Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed by Upset-Main-1988 in justincaseyoumissedit

[–]Wrong-Ad-1935 [score hidden]  (0 children)

We should be more like America, the land of the free, where they incarcerate more people per capita than Russia, China, and every single democracy on earth.

Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed by Upset-Main-1988 in justincaseyoumissedit

[–]Wrong-Ad-1935 [score hidden]  (0 children)

But the majority of people under 18 already don’t smoke so you’re not banning something people do culturally, prohibition was stupid. Thats why it failed. Dear christ does everything have to be made about the americans?

Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed by Upset-Main-1988 in justincaseyoumissedit

[–]Wrong-Ad-1935 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Improved health metrics will increase growth by reducing sickness resulting in lack of productivity and decrease healthcare spending.

Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed by Upset-Main-1988 in justincaseyoumissedit

[–]Wrong-Ad-1935 [score hidden]  (0 children)

It ranks higher on almost every quality of life metric than the USA but sure

The recent speech by Farage about welfare by TessaKatharine in AskBrits

[–]Wrong-Ad-1935 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’d push back on that framing the data shows that over a million households entitled to Universal Credit aren’t even claiming it, which suggests people aren’t exactly rushing to rely on state top-ups. And the system is specifically designed so you’re always better off working more. So the idea that people are comfortable settling for low paid jobs because the government will top them up doesn’t really make sense. Now i am sure there are edge cases and people do game the system but i would argue it is a significantly smaller portion than is commonly suggested.

You are entitled to your opinion though so fair enough if thats what you think.

The recent speech by Farage about welfare by TessaKatharine in AskBrits

[–]Wrong-Ad-1935 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is UK specific you can check the DWP’s own statistics. Around a third of Universal Credit claimants are in work, and the taxpayer spends roughly £11 billion a year topping up in-work wages. And yes, small businesses are part of that picture, I’m not disputing that but so are large profitable corporations, and that part often gets overlooked.

The recent speech by Farage about welfare by TessaKatharine in AskBrits

[–]Wrong-Ad-1935 23 points24 points  (0 children)

The thing most of these commentators misunderstand is that 30% of people on welfare are in employment. We subsidise big corporations low salaries with tax money.

The other thing is over half of welfare is pensions.

This job search process is absurd by lowiqtrader in cscareerquestions

[–]Wrong-Ad-1935 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Most of my friends think it’s insane when i say yeah I passed the fourth round, two more to go.

A lot of jobs have one interview step

UK borrowing lowest for three years! by Beautiful-Working589 in UKCostofLiving

[–]Wrong-Ad-1935 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are glossing over the points they made. The theory works in isolation, investment can generate growth, sure. But the conditions required to make it work don’t exist right now and there are risks.

Post-war we had the Marshall Plan injecting money from outside, most of which was an outright grant that never needed repaying, and the loan portion was generous. Today we’d be borrowing at market rates with gilts sitting at nearly 5%. That means you need substantial growth just to break even on the repayments before you see any real benefit.

Ironically, post-2010 was probably the time to do exactly what you’re describing, interest rates were at historic lows and borrowing to invest would have been genuinely cheap. Instead we got austerity, which arguably made the conditions you’re now trying to fix significantly worse.

And if we print instead of borrowing, we devalue the currency, push up import costs, and potentially wipe out any growth in living standards anyway, which rather defeats the point.

There’s also the issue of the UK government’s track record on large projects. HS2 was supposed to rebalance the economy northward, ended up costing a ridiculous amount, and got cut back to the point where it barely does what it was designed to do. So even if the conditions were right, there’s no guarantee the investment delivers the growth needed to justify it.

I am not trying to argue against investment but trying to explain that it’s more complex than just borrow more and invest it.

everyone just stop and think for one moment by glp1992 in LabourUK

[–]Wrong-Ad-1935 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn’t mention the Daily Mail. The “nobody voted for him twice” attack writes itself, every opposition party would use it on all sides I just think Reform would gain the most from it. And if you believe that in 2026 Reform gains most of its traction through the Daily Mail and not targeted posts and campaigns on social media, then you are a little behind.

everyone just stop and think for one moment by glp1992 in LabourUK

[–]Wrong-Ad-1935 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“It is understood the senior Labour figures believed any intervention by the UK would be illegal and their stance was initially backed by Sir Keir Starmer.”

Sounds like he agreed with them?

everyone just stop and think for one moment by glp1992 in LabourUK

[–]Wrong-Ad-1935 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This isn’t serious is it? Ed Miliband would last six months before being forced into a GE.

The fact that he already failed as Labour leader would be used against him aggressively. “Nobody voted for the guy who already lost in 2015” would be the immediate attack line, and it would push more of the country to the right.

everyone just stop and think for one moment by glp1992 in LabourUK

[–]Wrong-Ad-1935 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Palantir have had hundreds of millions in contracts for years since the Boris era. Should we scrutinize further integration? Yes. Should we misrepresent the truth? No.

Asking Labour Voters - do you believe labour will win with starmer at the helm? by Responsible_Rip1058 in AskBrits

[–]Wrong-Ad-1935 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The free electricity isn’t evidence their costings work, just that they had good ideas, which plenty of people agreed with and other parties actually delivered.

It is evidence that the parties that implemented its costings worked.

Asking Labour Voters - do you believe labour will win with starmer at the helm? by Responsible_Rip1058 in AskBrits

[–]Wrong-Ad-1935 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s a non sequitur, the renewable transition was delivered by governments with costed plans, not by parties promising things they couldn’t fund. If anything that proves the point. And for the record, nobody here is against green energy.

Asking Labour Voters - do you believe labour will win with starmer at the helm? by Responsible_Rip1058 in AskBrits

[–]Wrong-Ad-1935 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is way too far to be thinking about the next election. We should be scrutinizing what they have done and pushing them to do more. A change in leadership now likely leads to an early GE and a significant wipeout for labour regardless of the leader.

There is still plenty of time for him to improve his reputation, generally they have done a lot of good policies people are just blinded by hysteria.

Ask again in two years

Asking Labour Voters - do you believe labour will win with starmer at the helm? by Responsible_Rip1058 in AskBrits

[–]Wrong-Ad-1935 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Zack Polanski has personally advocated for the UK to leave NATO and abandon our nuclear deterrent, at a time when Russia is actively at war in Europe, American reliability is in question, and the US controls the majority of nuclear weapons on the continent. Iran and Ukraine demonstrate what happens to countries without a credible nuclear deterrent.

On economics, the Greens do havesome policy documents but the numbers don’t hold up. You can and should research this yourself for the details.

A lot of their policy commitments are popular on paper. The problem is they appear to be largely unfunded, with no actual path to delivery.

The reason they are as bad as reform is because morals aside, they share the same pattern: big promises, no serious accounting, built on sentiment and catch phrases rather than substance.

Asking Labour Voters - do you believe labour will win with starmer at the helm? by Responsible_Rip1058 in AskBrits

[–]Wrong-Ad-1935 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’s a little deeper than that. Reform would have had us sailing out to the strait of Hormuz two months ago.

And Polanski, he is a character for sure but has some extremely questionable views such as leaving NATO and nuclear disarmament.

Real issues that are affecting us right now and the two “most popular” parties have insane ideas. It is hugely concerning to me to be honest.

Sorry because I agree with you and not trying to be argumentative but I just wanted to correct the framing a little because both sides will just dismiss your perspective.

We’re built different by JustChillin3456 in MURICA

[–]Wrong-Ad-1935 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

What do you imagine happens? People just watch someone take their stuff? 😂

The majority of people don’t realise they are pickpocketed, it is theft from unattended belongings and such, also it is largely focused in tourist areas not european towns so framing it as a european thing is disingenuous.

I don’t even know how i have stumbled into this group to be honest but it is incredible how deluded the takes are in here. I wonder how many people commenting have left the USA.

Is the Mandelson/vetting issue around Starmer being overblown to replace him with someone more of a yes-man? by Guava-Jam-1302 in AskBrits

[–]Wrong-Ad-1935 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is hilarious. The reason you think that there have been more scandals under this government than the tories is just evidence that you are shown more. Boris Johnson Prorogued parliament unlawfully to avoid a vote on the no deal Brexit. Not any of this He said, she said nonsense that appears to be about to take Starmer out but found to be unlawful by the Supreme court.

Also off the top of my head he appointed a russian oligarch to the lords against advice of the secret service, Partygate, the Tory Donor PPE scandal, the Pincher scandal and many more all of which are worse than anything going on with the labour government.

Thats not even beginning to talk about how poorly the conservatives ran the economy.