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DB9

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BBC News - Real wages fall at fastest rate on record

I seem to remember a thread called "The Shitstorm Cometh" or similar, Seems like it with all the bad news around.
 

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Liz Truss is "pledging to reverse the recent increase in national insurance. The only specific help on energy bills she has proposed is to suspend green levies, which would save the average household about £150 a year. Truss has not ruled out further help, but has repeatedly stressed her preference for tax cuts, although these would disproportionately help higher earners, and do nothing for pensioners or those not in work."

Is there anyone out there willing to defend this nonsense?
Yes
 

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BBC News - Real wages fall at fastest rate on record
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Not difficult to beat all records when records only began in 2001 and we are suffering the first sustained jump in inflation for decades.
73K more on payrolls and vacancies beginning to fall is the more positive spin on today’s work stats.
 

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And who is this person, Truss?
The only time she has been elected is as MP. She climbed the greasy political poll through her blind ambition, was elected as a minister by a liar and a cheat, and now she's swanning around as if she owns the bloody place. Who is she?

Of course, the right wing think she's "tough" and love it. Has she fought in any wars?
Talking tough is easy : compromise and seeking a way forward that is not confrontational is harder.Of course, this is another huge mistake by the Tory fans, and it will end badly.

Oh dear, a country ruled by a rather loopy strongman wannabe and selected by a small group of afternoon tea drinkers. Meanwhile the street alleys and food- banks are becoming increasingly more crowded with the victims of 12' years of Tory non Government.

The smug and self-satisfied who got lucky in life watch on in amusement Judgment Day will come. A sad state of affairs and an indictment of our so-called democracy
 

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Sweden has a brilliant health system. But you have to pay a tenner to set foot inside a hospital
You do in England too.
Only difference is that here it goes to the private companies who run the car parks.
 

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I just hope the Club are not paying someone £40,000 per annum and upwards to send out the message.
 

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You do in England too.
Only difference is that here it goes to the private companies who run the car parks.
Even the staff have to pay about 40 quid a month to park.

It's not the parking prices that gets my goat, it's just the issue that all that money could go to the NHS however it doesn't.
 

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Not difficult to beat all records when records only began in 2001 and we are suffering the first sustained jump in inflation for decades.
73K more on payrolls and vacancies beginning to fall is the more positive spin on today’s work stats.
Vacancies are falling because employers are reluctant to recruit ahead of a recession. This is one way of looking at it - more data is required to draw any firm conclusions from these stats.
 

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And who is this person, Truss?
A plain speaking Yorkshire woman apparently, who was born in Oxford, spent her early years in Scotland, lives in Greenwich and represents a constituency in Norfolk.

But hey, these are just facts. Fantasies are so much more appealing
 

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A plain speaking Yorkshire woman apparently, who was born in Oxford, spent her early years in Scotland, lives in Greenwich and represents a constituency in Norfolk.

But hey, these are just facts. Fantasies are so much more appealing
What are the fantasies?
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