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Care for vulnerable adults and children seems like a ticking time bomb across the country. It's so expensive and hoovers up all resource. There must be space for a rethink on how it's handled?

Given the price of housing seems to be going down, should housing benefit not also go down? Freezing not enough imo. Sorry landlords.

Disney needs mass appeal, yet they seem to making things that they know will be controversial. Why make the little mermaid black, or snow white hispanic? You know this will ruffle feathers and turn people off. Likewise at the parks having princesses with beards. I suspect most people don't care what others do in private, however, who wants to explain to a 5 year old why their favourite princess is now a man with a beard?

Whenever I speak to anyone about downsizing, they all want the impossible. They want to stay in the same area, but have a 2 bed detached house with a nice big garden. These properties just don't exist. Very few are going to be happy with moving from a detached to a terrace

It's possible to disagree with a tax, even if you yourself will not be subjected to it. Labour could announce a tax rate of 100% on any money earned over £200k per year. It wouldn't effect me, but I also wouldn't agree with it. Inherited money should have been taxed already. For me the tax system needs simplifying, not more hands reaching in whenever they can

My neighbour has just got a Hyundia Kona hybrid through the scheme.. she looked embarrassed to say she got it through motobility, I suspect most of the recipients know its too good of a deal. I'm surprised it's never really in the news, seems like a tremendous waste of money

Given budget deficits, what other answer is there? Can we really continue with 1/5 of working age people just not working?

It seems truly insane that a court can decide that two different jobs should be paid equally. There must be more to it

We have far more 'sick' than the rest of Europe. As we're seeing with the migrants in hotels, our own compassion is killing us. How will an anxious person ever get better if they don't work?

It is a disgrace. They've definitely known about this longer than last Friday and mitigations beyond 'just do it on zoom' could be put in place. The gov now has to be measured by the standard of what they're doing with migrants. If they can afford to put them in 4 star hotels, and luxury student accommodation, then they definitely can afford alternate venues for children's school The tories are absolutely doomed. Surely even the boomers can see past all the electoral bribes at this point. Grandkids with no schooling, their own children unable to afford housing.

How many employers are happy with output measured like that? If you can do the work in 4 hours of an 8 hour day, I'm sure your employer will be more than happy to double your workload. And if your employer doesn't, another will.. which kills your employer

It's becase they're up everywhere, under Truss it was just us.

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I think we're probably hitting a point where we have to be so tough, that only the liars are getting through. So if you're fleeing war and tell the truth you've got no chance. You've gotta be gay, afraid of water and allergic to baguettes to stay here now

Wider problems cause IMF intervention, and the gov has no option but to put a stop to it. Rapidly legislate and smash things through the courts. As is, with endless appeals, stupid ideas about sending people half way around the world, it'll get no where.

I don't think there is an achievable solution at this point, until the whole thing collapses.

The tories tax all of the productive parts of the economy very highly, and all of the unproductive parts very lowly, then can't understand why we have little growth.

It makes sense to pay out bonuses on the back of their amazing performance

I'm not sure changing the fall guy will do much good at this point. Problem is none of them want to stand up and say we're ******ed

Our own NCSC signed off on the use of Chinese equipment in our phone networks. We also import thousands of Chinese per year. It's a ridiculous state of things and needs to stop. It's not about being racist / xenophobic, it's about stopping our own countries destruction

Website testing isn't necessarily low paid, it can be a fairly lucrative job, especially if you're a woman (or present as one as this person appears to be doing). Testers can earn 90% of what engineers can.. I always though it was a great little role, a lot less stress and responsibility, near identical pay. Just a lower ceiling, very hard to progress past senior.

Head over to the remote working thread, and everyone is far more efficient working from home 🤔 In all seriousness, why would you work. The benefit system is that ******ed up, working full time at minimum or a low wage seems hardly worth the effort.. better getting an illness and putting your feet up

But it makes no difference to the user. They don't have a choice now. If the change was made and they were never told, they would never know beyond the colour of the flame being a bit different

The cap is BS anyway. It's removed if any of your kids have SEN.. if you're a lifer on benefits its very easy to get out of the cap with ADHD, or other spurious unprovable conditions.

I watched a slot on the news about this last night, and not one resident had a remotely sensible argument. It was all the usual tripe "it'll confuse old people", "People with disabilities won't like it" I didn't hear one sane reason. We have a country full of whiners with nothing else to do.