It's bollocks that they won't be able to afford it though. The water companies are income generating assets as they currently exist and it's not like the government doesn't have access to capital. The decision whether or not to nationalise is ideological.dpedin wrote: Fri May 12, 2023 9:17 amWhately was just plain terrible but allowed to spout shite by Bruce. The labour spokesman at least came clean on the question re denationalisation of the water industry - the Lab Gov won't be able to afford it! They need to go same route as with rail franchises and regulated and fine the arse of these water companies who will then hopefully cry wolf and walk away from the industry. The Tories have a lot to answer for by nationalising all these essential industries and turning them into cash machines for their mates.I like neeps wrote: Fri May 12, 2023 7:52 am
This is quite funny but when she says 56m of investment she means 56m that will be an increase on our bills for a service we have no other provider for and when the choice motive has been removed from capitalism it doesn't work anymore as your profit is guaranteed and you have no motive to improve. You need competition!
I'd love to have the choice of price gauge water, sh*te in your river water, or we now have an incentive not to price gouge l or allow sh*t in rivers as now we have to invest in infrastructure water.
Stop voting for fucking Tories
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Why can't he do this in PMQs?
Scottish Water is scottish government owned and Dŵr Cymru is a not for profit. Dŵr Cymru has cleared a lot of debt it started with and ranks above most of the other water companies both in environmental performance and in financial performance (reducing debt instead of accumulating it).dpedin wrote: Fri May 12, 2023 9:17 amWhately was just plain terrible but allowed to spout shite by Bruce. The labour spokesman at least came clean on the question re denationalisation of the water industry - the Lab Gov won't be able to afford it! They need to go same route as with rail franchises and regulated and fine the arse of these water companies who will then hopefully cry wolf and walk away from the industry. The Tories have a lot to answer for by nationalising all these essential industries and turning them into cash machines for their mates.I like neeps wrote: Fri May 12, 2023 7:52 am
This is quite funny but when she says 56m of investment she means 56m that will be an increase on our bills for a service we have no other provider for and when the choice motive has been removed from capitalism it doesn't work anymore as your profit is guaranteed and you have no motive to improve. You need competition!
I'd love to have the choice of price gauge water, sh*te in your river water, or we now have an incentive not to price gouge l or allow sh*t in rivers as now we have to invest in infrastructure water.
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But it's voter ID which is the problem...now will the new council suggest to rerun the election or sit on it?
More than 800 uncounted postal votes have been found following last week's local elections in North Lincolnshire.
A total of 864 votes for the election in the Broughton and Scawby ward had been found, but only after the result had been declared, the council said.
The law does not allow votes to be counted following a declaration.
It was a "genuine mistake" and the election outcome in that ward had been referred to the Electoral Commission, North Lincolnshire Council said.
Two Conservatives were elected in the ward following the election on 4 May, with around 525 votes each.
Labour came second with their two candidates gaining 367 and 355 votes.
Following the election, the Conservatives held North Lincolnshire Council, securing 27 seats, while Labour won the remaining 16.
Peter Thorpe, the authority's returning officer, said it was "not an acceptable situation" to have uncounted votes.
"Candidates, agents and their wider teams work hard for people's votes and the residents of Broughton and Scawby ward should expect their votes to be counted as they intended," he said.
"I am sorry this did not happen. We do know this was a genuine mistake.
"We are working closely with the Electoral Commission to strengthen procedures and ensure all lessons are learned."
North Lincolnshire Council said it had informed all the candidates and told them the options.
Those options included issuing a complaint to the Election Petitions Office or making an application to the County Court under election law, it said.
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No more postal votes it is, sir!
Yeah, Tory ministers pretending the English model is the only one in the UK is another reason why the UK is fucking finishedpetej wrote: Fri May 12, 2023 2:36 pmScottish Water is scottish government owned and Dŵr Cymru is a not for profit. Dŵr Cymru has cleared a lot of debt it started with and ranks above most of the other water companies both in environmental performance and in financial performance (reducing debt instead of accumulating it).dpedin wrote: Fri May 12, 2023 9:17 amWhately was just plain terrible but allowed to spout shite by Bruce. The labour spokesman at least came clean on the question re denationalisation of the water industry - the Lab Gov won't be able to afford it! They need to go same route as with rail franchises and regulated and fine the arse of these water companies who will then hopefully cry wolf and walk away from the industry. The Tories have a lot to answer for by nationalising all these essential industries and turning them into cash machines for their mates.I like neeps wrote: Fri May 12, 2023 7:52 am
This is quite funny but when she says 56m of investment she means 56m that will be an increase on our bills for a service we have no other provider for and when the choice motive has been removed from capitalism it doesn't work anymore as your profit is guaranteed and you have no motive to improve. You need competition!
I'd love to have the choice of price gauge water, sh*te in your river water, or we now have an incentive not to price gouge l or allow sh*t in rivers as now we have to invest in infrastructure water.
And are there two g’s in Bugger Off?
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In 15 years there will be people telling us the tories weren't that bad, that they should be given another chance, charming reasonable, unaffected people on rugby forums, like Theo. Etonians all aghast, and with pretendy disbelief and horror, that we still dare to still hold massive anger and rage at them.
How can we hate David Cameron 2.0... the bloke loves huskies..is tolerant, cares about the environment, he used the NHS once..
We are just so class biased, so jealous, so rude etc..David Cameron 2.0 could never harm anyone. Certainly not needlessly wipe out 300 thpusand people with idiotic Austerity. Shorten everyones life expectancy, send millions to foodbanks and terrorise millions more, whilst whistling cheerfully, out of office and welcoming in all the unvarnished murderous psychotics, who think state murder is the lifeblood of their ideology (for a taxcut).
They will sneer the words"its Brexit fault" at you, like they did the words "its Thatcher fault", as if the passing of time has made the devestation wrought by these horror shows irrellevant..not f'king massively worse and even more glaringly obvious and plain to see.
Get ready now for the tory gaslighting in the future.
The schools will still be churning these mindless tory cunts out.
They will still want their picture on the "Prime Minister" Wall.
This time they will have A.I. to help them.
How can we hate David Cameron 2.0... the bloke loves huskies..is tolerant, cares about the environment, he used the NHS once..
We are just so class biased, so jealous, so rude etc..David Cameron 2.0 could never harm anyone. Certainly not needlessly wipe out 300 thpusand people with idiotic Austerity. Shorten everyones life expectancy, send millions to foodbanks and terrorise millions more, whilst whistling cheerfully, out of office and welcoming in all the unvarnished murderous psychotics, who think state murder is the lifeblood of their ideology (for a taxcut).
They will sneer the words"its Brexit fault" at you, like they did the words "its Thatcher fault", as if the passing of time has made the devestation wrought by these horror shows irrellevant..not f'king massively worse and even more glaringly obvious and plain to see.
Get ready now for the tory gaslighting in the future.
The schools will still be churning these mindless tory cunts out.
They will still want their picture on the "Prime Minister" Wall.
This time they will have A.I. to help them.
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Once? He was far more a frequent flyer with NHS staff caring for his dying child on repeat basis. Indeed it may have done much to humanise him given it forced long exposure to some hard working caring people on salaries he'd find hard to understand given his backgroundLine6 HXFX wrote: Fri May 12, 2023 11:16 pm
How can we hate David Cameron 2.0... the bloke loves huskies..is tolerant, cares about the environment, he used the NHS once..
By all means there's still much to contrast given he's had a life of extreme privilege, but it's far too easy to dismiss such criticism if you're going to trivialise the experience of living with and then witnessing the death of a child born to die young
Blue on blue attack day today...........get the popcorn in!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65579691Former Home Secretary Priti Patel will blame "those in power and control" of the Conservative Party for their heavy local election losses in a speech later.
Ms Patel will say "errors and mistakes made by a minority in Westminster have cost [the] party dearly".
She will be among several high-profile Tory MPs speaking to the Conservative Democratic Organisation, a new grassroots pro-Boris Johnson group.
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Reading 'Boris at 10' currently - and how anyone can think this man can be truly considered as fit to return to that office is well beyond me ( unless of course you want a vacuous figurehead that might give you your old jobs back )SaintK wrote: Sat May 13, 2023 8:14 am Blue on blue attack day today...........get the popcorn in!https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65579691Former Home Secretary Priti Patel will blame "those in power and control" of the Conservative Party for their heavy local election losses in a speech later.
Ms Patel will say "errors and mistakes made by a minority in Westminster have cost [the] party dearly".
She will be among several high-profile Tory MPs speaking to the Conservative Democratic Organisation, a new grassroots pro-Boris Johnson group.
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That's another pledge gone.Keir Starmer scales back plan to extend voting rights to EU citizens
Labour leader reins in pledge to enfranchise over 3mn EU citizens amid Tory accusations of ‘gerrymandering’
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How pathetic is this? Is this all they've got to try and get their readers behind the Tories?

They were glad to have the LDs in 2010.tabascoboy wrote: Sun May 14, 2023 4:59 pm How pathetic is this? Is this all they've got to try and get their readers behind the Tories?
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GogLais wrote: Sun May 14, 2023 5:13 pmThey were glad to have the LDs in 2010.tabascoboy wrote: Sun May 14, 2023 4:59 pm How pathetic is this? Is this all they've got to try and get their readers behind the Tories?
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There you go muddying the waters with facts.
Nick Clegg was as anti-woke as they come, they were only kidding with that 2010 manifesto.
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At this "national conservativism" conference the US Christians Republican mental think-tanks have decided to export to us Jacob Rees-Mogg (who was in government at the time) admits that the voter ID law was in fact to disenfranchise voters.
Well I never!
Well I never!
Quite!!!I like neeps wrote: Mon May 15, 2023 12:20 pm At this "national conservativism" conference the US Christians Republican mental think-tanks have decided to export to us Jacob Rees-Mogg (who was in government at the time) admits that the voter ID law was in fact to disenfranchise voters.
Well I never!
No wonder Sunak invited Zelensky for a nice photo op at Chequers today.
Might bump a few of the headlines that maybe just a tad worrying for him. Otherwise just a normal quiet Monday for the Tory Party
Patel, Cruddas and "Team Boris" tearing in to Sunak at their conference at the weekend
Shy and retiring worst PM ever off free lancing to Taiwan. However, admits that she has no ambitions to be PM again
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2 ... -speech
Might bump a few of the headlines that maybe just a tad worrying for him. Otherwise just a normal quiet Monday for the Tory Party
Patel, Cruddas and "Team Boris" tearing in to Sunak at their conference at the weekend
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ ... th-sunakIt was billed as the launch of a campaign to hand more power to Tory members. It was not, its organisers repeatedly insisted, a group aiming to reinstall Boris Johnson as party leader – or cause trouble for Rishi Sunak. It was about “taking back control” of the Conservative party for the grassroots.
Yet as the Conservative Democratic Organisation (CDO) met for its inaugural gathering in a sunny Bournemouth on Saturday, it was less than 15 minutes after Tory MP Andrea Jenkyns had belted out the national anthem that Johnson’s name was first uttered on stage.
Shy and retiring worst PM ever off free lancing to Taiwan. However, admits that she has no ambitions to be PM again

Asked directly if she had any ambitions to return as prime minister in the future, she replied:
I have no ambitions to become prime minister again. What I what I care about, is I care about making sure that freedom and democracy prevail across the world, and advocating for an economic NATO which I believe will help achieve that. I care about the British economy becoming successful, and our country growing.
Braverman laying out her vision for Britain (and culture war leadership manifesto for when they get rid of Sunak) to a very right wing audience at the NatCon conference in London todayThe Conservative chair of the foreign affairs select committee launched a blistering attack on the former prime minister’s planned trip, calling it “the worst kind of Instagram diplomacy”.
Alicia Kearns said she thought Truss’s trip was little more than a vanity project aimed at keeping her profile high after her brief spell as prime minister last year.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2 ... -speech
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She'll be proposing a "National Flag Day" before long where everyone and everyone has to pay public obeisance to the Union Flag, if it's good enough for the US and all those other nations, then...SaintK wrote: Mon May 15, 2023 3:04 pm
Braverman laying out her vision for Britain (and culture war leadership manifesto for when they get rid of Sunak) to a very right wing audience at the NatCon conference in London today
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https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ ... 16f1a45050

Speaking at the National Conservatism conference in Westminster on Monday, Rees-Mogg said: “Parties that try and gerrymander end up finding their clever scheme comes back to bite them, as dare I say we found by insisting on voter ID for elections.
“We found the people who didn’t have ID were elderly and they by and large voted Conservative.
The former Tory cabinet minister added: “So we made it hard for our own voters and we upset a system that worked perfectly well.”

“Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true.”
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and the Gammons think he's one of the smart ones.Insane_Homer wrote: Mon May 15, 2023 6:27 pm https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ ... 16f1a45050
Speaking at the National Conservatism conference in Westminster on Monday, Rees-Mogg said: “Parties that try and gerrymander end up finding their clever scheme comes back to bite them, as dare I say we found by insisting on voter ID for elections.
“We found the people who didn’t have ID were elderly and they by and large voted Conservative.
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Only because he speaks posh and they are desperate to go back to the days when some Etonian Major told their grandad to walk very slowly over no man's land to give Fritz a good British walloping.fishfoodie wrote: Mon May 15, 2023 7:33 pmand the Gammons think he's one of the smart ones.Insane_Homer wrote: Mon May 15, 2023 6:27 pm https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ ... 16f1a45050
Speaking at the National Conservatism conference in Westminster on Monday, Rees-Mogg said: “Parties that try and gerrymander end up finding their clever scheme comes back to bite them, as dare I say we found by insisting on voter ID for elections.
“We found the people who didn’t have ID were elderly and they by and large voted Conservative.
The former Tory cabinet minister added: “So we made it hard for our own voters and we upset a system that worked perfectly well.”![]()
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The electoral commission has to have a serious look at this no? A cabinet minister in government admitted the voter ID law was designed to disenfranchise people. There's diddling the boundary of some hamlet in Gloucestershire and there's this.
I have heard the event referred to the 'Nat C Party Conference' which I thought was rather apt!I like neeps wrote: Mon May 15, 2023 8:25 pmOnly because he speaks posh and they are desperate to go back to the days when some Etonian Major told their grandad to walk very slowly over no man's land to give Fritz a good British walloping.
The electoral commission has to have a serious look at this no? A cabinet minister in government admitted the voter ID law was designed to disenfranchise people. There's diddling the boundary of some hamlet in Gloucestershire and there's this.
Tory Party tearing themselves apart as the right wing nut jobs are trying to rein in the extreme right wing nut jobs who are in hock to ultra extreme right wing US Christian twats!
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Guess women shouldn't leave an abusive marriage "for the sake of the kids"dpedin wrote: Tue May 16, 2023 6:39 am
Tory Party tearing themselves apart as the right wing nut jobs are trying to rein in the extreme right wing nut jobs who are in hock to ultra extreme right wing US Christian twats!
There's a man who didn't live through his parents staying together for the kids. People really think that's a healthy environment for kids to grow up in?
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Danny Kruger's mother is Prue Leith who had a 13 year affair with his father when he was married to his first wife. I wonder if he's ever asked about that?Raggs wrote: Tue May 16, 2023 6:55 am There's a man who didn't live through his parents staying together for the kids. People really think that's a healthy environment for kids to grow up in?
It's very strange they're trying to export radical evangelical Christian policies to a country without radical evangelical Christians. The evangelists in the UK tend to be first gen/second gen immigrants who they are certainly not speaking to. If they were genuinely committed to natalist policies they'd be more encouraging of tax breaks for marriages/children. But the billionaire US funders won't be happy with that so they talk about Christianity to a country which is not interested.
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Depends on the reasons why the parents are breaking apart. Perhaps why so many marriages fail in some cultures needs to be examined. We do know there is a positive correlation with certain groups succeeding and the stability of the family unit.Raggs wrote: Tue May 16, 2023 6:55 am There's a man who didn't live through his parents staying together for the kids. People really think that's a healthy environment for kids to grow up in?
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About sums it up. It's where I think the CHristian right has been culturally manilputed by the US corporate right for deacdes, depsite the right just pushed endless pro-corporate polices and neo-liberalism a the expense of family support and even making society difficult for the family unit, but still claiming they are pro-traditional families. The right has done that in the UK as well, but without the such overt religious framing. It's been pure gaslighting sicnce the Reagan/Thatcher era.I like neeps wrote: Tue May 16, 2023 6:58 amDanny Kruger's mother is Prue Leith who had a 13 year affair with his father when he was married to his first wife. I wonder if he's ever asked about that?Raggs wrote: Tue May 16, 2023 6:55 am There's a man who didn't live through his parents staying together for the kids. People really think that's a healthy environment for kids to grow up in?
It's very strange they're trying to export radical evangelical Christian policies to a country without radical evangelical Christians. The evangelists in the UK tend to be first gen/second gen immigrants who they are certainly not speaking to. If they were genuinely committed to natalist policies they'd be more encouraging of tax breaks for marriages/children. But the billionaire US funders won't be happy with that so they talk about Christianity to a country which is not interested.
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Another attempt at one rule for us another for them, but failed this time
Javad Marandi: Tory donor's link to massive money laundering probe
A top businessman whose foreign companies were part of a global money laundering investigation is a major donor to the Conservative Party. Javad Marandi, who has an OBE for business and philanthropy, can be named after losing a 19-month legal battle with the BBC to remain anonymous.
Mr Marandi strongly denies wrongdoing and isn't subject to criminal sanction.
The judgement against him is a milestone for freedom of the press amid growing privacy laws in the courts.
A spokesman for the businessman said: "Mr Marandi is deeply disappointed at the court's decision to lift reporting restrictions, knowing the reputational damage that is likely to follow."
A National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation found some of Mr Marandi's overseas interests had played a key role in an elaborate money-laundering scheme involving one of Azerbaijan's richest oligarchs.
In January 2022, a judge ruled the NCA could seize £5.6m [$7m] from the London-based family of Javanshir Feyziyev, a member of Azerbaijan's parliament.
More at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61264369
There's not going to be many households that are going to be healthy environments if the 2 adults living together, don't want to be living together. Sure there's worse and better, but 2 people living together who don't want to be, is going to create an tense atmosphere regardless.eldanielfire wrote: Tue May 16, 2023 8:53 amDepends on the reasons why the parents are breaking apart. Perhaps why so many marriages fail in some cultures needs to be examined. We do know there is a positive correlation with certain groups succeeding and the stability of the family unit.Raggs wrote: Tue May 16, 2023 6:55 am There's a man who didn't live through his parents staying together for the kids. People really think that's a healthy environment for kids to grow up in?
EDIT - 60% of marriage in the UK at the moment succeed (so end in death). That's not a bad number. I'd be intrigued as to how many of them last until retirement (so adult kids anyway), and how many of them end within 3 years due to it simply being a stupid marriage anyway.
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The stats are pretty conclusive that children do better with two parents at home. This doesn't change or invalidate anyone's own experiences or situations to the contrary, but on a macro national level it's what you want for most children.Raggs wrote: Tue May 16, 2023 9:31 amThere's not going to be many households that are going to be healthy environments if the 2 adults living together, don't want to be living together. Sure there's worse and better, but 2 people living together who don't want to be, is going to create an tense atmosphere regardless.eldanielfire wrote: Tue May 16, 2023 8:53 amDepends on the reasons why the parents are breaking apart. Perhaps why so many marriages fail in some cultures needs to be examined. We do know there is a positive correlation with certain groups succeeding and the stability of the family unit.Raggs wrote: Tue May 16, 2023 6:55 am There's a man who didn't live through his parents staying together for the kids. People really think that's a healthy environment for kids to grow up in?
EDIT - 60% of marriage in the UK at the moment succeed (so end in death). That's not a bad number. I'd be intrigued as to how many of them last until retirement (so adult kids anyway), and how many of them end within 3 years due to it simply being a stupid marriage anyway.
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Lies, damned lies and statistics.Paddington Bear wrote: Tue May 16, 2023 9:34 amThe stats are pretty conclusive that children do better with two parents at home. This doesn't change or invalidate anyone's own experiences or situations to the contrary, but on a macro national level it's what you want for most children.
If 60% of marriages succeed, and a large chunk of those that fail are without children (or fail well after children have left home), then the benefit of growing up in a stable home can easily be felt through any problems regardless.
In addition, what exactly does "do better" mean? Mental health? Physical health? Monetary wealth? Education?
Just trying to find studies now (it's interesting), and one that I've come across suggests that maternal education levels had an effect in educational achievement rather than single hosueholds. Google scholar seems to be struggling to show me much that isn't 20 years old, those that are younger often seem to be meta analyses. But I've not spent long tweaking results.
I'm not suggesting single is better than dual, by any means. But the suggestion that parents should stay together for the children, is damaging. If they care about the children, then the children will still be financially and emotionally supported by both still. If one of the parents is a shitty parent anyway, and effectively dumps all responsibility on the other, then they'd never have considered staying together for the children anyway.
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'do better' comes across on just about every metric in just about every country surveyed. The evidence is pretty conclusive.Raggs wrote: Tue May 16, 2023 9:48 amLies, damned lies and statistics.Paddington Bear wrote: Tue May 16, 2023 9:34 amThe stats are pretty conclusive that children do better with two parents at home. This doesn't change or invalidate anyone's own experiences or situations to the contrary, but on a macro national level it's what you want for most children.
If 60% of marriages succeed, and a large chunk of those that fail are without children (or fail well after children have left home), then the benefit of growing up in a stable home can easily be felt through any problems regardless.
In addition, what exactly does "do better" mean? Mental health? Physical health? Monetary wealth? Education?
Just trying to find studies now (it's interesting), and one that I've come across suggests that maternal education levels had an effect in educational achievement rather than single hosueholds. Google scholar seems to be struggling to show me much that isn't 20 years old, those that are younger often seem to be meta analyses. But I've not spent long tweaking results.
I'm not suggesting single is better than dual, by any means. But the suggestion that parents should stay together for the children, is damaging. If they care about the children, then the children will still be financially and emotionally supported by both still. If one of the parents is a shitty parent anyway, and effectively dumps all responsibility on the other, then they'd never have considered staying together for the children anyway.
I'm not arguing everyone needs to stay together for the kids, and incidentally I don't think that was the point being made.
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If not the only, then surely the first UK newspaper written exclusively by AI?tabascoboy wrote: Sun May 14, 2023 4:59 pm How pathetic is this? Is this all they've got to try and get their readers behind the Tories?
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Certain they just recycle their stories and a word or two every few months and no one notices. South Park manatees territory.
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I suppose Princess Diana stories don't sell like they used to.lemonhead wrote: Tue May 16, 2023 10:26 amIf not the only, then surely the first UK newspaper written exclusively by AI?tabascoboy wrote: Sun May 14, 2023 4:59 pm How pathetic is this? Is this all they've got to try and get their readers behind the Tories?
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I wouldn't be so sure about that, there is some absolutely batshit stuff coming out from speakers at this conference.Paddington Bear wrote: Tue May 16, 2023 9:51 am 'do better' comes across on just about every metric in just about every country surveyed. The evidence is pretty conclusive.
I'm not arguing everyone needs to stay together for the kids, and incidentally I don't think that was the point being made.
Hopefully leading to the Tory Party tearing itself apart and marginalising some of these loons
Nah, the point he seemed to be trying to make was that it has to be heterosexual couples, and gays are bad. At least that's what a rather obvious reading of it would be.tabascoboy wrote: Tue May 16, 2023 11:53 amI wouldn't be so sure about that, there is some absolutely batshit stuff coming out from speakers at this conference.Paddington Bear wrote: Tue May 16, 2023 9:51 am 'do better' comes across on just about every metric in just about every country surveyed. The evidence is pretty conclusive.
I'm not arguing everyone needs to stay together for the kids, and incidentally I don't think that was the point being made.
Hopefully leading to the Tory Party tearing itself apart and marginalising some of these loons
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Exactly! If you're going to follow Christian tradition man and wife 2.1 kids you need to enact pro nativist policies (tax incentives etc) as they are in Poland and Hungary. For example building houses specifically for newly married couples in the UK or free childcare for married couples.eldanielfire wrote: Tue May 16, 2023 8:56 amAbout sums it up. It's where I think the CHristian right has been culturally manilputed by the US corporate right for deacdes, depsite the right just pushed endless pro-corporate polices and neo-liberalism a the expense of family support and even making society difficult for the family unit, but still claiming they are pro-traditional families. The right has done that in the UK as well, but without the such overt religious framing. It's been pure gaslighting sicnce the Reagan/Thatcher era.I like neeps wrote: Tue May 16, 2023 6:58 amDanny Kruger's mother is Prue Leith who had a 13 year affair with his father when he was married to his first wife. I wonder if he's ever asked about that?Raggs wrote: Tue May 16, 2023 6:55 am There's a man who didn't live through his parents staying together for the kids. People really think that's a healthy environment for kids to grow up in?
It's very strange they're trying to export radical evangelical Christian policies to a country without radical evangelical Christians. The evangelists in the UK tend to be first gen/second gen immigrants who they are certainly not speaking to. If they were genuinely committed to natalist policies they'd be more encouraging of tax breaks for marriages/children. But the billionaire US funders won't be happy with that so they talk about Christianity to a country which is not interested.
The economic model of rapacious rentier capitalism but with God judging you just is not going to result in family life. Religion requires a big state to turn the mumbo jumbo religious "teachings" into policy incentives.
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Except we have the example of the Republican Party, who lurched violently to the right to appease the loon wing, who intabascoboy wrote: Tue May 16, 2023 11:53 amI wouldn't be so sure about that, there is some absolutely batshit stuff coming out from speakers at this conference.Paddington Bear wrote: Tue May 16, 2023 9:51 am 'do better' comes across on just about every metric in just about every country surveyed. The evidence is pretty conclusive.
I'm not arguing everyone needs to stay together for the kids, and incidentally I don't think that was the point being made.
Hopefully leading to the Tory Party tearing itself apart and marginalising some of these loons
this country are themselves are in bed with and backed by the same money as the GOP batshitters.
Dishonour on the Natutal History Museum for acting as the venue for this shit. Declare a planetary emergency due to climate change and natural degradation, let these twats spout their denial shite for some cash.
Dishonour! Dishonour on your whole family! Dishonour on you, dishonor on your cow!
This right wing christian xenophobic fascism will not catch on in the same way that it has in the States.We don't have the same level of blind faith in dodgy pastors asking folk to send money in to them so they can save their souls and protect themselves from demons, we dont have the mega churches and TV preachers the states do. Sure we have pockets of religious extremism across a number of faiths but generally the UK pop are just too cynical about all religions to fall for this dumb shite. They will try hard to but I can't see them getting any traction in the UK.Hal Jordan wrote: Tue May 16, 2023 3:31 pmExcept we have the example of the Republican Party, who lurched violently to the right to appease the loon wing, who intabascoboy wrote: Tue May 16, 2023 11:53 amI wouldn't be so sure about that, there is some absolutely batshit stuff coming out from speakers at this conference.Paddington Bear wrote: Tue May 16, 2023 9:51 am 'do better' comes across on just about every metric in just about every country surveyed. The evidence is pretty conclusive.
I'm not arguing everyone needs to stay together for the kids, and incidentally I don't think that was the point being made.
Hopefully leading to the Tory Party tearing itself apart and marginalising some of these loons
this country are themselves are in bed with and backed by the same money as the GOP batshitters.
Dishonour on the Natutal History Museum for acting as the venue for this shit. Declare a planetary emergency due to climate change and natural degradation, let these twats spout their denial shite for some cash.
Dishonour! Dishonour on your whole family! Dishonour on you, dishonor on your cow!
Danny Kruger is an evangelical christian nut job in a Trumpy sort of way. A genuine twat of the first order and linked to the Dubai/Russian money funded Legatum Institute.