Off Topic General Election Special
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I'm not going to defend New Labour but circa 4m of children in poverty after 7 years of govt is a scandal.
Labour has a fully-costed manifesto but don’t seem to have formulated a VAT policy as yet – remember though, this was a snap election.
However, it would stand to the form of their ideology that they’ll look to reduce a tax that effects the poorest in our society hard.
I know they plan to help small businesses by chasing big business to pay their way (cutting their ability to undercut as much) not just in tax but in late payments as well, and fining those who don’t pay the minimum wage.
They also have different freezes on business rates too, ending quarterly reports etc, incentives/ extra help for small businesses in the community.
There’s a lot of detail I can’t quite remember but in short, it seems like they’re going to try and look after you and it's important to know that people WILL spend more if they earn more.
I told him to use simple pictures and not words, but you know how he thinks he's all clever and knows best.
You really shouldn't have had to wait this long:
Oh no it isn't...
The problem is misinformation is king, people are far more blindly accepting of the things they want to hear, and far more sceptical of the things they disagree with, regardless of the reality of a situation. It means lie, lie, and lie some more whilst offering whatever people want is always going to be the best policy. If you lose you get to spend the next 5 years saying you'd have done it. If you win you get to spend the next 5 years explaining that the previous government has done things that are now preventing you from doing what you said you would, but hey you've got the job so it doesn't matter.
A nice law to be passed as a starting point would be that if in an election/referendum campaign a promise/pledge/manifesto entry about spending more on the NHS, schools, etc is produced which the winning party doesn't then honour, those who campaigned using it will have to personally fund it, to the point of their own bankruptcy if necessary.
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