RIP Kristofferson. One of the great sages of our time...a virtually peerless songwriter who also happened to be fiendishly handsome and a superb actor. The envy of mere mortals everywhere.
We've lost another of the irreplaceable ones, folks.
I love telling taxi drivers I got more into football when England won the Euros two years ago, and they correct me that England didn’t win the Euros two years ago, and I correct them that England did win the Euros two years ago.
If a Rwanda flight does take off…
Your bills will still be as expensive
Your wait for a GP/hospital bed will still be as long
Your court date will still be as delayed
Your taxes will still be as high
…but we will all be more more morally & financially bankrupt as a nation
To anyone who’s saying that politicians cannot spend money on public services because we don’t have it;
The NHS was built in the aftermath of the Second World War, when the country was completely broke.
Restricting spending on public services is a political choice.
Over the next few weeks you will hear a lot about Inheritance Tax here is how much people can save.
Rishi Sunak £282m
Jacob Rees-Mogg £60m
David Cameron £16m
Jeremy Hunt £6m
James Cleverly £3.5m
96% of people £0
Instead of wasting time on the economy, the cost of living crisis, NHS waiting lists, crumbling schools or rivers full of shit, we are devoting £400m and all of the government’s resources to sending nobody to Rwanda.
@xandvt You can have hotter baths if you fill it around you, slowly raising the heat. Like the urban legend that is boiling a frog - you don't get the temperature differential shock :-)
I regularly encounter 'yeah, but where does all the electricity that powers those EVs come from?' comments
Well, 2023 was the UK's greenest year yet - only a third of our electricity came from burning fossil fuels
And that figure is going to get lower, and lower, and lower