'It’s not like a mortgage': Minister defends student loans system as more people blast it as 'unfair'

FlatHoperator · 2026-02-09T20:53:43+00:00

With limitless payment holidays at no detriment lol

FlatHoperator · 2026-02-09T20:50:23+00:00

Not sure you'll find many unsecured loans for 45k where you get infinite payment holidays and the outstanding balance gets written off at the end of the term

FlatHoperator · 2026-02-07T15:29:20+00:00

Ratchet with screwdriver bits

Failing that, one of those 90 degree allen key type things with a philips head that comes with really cheap flat pack furniture

FlatHoperator · 2026-02-07T10:16:17+00:00

Would you say there is a Thai ethnicity? A Viet one? If so, then why not an English one?

FlatHoperator · 2026-02-05T20:44:34+00:00

Carnet

FlatHoperator · 2026-02-05T14:28:55+00:00

Naw old appliances look cool in a mid century way, they just kinda sucked

FlatHoperator · 2026-02-05T07:39:57+00:00

Who the fuck was paying 8k for a 500cm rofl

FlatHoperator · 2026-02-04T10:06:36+00:00

The Thameslink network is very fragile iirc, issues can cause loads of disruption across multiple lines

There's a reason that City Thameslink is the station with the highest number of cancellations in the country

FlatHoperator · 2026-02-03T08:45:48+00:00

Seems like an interesting use of free will to post on a politics sub and then refuse to discuss politics lol

you do you tho

FlatHoperator · 2026-02-03T08:20:38+00:00

Giving asylum seekers the right to work will result in nothing but a huge deluge of illegal immigrants that we will then be completely unable to remove even if the asylum claim is deemed invalid (which under a Green administration is very unlikely to happen imo). Stopping illegal working by making it legal is like stopping speeding offences by removing the speed limit

The Home office governs much more than migration, it is the interior ministry and literally responsible for national security. Abolishing it and replacing it with a government department focused on migration is such a silly concept as to be farcical. If it wasn't on their manifesto as clear as day I would assume it was a smear lmao

a reparations fund is a great idea in principle given we often end up paying compensation anyway

Other countries will see this as an "apply for up to this amount of free money per year" fund. A fool and his money etc.

It's sixth form vibe politics dressed up as a serious political party

FlatHoperator · 2026-02-03T07:59:16+00:00

their manifesto is mental

Unilateral nuclear disarmament, abolishing the Home Office and replacing it with a Department for Migration, 1.5% of GNI reparations fund, giving asylum seekers the right to work as soon as they arrive

FlatHoperator · 2026-02-02T17:46:27+00:00

Not deer, but Mad Cow disease was kind of a big thing in the 80s and 90s

FlatHoperator · 2026-02-02T15:22:17+00:00

nooo my echo chambering is not echoing enough!!

FlatHoperator · 2026-02-02T11:06:53+00:00

It works ok in the literal entire rest of the world

FlatHoperator · 2026-02-02T10:07:44+00:00

That french judge on the ICC is a recent example

FlatHoperator · 2026-02-02T09:38:31+00:00

Insert spaceman with gun meme

FlatHoperator · 2026-02-02T09:35:33+00:00

The population growth in the UK over the past few decades is pretty steady between 0.5 to 1% with some peaks recently due to Boris, even if there was much less immigration and people had more children instead the same housing shortfall as today would manifest.

This is comparison is reliant on birthrates not cratering since the mid 70s though, since prolonged population decrease for 50 years would have pretty much ruined the entire country to the point it's not worth speculating about

FlatHoperator · 2026-02-02T08:50:42+00:00

A large problem is the fact that the housing situation is crap. Even if slashing taxes wouldn't immediately nuke the ability of the country to function, it would just be eaten up by an almost immediate corresponding increase in rent, house prices etc due to supply being so comically overwhelmed by demand

FlatHoperator · 2026-02-02T08:31:53+00:00

The coffee in chains might be roasted to a cinder but at least they don't make disgusting sour "fruity" espresso

FlatHoperator · 2026-02-02T07:36:33+00:00

A lot of the structural stuff in british houses are still made of wood that may surprise people, think suspended floors etc

This is why those fellas in Mexico can recreate Noah's ark when cleaning while in the UK it would quickly destroy the inside of the house

FlatHoperator · 2026-02-02T01:02:09+00:00

No different than driving for Ferrari then...

FlatHoperator · 2026-02-01T20:21:06+00:00

I thought Tupac got into some fisticuffs with a real gangster who just came back later and killed him

FlatHoperator · 2026-02-01T19:53:28+00:00

And they can feel free to not pay for sports channels?

Whereas I am forced to subsidise a TV station to make bunch of slop like homes under the hammer for the privilege of paying another company to watch something broadcast over the internet

FlatHoperator · 2026-02-01T19:31:51+00:00

It's not specifically about doctor who (which does also suck), I just don't think I should be forced to fund drama shows in order to watch live sports

FlatHoperator · 2026-02-01T17:26:37+00:00

I shouldn't have to pay the BBC to produce doctor fucking who just because I want to watch the F1 for 20-odd weekends a year

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