The Labour Government

[hilts]

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Every time pmsl. We all love an estimate.

4% sure sure

 

[metalblue]

Read the point again

Apologies! The abroad bit was fairly important and I missed it!! (Even though it was in there twice).

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Fuel tax is moving up and down all the time due to the VAT element

I would add to your second paragraph that benefits need to be seriously looked at
It's an area that politicians don't want to go near because it's such an unpopular topic, but there needs to be changes

And before anyone calls me a nasty selfish twat, there is a close relative of mine who has taken very easy street along with his partner and her father all claiming when there is fuck all wrong with any of them and somehow they all claim carers allowance for each other

Didn't someone post on here the other week that there are more people claiming than paying in at the moment!

As an ex-DSS fraud officer I hope you've rung 0800 854440.

 

[hilts]

If true Reeves has arbitrated anything over £45,000 is not a working wage I suspect my train driving colleagues will be pissed off when they get taxed on their last pay rise.

Its difficult to sell train drivers wages not being decent mate.

 

[Dazzle84]

Yep, she knows what is coming and is setting the scene for a shitshow. We need to cut some if the obscene spending How the fuck do we get into a debt situation like this.

Reasons are myriad

 

[metalblue]

The thing is the increase allegedly in taxis to plug the black hole, so it’s not going to improve anything it’s just trying to get level, so nothing for us will change except have less money to spend, so the economy will suffer. I really don’t know what the solution is.

That’s exactly right mate. If it was going on something other than just keeping the lights on we might see something that resembles a plan.

 

[Dazzle84]

It astonishes me that in a democratic country, the electorate don't have the means to go on a website to see exactly where their money is going and who it is going to in an easy to read system and graph.

It would eliminate a lot of the bickering between the parties on any of the money issues and would allow the public to decipher fully and question any parties ambitions of changing the spending.

Any money investigated or caught off the books should equal a permanent expulsion from that party ever getting back into power with it's leaders put in a courtroom for trials of corruption and treason.

Do you mean the annual budget statement that's published by the treasury?

 

[Kompany Car]

Its difficult to sell train drivers wages not being decent mate.

Dont think its a case of decent or not, why they cant just say we dont have a pot to piss in so unfortunately we are going to have to up the tax paid by teachers, doctors, train drivers and anyone else who might pay the higher rate of tax, is beyond me. All this working people/wage is just meaningless and just serves to wind up those who obviously are working people but earn over the 40% tax threshold.

 

[hilts]

Dont think its a case of decent or not, why they cant just say we dont have a pot to piss in so unfortunately we are going to have to up the tax paid by teachers, doctors, train drivers and anyone else who might pay the higher rate of tax, is beyond me. All this working people/wage is just meaningless and just serves to wind up those who obviously are working people but earn over the 40% tax threshold.

They fucked up by promising no tax raises for 'working people'

People voted for them what can I say?

Politicians will spend plenty of their spare time with rich folks and the gentry, whose gonna get shafted their party guests or the oinks.

If Labour aren't gonna try and make it all a bit fairer by making the elite pay their fair share then seriously what's the point.

 

[Kompany Car]

They fucked up by promising no tax raises for 'working people'

People voted for them what can I say?

Politicians will spend plenty of their spare time with rich folks and the gentry, whose gonna get shafted their party guests or the oinks.

If Labour aren't gonna try and make it all a bit fairer by making the elite pay their fair share then seriously what's the point.

It was interesting to hear what Richard Murphy had to say only a few minutes after the press conference.

 

[Vic]

Fuel tax is moving up and down all the time due to the VAT element

I would add to your second paragraph that benefits need to be seriously looked at
It's an area that politicians don't want to go near because it's such an unpopular topic, but there needs to be changes

And before anyone calls me a nasty selfish twat, there is a close relative of mine who has taken very easy street along with his partner and her father all claiming when there is fuck all wrong with any of them and somehow they all claim carers allowance for each other

Didn't someone post on here the other week that there are more people claiming than paying in at the moment!

I think that was that when you add in education, health care, and other "benefits" funded by taxes, most people are net beneficiaries of the system (i.e. most get more value than they pay in taxes) while only a minority pay more tax than they get out of the system.

 

[Gorbachev]

Do you mean the annual budget statement that's published by the treasury?

I would want a completely detailed, no nonsense breakdown to the last penny of where the money is going and who it's going to, and not shadowed by clever names and titles.

All on a dedicated website, with graphs, all in layman's terms for the public to see and how to read it should be compulsory education in school.

Alongside this, every MP should have a detailed breakdown of his or hers income to the last penny that they earn outside of politics, showing where and whom has paid them that money, including their own business endeavours. This might be seen as intrusive by some, but I believe when you become subservient to a countries electorate, these details matter for the elimination of corruption and possible treason.

You have politicians clearly gaining massive advantage in the stock market via possible insider trading and huge contracts being put on offer via corporation lobbying. This should not be allowed in any democratic system in my opinion.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Presuming they do increase tax on wages, when will that increase come into effect?

I would imagine immediately.

 

[hilts]

It was interesting to hear what Richard Murphy had to say only a few minutes after the press conference.

If im honest most of the mechanisms he talked about went over my head but for some time ive felt we needed some bravery and a more radical approach. People gave a sigh of relief when the Tories got booted and so did I.
We seem to be in this spiral of tax increase and borrowing which dampens people's spending with the added pain of inflation and highish interest rates. We need to break the cycle, get some consumer confidence and invest. We need to be bold.
Economically they are just too close to the Tories austerity plans.
The bits and bobs they have done will hardly be felt by the masses.

Answers on a postcard chaps.

 

[Blue Maverick]

Yep, she knows what is coming and is setting the scene for a shitshow. We need to cut some if the obscene spending How the fuck do we get into a debt situation like this.

Financial crash and Covid

 

[Blue Maverick]

I would want a completely detailed, no nonsense breakdown to the last penny of where the money is going and who it's going to, and not shadowed by clever names and titles.

All on a dedicated website, with graphs, all in layman's terms for the public to see and how to read it should be compulsory education in school.

Alongside this, every MP should have a detailed breakdown of his or hers income to the last penny that they earn outside of politics, showing where and whom has paid them that money, including their own business endeavours. This might be seen as intrusive by some, but I believe when you become subservient to a countries electorate, these details matter for the elimination of corruption and possible treason.

You have politicians clearly gaining massive advantage in the stock market via possible insider trading and huge contracts being put on offer via corporation lobbying. This should not be allowed in any democratic system in my opinion.

When I was in the fire service we had to get permission to do a second job, if it interferes with you’re main job (like turning up knackered because you’d not slept between nights) then they could withdraw permission (never saw it done), MPs should have similar, how can you be a director of a company if decisions and influence you have could be affected?

 

[hampshireblue]

It was interesting to hear what Richard Murphy had to say only a few minutes after the press conference.

Look up the session he did with Zack Polanski. I like Murphy much more than I used to but you have to take into account his basic philosophy of Modern Monetary Theory and it isn't for everyone as it's so radical. A good book to read is the Deficit Myth.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

Thought Reeves’ briefing was the best I’ve heard off her so far, and gave a bit of reality to the country of where we are. Time to be honest with the UK and state why we are where are, and would like more said about the financial crash, Brexit, COVID, the various conflicts, and what America has brought to the world.

Would now like to see less of what the Tories did, what Reform could do, and how the rest are inconsequential.

Now time to do your job, make difficult decisions, implement policies that are good for this country, and not listen to a media that you will never win over.

Also, move away from being ruled by the OBR and markets. Be careful, but make them work for the country, rather than themselves.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Its difficult to sell train drivers wages not being decent mate.

I can't argue they aren't.

Just a point when some of them moan about it. Won't hear the end of it at work.

 

[NPBlue]

Look up the session he did with Zack Polanski. I like Murphy much more than I used to but you have to take into account his basic philosophy of Modern Monetary Theory and it isn't for everyone as it's so radical. A good book to read is the Deficit Myth.

I wouldn't describe him as a radical. He's switched on when it comes to the failure of neoliberalism and makes many valid points with regard to who is really controlling and benefitting from government policy.

We need more anaylsts like him explaining what is really going on.