The Conservative Party

[SilverFox2]

so the EU as a collective have agreed a windfall tax on energy companies profits caused by the price of nuclear and renewable energy being pegged to the price of gas.
Why would you not do this.

in the U.K. Liz Truss is perfectly happy that consumers cannot take advantage of low nuclear or renewable prices. We will continue to be charged for expensive gas generated electricity irrespective of how it is generated.

Simply fucking criminal.

UK isolated as EU agrees windfall tax on energy firms

Levy could raise €140bn, and energy ministers also set targets to cut electricity use

www.theguardian.com

I think she needs the massive amount of extra vat for a certain purpose.

 

[domalino]

Told you so...

What does taking away the right to strike actually achieve?

They can take away legal protections for striking workers but there’s a massive labour shortage at the moment post-Brexit and the only way for truss to lose more votes would be to open up immigration to fix that.

So even if they remove protections, the conservative libertarian fantasy that Kwarteng and Truss are trying to impose on us won’t work when there’s no one to take the jobs of all the people you fire for striking.

And even if the market adjusts by upping salaries to entice people there’s very few jobs that don’t need a lot of training and experience - see the 6 months of delays at airports this year when the airlines tried to rehire post-covid.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

No, i am across a bit

Saw her in the main reception at Hove Town Hall in 2017. Wish there were more MPs like her.

 

[kaz7]

Saw her in the main reception at Hove Town Hall in 2017. Wish there were more MPs like her.

She is impressive for sure

 

[johnnytapia]

Not trawling through this thread, but the left's objections to the removal of the cap on bankers' bonuses is deeply flawed and the media coverage of it, pitiful.

It's as if the left think the government pays the bankers. They do not; the banks do.

Removing the cap isn't the government "giving the rich" anything, because they aren't giving them anything in the first place. In fact, if the bankers get paid more and since 99.99% of them, if not 100% are on PAYE, then the government will receive more tax, not less.

All this change is about is the government saying (quite rightly), "how much a company wants to pay its employees is fuck all to do with the government, and it is entirely wrong for the government to be meddling in companies' affairs by setting wage caps".

If wage caps on bankers' bonuses are OK, then why not caps on footballers pay? So we could encourage all the top talent to fuck off out of the UK and play abroad. I am sure that would be popular, NOT. So it seems people are quite happy for us to attract the best footballers with attractive pay packages, but that's not OK for our banks? That's a ludicrous position for the lefties to take. Many are bitter and resentful idiots though, so not unexpected.

I think most bank-related resentment comes from the eye-watering amounts they continued to receive despite almost bankrupting the country through their naked greed, vis-a-vis, offering mortgages and other financial services that were built on sand. “Austerity” followed and they simply carried on with their malpractice. And if you think they pay their fair whack of tax and don’t funnel it elsewhere, then I think you’re being disingenuous at best.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I think most bank-related resentment comes from the eye-watering amounts they continued to receive despite almost bankrupting the country through their naked greed, vis-a-vis, offering mortgages and other financial services that were built on sand. “Austerity” followed and they simply carried on with their malpractice. And if you think they pay their fair whack of tax and don’t funnel it elsewhere, then I think you’re being disingenuous at best.

It’s more he remembers and magnifies Labour’s failings and forgets Conservative ones.

 

[johnnytapia]

99.9% of that doesn't affect me. i certainly don't care about overseas aid, nobody would get a bean from me. or indeed those that come here to cadge.

99.9% of that doesn’t affect you? Are you on board the MIR Space Station?

 

[bluejon]

What does taking away the right to strike actually achieve?

They can take away legal protections for striking workers but there’s a massive labour shortage at the moment post-Brexit and the only way for truss to lose more votes would be to open up immigration to fix that.

So even if they remove protections, the conservative libertarian fantasy that Kwarteng and Truss are trying to impose on us won’t work when there’s no one to take the jobs of all the people you fire for striking.

And even if the market adjusts by upping salaries to entice people there’s very few jobs that don’t need a lot of training and experience - see the 6 months of delays at airports this year when the airlines tried to rehire post-covid.

They're talking of relaxing immigration rules to allow for exactly what you mention above, proving brexit from their point of view was never about immigration in reality, it was about being able to rip up the rule book and get rid of worker's right, you know, what a lot of people were saying about brexit from the very fucking start. Immigration was the red herring to get people on their side.

 

[johnnytapia]

Brown was a terrible chancellor and a worse PM. funny as fuck when Blair handed him the reigns and Brown with his nicely polished ego jumped on .
Blair couldn't get away quick enough .
Brown didn't protect me, i sorted myself out. one year i worked 362 days . that along with a truly loyal customer base got me through it. everything changed in 2010. i have been flying ever since.

I think you mean “reins”.
Yours helpfully, a thick Labour voter.

 

[johnnytapia]

Brown was a terrible chancellor and a worse PM. funny as fuck when Blair handed him the reigns and Brown with his nicely polished ego jumped on .
Blair couldn't get away quick enough .
Brown didn't protect me, i sorted myself out. one year i worked 362 days . that along with a truly loyal customer base got me through it. everything changed in 2010. i have been flying ever since.

Why don’t you fuck off to Neptune. You can work 60,190 days a year.