comment by it'sonlyagame (U6426)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by clapfreesince2003 (U22207)
posted 10 minutes ago
I reckon there will be a few on here that secretly want this truce to fail because Trump is the broker.

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Says the guy who made a living out of death and destruction.
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Have you got a problem with our armed forces?

comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by it'sonlyagame (U6426)
posted 16 seconds ago
comment by clapfreesince2003 (U22207)
posted 10 minutes ago
I reckon there will be a few on here that secretly want this truce to fail because Trump is the broker.

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Says the guy who made a living out of death and destruction.
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Clappy has a job?!
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Apparently he longed for a life killing and maiming imperial subjects in the tropics, but when he found out wasn't enough shooting fish in a barrel for his liking, he remembered he had weak knees and decided to milk the state for the rest of his existence.

comment by clapfreesince2003 (U22207)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by it'sonlyagame (U6426)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by clapfreesince2003 (U22207)
posted 10 minutes ago
I reckon there will be a few on here that secretly want this truce to fail because Trump is the broker.

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Says the guy who made a living out of death and destruction.
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Have you got a problem with our armed forces?
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Only that they're riddled with faaackin naaaazis like you

comment by clapfreesince2003 (U22207)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by it'sonlyagame (U6426)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by clapfreesince2003 (U22207)
posted 10 minutes ago
I reckon there will be a few on here that secretly want this truce to fail because Trump is the broker.

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Says the guy who made a living out of death and destruction.
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Have you got a problem with our armed forces?
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Did you serve in the ME Clappy?

comment by clapfreesince2003 (U22207)
posted 30 minutes ago
I reckon there will be a few on here that secretly want this truce to fail because Trump is the broker.
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Name the names that you reckon.

comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by clapfreesince2003 (U22207)
posted 30 minutes ago
I reckon there will be a few on here that secretly want this truce to fail because Trump is the broker.
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Name the names that you reckon.
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And away he disappears for another couple days 🤣

comment by it'sonlyagame (U6426)
posted 6 seconds ago
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by it'sonlyagame (U6426)
posted 16 seconds ago
comment by clapfreesince2003 (U22207)
posted 10 minutes ago
I reckon there will be a few on here that secretly want this truce to fail because Trump is the broker.

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Says the guy who made a living out of death and destruction.
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Clappy has a job?!
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Apparently he longed for a life killing and maiming imperial subjects in the tropics, but when he found out wasn't enough shooting fish in a barrel for his liking, he remembered he had weak knees and decided to milk the state for the rest of his existence.
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Funny enough, I was stationed in Belize. Sadly, the opportunity to shoot someone didn't arise.

Although I'm not ruling out that he's a racist, to me Jenrick's white face comment maybe shows more that he's an idiot than a racist.

He says he's not comfortable that in his country he can go for 90 minutes in a town/city without seeing another white face, and that it's not about colour it's about people living side by side.

Well, has he ever gone 90 minutes without seeing a brown face? What did he think then?

And what is he proposing as the 'solution' to this lack of integration? Brown people to relocate? White people to relocate?

comment by clapfreesince2003 (U22207)
posted 36 minutes ago
I reckon there will be a few on here that secretly want this truce to fail because Trump is the broker.

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Important to note that this is projection from Clappy. He always hopes things fail that would suit his agenda, so he can't compute the fact that people who dislike Trump would still want an effective peace deal in the region even if Trump were involved.

comment by clapfreesince2003 (U22207)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by it'sonlyagame (U6426)
posted 6 seconds ago
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by it'sonlyagame (U6426)
posted 16 seconds ago
comment by clapfreesince2003 (U22207)
posted 10 minutes ago
I reckon there will be a few on here that secretly want this truce to fail because Trump is the broker.

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Says the guy who made a living out of death and destruction.
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Clappy has a job?!
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Apparently he longed for a life killing and maiming imperial subjects in the tropics, but when he found out wasn't enough shooting fish in a barrel for his liking, he remembered he had weak knees and decided to milk the state for the rest of his existence.
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Funny enough, I was stationed in Belize. Sadly, the opportunity to shoot someone didn't arise.
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Fvcking hell

comment by Robbing Hoody - No Halloween this year, the horror Is Rëal (U6374)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by clapfreesince2003 (U22207)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by it'sonlyagame (U6426)
posted 6 seconds ago
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by it'sonlyagame (U6426)
posted 16 seconds ago
comment by clapfreesince2003 (U22207)
posted 10 minutes ago
I reckon there will be a few on here that secretly want this truce to fail because Trump is the broker.

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Says the guy who made a living out of death and destruction.
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Clappy has a job?!
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Apparently he longed for a life killing and maiming imperial subjects in the tropics, but when he found out wasn't enough shooting fish in a barrel for his liking, he remembered he had weak knees and decided to milk the state for the rest of his existence.
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Funny enough, I was stationed in Belize. Sadly, the opportunity to shoot someone didn't arise.
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Fvcking hell
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This explains a lot about old Clappy

Props for protecting us against the global threat of…, Guatemala

comment by it'sonlyagame (U6426)
posted 45 minutes ago
BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS!DONALD J. TRUMPPRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 0 seconds ago
comment by Robbing Hoody - No Halloween this year, the horror Is Rëal (U6374)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by clapfreesince2003 (U22207)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by it'sonlyagame (U6426)
posted 6 seconds ago
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by it'sonlyagame (U6426)
posted 16 seconds ago
comment by clapfreesince2003 (U22207)
posted 10 minutes ago
I reckon there will be a few on here that secretly want this truce to fail because Trump is the broker.

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Says the guy who made a living out of death and destruction.
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Clappy has a job?!
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Apparently he longed for a life killing and maiming imperial subjects in the tropics, but when he found out wasn't enough shooting fish in a barrel for his liking, he remembered he had weak knees and decided to milk the state for the rest of his existence.
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Funny enough, I was stationed in Belize. Sadly, the opportunity to shoot someone didn't arise.
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Fvcking hell
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This explains a lot about old Clappy
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You can call me a psychopathic racist all you want, but being called old is below the belt.

I bet that was a mad experience though, dissent they used to do jungle training out there.

Be honest Clapfree, did you slowly raise yourself out of the water ala Apocalypse Now?

I’d totally have been doing that.

Dissent? Didn’t *

5000 yard stare and "you weren't there man, you weren't there" doesn't have the same effect when 'there' is fackin Belize

comment by clapfreesince2003 (U22207)
posted 38 minutes ago
comment by Robbing Hoody - No Halloween this year, the horror Is Rëal (U6374)
posted 12 minutes ago
comment by clapfreesince2003 (U22207)
posted 2 minutes ago
I reckon there will be a few on here that secretly want this truce to fail because Trump is the broker.
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That makes me think it’s you
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Not me, lad, I'll be chuffed. I'm sick to the back teeth of the whole subject.
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This is quite telling.

He wants it to end because hems sick of the subject being discussed, not because he disagrees with the genocide being committed to

comment by Robbing Hoody - No Halloween this year, the horror Is Rëal (U6374)
posted 5 minutes ago
Props for protecting us against the global threat of…, Guatemala
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You go there for jungle warfare training, and then you get transferred to a desert.

Apparently the government are quietly rowing back on the big announcement to abolish NHS England. They hadn't anticipated the demand for redundancy and over 3000 people applied for voluntary redundancy - they just can't afford it.

I'm centre-left by natural inclination and voted for Labour, but they seem to be making a real pigs ear of governing. So many u-turns.

comment by Playmaker (U22780)
posted 2 hours, 19 minutes ago
comment by Two Balls, One Saka (U19684)
posted about 5 hours ago
comment by Darren The King Fletcher (U10026)
posted 4 hours, 49 minutes ago
comment by Playmaker (U22780)
posted 18 minutes ago
Not sure how Badenoch's pledge to scrap stamp duty which will send house prices soaring will help the housing crisis and enable more people get on the property ladder.

It will help the wealthiest though.

She really is terrible.
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And they’d just try and recover the losses by cutting public spending again.

I thought the Tories were trying to rebrand?
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The Stamp duty issue is potentially a bit more nuanced than you might think. Over here in Australia it does put people off downsizing. I'm not fully across all the figures but from my understanding it's not like stamp duty rates have decreased while house prices exploded so as house prices grew the effective buying power went down due to stamp duty.

If a 1 million dollar (or pound) home attracts 100k in stamp duty then to sell your house, and buy the exact same one next door would cost you 100k.

If you're someone who bought a big house, finally paid off your mortgage as the kids flew the coop and want to downsize stamp duty may well put you off.

So this leads to large homes going to waste unnecessarily.

Removing the duty will just see prices go up at least by the amount that duty would have been, that seems pretty predictable but at least you'd likely get more people downsizing.

Not that the Tories would ever do something like this for the good of ordinary people and their motives will be based on greed as usual but removal of stamp duty along with many other measures could form part of a sensible strategy for housing. There should be very different rules for multi home owners, here in Australia we incentivise it with massive tax breaks
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If I may, I think you're right about the nuances and also about the reluctance to downsize.

The problem is that removing or reducing stamp duty on its own over here hasn't helped buyers without addressing the supply problem, particularly when you look at the impact on first time buyers. Removing stamp duty upto 300k without the increase in supply means you raised demand significantly until this balances with the stamp duty threshold for properties at the bottom of the housing ladder. This doesn't just impact on FTBs but also on anyone wanting to buy those properties includng those wanting to downsize. Market forces then drive prices of bigger properties so the whole thing has a knock on effect.

And that's where an exemption has a limit. I mentioned the price hikes came to an equilibrium between supply/demand and the threshold for exemption. Removing stamp duty completely would mean no end to the price increases.

The issue really is supply. Until this is addressed in the UK along with significant increases in social housing, removing stamp duty will just fuel increases more and more, and price many more out of the market and I'd argue also put ppl off downsizing as well.
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I sort of agree but think supply is slightly over stated at the same time. As much as there is a supply issue, there's a distribution issue. I would be keen to explore removing private landlords and second home owners from the system altogether for any existing property. The main burden of building can go to anyone wanting and capable of buying a second (or hundredth) home.

comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 6 minutes ago
5000 yard stare and "you weren't there man, you weren't there" doesn't have the same effect when 'there' is fackin Belize
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Caye caulker is very pleasant

comment by Two Balls, One Saka (U19684)
posted less than a minute ago
comment by Playmaker (U22780)
posted 2 hours, 19 minutes ago
comment by Two Balls, One Saka (U19684)
posted about 5 hours ago
comment by Darren The King Fletcher (U10026)
posted 4 hours, 49 minutes ago
comment by Playmaker (U22780)
posted 18 minutes ago
Not sure how Badenoch's pledge to scrap stamp duty which will send house prices soaring will help the housing crisis and enable more people get on the property ladder.

It will help the wealthiest though.

She really is terrible.
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And they’d just try and recover the losses by cutting public spending again.

I thought the Tories were trying to rebrand?
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The Stamp duty issue is potentially a bit more nuanced than you might think. Over here in Australia it does put people off downsizing. I'm not fully across all the figures but from my understanding it's not like stamp duty rates have decreased while house prices exploded so as house prices grew the effective buying power went down due to stamp duty.

If a 1 million dollar (or pound) home attracts 100k in stamp duty then to sell your house, and buy the exact same one next door would cost you 100k.

If you're someone who bought a big house, finally paid off your mortgage as the kids flew the coop and want to downsize stamp duty may well put you off.

So this leads to large homes going to waste unnecessarily.

Removing the duty will just see prices go up at least by the amount that duty would have been, that seems pretty predictable but at least you'd likely get more people downsizing.

Not that the Tories would ever do something like this for the good of ordinary people and their motives will be based on greed as usual but removal of stamp duty along with many other measures could form part of a sensible strategy for housing. There should be very different rules for multi home owners, here in Australia we incentivise it with massive tax breaks
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If I may, I think you're right about the nuances and also about the reluctance to downsize.

The problem is that removing or reducing stamp duty on its own over here hasn't helped buyers without addressing the supply problem, particularly when you look at the impact on first time buyers. Removing stamp duty upto 300k without the increase in supply means you raised demand significantly until this balances with the stamp duty threshold for properties at the bottom of the housing ladder. This doesn't just impact on FTBs but also on anyone wanting to buy those properties includng those wanting to downsize. Market forces then drive prices of bigger properties so the whole thing has a knock on effect.

And that's where an exemption has a limit. I mentioned the price hikes came to an equilibrium between supply/demand and the threshold for exemption. Removing stamp duty completely would mean no end to the price increases.

The issue really is supply. Until this is addressed in the UK along with significant increases in social housing, removing stamp duty will just fuel increases more and more, and price many more out of the market and I'd argue also put ppl off downsizing as well.
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I sort of agree but think supply is slightly over stated at the same time. As much as there is a supply issue, there's a distribution issue. I would be keen to explore removing private landlords and second home owners from the system altogether for any existing property. The main burden of building can go to anyone wanting and capable of buying a second (or hundredth) home.
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*Sorry to clarify, that removes the market from the property market which is, imo the main issue here. It's people using it to grow wealth not to use a home for living and I don't blame individuals, it's been the best bet in town for a long time, but it's a huge, crushing failure to anyone outside of the game.

comment by bmcl1987 - the M stands for meltdown 🤓 (U14177)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 6 minutes ago
5000 yard stare and "you weren't there man, you weren't there" doesn't have the same effect when 'there' is fackin Belize
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Caye caulker is very pleasant
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Clappy spent his career narked off he wasn't allowed to shoot some brown people in Belize so came home narked off at all the brown people.

comment by Szoboss (U6997)
posted 10 minutes ago
Apparently the government are quietly rowing back on the big announcement to abolish NHS England. They hadn't anticipated the demand for redundancy and over 3000 people applied for voluntary redundancy - they just can't afford it.

I'm centre-left by natural inclination and voted for Labour, but they seem to be making a real pigs ear of governing. So many u-turns.

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Where'd you hear that?

They're not just pulling the rug out from underneath it but a managed dismantling still planned for completion in 2027