General Election 2024

you no longer pay NI, unless you are self-employed.

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Oh, this isn’t anecdote- it’s fiction, Alex is Very Online and regurgitates whatever Facebook and Twitter tell him is what he thinks. He’s incredibly useful as a weathervane to see what the latest radical right line to take is.

People make money, move further out of London. North, west, south:

They traced similar in Bethnal Green, the old jewish business owners fled north to Finchley, Clapton and were followed by waves of Indians who moved in when the jewish people left for the paradise of Golders Green.

who is moving to cryodon as an upgrade?!?

sorry @andyp

Cannot wait to see this again in a week, as someone who lives in a historic 'safe' Con seat.

Yes but they keep freezing the tax thresholds which drags more low earners and pensioners in to being taxed. One of the reasons Reform are looking to raise the threshold to 20k (and they have a large black hole in thier spending plans), don't think I've seen other parties looking to move the threshold although greens are looking to merge NI and Income tax at the lower threshold I think and conservatives now proposing to make the threshold age related so it would track state pension to keep them out of it.

People in southwark

South Croydon ≠ North Croydon

and thus SoCro is coined

Soudon

Denial of racism takes many forms, including minimisation. Imo that's especially insidious because it effectively says Jewish people can't be trusted to accurately report the discrimination they face. Imagine saying that about any other racial or religious group?

And it's clearly a political position. If the EHRC ever pulled out their finger and issued a judgement against the Tories for their obvious racism, and on that same day Rishi Sunak said something as stupid as 'one abused MP is too many but the scale of the problem was dramatically overstated for political reasons' you'd have absolutely no problem recognising the issue. It's only Corbyn, and it's only Jews, where that principle doesn't apply.

If you can't see the irony in you over-inflating something in a conversation about 'scale', I don't know what to do.

No one is minimising racism, they're pointing out it's not as extensive as has been portrayed while still saying it's a terrible thing. There's a big fucking difference and if you don't understand that, this is pointless.

There is clear evidence of Islamophobia and anti-black racism in the Labour Party under Keir Starmer. He has allowed it because those perpetrating it are on his side. Is the fact that's been pretty much brushed under the carpet by the NEC and Labour leadership (and most of the media) minimising it in your book? Or do you think I'm overstating the extent of it for political reasons?

keef thread>>>>>

Fair.

Living in a SNP/Labour swing seat I've received a Labour leaflet, a Reform leaflet and a Family party leaflet. Nothing from the SNP.

The Labour candidate is the usual public sector drone looking for a better trough, and the Family and Reform lads look like they're subject to restraining orders...

Thanks for the intel on pensions/tax, those who responded.

My local tory candidate, Kristy Adams, believes she healed a man of being deaf in church. I've had leaflets from the 3 main parties although LDs also sent me a second one addressed directly to me which has pissed me off as I'm not on the open register so wondering where they've bought that from.
Tactical voting sites are torn between labour and lib dems in my area. I say they're torn, they don't say it will be close, they say firmly one or the other but it's different depending on which one you look at. Mid sussex this is

The labour candidate is also the drummer for Blur. Which is kinda cool. I have no idea on his background otherwise so I don't know whether he's a loon

Soudon

Twinned with Gomorrah

Sam Freedman thinks it could go one of three ways, Conservative, LibDem or Labour. Tactically, I think it makes sense to vote LibDem to stop the Tories, but Dave Rowntree's (minor) celebrity status is likely to split the tactical vote a fair bit.

The labour candidate is also the drummer for Blur. Which is kinda cool. I have no idea on his background otherwise so I don't know whether he's a loon

The clue is in the word 'drummer'

lol

He's the probably the dullest drummer in popular music history, even trained to be a solicitor at one point, during a Blur hiatus.

It was the bits on either side of the hiatus that made him dull.

Dull is probably preferable for an MP in this day and age