on par with Private Eye
...dear god man. I mean, it's great at what it does, but comparable to the Eye? No. Just... no XD
We have been contacted by George Osborne and Thea Rogers’ lawyers
This, though, may as well be a straight-up admission of truth.
I mean, let's be real - it's totally inconsequential. We've known for years who he is and how he fills his days waiting for his inheritance, and more importantly, none of this stuff, even if true, will actually affect him in any meaningful way.
But I can't claim for a second that I'm not chuckling at his misfortune today.
"PopBitch" (that's a new one)
They've been around for knocking on 20 years, if not longer.
Absolutely nothing more noble than a gossip-sheet (and they don't aim any higher either, to be clear), but they are legit and are broadly non-partisan.
Yeah, I woke up to that yesterday. My mood was not improved by it.
and water when it was in public ownership was way down the queue.
Or in other words, "when we had responsibility for it we didn't want it because we couldn't profit from it, so we shirked our responsibility so we could shrug it off in '89. Naturally, no other attitude to the matter is conceivable".
On the contrary, I'm putting the goalposts back where they were before you misunderstood them.
From the article:
Hall concludes the companies have borrowed to pay dividends, rather than to invest in infrastructure projects. The £123bn of capital expenditure spent by the companies has all been financed by customer bills, the analysis states.
Your analogy is a little off. If I were in the slightest danger of defaulting on my mortgage, you may be assured that even my closest family would be getting handwritten free hug vouchers for christmas.
It's not about being debt free, it's about not using your debt for stupid things.
I think you're pretty much on the money as far as sources go (and on the matter of letting things grow organically while it's still a small community) - something specific about multiple posts though:
When news breaks, it’s exciting, and everyone wants to post. This can mean discussions getting fragmented.
I think @[email protected] or @[email protected] has been in touch with you about long-running megathreads already - in the politics sphere, at least, these do tend to absorb a lot of the "oh god what's Suella done now" and "but why can't we election now boohoo" chatter. That in turn tends to mean that little things and breaking news naturally gravitate into them, which helps keeps things tidy.
As an added bonus, as a community grows, they also serve a really useful purpose in letting people form a picture of who the people on the other side of the screen are, and keep the pixels humanised, if you see what I mean - which is particularly important when discussing Serious Business like politics, of course.
So in conclusion, I think you should do megathreads in the politics space; thank you for attending my Thread Talk.
hopefully we’ll get an autumn general election
No chance. They're dug in for the duration now.
that totally normal corporate financing
The point, I think, is that it perhaps ought not to be.
It's like you summed up his worldview in two simple bullet points :D
Its an excellent scheme if you’re an amoral lizard.
Well hey, you'll never guess who built the system...
With the greatest of respect: the guy was Chancellor of the Exchequer for years. It seems reasonable to assume people know who he is in a UK politics forum. (edit: sp.)