National News Boris Johnson

Essexyellows said:
However, that ineffective leadership delivered a stonking parliamentary majority so it appealed to enough people.

Now it's just a matter of who gets to the middle and holds it first.

With Boris racking up in Blackpool suggesting benefits count towards a mortgage he`s starting to sound more like Corbyn than Starmer. :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
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Boris didn’t win a majority, it was handed to him by a poor opposition!
Put Boris up against any PM or opposition leader of the last 40 years (including conservative ones {expect maybe Ian Duncan Smith}) and Boris loses that election!
Many voters held their nose whist casting their vote, that’s hardly democracy at its finest.
Boris’s large majority is also not as it seems, with many of his seats sitting themselves on tiny fragile majorities.

It’s a towering majority with shallow foundations.
 
Essexyellows said:
The @RyanioBirdio HoC scenario appears to be occurring............ fire enough policy and some might stick!

www.bbc.co.uk

Law change to let pharmacists sign people off sick

Patients in England, Wales and Scotland will no longer need to see their GP to receive a "fit note".
www.bbc.co.uk
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so moving from one hard-pressed set of professionals where there are massive shortages and lots of vacancies, to another hard-pressed set of professionals where there are massive shortages and lots of vacancies.
 
OUFCGav said:
so moving from one hard-pressed set of professionals where there are massive shortages and lots of vacancies, to another hard-pressed set of professionals where there are massive shortages and lots of vacancies.
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Sharing the demand............... :)

The "house buying on benefits" is truly bonkers and will alienate all those working folk caught in the rent/deposit "trap" but there we are, what do I know?
 
This slow motion car crash of a government that will unfold and unravel over the coming months is on one hand hilarious, but on the other utterly terrifying to see the deranged depths they will now try to plumb in their doomed efforts to save Big Dog.

Utterly out of touch.
 
Essexyellows said:
Sharing the demand............... :)

The "house buying on benefits" is truly bonkers and will alienate all those working folk caught in the rent/deposit "trap" but there we are, what do I know?
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Indeed. The other thing I would think would make it hard is that pharmacists don't (and shouldn't) have access to your medical records. So not sure how it would actually work.

House buying on housing benefit - well less than 3million get housing benefit, and over 1m of those are pensioners, and of the remaining, the majority get less than £100/week for social housing. The average mortgage payment in UK is £763/month. Unless it is going to cost the taxpayer vastly more, I can't see this benefitting anyone at all. Never mind the idea of others not liking it.
 
The BBC 'reality check' is clearly showing that corporation's brazen left wing bias by asking difficult questions of the initiative as follows:

It's not entirely clear how the government's right-to-buy policy is going to work:
  • There is already a shortage of social housing without selling properties - 1.1 million people are on waiting lists
  • The government has not revealed who will be able to take advantage of the scheme, how much it will cost and whether it will be capped
  • It's the third such pilot scheme - previous ones found that some housing association properties were not eligible to be sold and there was concern about the financial risks being taken on by participants
  • While the government has said that there will be funding for housing associations to replace each home sold, previous pilots have had problems with replacements coming quickly enough or being like-for-like
  • The policy depends on negotiations with housing associations, which will not necessarily want to take part.
 
IIRC if you have savings of more than £16k you can`t get UC or any benefits.

So if you have £15k as a deposit, probably be seen as risky for a mortgage, what are you going to get to spend on a house?
£60k - £75k mortgage and a $15k deposit - seen many £75k - £90k houses lately?
Probably not because people buy them for their rental portfolio. ;)
 
Essexyellows said:
IIRC if you have savings of more than £16k you can`t get UC or any benefits.

So if you have £15k as a deposit, probably be seen as risky for a mortgage, what are you going to get to spend on a house?
£60k - £75k mortgage and a $15k deposit - seen many £75k - £90k houses lately?
Probably not because people buy them for their rental portfolio. ;)
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Its grim up North....

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If he wants to use housing to win votes he literally just needs to ban the majority of second home ownership and purchases by overseas investors.

Sometimes I just don't understand why leaders can't be radical or innovative anymore. I want to smash something up.
 
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OUFCGav said:
Its grim up North....

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You can get cheaper than Barrow in the Cleator Moor area.
 
Thought this was all the poor’s fault? Have I missed an update?

Ive been told for years there’s no cost of living problem and it’s the fault of the workshy benefit thieves that spunk all their money on 60 inch tvs, blow, fags and porno mags

Everyone that’s told me this grew up on a council estate and ma never let them go hungry, they ate pigeon splat and shoe spleen etc etc
 
Jerome'SAle said:
Thought this was all the poor’s fault? Have I missed an update?

Ive been told for years there’s no cost of living problem and it’s the fault of the workshy benefit thieves that spunk all their money on 60 inch tvs, blow, fags and porno mags

Everyone that’s told me this grew up on a council estate and ma never let them go hungry, they ate pigeon splat and shoe spleen etc etc
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It's lack of respect for your Elders.

When I was young we respected all berry-bearing deciduous trees.
 
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