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Thread | Resolution Foundation tax recommendations
at 07:07 13 Oct 2026
Pensioners in the cross hairs. If you are a Swansea West voter then this is what your MP probably thinks.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news
Policy Brief here:
https://www.resolutionfoundati
Main proposal that would disadvantage OAPs is to cut NI and raise income tax.
"Despite rhetoric to the contrary, we do not have a ‘runaway’ benefits bill in the UK. (…) There is little fat to trim from the overall spend without damaging living standards, risking a political backlash (…) … larger sums will be needed, and the natural place to look is the tax that raises the most revenue: Income Tax. Employed workers face a specific tax premium… (…) Because Income Tax also applies to self-employment, pension and rental income, the switch [NI down and income tax up] raises revenue by asking more of the self-employed, landlords and pensioners with taxable income, all of whom currently face lower tax rates than employees on the same income." [Post edited 13 Oct 12:00]
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Reply | Planned invasion
at 11:43 11 Oct 2026
The most likely scenario is that the ethnic groups who occupy particular areas of a city will themselves become more visibly stratified by social class. For example, in Leicester there are muslim middle-class areas with impressive up-market houses. I 'm unsure whether South Asians who make up much of the Leicester population mix freely or if there are separate enclaves of Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi residents. Sketty-Tycoch would be my guess if I had to predict where upwardly mobile Asians in Swansea will cluster. The reactions of indigenous neighbours will vary.
Edit. There was a radio report today saying that a recent survery found that 37% of respondents believed that European elites are deliberately allowing muslim populations to grow - which the pollster interviewed described as an obviously untrue conspiracy theory. I suppose that the Labour policiians of 1980 said something similar about people who predicted that the "Commonwealth and Pakistani" population of some large British cities would rise to around 30%.
Report here: https://www.theosthinktank.co. [Post edited 11 Oct 12:28]
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Reply | Planned invasion
at 19:46 10 Oct 2026
The areas that I have noticed changing most are St Helen's Road/Sandfields and the Hafod, but apart from mosques/Islamic centres in those two places, there are those in Sketty, Brynhyfryd.and the Singleton Park University campus. |
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Reply | Swansea City v Norwich City : The Indy Match Thread
at 14:37 10 Oct 2026
Much better second half and two excellent goals. My only moan is that I get worried when in a period when we are well on top we switch to a defensive mode and end up conceding chances, Norwich had two very good opportunities in the final minutes. |
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Reply | Pro-Palestinians march on the anniversary of October 7th 2023
at 13:31 10 Oct 2026
What stood out was that the police arrested the single joke offender at a recent anti-illegals demo - the man wearing the niqab - but didn't seem to arrest any of the several masked persons in the violent pro-Palestine disturbances in the video posted earlier in the thread.. The man restrained on the floor wasn't masked. [Post edited 10 Oct 14:44]
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Reply | Swansea City v Norwich City : The Indy Match Thread
at 13:24 10 Oct 2026
Disjointed was the word that I had in mind as well. We've had our chances, but also a lot of good positions where a sensible final ball would have produced a chance. Idah seems to be having one of those days and I expect an early substitution. Widell has lost possession in dangerous positions a few times in earlier matches and needs to learn not to overplay deep in his own half. Nether of our wingers has really looked teh part and that could be another area for changes. Great opportunity today to cement our position at the top, but we may well blow it. |
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Reply | Planned invasion
at 09:12 10 Oct 2026
We face a worsening situation that is not helped when politicians' promises are not accompanied by action. When one considers how politicians from the 1970s onwards consistently argued that those who predicted problems ahead were racist conspiracy theorists, it is no wonder a lot of older people who remember are really angry. [Post edited 10 Oct 9:58]
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Reply | Pro-Palestinians march on the anniversary of October 7th 2023
at 09:05 10 Oct 2026
The police have obviously taken criticism for this. Times Radio today reports that the Met has issued a statement. The gist is that an arrest at the time when the offence is committed is not always appropriate but does not mean that action will not be taken. Officers will exercise judgement in the moment to decide on the best course of action. This they say is not two-tier policing.
Utter balderdash when you consider what happened in Dover and Gosport and compare that with London Palestine disturbances.
Edit: Found the press release.
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“We will also be using powers under the Public Order Act requiring anyone in the protest area wearing face coverings to deliberately conceal their identity to remove them."
“We have seen debate about this issue following the student protests earlier this week, with the presumption that police will arrest anyone wearing a face covering."
“To be clear, we have the power under Section 60AA to arrest someone who refuses to remove a mask. And we will do so if we see groups of people who refuse and are covering their faces with the intention to hide their identity, intimidate and commit offences. That is unacceptable.:
“But for individual cases, officers must carefully assess why a person is wearing a mask and respond in a measured way. Where necessary, they will intervene and enforce the law, recognising that this may sometimes lead to conflict. That is the nature of policing in certain circumstances."
"On other occasions an arrest may not be the most appropriate course of action in that moment. This is not ‘two-tier policing’ - it is officers exercising professional judgement and acting proportionately based on the facts before them."
“There have been 35 large protests organised by the groups that make up the Palestine Coalition since October 2023. The majority who attend do so peacefully and lawfully, but we have seen arrests from a small minority across these protests for racially and religiously aggravated public order offences, for stirring up racial hatred and for supporting terrorist organisations."
“We will continue to take a zero-tolerance approach to hate crime and other offending.”
https://news.met.police.uk/new
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Reply | US Public Execution?
at 07:23 10 Oct 2026
Looking at the treacherous diesel deal with Putin announced today, there is one man whose public execution I would not oppose. [Post edited 10 Oct 10:04]
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Reply | Booze Runs to England
at 19:25 9 Oct 2026
Breiniol is a good word to keep in mind. I always think of the crachach. |
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Reply | US Public Execution?
at 19:08 9 Oct 2026
This man, whose medical training was funded by US taxpayers, deserves what is coming to him, but personally I think that televising the evecution will be counterproductive as it will give ammunition to those who are soft on Islamic terrorism. |
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Reply | Pro-Palestinians march on the anniversary of October 7th 2023
at 12:34 9 Oct 2026
Going back to the London protests, there may have been a lower than expected number of protestors, but this was hardly a peaceful protest. I'm not too keen on this source from X, but the video tells a story. If the film is genuine, how was this not violent disorder under the Public Order Act?
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Reply | Andy Burnham
at 04:18 9 Oct 2026
The Holborn and St Pancras by-election result shows one way a dystopian future could develop. This is a 'diverse' constituency, which also has a large student population. 45% voted for a hijab-wearing, African-born, child refugee, who wants more like herself in office in UK political institutions, while 33% voted for the nutjob who leads the openly-antisemitic Greens. Both want a massive increase in public spending to provide quality social housing for the diverse population. Imagine that pattern repeated in more and more of the larger cities as the demography of the UK continues to change. There is very little evidence of the intergenerational integration predicted by those who sought to rub our noses in diversity. [Post edited 9 Oct 7:02]
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Reply | RAF Molesworth
at 20:14 8 Oct 2026
I'd incline more towards ferrets. But with the present government, they'd probably be mistaken for red squirrels and be let out on bail. |
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Reply | Andy Burnham
at 20:07 8 Oct 2026
I wonder whether some will wake up and smell the coffee if we get to the stage of an IMF bailout? |
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Reply | Jeffrey Archer
at 07:14 8 Oct 2026
Antonia de Sancha would have kept coming back for more if he had worn a Swans shirt. 
Edit. I suppose I was too obscure and led OHL to finger the wrong man. Looks like the Chelsea shirt was a fairy tale anyway.
https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/ [Post edited 8 Oct 11:33]
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