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Look all we need is another toilet paper shortage

There is absolutely no way that paying Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson a million pounds a year will change him into an honourable, civic-minding, responsible leader. If paying people megabucks magically turned them into good humans we wouldn't have white collar crime. Hello, Bernie Madoff?

Maybe we can keep this one vaguely on topic. Plenty of other political threads.

Stop switching to electric vehicles there’s simply not enough energyyyyyy!!! ** later that day ** Stop creating more renewable energy there’s simply not enough demannnnndd!!!

Within 18 months he claims to have wrenched £300 million worth of sales from established players such as Knight Frank, Savills and Hamptons

Kick him out. We've had enough of the wretched smirking clown and his coterie of avaricious cronies.

I'm conflicted about this On the one hand, this is the worst sort of estate agent behaviour. On the other hand, they're peeing off other estate agents...

What criteria? A lofty 'Who are we to judge the merit of an individual' sentiment. Again, a party so worried about being morally pure they can't get near to governing the actual morally diverse humans comprising our citizenry.

There’s a scene in Utopia TV series where the online comic book nerds meet up and one of them is a young boy who’s been pretending to be a city trader. I imagine we’d have something similar

Didn't vote for her, obviously, but looking back she was better than Johnson the clown. On a world stage she didn't make us look like a country of idiots, just misguided.

Thatcher elected 1979 - UK population 56mil, world population 4.4bil 2021 UK 68mil (but really well over 70mil), world pop just under 8bil. Can't add 12 million+ people to a country and not alter land/house prices. BUT https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-population-growth-slow-dramatically-2022-01-12/ LONDON, Jan 12 (Reuters) - The United Kingdom's population growth is projected to slow dramatically in the next decade, largely due to lower assumptions about future fertility levels making net immigration a crucial variable over coming decades. The United Kingdom's population is projected to grow 3.2% to 69.2 million in the decade to 2030, up from 67.1 million in 2020. In the decade to 2020, the population grew by 4.3 million, or 6.9%. From 1995 to 2020, the population grew by 9.1 million, or 15.6%; from 2020 to 2045, it will grow 3.9 million, or 5.8%, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. By 2045, the UK population will be 71.0 million.

Labour conference manifesto pledge: Reject any immigration system based on incomes, migrants’ utility to business, and number caps/targets. https://labourlist.org/2019/09/labour-conference-approves-motion-to-extend-free-movement/ And this is another reason people aren't switching over in droves.

Well this thread has reminded me to book a dental check

well that's given me a proper chuckle

Most people don’t care what anyone thinks 😆 It’s an indicator resource. Mumsnet in numbers Over 8 million user posts per year 1.2 billion page views per year 23 million visits per month 8 million unique visitors per month 9.26 minutes average dwell time 75% of users in full-time or part-time employment 78% of users are aged between 26-45 91% of users have children Source: SimilarWeb/Google Analytics

I'm a glitch in the matrix

You could well be right. They hate Johnson and his cronies but they don't trust Starmer and his thought police. LDs keeping their heads down and avoiding any headlines could be a winning tactic (not actually winning of course, not until we change our voting system).

See my other comments today re the mums not wanting to vote for ANY party because they're all rubbish. It's happening. Just need a nudge here and there. Anyway, this isn't a political thread - there's about 15 other ones for that.

Better late than never, Count This is how systemic change happens, we need to keep reminding them their children are getting shafted.

To be depressed that my children are unlikely to own a nice house? http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4452479-To-be-depressed-that-my-children-are-unlikely-to-own-a-nice-house

This is why I suspect we'll have Tory rule for a good long while. I wish I'd paid attention to the mums before the Brexit vote, I think it wouldn't have come as such a surprise result to me then. I've said before it's just a very good barometer of what is going on in the minds of a lot of people, particularly regarding purchases/housing/money and so forth. Right now they're worried about energy and inflation costs, but also largely confident about savings.

In a nutshell yes. Mainly they seem to object to Labour's stance that convicted rapists, pedophiles and sexual abusers (such as Karen White, or Claire Goodier + numerous other examples) should be placed in women's prisons without any action beyond uttering the phrase 'I am a woman' ie no hormones, no surgery. Changing the Gender Recognition Act. The eradication of female terms such as mother/breastfeeding/FGM (Mums net does not like the idea of becoming Birthing Parents Net 😂). And then Transwomen athletes competing against women, taking spots/sponsorship etc. And just generally how transwomen's voices are prioritised over women (and ironically, over transmen's voices too...). Of course the trouble is LDs agree with all these policies, and the Greens protected David and Aimee Challenor. The Tories are also edging that way too. I mean, a few women who didn't pay their licence fees getting raped in prison is a small price to pay for the rainbow vote.