tenebrisnox
@tenebrisnox@feddit.uk
Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash… and I’m delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever!
- Baron Munchausen
- Comment on Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age' 3 days ago:
Let them live in their floating city states or in their underground bunkers like erzatz Bond villains. Let’s see how much wealth they create there.
- Comment on Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age' 3 days ago:
I’d love to know that, too. Would definitely like to have some books recommended by reputable historians who say feudalism never existed.
- Comment on More than 300,000 pupils estimated absent after England World Cup win 5 days ago:
Schools are going nuts at the moment about attendance due to central govt targets. Look at the craziness with schools shutting at 1pm during the heatwave so they could claim attendance figures - while sending children to walk home at the hottest part of the day.
- Comment on More than 300,000 pupils estimated absent after England World Cup win 5 days ago:
Who decides what “quality time” is, though? Seems unfair if watching a football match is ok but a child taking a day off to do something equally valid with their family (a different sporting event in which they the child was participating) gets penalised. (This does happen.)
It would be fairer to give all children something like a handful of days they may use (pehaps 5 a year?) they can use for family-related, sporting, cultural and religious activities. Events like the World Cup can be flagged up in advance and parents and their children can choose whether or not to use their allocation.
- Comment on ‘I felt my spine and body split’: the woman who was hit by a child on a Lime bike – and denied compensation 5 days ago:
I’m going to sound like an old person but: What was a 10 year old doing on their own in central London (let alone how did a 10 year old manage to steal an ebike)?
- Comment on Teachers in England get two-year 6.6% pay rise but schools to foot part of bill 6 days ago:
I’ve known decent teachers (and really effective classroom teachers) utterly corrupted by becoming senior managers and the stink of money and authority. They turn into the people they despised when they started their careers.
- Comment on Teachers in England get two-year 6.6% pay rise but schools to foot part of bill 1 week ago:
One of our local MATs has a CEO on £400k plus £60k pension contribution per year. AND a personal car and chauffeur to drive him from school to school. Apparently, it’s like royalty arriving when he turns up to do a tour and shout at people.
- Comment on Teachers in England get two-year 6.6% pay rise but schools to foot part of bill 1 week ago:
It’s effectively a pay cut. Schools are already making staff redundant to manage budgets. It means that teachers have to fill the gaps, teach bigger classes, make do with less resources and so on. Working more for an in line with inflation pay rise.
A local primary school near us has made two-thirds of its teaching assistants resundant and two full-time classroom teachers. The remaining staff have been rallied and told to “pull together” and “plug the gaps”. For the children, of course.
- Comment on Police criticise decision to let pubs stay open until 5am for England match 1 week ago:
And potentially dangerous if England lose and men who’ve drunk all day have no one else other than each other and early morning commuters to punch.
- Comment on Bob Vylan to sue BBC for defamation over Glastonbury coverage 1 week ago:
I’m still trying to comprehend how genuine white-supremicist anti-semite neo-nazis can support Isreal and froth at the mouth in outrage about attacks on Jewish people. The world has not only turned upside down but inside out as well.
- Comment on UK state threats bill could pull British journalists into terror prosecutions, experts say 1 week ago:
It also includes journalists.
- Comment on Keir Starmer says some road and energy projects will be scrapped to pay for £15bn defence plan 1 week ago:
It’s for defensing the homes and assets of the rich. Lord Fitzwankle of ChorleyFlockbum is terrified that the Chinese have designs on his Olympic-sized swimming pool next to the maze in his estate’s grounds. Of course, Lord Fitzwankle wants his security paid for out of general taxation by cutting spending on state education, NHS and welfare.
- Comment on Keir Starmer says some road and energy projects will be scrapped to pay for £15bn defence plan 1 week ago:
Some would call thousands of foreign troops stationed in a country an occupying force.
- Comment on Keir Starmer says some road and energy projects will be scrapped to pay for £15bn defence plan 1 week ago:
UK is already the sixth biggest spender on defence without this latest “upgrade”. Where is all the money going if - supposedly - we don’t have a large standing army, much of the hardware doesn’t work and it takes weeks for a military vessel to set sail? Lots of this is propaganda, of course. Maybe not upgrading all the nukes at a cost of £63 billion might shift some of the money? Maybe asking WHO is being defended would be a good starting point? (And it aint the ordinary UK citizen.)
- Comment on BREAKING: Canary debanked by Lloyds 1 week ago:
Didn’t Farage make a great deal about this sort of thing happening to him?
- Comment on Another UK heatwave could be on the way 1 week ago:
Boris Johnson’s already in there counting all his cash and eating your ice cream!
- Comment on Prince William: Homelessness is a 'systemic failure' 1 week ago:
Hoorah for the monarch! I take it that he finished by saying that the royals are using their assets of £2 billion+ to build accommodation for their homeless subjects? That’s right, isn’t it?
- Comment on Millions of Britons urged to submit meter readings before energy price cap rises on Wednesday 1 week ago:
Genius idea!
- Comment on A Guardian investigation has revealed that as many as 1 in 8 workers in Britain are employed by companies ultimately controlled by private equity 1 week ago:
Nearly 20% cows in UK now kept in battery cages and never go outside.
- Comment on Royal Family to get a 94% surge in taxpayer-funded income whilst 'it's subjects' must expect less 1 week ago:
“huge amount”! Ha. (I’m actually vegan - though the rest of the family eat fish and the occasional Frankenchicken!). Food and groceries are just expensive!
- Comment on Royal Family to get a 94% surge in taxpayer-funded income whilst 'it's subjects' must expect less 1 week ago:
Pre-pandemic we would spend £100 a week on food shopping for a family of two adults and two children. We now spend about £200-£250 for the same amount of food (probably less). We don’t buy expensive brands or any alcohol at all. At the same time our monthly energy bill was about £90 a month and is now £190 a month. Our salaries have increased by about 3%. For us, just a regular family in the UK, life has significantly worsened and looks like it will get even worse. Sorry if that shocks you.
- Comment on Royal Family to get a 94% surge in taxpayer-funded income whilst 'it's subjects' must expect less 1 week ago:
By focusing on mortgages (which is how you started) you miss the extent of the problem. That’s why you feel that things for YOU aren’t that bad. It’s not true that 55% goes on rent/mortgage. The numbers are roughly 20% for households with mortgages, 35% for rent (slightly lower for social housing). Low-earners, as I said earlier, get hit the hardest and spend much more of their income on mortgages/rent. The problem is the perfect storm of food + energy + rent\motgage + taxation + low-levels of welfare support in UK.
- Comment on Royal Family to get a 94% surge in taxpayer-funded income whilst 'it's subjects' must expect less 2 weeks ago:
It’s not “pocket change”. For most households in UK, food, energy and rent/mortgage take up about 70% of income. That doesn’t include anything else or other bills (or alcohol or going out or clothing etc). For a lower-earning familiy it takes up considerably more than that.
Truss’ budget accelerated for a short-term period what was happening to the economy (and mortgages). Economists believe that the rises would have happened anyway. If mortgages are going DOWN why are rents going UP?
- Comment on Royal Family to get a 94% surge in taxpayer-funded income whilst 'it's subjects' must expect less 2 weeks ago:
Food has increased by nearly 40% in 5 years and, according to projections, will rise to 50% by the end of 2026. Energy has increased by 75+% in the same period. Rents have increased approximately 40% as well.
Wage increases are not keeping up with these costs. Combined with increases in tax plus benefits freezes and cuts most people are putting up with less. Parents skipping meals so their children can eat and the exponential rise in food bank use are only two examples.
Unfortunately, the reaction to this is largely taking the form of “raising the flags” and blaming immigrants.
- Comment on Judge throws out Andrew Tate’s legal claim to be told names of accusers 2 weeks ago:
I understand that. I just wonder how they are explaining this to the courts. I doubt it’s “We want to know who grassed us so we can make sure snitches get stitches, m’lud!”
- Comment on UK June heat record broken for third day in a row as ministers urged to act 2 weeks ago:
I understand that the Ministers will be putting on an open air production of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline once the parliamentary committee on standards has produced its report.
- Comment on Judge throws out Andrew Tate’s legal claim to be told names of accusers 2 weeks ago:
Why do they say they want the women’s names? It’s not made clear in the article.
- Comment on Greta Thunberg Slams UK Government Ahead of 40C Heatwave 2 weeks ago:
Thunberg has been - like many environmentalists - calling on more rapid action. “Unprecedented” is a relative term and exists only due to the paucity of what came before. The UK isn’t doing enough. The “our fair share” mindset is a one-way, petrol-fume spewing Landrover to Hell.
I noticed you completely ignored the reporting about the impact of the fossil fuel lobbies on the UK govt which was a major part of the piece.
- Comment on Parliament spending £2m a week to stop crumbling palace falling down 2 weeks ago:
This is why the country needs to cut benefits to the bone and pauperise the most vulnerable in society… so that toffs and spads can keep their crumbling drinking club open.
I suggest “Project Guy Fawkes” to save the UK taxpayer £2 million a day.
- Comment on Work begins on UK's new £750m supercomputer 2 weeks ago:
It’s not the much-promised UK “quantum” computer though?