This news appears to have got buried in the talk about the reshuffle - the government are to introduce First Past the Post in elections for Police & Crime Commissioners, metro mayors, and most notably, for the Mayor of London elections.

 

It wouldn’t have made a difference in previous Mayor of London elections, although could make a difference in future ones if they are particularly tight.

 

That’s ridiculous no one ever change back to FPTP unless they want to gain favour in elections!

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Im so happy to see one of my post pandemic priorities is also Boris’s. Hugely important this.

 

 

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What a waste of time and money

Is that an effing joke?

This news appears to have got buried in the talk about the reshuffle - the government are to introduce First Past the Post in elections for Police & Crime Commissioners, metro mayors, and most notably, for the Mayor of London elections.

 

It wouldn’t have made a difference in previous Mayor of London elections, although could make a difference in future ones if they are particularly tight.

 

At least there's precedent for changing voting systems without a referendum!!

 

'first past the post is the most used voting system in the world' - not by much and certainly not if you just compare like-with-like and include only free and fair democracies as well as compare just simple FPTP vs any kind of proportional system. There's not even justification for it, they're just doing it because it'll help them win more and entrench their survival.

Is that an effing joke?

 

 

Hope not. It's great. I've always been a pounds and ounces man. Can't understand the grams and kilograms and metres. Inches and feet every time too. :dance:

 

A pound of apples Sir.

OK boomer

Metric with a base 100 system is infinitely easier to understand but go off fossil

I don’t care what systems used as long as it’s one system to make it standardised everywhere!

Hope not. It's great. I've always been a pounds and ounces man. Can't understand the grams and kilograms and metres. Inches and feet every time too. :dance:

 

A pound of apples Sir.

There has never been anything stopping you buying a pound of apples. However, a normal person would buy a specific number of apples rather than any arbitrary weight.

Whenever I see Chris post all I can think of is Nathan Barley.

 

 

Anyone who wants to move back to the imperial measurement system wants their head examining.

 

But in the case of Chris, his head has been examined - extensively - and in a result that continues to baffle medical science, nothing has yet been found to exist there. :(

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Whenever I see Chris post all I can think of is Nathan Barley.

 

 

Anyone who wants to move back to the imperial measurement system wants their head examining.

 

But in the case of Chris, his head has been examined - extensively - and in a result that continues to baffle medical science, nothing has yet been found to exist there. :(

 

I wish to complain to a moderator about this post. OH.....` :D

 

I just find metric too complicated. Say my GP tells me I'm so many stone and need to lose weight I understand that but if she says the equivalent in kilos I haven't a clue how many stones that is. :(

Do you need to know though Chris? Just set your scales to kilograms…

Chris you’re the absolute dying breed of people that still use imperial measures. No one under 60 learned how to use them in school and the metric system has always made more sense. My parents who are stubborn about everything and are only a year or two older than you think shifting back to imperial measures is a ridiculous idea because most of the population going forward never used them.

 

However, I usually weigh myself in stones and pounds but that’s a habit I got into from my parents.

A Tory Police and Crime Commissioner has said that Sarah Everard should not have submitted to being falsely arrested by Wayne Couzens. In other words, he thinks it is her fault that she was murdered.

In an interview with the BBC, Johnson has dismissed questions about life expectancy and cancer survival rates (in the context of his "levelling up" slogan) by saying "Look at wage growth". Naturally, he failed to mention the excuse used to suspend the triple lock on pensions - the fact that wage growth is artificially inflated by the comparison with a period when millions of people were on furlough. such is the man's arrogance that he feels able to say quite openly that money is more important than people's lives.

So Boris' compensation for us living shorter lives is that wages are increasing, albeit in a highly inflationary environment where council tax, fuel, energy and food prices are also increasing by more.

 

'You've never had it so barely adequate'

There's been talks that they're going to lower the earning threshold that you start paying back your uni tuition loan. Another way to f*** the young over with what is essentially a 9% tax. The proposal is bringing it down to £23,000, or even as low as £20,000, from the current £27,235. It would mean a lot of graduates (past and present) would find themselves worse off by hundreds of pounds a year.

 

 

There's been talks that they're going to lower the earning threshold that you start paying back your uni tuition loan. Another way to f*** the young over with what is essentially a 9% tax. The proposal is bringing it down to £23,000, or even as low as £20,000, from the current £27,235. It would mean a lot of graduates (past and present) would find themselves worse off by hundreds of pounds a year.

 

Yeah I saw this - I didn't know they could keep changing the thresholds as easy as they can do. I mean I disagree with saying it is a 9% tax as when we all sign up for student finance we all know we have to pay it back. The cost, of course is astronomical in terms of value for money. I'd support it being lowered to £25,000 if they needed the cash, but that was part of the sell of the £9,000 tuition fees is that loads of people would take a long time to start paying it back never mind paying it back in full!

Yeah I saw this - I didn't know they could keep changing the thresholds as easy as they can do. I mean I disagree with saying it is a 9% tax as when we all sign up for student finance we all know we have to pay it back. The cost, of course is astronomical in terms of value for money. I'd support it being lowered to £25,000 if they needed the cash, but that was part of the sell of the £9,000 tuition fees is that loads of people would take a long time to start paying it back never mind paying it back in full!

 

For the average student, who will never pay it back, it is essentially an extra tax.

 

The interest rates regarding the tuition loans are ludicrous really, especially when you consider the BOE rates being 0.1%.

 

At a time when a lot of young people are feeling hard done by/struggling for money, they add this on top of it. It will apparantley save them £2 billion a year, but they are more than ready to throw away over 10 times that amount in contracts for their mates.