MonsterMonster

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[–] MonsterMonster 6 points 5 days ago

It's a shame wages weren't keeping pace.

 

Mortgage lenders' attempts to lure in first-time buyers have stepped up with the UK's biggest building society allowing some to borrow more.

[–] MonsterMonster 15 points 5 days ago

That's one lucky alignment shot indeed.

[–] MonsterMonster 1 points 1 week ago
[–] MonsterMonster 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] MonsterMonster 2 points 2 weeks ago

It's very rare that we watch broadcast TV or record anything to a PVR. It's all streaming on Netflix/Amazon to TV or on my phone. Haven't watched TV in the conventional sense for some years now.

 

Australian police are working with their international counterparts to locate a man they believe fled the country after pouring boiling coffee on a baby in Brisbane.

 

An anti-corruption charity says it has identified significant concerns in contracts worth over £15.3bn awarded by the Conservative government during the Covid pandemic, equivalent to one in every £3 spent.

[–] MonsterMonster 14 points 4 weeks ago

It's been happening before Brexit. The Tories hate the NHS and want to replace it, as you say, with a private healthcare system. However, saying so publicly would be political suicide so the NHS has been gradually privatised within by outsourcing backroom services to the private sector. Having said that Brexit has not helped the NHS.

Such privatisation has failed in a lot of cases.

Here's a list of such services privatised.

The common phrase "The NHS will remain free at point of use" is used to side step accusations of privatising the NHS.

Privatisation through defunding

[–] MonsterMonster 9 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

So that Zombie apocalypse could still happen.

[–] MonsterMonster 2 points 1 month ago

Chip shops will go the same way as pubs.

[–] MonsterMonster 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think this story will be around for a while.

[–] MonsterMonster 19 points 1 month ago

If this is true then it's only a matter of time for the collapse in Tesla sales and any commercial venture linked to Musk.

[–] MonsterMonster 10 points 1 month ago

Liz Truss makes for a better parody version of herself than the best comedian. She's is so inept in public.

[–] MonsterMonster 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Pretty much sums up the UK since 2010.

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