Point is the problem with the country is constant talking shops and fuck all ever happening. Like house building. Like infrastructure. Like climate change. I’m done listening to constant hypotheticals about how we shouldn’t do anything. Move fast and break things.
Kwarteng confused growth with giving his mates a tax break of course.
Aka Italy.I was going to say something similar. We’ve turned into a country of talkers/delayers/moaners not do’ers, someones always got an issue with everything so fuck all gets done. Usually people looking for the ideological perfect rather than just ‘the better’ whether that’s to do with energy, transport, house building, infrastructure etc etc….endless hurdles. Chuck an ineffective government in the mix and we are where we are
They had a much more prolific shagger than even Boris Johnson to be fairAka Italy.
Aka Italy.
It's not about telling them their living standards are about to fall, it's about highlighting that a select few are seeing huge increases to their living standards whilst the vast majority are not.Good luck telling people their living standards are going to fall. Growth is not at all unsustainable by its nature. That’s a completely ahistorical take. You also don’t need more people for growth, because it’s per capita that matters.
Overall though, I don’t really want to live in a country preserved in aspic for older generations because we refuse to build anything. I like innovation. I like new stuff. It leads to better lives than the old stuff.
It's not about telling them their living standards are about to fall, it's about highlighting that a select few are seeing huge increases to their living standards whilst the vast majority are not.
I don't want a country preserved in aspic either. There's a load of stuff I want to change to make living conditions better. I get pissed off with listed buildings and their stupid list of things people can't do in order to preserve them. Often those buildings at the time were at the forefront of innovation and new technology. Those owners nowadays they'd have solar panels, super efficient windows and lighting, top grade internet etc. fitted as a way of showing of their wealth and showing off.
I know we need lots and lots of houses. I just also know we can't just build them anywhere without huge potential problems with drainage etc. I also value the need for green and blue space within housing for both physical and mental health. I'd happily see brownfield built on and convert numerous old industrial areas and retail/ business parks to residential.
But this has got away from the original point about pre-crash growth forecasts and post. Pre-crash growth was build on a bed of sand. Unrealistic credit such as sub-prime mortgages and the financial instruments based on them, allowed by lax regulation of the finance industry creating what were in effect ponzi schemes.
Notting Hill residents’ capital gains exceed people of ‘three cities combined’
Study shows people in London district made more in 2015-19 than combined populations of Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastlewww.theguardian.com
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People paying income tax invest something significant which is time. People playing the stock market or property developing do not necessarily. It's a completely unfair system that taxes income from salary higher.Dont understand CGT blanket getting a discount. Why do we want to hand a tax break to someone investing in Tesla or whatever? Surely just tax it like any other income and offer breaks for investment into things we want to encourage? What’s the reason for it? Just standard rich twats writing the tax code or something more justifiable?
And they’re going to use it to give tax cuts that will disproportionately benefit the wealthiest. It’s been pointed out this morning that there’s a £12B black hole in the NHS maintenance budget meaning hospitals are in an awful state of repair, let’s spend it on the NHS instead. It will still leave £4.6B to fix schools too.The propanda machine keeps turning, as if by clockwork!
Government finances show big surplus in January - BBC News.
Lovely to go along with the gas, car insurance scam!
Should have just knocked a couple of points off the interest payments!
And they’re going to use it to give tax cuts that will disproportionately benefit the wealthiest. It’s been pointed out this morning that there’s a £12B black hole in the NHS maintenance budget meaning hospitals are in an awful state of repair, let’s spend it on the NHS instead. It will still leave £4.6B to fix schools too.
And they’re going to use it to give tax cuts that will disproportionately benefit the wealthiest. It’s been pointed out this morning that there’s a £12B black hole in the NHS maintenance budget meaning hospitals are in an awful state of repair, let’s spend it on the NHS instead. It will still leave £4.6B to fix schools too.
Still got 3 year's of static on that front isn't it, take a few out of benifitsJanuary is always a surplus month and from what I’ve read the figure generated, whilst substantially more than last year, is less than forecast so it isn’t additional spare cash (no need for any comments FP !).
Agree though that any available cash is far better invested in sorting out some public service issues (infrastructure/capital spend) than a relatively small tax cut. Only tax I’d be tempted to change is move personal allowance to 15k+ to help the lowest paid
Not when there is an election to win, that won't materialise bar taking us into a major conflict?Can I once again highlight how insane it is that we run the countries finances like this?
“Oh our guesses were off so we can permanently change revenue/expenditure” until the guesses are off the other way. It’s just all a bit silly isn’t it?
Yes but it indirectly exposes the utter myth of taxpayer money. How does the government spend xbn every month without having secured the tax income or 'borrowing' at the point of spending?Can I once again highlight how insane it is that we run the countries finances like this?
“Oh our guesses were off so we can permanently change revenue/expenditure” until the guesses are off the other way. It’s just all a bit silly isn’t it?
Getting lively in the debating chamber!
It just shows the SNP only tabled it to embarrass and cause splits in Labour and they give no shits about Gaza. Otherwise they'd have been pissed off but carried on with the amendment. And the labour amendment is actually better as it places conditions, including handover of hostages in it, and the end goal of a two state solution.Anyone who watched the House of Commons in action tonight, would be utterly mystified.
A critical debate on a vital foreign policy issue (calling for a ceasefire in Gaza) and all they really care about is scoring points off each other.
Labour trying to dodge voting on the SNP amendment to avoid showing the splits in their party, and the Tories and SNP doing their best to force them into it for solely that reason (and actually walking out of the HOC in a huff in some cases).
All about political point scoring. In the meantime, Gaza burns.
A pox on the feckin lot of 'em, politics in this country is not fit for purpose.
Was listening to some of it whilst stuck on the M25 earlier. Full on ranting & yelling at each other. Calls itself the Mother of Parliaments? What an embarrassment.Getting lively in the debating chamber!
That is why the SNP are in such a huff, their attempt to "trap" Labour has backfired majorly.It just shows the SNP only tabled it to embarrass and cause splits in Labour and they give no shits about Gaza. Otherwise they'd have been pissed off but carried on with the amendment. And the labour amendment is actually better as it places conditions, including handover of hostages in it.
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It just shows the SNP only tabled it to embarrass and cause splits in Labour and they give no shits about Gaza. Otherwise they'd have been pissed off but carried on with the amendment. And the labour amendment is actually better as it places conditions, including handover of hostages in it, and the end goal of a two state solution.
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