James105

So I tried to buy a new iPhone yesterday. Went into the local Studio 7 and they had what I wanted in stock so I paid for it. The next step should be walking out the store with my newly purchased product... right? Well not in this case. The guy then said he needed to open it to check it was working. So he broke the seal, then removed the protective plastic and used his grubby fingers on my shiny new toy to turn it on. Ok fine, its working, I thank him and take the phone and put it back in the box ready to leave. Can I leave? Nope. He then says he needs to sign into wifi with it to activate it and take a photo and check other things. Store policy or something. Now checking it is working is one thing, but getting to the stage of connecting a device that I use for authentication, banking and investments to the internet before I have had a chance to use it, now that is a no go for me. So I said there was no need and I can activate it myself. He wouldn't let me leave and in the end he ended up refunding my payment as I wouldn't let him use my new phone and connect it to wifi and do whatever before I have had a chance to secure it and activate it with my apple account. So the store now has an opened iPhone in stock that they will not be able to sell as new and I still don't have a new iPhone. What kind of madness is this?

Are you confusing Farage with Starmer here? Why do you think people labelled him "Free gear Keir"?

So what? I never said he was I (correctly) stated he was Labour. You were the one banging on about how private sector pensions should be improved and I pointed out one of the reasons they are so bad is because of idiotic Labour policies to grab relatively small amounts of money that has devastating consequences.

What? You are actually crediting the explosion of civil servants with the advancement of medicine and sanitation since the 19th century that led to longer life expectancy in the 20th century and beyond? How about trying to address the points being that the UK cannot afford the public sector pensions (£2.5 trillion) and public sector "workers" with their "broad shoulder" pensions should maybe have to shoulder some of the burden that the private sector already is if frittering away £11bn to africa for climate nonsense, £13bn to foreign aid, £8bn to illegal immigrants, £22bn to carbon capture and £3bn to Zelensky is considered essential expenditure for the taxpayers. Take a look at Labour (shock) for the devastating impact he had on private pensions. Another legacy of the Blair era: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/comment/article-13041677/HAMISH-MCRAE-Time-fix-Gordon-Browns-pension-errors.html Stole £5bn from private pension funds in tax which is estimated to cost to the pension funds of an estimated £250bn over the last 20 years since that money wasn't reinvested back into the funds and makes no money today since the pension funds no longer hold British assets.

Taking winter fuel payments away from people on one of the lowest pensions in Europe with one of the highest energy bills in Europe which at best saves £1.4bn and if those struggling manage to complete the 243 question form for pension credits will cost the government more money. Labours own research said this will kill 4000 people before their time. Meanwhile they managed to find (borrow) money to throw away on the following: £11bn wasted on climate payments to Africa. £13bn wasted on foreign aid £22bn wasted on "carbon capture" £3bn wasted on Zelensky As you have never run a business it's clear you understand as little as the clowns in government of the impact of employers NIC on ordinary working people and how it will force employers to employ less people at lower wages.

This in a nutshell. Any public sector pay rises should be paid for by a reduction in pension benefits they receive. If they want parity with the private sector then give them parity with every aspect including the lack of job security that comes with poor performance. The public sector is far too large. At the height of the British empire Britain employed about 40,000 civil servants globally. This was before the internet, GPS, mobile phones, AI, computers and all the other productivity tools at our disposal today. The UK government (without needing to manage an empire and with all these tools) today employs about 546,000 people. If 500,000 of those people disappeared overnight would anyone even notice?

1. Thailand economy != UK economy. It relies on tourism so would benefit from a weaker baht. 2. This thread is about UK budget, not Thailand. 3. When the pound last tanked and the gilts rose following Liz Truss budget leftists here had a meltdown over it. They seem to be more relaxed about the same thing happening here.

I'd much prefer a UK equivalent of Guantanamo bay. We are currently harbouring tens of thousands of Islamic terrorists in the UK (40,000 on the MI5 watchlist but that figure was from several years ago now). This monster came from a 2% Islamic country into a 6.7% Islamic country. Since he arrived he has been radicalised. This monster will have information about who was involved in his journey from innocent looking Dr Who appearing kid into the Al Queada manual downloading, child killing terrorist he became and everyone involved in that journey needs to be rounded up. Won't happen of course as we have to wait for the trial to confirm what we already know (he is a child killer) and then the heads can be firmly planted back in the sand whilst fretting about Islamaphobia and doing everything possible to appease the people who so so clearly hate the west and its way of life.

My presumption is they are hiding a muslim beard which is why all the artist sketches have him covering that part of his face.

They voted for it as they were misled. "Referring to the 2003 vote to invade Iraq, he said: "If you look just at the debate alone, on five different grounds the House was misled, three in terms of the weapons of mass destruction, one in terms of the UN votes were going, and one in terms of the threat, the risks." https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-36756878 Labour were overspending before the crash. Had they not done so the UK would not have been so affected.

The OBR have confirmed what we already knew. It was a lie. A lie that has been repeated literally hundreds of times by Reeves and Starmer. Tory PMs have resigned for a lot less than what these clowns are doing. How are they allowed to lie to the public and lie to parliament without consequence? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9qljw7915yo

I recall an illegal war followed by an economic crash of biblical proportions after originally inheriting an economy on the up. Remind me how the PFI initiatives are working out for the NHS? Actually no need I'll school you again by providing helpful link to the consequences of the Blair legacy: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/25/nhs-hospital-trusts-paying-hundreds-of-millions-in-interest-to-private-firms

You are talking about criminals here as tax evasion is and continues to be a crime. Let me school you by providing a link that gives more details: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/sep/09/billions-lost-from-small-retailers-in-tax-evasion-says-watchdog Note that "sweet shops" and "takeaways" are the main culprits. Are these the "business owners" you are referring to that do not pay tax?

Do you have a link to back up your assertion that people who run businesses do not pay taxes? That is patently false.

Tell me you have never ran a business without telling me you have never run a business. You are not alone here as literally no-one in the cabinet has ever run a business either and seem to be equally clueless how this will affect "working people". Her maths is wrong too as she claims it will raise £25bn but the IFS said it will be £10bn instead as of course making it more expensive to employ people will mean businesses employ less people. So she has effectively created herself a £15bn black hole. https://www.ftadviser.com/your-industry/2024/10/31/nic-increase-will-not-raise-anything-like-the-25bn-stated-warns-ifs/

Well done Labour. Well done. Economically illiterate morons.

Let me simplify for you. He was in prison because of a 2 tier justice system. He has never previously been in trouble with the law and as his very first offence, despite pleading guilty and showing remorse and the fact the judge even said he committed no violent acts, he was thrown into prison for 2 years 8 months and killed himself. If he was a muslim it is very clear he would not have spent one day in jail (as per the example I provided you ignored for the exact same guilty plea to the exact same offence) and would be alive today.

I'm just confused as to why you think it is your job to copy/paste in an AI response to something you admit you know little about without even giving credit to the AI that formulated the response for you. Is it a little hobby of yours or something?

What erroneous statement did I make here? I pointed out you used AI for a response and that you didn't credit the AI for providing you with it. Seems fairly accurate to me. If you don't have the knowledge or wherewithal to formulate a response of your own then perhaps don't bother?

Why don't you credit the AI you clearly used with the response rather than pretending it was your own?

Why you using ChatGPT? You don't have thoughts or opinions of your own?

So because you are unable to address any of the uncomfortable truths you resort to the vacuous phrase of "inflammatory political point scoring".

This was a horrific crime and the public have a right to know what the government and police are doing to protect their daughters from the very real threat of Islamic terrorism, not covering it up and spreading misinformation that it was a Christian boy from Wales who did this. Starmer could have spent the 3 months dealing with the very real threat of Islamic terrorism rather than the imaginary threat of the "far right", but instead - being the weak, cowardly man that he is - chose to appease Islam even giving them more taxpayers money to protect the mosques even though that is where the real threat is. This police/justice system let predominantly Pakistani men rape young white girls/children for many, many years before reluctantly addressing the problem after pressure from the press and certain MPs. This is why the police/justice system cannot be trusted and left to "proceed", especially when it involves islamic terror as they are too scared to do their jobs properly and the pressure needs to be continuously applied to make sure they do so. See Manchester airport thugs as another example of what happens when the police/justice system is left to simply "proceed" unchecked.

Why are you deflecting? I provided an example case (with a BBC news link) that went to trial of a person wrongfully arrested on behalf of this tyrannical government for posting on social media who was rightly acquitted by a jury. If he had caved into pressure the same way Wayne O'Rourke did then he would be currently spending 2+ years in jail. Peter Lynch is dead. A grandfather with no previous convictions who pleaded guilty to "violent disorder" despite not committing any violence and for his very first offence in his 61 years was sentenced to 2 years 8 months prison. Here is an example of other people pleading guilty of "violent disorder" who received suspended sentences and no jail time. Can you spot the difference?

Nonsense. Since these are not career criminals we are talking about here and most have never been in trouble before then they would have trusted the poor advice from their public "defender" and caved into the pressure of a promise of a more lenient sentence. The only one who refused to cave in to this pressure was acquitted by a jury. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpqd9ljgqd9o The "crime" that he was wrongly arrested for, remanded in custody and then bailed with a tag, was for posting (correctly as it turns out) that a muslim had carried out the attack. He was also pressured to plead guilty for a more lenient sentence. Everyone currently in jail who did not commit any violence or looting should be immediately released. Obviously it is too late for the grandfather (with no prior criminal record and committed no violence) since he is now dead because of this tyrannical government.