The Budget

[Eric Cartman]

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ignore the debts and leave it to the fairies to fix

aka Sunak's budget?

[the other bob wilson]

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Wow your family has really added wonderful value to our society. Your right its free society and you shouldn't be judged by your political choices there's good in each party and it doesn't make you evil if you chose between one or the other .

By using "one or the other" you're showing your true colours whereby, going by what you post on here, you are constantly critical of one of them and constantly supportive of the other - of course people are judged by their political choices, because it points fundamentally to who you are.

[the other bob wilson]

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Is now really the time to reward those in work with a generous pay rise when so many are now out of work?

Interesting use of the word "generous" there - a one per cent pay rise when inflation in the next twelve months is predicted to reach one point five per cent is "generous"?

[the other bob wilson]

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Doesn't sound like the IFS are very impressed.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56276953

Such a shock that the what's in it for me party supporters have ignored this link.

[City123]

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I don't think there as ever a question about whether it was political or not. The questions are was it the right thing to do and did it work? The Labour party clearly would not have opted for that route.
But as with so many things, like the way this pandemic is being dealt with, its something we will never know unfortunately.

No and no.

[light up the darkness]

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my guess is the Government think we might still be having ( maybe local ) restrictions, so its in place for them ? ? ?

Groundwork for the ‘third wave’

[Elwood Blues]

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well I don't agree with her

But 1 percent is taking the piss

Same old tories

3 to 4% would be reasonable.

Despite what Nadine Dorries said the country can afford it.

[A Quiet Monkfish]

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By using "one or the other" you're showing your true colours whereby, going by what you post on here, you are constantly critical of one of them and constantly supportive of the other - of course people are judged by their political choices, because it points fundamentally to who you are.

In what way ?

[MOZZER2]

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In what way ?

i was thinking that too

[the other bob wilson]

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In today's very polarised society it clearly says a great deal about the type of person you are. You've only got to look at this board to see the proof of that. For example, I could go through the list of names of people who have contributed to this thread and been about 90 per cent accurate as to what side of the political divide they belong in, it's the same way with something like Covid and, in many cases, the links they put on here.

[Optimistic Nick]

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I think its cobblers , hardly anyone in the NHS votes tory

This bloke has found five

Naa

Your view of the world, and the way it's population is divided up, is so fixed. It's quite odd. Northerners are decent; people in the south east are capitalist pigs; scaffolders support west ham; nobody in x part of London supports Y club etc. Now we have doctors aren't Tories? Come on. All doctors and nurses were medical students once. In my uni at least, it is hard to imagine a more nailed-on group of obnoxious tim-nice-but-dim Tories. I've written up a list of NHS workers I know. At least half are Tories, one of them even stood as a local councillor.

[xsnaggle]

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OK, as long as you're sure what you're describing isn't just common old confirmation bias.

Confirmation bias? What the f*** is that? This getting boring now.

[xsnaggle]

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In today's very polarised society it clearly says a great deal about the type of person you are. You've only got to look at this board to see the proof of that. For example, I could go through the list of names of people who have contributed to this thread and been about 90 per cent accurate as to what side of the political divide they belong in, it's the same way with something like Covid and, in many cases, the links they put on here.

I don't find that society is very polarised today, certainly no more than any other time. If it were so polarised all those erstwhile Labour seats would never have fallen to the tories because the polarised voters would never have changed their allegiance. Thats not to say that opinons on here aren't polarised!

[Baloo]

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Confirmation bias? What the f*** is that? This getting boring now.

You probably wouldn't believe it if I told you

[A Quiet Monkfish]

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In today's very polarised society it clearly says a great deal about the type of person you are. You've only got to look at this board to see the proof of that. For example, I could go through the list of names of people who have contributed to this thread and been about 90 per cent accurate as to what side of the political divide they belong in, it's the same way with something like Covid and, in many cases, the links they put on here.

Oh dear, so sorry. Perhaps this board should just be for the left-leaning Guardian readers. Oh what fun you'll have looking down your noses at the rest..