Steve

Despite?

Been rewatching Fringe and I have a new catchphrase that I will be deploying whenever people are being idiots - “this can’t be scientific”.

Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living “parallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?

Tories under Findlay are an embarrassment

Got it thanks!

I have no idea what you mean by this, if you have time and inclination to explain I’d appreciate it

If Scotland were an independent country there would be a golden opportunity offering a safe and welcoming place to live to people at risk of getting kicked out of England.

I’m liking Zack a lot

Table 1 shows the cost per child lifted out of poverty for fully scrapping the two-child limit and each of the floated options. The only option that has a similar cost-effectiveness to full abolition is exempting families who are in work, at £7,540 per child lifted out of poverty, (compared to £7,480 for full abolition). The lower cost-effectiveness of the other options should be considered alongside the issues outlined above that each option would introduce.

None of the proposed two-child limit options are as efficient in lifting children out of poverty as fully scrapping the policy.

Fully abolishing the two-child limit should be the starting point of any successful Child Poverty Strategy.

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And the consequence of this incompetence is that John Swinney walked away largely unscathed from the debate, despite official bodies making clear that his party has pushed the college sector to the brink.

It's all a game to politicians, and the rest of us have to suffer as a result.

There’s a weird way in which living under the previous Tory government was actually better. You could still have hope that things might improve.

Making people feel dirty about voting Reform makes electoral sense! Stigmatising is both an effective strategy and, in this case factually and morally correct. "You are scum if you vote for them" is far, far more advantageous (and correct) than "they're right, we'll copy them".

Ensuring an end to the “rape clause”would also be very desirable imo

Cheers

Why? I don’t get it

I'm getting really really fed up at constant reassertion that welfare spending is "out of control" when it is the same as the average for the past few decades.

One reason disability benefit costs have risen is because core support has fallen.

Looked for the context in the original article, assuming it must somehow help, because surely a sentence that bad couldn’t get past a reporter and multiple editors.

Check for yourself: the context doesn’t help. Jesus wept. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/w...

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

Last budget there was a £20bn black hole which meant labour couldn’t scrap the 2 child limit. This budget they can though because the black hole looks set to be a much more manageable £40bn.

I would urge them to urgently do that as ASAP as possible

There’s so much going on right now it’s hard to pay attention to any one thing but I’m still reeling at the fact that over 800 people died due to long hospital waits. In more normal times that would be a national outrage.

Racists and cunts

Pork barrel politics.

I’d be interested to know what the impact would be in Scotland given we have our own income tax system but not national insurance.

It’s inevitable that Reform will eventually come for naturalised citizens soon. They’re in full brutality mode now, fed and watered by Starmer’s govt & the BBC, Sky and the London press

Scotland: we need to vote our way out of this rotten Union before the next UK election or we’ll live to regret it

One thing to add to this: looked at like this, it's not hypocrisy nor empty words that the UK continues to aid Israel's military while recognising Palestinian statehood.

Haha! Was genuinely thinking of replying to this thread yesterday with a bit of humble pie!

Wow we should base our entire economy on this technology

I don’t think it should count as assault if it’s on a Tory