The Conservative Party

[leithblue]

if you have friends or family coming from abroad and you go for a drink or a meal tell them to save the receipts - if you need something like say some trainers or a coat or a new Bentley get them to buy it in their name and claim that VAT back.......... you can bet your average hedge fund manager or taxation specialist will be doing it

It’s only goods, that are proven be taken and then used/consumed outside the U.K. - that’s all part of the checks.

The checks the U.K. does already are pretty strong, there’s really nothing to see here.

It’s the same way there’s no VAT on exported goods - all a tourist is doing is arranging the export themselves.

 

[Vic]

Most would be out of work and the train companies could lower the salaries and worsen the working conditions of the job as there would be so much competition.

Jazzy Jnr would then be suggesting that train drivers become nurses because their salaries would have increased as there was a shortage of them.

Very true, except there is already a shortage of nurses because they're not paid enough.

Is there a shortage of people willing to do jobs paying more than £150,000? Well, maybe GPs... but you have to know a lot to be a doctor and can kill someone if you get it wrong.

Not fund managers though. That's just gambling with other people's money and other people's lives, and mostly getting it wrong. Even a "good" one is usually just lucky and can't sustain it (the Klopp effect) or knows a Chancellor or two.

Why Are Fund Managers So Awful at Their Job? | The Motley Fool

Nearly nine out of 10 targeted funds underperform their respective benchmark index over the long run.

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[SebastianBlue]

Britain should prepare for new age of austerity, warns Simon Clarke​

Simon Clarke, the levelling up minister and a key Liz Truss ally, has told the Times that the market chaos that followed the government’s tax cutting mini-budget would pass and warned that Britain should prepare for a new age of austerity.

He also said the prime minister was “enjoying having the chance” to enact policies that “she believes is right”.

Despite the turmoil in financial markets, Clarke said that Truss was “astonishingly resilient” and urged the government to channel the spirit of Margaret Thatcher to push ahead with their vision.

The 38-year-old said:


Clarke added that for too long western countries have lived in a “fool’s paradise” and there would be cuts to government spending to ensure “full alignment with a lower-tax economy”.

Clarke said:
My big concern in politics is that western Europe is just living in a fool’s paradise whereby we can be ever less productive relative to our peers, and yet still enjoy a very large welfare state and persist in thinking that the two are somehow compatible over the medium to long term.
They’re not. We need to address that precisely because in the end, if we want those strong public services then we are going to have to pay for them. I think it is important that we look at a state which is extremely large, and look at how we can make sure that it is in full alignment with a lower tax economy.

Ahh, yes, the historically foolproof strategy of giving rich people more money, taking money away from everyone else, and implementing broad policies of austerity (that will almost entirely exclude the afore mentioned wealthy class), after partially causing wild inflation and almost entirely precipitating the slow but steady destruction of the UK economy.

Levelling up by trickling down in to neofeudalism. Genius!

 

[SebastianBlue]

 

[Vic]

I hope one of the pollsters might include a question about attitudes to Brexit. I suspect the rump Tory vote would correspond to the people who still think Brexit was a good idea (the Remaining Brexiteers).

That would lead to q2 for people voting Labour. Would you support Britain negotiating to re-enter the EU's single market without rejoining the EU?

 

[SebastianBlue]

One of the most insidious beliefs being (again) perpetuated in modern society is that ‘the rich deserve to be rich and the poor deserve to be poor’.

It’s designed to get the lower and middle classes to fight each other, whilst the upper class exploits us for our productive value and extracts what little wealth we have (because merely making us subservient is not enough, they need us to be captive).

The Tories (and other parties across various countries) have been again weaponising that belief we thought we had shed (so many times in the past) for two decades and we are seeing the consequences of it now, which are not dissimilar to the heights of the gilded age.

After this past week, I have begun calling the current global state of affairs ‘The Gilted Age’.

 

[kaz7]

Sophie ridge was good this morning , turns out if any tories vote against the budget they get the whip removed , how is that democratic and in the interest of the public they represent

 

[BlueHammer85]

No wonder Chippy has departed out of here - imagine trying to defend these c*nts

 

[aguero93:20]

One of the most insidious beliefs being (again) perpetuated in modern society is that ‘the rich deserve to be rich and the poor deserve to be poor’.

It’s designed to get the lower and middle classes to fight each other, whilst the upper class exploits us for our productive value and extracts what little wealth we have (because merely making us subservient is not enough, they need us to be captive).

The Tories (and other parties across various countries) have been again weaponising that belief we thought we had shed (so many times in the past) for two decades and we are seeing the consequences of it now, which are not dissimilar to the heights of the gilded age.

After this past week, I have begun calling the current global state of affairs ‘The Gilted Age’.

Ever read Red Rising?

 

[SebastianBlue]

Ever read Red Rising?

I haven’t — guessing it has a narrative that is similar to the one we are enduring now?