The wealth tax I read about targeted companies and people who had billions rather than those who earned their millions Clocky. I guess you are right, they are the paymasters of politicians and pull their strings
Another fxxking criminal, need a clear out of the lot of them, but then again most will end up in the Lords.
I like Tugendhat. Responsible for one of the better political speeches and performances of recent times in my opinion. I had thought more of his like would be better for us all. This is hardly crime of the century, and in my case it is a case of their but for the grace of god go I.
Today's technology could be old hat in a few years time, getting rid of heat pumps could prove difficult.
Just watched Rachel Reaves smash it yday. Proper player her to be fair. Built it up with great experience in finance and economics. Wiped the floor with Hunt. Who looked like a rabbit in headlights this morning.
Just read that fuel duty to go up 12p a litre in March. Even all us plebs know that increased fuel costs are detrimental to prices- hardly going to help inflation, or people needing to drive to get to work.. What on earth is he thinking ?
You are joking? Lock down earlier and longer and you lower the rate of infections faster (until of course they inevitably rise again). Italy did that and had only one lockdown. How many did Britain have?
Tax on fuel is as sly as it gets. Take the money, from us all, and blame Putin. Even the basic act of going to work becomes more expensive .... ... to some it'll push them into choosing benefits over work, for others it'll mean real hardship.
Faffing around, doing things half-heatedly and late and having to have three lockdowns (Britain) harm the economy a lot more than one lockdown (Italy). Even the Commons committee with its Tory majority and Jeremy Hunt as one of its chairs agree that lockdown should have happened earlier https://committees.parliament.uk/wo...rus-lessons-learned-to-date-report-published/
It was the airlines who triggered the first lockdown ... ... while Boris stood and fiddled with himself. Coronavirus: Jet2 flights to Spain turn round in mid-air over virus fears 14 March 2020 "Travel company Tui has cancelled all holidays in Spain which were due to start between 14 and 16 March. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been meeting officials at Downing Street to discuss the pandemic." 16 March 2020 Boris Johnson announces first lockdown.
I’m retired , but if working and was being “ charged” another £4-5 per week for working , I would see that as my cash going straight to the “ no intention of getting a job whatsoever “ couple a few doors up by way of “ more help for the low income households” . As you say , why would they want/ need to get a job. Chancellor may as well tell me to drop them off a packet of ***s every Friday .
Have you got any comparative figures? I can't seem to find any. And even if I did, it would be deflection apparently..... On the face of it, some economic activity should trump zero economic activity. There's also the long term effects on people's health of lockdown, and the fact we all saw that eventually the populace just **** it off because they've had enough (maybe the fines would have kickstarted the economy........)We won't know the true cost for years.
I know two like that, living the Life of Riley on the State, I wont go into any details but sometimes its hard not to envy them tbh. .
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...-after-boris-johnson-speech-criticising-china The billionaire financier Mike Bloomberg was forced to apologise to hundreds of guests at a major Asian business event in Singapore this week after complaints about a speech by Boris Johnson that robustly criticised China. Johnson’s political career has been peppered with a string of damaging diplomatic gaffes. In 2013, he suggested that a rise in the number of Malaysian women attending university was down to their desire to find a husband. Two years later, he claimed the “part-Kenyan” US president Barack Obama had an “ancestral dislike” of the UK, prompting an international outcry. In January 2017, the then foreign secretary was caught on camera reciting a colonial-era poem by Rudyard Kipling in front of local dignitaries while on an official trip to Myanmar. Johnson, who was accused of “incredible insensitivity”, had been inside a sacred Buddhist temple at the time. Later that year, he was criticised for making incorrect statement that the jailed British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been “teaching people journalism” rather than being on holiday in Iran. His comments were later cited as proof by Iran that she was engaged in “propaganda against the regime”. The Liar is a buffoon
https://news.sky.com/story/rishi-su...iews-with-ministers-on-morning-shows-12750548 Rishi Sunak to stop daily interviews with ministers on morning shows The PM is to stop putting forward ministers to answer questions on the airwaves each morning, in a move likely to attract criticism after he promised "accountability" when he entered Number 10.
View attachment 253028 So, if Ministers are banned from public news programmes does that mean only pre-approved statements will be allowed ... ... it's quite an idea, from Sunak, but I believe someone already beat him to it.
Not surprised. Complete waste of time going on telly to be shouted at and not allowed to answer a question fully. Games have rules and when one side stops playing by them, the other can stop playing as well. Everyone has to behave themselves or nobody gets a chance to get what they want. I'd prefer to see politicians doing more long format stuff. We learn nothing from soundbites.
