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“Really wondering if the entire Labour cabinet have two brain cells to rub together…”
Nope.
A bunch of dimwits, with absolutely no business sense, but love to ‘bung’ the inefficient public sector £BNs, at the same time as blaming the previous government for a £22bn ‘blackhole’ – a completely made up number, ‘boosted’ by the ‘bung’ of huge pay rises.Reeves was supposedly going to be a competent chancellor, a breath of fresh air, but has already made a pig’s ear, by spooking the markets.
Mouthing off possible tax changes without proper assessments, so that some are likely to be reined in, before they’ve even become ‘actual’.Private sector already holding back investment, recruitment. Multi-millionaires who actually DO pay £bns in tax leaving the UK or planning to. And this exodus will really put a further strain on public finances.
Bunged their paymasters and public sector employees massive pay rises, without any strings attached, so productivity will remain a huge problem there. Train drivers given bumper pay rises with no changes to working practices – talk about buying future votes.
1st 100 days completed and i’m struggling to find anything positive to say.
And, not without notice, the electorate are already voting in their droves against Starmer’s ‘crowd’. Labour have lost a shedload of council by-elections over last few weeks.
The Stay-At-Home party must be feeling embarrassed for allowing the ‘shower’ power.
A bunch of dimwits, with absolutely no business sense, but love to ‘bung’ the inefficient public sector £BNs
Absolute disgrace that the public sector should get those billions that were earmarked for Tory chums’ pockets.
As for P&O, the way they treated their workers is disgusting. If that’s how they want to operate then they can keep their money.
Is there any evidence that we would benefit from a foreign owned free port. Also, it was the northern free port that resulted in a catastrophic death of marine life although there was a pretty good cover up of that. I think it was Alex Cunningham* who publicised that, the MP that Cleverley described as a s******e.
Word on the street is that the 25% council tax reduction for single occupants will not be axed in the October budget. Which will be a relief to many.
The “relief” likely to be short-lived for the majority of council tax payees, Mike.
Why, you may ask?Because i reck the Socialist government will axe the 5% increase cap, currently applied to allowable CT annual increases. Councils who want a bigger increase than 5% have to hold a referendum with their CT residents, although there have been exemptions allowed by previous government for a few councils to go above the 5% cap.
Back in early July, just before the GE, The District Councils’ Network (DCN) said that ministers should increase council tax referendum limits to at least 10% in the next financial year, “as a first step to removing referendum limits altogether”.
Plus, rather than a complete revaluation of CT, i reck this government will introduce a couple of higher CT bands, for properties valued at, say £500k plus and £1m plus.
“The “relief” likely to be short-lived for the majority of council tax payees, Mike.
Why, you may ask?
Because i reck the Socialist government will axe the 5% increase cap”I’m just concentrating on the October budget :o)
I know some councils have asked for the cap to be removed but not heard anything about it actually happening.Removal of the 25% discount = 33% increase for single occupants.
Clearly they’ll be vastly better off with it being kept and paying the same percentage increase everyone else does.
Of course Central Government could have funded councils properly all these years instead but we can’t be having that now can we?
Really comes to something when this government can be dictated to by a popstars mom!
good luck to allThe Taylor Swift tour of this country generated a huge amount of money for this country ( the estimate is 1 billion pounds) On top of that Swift gave vast amounts of money to UK charities*She was genuinely scared after what had happened after her cancelled concert. The cost of security was a drop in the ocean compared to how much it would have cost had the concert being cancelled.
She donated generously to 1400 food banks. Didn’t make front page news, though….Imagine the outrage if it got cancelled, ‘why didn’t Labour do something?’ they’d all be screaming. Non-story of the year.
It is not a non story. First of all, why is it acceptable for politicians right up to the Primr Minister to accept free tickets to a concert which other people who earn far less had to pay a lot of money to buy? Or maybe could not afford, or missed out in the ballot?
The fact all politicians do it does not make it any more acceptable. Nor does Starmer paying back the money make it any better. Whether he likes the term or not, it does look “two tier” and puts politicians out of touch with the experience of “ordinary people”.
More importantly, if the police treatment of Swift was more favourable than for other people in a similar position, it opens up politicians to the implication of inducement and corruption if they have had an audience with her and accepted free gifts.
No matter how much anyone tries to spin the situation, it looks poor. Not necessarily “resigning offence poor” but senior politicians should not be so foolish to needlessly put themselves in a situation which makes them appear corruptible.
Starmer made a lot of political capital in opposition about being Mr Clean and Mr Play By The Rules, so it is only natural he is going to be scrutinised in power.
I think he knows he made a mistake with this one. In the long run it might not matter but he really should have known better.
I believe it’s already been established that an initial request from Swifts management had been turned down.
It was reversed only after Cooper,Khan and the Attorney General intervened!
They have all refused to say what transpired but none have denied a part.
good luck to allCome across this little snippet by accident yesterday.
June 18 Reeves to FT
“… would not claim surprised at state of public finances”
How quick they change the tune to make a tax grab.
good luck to allKid we need to pay more tax , anyone who thinks other wise is dillusional , the Tories wasted billions
Tax,borrow,spend ….. has always been the Labour mantra and always will be just as this lot are proving.
The latest definition of a ‘working person’ is really laughable with Starmer making it as narrow as possible and Reeves saying Starmer qualifies under the definition because he goes to work.(this was after he had refused to answer the question himself)
good luck to all
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