Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer were going to raise income tax despite their manifesto pledge - Financial Times now reports that they have abandoned those ideas after a backlash from Labour MP's. As Fosse stated on the previous page, I thought they would just change the personal allowances, not sure if that is an option for consideration in the alternative budget plans.
Labour are imprisoned by their manifesto. It was so conservative and weak they have no room for maneuver. This is perplexing tbh because the Tories were so unpopular Labour could have had some real changes in that manifesto and got in anyway.
I'd said before Labour got in that I would have put up income tax. I know people don't like paying tax (see Sucky for details) and I know the Tories for decades have tried to bring it down, but I've mentioned before reflecting on when my family were young and I was struggling to make ends meet, I was somewhat shocked when it got reduced from 25%. It's something you generally use to accept that you had to pay and if you want things to improve in life, it has to come from somewhere. So yup, income tax would and should have been whacked up...the political arguments all around Starmer or Reeves daring to do this just humour me. My beef more than anything is Reeves promising the banking sector to leave them alone - these ****ers have shut branches down all over country, saving on property costs, they've done all the people in those branches out of jobs, yes call centre employment would have gone up, but some of that has been offshored for years. These ****s are milking it... Lloyds Banking Group's statutory profit after tax was £3.3bn for the first nine months of 2025, and its pre-tax profit was approximately £3.5bn for the first half of 2025, an increase of around 5% from the previous year, and this is just one small part of banking. It's obvious that once everything is internet based the banks will bring in more and more charging to boost their profits.
One of the Hamas independents has left the Your Party party to focus on frothing about Jews as an independent independent.
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Seems this support for Trump didn't work out so well for her 7 months on... A row over Jeffrey Epstein disclosures has erupted into a public feud, shaking the foundations of Trump's hard-right base. Instead of being a gobby cow, maybe she should have listened to Martha Kelner... https://news.sky.com/story/trump-cu...epstein-files-sent-him-over-the-edge-13470629 All very funny if it weren't so serious.
Home secretary to end the golden ticket... Government to overhaul the asylum system, they will only grant a 30 month temporary stay and for any to become permanent will take 20 years. Anyone that commits a crime or does not work will not be granted to stay. I think this should include anyone that has come here in the last decade, but probably will not.
Yeah I'd imagine that has always been a problem. I still remember during covid, don't know if you do, where they offered covid jabs in some areas, no questions asked. Which was a clear acknowledgement of the problem.
It’s a start and better than any other “hair brain” scheme up to now. As I’ve said a couple of times, once they reach our shores it’s too late, the message needs to be strong before they get here. Time will tell if it has any impact.
Been following a bit of this on US news sites. Been coming ever since Trump said she shouldn’t run for Senate. I think it has little to do with Epstein and more to do with her own political ambitions.
MTG is a fruitloop who believes in all sorts of conspiracy theories, but she's like a dog with a bone with these Epstien files. Tbf it was a big issue for the MAGA crowd during the election, and he promised he'd release the files. I know we work on an premise of innocent until proven guilty, but Trump's behaviour over these files screams out that he's trying to hide something. His latest move to try and get Pam Bondi and Kash Patel to investigate Clinton (who we know was a sexual predator) and other Democrats, is an attempt to control the narrative and deflect attention away from him. I actually think it might cause Trump's downfall in the end, there's no way the MAGA crowd are going to let it lie and in their fervour to uncover and expose rich 'elites' who preyed on sex trafficked young women, I think Trump will eventually get exposed as being part of it all.
Also, I love the way at the end of that little pissy fit when she turns to the other reporter and says 'He's an American, I'll answer American questions'. he says 'I'd like to know the answer to what she just asked' Although, it's been cut off in the clip above unfortunately.
