2024 Election thread
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Think it's a bit pointless to try to attribute some sort of plan to meaningless nonsense like that tweet. Just ignore it.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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I thought it was just a joke (from rick)
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I half expect him to clarify that they did have Sky, for the cricket, but that his parents wouldn't spend the extra tenner a month for the Disney channel.
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Perhaps you need to learn how to make your point more clearly.
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With the "sorry, the D-Day was overrunning" bit, I felt a bit sorry for him - harsh to put that out, he's only being polite in the instant.
With the Sky TV bit, it's absolutely inept. Why does he want to do politics when he's so bad at it?
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I'm not sure if he does really want to do it now, now that he's realised that the superiority he felt at Winchester and Oxford haven't been the best preparation for the rough & tumble of politics. I suspect he feels a bit of a hostage now, not really wanting to do it, but not knowing how to get out.
Either that, or he's utterly deluded.
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It is but you have to register. Can't be arsed. Presumably everything good goes down and everything bad goes up.
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Largely. half of all children in families with more than 3 children are in poverty, which was a stat I wasn't familiar with.
Investment in the UK actually held up pretty well until 2016 when it falls off a cliff and doesn't recover.
Spending on pupils has stayed flat in real terms which was a surprise to me - but capital investment in schools has collapsed, which makes sense - when I visited my old secondary school they still had the same keyboard with the broken bottom C key I used to compose my GSCE composition on, 20 years later.
There is a chart that shows in 2012 40% of energy was produced by coalburning. That is down to 1 or 2%, with the gap now being covered by renewables.
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In what way are these other economies hugely different, other than the two possibly interconnected points of having lower taxes and higher growth?
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
We've heard it all before haven't we.
It could even be time for another rehash of the '10 men in a bar' tax parable.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Too many charts to look at, but seriously, why can't they start the y-axis at 0? 10%-50% is just annoying.
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Careful - Stevo might report it as a suggestion back to a focus group!
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"I suspect he feels a bit of a hostage now, not really wanting to do it, but not knowing how to get out."
He called the election. 😉
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
The one about people with 4+ children is interesting. Presumably that's because 1.5 of them don't count for universal credit or something like that.
What definition of poverty are they using?
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Interesting article on the likely impact of Labour's VAT raid on prep schools. This is classic leftiebollox, managing to crush small businesses and aspiration at the same time in the name of fairness - and chucking in class warfare and politics of envy for bonus points.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Isn't this just a rehash of the argument they ran a week or two ago?
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Election campaign not bringing out the best of some. By the tory’s own rules she should be sacked for that.
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It's more rightybollox from the telebollox.
Free marketers will surely celebrate companies that aren't profitable going to the wall?
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Sorry, how would I be crushed? Or are they trying to claim a school of 200 pupils is a small business?
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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No, this is "head of trade body doesn't want tax levied on that industry's product" which is as expected. But reported uncritically as news.
At least he says that lots of them are already running at an unsustainable loss, so the closures can't be only blamed on the imposition of vat.
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Fwiw, I couldn't care either way whether private school fees are subject to vat or not. I'd guess it's absolutely a non-issue to most people. Gets a bit of pretend fairy dust to pay for the imaginary spending levels.
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It’s a wonder how parents have survived all the other fee rises and remarkable it’s *this one* that makes all the difference
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It may only affect a few people but it is bad governance, so should be objected to. It's going to be difficult to implement. For example, if I want to do a Spanish GCSE with evening ckasses, will I pay VAT? If not, is that because I'm an adult, and only kids will pay? Or will they just list places that are deemed to be a bit privileged?
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Sunak's PPS put a bet on the date of the election three days before it was announced.
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Maybe you will have to pay vat on private tuition and evening classes.
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Not great to discourage education like that. University fees and apprenticeships too?
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