Morgan McSweeney gone - What Now For Number 10?

Monica over the last six months an increasing number of businesses are closing down in the nearby urban village. Due to
1. Increases in National Insurance
2. A triple increase in business rates on premises
3. Previously free parking no longer available. So much smaller footfall.
A combination of the wisdom of local and state governments resulting in ghost towns.
Take a tally of the number of vacant buildings- previously thriving hairdressers, wool and haberdashery shop, kitchen and furniture shop etc. Left with restaurants and one pub, two pharmacies, one barber, flooring company, one florist and one dry cleaner. For how much longer will small businesses be allowed to remain under Reeves?

I didnt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you look back at 8.04am I merely asked the quetion.

A reasonable one I would have thought!!!!! Not that difficult a concept to come up with all by one's self I would have thought??!!

I have never seen it mentioned anywhere

Then how did you know about it fancythat?

I cant understand how Rachel Reeves, as Chancellor, is not being blamed for her incompetence. So many u turns because she hasn't thought through her policies or listen to back benchers before implementation. Starmer's popularity went down because of her policies.

Starmer and his government have brought this country to its knees. They show no sign of looking after its hardworking population instead putting more taxes on us. It’s a disgrace. What choice do we have but to vote for a new government. So far they have mostly gotten things wrong. They can’t seem to manage their own affairs never mind the country’s. What a mess.

DaisyAnneReturns

ronib

Will a change of government be enough to stop the decline in local urban village life? Wouldn’t it be so fantastic if for once the UK began to thrive rather than dive?

Is any government to blame for the "decline in local urban village life"? I know of no proof that it is. Add the FACT that the depopulation of villages or their absorption into sprawling industrial centres started during the Industrial Revolution, and I have to wonder how any recent government can be blamed.

I am not sure there has been any decline in local urban village life. If you mean that most village dwellers work elsewhere, that is because if the only occupants of village houses were those working in agriculture, then most of our villages would be derelict.

Technology means that the number of people working in agriculture has declined and those working in offices, and now, also from home has grown enormously. Why should they not live in villages, I have spent the last 30 years living in a village and it was a lovely sociable place, we all greeted people in the street, had a lot of different activity groups. Because the new houses that were built attracted young families, we also still had a school and a village shop and post office and being on a busroute between local towns and the railway station, we had plenty of public transport.

ronib

Will a change of government be enough to stop the decline in local urban village life? Wouldn’t it be so fantastic if for once the UK began to thrive rather than dive?

Is any government to blame for the "decline in local urban village life"? I know of no proof that it is. Add the FACT that the depopulation of villages or their absorption into sprawling industrial centres started during the Industrial Revolution, and I have to wonder how any recent government can be blamed.

MaizieD

petra

MaizieD
Thank you for the explanation Re money and how it works.
As someone who is practically innumerate ( but I know how many beans make 5) 😉 I found it perfectly understandable.
That’s how it should be taught in schools.
But having said that, I don’t think our masters want us to understand, after all, knowledge is power.

I have never thanked you, petra for drawing attention the Spiders Web documentary a while ago. I had watched it when it was first broadcast but it had slipped out of my memory.

I think the thing which needs really understanding is that the wealthy and excessively wealthy have been allowed to appropriate so much of the money which governments put into their national economies and use it mostly for their own benefit and to satisfy their lust for wealth and the power it gives them to manipulate governments. The Epstein papers are so openly displaying how they operate and the horrible use they make of of their wealth, both in their exploitation of the poor and their overt wish to destroy democracy.

DAR's thread on the psychology of the wealthy is really interesting, but what use is knowing what drives them if we ultimately condone the appropriation by admiring them and aspiring to be like them and being conned into believing that they are indispensable ' to us because 'they create jobs'?

Attempting to promote a more equitable distribution of wealth is frequently derided as 'the politics of envy'. I'd say it's the politics of frustration that the money which could benefit millions of people world wide is being hoarded and squandered by a few in such a despicable fashion while so many live precarious live, even die, for lack of what should be a public good.

Everyone interested in politics and money should watch The Spiders Web
I often ponder as to how many people understand how big a billion is. For those who don’t this will tell you. I’m sure you want to know😂
1 million seconds = about 11 days
1billion seconds = about 31 years
If you saved £2,739.00 per day it would take you a year to save a million
To save a billion you would have to save that amount per day for 1 thousand years
That’s how obscene the wealth is that some people have.

If only!

DaisyAnneReturns

^They follow the law.^
The law gets changed daily.
fancythat Tue 10-Feb-26 12:35:30

This sounds like implying illegality without actually identifying a law. In a democracy, legality isn’t a matter of personal belief, it depends on specific statutes.

Cant be bothered to reply to you again.

When people[not just you] start to think they know what is in someone elses' mindp[and they are so far off it is ridiculous], time to quit!!

Will a change of government be enough to stop the decline in local urban village life? Wouldn’t it be so fantastic if for once the UK began to thrive rather than dive?

They follow the law.
The law gets changed daily.
fancythat Tue 10-Feb-26 12:35:30

This sounds like implying illegality without actually identifying a law. In a democracy, legality isn’t a matter of personal belief, it depends on specific statutes.

Ladyleftfieldlover

Why do I get the impression that some on these Boards are waiting gleefully for the government to come crashing down? Be careful what you wish for.

Yes! It WILL be gleeful - bring it on!!!!!!

And other, life changing things happening.

MaizieD

fancythat

I think you’ve picked up something from the media

Never knew it was in the media.
That is interesting, that it is in there.
Hmm.

So where are you picking it up from. Is it just floating around in the ether?

The MSM have been pushing the cancellation of some council elections this May as a huge black mark against Labour. I have no doubt that GBNews has been pushing it as well.

What a coincidence that you just happen to have, completely independently, thought of it...

I have never seen it mentioned anywhere.

Quite frankly, lateyl especially, I get most of my news from gransnetters!
Not seen it mentioned on here.
But I dont follow alln&p threads or any of them, all of the time.

Quite frankly, though you dont need to know, there has been a death in the family.
And a baby expected.
As is quite usual in my life. Lately.

DaisyAnneReturns

fancythat

DaisyAnneReturns

I no longer trust the law, ... ... fancythat Tue 10-Feb-26 10:32:52

Neither does Trump if it doesn't suit him

Oh I obey the law.

But have become more and more aware, how, lets say, flexible it can be for some.
Legal loopholes abound,

But you don't recognise that the councils are?

They follow the law.
The law gets changed daily.

fancythat

^I think you’ve picked up something from the media ^

Never knew it was in the media.
That is interesting, that it is in there.
Hmm.

So where are you picking it up from. Is it just floating around in the ether?

The MSM have been pushing the cancellation of some council elections this May as a huge black mark against Labour. I have no doubt that GBNews has been pushing it as well.

What a coincidence that you just happen to have, completely independently, thought of it...

fancythat

DaisyAnneReturns

I no longer trust the law, ... ... fancythat Tue 10-Feb-26 10:32:52

Neither does Trump if it doesn't suit him

Oh I obey the law.

But have become more and more aware, how, lets say, flexible it can be for some.
Legal loopholes abound,

But you don't recognise that the councils are?

In rl, I am involved with a sol iciotr about something.
I had to ring around a few.

One of them, had, as it's phone message "if you have 12 points on your licence, let's see if we can do something about that", or some such thing.

Thankfully, what I needed to do, didnt end up involving that particular solicitor's office.
If it did, I wouldnt have trusted it literally 1 inch.

DaisyAnneReturns

^I no longer trust the law, ... ...^ fancythat Tue 10-Feb-26 10:32:52

Neither does Trump if it doesn't suit him

Oh I obey the law.

But have become more and more aware, how, lets say, flexible it can be for some.
Legal loopholes abound,

I think you’ve picked up something from the media

Never knew it was in the media.
That is interesting, that it is in there.
Hmm.

I no longer trust the law, ... ... fancythat Tue 10-Feb-26 10:32:52

Neither does Trump if it doesn't suit him

I was trying to give you the facts so you could draw your own conclusions, from relatable sources. I’m not interested in a drama discussion, just in solid information. I think you’ve picked up something from the media and are running with it, I don’t think the facts bear out whatever it is you have read. Bear in mind that only a proportion of all councils have elections planned anyway this year, as it’s on a rolling election cycle, and only those who are planned to merge could opt out.

Is it a conspiracy theory? I have no idea.

But that answer, along with "look over there", dont "look over here"
and with insults thrown in sometimes[not meaning you necessarily[i make it a plan of mine not to know and remember who sometimes]]

are all par for the course to put people off carrying on looking for something.

Just looking at a LA answer, in this scenario, is hardly looking at everything there is[not that anyone has time to do that unless it is their job].

fancythat

Casdon

fancythat

We are not a kangaroo state, they won’t be cancelled.

But you have not answered my question[8.40 about legality of doing so]..
Therefore I have to presume you dont know.

It’s so easy to look and find out fancythat. I wasn’t avoiding your question, but I am wondering why you didn’t do that?
mhclgmedia.blog.gov.uk/2026/01/20/inaccurate-reporting-about-local-election-high-court-ruling/

I no longer trust the law, as in, there are so many loopholes, that it would be me wasting my time. I never waste time if I can help it.

Neither of us is a lawyer I presume. Let alone know all loopholes regarding this question. I am presuming.

I think you’re buying into conspiracy theories fancythat. I’ve given you the position as it is understood by the Local Authorities themselves, who will be running the show. You can choose not to believe that if you wish, obviously - there are still people who believe the world is flat, after all.