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I don't think anyone is claiming that, merely that with inflation, it's a lot less money in real terms than it was when the thresholds were set. Back in 2010, 100k was a decent house in many places, not so much these days.

I'm not certain that aligns with history, BR made many strategic investments, had lots of innovative programmes, and also rationalised and cut many costs. More recently, many foreign state companies have won competative tenders to provide rail services here in the UK - lets not forget that DB...

I don't think that the OP was suggesting converting existing trains.

Unfortunately, the strategy of the last 40 years, of trusting in the 'wisdom' of the free market has shown that well paid jobs and industries don't just appear in deprived and deindustrialised areas of our country. Hopefully we are learning that lesson, and will be more proactive in future...

I do feel that the change in demographics is something to be concerned about, I know it's often a bit of a right-wing thing to be concerned about the birth rate, but it does place the burden of paying for the pensions of an increasingly large group of retirees, by a much smaller number of...

Indeed, the smarter move is to stick to the boring "Upholding international agreements on navigation, and protecting our allies' sovereignty of their territorial waters"

Lighting any fire at any time is a potential life-threatening emergency. Driving a motor vehicle at any time is a potential life-threatening emergency. Walking down a flight of stairs is a potential life-threatening emergency.

The chances are that when you were young, you may have heard of the cautionary tale of "The boy who cried wolf", using the emergency alert system for a public service announcement erodes trust in it. There are some that seem incapable of understanding nuance and proportionality, instead...

Whilst I think that this is a terrible idea, and the phrase "a strange perversion of compassion" shows the nastiness in the Reform leadership - especially as no doubt any tax cuts it funds won't go to mere mortals like us, but the wealthiest in our society that are willing to donate to Reform. I...

Unless you live in the PMs constituency, you'll have never ticked a ballot paper at a general election with their name on it.

Very generous of you to consider GBNews as a news channel. 1786867997 That's a bizzare method of justifying actions, if we are doing one thing, then all other actions are justifiable. Lets try applying that to other scenarios, how about "if we are ginging people fines for littering, littering...

I would like to think we'd still see some sort of plan to manage that, perhaps a double or single lock. Equally this is the Reform thread, so well thought through nuanced changes are not necessarily a given.

Typically these stories are picked up by many channels, I don't think anyone is suggesting that the message should have been sent out by only the BBC, more that it is being used as an example.

The point about the requirements for state assistance being reduced is demonstrably untrue, the requirements have been made significantly more stringent. The biggest welfare spending expendiature is the State Pension - it is clearly time to abandon the unsustainable triple-lock. Yes, that...

Not an unexpected reaction when the system is being used for something as trivial as asking people not to have a campfire.

Nobody is saying that the only other option is nothing, just that a severe alert using this system is not proportional; there are other means of communication that could be used. 1786778041 "Please don't have a BBQ" is hardly a Severe alert. Do you have any evidence of that, or is that just an...

Unfortunately, anecdotes don't make evidence. And the evidence certainly doesn't substantiate the more hyperbolic claims by some posters here.

As soon as he got a chance to make a quick buck buck buck.

I can understand in the case of imminent danger, but this wasn't "Danger, wildfires near you", it was "please don't have a BBQ", which feels less urgent.

That's not a given, not only does the alert need to be more effective than conventional communications, there is the possibility that the alert may have caused some accidents, on the roads for example.