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I’m old enough to remember when paying public money for sex was called corruption and prostitution.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
How come Cummings gets away with £50k unpaid council tax when people have been sent to jail for owing a tiny fraction of that?
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"You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship.. A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes--"
"Oh there you go, bringing class into it again."
"But that's what it's all about, if people only would -"
 
Ministers should waste no time to make unpopular cuts to pensioner benefits, a think tank director has said.

Many of those hit by a cut to the winter fuel allowance might "not be around" at the next election, said Alex Wild of the Taxpayers' Alliance.

And others would forget which party had done it, he added.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34439965
 
Still nothing from the Taxpayers Alliance on money being spaffed on the awful Test, Track and Trace system (I checked their website after reading that they are upset about MPs being reimbursed for poppy wreaths).
 
I don't really want Sentamu in the Lords, but I don't want Botham or Claire Fox there either. Can they just avoid giving peerages to twats for a bit?
 
Squeegee Beckenheim said:
https://twitter.com/thesundaytimes/status/1317722252524326912



Article embedded in tweet.

Ian Botham is a Lord.
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Is it an extraordinary snub? I know former Archbishops of Canterbury tend to be given life peerages when they retire and thus lose their position as a Lord Spiritual, but I don’t recall Archbishops of York being given them. I don’t follow that side of the Palace of Westminster that closely, though, so I may be wrong.

ETA - I correct myself. The previous three Archbishops of York had been given life peerages, so it does seem unusual not to follow that pattern, small sample size aside.
 
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Perhaps his smile didn't extend as far as a watermelon for Boris's liking

'too many Lords' but Boris still found room for a Russian Oligarch and Ian bloody Botham!
 
Filippo Lippi said:
Still nothing from the Taxpayers Alliance on money being spaffed on the awful Test, Track and Trace system (I checked their website after reading that they are upset about MPs being reimbursed for poppy wreaths).
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I hope you used your visit to leave a message asking who funds them.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Ministers should waste no time to make unpopular cuts to pensioner benefits, a think tank director has said.

Many of those hit by a cut to the winter fuel allowance might "not be around" at the next election, said Alex Wild of the Taxpayers' Alliance.

And others would forget which party had done it, he added.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34439965
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Ah, the right-wing libertarian nuts are true to form. :rolleyes:
 
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