Most people were voting Not Conservative. I knew even with labour in we’d still be getting fucked, but was hoping they’d throw a little lube into the act.

It would typically be the local council of that particular area.

Oh the poor landlord, won’t somebody think of the landlord choosing to sell off one of her six nine properties?!

The starting salary for a police officer is around £30k, going up to £48k. Many of these people are just trying to do a job as best they can to get by, they are following orders. We can only hope most of these people will do the right thing if things become extreme.

We shouldn’t condone attacking people for doing their job, that is what leads to good causes being flagged as terrorism.

With now over 400k signatures I suspect this will still get a debate, plus on the back of Reform saying they would repeal it, we can only hope labour will backpedal like they do with so many other things when something is considered unpopular.

One can hope…but I’ve got very very low expectations.

They’ll do anything but tax the rich…

Why would the rats try to catch more rats?

My parents, and my partner’s parents and aunts and uncles all watch GB News. They seem to think that it’s “the immigrants” that are causing all their woes even though most of them are now retired or close to retiring.

Gen X, Millennials, and Zoomers aren’t the target demographic for GB News I suspect. I do hope it isn’t going to sway the country to voting in Reform in the future.

How do we even move towards this level of change? It’s obvious that we will not get the opportunity to vote in a party that does this. I feel like the course we are on won’t change dramatically without some kind of revolution, and I would think anything like that would quickly get shut down before it ever begins.

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It is legal, but under specific conditions. Better than it could be, not as good as it should be.

Probably. Likely to cater to the older generation of technophobes.

This was my mistake and you’re right. I had read as part of an announcement in the news that Ethanol is used for beer, wine, and spirits. Seems I wasn’t the only fool.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25149208.labour-red-faced-glaring-error-us-trade-deal-announcement/

https://beerandbrewing.com/dictionary/BVYow0MwFL/

Just one possible example would be that Ethanol is used in making beer, wines, and spirits. If pre-pandemic it was found people were socialising after work more than they are now, the consumption of those things would have been greater compared to now. I imagine they will want people socialising more after work to buy more booze to make the most of the imported Ethanol.

With the latest ethanol trade deal with the US, I can only imagine there is going to be another big push to eliminate WFH/hybrid working in a lot of businesses.

That’s right, us peasants shouldn’t be at home with our families and loved ones, we should be working long hours, sitting in traffic or stood waiting for another late train, and then spending what we’ve earned on drowning our frustrations of the hamster wheel we’re on at the end of the day.

I’m really hoping this whole push to get everyone back in to the office is a generational thing from the boomers, and once they’re finally retired we can see a new shift in the workplace. But then that is probably being too optimistic.

I’m surprised the BBC didn’t include the national insurance changes around Indians coming to the UK not having to pay NI in the first 3 years, and vice versa for UK people going to India. Seems like a fairly big part of the deal that no doubt Reform/Tories will latch onto to bring the anti-immigrantion lot to a frothing rage.

I think you’re right, they know it’s a problem and they agree something needs to be done. There is a lot connected to it and it has a large impact on the image of the politicians.

Think? A lot of people know most of them are in it for themselves. It’s just a career to a lot of them, lining up the next job, and sorting a lot of their mates out.

“This is obviously a worrying time for families across the UK, which is why we remain determined to get bills down in the long term.”

Just continue to struggle to survive for the next few years people, and then everything will be dandy.