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It's literally there in black and white: They had a surplus in '97? :confused:

Doesn't matter where it started. Most financial crises are international in origin. Fact is the failed to see it coming, and were running big deficits when it came. They inherited a surplus from the outgoing Conservative government too. You're right about the incompetence recently though.

We are on the verge of a once in a century technological breakthrough, and we're going to ruin it by obsessing over 'diversity'. The future is going to belong to the countries able to create the best AI, and this Gemini crap is categorically detrimental to the entire West in that regard.

Tip run. The ******** wouldn't take my old petrol though.

Actually it was the longest period of growth on record—problem is they overspent and caused a financial crisis, which crashed the economy and necessitated a bailout, which we're still recovering from nearly two decades later. I fail to see what new ideas they have that could potentially fix some...

Changes to Child Benefit are actually really welcome. Decent budget but they’re still going to be wiped out.

Now you're talking about GDP. We're talking about tax revenues. The UK was a net contributor to the EU budget, so we've saved that money by leaving the EU. If the UK being in the EU was a massive benefit for the UK economy then you could potentially recoup the costs via the added revenue from...

One out of three. That's poor. Brexit has barely had any effect one way or the other, and austerity was the solution to a debt problem (caused by the previous Labour government and the financial crisis), not a cause. The UK was already in debt, and had a big deficit, pre-financial crisis anyway...

The NHS is crap, as anyone who’s used it lately knows. One day it might click for you that the reason why it’s crap is because the concept is flawed. Especially if immigrants can also use the service freely from day one. But no, it’s easier to just say “hur dur, that’s racist!”

You can’t base policy on how long you think people should have to work. If you have a demographic problem and end up with a **** ton of old people, it’s a question of what you can afford. If taxes are at record highs and public services are crap, where’s the money going? Obviously it’s...

I think this gen of gaming is the worst in my lifetime. Can't tell you the last time a game blew me away.

Pension age should go up. We've got too many pensioners.

My council, Dudley, just started charging for green bin collection. *******!

The number one thing they need to fix is the marginal rates around 50k for parents.

Renewal prices are rarely great in my experience. I’ve never taken renewal price.

GT: Bungalows Playing Warzone 3. Add me if you're playing.

None of the rooms have pre-existing VM boxes unfortunately. Although VM apparently will move the box for a nominal fee of £25. I'm thinking my best bet is to move the box to the office, and a cable from there into the loft, coming back down near the bedroom at the back of the house where I need...

So basically I want to move our router from our living room to a room upstairs that I'm making into an office, and I want to also run a flat ethernet cable under the carpet from the new office to a bedroom on the other side of the house, so that that room also has a wired connection. What is the...

I’m thinking of buying one of these. The main use will be for a PS5, but it’s limited to 4:2:0 on that console because of HDMI bandwidth limitations. Will it make much difference? Kind of seems pointless getting HDMI 2.1 only to have this trade off.

I can see the point of an inspection, but the other stuff should be doable at home for the average consumer surely?