Latest Moan From You and Me 2024

It shouldn't be a job you do for the reward. Like nursing ... or teaching. You still get very dedicated people in those jobs, without offering a bunch of perks. And what qualifications do you need to be an MP? Arguably, fewer lawyers and more ordinary folk with common sense would make for a more representative HoC.

No one is ever safe from a nutcase, not even children in a dance class.

 

Exactly.

 

I've lost my secateur(s?) sharpener. It works well. It also sharpens lots of other things, apparently, but I've never worked out how.
How do I find it without buying another one? This method usually works within a couple of days but I really don't need two.

 

I agree people in the public eye making decisions some may not like have received appalling online abuse. The media is complicit by making MPs "personalities" through so much air-time and reporting. Recording of HoC proceedings probably hasn't helped either.

 

I did hear of some half-baked plan to make it impossible for a mortgage to be taken out on a home without a heat pump here. The result would be big companies buying up properties cheaply for cash, as owners without the money to comply would have no other market to sell to. It would pool even more of the available housing stock in the hands of the few.

As @Fat Controller says, "you will own nothing" begins to look less like paranoia and more like an engineered outcome when you think through to the endpoint such schemes might lead to.

 

I had a PPC for a few years, until one pharmacist told me I was entitled to free prescriptions because of my epilepsy.
It means I get other prescriptions, not for my epilepsy, free of charge.
I've never driven a car, so am entitled to free bus travel - something I've never taken advantage of. I've been considering applying for the last couple of years, but I'm wondering whether there's any point now, as Labour will probably withdraw it anyway.
I do have a disabled persons Railcard, but have to buy it, in order to get a third off.

 

I really don't get all this negativity. The Tories left the economy in tatters. We all knew there wouldn't be enough to pay for everything we would wish. The Tories if they'd got in would definitely have needed to make cuts eventually, but their perspective would have been to protect the rich. What good is a tax cut if the money you've gained is swallowed up by the cost of living?

 

I'm still waiting for the new government to attack the rich, up till now, and very quickly, they have attacked the pensioners.
Nobody else as far as I can make out.

Yes I agree the economy needs sorting out, I'm just wondering what section of the public will be paying the price.
Good job we got the pension rise in back in April, because I beginning to think there wont be any more rises in the pipeline.

Personally tax cuts dont effect me that much, a tax cut only helps if you have a decent income.

 

• The riots would have happened anyway.
• The migrants would've arrived anyway
• Soldier probably stabbed anyway
• What were the Tories going to do with the full to bursting prisons
• We need millions of homes. The grey belt seems a reasonable option. However, if all the empty properties were occupied and instead of building tower blocks of offices that nobody wants , that might be a solution to calm the nimby
• Something needs to be done about energy. Wind farms are one of the possibilities.
• I've probably missed out one or two points but that list is a load of nonsense

 

Whatever the government do, it'll be unpopular for some.