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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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Netflix just increased their price: "Your monthly price is increasing to £8.99 on Saturday, 5th October 2019. Why? We’re hard at work improving Netflix so that you can have even more great TV programmes and films to enjoy." Poor justification attempt for 12.5% price rise.
BTW, they have over 10 million UK subscribers, so that's £120 million more a year that UK households will be paying. It's not a tax, of course - people subscribe voluntarily - but it is a rise in their cost of living.
NOTE: I personally feel it's reasonable value at the higher price too. This is more about how something that looks small (£1 a month) can be large both in percentage terms, and in total amount. Now think how many other things always seem to go up by £1-2 a month, e.g. internet.
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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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Boris Johnson's (in)digested week...

MONDAY
- Threats of deselecting Tory MPs redoubled
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- Rebels drafted bill requiring A50 extension until 31 January 2020
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- LibDems gained a defecting MP
- Boris Johnson made a ludicrous rambling speech
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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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My slightly out there thread a few days ago about how Boris Johnson could be trapped in office but not in power has become a whole lot more relevant now that he has a -43 (or less, given MPs not standing in a GE) majority.
The basic idea is to leave him stuck as PM without the ability to do anything. Oh, he can (and should) go to Brussels and negotiate. But he can't do anything harmful back at home. The hugely dominant opposition forces basically form an Opposition of National Unity.
This would *not* be sustainable long-term, mainly because of how daft it looks. But for the short-term while the Brexit crisis rages it's a decent way to get around the tricky "we can't decide on who can lead a GNU": have *nobody* from the team lead it, but use BJ as puppet.
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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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Could Boris Johnson be about to pull off a huge trick? Resign as PM but not as Tory leader, go to the Queen, tell her to make Corbyn PM, and then laugh from the opposition benches as the Rebel Alliance wobbles because JC is now PM?
Note: I saw half of this in an editorial article today (can't remember, read hundreds of stuff) so don't want to claim full credit. But everything after the Queen is entirely my speculation.
And remember, because he would still be Tory leader, he would get to fight a GE when it comes. But in the meantime JC is stuck in charge with an even worse "majority" than BJ's and wholly reliant on the Rebel Alliance coming through on every vote.
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