Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics) (46 Viewers)
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fernandopartridge
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House price inflation is their key policy for 40 years
fernandopartridge
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Tax on profit does not reduce demand. The freeze on the personal allowance will though.
fernandopartridge
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It needs to be heavily inflated to try and reduce the huge waiting lists etc
David O'Day
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No but less profits leading to companies reducing costs i.e. staffing wages does.
shmmeee
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No, it does reduce investment though. Which is what we desperately needed post Brexit and now need even more.
Sunak just isn’t up to the level required to be a Chancellor in a time of crisis. Too worried about PR and making silly political decisions because he’s not smart or serious enough to make good economic ones.
The rise in CT is purely political to get the left up in arms. The housing bubble he wants to stoke. The funding of Tory target seats. Nothing on health and social care, the changing nature of work, the climate, post Brexit Britain. It could’ve been a George Osbourne budget.
Evo1883
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Hes a proper tosspot
Evo1883
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Wait... I don't disagree with you.. But I've had many arguments on here in the past about the media, but I was told they are reliable, impartial and trustworthy.
People seem to pick and choose what's trustworthy based off their political stance it seems... I just think they are untrustworthy full stop
shmmeee
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I think trustworthy is the wrong metric. They’re all trustworthy to give an account of events according to their biases. The BBC is biased towards the government of the day (and liberal politics/economics because of that). Don’t look for unbiased media, look to take into account everyone’s bias and triangulate the truth.
If you think you’ve found a trustworthy source it probably just has the same biases as you. But overall professional journalism of almost all kinds is light years ahead of the closest alternative.
fernandopartridge
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Investment is tax deductible?
Did the CT cuts of the last 10 years increase business investment?
shmmeee
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IFS seem to think there’s some evidence rises cause less investment. Not the same as saying cuts increase investment of course. More than when they need to find money they don’t do it from profit but from wages and investment.
Election 2017 | Institute for Fiscal Studies
shmmeee
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Any party not taxing property, inheritance, capital gains, and pensions isn’t serious about taxation. Income means nothing, tax the wealth.
Haha amazing. Good for them.
I did wonder who was playing Val Doonican through a subwoofer at 4am down the road last night.
chiefdave
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How have they come up with that stat? Half seems a lot!
Is the suggestion it is deliberate flouting of the rules or just them not understanding what applies post vaccination? I've had that with my parents who believed a couple of weeks post vaccination they were allowed to do whatever they wanted.
Is the suggestion it is deliberate flouting of the rules or just them not understanding what applies post vaccination? I've had that with my parents who believed a couple of weeks post vaccination they were allowed to do whatever they wanted.
Philosoraptor
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Waiting for mass resignations from shadow cabinet and a letter from West Mids councillors asking for Starmer to resign.
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David O'Day
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Nick
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Have they?
fernandopartridge
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shmmeee
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Not that no, though I haven’t seen the quote in context. But I back them significantly more than the current government.
David O'Day
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It is being taken out of context by an editor at the Daily Mail.
Nick
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Isn't it the same thing though?
chiefdave
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Where is the full text of what was said in context?
Ian1779
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More than happy to be corrected believe me.
Was looking into this the other day. A UCL study says older people are slightly more compliant than younger people, but only on certain things and not by much. Overall, compliance is very high.
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https://b6bdcb03-332c-4ff9-8b9d-28f...d/3d9db5_bf013154aed5484b970c0cf84ff109e9.pdf
There's a big push coming in the US to persuade people that once you get vaccinated you'll be able to do a lot more socializing with other vaccinated people, which makes sense to me. So good for the old guys I say.
Well, the difference is that your example could lead to those people infecting each other. The strong assumption (and yes, it's still technically just an assumption) is that vaccinated people mixing wouldn't.
Well the vaccines are so new, they haven't proved it definitively either way, so that's why the rules are still in place for now. But all the recent evidence is that you won't spread it once you're vaccinated (same as most other vaccines we're used to) Covid vaccines may stop spread ‘almost completely’
Hopefully the more studies we get like that, the more likely it is that vaccinated people will be told they can go and do whatever they please. I know what I'd be doing if I'd been done.