mikegday
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The Norwegians have got it spot on. Sunny and warm when we're bimbling around without any real purpose and then cooler and sheltered from the sun when we're busy packing in the bands.
bloody perfecto!!
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The BBC week ahead report late last night didn't make for pleasant viewing.
He seemed almost certain of a breakdown in the weather next week and appeared to be torn as to wether it would come up from the south (thundery) or from the Atlantic (thundery) - personally doesn't seem to be a lot you can get torn over, storms are almost definitely on the cards I'd say. I wouldn't be surprised if we get 2014 like conditions. Won't stop us though, infact I quite like the community Glastonbury spirit that comes out in testing conditions (trying to do some wierd reverse psychology on the weather gods)
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58 minutes ago, Newtoit said:
I really don't understand why they send them out so late, it's not as if they've had 8 months to get them ready...
I have to post one car parking pass on to the other half of our group who are now going in the day before us.
I know, silly really considering they know from May who's definitely attending. They've replied saying it was printed today and being posted tomorrow (pinch of salt I reckon) but hey ho, we're off to Glastonbury next week!!
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I just sent them a message on twitter but noticed my last message to them was from last year. 15th June 2016, I was chasing my worthy view parking pass from them then too. So sounds like it's just the norm.
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With UKIP dissapearing and not contesting the usual amount of seats, we ended up with effectively one party to the right of centre but a few left wing choices (Labour, Greens, Liberal Democrats, SNP, PC). A few seats would no longer be CON and would have helped establish a left wing alliance, without that fragmented vote, Amber Rudd, Zac Goldsmith, Telford, Southampton to name a few. FPTP is only suitable for 2 party politics and unless the left work together then I think it'll always be a uphill struggle. A real missed opportunity here I think to get a left alliance together. It's a matter of seats we're talking and Corbyn could have been PM, who knows if that opportunity will come again.
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A lot going on. But from them first 3 seats, remain seats are seeing a swing to LAB. Leave seats are seeing a equal swing to CON - but not enough to make it change. I'm trying to get my head around it but from what I can work out, it's looking similar to the last election, the swings don't seem to be enough to change anything.
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Just now, eFestivals said:
eh? That doesn't match the numbers you've given above it.
It doesn't?? What have I done wrong? I thought your majority was if every single other possible MP voted against you - there's 52 more CON MPs than the others combined. I didn't take out the speaker though.
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My prediction, based on nothing but averages of other people's polls and a few adjustments for my own personal gut feeling (basically total guess work because I'm bored at work)
CON 351
LAB 220
SNP 48
LIB DEM 9
PLAID 3
GREEN 1
UKIP 0
N IRELAND 18
Con Majority 52
I do hope Corbyn doesn't go anywhere if the above is anywhere near what happens. I think this constant stepping down if you fail has to stop, it stops people getting 'attached' to someone.
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so get this. I live in an apartment, they were unable to access the building to deliver the tickets or leave a missed delivery note (despite my regular postie doing a fine job of it daily) so both are in the warehouse. I'm not allowed to go and collect the tickets without the missed delivery note. I've got to wait for my regular postie to deliver the missed delivery note from the warehouse, so that I can then go and collect my tickets.
Clearly whoever thought of this process has never been waiting for Glastonbury tickets!
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You bought the campervan ticket in October? That'll come separately, same as worthy view car park.
Standard car park come now because they're purchased as the same time in April as ticket balance.
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Tickets despatched!! But will have to collect on Saturday no doubt.
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6 minutes ago, rzwodezwo said:
Can we sort the Clashfinder by stage size (or area for the smaller stages)? It's hard to compare stuff when the main stages are so spread out.
Ye, click the little cog 'settings' icon. From there its pretty easy to just unselect all stages and then tick the ones you want.
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7 minutes ago, arcade fireman said:
How much more % would you like someone on 20k to earn? We know those on the lowest incomes have suffered the most during the last few years. We know those on low and middle incomes are the ones who are just about managing. There's plenty of reports of middle income workers (e.g. nurses) using food banks.
How much more do you think they should contribute relative to those earning over 80k?
I'm a pretty strong Corbyn critic, but I can't argue with the principle of what he's doing here.
I couldn't possible put a figure on it, but I will promise a full consultation process and green paper before I determine the level.
I jest. Well if you look at it those earning £10,000 have gone from paying about 10% in 2005, to paying no income tax at all today. I'd raise the tax free threshold higher to say about £13k and then increase the % across every bracket, progressively obviously. I don't know by how much, I'm not an economist.
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1 minute ago, arcade fireman said:
So rather than those on £90k paying £500/year more, you'd rather have people struggling financially already paying £300/year more for example? Just so those on higher incomes can save a small amount?
I don't want the richest to save anything. Your completely misrepresenting my point. Tax the richest more of course, more than Corbyn is proposing for all I care. But also add a few % onto the lower brackets. Imagine then what we can achieve. My point is that he's making promises, whilst promising 95% of people won't have to pay. It's wrong. It's why his manifesto is so popular, probably with the 95% who won't have to pay anymore. But it's also the reason it turns me off, I want something that can be realistically achieved.
I want everyone to chip in more, so we can all get more in return. Don't misrepresent my point.
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6 minutes ago, arcade fireman said:
You don't understand the point of progressive taxation do you? Under your logic we would be having a flat tax for everyone as surely everyone should pay the same amount?
Our public services are in crisis. Clearly the fact you think everyone needs to pay a little more means you think they need investment too. Are you seriously suggesting someone on 19k should paying the same to plug that hole as someone on 90k?
Just to let you know - someone on 90k would see their annual tax bill increase by £500/year. It's hardly onerous.
I'm currently a fair way off that tax bracket but will probably exceed from next tax year. I don't mind paying a bit more.
I do understand progressive taxation. Where did I say everyone should pay the same tax? I said everyone realistically needs to pay more? Including me. But Corbyn isn't proposing that.
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1 minute ago, Mr.Tease said:
A lot more actually, money bags! I'm atrocious at making money!
I have one part time job 2 days a week working for a third sector organisation, which is £700 a month, and then I have two other jobs which are basically zero hour contracts (if I don't have clients or if they cancel or DNA, I get nothing!). Some months I make a lot more, but I doubt I'll get to £19,000 this year (I've never made that much in my life!)
You're the one who said we're all too selfish, so I presumed you were including yourself? Tax rrises and redundancy is coming under the tories, I'm not sure why youre giving them the benefit of the doubt.
And honestly when they crash out of brexit without a deal (their hardliners approach will backfire spectacularly), all our jobs will get very shaky very quickly.
I think it's because I look to Greece for example. Who have a hard left PM, massive amounts of debt and an unemployment rate of 25%. I work with a couple of young Greek lads who say they simply can't get a job in Greece. I don't want that at all for the UK. For me, Corbyn will become more electable if he told us how we'd all be paying for the future he promises. I don't want us to go into further debt (we spend enough servicing our current levels) and with all the cuts Tory's still can't stop borrowing - so in my head I think if we can't stop borrowing now, how can we pay for everything he promises, whilst he promises not to make 95% of us pay.
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Just now, arcade fireman said:
Oh dear. Tories always make this argument and it's always just as stupid the last time.
I personally wouldn't be happy to do this on an individual level because just my contribution would mean I'd be poorer but yet it would have no effect on public services if it was only me doing it.
Whereas if it's done by way of the government organising it through increased taxes it means yes I do lose a the same amount of money but public services do improve.
And the figure isn't 15%. It's 5% on amounts over 80k.
^ my point. It's very easy to be well liked if you're promising not to take 95% of people. It's ridiculous. We're not stupid here. If everyone wants some real change, we all have to start realising we ALL have to pay more. Like I've posted I'm no where near earning 80k, but I'm not as naive to think that we can go on a witch hunt of those who do to pay for the other 95% of us. Utter bollocks.
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2 minutes ago, Mr.Tease said:
Speak for your own selfish self. We all took a 10% pay cut at work last tory government to stop another worker from getting made redundant. NHS workers have all had a pay freeze for years to foot the bill for a bankers induced crisis.
I earn £19,700. Is that more or less than you? My own selfish self? I'm hardly rolling in cash mate, home ownership is a fantasy in my position. Like I say I've been a supporter of Labour in other elections. If we're to get anywhere we need to stop bashing each other. I have a genuine fear that Corbyn is promising the world, whilst promising only 5% will have to pay for it. Can you at least stop for a second and acknowledge that?
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3 minutes ago, Spindles said:
The repeating of the mantra of "Strong and Stable" seems somewhat weak when they can't even stick to a policy pledge for a week without a U-Turn. As for trusting her to negotiate Brexit the same applies: No deal is better than a bad deal...this week. Until someone suggests otherwise then a bad deal is probably better than no deal, right?
We didn't need an election, we'd been told we wouldn't have an election, the only reason for this election was that they believed that Labour's support had fallen so low that they could capitalise on that and entrench their position with a guaranteed larger majority if they called one now. I bet they wish they could U-turn on that as well now.
And what was the reason for the U-turn? Because people thought 'oh s**t! I'm going to have to pay for this'
My point really is falling on deaf ears here.
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3 minutes ago, Mardy said:
Please don't ascribe your morals and motives to everyone else. Some of us value other things, not just the grasping pursuit of our individual finances.
Neither do I. Heck I have no bloody money!! But I'm not so daft as to believe that I won't have to contribute more. I've said this earlier in the thread, if Corbyn came out and was honest with everyone and said right if you want all these things, then we're all going to have to chip in more - then he'd have my vote hands down. But he isn't. He's promising people only the top 5% will fund all this. It's absurd. I'm also in a fight constantly to stop my job going overseas, I was made redundant last year due to it. I worry that by increasing company tax and raising the minimum wage to £10 it will speed up that process even faster than it is already going. After all I'd rated a job that pays me £9 an hour, than no job that doesn't pay me £10 an hour.
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9 minutes ago, Spindles said:
The thing that struck me about May's performance last night was that it appears that almost nothing in the Tory manifesto has any substance to it. When questioned almost every response was that nothing had been decided and after the election there would be consultation about what was required for every policy she was asked about. How many coppers? Consultation coming after the election. What cap on social care? Consultation coming after the election. What immigration measures? Consultation after the election. NHS funding? You get the picture.
The question is, what actually HAVE they decided on? In the best part of 12 months since Brexit we've been at a political standstill, the job of government has been almost on hold while we worry about the outcome of leaving Europe and she isn't offering anything in the manifesto apart from the world's cheapest breakfasts and bloodsport for all.
Regardless of your thoughts on politics of left or right, May's government is a rudderless ship being dragged on the tide of public opinion which will give the appearance of heading in whichever direction is most popular this week without ever really getting anywhere.
vs. Corbyn's tactic which is to make out that 95% won't pay. That's why his manifesto has been so well received! Because most people are being told they won't have to pay for it!
The times May has back tracked the most (self employed tax, 'dementia tax', 'winter fuel allowance) has been the times she starts saying who will have to pay for it. That's when public opinion goes against her, again because no one wants to pay for it. It's much easier to be voted in by not saying who will pay for it all OR as is Corbyn's way, saying 95% of the country won't pay for it.
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10 minutes ago, Mardy said:
Yeah, disgusting. @russycarps, you should be ashamed of yourself. Disgusting. Not like cutting school meals for kids, decimating social care, presiding over the huge growth of food banks, splitting families up even if they're married, bringing back fox hunting. Why can't you be more noble like that, Russy?
You could always ask your employer to take a 15% cut out of your wage and direct it to your nearest school or neighbour? If everyone done that then we wouldn't even be having this debate. But I suspect everyone won't, why? Again, everyone wants someone else to foot the bill.
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21 minutes ago, babyblade41 said:
really and you wonder why I vote tory , I'm sure Mr Eavis and co couldn't care less what I vote when I'm paying for my ticket...if that was the case instead of a photograph he'd want my Labour Party membership card instead....
Sometimes I do wonder about people and their thought process
Tbh - I don't even think it's even about the ££. I'm sure he'd rather you come, get stuck in, have a ball and leave no trace, don't pee on the land etc.
What's being misrepresented here is that all Tory voters care about is number 1. You can have selfish right and left wing voters and conversely you can have selfless right and left wing voters. Not all Labour supporters are voting that way out of their goodness of their heart, they're doing it because they believe THEY will be better off under Corbyn. Just look at last night for example, May was getting hounded over NHS funding. To then be hounded over her proposal to fund it. Everyone wants everything, at no expense to them. She was also getting pressured on the winter fuel allowance. Why? Because want to see if they'll be the ones who have to foot the bill - and if they would be, they'll vote the other way.
Corbyn is campaigning on the premise that the richest 5% will pay for everyone else - and obviously the remaining 95% are more than happy to vote for that. I do wonder what would happen if he was honest with the electorate and said we'd ALL have to pay a bit more.
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8 minutes ago, russycarps said:
who are you to tell him to stop posting? I'd much rather read his heartfelt ramblings than a single spiteful, hate-filled word from a Tory.
This election is a matter of life and death for thousands of people. It is absolutely sickening to see a vile Tory making jokes about the current situation, and on a Glastonbury forum of all places
Yes everyone is welcome at Glastonbury, but know that your political stance goes against everything the festival stands for and that you will be just a tourist and will never be a part of what makes the festival great.
And this is just my personal opinion: I sincerely hope you realise the festival is not the place for your sort and you never return.
I can't be bothered to get stuck back into this thread but have to say your post is disgusting.
HOLIDAY CANCELED 2 DAYS BEFORE!!!
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That's absolutely shit!! I'd personally refuse to accept that they cancelled the holiday request, I'd put it in writing that the notice is too short and that plans have been made. I'd express my intention of still going, so they can't say you went a stray without notice. Upon return I'd see if they either accept me back or if I've been fired. Either way I'd still be going.
Like you say life is too short, I work to live, not live to work. So without glastonbury, what's the point in going to work? I also understand though that I rent my flat and have no real commitments (kids or anything). So my actions would only really affect myself and my partner (luckily like you my partner would be fully supportive)
So basically, go, but tell them you're still going and accept any outcome on return.