NJS

Caught two seconds of Netanyahu on TV and the cunt's not happy.

It's sad when you really have to ask them why the fuck they joined the labour party - that Kendall especially.

National Insurance privatisation.

Whereas I think he's only a cunt in this thread. Outside of it he's a likeable idiot.

Market forces driven by cheap labour will increase living standards how exactly? I'd also say the help to buy scheme was massive interference in the economy by the Tories.

£2000 to someone on that level of income isn't "rebalance" - its destitution.

As an aside on that graphic, the self-employed bit is bollocks - contractors who work through a limited company have been massively screwed - this will encourage more to go down the full-on tax avoidance route involving Jimmy Carr type schemes.

As I said above CT, you're half way there on tax credits. It is businesses taking advantage of a well intentioned temporary measure for too long a period but you can't just drop them and leave poorly paid people in the shit without ensuring their pay goes up to compensate. It's clear the sums left people short so his much vaunted "rise" is clearly inadequate.

It's a good point that they didn't think that landlords would increase rents to cover tax which makes them stupid or they did realise and knew that would wipe out any gain on pay for a shit load of people which makes them cunts.

The worst thing about budgets is they illustrate perfectly Kinnock's line about "How will this affect me?, how much better off will I be?" - the complete increase in selfishness and lack of empathy comes down to one thing - 35 years of Tory rule.

And exempting under 25s from their "living wage" increase as well. I know they think they can do it because that age group don't vote but they might do eventually.

The way they push the message that anyone who works is fine and anyone who claims benefits is subhuman despite the overlap is fucking sickening. That's before you count well off people closely guarding child benefit.

Why the fuck would they increase welfare and the public sector when the entire purpose of the cuts was to reduce them forever? The only sweeteners will be higher rate tax cuts.

They were meant as a short term measure to reduce unemployment by making low pay jobs viable and it worked. The problem is businesses have taken the piss by using them to keep the wages they pay low. Firms like Tesco when they were making 4bn a year still paying close to minimum wage is a disgrace especially given their cash reserves. What should have been done is to raise the minimum wage by loads - 50% off the top of my head - yes it would probably cost a few "jobs" at firms taking the piss and maybe even send a few businesses down the pan but I'd take that to see the vast majority of firms who can afford it being forced to pay something a bit more decent. Overall the economy would benefit.

I read a thing post crash which said a one-off 10% tax on all non-property wealth over £1m would clear the deficit - and of course since then that wealth will have gone up by just a little bit more than 10%. On the scale you're talking about I'd close down the channel islands and the british virgin islands and confiscate all the money there - the only reason to have it there is tax evasion.

If it bites they'll find a way around it.

Comparing the UK with Greece is like comparing some fucker with a clue and you.

Guy is just as bad as fall

Great example of capitalism that day as hotels gouged the fuck out of people who couldn't get home. My boss met his lass as she was in a panic and they ended up walking most of the way home to bishops stortford which is a canny distance from the city. The head cheese gave us the Friday afternoon off as a thank you for staying on the Thursday not realising there wasn't much choice. Spent it in the pub getting mortal.

Being topical I was at work on the day of the July bombings. Didn't get the tube then but fucker who got the bus might have ended up at Liverpool St. It was a weird day. I remember the trains restarted at about 4 and being part of a crowd walking through the broadgate entrance in complete silence which continued on the train all the way home.

Lost control of my vr6 on a bend and ended up "parked" between 4 trees like the end of that ford advert - like a giant had picked up a car and placed it precisely. Completely unharmed and minor-ish damage to the car. No clue how.

An ex-boss of mine tells a canny story about getting caught up in may day riots in the city a few years ago and being "trapped" in a pub for a few hours. Subsequently when the G8 thing was on we were told to dress down for a few days before and after and given the option of working from home which I took as I didn't trust the coppers not to kettle every fucker (which they did).

Of course not - I think "normal" American gun sprees are just as cuntish - I just think the so called respect we're supposed to have for religions shouldn't prevent it being called out for being an inspiration to evil. There was an article in the Guardian desperately trying to equate this bloke with the yank who shot up the church saying they were both lone wolf nutters. Of course it was written before it came out that the Tunisian had accomplices and had been trained in Libya (another success story for western democratisation of course)

I read several articles calling Brevik a Christian terrorist and had no problem with it because it had a lot to do with his mental state. Conflicts with terrorism are always a mixture of politics and religion to different degrees. A man in Tunisia who decides to kill Western tourists falls mainly in the religious part of the spectrum and denials of that abstract the cause.

I agree language is important. The IRA was a political organisation rooted in religion but inspired by the political history not by the bible. There is a political element to Islamic terrorism in which the west also figures but there's no denying the religion is much more central to the motivation. Trying to devolve it from the politics and fuckwittery is part of the problem.