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Your truth, but not mine. Were/are you comfortable with the lies that Boris and Nigel Farage have spouted out for years - or are Right-wing populist lies somehow OK?

Yet as ever, you never seem to object to the £ millions regularly paid to corporate bosses and shareholders. Bosses paid £ millions, but it's doctors, train drivers, refuse collectors, and the police who you accuse of being greedy. Chairman of Tesco recently had his pay doubled to £10 million...

If you read my post properly, instead of hurriedly trying to score a political point, you'd see that I said the thresh-hold at which the WFA was withdrawn should be higher and/or withdrawn gradually in relation to higher income, but the payment itself - like other welfare payments - ought to be...

This is why I think much of the criticism of the policy overall reeks of hypocrisy - people who insist that welfare payments need to be 'targeted' when paid to the unemployed, disabled, and single parents/unmarried mothers, are now acting outraged. That said, I do think Labour have handled...

With regard to the corruption of awarding of £ billions of taxpayers' money to Ministers' mates and corporate allies via dodgy contracts during Covid, no other party, other than Reform, would have done that for two very simple reasons: 1) Conservative philosophy starts from the premise that...

Cull? the same emotive and extreme language used by the Daily Mail to whip-up anti-Labour hysteria. Did you complain about Boris Johnson’s initial disregard for COVID, and his ”let the bodies pile high” dismissal of taking it seriously.

The typical philistine Tory attitude that education is only about employment and serving the economy, rather than having any cultural or social benefits. I believe the same crude view of education was prevalent among the Communist rulers of the old Soviet Union. Don’t want the proletariat and...

When Labour start criminalising peaceful protests, bullying the BBC into being more compliant, unlawfully suspending Parliament to avoid defeat in a vote by elected MPs, sacking senior civil servants who offer Ministers ‘unwelcome’ expert advice, and introducing ID Cards for voting in order to...

Think of it as being patriotic.

I don't want a penny of your money because I don't like inheritance or receiving hand-outs. I think you are being deliberately obtuse, but I'll ask you a final time - if you choose to leave your hard-earned dosh to a family member, they themselves have not worked for it, and so are no...

You are missing the point - deliberately, I suspect. Well done from coming from a council estate background (like me!) and achieving material success. But when you give your hard-earned wealth to someone else, what have they done to earn it. How are they any different to anyone else who relies...

Is that the best answer you can offer? Blimey no wonder some of us hold Conservatives and the wealthy in such contempt :bigwave:

But what has the 'inheritor' done to warrant their inheritance windfall - they are receiving something for nothing, benefitting from someone else's hard work. Isn't this exactly what you denigrate welfare 'scroungers' for? Conservatism is a seething maelstrom of contradictions, grievances and...

Yes, and also, if people are paid better wages, then fewer workers will need to claim top-up benefits - 48% of Universal Credit claimants are in paid employment - so the welfare bill will also reduce.

No, I hate the Tories for a helluva lot more than 'austerity'! Anyway, as you lot love austerity, you should be cheering Reeves' statement this afternoon. :thumbsup:

There was certainly a Magic Money Tree when you Tories were slashing taxes for the better-off while imposing austerity on the rest of us, and spaffing £ billions during Covid by awarding lucrative contracts to Tory donors and Ministers' mates'. Besides, if improved pay = higher retention of...

I thought you Tories believed in means-testing and 'targeting' support on those most in need; are you saying that all pensioners should receive the winter fuel payments, even if they have 'gold-plated' occupational pensions?

Plus the annual mid-March headline that we're in for a 'scorchio' barbecue summer with 4 months of record-breaking heat!

Thing is, when Labour screw-up, the Party's supporters will quite rightly give them a bollocking. But when Tories screw-up, their supporters repeatedly defend and make excuses for them. In 1997, I liked Tony Blair, but now despise him (for much more than the Iraq War). How many Tories will say...

I'm surprised they're not blaming Labour, like they do for almost everything else!