Westminster Politics 2024-2029

Steven Seagull said:
This is bad news for private landlords. Do you understand that?
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Polly Neate, chief executive of homelessness charity Shelter, said a lack of social housing meant that "as rents continue to skyrocket", the freeze on housing benefits meant low-income families in the private sector were at risk of losing their homes.

"The government must unfreeze local housing allowance so that families can afford to keep their homes," she added.
 
Sweet Square said:
Polly Neate, chief executive of homelessness charity Shelter, said a lack of social housing meant that "as rents continue to skyrocket", the freeze on housing benefits meant low-income families in the private sector were at risk of losing their homes.

"The government must unfreeze local housing allowance so that families can afford to keep their homes," she added.
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Polly Neate has a degree in art and journalism. She knows absolutely nothing about housing and private rental markets because she hasn’t ever bothered to master her brief. She knows absolutely nothing about anything.

People like her enjoy making stupid snap statements because they’ve been in the limelight for a long time and enjoy the attention. A person who landed in a cushy job where you can't fail and have no accountability to anybody, who isn’t capable of thinking more than 5 seconds into the future. She's 61 years old, it's the kind of shit you'd hear in a year 10 critical thinking class. Quite why she’s paid so handsomely is beyond me. Thick as mince.


Without asking Polly Neate, can you tell me who will rent these houses when the low income families are kicked out and why they haven't been doing so until now? At what cost that will be to the landlord? What will happen to the rental prices in this country if the government continue to pay higher prices for rents?

Seriously, what are we doing here? We haven't had anything approaching a conservative budget for half a century but people prefer to focus on daft rhetoric. People will literally focus on anything in this country apart from the most glaring issue of population increase of half a million a year because they think that aligns them with Farage. A deeply unserious country
 
MadMike said:
It works like daylight robbery. And I'm not averse at all to paying high taxes, I'm averse to paying taxes so governments can piss it up the wall or line the pockets of their cronies.

Denmark has much higher taxes than the UK, for example. At £125k in the UK you still get to keep ~62.5% of your total salary with ~37.5k% going to taxes. In Denmark if you earn 1'115m DKK (equivalent to £125k) and you live in Copenhagen, you will keep 53.5% of your salary and pay a whopping 47.5% in taxes. But the system works and it's social. Universities are free at the undergrad level (100% subsidised), childcare costs are subsidised to the tune of 75% from the government, public transport is excellent yet heavily subsidised and much cheaper (about £70pcm, 1/3 of the price of London), public healthcare is completely free but unlike the NHS currently it is actually working well, a social housing system that is accessible and helps keep rents in check, state pensions are better etc. etc... I'd rather live in Denmark.

The UK is stuck in a state where the taxes are not the highest, but still very high considering that almost nothing that is publicly funded currently works well. So you have to pay private for most essential things and that is a very expensive cost on top of your tax. If you want to have a model where people pay privately for nearly everything essential (childcare, transport, education, healthcare, housing) then your taxes better be like Switzerland or the US at 20%-25%. I don't see what value I'm getting for the extra 12.5% I pay compared to low-tax western nations.
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Seems like the personal allowance is removed 100k to 125k, nuts..

Having a few beers last night with a fineance director of medium business, 85k is the cost of this NI change to the business.

To which the landlord who owns too pubs said "she's needs to buy me a few drinks before she fecks me like that"
 
Badenoch…. not what Starmer would have wanted, she’s a tough one.
 
Farage is bitter cos she said no to him returning where as Kendrick wanted the wolf inside
 
If she keeps up her abrasive nature, it’ll be easy to keep the Tories under the “nasty” banner. Let’s see if she can moderate herself
 
She's not clever in terms of being intelligent. She just uses word salads to make culture war points. Which means her arguments are easily torn apart under any scrutiny. It also means she puts her foot in her mouth often, see her comments on maternity. She also lacks humility which makes it harder for to brush it off and unfortunately for her she doesn't have the privileges of Boris to be able to laught it all off.

I reckon there will be a new leader of the tories before the next election.
 
Wilt said:
PMQs will be a lot more interesting, she’s tough and very clever. Wouldn’t be surprised she puts a bug so far up Starmer’s arse he won’t know what day it is ….time will tell.
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Sorry what? Have you seen her during her career and more recently during this contest. She is thick as pig shit. Both of those candidates were awful. She will do what the Tories always do, nice sound bites with no policies. It will just be more culture wars again.
 
Given the supposed ideologies is it quite interesting that the Conservative party has had a much more diverse range of leaders than the Labour party. It's only ever been white male leaders for the Labour.
 
TheGame said:
Sorry what? Have you seen her during her career and more recently during this contest. She is thick as pig shit. Both of those candidates were awful. She will do what the Tories always do, nice sound bites with no policies. It will just be more culture wars again.
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Nigerian black female, against all the odds.

She’s not the one who’s “thick as pig shit”.
 
Wilt said:
PMQs will be a lot more interesting, she’s tough and very clever. Wouldn’t be surprised she puts a bug so far up Starmer’s arse he won’t know what day it is ….time will tell.
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Sorry this is nonsense. She’s a meme. She just parrots whatever Tufton street tell her to say.
 
Wilt said:
Nigerian black female, against all the odds.

She’s not the one who’s “thick as pig shit”.
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You don’t need to turn this into identity politics but since you are the fact she is a black Nigerian female is very much the reason she has got where she has. She speaks on behalf of white men from privilege saying things on their behalf that they can no longer say and be taken seriously.
 
Trequarista10 said:
Well IHT is based on the net value so if they have unpaid capital loans it will reduce the chargeable estate value and mitigate the tax, so it's not really relevant to these tax changes.

Yes - they enjoy the work and it's what they know - that's an important point. However, whenever tax breaks are mentioned, suddenly it's a portrayed as a bleak job that they do because they have no other option, or they do it for the good of the nation rather than their own interest. It's an occupation like any other, and I don't think it should be afforded tax breaks because it's an enjoyable job, or because it's a lifestyle they are accustomed to.

I don't know in detail what the realistic pros and cons would be of farms being bought out by big corporations, that's why I have asked. I haven't stated a preference one way or the other. I think monopolization and the dangers of big corporations is a topic in and of itself. What I don't quite get is why this industry is different to any other in that regard?

Yes, I do tend to shop at big supermarkets 90% of the time because it's affordable and convenient. I like local shops, butchers, bakeries, farm stores etc, but it is a luxury I can't justify 90% of the time. But if the local bakery premises was worth several million, and was afforded industry specific tax breaks, I would question the purpose and merit of those tax breaks.

Again, I'm not decided on this matter. I just feel there's more to it but everyone seems to have their minds up based upon emotional rhetoric.
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I'm not ignoring this btw, was just my last full day in Langkawi today and decided against debating IHT:lol:

You make a lot of fair points and argue them logically without emotion. I am biased, disliking IHT and with my dad having been an accountant specialising in farming when I was growing up, so I met loads.
There is a real risk lots of family farms are forced under or broken up. There must be sensible compromises, eg IHT is rolled up and only valid if the farm is sold rather than bequeathed.
Jobs can be hard, stressful, yet rewarding too.

Maybe this just a topic we won't agree on.
 
The Tories are now on their 4th female leader and 2nd ethnic minority leader. Yet Labour (the party who stresses inclusion and diversity much more) are still waiting for their first notch on either of those particular posts.
 
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Kinsella said:
The Tories are now on their 4th female leader and 2nd ethnic minority leader. Yet Labour (the party who stresses inclusion and diversity much more) are still waiting for their first notch on either of those particular posts.
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Thatcher, May, Sunak, and Badenoch may not be white men but they’re all a bunch of arseholes.
 
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