comment by No Løve (U1282)
posted 1 hour, 3 minutes ago
comment by Michael Scofield (U11781)
posted 26 minutes ago
Three men handed suspended sentences for sexual offences against underage girl groomed over social media

https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2025/june/three-men-handed-suspended-sentences-for-sexual-offences-against-underage-girl-groomed-over-social-media/

wtf? Clappy what do you have to say about this?
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Two tier policing.
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guess the other tier is where they wait for another 1399 victims to do something about it.

comment by Michael Scofield (U11781)
posted 12 hours, 6 minutes ago
Westminster Voting Intention...

...Amongst People with Jobs:
LAB: 27%
RFM: 24%
LDM: 16%
CON: 15%
GRN: 12%

...Amongst the Retired:
RFM: 36%
CON: 28%
LDM: 14%
LAB: 13%
GRN: 4%

Via @YouGov, 29 May - 18 Jun.

This poll really doesn’t surprise me one bit.
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That poll is so depressing.

I know it's not every pensioner but I'm so tired of this country bending over backwards for pensioners/60+ crowd all the damn time at the expense of everyone else.

Brexit was won by that cohort, you can't touch WFA or even begin to discuss the triple lock without being accused of trying to kill your nan, and now potentially a Reform government.

This Bezos wedding while the world faces multiple crises and rising inequality gives of really dystopian last days of Rome vibes

comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 5 minutes ago
This Bezos wedding while the world faces multiple crises and rising inequality gives of really dystopian last days of Rome vibes
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Agreed. It’s just all so smug

comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 7 minutes ago
This Bezos wedding while the world faces multiple crises and rising inequality gives of really dystopian last days of Rome vibes
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Nauseating. Glad the locals are protesting.

comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 3 hours, 37 minutes ago
comment by No Løve (U1282)
posted 11 minutes ago
comment by No Løve (U1282)
posted about a minute ago
comment by Michael Scofield (U11781)
posted 26 minutes ago
Three men handed suspended sentences for sexual offences against underage girl groomed over social media

https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2025/june/three-men-handed-suspended-sentences-for-sexual-offences-against-underage-girl-groomed-over-social-media/

wtf? Clappy what do you have to say about this?
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Two tier policing.
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How the fack do you get a suspended sentence for this?
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The lads were 16/17 at the time, I'm surprised it even went to court.
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Yeah, but the manner in which they planned and committed the crime, multiple victims in one go, who knows how many times they've done this before. It's not like they dated a girl and banged her. They are a grooming gang in every way FFS, and they clearly know it's wrong.

Sounds a bit risky to let them back out without at least some form of education/rehabilitation process tbh. This is a serious crime.

Keith did an interview:


* Says he 'deeply regrets' warning that Britain risks becoming 'an Island of Strangers' - comments already provoking a backlash from MPs who spent days defending him on rounds afterwards

* Reveals his sister-in-law was at his house when the front door was firebombed. 'She happened to still be awake so she heard the noise and got the fire brigade. But it could have been a different story'

* Says his Rose Garden speech, in which he warned that 'things will get worse before they get better', was a mistake that 'squeezed the hope out'

* Says Sue Gray was the wrong person for the job. 'It was my call, my judgment, my decision and I got that wrong. Sue wasn't the right person for this job

The scale of the government's u-turn on welfare payments is even bigger than expected - and much more expensive

* The Resolution Foundatoin estimates that the combined climbdowns on welfare and winter fuel will cost £4.5billion, money which will have to be found elsewhere - most likely through tax rises

* All those currently receiving PIP will be protected from the welfare changes - around 370,000 people. Cost around £1.5bn

* All those currently receiving the health element of Universal Credit - around 2.2million people - will have their income protected in real terms, ie their benefits will not be frozen. Cost around £1.5bn

* The decision to reinstate winter fuel payments to 7million pensioners was a further £1.5billion


What a shambles, the bill is pretty much useless now

Starmers a proper caant isnt he, doesnt stand for labour values at all and most his party is against him on every single one of his views.

Tryna target the sick the jobless and the elderly isnt very labour like is it? 1.5bn is a drop in the ocean if they taxed the big companies properly.

Starmer is just a tory in disguise

comment by Michael Scofield (U11781)
posted 8 minutes ago
The scale of the government's u-turn on welfare payments is even bigger than expected - and much more expensive

* The Resolution Foundatoin estimates that the combined climbdowns on welfare and winter fuel will cost £4.5billion, money which will have to be found elsewhere - most likely through tax rises

* All those currently receiving PIP will be protected from the welfare changes - around 370,000 people. Cost around £1.5bn

* All those currently receiving the health element of Universal Credit - around 2.2million people - will have their income protected in real terms, ie their benefits will not be frozen. Cost around £1.5bn

* The decision to reinstate winter fuel payments to 7million pensioners was a further £1.5billion


What a shambles, the bill is pretty much useless now
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But at the same time… good

EVEN MORE BAD NEWS FOR BLIGHTY…

Rosso may have to return to England’s green and pleasant land.

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse…

comment by EVERYTHING’S POTE! (U17054)
posted 58 seconds ago
EVEN MORE BAD NEWS FOR BLIGHTY…

Rosso may have to return to England’s green and pleasant land.

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse…
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We don’t want your sort here

comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 6 seconds ago
comment by EVERYTHING’S POTE! (U17054)
posted 58 seconds ago
EVEN MORE BAD NEWS FOR BLIGHTY…

Rosso may have to return to England’s green and pleasant land.

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse…
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We don’t want your sort here
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Tough shiiiit, I only have one passport

NEW: The IFS now estimates that these welfare reforms will save the Government just £2.5bn by 2029 - half of the originally projected £5bn

This is heartbreaking, but hating Muslims is edgy where as antisemitism is just the root of all evil

https://x.com/i_ammukhtar/status/1938499971680215543?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw

JUST IN: Israeli court rejects Netanyahu’s request to postpone testimony in his corruption trial

https://youtube.com/shorts/DCQfX6Vr4JU?si=8uV_Ij_0mblNbPOK

comment by EVERYTHING’S POTE! (U17054)
posted 10 minutes ago
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 6 seconds ago
comment by EVERYTHING’S POTE! (U17054)
posted 58 seconds ago
EVEN MORE BAD NEWS FOR BLIGHTY…

Rosso may have to return to England’s green and pleasant land.

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse…
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We don’t want your sort here
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Tough shiiiit, I only have one passport
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Being deported?

comment by Michael Scofield (U11781)
posted 21 minutes ago
JUST IN: Israeli court rejects Netanyahu’s request to postpone testimony in his corruption trial
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Plot twist, Rosso to become Reform voter on his return?

Rosso aiming for High Office with Reform

comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 1 hour, 31 minutes ago
comment by EVERYTHING’S POTE! (U17054)
posted 10 minutes ago
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 6 seconds ago
comment by EVERYTHING’S POTE! (U17054)
posted 58 seconds ago
EVEN MORE BAD NEWS FOR BLIGHTY…

Rosso may have to return to England’s green and pleasant land.

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse…
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We don’t want your sort here
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Tough shiiiit, I only have one passport
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Being deported?
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Long (and complicated) story short, the new right wing/far right-pandering govt here is changing immigration laws in such a way that it’d make it impossible to bring my dad here to look after him in his old age (despite the fact that his pensions would comfortably pay for private healthcare and otherwise dump a load of cash into the Portuguese economy).

So I expect I’ll be back in the UK for a few years (?) in the not too distant future.

No idea what that’ll mean for our business, but I suspect we’ll have to port it out of Portugal and back to the UK, which will be a ballache.

Bummer, I’d been following your immigration ‘journey’ with interest as I can’t really see myself living in the UK in 2 years time.

I imagine you wouldn’t have had any of the shizzle if it wasn’t for Brexit.

At least we got our country back

Immigration? It’s ex-pat, I think you’ll find.

Sorry to hear that, rosso.