My two were born just over a year apart during the last Labour govt.
I was young (
) and never, ever would have thought of a savings account.
But I started one with the £200 I got from the Govt - junior ISA thingy.
My son was 18 this May and he got a decent savings account when that matured.
Something I never got and would not have planned for. Super grateful to Gordon Brown for that!
Yep, I don’t think anyone with half a functioning brain cell think’s that everything is gonna be fantastic with Labour in power, we just have to get these heartless, piss taking, grasping grifters out of power and take it from there.
yep that’s a good point, the 97 Lab govt had cash to burn and nothing like the number of global crises now which they have ZERO control over. I could see a massive PLP badly splitting over all sorts of foreign policy areas esp in Middle East and any increased militarisation. Immigration across Europe will intensify as areas of global south become uninhabitable - focusing on people smugglers is a smokescreen for what it is a looming emergency
I would forgive Blair and Brown pretty much anything just for Surestart.
i can’t cope with the puritanical side of the left that demands ideological purity.
Agree with every word. I could bore on about Sure Start endlessly but it’s the past and hoping that the future will bring a new version of it (I’m optimistic!)
I’ve been thinking about the dominant form of music for every forth rate DJ doing a night in a local bar or pub. These nights stink and drive out anyone with any taste in music.
Do we have the genre ‘Shit House Music’ ?
It’s cool how people have shifted from using ‘woke’ to dismiss anything vaguely political they disagree with, to now using it to express frustration with anyone mentioning any of the world’s injustices in any context.
If someone uses the term woke i cant take them seriously. Noel Gallagaher has always been a massive twat though and hes just going down the standard route of ageing rocker becoming more right wing and a teeny bit racist as time goes on.
Yeah it’s come to the point where it’s a personal litmus test – if someone uses the term in earnest I simply don’t engage.
Joining the Euro zone would be nonsensical.
I don’t think the relative upsides or downsides would even come into it. Many would be outraged simply because the Euro is “forrin”
There’s probably good arguments for both joining and staying outside but any state that wants to join the EU is required to commit to joining the single currency.
Unless you’re Denmark.
I hope that a change in Government might at least plug the dyke for a while. The last time I visited the UK there were all the signs of a nation getting all the wealth siphoned off shore, and for quite some time. A very depressing thing to see. But the two party traditional system has very plainly failed in creating a sustainable society in the UK.
Which is why, despite believing Brexit was a huge mistake, I am against rejoining.
They need to a better deal, brexit was the biggest fuck up in decades. It doesn’t need to be so obstructive and isolationist.
I know I’m probably one of the curmudgeoniest curmudgeons on here, and I promise to do better (ish), but…
Clothes sites that champion celebs wearing their gear. I’m looking at you Percival (Jordan North ffs. Something else I don’t get).
Wax Clothing - “Ryan Reynolds loves our Porto shirts (or whatever)”.
Puts me off buying.
Happy Sunday. Namaste 
x
Also the current trend for male models looking down at the floor in a ‘ moody’ way, usually wearing a cap, on fashion sites
see also: dj duos looking similarly moody on flyers/posters/mix streams, one stood a bit behind with hands in pockets as though auditioning for the Krays, Sleaford Mods or Audio Bullys
this sounds like pretty much all the press photos for tears for fears
