LEAVE the Conservative Party and save your country!
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In Scotland? No shit, Sherlock. There are still way too many people up there who swallow the SNP fantasy that Scotland won't become an Argentina without the sunshine if it saws off the branch it is sitting on and leaves the UK.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]1 -
What would any other party have done?
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Dripping with irony.
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In what way? I await the razor sharp comparison with the UK...
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
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I've already said I'm expecting that they will. Like I said the extra public spending is baked in and until the country is more productive there's nowhere else for the money to come from. I've said previously that the cuts in spending that Hunt used to justify his tiny reduction in Employees NIC are fairy stories. As for us business owners we've been in the firing line since at least 2019. They'll have to work hard to top this lot.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Well here's the Birmingham one. They actually have made a series of them. The hellhole that is Manchester next?
https://twitter.com/Conservatives/status/1772678003601887448?t=Iase_7y4-MK_yJ9Ng2e0FA&s=19
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Oh, they will work hard for sure. I await future criticism of Labour for high taxes on this forum...
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
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Putting aside the partisan thing for a minute, what business taxes do you think they will increase? Employers NIC?
FWIW, I think full expensing is a very positive change and given the general attempts to sound pro-business I think it's unlikely that Labour would reverse this.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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I find it remarkable that the Tories have so little authority that they announce that they have a plan to scrap NI and it not really make a dent in the discourse.
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Not sure if this is real or a parody. Difficult to tell these days.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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if he's that keen, he can open one when he loses his seat
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This is brilliant. Particularly the point about inward investment. Fishing rights, potato farming, paper supplies, logistics, biodeisel, recycling. This list goes on.
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Good question, Reeves has boxed herself in somewhat by making certain promises such as not raising the CT rate, so expect businesses will be made to pay by restricting deductions on things like debt and tax loss usage, plus the already announced windfall taxes on certain sectors. Reversing the NIC cuts may be an unpopular move, so expect individuals will see more of the current fiscal drag, higher rates of capital gains and more tax on on investment income, plus higher motoring related costs. Also expect more green taxes as they can dress these up as 'virtuous'. They have said no wealth taxes or mansion taxes but it might eventually be too tempting as it falls into the same 'bash the rich' category as VAT on school fees, which would be popular with the grass roots.
Edit: I went beyond business taxes there. And as you say, increasing employers NIC is a possibility while leaving the employees NIC alone.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Not sure if that's a list of things they could increase rather than likely to increase. Either way, it sounds pretty good for us as an SME. Don't have an issue with clawing back a massive public giveaway to energy providers. Just the most profligate waste of money since paying people to catch covid in restaurants.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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They are the most likely targets in my view: sure they won't do all of them, but they may also do things that we won't expect. The realisation that they will need a lot more money to do the stuff they want, combined with the fact that companies don't get a vote mean you should stay cautious.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
What massive public giveaway to energy providers?
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I think it's pretty obvious that more money is needed regardless of the colour of government. We're still short of labour and have too many people unable/unwilling to work. Roofs were not fixed while the sun shone.
Businesses belong to people, who have a vote. Maybe that link gets lost somewhat at your scale but I think the idea that businesses don't have influence over political decisions is pretty tenuous. Every business owner is someone's constituent.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Perhaps I'm misremembering but I'm pretty sure my energy bill in 22-23 dropped significantly when gas prices were going up. This seemed a bit nuts to me.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Yes, you received a subsidy. Energy providers didn't.
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But weren't the 'windfall profits' that the energy companies enjoyed in the same ballpark as the amount we were subsidised, i.e. in the several billion £s? In effect the money just passed through our accounts. It's the same with housing benefit, or reducing VAT on goods: they don't benefit the people they are supposed to.
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He also previously took part in a council planning meeting where a fish shop was voted against unanimously.
I guess we can be glad he's seen the error in his ways.
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The subsidy I received was the equally daft Council Tax rebate. Somebody else received the ~£70 a month deduction from my energy bill. My statements showed that they had received this amount against my account from the government scheme.
Either way that money needs to be recouped.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Objecting to development seems very on brand.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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As predicted
“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
Real chance they’ll lose South Cambs which has been Tory forever. Proper safe seat. Combo of young working families being displaced out of Cambridge to the villages surrounding it by house prices and general pissed off with the govt.
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You are confusing a market price which can be affected by taxes and subsidies with a high global market price which can't.
Yes, some people made a killing, but not because of the subsidy.
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