You are addressing another issue. Complaining about government inefficient and corruption, especially that done by the tribe you disapprove of, is a routine.

It won't though make the cake any bigger, and if some are now only getting crumbs, we will need to make the slices taken by others a little smaller.

What I am addressing is whether and how we do that. Do people accept the need, or are going to demand their slice stays the same size? In which case, some will be eating only crumbs.

As we will now be spending a greater proportion of our income on energy and food, the amount of VAT raised will decrease. Energy attracts only 5% VAT, food nil. That alone means the tax take elsewhere must increase.

I cannot see any alternatives to tax hikes coming down the road later this year.

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Sunak has cancelled corporation tax increases and will not hear of wealth or windfall taxes, he has already hiked general taxation by record levels not seen since WW2.

He has no connection or understanding of normal people and lives in a world of tax breaks for his rich banker mates.

His tax rises are only making matters worse and he knows it, now he is stuck trying to repair the damage he has done by inflicting more.

But it is a doomed cycle of depressed incomes without the ability to pay or contribute, economies need stimulus not looking under the carpet for a 10p piece.

High prices rampant inflation are not caused by borrowing extra for covid, they are to pay for his and the tories world of being asset rich as an economy.

He even had to admit that brexit is harming trade (by 15%) it's even penetrating to him.

The Chiltern Hundreds for Sunak, or be exiled to Cornwall to join you WE, you would go well together.

The serial numbers on the rocket motor of the missile should be able to determine who inherited/built the rocket and fired it....well, in theory as you can never be certain.

Western journalists filmed the serial number of Tochka-U that exploded at the train station in Kramatorsk. According to Russia, the ownership of the missile belongs to Ukrainian Armed Forces.

This doesn't mean that it's correct because I have no way of verifying this and there is also the reality that munitions could have been taken or kept back....then again, survival of the rocket is unlikely.

Anyway I'll be interested to see how this is reported.

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'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

'Country who invaded and indiscriminately murdered civilians of a country they wish to claim as their own, deny responsibility for carnage caused' shocker.

Russian logic: "Russia invades Ukraine, so Ukraine bombs itself to make Russia look bad."

How much Kremlin propaganda has to be spouted, bombings witnessed and civilians slayed, before Russia stops being a 'trusted source'. It has consistently been their 'go to' to blame every single war crime (maternity hospital, bombed theatre with children inside, mass graves) committed on 'Ukraine attacking itself'. A false flag mantra. Attempts to relentlessly look for an Anti Ukraine angle are doing Putin's work for him, and overshadow unfounded claims of false flags, or instances of technical malfunction and the like.

The situation in Ukraine is abundantly clear, who the aggressor is, is abundantly clear. The aggression and slaying needs to stop, and only one country can make that call. It isn't Ukraine who apparently should be having their claims investigated in every instance, as if that's what the focus should be on right now. It's a Russian invasion of a neighbouring country, that would seem to be the pertinent fact and feed into what is occurring on the ground. Their country is literally being blown to pieces by a foreign invader. People should seek not to get caught in the weeds by those whose allegiance is certainly not to those around them or to the values of the West. There are intentional efforts to diminish support for Ukraine when they clearly very much need it.

Edited by BlueJay (09 Apr 2022 4.11pm)

Referring back to my post on the train station attack in Kramatorsk.

You would think that satellites are aimed over the conflict zones at this point. Are those satellites powerful enough to record missiles that enter airspace? If so they can plot their time, trajectory and path as it enters airspace, and so be able to track its original position back. Maybe that can only be done once the missile reaches a certain height and it can't be done with these smaller missiles.

Then again, you would think that with the number of drones in use that most missile activity would be recorded.

It would certainly resolve those situations.

However, you would have to rely upon the honesty of those in control of the information and they aren't going to release information that hurts their own narratives.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

I think you will find it's caused by the huge rises in the cost of energy, which is now exacerbated by Putin's war, as are the rises in food prices, which started with Brexit and made worse during Covid's impact on world trade.

I am not a fan of this government, but to believe our problems can be laid at the door of greedy bankers is clear and obvious nonsense.

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