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ks.234

ks.234

Half way to Infinity
Here is another picture of what our country has become. I post it in this separate thread to attract other pictures of what our
Country has become and to ask Tory voters for an insight into why they vote for this, or to put it another way, what benefits do you expect from voting Tory that offsets the privatisation of everything

According to the Good Law Project, “Treasured public spaces across the UK are being sold off and lost to private interests at an alarming rate.”
https://actions.goodlawproject.org/...utm_campaign=shropshiregreenfields_edited&n=3
 
Could you explain in simple English what that’s all about please?
21 pages of legalese is too much to trawl through.
 
Another day, another Tory sex-pest/rapist. Don’t know who it is yet, but news breaking right now. MP in his 50s, a series of accusations dating back 20 odd years.
 
Tony L said:
Another day, another Tory sex-pest/rapist. Don’t know who it is yet, but news breaking right now. MP in his 50s, a series of accusations dating back 20 odd years.
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We must wait for evidence before making accusations
 
wulbert said:
Voting Labour at the the last GE would have led us into a socialist hell of publicly-owned water, transport and gas and electricity supplies, free internet, free bus travel for under 25's, free university education and a year's maternity leave etc.
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And a socialist hell, I note, that includes this promise:

"We will give everyone the right to have food by law. In the next 3 years we will stop people having to use food banks."

It's like that moment at the end of 'Bullseye', where Jim Bowen says, 'And look at what you could have won'.
 
awkwardbydesign said:
Except that the answer is Yes more often than No. (You made me read it, so you get the answer you deserve. :p)
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I don't know how you've come away with that interpretation. Here's a quote from the article:
Bloomberg said:
Of the three dozen “Red Wall” districts that had voted Labour for generations, mostly backed Brexit and that Johnson won in 2019, 86% have fallen further behind London and the South East of England.
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The big story is that most areas of London were ahead in 2019 and continue to gain. Quite the opposite of levelling up.
Bloomberg said:
Our analysis shows that the salary gap is widening in nine out of 10 constituencies, that home affordability is getting worse nearly everywhere, and that public spending per head has fallen behind the capital in every region of England.
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laughingboy said:
I don't know how you've come away with that interpretation.
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Because I went beyond the Bloomberg article. And no, I don't agree with Boris, but if you are going to quote a truism, at least check if it is actually true.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
Studies
A 2016 study of a sample of academic journals that set out to test Betteridge's law and Hinchliffe's rule (see below) found that few titles were posed as questions and of those, few were yes/no questions and they were more often answered "yes" in the body of the article rather than "no".[12] A 2018 study of 2,585 articles in four academic journals in the field of ecology similarly found that very few titles were posed as questions at all, with 1.82 percent being wh-questions and 2.15 percent being yes/no questions.[13] Of the yes/no questions, 44 percent were answered "yes", 34 percent "maybe", and only 22 percent were answered "no".[13] In 2015, a study of 26,000 articles from 13 news sites on the World Wide Web, conducted by a data scientist and published on his blog, found that the majority (54 percent) were yes/no questions, which divided into 20 percent "yes" answers, 17 percent "no" answers and 16 percent whose answers he could not determine (all percentages rounded by Linander).[14]
 
We should all "consider carefully" before asking for a wage rise, says the governor of the Bank of England (he's on £500k/yr) because rising wages will add to inflation.

"What drives inflation?". Adam Tooze of Columbia University has an enlightening graphic which shows that corporate profits have soared way above their previous 40-year average, whilst the relative cost of labour has plummeted. It really is quite shocking.

 
The Tories really have messed our country up, big time.

"Sainsbury's former Boss blames Brexit for [food] inflation"

"Sainsbury’s former chief executive Justin King has blamed Brexit for the rise in food prices.

The businessman said the issues could be pinned on Britain leaving the EU, although he admitted the pandemic and Ukraine war have added to retail woes.

“The current pressures started with Brexit,” King told Sky News.

“You’re talking about the prime minister going to Northern Ireland today, the problems at the border in the Irish Sea, of course, are the reality…with many of our trading partners. [My emphasis]

“Well in excess of 40% of our food comes from Europe, so it started with Brexit, Covid exacerbated the problems and of course the war in Ukraine and the particular impact it is having on certain commodities will be long lasting and significant.”
 
I do find the food price increases puzzling. I was in Aldi yesterday and really don’t think stuff has gone up much, if at all. Contrast that to Greece, where I’ve just been for a week, where I’d say the equivalent produce (at a large AB supermarket) was at least twice the price. Why is that?
 
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