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Shabu wrote: Sun Mar 12, 2023 8:21 pm Rishi Sunak is going to be in my town tomorrow.

If I bump into him what do you want me to ask him?
Ask him is he making any money out of the Maderna vaccine. He's reluctant to admit he is so I think if you give him a swift kick in the nads and say answer or you'll get more of the same.
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Shabu wrote: Sun Mar 12, 2023 8:21 pm Rishi Sunak is going to be in my town tomorrow.

If I bump into him what do you want me to ask him?
It's his home town too, or rather he wanted it to be until those pesky woke bureaucrats took away his double citizenship wheeze. Loves a bit of San Diego billionaire chic does our Rishi. He'll be back for good once he's made enough contacts and built up his favour-bank pretending to be our Prime Minister.

You could ask him if it feels right that his private 40ft swimming pool uses so much energy, he has had to upgrade the local electricity network to meet its power demands. Meanwhile, 350 municipal pools are closing due to soaring energy bills.
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So, a U-turn on increasing on the fake energy bill 'cap' to £3,000 next month, and holding it at £2,500 through until summer. A wise move, but doubtless one that won't go down especially well with the Tory base.

No extension of the additional payments as there were in for the past 6 months.
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YorksHammer wrote: Wed Mar 15, 2023 7:23 am A wise move, but doubtless one that won't go down especially well with the Tory base.
Why?
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Junco Partner wrote: Tue Mar 14, 2023 10:11 am You could ask him if it feels right that his private 40ft swimming pool uses so much energy, he has had to upgrade the local electricity network to meet its power demands. Meanwhile, 350 municipal pools are closing due to soaring energy bills.
Surely what someone does with their own money (if it is his own money paying for the upgrade and upkeep) is their own business?

- Terrible news that local pools are closing - used to be quite a highlight of my summer holidays going swimming, everywhere from Romford, Stratford through to Elephant & Castle pools - I absolutely loved it.
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If the plan to lower the age eligibility of 30 free childcare hours to 1 and 2 year old's is accurate, my household will be £600+ a month better off and I won't even be using half of the 30 available hours. It also means when my 2nd child is born in August my wife will actually be able to return to work after her maternity leave rather than having to quit entirely to look after them both.

Aside from introducing UBI I can't think of a policy that puts more money back into my families pocket than this.
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Can't argue with that, FJ. I wish we didn't live in a country (world?) where putting 1 and 2 year old into nursery was necessary in order for folks to carry on working rather stay at home and raise their own kids, but unfortunately that's what we live with.
SammyLeeWasOffside wrote: Wed Mar 15, 2023 7:48 am Why?
Because a significant portion of them never wanted the support in place originally, as I recall?
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YorksHammer wrote: Wed Mar 15, 2023 10:10 am Because a significant portion of them never wanted the support in place originally, as I recall?
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/ ... firms-poll
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The energy crisis thread is fairly instructive in who was for a 'means test' on here. Voices arguing against it were not plentiful but could be found.

At some point, it might be worth pondering whether the universality - a de facto tax refund/cut for every household - is the reason there was no recession in spite of it being widely expected.
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Fair enough - so much has happened it's all blurred into one. Was it the direct support where the Government dragged there heels in implementing it, then? There was one aspect that was a talking point of Labour vs Conservative for a while, Labour being for while the Government said they were looking at options etc and announced things much later on after voices (including public ones) had been calling for it.

Come to think about it, I might even be thinking of the Windfall Tax.
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Hummer_I_mean_Hammer wrote: Wed Mar 15, 2023 8:00 am Surely what someone does with their own money (if it is his own money paying for the upgrade and upkeep) is their own business?

- Terrible news that local pools are closing - used to be quite a highlight of my summer holidays going swimming, everywhere from Romford, Stratford through to Elephant & Castle pools - I absolutely loved it.
Me too, I learnt to swim in my local pool and consider it one of the greatest gifts I ever received. It's closed now.

I maybe see the link between a billionaire's wealth being secured by tax avoidance/evasion measures, his espousal of a small state/low tax ideology and local pools closing because they can't afford to stay open.

I'd also question if upgrading the local power infrastructure, I'm pretty sure he didn't get the overalls on and do it himself, was the best use of resources right now for this power company. Never mind the awful optics of this happening in a country with warm-banks, food-banks and small businesses closing left, right and centre because they can't afford their power bill.

It stinks mate, whoever paid for it. I think it's a weakness of Sunak, he does seem very cocooned in a billionaire's bubble and doesn't have a clue how stuff like this looks and feels to the population at large.
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free child care being rolled out to parents of 1 and 2 year olds apparently - that could REALLY help us come September (provided its on similar terms/eligibility as the current free 30 hours for 3 year olds is on)
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Junco Partner wrote: Wed Mar 15, 2023 11:52 am I'd also question if upgrading the local power infrastructure, I'm pretty sure he didn't get the overalls on and do it himself, was the best use of resources right now for this power company.
Unless he really did take the p****, he would have paid a significant amount to have that done. Off the back of that work, others most likely would have benefitted (potentially) the increased capacity in the area.

These things take a considerable amount of planning to sort out and are not cheap matters – but its all relative, being a billionaire what is ‘cheap’?
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The free childcare support will help people.

But other then that this is a piss poor budget that does nothing to correct the 13 years of damage done by this lot
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Got excited about the increase in free hours for 1 and 2 year olds, until he said it wouldn’t start until April 2024 :( ffs

Also, from September 2024 all children from 9 months old will get 15 hours free and from September 2025 all children under 5 will get 30 hours.

So we aren’t sure if the 30 hours that are currently offered will be scrapped until September 2025 and it will “just” be 15 hours until then.

If so, that will really screw us over from September 2024 until she goes to school in 2025.
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It sounded like an incremental introduction and upgrade.

- all 2 year olds get 15 hrs from April 24
- all 9 mths+ get 15 hrs from September 24
- all get 30 hours from September 25

No increase in energy cap or petrol.
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kenthammer1984 wrote: Wed Mar 15, 2023 2:09 pm Got excited about the increase in free hours for 1 and 2 year olds, until he said it wouldn’t start until April 2024 :( ffs

Also, from September 2024 all children from 9 months old will get 15 hours free and from September 2025 all children under 5 will get 30 hours.

So we aren’t sure if the 30 hours that are currently offered will be scrapped until September 2025 and it will “just” be 15 hours until then.

If so, that will really screw us over from September 2024 until she goes to school in 2025.
Really? You think that’s a possibility?. That would be an absolute piss take, I rejoiced last night when news broke about it but I’ll see a tiny benefit from April. He is 3 in June so expecting his 30hrs to kick in Sept 24 at least.
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This childcare policy doesn't seem to make sense.

The funding promised for it doesn't cover the cost at current prices. The policy will increase demand and, you would expect, increase prices. There's no plans announced to increase supply (I may have missed something on that last point).

It's a welcome/sensible announcement but seems to have a bus shaped hole in it.
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Danny's Dyer Acting wrote: Wed Mar 15, 2023 2:44 pm This childcare policy doesn't seem to make sense.

The funding promised for it doesn't cover the cost at current prices. The policy will increase demand and, you would expect, increase prices. There's no plans announced to increase supply (I may have missed something on that last point).

It's a welcome/sensible announcement but seems to have a bus shaped hole in it.
Change in the carer:child ratios from 1:4 to 1:5 - which mirrors Scotland.
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