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Really ?! let’s tax a form of transport that’s great for health and the environment
Some kind of plate/identification wouldnt be a bad shout but practically very difficult
Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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For a party that wants to push the narrative that it's firmly behind green initiatives talking about removing levies that would enable faster development of renewable energy and taxing green forms of transport while arguing for the need to use (and in some cases develop) more fossil fuels seems a very odd way to go about it.
Almost like their real agenda is to protect the business interests of their supporters and donors...
Almost like their real agenda is to protect the business interests of their supporters and donors...
Liquid Gold
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Absolutely idiotic policy that will put people off getting active, improving their help and putting less pollution into the air.
It's just another thing to appeal to their base who despise the young/active though.
skybluetony176
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Was it Grant Shapps who used to sell get rich quick schemes under numerous aliases online while not actually being rich himself? Would certainly explain this policy if so.
skybluetony176
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A good article by the actually excellent Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
Liz Truss’ ‘Lazy Brits’ Comments Expose her Own ‘Plastic Patriotism’
A leaked recording of the Tory leadership frontrunner deriding UK workers for lacking "graft" gives the game away about her real views of the British people, reports Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
fernandopartridge
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I don't even think it's that, it's just pandering to the mostly reactionary wankers that vote for them
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skybluetony176
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chiefdave
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Am I reading that right, over that period private sector wages should have risen at 5% above inflation. Mine definitely hasn't
shmmeee
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It means the median salary across all industries rose 5% above inflation. YMMV.
chiefdave
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Think I'll be sending that to my boss
skybluetony176
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She started doing that head nod that liars do when they’re lying. Agreeing with themselves. Sacha Baron Cohen does it innThe Dictator when talking about how they’re only enriching uranium for peaceful purposes
Bugsy
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Is she a fucking robot,
always banging on about the same 3 things, haven't they come up with something else that he's done good. Oh yeah that's fuck all,
And why haven't this been dealt with already seems like there taking fuckin ages to sort out the next PM is ridiculous especially when we have this kind of shit to deal with:
Government 'asleep at the wheel' as Ofgem director quits over energy price cap change
Ofgem recently changed the method it uses to determine the price cap on energy bills and Christine Farnish disagreed with giving suppliers six months instead of 12 to recoup their wholesale energy hedging costs.
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skybluetony176
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Just back on the subject of re-nationalising the railways
skybluetony176
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Is she a fucking robot,
always banging on about the same 3 things, haven't they come up with something else that he's done good. Oh yeah that's fuck all,
And why haven't this been dealt with already seems like there taking fuckin ages to sort out the next PM is ridiculous especially when we have this kind of shit to deal with:
Government 'asleep at the wheel' as Ofgem director quits over energy price cap change
Ofgem recently changed the method it uses to determine the price cap on energy bills and Christine Farnish disagreed with giving suppliers six months instead of 12 to recoup their wholesale energy hedging costs.news.sky.com
Given the overheated sector of the economy able to fulfill most of this where does the labour force come from?
shmmeee
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This is a very very good point. It’s an issue regardless of the current self inflicted wound on the labour market, because even if we had funds and polticial will to retrofit at the scales needed that workforce won’t be needed once they finish the job, maybe 10-20 years, but still time limited.
Short term it’s got to be immigrant labour hasn’t it? I mean we should be massively improving the training paths to trade work anyway, but like healthcare workers that isn’t going to happen overnight.
skybluetony176
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Otis
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Just means he is so mean he never takes his daughters to McDonald's anymore.
This 'solar leaf' floats on waterways to create energy like plants
This ‘floating leaf’ could one day decarbonise some of the world’s biggest polluters, according to University of Cambridge scientists.
www.euronews.com
Otis
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Sounds fabulous.This 'solar leaf' floats on waterways to create energy like plants
This ‘floating leaf’ could one day decarbonise some of the world’s biggest polluters, according to University of Cambridge scientists.
Jacob Rees-Mogg says state should no longer ‘deliver certain functions’ after Brexit
‘Our departure from the European Union necessitates a re-thinking of the British state’
www.independent.co.uk
Union outrage as owner of P&O Ferries makes record profit
DP World saw its profit soar by more than 50% in the first six months of the year.
www.independent.co.uk
Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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In other foreign policy, the amount of young people drinking in Japan has fallen sharply.
You think they'd be saying great! Less health problems associated with it, societal problems and policing linked to it.
But no. They're having a competition for ideas on how to get younger people to drink more! Because they get less tax yen in.
That's the entire point of taxing it! Not to increase your coffers but as a means of dissuading people and providing funds to pay for the problems it creates.
You think they'd be saying great! Less health problems associated with it, societal problems and policing linked to it.
But no. They're having a competition for ideas on how to get younger people to drink more! Because they get less tax yen in.
That's the entire point of taxing it! Not to increase your coffers but as a means of dissuading people and providing funds to pay for the problems it creates.
skybluetony176
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He’s a bit of a knob but he’s 100% correct on this
Sky Blue Pete
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Such a wanker he won’t be happy till there’s poor houses and wanton deprivation in every town and city in the countryJacob Rees-Mogg says state should no longer ‘deliver certain functions’ after Brexit
‘Our departure from the European Union necessitates a re-thinking of the British state’
Ian1779
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The bloke has a hard on for the British Empire which includes going full 1700’s!!
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And yet somehow he holds the ear of government
Sky Blue Pete
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He’s the man of the people
skybluetony176
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Jacob Rees-Mogg says state should no longer ‘deliver certain functions’ after Brexit
‘Our departure from the European Union necessitates a re-thinking of the British state’
Jacob Rees-Mogg has just revealed another big lie about Brexit
The Brexit Opportunities Minister has given the game away about the government's real plans for post-Brexit Britain.
adambienkov.substack.com
Sky Blue Pete
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Can anyone explain to me how a family on the breadline being given £1200 in handout can pay an electricity and gas bill that increases by £2000
Brighton Sky Blue
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Sunlun man