James105

Oh dear, that's another group of cast iron Labour supporters about to experience voter regret. Still, should keep the Guardian columnists busy for the next month or two opining about how if only the hard working wealthy could be taxed more on their hard earned gains then people who could but don't work can continue to enjoy their benefits lifestyles without the burden or inconvenience of work interrupting their TV schedule.

Perhaps if they were able to employ better cyber security people by paying them at least as much as whatever the Head of (regional) DEI at the NHS gets, then maybe they would have a better chance at not allowing criminals to operate so freely.

Yes Putin must be stopped otherwise European countries could face the following nightmare scenario... Maybe Putin isn't the problem Europe should be worried about and it's all just a big distraction so you ignore the very real dangers from an invasion that has already happened...

Not easy to find anything about Ukraine corruption recently so have to go back a bit due to the overwhelming amounts of propaganda. Nothing really about their neo-nazi connections or anything else really that paints them in a bad light lately in the efforts to paint them as the good guys, as the reality of 2 corrupt nations fighting over territory doesn't do a lot to get the public onside when you want to spaff their tax money away which just ends up in the pockets of rich, corrupt politicians. So one of 2 things has happened. Ukraine is no longer corrupt and we can be confident that the billions upon billions of $$$ spent has gone directly to aiding the war effort, or as I suspect maybe half at most has reached its intended destination and there are some very, very newly rich people who want this gold rush war to continue as long as possible.

Sounds like I hit a nerve so same question to you then: Can you recall the last time you watched CNN/MSNBC or whatever leftist propaganda you consume and found yourself disagreeing with anything they say on anything that has happened regarding Ukraine, covid, vaccines, trans etc? Can you provide an example of this?

Seriously? Ukraine is quite famous for being corrupt. Here is some pre-proganda news for you from a leftist outlet. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/feb/04/welcome-to-the-most-corrupt-nation-in-europe-ukraine If you really think that most of the money being sent to Ukraine is being used to actually fight Russia then perhaps we can have a chat about a beautiful bridge I have for sale that you might want to purchase. The reason this un-winnable war is still going on is because people are making a lot of money out of it. Ukraine knows it cannot win, it knows NATO will not send forces due to the small technicality that Ukraine is not actually a part of NATO, but as part of the monthly "Zelensky begging for money worldwide tour", the corrupt politicians can make a ton of money by keeping their cannon fodder on the front lines dragging this on for as long as possible before eventually agreeing to re-draw the boundaries on a map. This will not happen until the cows (other countries taxpayers with weak leaders) have been thoroughly milked of course.

Not much of a guess really as I can tell what you think with some certainty simply by reading the propaganda de jour. Can you recall the last time you watched CNN/MSNBC or whatever leftist propaganda you consume and found yourself disagreeing with anything they say on anything that has happened regarding Ukraine, covid, vaccines, trans etc?

Yes propaganda. Let me guess, you think this is a war between good and evil and you are on the side of "good", because that is what you have been told in simple terms by the MSM who give you instructions on what and how to think, before then regurgitating it wherever you can? Or perhaps you believe "Ukraine can win" and just an extra 50 billion here and there will get them over the line? Certain people are very susceptible to propaganda. I'd estimate you are in the top 0.01% of those people.

Its a loan.. yeah right. I'm sure lending money to the most corrupt country in Europe will get paid back sometime never. It's money that could have been spent on better things but instead just more money spaffed away on an un-winnable war that just ensures thousands more will die. Good for warmongering keyboard warrior idiots who believe whatever propaganda they are being fed and must enjoy people being killed on the frontlines whilst they themselves are nice and safe, bad for normal folks that don't believe in the BS that is fed to the masses and see it for what it really is. Corruption and money laundering.

Propaganda. Just like the good old Covid days where "safe and effective" was the required combination of words in every single post. I wonder who the puppeteer is who is pulling the strings of their puppets. Whoever is making significant bank from this war continuing would be my guess.

Help to do what? Continue fighting an un-winnable war? For what? For how long? How many is enough dead for you? Another million? 2 million? More? Trump wants peace. Zelenski wants the US/NATO to join in as they cannot win. If they did then its WW3 and thankfully some common sense has returned to the White house so that is not going to happen. Soon a few boundaries will be redrawn on a map and the world will collectively shrug its shoulders as the adults (not Zelensky high on his Columbian marching powder) negotiate a peace deal to save more pointless loss of life and money.

I also served in the military (in the UK). We had different standards for women and men. It's significantly easier to pass the womens fitness tests than the mens, laughably easy in fact. The females I served with were embarrassed at having to stop the bleep test when they reached the passing grade at barely above brisk walking pace level to pass. Even an old fat bloke could pass the level set for an 18 year old female, so if he is allowed to take the female version of the test, he would probably be fit enough.

The judge in his case was Judge Everett. He previously sentenced a grandmother, Julie Sweeney (who had no previous convictions) to a 15 month jail sentence for just one single unpleasant post on facebook. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/14/woman-53-jailed-over-blow-the-mosque-up-facebook-post-after-southport-riots#:~:text=She was part of a,with the adults in it.”

So his Not one day apparently. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8yy0116y8o He has had his 10 week sentence suspended after his appeal was heard within just 3 days of the his already low sentence being given. That's quite incredible how slowly the wheels of justice turned to get him into court and how fast they can turn to hear his appeal compared to those on the other side of the 2 tier justice system. Meanwhile Lucy Connolly is about 3-4 months into her 31 month sentence for making an unpleasant social media post that didn't harm anybody, and Peter Lynch (who also didn't commit violence) is still dead after killing himself in jail as he couldn't face his 32 month sentence.

You already suspended reality with your hyperbole about net zero saving humanity so why not go a step further. Should the UK achieve net zero then it will be a poorer country that produces nothing so it would be laughable to demand China did the same - why would they want to make themselves poorer just because the UK were stupid enough to do so? Besides, UK politicians know its a scam anyway and "setting an example for the world to follow" is just something that they say to justify keeping the scam going and the "green taxes" rolling in.

So how else do you increase defence spending without increasing taxes or making cuts which was your claim. Let me guess. Borrowing more from the MMT?

You do realize that if the UK disappeared overnight and consumed not a jot of energy ever again this would make net zero difference to climate change? Thinking that just UK citizens paying extra for energy, putting up a few bird killing wind farms, spaffing £23 billion on unproven carbon capture is going to make any difference other than destroying the UK economy is just delusional. DOGE UK would have achieved significantly more. "We are doing this for your safety" said every authoritarian tyrant who ever lived. The fact that this is where passwords, passkeys are stored and should a hacker get access to the unencrypted data would be a treasure trove for them.

Give the option for those who want the war to drag on so Ukraine can "defeat Russia" an option to pay double their normal tax or receive half their benefits if not working to support the war effort?

Every single decision made so far (apart from this one which he was forced into) has made the UK weaker or poorer. From net zero insanity through to burdening businesses with ever higher taxes, to providing ever more incentives for the cultural enrichers to illegally enter the country, to demanding Apple provide a back door which forced them to lower security for the UK. The list goes on and on. So yes, his natural inclination is to make the UK weaker and/or poorer. This is either through stupidity or something more sinister. The first reasonable action he has taken to cut overseas aid he would never have considered if not for Trump or the threat closer to home from Reform.

Your bias is showing through. Starmer didn't want to do this as he is a weak, sniveling globalist who loves nothing more than giving taxpayers money away to corrupt foreign regimes as it makes him feel virtuous around the dinner tables at WEF and Islington. You will note that cutting overseas aid was not even a consideration as an alternative to removing the winter fuel payment for pensioners which would have caused almost no controversy and would have been applauded, even by me. But it wasn't. Ask yourself why that is. What is the difference today when money needs to be found to spend on something that he doesn't really want to spend it on vs when Labour formed the government? Answer: Trump and/or Reform polling high. What do Trump and Reform want to do? Cut overseas aid. So yes, he does incur my criticism as he is so obviously weak and out of his depth. It's probably good for the UK though as Trump and Reform have now seen how easily he blows in the wind and will be able to continue to force him into other positions which go against his natural instincts to make the UK poorer so will be better for the UK. As an additional side benefit the left will hate him for taking right wing positions and nobody on the right will ever vote for such a moron anyway which should see the absolute decimation of Labour at the next election.

This must have been painful for the globalist other peoples money spendthrift that he is. Not going to look so virtuous in the next WEF meeting now is he? Quite astonishing the affect that Trump and Reform are having on him, but then that just goes to show how weak a leader he is. Zero principles. The leftists will no doubt have a meltdown if overseas aid funded "diversity and inclusion training" in the Congo is cancelled so that is yet another group that will be experiencing voter regret right now.

Could probably get that up to 4% quite easily if we used some of that 2.3% and used our military to assist in capturing and deporting the existing cultural enrichers who invaded on small boats and preventing more invading cultural enrichers by patrolling the English coastline. I doubt very much that Trump will be impressed by a measly 0.2% extra by 2050 or whenever the unspecified time is. At least £8bn a year saving on hotels and benefits for enrichers could buy quite a few ships/tanks/guns.

Gee I wonder why that is? Nothing to do of course with the net zero insanity of importing energy that means the UK has the highest energy costs in the world, or the increased taxes on businesses coming in April so probably the highest taxes too. I would think many businesses are re-evaluation investing in the UK right now, and the child brained morons in government will no doubt think the solution to this is to raise more taxes and employ more DEI consultants.

You don't have the absolute right to encrypt your passwords and access to your bank accounts to the highest possible level? That is what is stored in iCloud - Passwords, passkeys etc. A treasure trove for a hacker who knows what they are doing. Criminals will simply move onto another platform and iPhones are not the "burner phone of choice" so they will remain unaffected, It's just the normal citizens who will be punished by this which is why no other government in the world is stupid enough to do this. Every day this moronic government does something historically stupid. Every day. They are incapable of even a childlike understanding of reasoning and actions/consequences.

It didn't happen in 2016. It didn't happen in 2023. It did happen under Labour in 2025. Labour could have simply not demanded this from Apple and Apple would have kept things as they are just like the rest of the world that are allowed to protect their data including passwords with the highest possible security. Apple are not just getting around to enacting a request from 2016 are they? Stop blaming previous governments for the actions of this moronic government. Either they are too weak and incompetent to do anything themselves which means their idiotic supporters hunt down previous government requests/ideas that came to nothing, or they are the authoritarian clowns they appear to be. Which is it?