General Election - 4th July 2024

[bluethrunthru]

Sunak's Tory future

 

[Don Karleone]

Isn’t that a good thing, or are we looking for the Tories to stay in power?

The same people who are milking us are saying that they back this version of the Labour Party. How could that be a good thing?

I'd like to hear how he's going to help the less off in society, not business.

 

[meltonblue]

Think the conservatives have really screwed up by trying shore up the vote from the elderly for them and sacrificing everyone else.

Anyone either young or middle aged with children they’ve completely alienated already, which equates to a huge amount of the electorate.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Think the conservatives have really screwed up by trying shore up the vote from the elderly for them and sacrificing everyone else.

Anyone either young or middle aged with children they’ve completely alienated already, which equates to a huge amount of the electorate.

anybody else think less than eight quid a month is not a huge draw

General election: Tories announce 'Triple Lock Plus' pension allowance

The Conservatives pledge to raise the tax-free pension allowance by at least 2.5% a year if they win the election.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Vic]

anybody else think less than eight quid a month is not a huge draw

General election: Tories announce 'Triple Lock Plus' pension allowance

The Conservatives pledge to raise the tax-free pension allowance by at least 2.5% a year if they win the election.

www.bbc.co.uk

Gaslighting at its finest.

"Thanks to the Conservatives' Triple Lock, pensions have risen by £900 this year and now we will cut their taxes by around £100 next year.

"This bold action demonstrates we are on the side of pensioners. The alternative is Labour dragging everyone in receipt of the full state pension into income tax for the first time in history."

Or, in non-lie speak:

Thanks to Covid and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, pensions have gone up. This bold action to unfreeze tax allowances is only necessary because we've boldly frozen tax allowances.

 

[bluemoon32]

Not sure going after the blue rinse brigade & fucking the youth is the best angle for the Tories

 

[Blue Maverick]

Are they just making shit up now for votes, all governments should be held to account of their manifestos. Triple lock plus my arse, they’ve froze the personal allowance for years so it’s fuck all, do they really think pensioners are stupid. 20k new cops, to replace the 20k we cut, fuck me get these cunts out in 7 weeks.

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

Interesting. Apparently, this guy is a pollster with Find Out Now who publish their polling through Electoral Calculus.

He’s suggesting that the Lib Dems may be ahead of the Tories in terms of seats in their latest MRP which comes out later this week.

For a regular poll that would be easy to dismiss as “non-uniform swings make it unlikely”, but an MRP poll is basically like a constituency level analysis. Over the last 8 years or so they have been pretty much bang on, particularly YouGov who I think does the largest one.

Hope springs eternal.

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

Are they just making shit up now for votes, all governments should be held to account of their manifestos. Triple lock plus my arse, they’ve froze the personal allowance for years so it’s fuck all, do they really think pensioners are stupid. 20k new cops, to replace the 20k we cut, fuck me get these cunts out in 7 weeks.

Week 1: “The young will fight for you”
Week 2: “The young will pay taxes for you”
Week 3: “The young will donate their organs to you, thanks to our mandatory liver provision program for over 65s.”

 

[bluethrunthru]

bribery

https://www.itv.com/news/2023-09-12/ministers-may-cut-cost-of-unsustainable-triple-lock-pension-increase