22 million people in the UK receive benefits. At some point we are better off moving to a UBI system.

Benefits that disappear when you start work just disincentivise work. The system needs a change and doesn’t seem to be working. Need something like tax breaks for businesses in areas with high unemployment. Or business that want to hire cheap exploited immigrants should be encouraged to first expand to areas that need jobs.

Britain sold it’s empire and everything in it for cheap to the Americans all the while american manufacturing grew while Europe got destroyed.

WW2 was the best thing that ever happen to the Americans.

That’s not how air to air heat pumps work.

I don’t see how and air to air heat pump wouldn’t work.

Insulation needs to be solved yes. But if you heating your house with gas verse electricity if the output is the same then the result is the same.

Having lived in Australia and New Zealand and spent time in Chicago. British houses are horseshit.

Don’t even need heating in standard UK temps if the building is insulated. Air to air heat pumps are amazing, induction is amazing, no issues with electric water heaters.

Living in fucking 1975. But everyone’s ideal is trying to upgrade to a 1850 wood burning stove. Buy a fucking heat pump and some insulation.

The market will built it normally, the government doesn’t allow them to.

If you really want to incentive building then you need a land value tax.

Need a Land value tax and the ability to build medium/high density housing.

Can’t even get a carbon tax in place even though economist say it could be the quickest way to reduce CO2.

The level of effort people are willing to put in is mentioning that 100 companies are responsible for 80% of emission or something. “Yea they make oil! You buy it and burn it. That’s where the CO2 comes from. Will you stop? Maybe take the bus or stop eating meat.”

“Oh no. Absolutely not.”

I agree with most of what you said. But the right won’t get in again unless they toughen up on immigration. The far right or the left will get in and the left know people want lowered immigration.

I’m never voting labour, I never have and I never will unless they try to get rid of FPTP. They are going to win anyway so my vote does nothing.

I’m sad to see that you’ve been convinced that we would ever be allowed to work less, under right wing governments.

I don’t think we will. But I love this country and I’m willing to make sacrifices, if I need to work 6 days a week to keep immigration down that’s a tradeoff I’m happy to accept. But again. I don’t represent 20 million votes. Me voting labour or reform isn’t going to get either party in power/ keep them out.

If its fun or get rich quick. Gambling.

If it’s some boring thing some adviser told you that you are sick of, that you then told your family and they are sick of it. You just going to leave it and forget about it. Then it’s investing.

Shit. Even with staying in shape?

Is this just what the 30’s are like for everyone?

If they capped the points based system them might get my vote. But points based system doesn’t necessarily mean a drop in immigration.

I think I said I believe in economic left wing ideas I actually wrote some out here.

https://lemm.ee/comment/12515389

But for the benefit of the country, and the workers long term. Immigration trumps all my economic views, they can wait. Immigration down now, then left wing policies later.

Actually countries that have more equality or have increased their equality over time shows that there is an increase in gender divide through certain jobs.

So no it isn’t 50:50.

You’re an idiot. Every single person gets a fair 10% chance.

Just because 1 woman wants to be an engineer and 10 men do doesn’t mean the woman is 10 times better than men. Or that she should be 10 times as likely to get a job just for being a woman. It should me she gets equal opportunity as men. If you only hire a woman because she is a woman that’s not equality.

It never goes the other way around. Do you think we should we only hire male teachers and male nursery staff and male nurses because they are under represented?

you need to hire a higher number of women / Black people / handicapped people to catch up

Thus reads like diversity hire.

Look we both agree give everyone the sane opportunity, education houses etc.

But you get a company like this 100 people. Over 30’s: male 80:20 female

So you get 10 new entry level openings, applications male 70:30 female. There a load of shit going on here, but to make it simple we both agree women have previously been under represented (let’s ignore children and whatever).

There are some people who say we are going to have an intake of under 30’s so because the workforce isn’t 50:50 male to female we should ideally hire only women until we get it to 50:50.

So now you hire 10 women and have a workforce of male 80:30 women. Right?

That’s not fair. Even hiring 50% women isn’t fair. Everyone should have equal opportunity, thats thr only way it is fair. It should be 7 men 3 women, on average.

Discriminating against men now doesn’t stop women in the past being discriminated against it just adds to the amount of people discriminated against. There is no other way to treat people than fairly.

Take names off then.

Hiring unevenly now to make up for things in the past just makes inequality now. It doesn’t solve any inequality of the past.

So you’re saying to start a new system where you only hire non white/ non males. Suddenly you have a whole generation of young men/ young whites being passed over for positions just because they are white/ male. So what happens the next generation? You only hire white males because they were past over in the last generation.

No mention of hiring based on lower income. No you are doing it based on race. So rich black people get a huge benefit over poor white people who never had any opportunities and currently don’t but, fuck them right, they are white. They shouldn’t feel hard done by that they are poor have no opportunities in life because hey that CEO is an old white guy.

This is why it’s stupid you are actively disenfranchising people. Sure people got mistreated in the past but misreading people now isn’t going to make them be not mistreated. It just means twice as many people have been mistreated.

Obviously if you need some disability then that’s going to be an exception to the rule.

But when someone says “We need more women in the workforce so let’s only hire women. Men need not apply” that’s not equality. If we said “This person worse at the job but he’s black so we will make the enter easier for him because he can’t compete with white people.” That’s not equality.

Yes. Lots of people leave their country, burn their passport then hop the border. I think people should make their own country better, if they want to move to another country they need to contribute more than the average person and be a better citizen (including culturally) than the average local.

My country tried real hard to build up other countries and make the most of them. Now they are on their own.

At lot of left leaning parties historically have been the most against immigration also, but I’m voting right now.

I do think the left really fuck up with how they think the government should control a lot of the market. The government waste money horrifically.

Everyone on this website seems to think I’m die hard right winger.

I’m not against immigration overall (I’m for it in many ways) I’m just strongly against how immigration is being used currently.