gambitman
Chess patzer/sleuth/enthusiast.
Hates bad chess analogies.
“It’s funny how they shoot you down when your hands are held up high”
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- if the cabinet secretary believes that there will be no material change in convictions rates, she hasn't worked out the numbers...
- Marjorie, I know the truth confuses you and facts ain’t your strong suit—so let me break it down real slow: George Floyd didn’t die from drugs. He died because Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for 9 minutes. That’s called murder.
- if that is the case, Minneapolis leaders should all prepare for riots. i'm not going to condone any kind of violence, but a pardon for Chauvin will cause untold anger amongst the communities...
- “I don’t see any clear pathway to a route out at the moment” Former M&S Chairman Lord Rose says he is “horrified” by the lack of economic growth under Labour, adding that the UK is in its worst economic situation since Harold Wilson #Peston
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View full threadthey may well have been viable before being clobbered by new government policy. care homes are among those working on tightest margins. if they close, that will also impact on the NHS, as it desperately tries to catch up on backlogs. care homes also being on the end of his new anti-immigration 1/2
- stance. "the broadest shoulders" was Starmer's favourite empty soundbite before the election. after the election it was those businesses, waspi women, winter fuel allowance recipients, and the sick and disabled hit first. as red ed used to say, the cuts are hurting, but they're not working...
- Yes and no. Nobody likes paying tax. But if if businesses want to operate they need employees. If they can't afford a little extra tax they aren't viable businesses. And without tax revenue the country is, pardon my French, fucked.
- and if they are no longer viable businesses, jobs are lost...
- UK urged not to exploit poor countries in rush for critical minerals
- like they did with every other critical substance in history...
- Brexit, uncertainty from Trump tariffs and self inflicted damage from sanctions on cheap Russian gas have all damped down economic activity. Now, imagine where we'd be if the govt hadn't been going all out to stimulate growth.
- a head count tax on employers is hardly going all out to stimulate growth. in fact, it suppresses it...
- I don't understand why Trump is importing millions of white South Africans into America... well, I do, but I'm interested in how Americans opposed to migration (who don't simply use this issue to further their own racism) are going to feel about this.
- they'll be needed to fill the jobs of deported brown people...
- Just look at the brass neck of this shite being distributed in Hamilton by Labour. They know It was Labour who took it away and the SNP are bringing it back! Are lies all that the Labour party have left? 👇
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- funnily enough, the MP for the same area has form for lying about council tax. it got him elected too...
- Keir Starmer struggles to take KemiKaze seriously at PMQs | John Crace
- lmao. do you think anyone is taking #StarmerChameleon seriously? #GTTO
