Off Topic The Politics Thread

[sb_73]

Yeah, the minimum wage increases are welcome, as is the move towards a single adult rate. I also liked the announcement on Right to Buy, where discounts will be reduced and local authorities will be able to retain the full receipts from sales, promoting reinvestment in more housing. Hopefully some of these receipts might also be used to help the poorest pensioners affected by the withdrawal of the WFA (disappointingly not addressed in the budget). Not sure why fuel duty is something that never gets increased. Still, a penny off a pint!

As you say, their tune must change now. It's down to this government now and they will be judged on how these policies impact growth between now and 2029.

Is that receipts from council house sales ringfenced into new social housing? I hope so. The council in Birmingham has ballsed things up so comprehensively through ripping off its own female employees that it is now selling off assets and local residents have had a 10% rise in council tax - and will have another 10% next year. I bet lots of councils of all political colours in financial **** would just love to use these receipts to offset against their own incompetence.

Don’t get why duty on rolling tobacco goes up by 10%, more than any other kind of tobacco. Isn’t it more likely to be used by ‘working people’?

 

[Star of David Bardsley]

Is that receipts from council house sales ringfenced into new social housing? I hope so. The council in Birmingham has ballsed things up so comprehensively through ripping off its own female employees that it is now selling off assets and local residents have had a 10% rise in council tax - and will have another 10% next year. I bet lots of councils of all political colours in financial **** would just love to use these receipts to offset against their own incompetence.

Don’t get why duty on rolling tobacco goes up by 10%, more than any other kind of tobacco. Isn’t it more likely to be used by ‘working people’?

I’d guess it’s mainly used for joints.

 

[sb_73]

I’d guess it’s mainly used for joints.

Well there’s another potential source of income ignored, but then I think we have the puritanical ‘we know best’ wing of Labour in the ascendant at the moment.

 

[Star of David Bardsley]

Well there’s another potential source of income ignored, but then I think we have the puritanical ‘we know best’ wing of Labour in the ascendant at the moment.

I’d legalise it entirely but yeah no chance.

 

[Stroller]

I’d legalise it entirely but yeah no chance.

So would I.

 

[kiwiqpr]

WHAT IS THE AIR PASSENGER DUTY ON PRIVATE JETS

 

[kiwiqpr]

whats the assumptions
no one left to arrive

• Home Office budget to shrink by 3.1% this year and 3.3% next year in real terms, due to assumed savings from asylum system

 

[YorkshireHoopster]

I wonder if the Telegraph is happy now that half of their scaremongering has been shown to be a figment of the imagination in Tory Central office. The proof of the pudding of course will be whether the spending announced on the NHS achieves improvements in the levels of service and availability of care where its needed most. I have various aches and pains and those I experience six years ago were attributable to the onset of a lymphoma. Yet when I looked online there were no appointments available for me to see my GP for the next 4 weeks.

Let's face it it could not have got much worse as a result of 'prudent' financial management by the Conservatives and all of the broken promises by their anointed saviour, Boris Johnson. Still waiting for the first brick to be laid in just one of the new hospitals he promised.

I may be wrong but don't recall any Telegraph editorials reporting on that.

 

[Steelmonkey]

I wonder if the Telegraph is happy now that half of their scaremongering has been shown to be a figment of the imagination in Tory Central office. The proof of the pudding of course will be whether the spending announced on the NHS achieves improvements in the levels of service and availability of care where its needed most. I have various aches and pains and those I experience six years ago were attributable to the onset of a lymphoma. Yet when I looked online there were no appointments available for me to see my GP for the next 4 weeks.

Let's face it it could not have got much worse as a result of 'prudent' financial management by the Conservatives and all of the broken promises by their anointed saviour, Boris Johnson. Still waiting for the first brick to be laid in just one of the new hospitals he promised.

I may be wrong but don't recall any Telegraph editorials reporting on that.

Still waiting for that £350mill a week to drop in to the NHS budget too...

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[Stroller]

I wonder if the Telegraph is happy now that half of their scaremongering has been shown to be a figment of the imagination in Tory Central office. The proof of the pudding of course will be whether the spending announced on the NHS achieves improvements in the levels of service and availability of care where its needed most. I have various aches and pains and those I experience six years ago were attributable to the onset of a lymphoma. Yet when I looked online there were no appointments available for me to see my GP for the next 4 weeks.

Let's face it it could not have got much worse as a result of 'prudent' financial management by the Conservatives and all of the broken promises by their anointed saviour, Boris Johnson. Still waiting for the first brick to be laid in just one of the new hospitals he promised.

I may be wrong but don't recall any Telegraph editorials reporting on that.

It's fun to watch the Tory press - the very people that hailed the Truss/Kwarteng mini-budget as a triumph before it all unravelled - doing their very best to rubbish the Reeves budget.

 

[Star of David Bardsley]

Saw Jonathan Gullis on the tube today. He’s the same age as me. Unemployment is aging him terribly.

 

[daverangers]

Kemi Badenoch new leader of the opposition...reading about her. I bet there aren't many other Conservative leaders who worked in McDonald's to support themselves when at uni. Good on her.

 

[Stroller]

Kemi Badenoch new leader of the opposition...reading about her. I bet there aren't many other Conservative leaders who worked in McDonald's to support themselves when at uni. Good on her.

Yeah, that was when she became working class.

 

[QPR New York]

Today is Election Day in the States. We won't know the result of the Presidential race for a few days.
I am genuinely terrified of what is going to happen before now and then. Civil unrest will be the tip of the iceberg.
None of the ballots have been counted and both sides claim election fraud.

 

[Stroller]

Today is Election Day in the States. We won't know the result of the Presidential race for a few days.
I am genuinely terrified of what is going to happen before now and then. Civil unrest will be the tip of the iceberg.
None of the ballots have been counted and both sides claim election fraud.

I'd be terrified if I lived in the US.

 

[Star of David Bardsley]

Today is Election Day in the States. We won't know the result of the Presidential race for a few days.
I am genuinely terrified of what is going to happen before now and then. Civil unrest will be the tip of the iceberg.
None of the ballots have been counted and both sides claim election fraud.

If we lose this by three or four I’m burning down the embassy.

 

[QPR New York]

If we lose this by three or four I’m burning down the embassy.

Yours or ours?

 

[Star of David Bardsley]

Yours or ours?

All of them.

 

[WBA2_QPR3]

Either way nigh on 50% of people who voted will feel disenfranchised

Receipe for 4 more years of chaos and US hegemonic decline

China and Russia rubbing their hands

 

[Star of David Bardsley]

Not even the slim possibility of a nuclear war before Saturday as it’s not like Trump takes over straight away. Perhaps Israel could drop one on Tehran and spare us some pain.