to fill more than 900,000 vacancies – far more than at any time before the pandemic. For years, the government has been reliant on higher immigration figures for any chance of economic growth. But even with record levels of net immigration to the UK – 745,000 in 2022 – there is still this desperate shortage of workers. Neither the government nor the opposition want to talk about the crisis, because they don’t know how to solve it.

As things stand, joblessness is coexisting with job vacancies in a way that should be economically impossible. Employers are begging for workers, and yet over 22 per cent of the working-age population in Middlesbrough, for instance, is unemployed. In Hartlepool it’s 24 per cent; in Blackpool, 25 per cent. ‘We’re watching these people waste away,’ laments one Tory MP, ‘and we’re letting it happen.’ Another MP was horrified to discover that a big chain store in his constituency buses workers in from places an hour’s drive away because they can’t find enough local people who want the jobs.

The temptation is to blame the country’s economic woes on a ‘workshy’ Britain. But this time four years ago, on the eve of the first lockdown, UK workforce participation was at 79.5 per cent: its highest level since records began. Has the national character changed so much in so short a time? Or have the Tories created a web of benefits and taxes so complicated that they have removed the motivation to work from across the income spectrum?

What has gone so badly wrong in Britain since the pandemic? Ministers are still trying to work it out, but one big factor seems to be the inability of Britain’s medical and welfare services to help with mental health problems. Even in 2019, a year before lockdowns, the number of working-age people who were off with long-term sickness had already risen to two million. Now it’s at almost three million. The Department for Work and Pensions forecasts say those on disability benefits will rise by another million – equivalent to a city the size of Leeds – in the next four years. Unlike with physical ailments (where efforts will often be made to make adjustments to keep people in work), a person who seeks help for severe anxiety or depression is more likely to be signed off work completely.

According to the ONS’s latest report, 53 per cent of people registered inactive with long-term sickness at the start of last year were reporting depression, bad nerves or anxiety as their main ailment, with the vast majority (more than a million) reporting one of these as a secondary health condition. Of those people assessed by welfare advisers, 80 per cent were categorised as too severely unwell to do any work at all. The ratio has doubled in the past decade.

All this wasted human potential is a scandal even before factoring in the financial cost, which threatens to cripple the next government. Working-age disability benefit spending is expected to rise from £19 billion to £29 billion over the next parliament, while the bill for working-age incapacity will jump from £26 billion to £34 billion.

Then there are the pension costs. The trend of worklessness is not confined to those on lower pay. Many well-off older workers discovered during the pandemic that a few lifestyle changes meant they could opt out of work altogether. At the height of the exodus, more than 400,000 workers aged 50 to 64 left the jobs market; since then only about half have returned. The Treasury’s response to this has been mixed: on the one hand, the lifetime pensions allowance was lifted last March with the sole aim of getting older workers, especially those in medicine, to remain in the workforce. On the other, ministers once again committed to the triple lock on the state pension.

By 2028, some four million additional workers will be pulled into paying tax, with three million others moving into the higher rate. After tax, take-home pay rates are increasingly not worth the time required and the responsibilities demanded. A single parent working 30 hours a week could stand to lose 76p of every £1 they earned in extra work, due to the withdrawal of their universal credit and the loss of other benefits.

There are distortions at the other end of the income spectrum, too. Those who earn between £100,000 and £125,000 risk being drawn into the 62 per cent tax bracket, at which point they lose their personal allowance. (In Scotland, due to its new tax rises, it’s 69 per cent.) There is an incentive for those who have children to keep their wage below £99,999, so as to remain on the right side of the line for the ‘free’ extended childcare Hunt announced last year. Why anyone on a six-figure salary should be receiving welfare is a separate question, but such is the state of the trap-addled UK tax system.

In the 1970s, people spoke of a ‘British disease’: strikes, low capital investment rates, dire labour productivity and a sick economy. The same symptoms can be seen now, compounded by a work fatigue that the Tories have been unable to cure.

This article originally said the number on out-of-work benefits, at 5.6 million, is at at all-time high. In fact, it hit 5.9 million in 1993 and during lockdown in 2021

Edited February 26 by sancho panza

[SpectrumFX]

6 minutes ago, sancho panza said:

53% of those on the sick have depression/anxiety as primary diagnosis.80% of those are signed off permanently.......

teh crash looks baked in .Mrs P finds poaying 40% tax offputting,I can't imagine watching 62% of your earnings dissappear,especailly with what they blow it on.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-britain-stopped-working/

Why Britain stopped working

What sent the economy into recession at the end of last year? The government blames higher interest rates, ushered in by the Bank of England. The Bank in turn points the finger at shocks such as Russia’s war against Ukraine. Both are plausible answers – and certainly part of the equation. But the Office for National Statistics has offered up another explanation, one that the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will be grappling with as he prepares for the Budget in two weeks’ time: mass worklessness.

On the face of it, the work crisis doesn’t make much sense. The UK’s unemployment rate is at a near-historic low of 3.8 per cent, but it’s a deceptive measure that only includes those looking for work. Several million are not looking for work. The number on out-of-work benefits has risen to 5.6 million, higher than in any period of British history, and some 4,000 new applications for sickness benefits are submitted every day.

In previous recessions, there were no jobs available. But UK employers are currently trying and failing to fill more than 900,000 vacancies – far more than at any time before the pandemic. For years, the government has been reliant on higher immigration figures for any chance of economic growth. But even with record levels of net immigration to the UK – 745,000 in 2022 – there is still this desperate shortage of workers. Neither the government nor the opposition want to talk about the crisis, because they don’t know how to solve it.

As things stand, joblessness is coexisting with job vacancies in a way that should be economically impossible. Employers are begging for workers, and yet over 22 per cent of the working-age population in Middlesbrough, for instance, is unemployed. In Hartlepool it’s 24 per cent; in Blackpool, 25 per cent. ‘We’re watching these people waste away,’ laments one Tory MP, ‘and we’re letting it happen.’ Another MP was horrified to discover that a big chain store in his constituency buses workers in from places an hour’s drive away because they can’t find enough local people who want the jobs.

The temptation is to blame the country’s economic woes on a ‘workshy’ Britain. But this time four years ago, on the eve of the first lockdown, UK workforce participation was at 79.5 per cent: its highest level since records began. Has the national character changed so much in so short a time? Or have the Tories created a web of benefits and taxes so complicated that they have removed the motivation to work from across the income spectrum?

What has gone so badly wrong in Britain since the pandemic? Ministers are still trying to work it out, but one big factor seems to be the inability of Britain’s medical and welfare services to help with mental health problems. Even in 2019, a year before lockdowns, the number of working-age people who were off with long-term sickness had already risen to two million. Now it’s at almost three million. The Department for Work and Pensions forecasts say those on disability benefits will rise by another million – equivalent to a city the size of Leeds – in the next four years. Unlike with physical ailments (where efforts will often be made to make adjustments to keep people in work), a person who seeks help for severe anxiety or depression is more likely to be signed off work completely.

According to the ONS’s latest report, 53 per cent of people registered inactive with long-term sickness at the start of last year were reporting depression, bad nerves or anxiety as their main ailment, with the vast majority (more than a million) reporting one of these as a secondary health condition. Of those people assessed by welfare advisers, 80 per cent were categorised as too severely unwell to do any work at all. The ratio has doubled in the past decade.

All this wasted human potential is a scandal even before factoring in the financial cost, which threatens to cripple the next government. Working-age disability benefit spending is expected to rise from £19 billion to £29 billion over the next parliament, while the bill for working-age incapacity will jump from £26 billion to £34 billion.

Then there are the pension costs. The trend of worklessness is not confined to those on lower pay. Many well-off older workers discovered during the pandemic that a few lifestyle changes meant they could opt out of work altogether. At the height of the exodus, more than 400,000 workers aged 50 to 64 left the jobs market; since then only about half have returned. The Treasury’s response to this has been mixed: on the one hand, the lifetime pensions allowance was lifted last March with the sole aim of getting older workers, especially those in medicine, to remain in the workforce. On the other, ministers once again committed to the triple lock on the state pension.

By 2028, some four million additional workers will be pulled into paying tax, with three million others moving into the higher rate. After tax, take-home pay rates are increasingly not worth the time required and the responsibilities demanded. A single parent working 30 hours a week could stand to lose 76p of every £1 they earned in extra work, due to the withdrawal of their universal credit and the loss of other benefits.

There are distortions at the other end of the income spectrum, too. Those who earn between £100,000 and £125,000 risk being drawn into the 62 per cent tax bracket, at which point they lose their personal allowance. (In Scotland, due to its new tax rises, it’s 69 per cent.) There is an incentive for those who have children to keep their wage below £99,999, so as to remain on the right side of the line for the ‘free’ extended childcare Hunt announced last year. Why anyone on a six-figure salary should be receiving welfare is a separate question, but such is the state of the trap-addled UK tax system.

In the 1970s, people spoke of a ‘British disease’: strikes, low capital investment rates, dire labour productivity and a sick economy. The same symptoms can be seen now, compounded by a work fatigue that the Tories have been unable to cure.

This article originally said the number on out-of-work benefits, at 5.6 million, is at at all-time high. In fact, it hit 5.9 million in 1993 and during lockdown in 202

Quelle Surprise.

It turns out that "the economy" isn't something that you can just turn on and off on a whim.

The workplace has been turning more and more tedious for decades. I remember when people had a laugh, and going to the pub lunchtime was the norm. Now going to the pub is actually banned in a lot office jobs, and you're forced to sit through tedious woke "training" about how you're a racist.

For a lot of people, the lockdowns away from that shit environment were like coming up for air. It's no wonder that so many people don't want to go back.

[DurhamBorn]

23 minutes ago, SpectrumFX said:

Quelle Surprise.

It turns out that "the economy" isn't something that you can just turn on and off on a whim.

The workplace has been turning more and more tedious for decades. I remember when people had a laugh, and going to the pub lunchtime was the norm. Now going to the pub is actually banned in a lot office jobs, and you're forced to sit through tedious woke "training" about how you're a racist.

For a lot of people, the lockdowns away from that shit environment were like coming up for air. It's no wonder that so many people don't want to go back.

Indeed,and the bennies so lucrative that its not worth the crap for an extra few quid a week.If you look at the "whats on in....." groups on Facebook on towns they are full of "stay at home mummie" and questions about "my kid is ADHD any clubs etc",to "im looking to mover here from x,i have housing benefit of £600 a month,any landlords"

Notice how my roadmap spotted what was coming a few years ago.Its always there in the numbers if you know what your doing.My multipliers have been on the money the last few years and the interesting part on those is they are all my own work overlaid on my mentors data sets.The unfairness now is off the scale though.One reason nothing has been done though is the amounts on higher level Public sector jobs and pensions dont care.Many have BTLs etc so gain from it all.

Sickness is now mostly all fraud,yet they seem unable to tackle it.They left it outside the benefit cap as well,so it was obvious everyone would jump across.I know many people on £1000 a week bennies.

[One percent]

6 minutes ago, DurhamBorn said:

Indeed,and the bennies so lucrative that its not worth the crap for an extra few quid a week.If you look at the "whats on in....." groups on Facebook on towns they are full of "stay at home mummie" and questions about "my kid is ADHD any clubs etc",to "im looking to mover here from x,i have housing benefit of £600 a month,any landlords"

Notice how my roadmap spotted what was coming a few years ago.Its always there in the numbers if you know what your doing.My multipliers have been on the money the last few years and the interesting part on those is they are all my own work overlaid on my mentors data sets.The unfairness now is off the scale though.One reason nothing has been done though is the amounts on higher level Public sector jobs and pensions dont care.Many have BTLs etc so gain from it all.

Sickness is now mostly all fraud,yet they seem unable to tackle it.They left it outside the benefit cap as well,so it was obvious everyone would jump across.I know many people on £1000 a week bennies.

This is the one that gets me.  For generations, young people with a bit of ambition, left whitby for greener pastures @spygirl   I was one.  On moving back, I cannot believe the number of bennie scratters from the large conurbations have moved in. If you don’t work, you don’t need to live near work, you can live in a nice part of the country.  Every day, there is one of those posts on farcebook. ‘We want to move to are Whitby. We love it there.  Any rentals going?   Fuckers are worse than tourists.  

[Pip321]

1 hour ago, DurhamBorn said:

Indeed,and the bennies so lucrative that its not worth the crap for an extra few quid a week.If you look at the "whats on in....." groups on Facebook on towns they are full of "stay at home mummie" and questions about "my kid is ADHD any clubs etc",to "im looking to mover here from x,i have housing benefit of £600 a month,any landlords"

Notice how my roadmap spotted what was coming a few years ago.Its always there in the numbers if you know what your doing.My multipliers have been on the money the last few years and the interesting part on those is they are all my own work overlaid on my mentors data sets.The unfairness now is off the scale though.One reason nothing has been done though is the amounts on higher level Public sector jobs and pensions dont care.Many have BTLs etc so gain from it all.

Sickness is now mostly all fraud,yet they seem unable to tackle it.They left it outside the benefit cap as well,so it was obvious everyone would jump across.I know many people on £1000 a week bennies.

Don’t like to over echo….but those Facebook posts are also typically straight from a stereotype text book. Genuine posts…..and we are in posh Yorkshire 😉🤔

Urgent, does anyone know someone who can do a new set of nails this afternoon. My usual lady is sick…..with a little check some 24 year old chubby (but well maintained and quite Bonnie) single mum of 2. 

Loads of requests for rentals, home repairs (always urgent), second hand furniture, prams, kids clubs…and always mention of kids with ‘special needs’.

It’s a fascinating insight into our communities and our economy……ands its shite 🤦🏻‍♂️

[One percent]

5 minutes ago, Pip321 said:

Don’t like to over echo….but those Facebook posts are also typically straight from a stereotype text book. Genuine posts…..and we are in posh Yorkshire 😉🤔

Urgent, does anyone know someone who can do a new set of nails this afternoon. My usual lady is sick…..with a little check some 24 year old chubby (but well maintained and quite Bonnie) single mum of 2. 

Loads of requests for rentals, home repairs (always urgent), second hand furniture, prams, kids clubs…and always mention of kids with ‘special needs’.

It’s a fascinating insight into our communities and our economy……ands its shite 🤦🏻‍♂️

@JoeDavola your gif if you please.  

[JoeDavola]

8 minutes ago, One percent said:

@JoeDavola your gif if you please.  

Now now if your expecting it then it’s not as much fun is it!

[honkydonkey]

On 25/02/2024 at 10:50, ThoughtCriminal said:

I'm simultaneously shocked and amused at how many Kumbaya Civic Nationalists/sensible centrists there are on here who think there's any saving this country. "It's economic and political not ethnic, we need to be less divisive" etc. 

DB has laid out the economic reasons why collapse is now baked in, the cultural decay is what underlies it. I went to another reunion last night, this time with the people I trained with when I joined the prison service. Some of them are now governors and it was the same story: Whitehall policy is to deliberately recruit young girls into the job as they're more pliable, 50% of staff now females under 25 in some areas. Alarm bells go and experienced staff ignore it as they know nobody will have their back. People were fighting to get stuck in when I joined. Staff turnover is huge as they can't cope with the intimidation from prisoners. Experienced staff, 20 years in, being deliberately overlooked for promotion in favour of 23 years olds with two years in the job and rightly saying "fuck you, I'm gone". Out of a class of 25 from 2003 only 7 are still in the job, bearing in mind we're all Gen X and this was always considered a job for life. All that experience gone forever. Imagine an army in which barely any NCOs have more than a few years in the job. Do you think it would win many wars?

The Met now has 10% of officers functionally illiterate in English. Nothing to do with immigration though, right? UK is the acid attack capital of Europe. Nothing to do with immigration though, right? Sweden is now the bomb, grenade, shooting and rape capital of Europe. Nothing to do with immigration though, right?

I think the phrase is "don't piss down my leg and tell me its raining".

[Pip321]

27 minutes ago, One percent said:

@JoeDavola your gif if you please.  

15 minutes ago, JoeDavola said:

Now now if your expecting it then it’s not as much fun is it!

A really really posh part of Yorkshire. Come on….you know you want to 😂😂

[Mandalorian]

9 hours ago, DurhamBorn said:

I agree,but its the one number that turns the roadmap off vertical.We are 100% certain of a disaster on the present path and it needs a big change,something really big.Tax more wont do it,its making it worse because they are taxing the low paid not on bennies etc.

The problem is they wouldn't be "taxing" benefits, would they?  The state would just be pretending to withhold some of the money it would otherwise have handed over. 

(Not a single state employee pays any income tax or NI - the state just never hands over 20% or 40% of the quoted salary.  Public sector tax is all just pretend.)

Granted, the benefits bill would drop by 20% all else being equal, but they'd still tax the private sector the same amounts as now and waste the 20%.

[AWW]

4 hours ago, sancho panza said:

53% of those on the sick have depression/anxiety as primary diagnosis.80% of those are signed off permanently.......

What

The

Fuck

[sancho panza]

2 hours ago, AWW said:

What

The

Fuck

Swimming

in a

river in

Egypt

#thedelusionrunsdeep

#itswhatwedoasanationjsutdenytheobviousandhopenoonenotices........

laugh/cry??? I've underlined the 'no sh1t sherlock' clue imho

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/02/25/blow-putin-europe-breaks-free-russian-oil/

Blow to Putin as Europe breaks free of Russian oil for good

Western Europe has broken free of direct Russian oil imports for good in a blow to Vladimir Putin, research by the European energy consultancy Rystad suggests.

Analysts found that the UK and much of Europe have reversed a years-long rise in reliance on Russian oil and gas before the Ukraine conflict, shifting instead to other suppliers such as the US and Canada.

Jorge Leon, Rystad’s senior vice president for oil markets, said: “I think people underestimated how flexible the energy system is. 

“Just before the war, just the idea of, we’re going to stop buying oil and gas directly from Russia, would have been crazy. But it has largely happened.”

According to Eurostat, in 2020 imports from Russia made up 39pc of the gas used in the European Union, 23pc of oil imports and 46pc of coal imports.

 

 

The UK relied on Russia for about 30pc of its diesel, 27pc of its coal and up to 10pc of its gas – which arrived partly on ships as liquid natural gas (LNG) and partly via trans-European pipelines.

Ashley Kelty, director of oil and gas research at Panmure Gordon investment bank, said the UK had halted direct imports of oil from Russia but the reality was more complex.

He said: “The UK was dependent on Russia for diesel fuel – 30pc came from Russia pre sanctions. This has been replaced by Russian diesel refined in India and China, and therefore outside sanctions.

“The EU was very reliant on Russian gas – about 40pc of all gas used came from Russia. This has been replaced by US LNG and by demand destruction through two mild winters and the collapse of German industrial demand.

 

Edited February 27 by sancho panza