A month after cancelling the Northern leg of HS2 because it was deemed too expensive, Hunt has the money to fund big tax cuts. I can't ever remember an NI cut of 2% during my working lifetime.
Bet she knows who won Love Island last year and who they are currently dating.She has at least one parent around, that I do know.
Yet she seems to have no understanding of anything in the "wider world."
That's not just down to politics or any Government, it's down to much more fractures in society.
It’s all mission accomplished for the tories.Everything is so bloody depressing at the moment.
Was speaking to 23 year old woman yesterday when I was at work. She has a 3 year old son and is 20 weeks pregnant.
She is waiting for rehousing because her ex partner is violent, and knows where she lives. She has been classed as priority by the social housing association she is with but weeks later nothing is happening.
Told her to approach her MP.
"What's that?" she asked
"Member of Parliament"
"What's that?"
I was just thinking the same thing.She has at least one parent around, that I do know.
Yet she seems to have no understanding of anything in the "wider world."
That's not just down to politics or any Government, it's down to much more fractures in society.
Fascists.
First they came for...
Not all of them.They’re a load of useless wankers with no ideas but the word “fascist” is thrown around willy nilly and dilutes the weight of what that word really means.
The government are shit, obviously. But they’re not a load of fascists.
Anyone going to defend this and vote for the party of fiscal responsibility at the next election?
Did the Tories put that band together?Vaccines
One definition came up with 14 defining characteristics of fascism. Have a read and see how many of them would apply to someone like Suella Braverman.They’re a load of useless wankers with no ideas but the word “fascist” is thrown around willy nilly and dilutes the weight of what that word really means.
The government are shit, obviously. But they’re not a load of fascists.
Anyone earning less than 25k will still be a lot better off though due to the rise in the minimum wage, so some income groups will see a proper increase in take home pay.It’s all smoke and mirrors though because it’s completely offset by the fact they’ve frozen the tax brackets - which would all have to be increasing at inflationary rates for it to be a real terms tax cut.
If the personal allowance went up 9% like the pensions (as it should), then that’d be £1,131 more you’d no longer pay tax on, saving £226. That’s basically the same as the NI cut for anybody earning <£25k.
Isn’t that her list of hobbies and interests from her CV?One definition came up with 14 defining characteristics of fascism. Have a read and see how many of them would apply to someone like Suella Braverman.
1. Powerful and continuing nationalism
2. Distain for the recognition of human rights
3. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause
4. Supremacy of the military
5. Rampant sexism (and homophobia)
6. Controlled mass media
7. Obsession with national security
8. Religion and government intertwined
9. Corporate power is protected
10. Labour power is suppressed
11. Distain for intellectuals and the arts
12. Obsession with crime and punishment
13. Rampant cronyism and corruption
14. Fraudulent elections
Now obviously some of those descriptors can only really apply to a government rather than an individual (it's hard for one person to rig an election), and obviously someone's instincts can still be suppressed by the institutions they're operating under (Trump is absolutely a fascist, for example, but one that was thwarted by the institutions of the USA, or has been so far, at least).
But for someone like Braverman, I'd say she definitely hits numbers 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13. There haven't succeeded in controlling the mass media, but there have been clear attempts to control both the BBC with their appointments and threats of removing the licence fee, as well as organisations like GB News literally operating as a government mouthpiece.
Put up the bunting.Anyone earning less than 25k will still be a lot better off though due to the rise in the minimum wage, so some income groups will see a proper increase in take home pay.
any this guy is 30p Lee's boss? No hope.
Strange attitude.Put up the bunting.
This is good news.Anyone earning less than 25k will still be a lot better off though due to the rise in the minimum wage, so some income groups will see a proper increase in take home pay.
The number of higher rate tax payers has more the doubled in the last few years and will continue to grow due to this.It’s all smoke and mirrors though because it’s completely offset by the fact they’ve frozen the tax brackets - which would all have to be increasing at inflationary rates for it to be a real terms tax cut.
If the personal allowance went up 9% like the pensions (as it should), then that’d be £1,131 more you’d no longer pay tax on, saving £226. That’s basically the same as the NI cut for anybody earning <£25k.
Presumably only if they're currently earning the current minimum wage. If someone is currently on £12 an hour, there's no guarantee that they'll receive a wage anything like the 9% than the minimum wage is going up. And someone on £11 an hour might only see an extra 44p an hour. Not that raising the minimum wage is anything but a good thing though. But it is interesting that in an election year, suddenly all of those warnings that increasing wages will lead to huge inflation no longer seem to apply.Anyone earning less than 25k will still be a lot better off though due to the rise in the minimum wage, so some income groups will see a proper increase in take home pay.
any this guy is 30p Lee's boss? No hope.
Of course he did. "We’ve abolished boom and bust" (as a regular cycle) was Brown's claim, scuppered by the global crash.I don't think he really brought Gordon Brown into it to be fair. But that's always been the Tories problem. If you spend a decade blaming Labour for the debt incurred from the global financial crisis, you can't then hide behind covid and the war in Ukraine for your own massive increases in debt. Either these are huge global issues that no-one could have foreseen and the government of the day isn't really responsible for, or they are examples of financial mismanagement that have bankrupted the country. But they can't be one for Labour and another for the Tories.
Of course he did. "We’ve abolished boom and bust" (as a regular cycle) was Brown's claim, scuppered by the global crash.