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  • CaptainFlashheart
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    The key thing is that you and everyone else will have a choice as to what sort of life you wish to lead free of the fear of falling into poverty.

    I’ve always wanted to lead a life lounging around at home doing nothing apart from occasionally trimming my toenails. This sounds ideal to me, as someone will pay me for it! ORSUM!

    🙂

    dragon
    Free Member

    I probabiy wouldn’t bother to work at that level.

    I bet you would think of all that extra hot money looking for a place to make good returns, there would be mega money to be made.

    jambalaya
    Free Member

    I’ve always wanted to lead a life lounging around at home doing nothing apart from occasionally trimming my toenails. This sounds ideal to me, as someone will pay me for it! ORSUM!

    Did you read my mind ? Who would have believed there’d be two of us ?

    BTW I thought I’d do some cash in hand work, maybe some winter and summer holiday type work abroad too

    CountZero
    Full Member

    I’ve always wanted to lead a life lounging around at home doing nothing apart from occasionally trimming my toenails. This sounds ideal to me, as someone will pay me for it! ORSUM!

    Did you read my mind ? Who would have believed there’d be two of us ?

    BTW I thought I’d do some cash in hand work, maybe some winter and summer holiday type work abroad too
    Works for me, too!
    I guess I’m fairly close, I collect and deliver cars for a living, I’m transported to each delivery, except the first one, which is a car I take home in the evening.
    The driving makes up about half of my working day, which can sometimes be up to sixteen hours, but the rest of that time I’m mostly napping in the back of the team car.
    Easiest job I’ve ever had! 😀

    And yes, middle class people will pay for it, one way or the other, whether they like it or not. That will be the price of their good fortune.

    I’m sure all the teachers, nurses and doctors will react with unbridled joy at that suggestion.

    jambalaya
    Free Member

    I’m sure all the teachers, nurses and doctors will react with unbridled joy at that suggestion.

    It’s OK, I will be polite and thank them profusely for their efforts

    binners
    Full Member

    Are you allowed to start businesses n shit? Or is the daytime TV while having a sexbot clipping your toenails compulsory?

    jambalaya
    Free Member

    Doesn’t matter if you are allowed you’d just do it on the QT. Work abroad. Cash in hand, barter. Do that design work for a free bike, holiday ….

    ninfan
    Free Member

    I’m sure all the teachers, nurses and doctors will react with unbridled joy at that suggestion.

    DrJ
    Full Member

    With all that time on your hands you may be even inspired to check some facts and get a clue!

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/03/finland-trials-basic-income-for-unemployed

    kerley
    Free Member

    All you need to do is to reduce the subsidies that parents get for their children (tax credits, etc ) – the parents themselves will then regulate how many children they have.

    No they won’t – they will continue to have children but have less money so the children suffer even more.

    Sad fact is, there is more to stop you getting a cat from a re-homing charity than there is to bringing a child into the world.

    teamhurtmore
    Free Member

    Dr – I am sure that you had a rye smile at the political persuasion of the party introducing the Finnish trial!!

    Back to poor old Jezza, with Fabians like this who needs enemies?!?

    DrJ
    Full Member

    It’s too early in the day for a rye smile – at this hour I usually content myself with a wry smile.

    mt
    Free Member

    Those Fabians are just defeatists, next they’ll be saying we need Blair back. Sod the principles we need to win. Corbyn has more chance than people realise, good portion of what he is saying will be supported by voters and the tory government is bound to mess up Brexit. Its the media that are against him and now surprisingly McCluskey. Mind he’ll say anything to keep his job int union living of the backs of the members.

    teamhurtmore
    Free Member

    Bloody apple spell check Doc!

    I know mt life’s not fair is it – biased media, party, polls, unions etc. Why is it so hard to stay on message?

    jambalaya
    Free Member

    I read this last night, perhaps I should get out a bit more 😉

    Can’t win , can’t be wiped out. The last part maybe optimistic as we’ve seen in Scotland, maybe not in 2020 but by 2025 ? Labour in a mess over Brexit and Tories taking votes from all the other parties. Low scenario of 140 seats and Labour typically underperforms mid term polls in actual elections.

    http://www.fabians.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Stuck-Fabian-Society-analysis-paper.pdf

    dragon
    Free Member

    Never a good strategy to rely on the other side messing up.

    Anyway what would a mess up of Brexit look like? I can’t see Corbyn coming up with the answers even if things are going down the drain. Mind currently FTSE100 is up and manufacturing sentiment is up, so things are looking okay.

    teamhurtmore
    Free Member

    Amazing what a large devaluation will do!!!

    Labour might be in a mess re Brexshit but doesn’t matter as mud will stick firmly with the Tories rightly or wrongly

    dazh
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    Never a good strategy to rely on the other side messing up.

    Have you missed the last 40 years of politics? The difference this time is both sides are messing up. I wouldn’t be half surprised if neither May or Corbyn fight the next election. What odds on Balls vs Osborne in 2020?

    big_n_daft
    Free Member

    What odds on Balls vs Osborne in 2020?

    Very long ones

    jambalaya
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    May is doing just fine, it’s only amongst Labour voting Remainers she’s unpopular.

    I thought Corbyn would be gone after the Scottish elections, third place to Tories wasn’t terminal though. Maybe he will struggle on till 2020. Hope so.

    cranberry
    Free Member

    Its the media and voters that are against him and now surprisingly McCluskey.

    FTFY

    dazh
    Full Member

    May is doing just fine

    Give it time. She’s making the same mistake as Corbyn, in trying to navigate a path between the two sides on brexit. Her party is far more divided than labour is on brexit and this will start to create huge problems for her very soon. Add to that the huge questions on her competence to manage such a complex problem (red white and blue brexit?), and her flimsy majority, she’s on a hiding to nothing. At least labour are thrashing out their internecine demons early on when it doesn’t matter, the tories haven’t even started yet.

    mt
    Free Member

    What voters are against him? He aint been put to the test yet. Scotland don’t apply as they are side tracked in nationalism. Pity that as them seem to have some of the best politicians who can actually lead.

    jambalaya
    Free Member

    Hoping a divided Tory party will rescue Labour is 2020’s version of banking on UKIP hurting the Tories in 2015.

    The Tories are only divided on Brexit in terms of the type but in reality they all knows we will be leaving the Customs Union and THE Single Market. The Remainer Toires where the short termists just looking at the 2020 GE

    binners
    Full Member

    Scotland don’t apply as they are side tracked in nationalism. Pity that as them seem to have some of the best politicians who can actually lead.

    Indeed. Shows what happens when people are offered credible politicians to vote for, instead of the usual sock-puppets. They’ve even got a likeable Tory. And I never thought I’d type those words.

    There was a great quote from Ruth Davidson in the paper last week as one of the quotes of the year. On being told she was to be on Question Time with Angela Eagle, said “What? Are you sure they want two shovel-faced lesbians?” 😆

    AlexSimon
    Full Member

    ts the media that are against him and now surprisingly McCluskey

    oh god – you’re making the mistake of believing headlines. It’s spin. If you read what he actually said, he was trying to defend Corbyn. He has since sought to clarify on twitter, but unfortunately all the media do these days is trawl for comments that they can spin against people.

    dazh
    Full Member

    Hoping a divided Tory party will rescue Labour is 2020’s version of banking on UKIP hurting the Tories in 2015.

    And the tories hoping that labour continues on it’s current course isn’t the same?

    A lot can change in a couple of years. Brexit is a poisoned chalice. May is already looking completely out of her depth and nothing has happened yet. Labour doesn’t need to hope that the tories tear themselves apart, they just need to sort out themselves, and I still believe they will before the next election. May is making a huge mistake in not going for an early election. In a couple of years we could easily see a new populist labour leader with a resurgent and united party behind them against a tory party who are still bickering about whatever fudged brexit deal they manage to squeeze out of the EU and whose fault it is.

    jambalaya
    Free Member

    Daz I don’t think the Tories are thinking that. They are keeping quiet so Corbyn remains in place then they will give it the maximum Tsunami force tidal wave in 2020.

    What? Are you sure they want two shovel-faced lesbians?”

    That’s brilliant and she’s great. The more you see Thornburry and Abbott on TV the more **** you know Labour are. I’ve mostly lost my Sarf London twang but they are both far posher than me.

    ninfan
    Free Member

    ctk
    Full Member

    I don’t know why we bother with elections when polls are so reliable.

    jambalaya
    Free Member

    Jez 2.0

    That’s the Huffington Post headline. Apparently tye re-brand includes him dropping his insistence on freedom of movement. Principals eh and what will Diane say ? Postive on Brexit possibilities too.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/jeremy-corbyn-to-predict-britain-can-be-better-off-after-brexit_uk_5873c960e4b0a1ff7042e740?utm_hp_ref=uk&utm_hp_ref=uk

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-free-movement-eu-brexit-keir-starmer-immigration-a7518231.html

    teamhurtmore
    Free Member

    If true, then shame on him.. He did at least have conviction on this issue but the nail is well and truly in the coffin of conviction politics now (if that ever existed beyond the soundbite). If these articles are to be believed, then they are in a total mess on the issue, more so than the Tories.

    Srabbling about in the gutter and at the feet of the xenophobes is a sad and desperate development. Shame.

    ctk
    Full Member

    TMH

    Srabbling about in the gutter and at the feet of the xenophobes is a sad and desperate development. Shame.

    Says a Tory lol. Election pledge for migration down to 100k? Ring any bells?

    I dont see anything in those articles that gets near to xenophobia.

    Jamba

    Apparently tye re-brand includes him dropping his insistence on freedom of movement. Principals eh and what will Diane say ? Postive on Brexit possibilities too.

    Seems a logical position to me just turns the screw on the Tories everso slightly.

    cranberry
    Free Member

    “those are my principles and if you don’t like them.. well I have others”

    It seems that Comrade No. 1 can’t even follow the right Marx.

    😆

    jambalaya
    Free Member

    Jezza’s gone full barmy 😯

    He is going to propose a maximum National Wage ! As Sky says how will that work in the Premier League (or Formula 1, Tennis, Golf ?)

    As I have said the quickest way to improve income inequality is having all the rich people leave, Jezza seems to have taken up my suggestion.

    codybrennan
    Free Member

    I’m missing something here.

    So- T May can do a volte-face and suddenly support Brexit when she’s a known Remainer….

    and….

    Corbyn has now reversed his position on free movement….

    ….which means…

    T May is an arch-strategist, a political cats-paw who’s cunningly moving the pieces on the chess-board to suit her agenda

    and

    Corbyn is a simple hypocrite.

    Have I got the spun message correct? You guys need to guide me here.

    outofbreath
    Free Member

    “T May can do a volte-face and suddenly support Brexit”

    I don’t see why May would support Brexit, it’s a thankless nightmare she’d rather not have to deal with.

    jambalaya
    Free Member

    Jez 2.0 live on Sky in 10 mins .. tv, web, youtube

    DrJ
    Full Member

    As Sky says how will that work in the Premier League (or Formula 1, Tennis, Golf ?)

    Good point. We should definitely shape our society to accommodate the wishes of Wayne Rooney. It’s so obvious once you think about it!

    cranberry
    Free Member

    May was always, at best, rather lukewarm about remaining.

    Jeremy, however is the great, successful conviction politician of our age, a rock against the current, not a man to grub about in the gutter for votes

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