Basically, this. Labour is fecked.
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supreme court Judge said it can't be retracted..... i don't really know what good it would be promising to block Brexit now? apart from on a principle
I can't think of a single reason to vote Labour in this election. I think that I will have to vote Lib Dem.
Should hire you for pension advice!!!
To stop the Tories ? It's a good reason.
Thats the lib dems fecked then.
Blair's about as popular as a fart in a spacesuit.
Blair's about as popular as a fart in a spacesuit.
Aaaand, there go the lib dems gains.
FPTP
Yes.
Same.
They do, we just don't like them much in the UK.
Then, with the 6 hours you do work for yourself, every few minutes you have do a minute here or there for the government as well for VAT, Road Tax, Duty... they're a needy spouse.
What if you're both of those things, but pro-European?
At least people know who he is instead of Timmy.
I'm not sure. I think those who want to keep on centralising Iraq want him to be but in recent years/times I think Blair's considered a fairly moderate voice and throw-back to the days where governments seemed to know what the feck they were doing. Major the same, only minus the Iraq baggage. I think both men are more respected in the context of today's chaos than detractors want them to be.
well said.
I trust the Tories to guide us through Brexit more than Corbyn. The man is completely clueless and weak.
True. But then, so are many other countries
We sit around 35%
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_revenue_to_GDP_ratio
There is far more to blair than iraq.
He has sold his government contacts to every dictator and would be despot in the world, made an absolute fortune. He is everything that people despise about the political class all rolled up into one easily hated figure. There is a reason his expenses records were all 'lost'. A man who enters downing street owning a single home worth £350K and leaves it 10 years later with a £13 million property portfolio (now swelled to well over £40 million) is not a man you trust.
And you went to private school.
Is this really that hard to understand? I believe you. I'm sure you and your parents work very hard, maybe harder than most, it doesn't really matter. I also believe that a lot of very rich people (maybe even richer than you) don't work very hard at all and some poor people work very hard too.
Arguing that your good fortune (which in this case may be being born to parents who would put themselves through the mill to give you a leg up in life (although I'd be interested to know what jobs they were working 14 hours a day to give you the chances they did)) has nothing whatsoever to do with how comparatively well off you are now is, for lack of a better word, bollocks.
I'm not sure about that, unfortunately as Ol' Dripping Red Hands went down a storm on Unspun the other week. He's got more apologists than every religion on the planet combined and the ease that sycophants like John McTernan get media appearances means he'll never go away. He'll probably become the first real life version of those talking heads from Futurama as well to carry on well into the future.
It's been scrapped. I used to do that.
I have to stop myself picking up on tax things in the CE far too often, in this case I thought you might have forgotten and I wouldn't want you over contributing, 'cos I know you make the big bucks!
I wish. Our respective specialist knowledge areas are not for use as small talk at parties!He should just feck off. Can't he see his presence will harm the very cause he's trying to help. He's a political liability.
Your parents came here with nothing but got rich enough quick enough to put 5 kids through private school. What class of drug did they deal?
Where do you think the vast majority of those teachers that taught you and your kids got schooled, privately? What about the doctors?
What about all the other services like transport, security, etc etc etc which you use daily?
Wind your bullshitting neck in.
Well, he is paying his taxes.
What has? Salary Sacrifice into pension? I don't think so...
They will get rid of workers rights, any sort of decent regulation and turn whatever is left of the UK into a tax heaven. Not to mentioned they will continue their assault on the NHS, Disable People, Immigrates and further the views of the right to far right in England and Wales. Whats to trust ?
And even on the Corbyn point(We won't agree on the weak point, but I'll point out that he didn't buckle at the Labour Coup and the media pressure during it)fine you think he's shite but still wouldn't a Labour government be better than this Tory government ?
Same here.
It is hopeless in my Tory stronghold constituency, so it isn't hard decision really.
Maybe one if you are lucky, I could see it being balanced out with them gaining remaining Labour seat too. I will be voting SNP unless something drastically changes.
You need to put that first paragraph in spoiler tags or you'll give sammsky a semi.
He feels hard done because he doesn't use these services and he's paying for others to use them.
No. No it bloody well isn't. Your outlook on this is staggeringly stupid.
Agree 100%. I think if sammsky1 was honest with himself then he'd come to the realisation that for most people, voting in their own best interest is what they'll do. No shame in that.
I was lucky enough to have private schooling for secondary school and trust me, even if your grades are only marginally better than what you would have got elsewhere, it gives you a huge leg up in lots of other ways.
Its why I'm currently working my nuts off trying to give my own kids the same leg up.
Was in the Budget.
As disclosed this week by the Sunday Telegraph Philip Hammond says he will tighten rules that allow workers to forgo part of their salary in return for certain work benefits.
He said this "salary sacrifice" system is "unfair", and so from April 2017 the tax benefits of using these schemes will be scrapped.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tax/news/autumn-statement-workers-lose-tax-breaks-perks/
Why surprised? She'll almost certainly get a large majority and wont have to fight another election the year after Britain brashes out of Europe, giving her a few extra years to try and mount a recovery.
Oh and a large majority would also allow the pricks to basically rewrite EU legislation into British law in whatever twisted fashion they see fit.
Yep and the Labour love of PFI too. Mitie are another bunch of cretins.
Yeah he is. I mean he's saying he is but so is Donald Trump.
His parents were poor yet he went to private school and pays as much as the government will allow.
Give us your real name... Will Smith?
Ah, nice!
Anyway.... after 10 pages of talking about tax....
So. Tories. They suck.
So. Tories. They suck.
Well, that is what you think the Tories will do.
I have no faith in Corbyn to handle Brexit negotiations whatsoever. He is pro-Brexit and committed to leaving the single market. His preoccupation is with re-enationalising trains FFS. Labour have no chance of challenging the Tories in this election regardless if I vote for them or not.
I would rather vote for a party that more represents my political outlook at this time.
Corbyn's Labour cannot stop the Tories.