Sky_Blue_Dreamer
Well-Known Member
Green and blue corridors are absolutely vital as long as we also retain decent sides parks linking them together with a range of habitats as well as green space for local communities to use.
Green and blue corridors are absolutely vital as long as we also retain decent sides parks linking them together with a range of habitats as well as green space for local communities to use.Yeah I’d want a sort of green middle. With corridors for nature planned in and as you say more parks and stuff like Canley ford carved out.
I don’t think we are overpopulated TBH. We’re down at 50th for population density below places like the Netherlands and Japan. I also think we might see big improvements in land use efficiency if we can crack stuff like self driving cars and package delivery. Replace shops and car parks with residential and parks. And we’re well below replenishment rate without immigration so it’s pretty easy to turn off the taps if we want.
And I do think people overestimate exactly how much we’ve built on:
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People dying in corridors but hey Keith said something about strikes so I couldn't possibly vote Labour even if doing so might improve the NHS.
For me I think it's ridiculous that there's no equivalence between businesses and people. People are actually living, sentient beings. Businesses are not.Even the 25% Sunak wants would be low by first world standards?
For me I think it's ridiculous that there's no equivalence between businesses and people. People are actually living, sentient beings. Businesses are not.
Businesses pay their tax on profits, people on gross income. That's ridiculous. It'd be like having a person with a six figure income not paying tax because he's bought a mansion, a Ferrari and eats his dinner in a Michelin restaurant every night.
If you charged tax on revenue, the rate could drop drastically to at least 5%, maybe lower. Then the tax burden on ordinary people would be reduced. It'd have the advantage of getting rid of the ludicrous things of companies being able to carry forward/back profits against tax.
Yes, the position of the Ambulance service is shocking. Problem is most people only care about this sort of thing when they need it.People dying in corridors but hey Keith said something about strikes so I couldn't possibly vote Labour even if doing so might improve the NHS.
Though since he asked, the German rate is 30% from what I see.
Because we have a predominately right wing media. So he might be but we would be unlikely to hear if so.So why isn’t Sneer making these arguments himself and trying to lead the narrative?
Yes, the position of the Ambulance service is shocking. Problem is most people only care about this sort of thing when they need it.
Germany’s as I said is 30 and their economy’s strength is undisputed
Well they think they will be able to pay to go private anyway.Yeah definitely.
It annoys me when I speak to people and they say I'll be better off under a Tory government because I'll pay less tax.
Fine, you've got a few extra quid in your pocket at the end of every month.
But are you really better off if you have to wait 12 months for an operation? Or if your nan has to wait 6 hours in agony for an ambulance?
Because we have a predominately right wing media. So he might be but we would be unlikely to hear if so.
Can't you grow up and not use these silly nicknames?
The strength of course is due to the Eu and the single currency which has allowed it to dominate Europe in industry especially at the expense of poor countries
Yeah definitely.
It annoys me when I speak to people and they say I'll be better off under a Tory government because I'll pay less tax.
Fine, you've got a few extra quid in your pocket at the end of every month.
But are you really better off if you have to wait 12 months for an operation? Or if your nan has to wait 6 hours in agony for an ambulance?
Was it not strong for many years before the single currency? It was of course split into two for decades and outperformed its neighbours despite that.
Tax levels on the rich and big business need to be higher in any case because of their ability to exploit loopholes. The effective rate never matches the headline rate anyway.
There's someone who might know but I think he's ignoring you ....What’s Ireland?
I think the answer there is they’re not usually looking to cut taxes for the average person but for the very well off and big business.
The single currency meant its dominance was compounded
Tax on business raises Very little in the grand scheme at all. You really need to look at the big costs in public services future it and work how to address it
oh the average tax burden will reduce under truss income tax base and 40% bands I’m sure will be increased to lower peoples tax burden
Did you give Corbyn the same kind of excuse when he was battling the media?Because we have a predominately right wing media. So he might be but we would be unlikely to hear if so.
Can't you grow up and not use these silly nicknames?
Did you give Corbyn the same kind of excuse when he was battling the media?
Somehow managed still to get his ‘Marxist manifesto’ out there though.
Absolutely and Miliband and indeed every Labour leader.Did you give Corbyn the same kind of excuse when he was battling the media?
Somehow managed still to get his ‘Marxist manifesto’ out there though.
I don't know where you get the impression I am on the right of Labour. I didn't vote for Blair and I did vote for Corbyn, despite being appalled by his stance on Brexit. But for me virtually anything is better than Tory.He also aggressively used rallies to good effect and campaigned energetically, in 2017 anyway. Equally if he’s not keen on that he could always go proper Blair and get cosy with traditionally hostile publications. The Telegraph is too far gone but the Times, Sun and even Mail at a stretch could be buttered up.
I don't know where you get the impression I am on the right of Labour. I didn't vote for Blair and I did vote for Corbyn, despite being appalled by his stance on Brexit. But for me virtually anything is better than Tory.
He also aggressively used rallies to good effect and campaigned energetically, in 2017 anyway. Equally if he’s not keen on that he could always go proper Blair and get cosy with traditionally hostile publications. The Telegraph is too far gone but the Times, Sun and even Mail at a stretch could be buttered up.
Sorry I think Ian was implying itI didn’t say you were?
He's written in the Sun.
For me I think it's ridiculous that there's no equivalence between businesses and people. People are actually living, sentient beings. Businesses are not.
Businesses pay their tax on profits, people on gross income. That's ridiculous. It'd be like having a person with a six figure income not paying tax because he's bought a mansion, a Ferrari and eats his dinner in a Michelin restaurant every night.
If you charged tax on revenue, the rate could drop drastically to at least 5%, maybe lower. Then the tax burden on ordinary people would be reduced. It'd have the advantage of getting rid of the ludicrous things of companies being able to carry forward/back profits against tax.
I wasn’t actually - what I was implying is that there is still enough of a platform to get a message about cost of living/NHS and he has turned away from doing it. Even this week with the strikes it was an opportunity to show millions of union members (all of which have a vote last time I checked) that he supports them and is on their side and again he hasn’t.Sorry I think Ian was implying it
Sunak’s said he wants to narrow the definition of asylum and to make aid conditional on countries taking asylum seekers back.
What the actual fuck
Starmer is a spinleless dud but you’ll back him regardless… it’s embarrassing.
Hopefully that's just a case of appealing to the headbangers and not something he'd actually implement.
Labour is committed to some pointless fiscal rule, how do you foresee fixing the NHS in that context? It needs both capital and big increase in ongoing revenue spendingPeople dying in corridors but hey Keith said something about strikes so I couldn't possibly vote Labour even if doing so might improve the NHS.
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