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[anewaname]

Look at the UK, we chronically underpay our medical staff (And it's seriously beginning to bite us in the arse) because a lot of medical staff are doing their overtime and underpaid work because they want to help. A bit like teachers, really. If you can exploit someone's secondary motivations to underpay them, they'll be underpaid.

Between the teachers and the medical staff, there are going to be some smart people. Give them a month to review the transaction history of any of those schools or hospitals and they'll find where the school or hospital is over-paying someone who isn't involved in the work. And the management of those places will never notice this because their management position depends on them keeping these expenses hidden.

[MorleyDev]

It'll also presumably be brought before the ECHR by the unions, since the ECHR has previously ruled on the right to strike being a fundamental one.

[Great Order]

Meanwhile, the UK treasury's refused to publish their economic forecast.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62970803

As you can see, the economy's expected to do so well that we feel no need to tell everyone how well it'll do. It certainly isn't to cover up any massive crashes, and it most definitely isn't because it'd show that Trussonomics are, in fact, a load of steaming dogshit, because we all know that trickle-down works, especially when led by people with the intelligence of a dry sponge.

[da_nang]

Rightwing/Far-right Fratelli d'Italia appears to be the biggest party in the Italian parliamentary snap election, according to exit polls, at around 25% give or take. The rightwing coalition appears to be the biggest as well, though possibly not the majority of votes.

Five-Star Movement may be kingmaker.

[scriver]

Meanwhile, the UK treasury's refused to publish their economic forecast.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62970803

As you can see, the economy's expected to do so well that we feel no need to tell everyone how well it'll do. It certainly isn't to cover up any massive crashes, and it most definitely isn't because it'd show that Trussonomics are, in fact, a load of steaming dogshit, because we all know that trickle-down works, especially when led by people with the intelligence of a dry sponge.

Is the UK prices much affected by leaving the EU? Prices are high all over Europe right now, even up here in Sweden where we have an energy surplus (because since we've connected our tris to Germany and the UK's we pay European prices).

[Great Order]

Trussonomics has crashed the pound to its lowest ever value. It dropped to near-parity with the dollar for a moment.

Tory MPs are fuming. Could Truss be the UK's shortest serving PM? Are we going to see a return of BoZo? Or are we going to get someone even worse again?

https://news.sky.com/story/cost-of-living-latest-chancellor-hints-at-further-tax-cuts-as-pound-falls-to-historic-low-12615118?postid=4532488#liveblog-body

[TD1]

Turns out HM Queen Elizabeth II was shoring up our currency 

[brewer bob]

Rightwing/Far-right Fratelli d'Italia appears to be the biggest party in the Italian parliamentary snap election, according to exit polls, at around 25% give or take. The rightwing coalition appears to be the biggest as well, though possibly not the majority of votes.

Five-Star Movement may be kingmaker.

Giorgia Meloni has caused some WTFs and laughs today with all the far-right/fascist hobbit camps and such:

In the late 1970s, the far right’s Tolkien-mania inspired the creation of “Hobbit Camps”, where fans of the author gathered for book readings, political debates and far-right rock concerts, in what some described as a “fascist Woodstock”.

The camps ended in 1981, when Meloni was just 4 years old. Just over a decade later, however, she attended a revival of the festivals, dubbed “Hobbit 93”, in Rome. There she sang along with the far-right band Compagnia dell’Anello (Fellowship of the Ring), whose song “Tomorrow Belongs to Us” was an anthem of MSI’s youth wing.

...reminded me of this video:

https://youtu.be/DKP16d_WdZM

[JoshuaFH]

Holy shit that's the worst take anyone could ever possibly make regarding LotR. The very last thing that happens in the trilogy is the hobbits fighting off fascism from the Shire. It takes some seriously delusional mental gymnastics to twist LotR into a far-right fantasy.

[dragdeler]

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[Il Palazzo]

Holy shit that's the worst take anyone could ever possibly make regarding LotR. The very last thing that happens in the trilogy is the hobbits fighting off fascism from the Shire. It takes some seriously delusional mental gymnastics to twist LotR into a far-right fantasy.

What are you talking about? The hobbits fight off immigrants to the Shire, who are of a different race and had destroyed their traditional way of life. And who makes everything right again? Veterans of a great war. You know. As in the target demographic of Fasci di Combattimento.
The hobbits were clearly speaking in Italian accent all this time, is what I'm saying.

[Kagus]

Orcs are obviously communist, as evidenced by their complete rejection of enforced social classes and strict hierarchical systems.

[dragdeler]

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[brewer bob]

It takes some seriously delusional mental gymnastics

That's pretty much the far-right in a nutshell.

[Great Order]

Continuing on my "Ignore the thread's current conversation and continue posting UK stuff"

Tory MPs are already pulling out knives, supposedly a number of them are filing motions of no-confidence. Also Labour's committed themselves to PR.