Since when have they ever been fucking “inflation-linked”??? Other than the inflation that affects yacht prices for their CEOs, these greedy fucks just want to nick whatever cash they can get and fuck the rest. Arseholes.

Reckon he’ll be the guy who buys the NHS next, or will that be some other wealth hoarding pre-corpse?

Fuck right off

Can we please just not be fucking ripped off for once? Can we have ONE thing that doesn’t extort us?

I bloody love a good night out, but I am really not a fan of being rinsed. I know it’s London prices and whatever, but the closest pub to me is £6.70 for a pint that isn’t Carling, and something nuts like £8 for a double voddy. Couple that with a pack of cigs (£15) and maybe a cheeky little kebab at the end of the night (£10) and you’re looking at an easy £75 - £100 for one fun night.

It’s rough, because I really do love to socialise. Nowadays I don’t drink or smoke for the first half of the year because they’re too expensive as habits. If I want to go out in the evening to wind down after work and catch up with friends, I don’t want to pay £20 to sit in the pub for an hour or two and then go home - but I can’t reasonably afford to do much more than that – so sod the whole thing.

obviously

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What a total shock! I really thought Rishi was being honest when he said Rosebank would benefit young people, and I’m even more stunned that the King’s Speech wasn’t totally accurate. Wow!

I guess, personally, I just feel like a lot of these incredibly rich and obviously out of touch old men are just totally irrelevant to normal daily life for most people. It’s pointless to publish news like this, because it’s just obviously meant to rile people up in some vague way and I guess somehow that generates money for the Guardian?

I just don’t understand why we have to hear about what these irrelevant, hopefully soon-departed losers think. Who cares?

Wow, what a surprise! Looking forward to those well-deserved consequences that he’ll definitely be facing 👍

I don’t disagree with you, and I’d find it hard to comment on exactly how the digital marketing arm of the BBC works when it comes to view counts and how it affects their content, cos I just don’t know. I was just clarifying for you what I thought OP meant.

I do agree that you’re not self-censoring by choosing to post things you think people will be interested in, though!

I think the gist is that OP feels like people visiting sites like BBC News are essentially providing the Marketing department at BBC News with view counts, which they’d use to help guide them on what to report on or suppress, and the visitors were incidentally fueling a sort of subtle censorship just by reading the news.

Although please feel free to correct me if I’m putting words in your mouth, OP!

There’s a few French models, from what I’ve heard

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The Tories wouldn’t know an honest day of hard work or “doing their duty” if it came and bribed them to their faces. Scumbags.

Every time one of them says or does pretty much anything, it makes me wonder how on Earth anybody votes for these soulless freaks and weirdos. Ah well, at least nobody who’s put their penis in a dead pig’s mouth is in charge of anything, right? That’d be fucking mental.

Is the new system “slip me a couple million quid and you can do whatever you want”? Because if it is, that’s just the old system again

Yeah it’s really unusual, I’ve heard nothing but horror stories about Evri, and obviously about Hermes before them! Hermes were terrible for me, but for some reason any parcel I have through Evri turns up on time, and the drivers have been relatively nice - both down in London, and up in the Midlands! I’m sorry you’ve had such a nightmare with them though, bad delivery services are absolutely infuriating!

nah I was just wondering lol

DPD and Evri have both been fairly reliable for me. I hope, given the conjoined past of the Royal Mail and the Post Office, that those two fairly reliable options don’t get completely Royal Mailed and stop working. Every time I see a delivery is being carried out by Royal Mail, I know it’s going to either be days late, or not show up at all until I wander down to the sorting office. They are completely useless – not that it’s the fault of posties, it’s (as almost always) the fault of the incompetent, cynical, money-hungry management tier. Filthy!

what’s with all the line breaks?