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or 🔥 as they say on twitter. Pleased to see Rayner is not gonna allow this fucking arsehole Badenoch to stand and talk down to her, which she's done twice now in the last week.

Either Ireland are gonna be great in 6 or 7 years, or we're gonna have a whole new fleet of Jeff Hendricks on our hands.

Where were the people hitting it with a flip flop after it came down? The Iraqis could show these idiots a thing or two about how to dismantle a dictator's statue.

Could you not do some of the stuff you're doing, but as a self employed consultant? So you could get a lot closer to your day rate being your actual salary?

Harder to just walk out when you've got a full bus too. Could be on to something here.

https://jamaicanpatwah.com/dictionary/category/insult-words Blabba mout Patois: Mi bredda a blabba mout English: My brother is a chatterbox Dunce bat Patois: Yuh a dunce bat, yuh cyaa duh nuttin. English: Your stupid, you can't do nothing. Wasteman Patois: Him a wasteman, thirty six an still liv inna him madda house English: He's a worthless person, thirty six and still live in his mother's house Just a few of the insults Steve can look forward to in Jamaica.

Aye I don't really have an answer beyond "if at all possible, don't quit til you've found something else", but I know you wouldn't be doing that if you didn't think that the situation had become intolerable. You do probably need to start thinking about how this is gonna look when you apply for other jobs though, as it will become a factor in their decision if they think they might be looking for someone else a month down the line. I think you were in your old job a long time (is that right?). Do you think that maybe the way employers treat people has shifted while you've been there, but it hasn't impacted you cos you were comfortable there and knew what worked and what didn't, and what you could get away with? And since you've left, you're the new boy so a) you're getting the shitty end of the stick for a bit anyway, and b) these people just operate differently now cos of the shift in worker rights. Not suggesting that it's OK that the way employers treat people has shifted btw, but it might be something that you're gonna find everywhere you go. It might be that your tolerance for feeling like an employer is taking the piss out of you needs to be recalibrated, because unless there is something you could do self employed*, there's always some cunt sat above you, trying to make their life easier by making your life harder. None of these are good answers, and I hope you take them in the spirit intended. When I was working for a start up recently and it genuinely looked like it was all gonna fall over, the prospect of going through an interview and assessment process terrified me - I just knew I couldn't be arsed with it. 50s/approaching 50s is a really fucking shit time to suddenly find yourself having to look for work. *being self employed is no bed of roses either obviously.

Blair didn't start off in 97 with the public finances in the toilet either.

Just read that. I clicked on it thinking "wtf is Caulkin doing with these puff pieces" but it's impossible not to warm to Staveley. Right decision for them to leave if they were just gonna be interfering, but big shoes for Eales to fill. Sounds like the players loved her.

They look like they've been clagged on as an afterthought.

Congrats strawb, and hope you're feeling better soon.

It's obviously how it would be reported though, isn't it? "The public finances are in the toilet, and now Labour are getting the credit card out".

It would have been a fucking mental thing to do to stand up today and announce how the previous government had lied to the OBR, and that the public finances are in an even worse state than anyone imagined....and then follow it up with "SO WE'RE GETTING THE CREDIT CARD OUT!"

It's the 29th of July man. We're not even out of the month of the election.

The main journalists from the Telegraph, Sun and Mail are all reporting all of the cuts Reeves has announced today, with literally not a mention of the stuff about Hunt lying to the OBR etc. Like check their twitter accounts, they aren't mentioning it at all. It's really quite sinister shit. That's the context for Reeves's actions. I'm still hopeful of some stuff in the budget in October, but I totally understand them not just immediately announcing massive borrowing, given the context I mention above. I don't want to hear any more from TT's resident Owen Jabronis.

This is horrifying.

Making them wait to lock that shit down. I like it.

Is the current Mrs PL also the first Mrs PL?

Ah got you. I thought that's what you meant, but I live my life by a single motto: never make assumptions about the judgement of a man that would wear a paisley shirt.

Their current pay is a disgrace? Or the pay rise?

My understanding is that Starmer's "deal" with Murdoch was no Leveson 2 if they don't take the piss on how they cover Labour. This is the first test of that. If the Murdoch press fails it, I wouldn't even contact the cunt, I'd just call a press conference and announce Leveson 2.

saw your post and knew it would be Starmer's fault.

The Sun journalists doing exactly the same.