That Starmer fella...

little jimmy

fuck that guy

Great news on inflation i guess, back to 1.7%

Rents are still increasing at 8.4%. I think the reduction was largely limited to services? Would be nice to see a breakdown.

I'm sure the Bank of England will be happy to pump up house prices again as they drop interest rates though.

Edit: Ah, transport was the largest factor:

The largest downward contribution to the monthly change in both CPIH and CPI annual rates came from transport, with larger negative contributions from air fares and motor fuels; the largest offsetting upward contribution came from food and non-alcoholic beverages.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/consumerpriceinflation/september2024

Genuinely don't understand how the Taylor Swift thing is, still, on the front pages.

I thinks it's making the journos look silly now. It isn't a story!

Because he majority of the print media still support the Tories.

You can't be a libertarian who believes in centralised and collective decision making

It's easier to do this than to be a libertarian who believes in private property, but no one takes right wing libertarians to task for that particular contradiction.

Left libertarianism is absolutely a thing, and only has (roughly speaking) a 200 year history of political thought behind it. You should dig it out, there's some good reads in there.

“Are you the guy to speak to about Oasis tickets?”

2% tax on wealth above £10 million could raise £24 billion. Also seems to have widespread public support. Or we can cut services in order to fill the fiscal 'black hole'. Which one do you think Reeves will go for?

Lolz

As a one-off or annual? It seems unworkable unless during asset disposal.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3vkv9qwl5do

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No more £2 bus fare cap. This only affects the poor. Party of working people? Starmer, WAC.

It's probably designed to prevent the elderly that can't afford to heat their home to ride around
in busses all day.

"Remember one of the few good ideas the tories had?"
"Yeah, we're stopping that."

No mate, the temporary cut saved you £24k per year

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the mp, mma hopeful, story is wild

https://archive.md/zmyVF

labour mp sucker punching a guy with his hands in his pockets, then 3 more times while he's on the ground, because he argued about a bridge closure. boozing it up after a police comunity safety evening no less! it seems a logical end point for a party that spent months conflating noisy constituents voicing disagreement with political violence and threats to mps safety. clearly has created hysteria in the benches.

i think we've set a clear precident for those who engage in political violence, trip to his majesties airbnb is needed here, throw the book at him. hate crime too because the guy has a ginger beard.

the guy has a ginger beard.

this has done me.

Lammy continues to be a complete fucking idiot I see

If only Labour had fought the tories like this!

He needs to have a chat with Steven Gerrard's lawyer.

Looking forward to see how bad this budget actually is, this is gonna be another long 4.5 years with labour and starmer at the helm.

The tories were shit but fuckin hell labour are trying to out shit them and I felt they could be a bit of a positive change when they won.

My hope, it my be ridiculously optomistic, is that the Labour Govenment have played the media and the substance of the Budget is nothing like what has been trailed ove all these months. Just winding the hate mail up for fun, I hope.

I'm hopeful. The very least it will be better than a Tory budget would have been (although the bus ticket stuff is a bit shit). So far though, this is written like Reeves is about to call an election. She's just shitting on the Tories and talking about how great this new, new-Labour party is.

Going for gold..

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