on par with Private Eye
…dear god man. I mean, it’s great at what it does, but comparable to the Eye? No. Just… no XD
We have been contacted by George Osborne and Thea Rogers’ lawyers
This, though, may as well be a straight-up admission of truth.
I mean, let’s be real - it’s totally inconsequential. We’ve known for years who he is and how he fills his days waiting for his inheritance, and more importantly, none of this stuff, even if true, will actually affect him in any meaningful way.
But I can’t claim for a second that I’m not chuckling at his misfortune today.
“PopBitch” (that’s a new one)
They’ve been around for knocking on 20 years, if not longer.
Absolutely nothing more noble than a gossip-sheet (and they don’t aim any higher either, to be clear), but they are legit and are broadly non-partisan.
Yeah, I woke up to that yesterday. My mood was not improved by it.
and water when it was in public ownership was way down the queue.
Or in other words, “when we had responsibility for it we didn’t want it because we couldn’t profit from it, so we shirked our responsibility so we could shrug it off in '89. Naturally, no other attitude to the matter is conceivable”.
On the contrary, I’m putting the goalposts back where they were before you misunderstood them.
From the article:
Hall concludes the companies have borrowed to pay dividends, rather than to invest in infrastructure projects. The £123bn of capital expenditure spent by the companies has all been financed by customer bills, the analysis states.
Your analogy is a little off. If I were in the slightest danger of defaulting on my mortgage, you may be assured that even my closest family would be getting handwritten free hug vouchers for christmas.
It’s not about being debt free, it’s about not using your debt for stupid things.
hopefully we’ll get an autumn general election
No chance. They’re dug in for the duration now.
that totally normal corporate financing
The point, I think, is that it perhaps ought not to be.
It’s like you summed up his worldview in two simple bullet points :D
Its an excellent scheme if you’re an amoral lizard.
Well hey, you’ll never guess who built the system…
That is indeed the system.
Ah, the state of the gender paygap. It’s 2023 and still a woman can’t be fairly compensated for tanking an essential public service into the ground smh.
I can only think they must not have paid the poor chap enough. Just look at what’s become of them.
I will literally never tire of recommending “A Classless Society” by [ahem cough mumble idk just google it]
Historical summary of British history in the 1990s - hugely interesting to me, having lived through it, to see a higher-level analysis of what was going on, not to mention finding out a bunch of stuff that I’d either forgotten or missed at the time by being too busy with Airfix kits or scrumping apples in the golden dusk or whatever it was we did for fun back then.
With the greatest of respect: the guy was Chancellor of the Exchequer for years. It seems reasonable to assume people know who he is in a UK politics forum. (edit: sp.)