Yep, if I was homeless with no prospects, especially in winter, a prison would be looking pretty attractive.

Quick! Let’s shut the country down for a year, spend £250 billion on things that have no intrinsic value and then act surprised when we get a shit load of inflation and a cost of living crisis.

UK taxpayer is now liable for Thames Water’s £12bn debt.

How the fuck did we end up with a system that allows so called “investors” to not just pick our pockets, but the pockets of people that haven’t even been born yet?

All this to allow Thames to survive for at least one year.

Thames needs to be allowed to fail and investors need to take the hit, not the bill payer.

I think it’s a fair point just not well made.

To paraphrase my first reply, to each their own, if someone truly enjoys gambling, they’ll find a way to do it, legal or not.

However, there is a lot of good that money could be doing, whether it is used to help your kids or anything else like that, rather than it being hoovered up by fat cat CEOs and people that hold shares in gambling businesses.

Why stop at online. The amount of pensioners and vulnerable people wasting their money on horses and fruit machines is pretty depressing.

On the one hand, I strongly believe in personal freedom (as long as you’re only harming yourself) and if people want to spend their money, that way it should be up to them. On the other hand, some people are vulnerable and need to be protected from themselves.

Apparently the fastest known winds in the solar system are 1,100mph and on Neptune.

About time. I still won’t be giving my custom to P&O on principle tho.

It was introduced under the Tories but massively expanded by new labour. The article says that the money won’t be syphoned off by investors and shareholders but I’m extremely sceptical. The only solution is nationalisation.

It’s not going to be fair unless the average person has the ability to rent a council house.

The right to buy is completely useless to people who are paying £1000pcm to the slum lord.

Yh, not like it’s her job to parent the child, that’s the government’s responsibility!

Worth noting that Canning died in office, rather than having to resign in disgrace.

People used twitter?

I was generalising. I think it’s pretty obvious that you can save for an early retirement if you’re lucky enough to have the means to do so.

Which the article implies many are struggling to afford.

Assuming that it pays enough to justify an early retirement.

I believe you could scrape by on a state pension if you have your accomodation paid for, but it’d be absolutely no frills and if your rent is £1000pcm, you’re absolutely fucked.

Yep, two years of arthritis and then death, what a brilliant retirement it will be!

Definitely not my idea of a nice day out haha

It’s not the same. Puberty blockers used for premature puberty just hold off what will happen until it’s supposed to. Blocking puberty during the time you’re meant to be having it is not considered to be fully reversible according to the NHS.

I agree that the age of 18 is arbitrary, but we as a society do draw the line at a point where we say whether someone is old enough to be considered an adult.

I wasn’t trying to say that puberty blockers or transitioning is a vice, I was trying to make the implication that the mind is still developing at these times and if we consider that to be true then maybe we should be holding off on a decision that will significantly impact them for the rest of their lives.