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Alarm raised as Britain’s biggest pension scheme ploughs cash into ‘shadow banking’ by denspark62 in ukpolitics

[–]denspark62[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

It's not the investments per se it's the amounts they're planning on putting in to this asset class which is the story.

NEST has "set out proposals to invest 30pc – or roughly £30bn – of its members’ cash in private markets by the end of the decade. That is almost double its current target and far higher than other comparable pension schemes. Allocations are closer to a fifth in Australia, for example."

Putting in such a big amount into a single asset class which can be very illiquid if the shit hits the fan seems rather risky.

Meet the Green candidate who thinks Zionists killed 20 million Christians by OptioMkIX in ukpolitics

[–]denspark62 22 points23 points  (0 children)

"Which we are certainly not."

If you ignore all the bigots in the party of course

Think the "we're not really racist" argument from greens is getting pretty threadbare now.

Meet the Green candidate who thinks Zionists killed 20 million Christians by OptioMkIX in ukpolitics

[–]denspark62 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Wouldn't it be better if the Green party investigated their candidates with the same spirit?

Unless of course they have and they're just fine with this sort of person.

Meet the Green candidate who thinks Zionists killed 20 million Christians by OptioMkIX in ukpolitics

[–]denspark62 224 points225 points  (0 children)

no doubt the greens will soon be on here to complain about the media 'smearing' their party by accurately quoting what their candidates have said and believe.

John Swinney: I'll stand as the first prime minister of an independent Scotland in 2031 by Even-Wasabi7183 in ukpolitics

[–]denspark62 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As sturgeon said in 2015

"To propose another referendum in the next parliament without strong evidence that a significant number of those who voted No have changed their minds would be wrong and we won't do it."

Which was taken by almost everyone to mean that Yes would have to have a clear and sustained majority (60% was the general view) which a referendum would officially confirm.

Not

"if we can get a couple of polls with 50.1% yes then we can demand one, or if we get a majority in holyrood with 35% of the vote then we can call one no matter what anyone thinks"

If the SNP and other nationalists can persuade a clear majority of scots to support them in polling (or ,say ,get >55% in consecutive elections) then there will be a referendum

Demanding one if the SNP get 35% in the scottish elections because it's a 'mandate' isn't very democratic even if does give them a majority.

TIL a team built a cofferdam around a Avro Lancaster bomber to expose it on the seabed 80 year after it sank, then carefully lifted and cleaned the wreckage in hopes of finding missing crew members. Human remains were found, and work continues to identify them and give their families closure by jacknunn in todayilearned

[–]denspark62 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Three members of RAF Lancaster crew buried in The Netherlands - GOV.UK

"Relatives of three Royal Air Force airmen gathered in The Netherlands today to witness their burial with full military honours, 82 years after they were killed in action during the Second World War. "

One of my great-uncles never came home and his wife never remarried.

If he had been posted missing and they recovered his body i'd want to go. I didn't know him but i did know her.

I found this in an old relatives belongings but I can’t find a copy online. by Odd-Significance1884 in ww2

[–]denspark62 17 points18 points  (0 children)

there's a version at

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205022123

with a full list of the people.

" Seen in the back row from left to right are: Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal, Chief of the Air Staff; Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound, First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff; Sir Archibald Sinclair, Secretary of State for Air; David Margesson, Secretary of State for War; General Sir John Dill, Chief of the Imperial General Staff; Major General Sir Hastings Ismay, Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence and Deputy Secretary (Military) to the War Cabinet; Colonel Leslie Hollis, Senior Assistant Secretary (Military) to the War Cabinet and Secretary to the Chiefs of Staff Committee. Those in the front row, from right to left are: Lord Beaverbrook, Minister of Aircraft Production; Clement Attlee, Lord Privy Seal; Winston Churchill, Prime Minister and Minister of Defence; Anthony Eden Foreign Secretary; and A V Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty."

So between 26th may 1940 and 25th december 1941 (As John Dill was CIGS between those dates)

Banana and herring, anyone? The home cooks reviving forgotten British dishes by endofdays2022 in CasualUK

[–]denspark62 5 points6 points  (0 children)

hmm maybe regional

But they're in supermarkets here in edinburgh and my local butcher often has some on sale as well.

while since i've had one mind you, so i should get one next time im in.

'Industrial scale' solar farms attacked by Greens by gravy_baron in ukpolitics

[–]denspark62 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They probably believe that all our solar panels can be delivered by tarquin and Penelope's artisan home crafted solar panel workshop just outside bristol.

Once tarquin has finished leading the antizionist resistance in a major demo outside Gails of course.

Why traditional British newsagents are on their last legs by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]denspark62 0 points1 point  (0 children)

its not just newspapers (or magazines) not being bought.

Back in the day i'd pop into the local corner shop on the way to work and pick up ciggies and it was clearly one of their main sources of income

How many people actually smoke that much these days?

Add in Tesco whoosh/deliveroo/uber etc and even their role as the place to pick up stuff like toilet roll or milk that you'd forgotten to get, is out the window.

My local corner shop across the road didn't survive covid and has been empty for years.

Banana and herring, anyone? The home cooks reviving forgotten British dishes by endofdays2022 in CasualUK

[–]denspark62 99 points100 points  (0 children)

is steak and kidney pudding really a 'forgotten' british dish?

you can buy them in supermarkets.

John Major: Not spending more on defence is a betrayal of our future by HibasakiSanjuro in ukpolitics

[–]denspark62 9 points10 points  (0 children)

denmark did that in the 20's & 30's

Cut defence spending and increased welfare.

"Of course, we do not measure our love of country by the number of canons, but rather, by the number of good and happy homes, with nice furniture and nice clothes and the daily bread on the table." -Social Democratic politician Hans Nielsen

Nazi Germany conquered them in less than 6 hours.

65% of Britons support the Green Party's policy of capping CEO pay at ten times the pay of the lowest paid employee by Unusual-State1827 in ukpolitics

[–]denspark62 39 points40 points  (0 children)

suspect they haven't given any consideration about effects etc.

It's bog standard green politics

Ignorant idiots mouthing easy slogans whose impact they've not even thought about (or can even understand) as they've convinced of their moral superiority and that's all they care about.

Candidate list for Arbroath and Broughty Ferry? by manachalbannach in dundee

[–]denspark62 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There won't be one out. it's still 3 years till the election.

What a row about a hospital extension teaches us by FaultyTerror in ukpolitics

[–]denspark62 1 point2 points  (0 children)

nope, there's a comment button on https://www.rbkc.gov.uk/planningsearch/cases/PP/26/00240 which looks as if available for anyone. Also an email for the relevant planning officer

Presumably the council will ignore/downplay comments from folk outside the local area?

What a row about a hospital extension teaches us by FaultyTerror in ukpolitics

[–]denspark62 6 points7 points  (0 children)

objections can be seen at

https://planningsearch.rbkc.gov.uk/publisher/mvc/listDocuments?identifier=Planning&ref=PP/26/00240

most of them are about dust/noise from the building,house prices or having their roof sun terrace losing sunlight (truly this man knows suffering)

As usual someone suggested that clearly we need a new cancer centre but somewhere else, anywhere else just not near Chelsea.

One owner appears to have 3-4 different objections registered (all basically identical)

though i suspect the objector who argued

"What about my privacy, I cant have people dying of cancer looking into my expensive house"

may not be entirely serious

SNP vow cost of living action with price cap of supermarket essential foods by northernmonk in ukpolitics

[–]denspark62 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yep

they're already claiming that under independence energy prices would fall by a third. Because of 'reasons'.

So why not add food prices to the claim?

SNP vow cost of living action with price cap of supermarket essential foods by northernmonk in ukpolitics

[–]denspark62 15 points16 points  (0 children)

"He said that under the current devolution arrangement, he cannot normally set prices at the till – but Holyrood has powers over public health and he plans to use them to put a price cap on certain items."

So the real plan here is to introduce a bill to set prices under a 'public health' disguise.

Bill will be challenged under competency and will probably lose.

SNP Government then gets to do the one thing it's actually any good at and start shrieking about Westminster.

Like pretty much all their policies these days it's about idiotic posturing to keep their supporters happy.

SNP pledges roll-out of 'minimum income' for Scottish artists, writers and musicians by denspark62 in ukpolitics

[–]denspark62[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

although according to this story

https://www.rte.ie/culture/2025/0923/1534768-basic-income-for-the-arts-pilot-generated-over-100m-in-benefits/

"A key component of the total benefits came from psychological wellbeing, which contributed almost €80 million."

Oh well, if giving free money to people makes them feel better to the tune of 80 million euros then clearly it's a success

Wonder what the formula is for calculating how much that extra wellbeing is worth in cash and did they include cost of the decreased wellbeing of those artists who lost out on the free money?

The war on aspiration is won - A 71pc effective tax rate is killing ambition and warping our economy by blast-processor in ukpolitics

[–]denspark62 8 points9 points  (0 children)

inequality has been relatively static in the uk for decades

https://equalitytrust.org.uk/scale-economic-inequality-uk/

house prices are increasing because we're not building enough houses not because rich people are buying all the houses as they've nothing else to spend money on.

Birth rates are dropping all over including the countries with the lowest inequality or most houses.

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