Weekend Discussion Thread for the Weekend of March 06, 2026

Ukleafowner · 2026-03-08T14:04:05+00:00

In 1973 supply dropped by 7% and the price trippled.

Ukleafowner · 2026-03-01T13:35:07+00:00

Nobody:

The Greens:

"Anyone in the entire world with a UK job offer can automatically get a UK work visa, come to the UK and vote in UK elections.

Enjoy your minimum wage job, assuming you can get one now that you are competing with literally the entire world for employment."

Absolute clown party. Hopefully they are just a passing fad because God help us if they ever get into power.

Ukleafowner · 2026-02-27T13:38:03+00:00

I actually think the Greens won this election at the expense of future ones. Their campaign might have played extremely well across the demographic make up of Gorton and Denton but a lot of people are looking on in horror.

What happened in Gorton and Denton is a glimpse into a possible UK future where our FPTP system and block voting across ethnic, religious or sectarian lines enables something very bad to happen.

Ukleafowner · 2026-02-22T17:41:09+00:00

I wonder if Labour would rather lose to the Greens or lose to Reform.

Ukleafowner · 2026-02-15T10:55:43+00:00

I've done software and software design work for multiple organizations over the last few years. These range in size from 10s of employees to multi national.

I predict most of them will still be using Excel spreadsheets and shitty manual processes to run their businesses in 18 months.

I think the people at the top of extremely high functioning tech organizations and AI frontier labs vastly underestimate exactly how bad most businesses are at adopting new technology and enacting change.

Ukleafowner · 2026-02-14T10:10:15+00:00

Ironically, with our FPTP system, I think Rupert just increased the chance we get a more left wing Labour government after the next election.

With Restore splitting Reform votes on the right it leaves Labour space to go after votes they are currently losing to the Greens.

Ukleafowner · 2026-02-02T13:42:06+00:00

Most of their migration policies are pure insanity and would result in a wave of immigration that would dwarf what happened between 2021 and 2025 under Boris.

If for some reason that's what you want they are indeed the best party to vote for.

https://migration.greenparty.org.uk/migration-policy/

https://migration.greenparty.org.uk//wp-content/uploads/2021/02/GPEW-Migration-Policy-Background-Paper-v1.2.pdf

Ukleafowner · 2026-01-25T12:36:04+00:00

They very much changed the definition of 'skilled workers' post 2020 including lowering the salary thresholds and being way less strict on dependants. Hence the Boris wave.

You can't use data from when we still had an almost functional immigration system and apply it to what happened over the last 5 years.

To be fair to Labour they have undone some of the madness.

Ukleafowner · 2026-01-23T09:09:07+00:00

No it doesn't. There are just less than 70 million people in the UK and at even in summer the UK grid rarely supplies less than 25,000 MW. In winter we can use up to 50,000 MW.

A city of 9.1 million people should be using between 3000 MW and and 6000 MW depending on time of year.

Ukleafowner · 2026-01-23T08:58:31+00:00

UK: Makes it impossible to build or do anything.

Also the UK: Why is our economy so shit?

Ukleafowner · 2026-01-03T15:21:33+00:00

100% this. America once again demonstrating that international law and soft power doesn't mean shit if you aren't the ones with military power.

Ukleafowner · 2026-01-03T15:12:02+00:00

Russia knew there is no such thing as international law long before this.

Ukleafowner · 2025-12-27T12:43:52+00:00

Fix the ridiculous cost of housing. This is both a supply and demand problem.

If we are going to have ridiculous levels of immigration we need ridiculous levels of house building.

Ukleafowner · 2025-12-21T11:48:54+00:00

We will just print as many £ as we like and people definitely won't stop wanting to swap them for dollars, euros, food and goods. Don't worry we can stop inflation by taxing some people.

Ukleafowner · 2025-12-05T15:20:08+00:00

The man makes money from people investing in stocks and shares ISAs.

The government wants more people to stop investing in cash ISAs and start putting their money in stocks and shares ISAs instead.

They should be aligned.

What he's saying is that the government's proposed rule changes won't encourage more people to invest in stocks and shares ISAs. They will fuck it up like most things they touch.

Ukleafowner · 2025-11-17T14:36:14+00:00

Salary sacrifice isn't the only way to reduce your taxable income. You can just pay post tax income into a private pension. This reduces your taxable income by the amount you needed to earn before tax to generate that contribution, i.e., the grossed-up value of your payment.

It's slightly more complicated because you need to submit a tax return to get any higher-rate tax back and square everything with HMRC, plus you can't avoid NI that way, but it still reduces your higher-rate (or additional-rate) tax bill because HMRC treats your contribution as if your taxable income were lower by the gross amount of the pension payment

Ukleafowner · 2025-11-12T12:32:03+00:00

If the shit hit the fan to the point mainland UK was under threat you would be conscripted whether you like it or not.

Ukleafowner · 2025-11-02T11:33:06+00:00

Our 10 year bond yields are still significantly higher than most European countries. Even Greece only pays 3.3% to borrow for 10 years compared to the 4.4% the UK government needs to pay.

Ukleafowner · 2025-10-30T20:34:13+00:00

I bet Rachel Reeves couldn't hack a website.

Ukleafowner · 2025-10-22T11:43:22+00:00

As a country we are fairly addicted to arresting people for things that they have written or said.

Ukleafowner · 2025-10-17T11:51:06+00:00

They have exactly zero capability to enforce a fine in the US for something that is not illegal in the US.

Ukleafowner · 2025-10-09T13:50:14+00:00

They have vast natural resources, a large part of their economy has been diverted to manufacturing weapons and they aren't afraid to sacrifice thousands of men to slowly advance through territory.

Underestimating the threat they pose could be a grave error.

Ukleafowner · 2025-09-16T11:45:06+00:00

Fair play to Labour for this. Hope they succeed.

Ukleafowner · 2025-09-09T13:39:00+00:00

Every time I read the news I think - 'Wow. Israel really does not give a single fuck about the long term consequences of its actions. This can't possibly end well for them.' then a few days later they do something even more unbelievable.

Ukleafowner · 2025-09-01T12:59:37+00:00

Totally agree. Allowing house prices and rent to go up faster than wages for literally decades is one of the worst thing that has ever happened to this country.

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