In todays news...

[mangocrazy]

I assume you mean HMRC.

Good idea at first sight, but the drop in the tax take would be about £700 billion. Who would pay tax if they didn't have to?

Or should we cast the poison dwarf in Scotchland adrift?

It might also help if HMRC actually went after the most egregious tax avoiders, or if the Govt could actually frame watertight tax laws to make the likes of Amazon pay their fair whack. I'd guess (with no supporting evidence at all) that £60 bn would be easily achievable.

[Mr. Dazzle]

On reflection though, £60bn of funding to 'only' collect £700bn...

Come on lads, sort it out.

[irie]

So the government needs to find about £60bn right?

I couldn't help but notice when I saw this chart that there's one easy thing they could drop which would save the money and also make loads of people happy. Win win

If the English were given the right to vote in a Scottish independence referendum the result would be guaranteed for the wee Jimmy Krankie.

[Horse]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-63195653

Researchers have grown brain cells in a lab that have learned to play the 1970s tennis-like video game, Pong,

They say their "mini-brain" can sense and respond to its environment.

Writing in the journal Neuron, Dr Brett Kagan, of the company Cortical Labs, claims to have created the first ''sentient'' lab-grown brain in a dish.

Other experts describe the work as ''exciting'' but say calling the brain cells sentient is going too far.

"We could find no better term to describe the device,'' Dr Kagan says. ''It is able to take in information from an external source, process it and then respond to it in real time."

[irie]

https://news.sky.com/story/patients-wai ... h-12719263

The number of people waiting to start routine hospital treatment in England has reached a record high.

In all, seven million patients were waiting to start treatment at the end of August, NHS England said.

The population of England is 56m so that's 1 in 8 or 12.5% of the population waiting for hospital treatment.

Seemingly the NHS is dying along with it's patients.

[Mr. Dazzle]

dying along with it's patients.

'tis the most effective way to reduce demand.

[Asian Boss]

I'm beginning to think someone didn't get their own way over half a decade ago and they're a little bitter over it

We were all winners that day.

Just look at all the Brexit Benefits.

Even the people we Brexited away, they were winners too.

And there's the additional benefits from the competent and honest government we now have thanks to the vote in in 2019 to 'get it done'.

Keep it Brexity. Nice and Brexity.

Keep it remaineey, all nice and remainery and everything innit.

I can't imagine what it's like to be so bitter, resentful and miserable, but keep it remainery.

Let's have none of that leftist, remoaner, traitors-to-the-statues talk!

Because it's all going so well.

[weeksy]

Sometimes it's a miracle you wankers don't get beaten to death every time you leave the house.

I can only imagine none of you actually speak to others when outside.

The levels of despair and pity I feel for some of you is quite high. You must really have shallow and miserable lives to be like this.

That's both sides too, you're both as desperately sad each eachother

[Yorick]

I tried to get it back on track wrt to thread title. But folk just wanna argue to the death about anything

[Mr. Dazzle]

Sometimes it's a miracle you wankers don't get beaten to death every time you leave the house.

I can only imagine none of you actually speak to others when outside.

The levels of despair and pity I feel for some of you is quite high. You must really have shallow and miserable lives to be like this.

That's both sides too, you're both as desperately sad each eachother

FWiW I've never read AB or Ant as moaning for real. I think whether or not you think someone (online at least) is aggy is mostly a reflection if your own disposition, not their's.

Or you're just a cvnt. Who knows

[Asian Boss]

I tried to get it back on track wrt to thread title. But folk just wanna argue to the death about anything

Get you! Swotting away for teacher like mummy's little bender!

[Felix]

I tried to get it back on track wrt to thread title. But folk just wanna argue to the death about anything

Get you! Swotting away for teacher like mummy's little bender!

You just noticed

[irie]

I tried to get it back on track wrt to thread title. But folk just wanna argue to the death about anything

And the below is news? To be totally parochial I guess it is.

Tourists slightly up on 2019 numbers which is good.
Here's where they came from..

The tourist figures for August 2022 are as follows:
Spain – 53,159
Germany – 17,117
Belgium – 5,945
France – 18,038
Netherlands – 29,097
Ireland – 9,518
Italy – 8,343
Nordic Countries – 3,816
United Kingdom – 124,117
Other – 9,051
TOTAL – 278,200

[wheelnut]

I tried to get it back on track wrt to thread title. But folk just wanna argue to the death about anything

And the below is news? To be totally parochial I guess it is.

Tourists slightly up on 2019 numbers which is good.
Here's where they came from..

The tourist figures for August 2022 are as follows:
Spain – 53,159
Germany – 17,117
Belgium – 5,945
France – 18,038
Netherlands – 29,097
Ireland – 9,518
Italy – 8,343
Nordic Countries – 3,816
United Kingdom – 124,117
Other – 9,051
TOTAL – 278,200

I can’t believe 124,117 brits were daft enough to go there.

Then again, 51% did vote for brexit.

(Should get it back on track)

[Mussels]

Sometimes it's a miracle you wankers don't get beaten to death every time you leave the house.

I can only imagine none of you actually speak to others when outside.

The levels of despair and pity I feel for some of you is quite high. You must really have shallow and miserable lives to be like this.

That's both sides too, you're both as desperately sad each eachother

Pony doesn't get into fights, locals know him so they just tilt their heads, smile and phone his carers.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Plus he's got gunny.

[Yambo]

Pony's only got one trick.

[Yorick]

I tried to get it back on track wrt to thread title. But folk just wanna argue to the death about anything

And the below is news? To be totally parochial I guess it is.

Tourists slightly up on 2019 numbers which is good.
Here's where they came from..

The tourist figures for August 2022 are as follows:
Spain – 53,159
Germany – 17,117
Belgium – 5,945
France – 18,038
Netherlands – 29,097
Ireland – 9,518
Italy – 8,343
Nordic Countries – 3,816
United Kingdom – 124,117
Other – 9,051
TOTAL – 278,200

I can’t believe 124,117 brits were daft enough to go there.

Yeah. Why do folk want to go where it's superb weather and the population don't constantly moan and whine about anything and everything.

And thanks for quoting folk on my ignore list being an idiot
Makes me giggle as he's been on ignore at least 15 years

[slowsider]

Sometimes it's a miracle you wankers don't get beaten to death every time you leave the house.

I can only imagine none of you actually speak to others when outside.

The levels of despair and pity I feel for some of you is quite high. You must really have shallow and miserable lives to be like this.

That's both sides too, you're both as desperately sad each eachother

Should be in the Mental Health thread

[Mr. Dazzle]

Told you.
They're properly going after him now to force him to resign, then they'll go after Truss.

They've flown him in specially for the occasion!

Just a shame they don't have Concorde any more for the job.