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Reply | Kemi Badenoch wins Conservative Party leadership contest ...
at 15:26 4 Nov 2024
Linked to inflation and not the highest of three measures. That's daft.
Or perhaps similar to a public sector pay award?
An awful lot more scrutiny should be given to the welfare bill, it's my biggest bugbear. Nobody should be wealthy on benefits, but too many people are.
For the record - I don't consider the pension to be a benefit, even though thats technically what it is. It's earned and deserved by most people. |
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Reply | Ticket sales v Watford
at 14:28 4 Nov 2024
An 8pm Kick off on Guy Fawkes night was a stupid idea, although probably not down to the club. Blame Sky and the EFL I suppose.
Most people won't get home til after 10:30 and it's a school night. I couldn't see many parents taking kids even if it was free. |
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Reply | Kemi Badenoch wins Conservative Party leadership contest ...
at 06:39 4 Nov 2024
They weren't her remarks. She retweeted them.
People haven't been jailed for less.
It was a stupid post to retweet, could be construed as race baiting and should probably lead to suspension though.
Without resorting to whataboutery, many others members/donors have said worse. Most MPS have them been suspended, the money is always kept though. |
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Reply | Kemi Badenoch wins Conservative Party leadership contest ...
at 10:21 3 Nov 2024
Yes it will.
The country was in a dire state under the Tories. Absolutely dire.
Whoever won this election was always going to be unpopular because of the choices they had to make to get things heading back in the right direction.
Labour will be better than the Tories, even if only because they were so incredibly bad. |
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Reply | Kemi Badenoch wins Conservative Party leadership contest ...
at 18:21 2 Nov 2024
I'll be honest I think this government only really starts now. Badenoch is exactly who the right of the Tories want to hide behind.
She's hugely out of touch with reality, but at least she became working class for a while 😁😁
Let's see what happens over the next two years. |
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 18:17 2 Nov 2024
They'd almost certainly get pension credit too.
We can't afford the triple lock. What's the point in a pensioner getting a big % raise if they die sooner because they can't get an ambulance to take them to hospital, they wait outside for ages when they get there, and then have massively overworked staff looking after them?
We all have to pay for this situation, I don't like it but that's what we're dealing with at the moment. |
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Reply | Sleepy Joe
at 21:23 1 Nov 2024
This entire election is a bit of a farce.
We've ended up with one of the most despicable men in the world standing against a candidate that under normal circumstances nobody would have wanted.
The sooner Trump buggers off the better, the US can hopefully move back to slightly more sensible politics whatever colour they represent. It's still a basket case though. |
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 21:09 1 Nov 2024
And often done by immigrants.
Controversial shout, but how about stopping all benefits for those who can work but aren't? |
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 19:33 1 Nov 2024
The wage is potentially the minimum wage. And doing unpleasant jobs.
Do you know, I bet the example in my last paragraph probably is nowhere near as rare as you think. Especially among those who know how to play the system |
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 19:27 1 Nov 2024
That doesn't make them a charity case and them getting a 10% income increase when people who may be caring for them or collecting their bins are earning less now (and not much more than state pension) than they were ten years ago is grossly unfair. |
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 15:35 1 Nov 2024
Inflation is 2%, that's an increase of 100% more than inflation. In 2023 the increase was over 10%. Thoughout much of this time many public sector workers have been on strike after years of below inflation pay rises (if they get a pay rise at all) and the government ignoring the pay recommendations of independent review bodies.
Many members of the public now have a problem with public sector workers getting a pay rise of about 5% because apparently we can't afford it. All the while the state pension has increased based on the highest of either 2.5%, average wage increase or the level of CPI.
I'm not begruding pensioners a rise at all, but the triple lock sets it too high. Stick to inflation or the average of the above figures not the highest.
Don't forget you could be a pensioner who's never worked a day in their life, receive state pension, pension credit, housing benefit, reduced council tax, winter fuel allowance, attendance allowance, some form of disability payment, free transport, reduced rates in many places savings of £10k and still get all this.
Our welfare system needs massive reform. |
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 14:35 1 Nov 2024
Your last paragraph is a massive problem.
A good friend of mine is in a very similar situation. He reckons he'd need a job of around £40k a year to make work worthwhile when all payments and discounts his family receive are taking in to account.
The problem is no political party will attempt to get this under control because the headlines would be awful.
It's similar when you consider the state pension triple lock. It's totally unafforadable but after the furore around WFA in the right wing media it's here to stay. |
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 14:29 1 Nov 2024
The farm thing has only really closed a loop hole. Clarkson admits buying his farm to avoid paying inheritance tax, he's bumping his gums about it now but is exactly the kind of person who should be paying tax on his "investment".
Plenty of other people have doen the same, bought agricultural land to avoid IHT, that saves their family a tax bill but also increases land value for real farmers.
I'm a little worried about the NI increases too but we'll have to see what happens. |
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 10:49 1 Nov 2024
Tax rises were inevitable. Labour's problem was their stupid "working people" pledge, it was an attempt to win voters but it has been borne out when direct tax is considered.
The most cynical electioneering regarding tax though was the Tories Ni contribution cuts, an attempt to buy voters that the country couldn't afford and they would never have to fund.
The OBR and IFS forecasts are based over the mid term of 2 to 5 years, many things could happen to the economy in that time. Including 4 further budgets and potentially several spending reviews. Things will change and every forecast is wrong but some are more wong than others.
It was a decent budget, there are winners and losers. Most of the losers can afford it.
What struck me in the IFS report was this paragraph:-
"It does bear repeating that the fiscal inheritance is truly dire. The spending plans inherited from the last government were never likely to survive contact with a Spending Review. Tax rises were always a near-inevitability. The new government’s embrace of fiscal reality is commendable – and would have been even more so had it occurred during the election campaign, and not only after the fact."
The current dreadful economic state of the country lies full square at the door of the Conservative party. |
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