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“And, more importantly, so are the taxpayers of the UK, whilst welfare continues to absolutely screw ‘the rest’ and growth will continue to stagnate.”
How silly of me to have forgotten what a great job the Tories did for the previous fourteen years.
It’s quite simple , we have to pay more tax , dwindling birth rate , people living longer …
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Sorry but I’m too old to help out on the birth rate!
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I crawled on six crooked highways“we have to pay more tax”
The general public don’t, though.
It’s the corporations and small number of individuals (“the one per cent”) of individuals who have done very nicely, thank you very much, over the last couple of decades who need to pay more.
The problem, of course, is that it is exactly these same corporations and individuals who own the media, donate handsomely to political parties and drive the public debate. And the vast majority of the British public simply swallow what the billionaires tell them.
do you think Farage would/could be any worse than the clown and front bench we have now?
Going back to this comment, again it’s the narrative they want you to believe. As has been said, yes Reform could and would be worse than what we have now. It’s another party of millionaires pretending to care about the common man.
I know polling is only of so much use but currently Reform, Labour and Conservatives are on around two thirds of the vote share between them. We constantly hear about how bad things are yet two thirds of people are apparently intending to vote for more of the same or worse. Plus of course Reform are being treated as the second coming yet they are polling a mere few percentage points above a very uninspiring Labour. That’s not a ringing endorsement.
They say the definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
House of Commons a utter shambles yesterday and this morning at PMQS
Reeves was crying but apparently it might be a personal issue outside of work.
“Reeves was crying”
Hmm….more than half the country are crying over the complete mess they’ve made.
Fiscally, economically incompetent, whilst propping up their inefficient public sector chums.If its a family thing hope all ends well but if its work have no sympathy for her at all. Threw many people under the bus with her policies
“Fiscally, economically incompetent, whilst propping up their inefficient public sector chums.”
Just like the Tories, then. Except that with them, it was their very rich private sector chums.
Paul Johnson, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) says he thinks the chancellor will have no option but to hike taxes in the next budget.
On Reeves he says “She really can’t safely borrow more”, he says, while interest rates are high, welfare and pensions spending clearly can’t be cut, and other spending plans are set.
“The only room for manoeuvre is on taxes,”
He also says he expects “one of the big taxes” to go up, which Labour promised not to raise at the general election. Those being income tax, national insurance, and VAT.
Johnson explained: “I think if you’re looking at a big hole, it’s hard to see how you fill it without looking at one of the big taxes.”
Challenged on if a wealth tax – as called for by some Labour MPs – may prove a solution, Johnson says “it’s certainly not a silver bullet”.
He adds: “You have to look very hard around the world to find a country that has got significant money from wealth taxes, and you could keep looking and not find such a country.
“If you’re aiming at getting taxes off people with more than £10m worth of assets, some of them are quite mobile, and we’re seeing potential problems with the non-dom regime already, and others can afford very expensive lawyers.”
Source: Sky News this evening
….As i said we’ll need to pay more tax , Tories voting to keep the current system and then trying to point and critize shows why they are in opposition , they kicked the can down the road for 12 years , well to be fair they were busy filling there pockets at the time
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The right is always telling us how good things were in the old days so surely they’ll be delighted at being taken back to the 70s.
I don’t like the Speaker ( who I believe had words with Reeves prior to her tears). He often seems to ignore bad behaviour and then throw his weight around for lesser misdemeanours. I’ve written and complained to the Speakers office at least once to say I felt his reprimand was uncalled for; once for his treatment of Caroline Lucas and I’m sure at least one more time for another female MP ( I’d have lo look back through my emails…).
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