Making the news today....

[Mark J]

 

[peds]

4 hours ago, sime42 said:

...the dangers of Populism. 

 

Pope-ulism. 

[Steven P]

On 09/05/2025 at 15:36, Mark J said:

 

 

For him and his German kids, open borders are a necessity. Hypocrisy of Brexit, all for it so long as his foreign family are OK to travel here.

 

 

 

 

His Reform councillors aren't doing so well just now, about half a dozen elected last week are either suspended, defected or left Reform.

[tree-fancier123]

1 - ok the super rich will try to avoid paying tax, but also they are not going to be scrounging benefits like illegal immigrants do

2 - Reform took more than 600 new council seats - if 6 have blown up, so what? Even a 10% attrition rate wouldn't matter

 

[AHPP]

The rich can be as bad dolescum as the poor. Poor people get universal credit. Rich people get land subsidies. It’s all scrounging. 

Edited May 10 by AHPP

[openspaceman]

On 09/05/2025 at 07:18, peds said:

Golf Course Living Linked To Higher Parkinson’s Risk?

WWW.PSYCHIATRIST.COM

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Incidental exposure to pesticides can elevate the risk of Parkinson’s disease for anyone living near a golf course.

 

People living within a mile of a golf course had more than twice the odds of Parkinson’s disease. The risk remained higher for people living up to three miles away but fades after that. Pesticides, including neurotoxins, used to keep fairways and greens well groomed, have been linked to Parkinson's.

 

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I am shocked!

 

 

It wouldn't surprise me, the thing is farmers target their use of approved pesticides in order to make a profit growing a crop, golf clubs require their workers to have grass monoculture and the men will apply an excessive amount to ensure that because they are answerable to the members. I have long felt golf courses are an an ecological disaster and have never like walking through them, which is a necessity round here  as many local farms diversified into golf clubs. including one I helped out on.

[tree-fancier123]

6 minutes ago, AHPP said:

The rich can be as bad dolescum as the poor. Poor people get universal credit. Rich people get land subsidies. It’s all scrounging. 

sure - there are rich who are milking the system, but a lot of those payments go to genuine farmers - you may resent that some rich people have a nice pad that would do you and for your yard - I know I do, but the scale of subsidies vs the scale of cost of dealing with migrants mean the illegal immigrants are what is ruining this country's finances

The UK government spends a significant amount on agricultural subsidies. In 2023, farmers received £2.953 billion in subsidies, and in 2022/23, spending on farm support in England was around £2.33 billion. This support includes various schemes like the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS), which provides delinked payments, and Environmental Land Management schemes (ELMs). The government also provides grants for tree planting and other environmental benefits. 

 

Home Office figures cited by the Financial Times in August last year showed that the annual asylum cost reached £3.96 billion in the year up to 2023—double that of the previous year and six times higher than 2018. Yet, despite that astronomical cost, we continue to increase handouts to France to stop the boats.

[AHPP]

Best stop paying them both to be on the safe side.

[Johnsond]

Gonna get a lot more expensive too, I wonder how many taxpayers that’s gonna take to keep it going. 

[AHPP]

For how long were you housed, fed and paid from taxtake in the army?