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  1. Billy Horner

    The Imnigration Dilemma

    You realise that “this little island” is actually the 9th largest island on the planet? And that’s just counting Great Britain, so not counting Northern Ireland. For reference, there are over 11,000 permanently inhabited islands on Earth. So you can call the country small if you wish (although...
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    Favourite Jam song

    Thick as Thieves?
  3. Billy Horner

    The Imnigration Dilemma

    I don’t suppose Nigel said (or was asked) what his party would do about taxes to pay for the education, healthcare and child benefit needed for this new baby boom?
  4. Billy Horner

    The Imnigration Dilemma

    From an economic perspective, the real problem is the falling dependency ratio (the number of workers to pensioners), particularly given the movement of the baby boom generation into retirement. When the boomer generation were first moving into the workplace in the 1960s/70s, there were around...
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    11am Tomorrow

    So it would appear that the OP has previous on the rumours front. Previous postings include a poisonous gas cloud that was going to envelop the UK (which didn’t) and a popular pub in Wolviston closing (which isn’t). Of course, the latest offering takes the biscuit, with a manager getting sacked...
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    Man fined £500 for fly-tipping after envelope blew out of bin

    Surely that headline should read “Man agrees to pay £100 penalty after envelope containing his details, which he claims might have blown out of bin, found next to some fly-tipping”.
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    Can't blame him really

    I suspect he’ll also be paying a lot less tax on his £40k/week in the States than he would have been on the equivalent in the UK.
  8. Billy Horner

    Micah Hamilton joins Stockport on loan

    Notable that all of those signings were in the early 90s. It's a completely different era now, especially since the introduction of Category 1 academies and the Elite Player Performance Programme. Those academies can basically poach any young player they want from lower category academies and...
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    🐙Cut your energy bills nearly in half with Octopus Tracker

    You can monitor wholesale gas prices here. I use that site pretty much every day (the market doesn't open on a weekend so they just use the closing price on a Friday). I put the wholesale figure into an excel spreadsheet which follows the Tracker formula to calculate the daily price. Always...
  10. Billy Horner

    Farage says he has 25 per cent chance of being next PM

    I think we'd be much better served if everyone was required to undertake mandatory civic education, so people had at least some semblance of how government works. I mean, do you honestly believe that the Cabinet all sit in a room together and try to come up with ideas on how to run the country...
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    James Watt says we need to stop obsessing about work/life balance

    They may well do, but I suspect that the 60% will be told that those people are all lazy, feckless or scroungers. History tells us that some of the 40% will believe that too.
  12. Billy Horner

    James Watt says we need to stop obsessing about work/life balance

    Yeah, it’s not like there’s a history in this country of working class people being manipulated to vote against their own interests. It’s why we continue to have such a strong trade union movement, a fair distribution of income and excellent occupational pension coverage.
  13. Billy Horner

    Brighton and Hove Bankruptcy

    I don’t think you can blame the council for a bad helipad investment by the local NHS Trust.
  14. Billy Horner

    What’s the earliest you’ve been in a ground?

    If you’re a Blackburn fan travelling by train, you’ll have to set off at 7am (so probably be up before 6am), to guarantee getting here in time for kick off. For two teams 90 miles apart, I’d say that is ludicrous.
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    What about a cheeky loan bid for Bamford

    If a promotion rival were prepared to loan us one of their strikers (and presumably make a sizeable contribution to his wages at the same time), what should that be telling us about said striker?
  16. Billy Horner

    Is Starmer the man for the full term?

    Not this nonsense again. I note you’ve conveniently failed to mention that Theresa May achieved 13,636,684 votes in 2017 (758,766 more votes than Corbyn) and Johnson got 13,966,454 in 2019 (3,697,403 more than Corbyn). Starmer’s Labour might have ‘only’ received 9,708,716 votes, but that was...
  17. Billy Horner

    WASPI women can do one.

    The 30 years qualification period was for the old state pension, which only pays a maximum of £169.50 per week (your extra 4 years’ contributions wouldn’t have earned you anything under that system). The new state pension pays a maximum of £221.20 per week, hence the additional contribution...
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    WASPI women can do one.

    Of course it’s a benefit, albeit a contribution based non-means tested one. A bit like Statutory Sick Pay or contribution-based Employment and Support Allowance. I’m pretty sure you’d class those as benefits. The State Pension is a welfare benefit, paid to those above the qualifying age who...
  19. Billy Horner

    🐙Cut your energy bills nearly in half with Octopus Tracker

    It has been very windy, but what matters for the tracker price is whether it will be windy tomorrow. I’m afraid the answer is no. We’re in a perfect (non) storm at the moment, with no wind, no sunshine and several nuclear reactors offline for maintenance. This pushes up demand for expensive...
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    France in turmoil - government will be voted out next week

    Except that was the right and far right combining to keep out the left. Still, let’s not let historical accuracy get in the way, eh?
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