# In the news thread
**URL:** https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17
**Category:** General
**Created:** [March 4, 2019, 3:57pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17 "2019-03-04T15:57:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Mike](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Mike)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2024, 12:30pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/15228 "2024-02-27T12:30:31Z")
Missed it but the rest so far has been pretty sobering so far.
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### Author:  [@nazoreth](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/nazoreth)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2024, 12:33pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/15230 "2024-02-27T12:33:11Z")
Yeah listened to this live it was insane.
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### Author:  [@notactuallyhere](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/notactuallyhere)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2024, 12:54pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/15232 "2024-02-27T12:54:20Z")
I really wish there could be a platform the public can use to get all on the same page so we can all team up and refuse to pay all our spiralling bills until something changes.
Oh wait, we have many platforms but we’re all too stupid to see that they are dividing us with silly pointless mini class/race wars.
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### Author:  [@notactuallyhere](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/notactuallyhere)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2024, 1:25pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/15235 "2024-02-27T13:25:58Z")
Yeah totally but it’s gone too far now, same with the people in government, they are on a gravy train and gotten used to it, they won’t want to go back now. Too many people are on it and have lifestyles to upkeep.
I think it’s become the norm to take money through loopholes “why are the holes there if they are not meant to be used?” train of thought has been normalised and I think it can turn even the most moral of people if it’s readily available to do so.
Taking your cut starts to overpower your priorities of making sure your business is running as it should.
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### Author:  [@notactuallyhere](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/notactuallyhere)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2024, 1:30pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/15237 "2024-02-27T13:30:45Z")
Sorry, haha!
I think that’s why it needs someone to inspire a revolt of some sort. Who that might be, I don’t know. It’s a shame that Corbyn wasn’t able to rally in the way he needed, he was too easily spoken over. There is hope absolutely but the people benefitting won’t change out of the goodness of their heart.
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### Author:  [@deegwaad](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/deegwaad)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2024, 1:54pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/15238 "2024-02-27T13:54:44Z")
Our tax code should fit onto a few sides of A4. In reality, it’s over 21000 pages long
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### Author:  [@notactuallyhere](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/notactuallyhere)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2024, 2:08pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/15240 "2024-02-27T14:08:20Z")
No… that’s why I was sarcastic about a platform that the public can group on.
I feel like cancelling my energy and water bills sometimes but I know it wouldn’t have the desired effect. Be really fun if even 5% of the population did the same at the same time.
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### Author:  [@voodoo](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/voodoo)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2024, 2:08pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/15241 "2024-02-27T14:08:42Z")
Most tories are raised to believe they deserve the riches of the world and everyone else should be happy for what little they get. Not unlike the royals who actually believe they were picked by God to be so privileged. 20 out of 55 PM’s were Eton educated. Their motto is Floreat Etona (May Eton Flourish), which basically means ‘We look after our own’ …
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### Author:  [@voodoo](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/voodoo)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2024, 2:37pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/15242 "2024-02-27T14:37:21Z")
More fodder for WW3 not being that far away? A famously neutral country signing up to be part of Nato… they believe Russia isn’t going to leave neutral countries alone when it all kicks off.
> **[Hungary's parliament clears path for Sweden's Nato membership](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68405893.amp)**
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> Hungary ratifies Sweden's application to the military alliance after delaying its approval.
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### Author:  [@jimvo](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/jimvo)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2024, 3:02pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/15243 "2024-02-27T15:02:29Z")
Let me guess, Ofwat is made up of ex CEOs of the same industry… (i don’t actually know but it wouldn’t surprise me)
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### Author:  [@ihatethegeneralpublic](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/ihatethegeneralpublic)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2024, 3:08pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/15244 "2024-02-27T15:08:05Z")
> UK economy is dominated by monopolies/oligopolies - water, rail, mail, energy, banks, supermarkets - devoted to fleecing people.
Yep, all cartels.
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### Author:  [@markg](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/markg)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2024, 3:41pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/15245 "2024-02-27T15:41:52Z")
Just shut up, stop moaning and wait for it to trickle down you ungrateful bastards.
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### Author:  [@ihatethegeneralpublic](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/ihatethegeneralpublic)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2024, 5:10pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/15246 "2024-02-27T17:10:00Z")
> **[Crooked House: Owners of wonky pub ordered to rebuild](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-68414524)**
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> An enforcement order requires the building to be built back to what it was prior to the fire.
That went well!
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### Author:  [@markg](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/markg)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2024, 5:22pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/15247 "2024-02-27T17:22:50Z")
With the best will in the world that doesn’t seem very possible does it?
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### Author:  [@Les\_Zeppelin](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Les_Zeppelin)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2024, 7:04pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/15248 "2024-02-27T19:04:48Z")
> [@Barf](#):
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> It went on longer than this
Here it is
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n04VhuZgns)
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### Author:  [@Chopper](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Chopper)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2024, 11:37pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/15249 "2024-02-27T23:37:42Z")
Wow , that was quite something. JOB’s “show me the facts and evidence “ at its finest . It’s usually brexiteers who don’t last 3 minutes and hang up , the conservative chap just couldn’t let it go and what a mess he made .
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### Author:  [@jimvo](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/jimvo)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2024, 10:06am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/15251 "2024-02-28T10:06:29Z")
This must happen a lot, the arson I mean, an old pub I know conveniently burned down a couple of years ago and housing popped up in its place
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### Author:  [@ihatethegeneralpublic](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/ihatethegeneralpublic)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2024, 10:22am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/15252 "2024-02-28T10:22:22Z")
Oh yeah, it’s happens so much it may as well be legalised most of the time!
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### Author:  [@Mike](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Mike)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2024, 11:37am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/15253 "2024-02-28T11:37:02Z")
Yep, just after the lockdowns ended a hotel up the road from me burnt down and there are now 48 new homes being built on the site. It was a dodgy hotel I believe and no real reason to save it.
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### Author:  [@Les\_Zeppelin](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Les_Zeppelin)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2024, 12:18pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/15254 "2024-02-28T12:18:38Z")
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