1. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    We all know that is the case to be fair. But Labour could be easily saying that the success of the vaccination program is down to the publicly owned NHS, and the incompetence lies in the government and their repeated wasting of public funds with people like Serco etc. 3 years is a long time...
  2. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Does the BoE charge the government to borrow from them? How did that all work with QE?
  3. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    So what is the solution then? Freezing income tax thresholds won’t change the money in someone’s paycheck so much, but if everything else goes up it reduces the money they have left. You say don’t raise CT and I do see the rationale behind that, but again that means those that have massively...
  4. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Austerity is a political choice - it was then and it will be in the future. And as I’ve said earlier, when the government owes 92% of its Cov-ID borrowing to itself... this idea of having to pay it back is not the same anymore.
  5. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    The reason you shouldn’t raise CT on profits over a certain amount is that huge companies will make cost savings (staffing, pay etc) to maintain these absurd profits, which in turn negatively impacts I get that. But how the fuck did we get to this point?
  6. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    And I could say you are making the argument because you are falling into line behind Starmer. This kind of boils down to the same thing. Those who have profited massively from the pandemic have yet again got away with paying nothing back into the system. The people that have struggled the most...
  7. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    If she’s making that point she’s not doing a great job articulating it. If you watch that in conjunction with her media appearances in the last 7 days you will pick out that she’s strongly against a rise in corporation tax and ambivalent at best on the rest. We’ve listened to arguments on here...
  8. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    It might not be anywhere near as progressive as a pay rise for sure - but as part as on overall package it’s still important. You can guarantee that the essential things in lower income families like rent and utilities won’t be frozen.. which in this demographic will account for huge proportion...
  9. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Think it’s pretty clear they support the income tax freeze here....
  10. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    When the government have borrowed 92% of their Cov-ID debt from themselves, its patently clear than the ‘affordability’ line is bollocks. It’s about time people realised that we aren’t borrowing like we’ve paid for it on MasterCard.
  11. Ian1779

    Things that annoy you

    This kind of sanction should happen more often. Mail on Sunday must publish front page statement of Meghan copyright win
  12. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Not really though is it? A bit pointless making noise about paltry nurses pay increase when you’ve basically waved through a pay freeze for millions and openly opposed Corporation Tax increases immediately.
  13. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    More than happy to be corrected believe me.
  14. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Got to love that effective strategy there for the opposition.... thank god we ditched the crazy commie shadow chancellor.
  15. Ian1779

    Big sky blue news tomorrow

    Maybe as soon as EFL meeting is done?
  16. Ian1779

    Big sky blue news tomorrow

    Plenty of time for those egg-chasing bastards to go bust!
  17. Ian1779

    Big sky blue news tomorrow

    Get on with it Lego man.... we all know the back story.
  18. Ian1779

    Todays games

    Into injury time.... 6 minutes of it :eek:
  19. Ian1779

    Todays games

    From the BBC feed it said lashing out after a tackle... so violent conduct?
  20. Ian1779

    Big sky blue news tomorrow

    Get in there.... Bapaga contract extension!!!