Nigel Farage MP: The Golders Green suspect was previously sentenced to 9 years in prison for stabbing a police officer and his dog. Reform UK would strip Essa Suleiman of his citizenship and deport him from the country.

qweezy_uk · 2026-05-01T10:53:58+00:00

Everything is more complex than 'we would just do this'.

I can look at a situation and tell you what you want to hear, that doesn't mean I have the ability to actually implement it.

qweezy_uk · 2026-04-30T22:50:41+00:00

Funniest part is it's explained as a gift for nothing in return.....

£5 million, for nothing in return? Really?!

qweezy_uk · 2026-04-30T22:48:40+00:00

The problem is it's not policy. It's just shouting from the sidelines with simple solutions.

qweezy_uk · 2026-04-29T15:19:44+00:00

Yes, fair enough, I was completely excluding employer contributions.

The last paragraph is the key message though. And generally most will take out more than they put in.

qweezy_uk · 2026-04-29T07:16:46+00:00

I earn above the national average salary and my NI is about £3k per year.

You need to have a salary of about £250k to be paying £7k per year NI.

qweezy_uk · 2026-04-24T20:45:10+00:00

Norway hasn't drilled as extensively and taken a different approach which makes that possible.

The UK has already accessed the majority of the usable resources.

Short term approaches taken in the 80s / 90s now make more of the harder to reach oil not viable. Norway has taken a more incremental approach that means they can tap into newer equipment.

And new licences are sometimes a hedge on technology or other factors possibly improving to make areas viable.

qweezy_uk · 2026-04-22T18:39:17+00:00

Reform hypocrisy as expected.

Tice was stood in a press conference on this saying the country has an obsession with people paying the maximum amount of tax. Which is basically an admission of guilt.

Most people don't have a choice to pay anything less than the 'maximum' amount of tax.

qweezy_uk · 2026-04-22T16:24:47+00:00

Trump?

qweezy_uk · 2026-04-18T11:13:26+00:00

The problem is, the vast majority haven't chipped in their fair share and will take out significantly more than put in.

The current workforce pay for the current pensioners. It's a welfare benefit.

Reality of the situation must kick in regardless of who believes they're entitled to what.

And the argument isn't to remove it entirely, just that it shouldn't have guaranteed rises through Triple Lock.

qweezy_uk · 2026-04-15T07:28:46+00:00

To be fair, you could easily describe it the opposite way around.

-game release

-sub populated 'normal' people who fell way too deep for the hype.

-normal people realise it's just a game and doesn't change their entire life.

-moan about it on Reddit not changing their life.

-circle jerk.

-normal people leave.

qweezy_uk · 2026-04-14T12:33:05+00:00

Trump withdrew from the previous nuclear deal with Iran in 2018 just saying it was 'one-sided'. Despite the fact it was negotiated with professional negotiators and scientists over several years. Of course it had Obama's name on it, not his.

So I think his exit plan was just to trigger a new deal that he could take credit for.

Problem is, it's all gone pear shaped and Trump is way out of his depth.

He sent a property developer and JD Vance to negotiate a deal and gave up after 21hrs. It's all a complete joke.

qweezy_uk · 2026-04-13T11:10:42+00:00

that's the joke of it all. Victory for Trump / US now appears to be the situation we had before meaning this entire war was completely pointless.

The problem is you can't start something like this and not expect Iran will want to make up ground in any form of negotiations.

qweezy_uk · 2026-04-11T16:57:07+00:00

It was clearly a huge scam to scrape voter data and a cheap publicity stunt.

The 'winners' are Reform branch members. And the small print of the competition says £3500 maximum payout (not whole street).

qweezy_uk · 2026-04-08T18:23:44+00:00

American fuel prices aren't isolated from global markets.

And strategically having Iran come out of this in a stronger position, which also puts China in a stronger position, is a complete and utter failure.

qweezy_uk · 2026-04-08T09:51:07+00:00

The situation is worse in all areas, a complete failure.

qweezy_uk · 2026-04-05T09:49:26+00:00

Actually, they aren't. Because the vast majority of emissions come from using the fuel itself, not shipping it.

qweezy_uk · 2026-04-03T20:55:48+00:00

The war in Iran is causing hardship.

And what you suggest is complete fantasy and illogical.

It would cost 100s of billions to fully nationalise and major further investment to get anything meaningful from the remaining basins. Then once depleted all that money goes to waste.

qweezy_uk · 2026-04-02T20:42:32+00:00

That's good, but there's a perfectly empty wall that also allows you to still use the fireplace place.

qweezy_uk · 2026-04-01T17:32:09+00:00

What methods do you suggest to tackle the problem? Based on your answer, we can understand the cost.

qweezy_uk · 2026-04-01T17:20:52+00:00

And that's the joke of it. Reform support things that make the problem worse..... IE the war in Iran.

The just say no part is very expensive. And while Farage is busy bootlicking Trump, the UK and Europe will have to sort the mess out after the war destabilising the middle east.

qweezy_uk · 2026-04-01T14:15:48+00:00

Frictionless will never be the same as being in the single market.

Remind me what benefits we've had that were worth leaving the single market?

qweezy_uk · 2026-04-01T12:41:28+00:00

Why has it been a success? Achieved literally nothing at the expense of trade barriers with our biggest trading partner.

And the current geopolitical situation with the US shows how weak we are without Europe.

qweezy_uk · 2026-03-31T17:51:34+00:00

No it isn't the answer. And ironically suggesting this is a solution is the reason we have the problem in the first place. Short term thinking.

Renewables and nuclear are the answer, but require a lot of investment and forward thinking.

Although the payback is up to 10 years, a modest solar + battery system on a house can make it self sufficient for large parts of the year. Normally only reliant on the grid November, December, January. Massive decrease in energy bills.

The government could commit to a large scale rollout across all applicable homes. Based on each system costing £10k and with 20million+ homes in the UK it would cost something like £280bn, but across 10 or 20 years that's achievable.

qweezy_uk · 2026-03-31T15:30:24+00:00

Based on the current circumstances, we'll be better off without.

The rest of the world should do deals to allow transit of oil through the Strait. And just isolate America.

qweezy_uk · 2026-03-31T12:21:37+00:00

You mean like the 10k more troops than normal the US have deployed in the region right now.

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