Off Topic The politics thread - Starmer/Reeves/Farage etc.

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Horrible idea, which tit thought of that, nearly as bad as letting senior citizens freeze to death last winter, unbelievable!

Take it to the Starmer thread. I don't like Starmer. As I have stated on the Starmer thread. This is about Farage. And we are discussing his abhorrent idea to cut minimum wages. If all you have to say about that, is something about Starmer... I don't know how to have a conversation with you.
 
One thing i will say, the parties are all the same, government is told what to do by the rich, no matter who gets in. Pointless voting really

but it is a shame that farage is managing to convince a whole load of people it will change and even then he's just using the immigration issue to get into power.

It's quite conflicting because i personally believe the whole party system is just there for us to feel like we have a choice in who runs the country when in reality the governments aren't really the ones running the country.

but then having 3 parties being so different to eachother doesn't make much sense if that was the case because if we did vote reform into power people would soon see nothing would change because they aren't the one's in control

so I get that my opinion sounds flawed but from people I know who have worked in high places they have all said the same that the government is just the middle man and they don't run this country.

Sounds batshit but I believe it
 
Rachel Reeves has used a speech in Downing Street to suggest she would hike taxes in the autumn budget later this month. She did not rule out increasing income tax, VAT or national insurance – something Labour pledged not to do.

Economists estimate the government must find between £20bn and £50bn to meet the chancellor’s target of balancing day-to-day spending with tax receipts by 2029/30, all while keeping a £10bn fiscal buffer. Her self-imposed rules on borrowing and current spending leave limited room for manoeuvre.
 
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One thing i will say, the parties are all the same, government is told what to do by the rich, no matter who gets in. Pointless voting really

but it is a shame that farage is managing to convince a whole load of people it will change and even then he's just using the immigration issue to get into power.

It's quite conflicting because i personally believe the whole party system is just there for us to feel like we have a choice in who runs the country when in reality the governments aren't really the ones running the country.

but then having 3 parties being so different to eachother doesn't make much sense if that was the case because if we did vote reform into power people would soon see nothing would change because they aren't the one's in control

so I get that my opinion sounds flawed but from people I know who have worked in high places they have all said the same that the government is just the middle man and they don't run this country.

Sounds batshit but I believe it
It's not the rich it's the faceless civil service elites.
 
Rachel Reeves has used a speech in Downing Street to suggest she would hike taxes in the autumn budget later this month. She did not rule out increasing income tax, VAT or national insurance – something Labour pledged not to do.

Economists estimate the government must find between £20bn and £50bn to meet the chancellor’s target of balancing day-to-day spending with tax receipts by 2029/30, all while keeping a £10bn fiscal buffer. Her self-imposed rules on borrowing and current spending leave limited room for manoeuvre.

If you spend like a drunken sailor, the bills will come in.

Reeves, and her boss not only welcomed the giant blowout of money on having people sit at home for a year, and on huge energy subsidies, they demanded more of it, and did so on record in the HOC .

Spending has to be cut. It will happen sooner or later, as it did in the late seventies, which is the last time any government raised the rate of income tax. And once they start,they can't stop, which led to the ridiculous spectacle of. 90%+ tax levels.

Spending has to be cut. God only knows Hunt, and Sunak before him, were hopeless, but they seem like bastions of rectitude compared to this individual.

Her budget will have the same connection to truth and reality as did her C.V..
 
I beg to differ, I get a lot less than that so why was mine stopped?
I know old people around me 80/90 + have had theirs reduced to the value of a bag of logs.
Labour talk total s hit, on their letters it just says the amount you have been allocated was chosen by a automated system if you disagree with the amount you have been allocated get in touch on this number.
Doing that to people who are nearly 100 years old and some have the gaul to criticise Farage.
 
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