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Mr Kobayashi
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£3 a week? That's WW2 level pay.
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Not another 70yr old that fought in the second world war...
BobKowalski
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So, to summarise. Most of the increase is to plug a financial hole in the NHS rather than social care. Idea is that once this ‘hole is plugged’, the revenue then switches to social care. Which probably means ‘never’.
Tax increase is 2.5% split between employees and employers. Pension triplelock scrapped next year, for one year only - doubtful you will see it return.
Public sector revenue of GDP at it's highest share for years.
Full details still to be published.
And UC to be cut by £20 a week.
Tax increase is 2.5% split between employees and employers. Pension triplelock scrapped next year, for one year only - doubtful you will see it return.
Public sector revenue of GDP at it's highest share for years.
Full details still to be published.
And UC to be cut by £20 a week.
crazyg
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I think, like me, that he meant he paid £3pw digs money to his parents, and we kept the rest for our other expenses.£3 a week? That's WW2 level pay.
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I remember my first full time pay slip in July 1968 from the Co-op Bank. It was, after emergency rate tax and my NIC stamp, £7/0/3d! Out of the remainder of £4/0/3d, there was a weekly rail ticket of £1/0/0d from Ashton to Victoria, leaving me the princely sum of £3/0/3d for myself! Beer (mild) was 1/8d a pint, and you could have a decent night out for £1. My "A" level passes gained me a massive £50 pay rise, per annum, the following month, when the results came through.
Luxury, but you try and tell the kids of today that, they won't believe you.
BobKowalski
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ITV with some of the details. In short, it is not a social care plan.
‘understand care plan is as follows
1. Cap of £86k
2. Floor of £100k
3. 1.25% hike NI
4. Raises £36bn
5. BUT vast majority goes to NHS. Only £5.4bn for care.
6. Of that £5.4bn, £2.5bn funds care cap. Leaves £2.9bn over 3 years for reform. Care leaders furious.’
‘understand care plan is as follows
1. Cap of £86k
2. Floor of £100k
3. 1.25% hike NI
4. Raises £36bn
5. BUT vast majority goes to NHS. Only £5.4bn for care.
6. Of that £5.4bn, £2.5bn funds care cap. Leaves £2.9bn over 3 years for reform. Care leaders furious.’
Len Rum
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Spot on.So, to summarise. Most of the increase is to plug a financial hole in the NHS rather than social care. Idea is that once this ‘hole is plugged’, the revenue then switches to social care. Which probably means ‘never’.
Tax increase is 2.5% split between employees and employers. Pension triplelock scrapped next year, for one year only - doubtful you will see it return.
Public sector revenue of GDP at it's highest share for years.
Full details still to be published.
And UC to be cut by £20 a week.
Your first paragraph sums it all up.
Anyone who believes that after the initial three years money will be taken off the NHS and put into social care is living in cloud cuckoo land.
The phrases 'smoke and mirrors', 'sticking plaster' and 'sleight of hand' come to mind.
Len Rum
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Regarding your point 4, that's just about how much was blown on test track and trace.ITV with some of the details. In short, it is not a social care plan.
‘understand care plan is as follows
1. Cap of £86k
2. Floor of £100k
3. 1.25% hike NI
4. Raises £36bn
5. BUT vast majority goes to NHS. Only £5.4bn for care.
6. Of that £5.4bn, £2.5bn funds care cap. Leaves £2.9bn over 3 years for reform. Care leaders furious.’
Gabriel
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Remember when prolonged austerity was justified as being needed so as to repair the roof for the next time. Who knew that the next time the walls would collapse?..
It's not what he said, but if he thinks we had "old pounds" I'd be sceptical of anything he "remenbers".I think, like me, that he meant he paid £3pw digs money to his parents, and we kept the rest for our other expenses.
I remember my first full time pay slip in July 1968 from the Co-op Bank. It was, after emergency rate tax and my NIC stamp, £7/0/3d! Out of the remainder of £4/0/3d, there was a weekly rail ticket of £1/0/0d from Ashton to Victoria, leaving me the princely sum of £3/0/3d for myself! Beer (mild) was 1/8d a pint, and you could have a decent night out for £1. My "A" level passes gained me a massive £50 pay rise, per annum, the following month, when the results came through.
Luxury, but you try and tell the kids of today that, they won't believe you.
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:)£3 a week? That's WW2 level pay.
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Not quite true it was 2 pounds 17 shillings 6pence but I was to ashamed to say that it eventually went up to 3 old pounds on my next birthday.
I worked in a painter and decorators shop for long hours and slave labour
Because of a damn good education I was able to better my self it was the swinging sixties and jobs with more money became available