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Glorious

Fantastic

You aren't even talking about the proper Bluey. I used to love this program back in the day, even had a fan club where we used to meet up in a pub in Liverpool every couple of months to discuss the great man Lucky Grills

Be interesting to see what actually happens in the budget

Austerity is a proven failure in bringing down debt, while destroying the country at the same time Invest in infrastructure and green tech and it will more than pay for itself and revitalise the economy at the same time Country is being run like Ashley ran the club at the moment

The country is fucked through years of austerity and then leaving the single market. Labour is just promising more of the same Taxing the rich isn't the solution though I'm all for a windfall tax on the power companies and some sort of wealth tax. Increasing income tax certainly isn't the way What they should do is drop following the artificial tory financial rules and spending cuts and borrow for investment. The country is desperate for investment, it leads to growth and renewal and pays for itself in the medium and long term Obviously they should also rejoin the single market, so fucking what if it wasnt in the manifesto, its idiocy and criminally negligent not to. We all know this, the vast majority of the country know this. Starmer and Reeves must also know this, but instead they are farting about the edges as the country continues to drcline

Fab, you sexy motherfucker

I think your Nordic countries are exceptions to this. Why isn't Labour taxing the rich more? Beats me. Cowardice, their donors don't want it, they actually want to follow tory spending rules. Who knows

The rest of them are laughing, Wes Saunders is thinking I'm drinking that later

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The voting system is so rigged towards the Republicans Harris needs to be plus 6% before you can have any sort of hope never mind confidence I seem to remember Biden was 6 points ahead and barely squeaked in

It did not disappoint. Taylor Parkes was on magnificent misanthropic form. He gave Nineteen by Paul Hardcastle a superb evisceration I'm not normally one for merch but I couldn't resist this t-shirt

Indeed they did. You can't beat disappearing down a reggae rabbithole

The greatest documentary ever made

That's the sbsolute truth I did some courier work for a couple of months at the start of the year and listened to it all day every day while driving. It was fucking glorious

My current favourite song featuring a Malian Kora

Sadly not a chance in hell Labour are thinking like this This is Jonathan Reynolds the sec of state for business and trade in the Observer this weekend https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/25/greater-trading-options-are-crucial-to-the-rebuilding-of-the-country-cptpp Bigging up the CPTTP treaty iwith words that could have come straight out of Baddenochs mouth More magical thinking on Brexit, honestly I despair

I don't disagree with your diagnosis, I just think it needs a different solution. It's OK, we're all (sort of) grown-ups, we don't have to agree on everything

Not one specific policy, just the direction of travel. Cancelling infrastructure projects, targeting welfare, keeping the narrative on "tough decisions" departmental cuts. So far it's just more of the same Hopefully it changes in the future, the sooner the better

If this were Tory enacted policy everybody would be rightly criticising it, but because it's Labour we have to suck it up? I'm glad the Tories got booted, I'm not saying they're all the same and Labour are much better on not being totally corrupt and racist. I still think that their economic strategy is wrong and I don't think it's out of place for me to say it. The 28billion green investment would have been transformational for the country, and the right thing to do, to borrow a phrase. As it is the country is just going to get worse, just possibly at a slower rate We should expect and demand more

@PaddockLad Just got myself tickets for this should be a good night

The good news is it just gets better as they get into it. I'm on my second go round after finishing the whole thing

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