It's a representation yes, a completely wrong one.
Or from the sort of places that have BBC News on mute. Say...train stations or airports, you know places very few people are at any point in time.
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Or from the sort of places that have BBC News on mute. Say...train stations or airports, you know places very few people are at any point in time.
Clutching at those conspiracy straws again dobs.
I'd love to know what the conspiracy theory is with this one, CM.
yeah but come on the Tories don't give a feck about that mate, that's why they seem to think that £7.50 an hour is a liveable living wage
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I read "The Railways" by Simon Bradley a while back. He had some interesting insights re: the effects of rail privatisation which I'll share with you later. Off to play pool and watch the game now though.
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He'll be kept there till he fecks up enough that he's lost any credibility re becoming a future leader, or a threat to May more pertinently. I think she likes having him close and in a major, important role, instead of moping around on the backbenches.
So about 3.75% profit... I guess the follow up to that is do we think a private company might be 3.75% more efficient than a public entity? (Not even taking into account restructuring and reorganisation costs)
Labour gaining in the polls, but the gains aren't coming from Tory voters.
fair enough. If your numbers are correct, privatization could make sense. It is a big call with significant downside risks, so hopefully Labour is having a very good and realistic plan how to do it. It is a valid proposal if it is based on realistic assumptions and not just ideological conviction.
thanks for clarifying that. I thought that anyone could bid for the national concessions as well, but that was wrong. It might change in the near future so; two regional provider (SOB and BLS) are trying to bid for some connections.
Infrastructure is tricky. No idea how to handle that the best way.
When it comes to energy, it is sadly pretty clear how this is going to end up. Nuclear power plants are overall just one gigantic subsidy scheme. The government usually pays part of the construction costs, insures the risk and is obviously going to end up paying for taking care of the waste. Yet the energy companies are pocketing most of the profit. If a country wants the have them, the government should own and run them.
Mail is fortunately not really a problem anymore.
Some leaked details from the Tory manifesto, which will be unveiled on Thursday:
- The universal winter payment for pensioners is to now be means-tested, with an estimated saving of 1.7bn
- 1bn in additional investment for Education, paid for by the means-testing of school meal provision
- Tax-free personal allowance to continue its planned increase to £12,500
- Similarly, the 40p threshold will rise to £50,000
- Doubling of the Immigration Skills Charge from £1,000-2,000
- The universal winter payment for pensioners is to now be means-tested, with an estimated saving of 1.7bn
- 1bn in additional investment for Education, paid for by the means-testing of school meal provision
- Tax-free personal allowance to continue its planned increase to £12,500
- Similarly, the 40p threshold will rise to £50,000
- Doubling of the Immigration Skills Charge from £1,000-2,000
No complaints there.
Since people love talking about costing, wonder what impact this has, particularly the latter.
Ugh. Ugh ugh ugh.
Don't worry - on a day that this happened, Amber Rudd says the average police officer's wage is £40k to much jeering and Boris' found time for yet another gaffe none of them have been deemed as newsworthy as Diane Abbott was by the Beeb or ITV News.
Raising the personal allowance is a shit policy.
It doesn't help genuinely poor people, e.g. those already earning less than 12k or roughly the bottom 5%. But it is a nice (albeit small) tax giveaway to almost everyone else including those earning up to 123k.
I have been to some Sikh weddings where alcohol was being served pretty much just outside the Gurudwara.
I know Britain is in an utterly self-destructive cycle, but promising to devastate higher education by cutting international student numbers is just another example of how thick we have become.
I also don't get why they wouldn't take them out. It's popular even among Tories, and would make the numbers look lower straight away.
Beginning to think this "Global Britain" lark may have been a heap of shit.
Presumably the Immigrant Skills Charge will go from non-EU to non-UK as of 2019. I'm guessing that the idea is to make resident workers more appealing to employers (or their training). This is the first i've heard about the scheme mind you.
The NHS stuff is one of those stories where the headlines are normally out of proportion with the impact.
The NHS stuff is one of those stories where the headlines are normally out of proportion with the impact.
Yeah but thankfully when Kuenssberg tweeted Hammond was coming up she did a post interview reaction calling out the gaffe.
What she didn't? Must have been busy tweeting about dogs at polling stations i guess.
Dont fancy mentioning the changes to social care?
Be interesting to see the Telegraph try shake off their cognitive dissonance on May going after pensioners.
Considering the vast bulk of the Tory poll lead comes from pensioners, they could be playing a pretty dangerous game there.
I don't have a problem with the means-testing of the the winter payment, for the broader social care budget is in need of the cash. However the following is going to call for some fancy footwork on May's part:
On the one hand, there are already many people use private companies for care as the council service is poor; on the other...voters being forced to sell their homes (or the fear of such) will create a stink strong enough to reach
Whitehall.
She's certainly not trying to become class president with this one.
Labour going for the 95% at the expense of the top 5%. Stands to reason the Tories are going the other way.
On top of the grand I have to find for a visa I also have to pay 500 for the NHS for my wife. I also have to earn 18600. I am lucky I don't have kids because each one would mean earning an extra 2500. Ripping families apart....nothing of consequence
Do the Tories' elderly voters value their Werther's or their xenophobia more? There is only one way to find out...
Interesting view on it. Care to expand?
There's an article on the Beeb suggesting May's a 'Red Tory' and saying she recently met with someone who was a policy adviser (I think that was it) to Ed Milliband.
Maurice Glasman? Yeah he was the brains behind Blue Labour, essentially working class social conservatism. Makes sense.
Yeah, she's one of them left wing Tories courting the UKIP vote. Makes sense.
Has there ever been a point where both main political parties have run such an appalling campaign at the same time?
I think that genuinely might be her plan. Anti-immigration and socially conservative, is probably enough to get the UKIP vote. Throw in the occasional progressive economic stuff and you can nick the centre as well.
'socially conservative' - hang 'em, lock 'em up, family & marriage, bit of Church & Royalty, threaten to do for a few foxes, not as racist as UKIP - BINGO !!! Let's say we cut a bit of tax at both ends, and we're sorted.
(and don't let Boris out again till we're done)
(and don't let Boris out again till we're done)
That's the one.
The f*cking state of Britain today, when means-testing pensioners for a paltry winter fuel payment is a popular policy...and that in a country notorious for pensioners freezing to death in wintertime.