MonsterMonster
@MonsterMonster@lemmy.world
- Comment on Nationwide to launch mortgages at six times' income for first-time buyers 4 days ago:
It’s a shame wages weren’t keeping pace.
- Submitted 4 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 8 comments
- Comment on Internet replaces TV as UK’s most popular news source for first time 2 weeks ago:
It’s very rare that we watch broadcast TV or record anything to a PVR. It’s all streaming on Netflix/Amazon to TV or on my phone. Haven’t watched TV in the conventional sense for some years now.
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- Comment on Fish and chips price rise tops UK takeaways 4 weeks ago:
Chip shops will go the same way as pubs.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 15 comments
- Comment on Mike Lynch's co-defendant in US trial dies in UK road accident, lawyer says 5 weeks ago:
I think this story will be around for a while.
- Comment on Britain’s nuclear submarine software built by Belarusian engineers 1 month ago:
Mmm Gerhard Schroeder and Russia rings a bell …
Why Gerhard Schröder won’t unfriend Vladimir Putin.
Putin’s pal Gerhard Schröder won’t be kicked out of Germany’s Social Democrats
- Comment on Britain’s nuclear submarine software built by Belarusian engineers 1 month ago:
You couldn’t make this stuff up.
- Comment on 'Lightning speed' broadband for rural areas 1 month ago:
I’ve heard these grandiose announcements over the last 15 years where it is already known that rural areas have rubbish broadband. Plans were announced, huge amounts of money were given to telcos , usually BT, and nothing happens in the rural areas but towns and cities get super fast fibre.
The telcos do not want to upgrade Comms infrastructure in rural areas as they are invariably sparsely populated so the profits don’t exist. But they’re happy to take the tax-payers money though.
With the onset of mobile phones, wired/fibre solutions become increasingly expensive and less likely in such areas and we’re still waiting for a decent signal.
And so it goes on.
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- Comment on Two in five not saving enough in pension for even basic retirement 2 months ago:
This shouldn’t come as any surprise as many people can’t afford basic day to day living costs because of low wages and reduced employee security.
- Comment on Two in five not saving enough in pension for even basic retirement 2 months ago:
An investment savings fund built up over ones working life to provide an income in retirement.
- Comment on Ofcom to ban inflation-linked mid-contract price rises on phones, pay-TV and broadband 2 months ago:
I took things into my own hands. Once my 12 months SIM only contract was up almost two years ago I moved over to a rolling 30-day. I will not go back to the big players on anything more than 30 days. Fuck the greedy bastards.
- Comment on Water bills set to rise by between X and X 2 months ago:
Mmm earlier it said £94, the extracted body text said “X to X” and now it’s £19.
- Submitted 2 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 8 comments
- Comment on Does anyone else find that 4G+ on O2 is awful? 4 months ago:
I found them to be total rubbish in my area and was tied in for 12 months. But someone else in another area will find them brilliant. The only provider that I found having the best decent consistency was EE. But I refuse to go into a 12month+ contract with these new rip off mid term price increases.
- Comment on Disability benefit claims can’t be made on ‘unverifiable assertions’, argues Sunak 4 months ago:
Nasty Party targets the poor and vulnerable again. It’s a shame that they don’t show the same efforts in going after the corporates avoiding tax.
- Comment on People with depression or anxiety could lose sickness benefits, says UK minister 4 months ago:
There’s a race to the bottom and the Nasty Party is right out in front.
- Comment on People with depression or anxiety could lose sickness benefits, says UK minister 4 months ago:
Typical Tory strategy straight from their pander-to-the-right-wing-playbook.
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- Comment on Rishi Sunak facing Tory revolt over plan to criminalise rough sleeping 5 months ago:
Hang on, if they continue to privatise prisons so that the incarcerated are forever in debt for their keep and also provide a cheap labour force for more private companies then surely it’s a win-win for this government.
They maybe a ruthless, incompetent bunch of bastards but they won’t miss a business opportunity!
Time to get rid.
- Comment on Rishi Sunak facing Tory revolt over plan to criminalise rough sleeping 5 months ago:
I thought Cruella Braverman was no longer in the cabinet.
Seriously, these Tories seem to think that leadership is about being cruel and heartless bullies.
Long over due to get rid.
- Comment on Thames Water ‘blackmailing’ customers as firm reveals £500m funding gap, GMB says 5 months ago:
Thames Water is everything that is wrong with privatisation.
- Comment on Minimum wage is UK’s ‘most successful economic policy in a generation’ 5 months ago:
On one hand this is good news. On the other hand it represents a problem whereby employers exploit workers via low pay and causes low productivity.
That problem isn’t going away too soon unless employers change their stance in paying better wages to get better productivity.
As the saying goes “minimum wage, minimum effort” unfortunately.
Here’s an article via the LSE on low wage and productivity.
- Comment on Brexit’s Lasting Damage Is Looking Inescapable 6 months ago:
Here you go…
- Comment on Brexit’s Lasting Damage Is Looking Inescapable 6 months ago:
Don’t forget that London on the whole voted to remain.