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Perhaps Margaret Thatcher would be as proud of Burnham as she was of Tony Blair, should she still be alive today.

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And it makes me absolutely sick that people like you defend this so-called 'centrism', which really is just maintaining the status quo (or worse) whilst tinkering around at the edges to make it look like Government is feebly trying to help.

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We never hear the media or the think tanks raise the prospect of taxes on dividend income for foreign investors. Making unearned income subject to National Insurance. Or any of the other measures which actually make the system fairer, do you? It is always kicking the poor, needy and vulnerable.

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An article that describes a flooring mechanism as a 'ratchet' and describes it as unaffordable is your go to? The article doesn't even get to the huge disparity between those in receipt of the state pension. And fails to explore any of the alternatives.

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Well David Sainsbury did contribute £160,000 to Burnham prior to his becoming PM. Is that how it works? Or is it: Progress -> Labour Together -> ThinkLabour Given that Alison Phillips is his chief of staff. Politics bought + paid for under LINO, as it was with the Tories and as it is with Reform

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Hence you think removing the state pension triple lock is 'pragmatic'. This is happening on Burnham's watch. And the fact he himself had made more statements on Welfare reform than he has on tax reform speaks volumes.

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No. You believe in crushing poor people so that those who have more than enough continue to accrue more than they need. The Government does not need to balance its books on the backs of the poor and needy.

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120,000 pensioners die in poverty each year. But you want to discuss 'manners'.

That last part should say 'They are setting up some of the most vulnerable in society for failure'

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Believe that and you will believe anything.

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No. It is not even approaching pragmatic. Making the least well off shoulder the burden, when it could easily be shifted elsewhere, is never pragmatic. If you believe that, than you are a fool with no understanding of how the economy nor the NIF actually works.

Abandoning the state pension triple lock is absolutely fucking heinous. Since 2011 the triple lock has cost £16 bn. Removing the extra tax relief on private pensions enjoyed by high earners would raise £15 bn. Removing the NI upper earnings limit? £12.5 bn. Labour still cruel under Burnham.

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What is it they say about doing the same thing again and again only to get the same result? Same BS. Same austerity. LINO.

A Government that doesn't want to spend is dooming us all, especially disabled people, to ruin.

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What hope does someone who has disability to contend with have of finding work at the entry point in their careers when anything but physically demanding delivery driver jobs are scarce? The truth is public spending is required to stimulate the economy and create jobs.

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Absolute fuck-cuntery. Where do they think these jobs are going to come from? As a non-disabled, with 27 years industry experience and a helluva lot of skills, I spent two months unemployed and couldn't even get an 'unskilled' job to tide me over.

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100% agreed. Sterile cockpit rules need to be applied.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

It is insane the diesel is £2/litre and bike shops are closing down

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In other words, voting only matters if it's the final stage of a sustained campaign to build and mobilize popular power. Without that, voting will get you precious little.

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And that is easily resolved by capping ISA allowances to something sensible. I thought that so obvious, you'd think of it yourself. Credited you with too much, obviously.

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No it isn't rhetoric. Trying to claim there there is no advantage to dropping the UEL because ISAs is disngenuous at best. The world needs fewer economists that think like you. Economists that would rather people die in poverty than ensure abundant wealth is shared.

Money is paid into ISAs after tax and NI has been paid on income Annual contribution to LISA's capped at 4k. Extra tax relief is 20%. No extra advantage for high earners. ISAs give most advantage to the most well off. Perhaps they should be abolished in exchange for higher basic rate threshold.

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The NI fund is in surplus, despite successive Governments reneging on what the Beveridge report proposed and abandoning, in it's most recent incarnation, The Treasury Grant. I think you need to go away now and learn that the economy is meant to serve us all. Not just the well heeled.

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That merely notional cost of tax relief is £15 bn. The cost of the triple lock since it was introduced in 2011? £ 16 bn. Remove the UEL on employees NI would net another £12.5 bn. The absence of UEL on employee earning effects companies and high earners. You are misleading.

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.. and not raising or abolishing the upper earnings limit nor removing the extra tax relief on private pensions enjoyed by high earners. Let us punish people for getting old instead of making the better off pay their fair share.

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Yes, we pay National Insurance. It goes into a discrete fund to provide benefits. It cannot be spent on anything else. Not that public spending is paid for by taxation anyway. That is simply not how it works. Strange that the conversation is about removing the flooring mechanism, the Triple Lock ..

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National Insurance Fund - Wikipedia

Which they don't. They are paid out of the National Insurance Fund, not the Consolidated Fund. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa... You don't know anything about what you are talking about.

en.wikipedia.org

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The triple lock has to last another 40 years for the state pension to reach 50% of median wages, which btw is the European average.

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The triple lock is more flooring mechanism, than convergence mechanism. In fact, State Pension can only increase by more than wages when earnings increase by less than 2.5% in a given year.

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And worse, Labour's solution to the GP crisis, at least in England, is to try and aggressively remove people from GP surgery lists under the pretense of maintaining said lists

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Nirvana: My Unplugged In New York One of the best albums I bought in my late teenage years. RIP Kurt. What a legacy.

A screen capture showing the album art work (front cover) for the Nirvana Album, Unplugged In New York.

Released November 1994, just over 6 months after lead singer Kurt Cobain tragically shot himself.

The front cover features a live photo of the band performing on stage, inset within a squarish hand drawn (?) border within a white frame

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm good! Well, aside from painful deliberation over potential HiFi purchases :)

Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hello @515mm.bsky.social How goes? I notice AudioT sell the Eversolo T8. Do you have any experience with them?

Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Can't imagine any empty garage. Where do the bikes live?

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Isn’t it obvious that selfishness on the road changes us as a society? The belief that a driver should be allowed to do whatever they please, regardless of the impact on others, mounts the pavement and travels deep into our lives." Via @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

theguardian.com

Driving that’s too fast, too dangerous and utterly lawless: why do we tolerate this petro-masculinity? | George Monbiot

In towns and in the countryside, I see 4x4s and pick up trucks driven without care or conscience. It’s a Magafication of transport, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ignorant drivist. They apply even when parking on the footway.

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

About time the GBeebies broadcasting license was suspended.

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tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Arresting RNLI volunteers and impounding their boats, is it, you walking scrotum-sack of a man?

Charities' actions in aiding and abetting the invasion of our country will be illegal under
Reform UK.

Photo of Farage on Gb news

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 18/09/2026

These things are filed in my head under “rank hypocrisy” — take, for instance, then MP Kate Hoey raging against “all cyclists run red lights” and who was later convicted of guess what in her car?

Belfast Telegraph headline: Kate Hoey fined for running red light.

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Rim size plays a part in tyre width. And not all tyres of a given width measure the same. I run these on my tourer in 35 mm width, but they go down to 28 mm. Tough enough for the odd bit of gravel, fast enough to keep up on a club run. www.continental-tires.com/products/bic...

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Some of us are even reluctant drivers too. :(

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Plus addressing no work? localpart+someextratext@somedomain.sometld Otherwise completely agree.