@Conservatives The state you see the nation in today is not because of "left wing governments". It is in fact the result of right wing governments. To be specific NEOLIBERALISTS! If there was justice for the average joe we would jail them for life.
@morris172611@MagaGrunt1@heyitsmeCarolyn You live in a complete fantasy land. Taking leaders out does not equal a sudden change in direction. Regimes such as those in Iran are designed to not collapse when leaders get taken out. They are horizontal not vertical power structures that collapse after doing so.
@MagaGrunt1 This isn't a video game. You are talking about holding an island off the coast of a hostile nation. I would have thought after 70 years of American wars you would understand this will be paid for in blood. It won't be simple and it does little for your actual homegrown interests.
@Garonne1972@BellaWallerstei Boomers make up the VAST majority of the welfare budget. We should conscript them. The young did not break the social contract, in fact they are the ones tasked with paying for boomer and Tory greed. CONSCRIPT BOOMERS! Send them down the mines!
@MiddlChris@BellaWallerstei I dont think MI5/6 GCHQ is included in those budgets. I'd have to delve into the specifics but from what I can see briefly looking is it has its own budget (SIA) if they even exist for the public to view.
@dr_dossier@BellaWallerstei It wasn't the young or migrants who are responsible for the state of the armed forces. Thatcher was one of the most damaging in this regard. Those responsible should be the ones who suffer the economic consequences. Not those who already suffered from their insatiable greed
@dr_dossier@BellaWallerstei People will read your comment and then start banging on about migrants. This is YET ANOTHER consequence of neoliberalism. We have an ageing population that frankly would sell their grandkids if it meant shifting the consequences of their political decisions to someone else.
@dr_dossier@BellaWallerstei Well it isn't because context and specifics matter. The majority of welfare is pensions for boomers (same for NHS spend too). Boomers ran up huge debts, continually lowered their own taxes, failed the nation for 40 years, hold the nations progress back and demand more rewards.
@paullewismoney Stamp duty is not the reason the young cant get houses nor why they cant afford them. This is more tory wronguns presenting policy to benefit boomers while pretending it is in fact to help the young. More boomer rewards for their toxic destructive political choices.
@CheckCharlieB Thatcher is literally the reason the nation is in such a state today you pleb! The fact even after 40 years you've still not managed to realise what neoliberalism is and why it destroyed the nation is very telling.
@proptechpioneer The problem with the logic is boomers downsizing just means they are gobbling up smaller homes young people would want while paying less in tax, boomers/tories are responsible for destroying supply and of course the social contract has been broken so the young can't afford them.
@proptechpioneer I of course vastly oversimplified it. I am however quite sure it does 3 things politically for them. First the richest will 100% benefit, boomers who are sitting on large houses (quite a number) will benefit. At the same time they get to pretend to be helping the young.
@linmeitalks Because they were told the inevitable consequences of neoliberalism were in fact down to the EU and migrants. Which is exactly why once we left Europe none of those issues improved. Boomers gutted this nation for personal gain and now believe they should be rewarded for it.
@linmeitalks Whether you care about Ukraine is really neither here nor there. Its natsec not a moral decision. Allowing Russia to gobble up Ukraine puts Russia on the doorstep of NATO with a new huge border which gives Russia all kinds of extra ways to poke NATO and expand his influence.
@ThatcheriteBish Not really because people getting "incomes" of ยฃ100m and not being paid how the average joe is. They are being paid to corps who technically own the assets and money. It would in the technical sense be corp tax not income tax.
@BellaWallerstei Except Israel isn't actually a democracy ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ It doesn't matter how many times you say it or how deeply you believe it what defines a democracy are facts relating to governance. Israel fails the most basic of tests on multiple fronts.
@TeamTrump47 Because their government is far from "flawless" it is a bunch of deranged nutjobs, they are not held accountable, they are actively engaged in manipulating politics in the West and the government of Israel isn't just a few bad apples that is who and what the Israelis are!!
@StevenBartlett Welcome to the consequences of neoliberalism. Daniels solution is that you in fact need more neoliberalism. Fantasy economics that we have 50 years to of evidence to show does not in fact deliver the results people like Daniel claim it does.