James105

Yes the geniuses in Labour raised the minimum wage at the same time as hitting businesses with higher NICs and a lower threshold. The clueless morons didn't even stop to think why there was a difference in minimum wage between an 18 year old and a 21 year old either. No doubt you didn't either. They are clueless idiots that are going to preside over reduced employment which means higher benefits payouts and less tax receipts despite higher taxes.

It's a thing for certain politicians in Europe yes, depending on their politics and how much of a threat they are to the establishment. I presume that you are fine with Christine Lagarde facing no punishment at all for a far more significant criminal act than simply mis-assigning aides time to work on party business rather than EU business? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/christine-lagarde-convicted-imf-head-found-guilty-of-negligence-in-fraud-trial-a7484586.html Christine Lagarde convicted: IMF head found guilty of criminal charges over massive government payout But former French finance minister, who faced potentially one year in jail, will not face any punishment

That's a lot of words to tell me you didn't pay attention in history class at school. Perhaps you should educate yourself on what Hitler actually did before you start making comparisons to democratically elected presidents.

So if a company enforces a white's only policy it is perfectly okay as they are a private company? After all, it would be their choice... right and government and the state should keep out of their business?

Just 5 posts in and with have a Godwin! Just because calling Trump Hitler didn't work last time it doesn't mean the same tactic won't work next time....right? Besides, what Trump is doing is ANTI discrimination. DEI is discrimination. Why do you want discrimination to continue? Are you some kind of anti white racist?

Why? Males pretending to be females can compete in the male category and females pretending to be males (so long as they haven't taken too many performance enhancing drugs) can compete against females. If you start down your suggested path then your naivety will get you accused of transphobia as you are excluding 2 spirit penguins and non-binary etc.

Fascinating to see Labour having to implement policies they would be screaming about had it been the Tories that implemented them. First they took away the Winter fuel allowance, then they went for the farmers with inheritance tax, then they slashed the the foreign aid budget, then they hit the disabled by reducing their benefits. If it wasn't for the 40% increase in illegal migrant crossings (Labour's one area of growth) and the tax on education for private schools I'd be wondering if the Tories or reform had somehow wangled their way into government. Now they are talking about using the UK's own natural resources rather than importing coal or whatever from China? Even more fascinating is watching the Labour shills contort themselves into supporting these policies.

This article is about vaping not the perfectly legal and far more poisonous from of ingesting nicotine which is cigarettes. Banning vapes means more cigarette smokers which means more second hand toxic cigarette smoke. Quite surprised you would be in favor of this crackdown based on your anecdotes, especially as this is a policy designed to get more people buying cigarettes from the government owned tobacco companies.

I doubt it. I presume they have done the maths and worked out that even with taxing vapes they will not make as much money as they do with the far more poisonous cigarette sales. If cigarettes were not a government monopoly vapes would already be legal. People have been so gaslit over this that they even claim they prefer to inhale second hand cigarette smoke to vapes. Crazy. Luckily for the government there are plenty of stupid people out there that will believe whatever their propaganda tells them to believe and will happily use the snitching app to snitch on their neighbors. If this crackdown works and people are forced to go back to cigarettes (due to the highly addictive nature of nicotine) then due to the nature of Thailand (and most bars/restaurants allowing people to smoke freely) then we are all going to be inhaling a lot more secondhand stinky cigarette smoke in future. Great.

This is a single month. Growth isn't based on a single month. Next month the real anti-growth measures kick in when additional taxes kick in and the recession will follow shortly after.

The only growth Labour will achieve is growth in China where they are buying solar panels from and growth in carbon emissions due to importing them into the UK all the way from China.

Your link is out of date. You will no doubt be disappointed but the financial times also reported the valuation. I didn't post it as it is behind a paywall and mistakenly thought posting a link from an Elon Musk hating lefty comic like the Guardian would be sufficient but the denial seems to be quite strong here. Kind of weird as Musk is simply trying to help the US and remove some of the corrupt waste. Unless you are a beneficiary of this corruption I'm not sure why you would have a problem with what he is doing.

Except Twitter hasn't been a money loser so I'd say it's an excellent gauge at his ability to cut staff, save money and generate a profit. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/19/value-elon-musk-x-rebounds-purchase-price "Value of Elon Musk’s X ‘rebounds to $44bn purchase price" Perhaps the richest man on the planet knows a thing or two about business that you do not?

Why indeed? Considering how much power Islam has over the government, police and judiciary at just 7-10% or so, one can only imagine how much control they will have when they reach 20-30% of the population. Since Labour was able to get into power with a landslide victory with just 20% of the electorate voting for them it does not take Nostradamus to predict the demise of the UK into an Islamic controlled state will occur much sooner than expected. I have pretty much given up on my home country taking the radical action needed to prevent this inevitability.

So you want Musk to be accountable for money that is not being wasted? That makes no sense. Why would you want to reinstate people in jobs that are not needed? Why wouldn't these people seek work in the private sector and actually be a contributor rather than a drain? Nothing you state here makes any sense. He fired 80% of employees at Twitter. Not one of those people were needed as time has proven despite all the armchair tech experts telling him that it would fail without them. He has a proven track record of cutting waste.