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mahermi1 said:
from you're posting history it appears you weren't to fond of Tony Blair either lol I could be wrong please enlighten me..
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I was upset about Iraq. I landed in the USA at one of our plants only to see Blair sucking up to Bush while knowingly dragging the U.K. into a war against the wrong enemy for the wrong reasons. I was glad to see the back of Saddam, but an awful lot of innocent people died……
 
peteblue said:
I was upset about Iraq. I landed in the USA at one of our plants only to see Blair sucking up to Bush while knowingly dragging the U.K. into a war against the wrong enemy for the wrong reasons. I was glad to see the back of Saddam, but an awful lot of innocent people died……
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How's it sucking up to Bush, I remember Thatcher being Ronald Reagans Nanny. You could go on all night about Labour leader's faults, yet you adored Boris Johnson, a total fool, a narcissist, a serial liar, who surrounded himself with a cabinet that was unfit to run the Country, sycophants whose only reason for being there was loyalty to Johnson, he mirrors Kenwright/ Trump in so many ways and awful traits.
 
mahermi1 said:
How's it sucking up to Bush, I remember Thatcher being Ronald Reagans Nanny. You could go on all night about Labour leader's faults, yet you adored Boris Johnson, a total fool, a narcissist, a serial liar, who surrounded himself with a cabinet that was unfit to run the velcroing up of a single pair of shoes, sycophants whose only reason for being there was loyalty to Johnson, he mirrors Kenwright/ Trump in so many ways and awful traits.
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I had to fix that.
 
They’ll almost certainly announce the help will continue in next week’s budget as they know it’ll be headline news and overshadow any horrors they might announce in the meantime. Expect the usual bullpoop about helping working families and all that nonsense

 
Aldi doing it's best to help out in these straitened times.


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Had my council tax bill through today. 5.3%. Better than 13 near 18% that O2 and Virgin Media have tried to shaft me on for mobile and broadband mid term on 'inflation linked rises'. Threatened to leave Virgin and they magically rescinded the inflation linked increase - they tried to use the smallest font possible to hide I could leave penalty free so long as I got in touch by 5th April. And that wasn't easy either - swear they make it difficult so ffolk give up.

O2 I haven't been arsed about as I finish my term with them next month so they'll be gone. My car insurance has gone up for the first time in years as well. Nothing has changed (no claims etc), but it looks like insurers are shoving prices up across the board.

The slow inexolerable rise in the cost of everything continues...
 
Thought there was going to be some great news today, especially given our nursery have announced a second price increase this year... But no, it wasn't to be.

The 30 free hours for two year olds is not happening until April 2024... Talk about getting our hopes up that we might finally be getting a bit of a break in terms of outgoings... Why announce it in March 2023 if it's not being implemented until the following April?? Custards.

Carry on as we were then... Although actually a bit worse now.
 
Ivo said:
Thought there was going to be some great news today, especially given our nursery have announced a second price increase this year... But no, it wasn't to be.

The 30 free hours for two year olds is not happening until April 2024... Talk about getting our hopes up that we might finally be getting a bit of a break in terms of outgoings... Why announce it in March 2023 if it's not being implemented until the following April?? Custards.

Carry on as we were then... Although actually a bit worse now.
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They couldn’t implement it immediately as there simply isn’t the amount of childcare places available to fulfill the additional demand. It had to also be announced ahead of time to allow nurseries to prepare. If they had offered 30 hours immediately to all over 9 months it would have been chaos.

It’s a very good announcement, will save hundreds of thousands of people thousands per year in the first two years of their children’s lives.
 
Brennan said:
They couldn’t implement it immediately as there simply isn’t the amount of childcare places available to fulfill the additional demand. It had to also be announced ahead of time to allow nurseries to prepare. If they had offered 30 hours immediately to all over 9 months it would have been chaos.

It’s a very good announcement, will save hundreds of thousands of people thousands per year in the first two years of their children’s lives.
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I understand that, but it doesn't help anyone at this moment in this cost of living crisis.
 
Brennan said:
They couldn’t implement it immediately as there simply isn’t the amount of childcare places available to fulfill the additional demand. It had to also be announced ahead of time to allow nurseries to prepare. If they had offered 30 hours immediately to all over 9 months it would have been chaos.

It’s a very good announcement, will save hundreds of thousands of people thousands per year in the first two years of their children’s lives.
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Not enough nurseries sign up to to scheme now. As the government subsidy does not cover the cost. Already, government funding numbers is unravelling on.
 
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