I know what you're saying but you're talking about a party in government with known links to private health insurance. If it isn't nailed down or even if it is they will try to sell it.As I was talking about the other day, Dawn Butler pisses me off at the best of times but this is a classic in the left “ooohhh scary data” stories that hold us back
I know what you're saying but you're talking about a party in government with known links to private health insurance. If it isn't nailed down or even if it is they will try to sell it.
You pick yours, she's a relatively irrelevant MPSure. But pick your battles. Should be a case for a better company rather than just outright no data.
You pick yours, she's a relatively irrelevant MP
With there being City politics, I missed the 'real' stuff! Cut in threshold for top rate of income tax is surprising for a Toryat a glance I can't see anything about cuts to budgets, so can someone fill me in if there are any actual cuts, or holding as-is rather than rising with inflation?
Well at least that's my job sort of secure, I suppose.Council tax is up, so they can blame councils.
Cuts seem to be kicked until after next election.
grim 55bn in tax and spending cut hitsWith there being City politics, I missed the 'real' stuff! Cut in threshold for top rate of income tax is surprising for a Toryat a glance I can't see anything about cuts to budgets, so can someone fill me in if there are any actual cuts, or holding as-is rather than rising with inflation?
Well at least that's my job sort of secure, I suppose.
In all seriousness, I'd always take tax rises for more public spending. In some kind of perverse way I guess we've got that now in that it stops extreme cuts, but I'd rather we went a bit further and spent our way out of recession, but actually funded that spending.As long as you don’t live in a house you’ll be fine
In all seriousness, I'd always take tax rises for more public spending. In some kind of perverse way I guess we've got that now in that it stops extreme cuts, but I'd rather we went a bit further and spent our way out of recession, but actually funded that spending.
grim 55bn in tax and spending cut hits
living standards back to 201 levels
Real wages still behind where they were in 2008 and to fall further. Tories and their voters are an economic catastrophe for the majority.
AD 201 sounds about right.grim 55bn in tax and spending cut hits
living standards back to 201 levels
AD 201 sounds about right.
2013 but yeah it's gonna get romanAD 201 sounds about right.
Tories are proper fucked…
They've basically kicked the can down the road for a couple of years, knowing they won't be in power then.With there being City politics, I missed the 'real' stuff! Cut in threshold for top rate of income tax is surprising for a Toryat a glance I can't see anything about cuts to budgets, so can someone fill me in if there are any actual cuts, or holding as-is rather than rising with inflation?
Based on nothing other than reading this thread (my goto politics digestive) any top rate tax band fuckery is gotten around by the top earners?With there being City politics, I missed the 'real' stuff! Cut in threshold for top rate of income tax is surprising for a Toryat a glance I can't see anything about cuts to budgets, so can someone fill me in if there are any actual cuts, or holding as-is rather than rising with inflation?
The UK government does not really borrow money, it creates gilts to sell investments to the market. There is no reliance on selling bonds to fund spending it's just a choice.Hunt today was telling Labour you "can't borrow your way to growth".
Surely the CX should understand the basics of capitalism.
Got the distinct impression that they're effectively assuming they'll lose the next election so make it so all the shit stuff happens after that and they can say "Labour's fault".They've basically kicked the can down the road for a couple of years, knowing they won't be in power then.
Got the distinct impression that they're effectively assuming they'll lose the next election so make it so all the shit stuff happens after that and they can say "Labour's fault".
Of course Labour can change the plan, but in reality no matter what anyone does it's going to be pretty bad. So if Labour do change it then Tories say "it was bad because they changed the plan and ours was better." If Labour don't they say they were right all along and Labour just copied their plans.
All while handily not mentioning the reason we have to go through this shit is because of a Tory party that has mismanaged the economy for over a decade and let an absolute lunatic take charge for a month that was long enough to put us massively in the shit.
I'm very much in the increasing public spending and investment, especially on infrastructure, during tough times and recession, as a means of creating stimulus as people have jobs and can use that to create demand elsewhere and thus more jobs. Plus there's fewer people on benefits etc so you can save spending there.Increase taxes on wealth, to increase investment, which will lead to growth.
It's really not difficult.
Anything else is ideology.
Increase taxes on wealth, to increase investment, which will lead to growth.
It's really not difficult.
Anything else is ideology.
It was just an example of something I was talking about earlier. I work in data so data use is kinda my hobby horse.
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