Brexit

The scapegoating continues.

strawberry float the tabloids, seriously.

Meep wrote:I was concerned that the lower value of the pound might make a large dent in the figures but it seems immigration is holding up nicely.

Screw any of the older crowd who get red faced about it; I'm the one who will have to pay for their state pension entitlements and I'll be damned if I'm paying the huge tax increases that will be levied on me if we have a reduction is new workers coming into the UK. Who do they think is going to pick up the tab if receipts to the exchequer drop? That's beside the fact that were are not enough of my generation to fill the labour gaps they will be leaving.

They don't care, they are by far the most selfish generation as they benefitted the most from post war Britain and now couldn't give a gooseberry fool that those coming after can't afford houses, etc. as long as they are all ok.

Old people are banana splits.

When the costs really start to bite over Brexit, they'd better be dropping the triple lock on pensions. Those strawberry floaters were a huge contributor to the vote getting passed but they'll be the ones least strawberry floated over by it.

Errkal wrote:

Meep wrote:I was concerned that the lower value of the pound might make a large dent in the figures but it seems immigration is holding up nicely.

Screw any of the older crowd who get red faced about it; I'm the one who will have to pay for their state pension entitlements and I'll be damned if I'm paying the huge tax increases that will be levied on me if we have a reduction is new workers coming into the UK. Who do they think is going to pick up the tab if receipts to the exchequer drop? That's beside the fact that were are not enough of my generation to fill the labour gaps they will be leaving.

They don't care, they are by far the most selfish generation as they benefitted the most from post war Britain and now couldn't give a gooseberry fool that those coming after can't afford houses, etc. as long as they are all ok.

Old people are banana splits.

That generation had a pretty rough time in post war Britain, might be worth you looking into it before spouting bigoted stuff like that.

captain red dog wrote:[That generation had a pretty rough time in post war Britain, might be worth you looking into it before spouting bigoted stuff like that.

The lack of bananas for years must have really hurt.

Seriously though I actually agree with you, old(er) people are not all banana splits, some are and some aren't.

They got very lucky though, no matter how hard it was in the late 40s/early 50s. They got final salary pensions, benefitted from cheap housing that is now worth a literal fortune etc etc. Some of them are extremely banana splitish about it all, but most are decent people.

It's almost as though there is a wide variance across a broad spectrum of cuntishness that can be attributed to any large group of people defined by any sort of characteristic .

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:It's almost as though there is a wide variance across a broad spectrum of cuntishness that can be attributed to any large group of people defined by any sort of characteristic .

Not for any sort of characteristic. For example:

Trump supporter = thick, racist or both
UKIP supporter = thick, racist or both
Brexit supporter = thick, racist, Corbyn or a combination of the three

Thick ≠ banana split

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:Thick ≠ banana split

True, but a thick Trump supporter does = banana split.

You can just say Trump Supporter.

Hexx wrote:You can just say Trump Supporter.

If only that was true. It is not just the thickies that voted for Trump though. There are plenty of people who are intelligent but evil and see him as the best way to achieve their evil aims. That’s why I differentiated between thick banana split and racist banana split.

Surely the figures in the Daily Express article yesterday include people that came to the uk as children and have now grown up and working. Every year they must add tens of thousands at least to the migrant numbers each year as they turn 16. They haven't actually come over here for work like the Express are trying to imply.

Return_of_the_STAR wrote:Surely the figures in the Daily Express article yesterday include people that came to the uk as children and have now grown up and working. Every year they must add tens of thousands at least to the migrant numbers each year as they turn 16. They haven't actually come over here for work like the Express are trying to imply.

The Express wrote:Being born in a stable doesn't make you a horse!

Errkal wrote:They don't care, they are by far the most selfish generation as they benefitted the most from post war Britain and now couldn't give a gooseberry fool that those coming after can't afford houses, etc. as long as they are all ok.

I think this is unfair - I imagine most of the older generation care about those coming after them (which includes their children and grandchildren). Taking the price of housing, it's true that they have benefited from being able to buy cheaply, but it wasn't a conscious choice from the majority of the older generation that younger generations are now priced out of owning. And while many are "better off" in that they have made a sizeable amount of money on house price rises, that money is tied up in the house they live in - they can't unlock that money by moving because they'd have to reinvest it back into buying wherever they move. In a lot of cases where they have moved, they can both see the housing market as a serious problem for younger generations who can't afford to buy but also are worried about any price crash because it may leave them in negative equity or personally much worse off (and they want to be able to pass that money on to their children and grandchildren in inheritance).

The media has gone on to perpetuate myths over the cause of these issues, such as the housing market being so overpriced because of the country being "full"/there being too many immigrants. I personally know of friend's grandparents who voted to leave the EU with the belief that it would create a better future for their grandchildren and would help them be able to buy their own home etc.

I was being overly flippant, i agree there are many that don't think like this and only a few are actually selfish.

Also I'll point out my comment was made on its own it was made a reply to something that was referencing a subset of old people, my comment in context with that is referencing that subset.

Microsoft following Apple in raising prices...a lot.

BBC News wrote:Microsoft's own-brand laptops are the latest tech products to face price rises in the UK.

The firm has added between £150 and £400 to the cost of Surface Books sold via its website.

The company had already increased the cost of its business software and cloud services in the country in recent months.
It indicated the latest move was due to the weakness of the pound against the dollar.

"In response to a recent review we are adjusting the British pound prices of some of our hardware and consumer software in order to align to market dynamics," it said in a statement.

"These changes only affect products and services purchased by individuals, or organisations without volume licensing contracts."

Microsoft's laptops cost between £1,449 and £3,049 depending on their specification, and the price rises range from 6.7% to 15.1%.

Sterling has dropped about 16% against the US currency since the Brexit referendum last June because of investors' concerns about how leaving the EU might affect the UK's economy, as well as other factors including an expectation that the Fed will soon raise interest rates.

Other tech firms have also recently increased prices in the UK, including Apple, HTC, Dell, HP, Tesla, HTC and OnePlus.

The wireless speaker-maker Sonos has also announced it will increase the cost of its products later this month.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38993346

I'm buying a new computer this year. Loving all these price increases on everything! Feels like I'm really sticking it to the EU and THE MAN!

KKLEIN wrote:Feels like I'm really sticking it to the EU and THE MAN!

Just bask in the freedom we now have to make BRITISH laws for BRITISH people and for our BRITISH parliament to be SOVEREIGN and not part of the EU DICTATORSHIP!

BRITISH illegal state surveillance by BRITISH police who just want to laugh at the browsing history of dodgy, perverted BRITS.

Don't forget it's only good when those sovereign powers are used to do what leavers want though.
If it's not what they want then they are the ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE!!!!!!!