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Poll: Poll: Prime Minister Theresa May calls General Election on June 8th
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Quite, and use of 'units' of electricity, should be defined by the production rate. Madness that anyone can setup a company anywhere and randomly assign a value to their sell on price, then try to baffle people with so many different tariffs they don't know which to choose.
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I'm surprised Ofgem isn't the one providing the definitions and keeping them in line. Are all our regulators toothless pansies, or just energy?
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That would be Ofgem.
Ofcom are the ones that allow them to charge us £21 a month line rental for phones we don't need, and have no desire to use, yet couple BS broadband with other packages.
It is only now they've forced them all into advertising rates which include their BS line rental charge as part of the package.
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Haha! I was thinking ad standards as well, tbf. They are two sides of the same coin: information and market regulation. Decisions rely on the quality of information supplied and its clarity. Market regulation levels the playing field, so fewer dodges and complex products are possible. We have to get a grip on both, really. Then perhaps cruder measures won't be needed from the left or the right. Doubt there's much appetite for sorting that atm, however. It's a powerful lobby to boot.
No, they are trying to scared the people of this country, if the UK goes down so does a lot of southern countries, it will also mean a retraction in UK army in the EU. this would force the EU countries to add more money into the pot which they don't have. The EU are bluffing, and will end up with egg on their face.
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Tory paper claims Tories will do well. Who ever would have thought......
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Don't tell me ........ its 'Project Fear' again. Haven't had that for a few pages. The UK army is in Europe as part of NATO not the EU and as such will not move unless there is a reduction all round but as we have just committed more to Eastern Europe that seems unlikely.
By not buying pointless expensive crap? *shrugs* In the last few years i haven't been the consumer whore that i used to be.
Pretty much, barely any clothing either as i look after my stuff and they still look quite new
if as you say "the country goes down" fulfilling our nato obligations will likley be on the list of things on the budget chopping block.
but even recently he's refused to condemn IRA violence - see the BBC interview posted earlier where he acted like a politician does when confronted with a really controversial question when it really should have been a simple one
In another example (albeit this time not refusing to condone terrorism) he's refused to be drawn into even whether he'd order the ISIS leader killed:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...ght-not-authorise-strike-against-isil-leader/
this is a weak man, he can't provide adequate leadership to his now party, most of his MPs dislike him and have little confidence in him, the idea of him leading a coalition is therefore pretty bonkers
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...ght-not-authorise-strike-against-isil-leader/
this is a weak man, he can't provide adequate leadership to his now party, most of his MPs dislike him and have little confidence in him, the idea of him leading a coalition is therefore pretty bonkers
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This is the attitude with the left today "don't bomb them, you'll make them mad" total and utter capitulation.
Hes probably spot on with the use of nukes though.
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Let's put it this way: if he wants a political solution involving Assad, then that's who's going to be doing the killing. Whether that's more or less dead than a drone strike depends on where said terrorist leader is located and the people he's using as meat-shields. His wider point has always been along the lines of how we've handled the IRA around these parts. Quite a bit more Machiavellian - and I use this term in relation to Corbyn with a chortle - than what people give him credit for.
Which is an obvious lie, but a politically useful one.
Anyone who cared about evidence would look at at that evidence, e.g. Tim Farron's voting record on relevant votes, what he's said about relevant political and social things.
Here, for example, is what Tim Farron said about his views regarding homosexuality:
His voting record backs that up. His public speaking backs that up. Everything backs that up. That there above is Tim Farron's views, no doubt about it.
Tim Farron's position is that politicians shouldn't be making theological statements and rulings in a political context. He thinks that religion should not be part of politics. I think he's completely right about that and admire him for sticking to it even when people abuse it to lie about him to sway politics and/or get views/clicks for advertising revenue.
It's unfortunate that so many people are so eager to lie about him and to spread disinformation about him.
"I’m not in a position to go making theological pronouncements.”
He's genuinely serious about keeping religion and politics seperate. He might or might not regard homosexual sex as a sin. It doesn't matter because whatever he does or doesn't believe about religion has nothing to do with his politics. If you were voting for whether or not he became Archbishop of Canterbury it would be relevant. If you're voting for whether or not he becomes Prime Minister it's irrelevant. He keeps his religion and his politics completely seperate.
Whereas he's opposed to all sexism and says that "I believe in equality where gender should be irrelevant". So he's not a "male rights advocate".
In other words, he's in favour of sexual equality and she's in favour of sexism. So blatantly in favour of sexism that she's openly campaigning on the basis that male people aren't worthy of equality (that's what the party she represents is all about, hence the name of it) and that if she's elected she will exclude male people from consideration - she'll be a representative of women only.
Not buying useless expensive crap only means you're avoiding useless expensive crap. It doesn't mean you've avoided VAT.
Bottom line: unless you have never paid VAT in the last 7 years, you have definitely experienced a rise in taxation under the Tories.
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