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He declared £20k. That doesn't mean Ali gave him £20k. It means Ali had a spare flat and offered its use, which when Starmer declared it, was estimated to be at a value of £20k (i.e. if they had to buy it on airbnb).

We now know that to be about a fifth of the total he accepted over a period of five years. I've said it before and I'll say it again: the reason we know about these donations of about £100k over five years is because Starmer declared it.

Johnson received £110k IN A SINGLE TRANSACTION for redecorating his flat, which he didn't declare, then when challenged on it said he didn't remember where he got the money, then said he lost the phone where the agreement was made, then finally agreed that he'd received it. He didn't cop half as much flak for that as Starmer is for this, and Johnson lost an ethics advisor over it.

I couldn't give a fuck about any of this, and I can't believe anyone who's been paying attention to politics in this country does.

I've never been at home to Mister Ignore Button before but for this guy I've made an exception.

Lol that's amazing. I've never played a Sunn but I did have a Matamp for a while, one of the loudest things I've ever played.

Incidentally I'm in the market for some reverbs/delays - anything Earthquaker, Walrus, OBNE, etc. If anyone's selling, let me know.

Would depend on what rights came with the garages. If there's space between your property and the garage, it may come with a shared right (with other garage owners) to use it for an access point, or may even come with a sole right to use the space (which would allow you to build some kind of through space, though that's less likely) but you wouldn't know until you had a look at what rights came with the garages by checking the documentation.

Most definitions of austerity I've seen don't mention ideology. It's simply reducing deficit through spending cuts/higher taxation.

When I think of austerity, I think of our most recent experience of it: 2010 and David Cameron, a very specific flavour of austerity which disproportionately targeted public services for cutting, and didn't, fiscal drag aside, make any meaningful increases in taxation for the wealthy. That's why it was clearly ideologically right wing, and not simply a politically neutral reduction in deficit through whatever levers were available - it was a deliberate gutting of the welfare state and public services. Whatever Labour are doing, whatever mistakes they're making, it's not that, and imo we need to refer to them as two different things.

Labour have been quite honest that they're pursuing neolib policies, including austerity.

Please provide a link to where Labour been 'quite honest' about pursuing an ideologically motivated shrinking of the state and public services?

Labour were elected to restore public services, I don’t think we’re looking at another round of Osborne-style austerity.

You're absolutely right. Austerity was the deliberate shrinking of the state and public services for (right wing, individualist) ideological reasons.

The lie was that this was necessary for reasons of financial prudence.

It's been depressing to see some on the left amplify this lie - that financial prudence and the slashing of public investment are indistinguishable - when in fact they're diametrically opposed.

Genuine financial prudence, for Cameron, at a time of historically low interest rates, would've meant fixing the roof while the sun shined, investing in the NHS, our energy infrastructure and insulation, public services, etc. That way we might've been prepared for Covid, cost of living, and the energy crisis.

This option isn't open to Labour. They're having to fix the roof while the rain is pouring in, and while the markets are still jittery as fuck about borrowing post Truss. I don't necessarily think Reeves has drawn up her response to these constraints perfectly, but imo it's dishonest to to pretend those constraints don't exist, or pretend it's reasonable for a government to simply ignore them (again, especially post Truss).

Genuine economic constraints are not 'austerity', and repeating the lie that they're the same thing just lets the Tories off the hook.

I was inspired to get mine from your pics - it looks so great on that leather strap. Nicely done.

Picked up a Casio A1100 from Creation last week now the price has dropped to £75 delivered. I love a cheap quartz but hate the resin cases they usually come with, so this really tweaks my bum. Not such a fan of the original bracelet, it's a bit thin and unfinished and sharp (still very pretty for the price) so chucked it on a mesh and I think it looks a lot nicer. Recommended at this price.

Great info, thanks to you and @Tango130 - I'm risk averse so I'll be hoping to get the full service history - that 7 year warranty is very tempting - but good to know there's less to go wrong in general with an EV. Very much appreciated.

Afternoon all. Bit of an odd question but I'm very new to EVs.

I'm thinking about trading up my 2015 petrol VW Polo to a a cheap EV, and the MG ZS feels like it ticks enough boxes to make the grade, I'm looking at ones from 2020 and 2021.

There's loads of examples on autotrader but I notice a lot of them don't have full service history, which has always been something I've looked for in a petrol vehicle. Is lack of FSH normal or less important with an EV?

Interested in the turtle - price?

Are you in walthamstow? There was a post on Walthamstow Life (on facebook) about the same thing

I think they're unlikely to show up. But I think it's valuable for the community to show a united, positive, defensive front. We'll be rolling in from about 7.

As of last night, she's revised her language

Last night was the 6th, but she was describing these riots as racist and islamophobic on the 4th: https://www.facebook.com/reel/412255285166842

“To be clear, all day rumours have been spread that a far-right group were coming and it was done entirely to get Muslim people out on the street to drive this content”, the Home Office minister tweeted. “It is misinformation being spread to create trouble.”
“These people came to this location because it has been spread that racists were coming to attack them. This misinformation was spread entirely to create this content.”

Don't see any problem with what she said tbh.

Head mounted pop shield, I love it

How would you describe your politics? I'm struggling to work it out. Today you seem to be annoyed Labour won't fix our problems quick enough, whereas yesterday you seemed miffed they would raise taxes fix our problems quicker, and I'm not sure how those two positions sit together (unless you're just generally anti-Labour on general principle, which is of course perfectly reasonable)?

And Novara and MEE have spent the last year telling us that a vote for Labour was a vote for genocide. They campaigned on that lie.

They deserve no credit for this decision. They deserve a kick up the arse and a long sit in an empty room to think about what we might've lost had anyone been stupid enough to listen to them.

UK drops challenge to ICC warrant against Netanyahu

https://www.ft.com/content/6dc54471-253a-4f16-9ada-50221192d657

Reeves has ruled out increases to income tax, VAT, national insurance and corporation tax – the taxes on working people, as they put it.

That leaves taxes on wealth - capital gains, inheritance, and removing further tax breaks for the extremely rich. I have absolutely no problem with any of it and I'm surprised anyone on the left does. The rich have spent the last decade and a half having their tummies tickled while everyone else has watched their quality of life plummet. Redress is overdue.

I think what's really interesting about it is whether they can prove the hole exists. If so, that means Hunt put tax cuts in the last budget purely as a poison chalice for Labour. It could be a very powerful political weapon in driving home the message that the Tories - even the sensible ones - cannot be trusted with the economy, because they're driven by ideology, culture war, and spite.

I thought Johnson had thrown his career away by supporting Brexit.

I suppose technically I wasn't wrong but it took about a decade longer than I was expecting.

I'm in.

It'll be reversed inside of a year.

'Starmer has a dangerously authoritarian streak' vs 'there was absolutely no way for rebels to know they'd have the whip suspended'

Pick one.

Or am I imagining that I saw it?

No, you're exactly right - that's the Poverty Review, and Starmer has indicated that one of its first actions is likely to be to recommend nixing the two child limit cap. So really, if these MPs were interested in actually helping kids, they'd have voted in line with the government and volunteered to work with the Poverty Review to help ensure the long term outcome of lifting children out of poverty - they're better placed than anyone else in the country to do so. They are in the party of government. They have actual power.

But they'd prefer the sugar rush of protest to actually working on the solution. Plus ca change.