Westminster Politics 2024-2029
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This could be good if it fecks City.
This has worked very well for the past 15 years.
I’m sorry but that’s a bit of a harsh criticism in my opinion. He’s accepted tickets to two Arsenal home games. Woopdedoo
Just hope she’s taxing the right people.
Going to Arsenal games should be a arrestable offence
More austerity, just packaged differently. It's OK though because our team won the election.
Raising social rents and cutting winter fuel allowances doesn't suggest that's the road she's taking.
Means testing fuel allowances does although as usual with means testing it will be the those just outside the threshold that moan.
Agree on raising social rents, madness that that is being targeted for a tax to help with affordable housing while people still have second homes that are empty for 10 months of the year.
occasionally you see a poor person smile, which really shouldn’t be happening. a worthwhile increase.
I actually have some sympathy with councils considering the fiscal rules they have to operate under. I think you can make the point that HMG does not have to do this, when individual councils cannot run at a deficit.
There's also the point that someone in social housing who is solely reliant on benefit income will have their housing costs covered in full absent 'spare' bedrooms. I think people who are stuck in the private rental market on benefit only income have a much harder time and there needs to be more consideration to raising the Local Housing Allowance to a more realistic level.
Here’s a Twitter thread from Labour guy defending the policy on progressive grounds.
I don’t buy the argument myself as it ultimately still fecks over the poorest.
Yep, hear she's going after inheritance tax next, bringing down the threshold from £325k to a lower amount to hit 40% - also widening the time of gifting from 5 years to 10.
So if you've got a family member in a 300k house that has gifted you money in the pasted 10 years that will/could be classed as a part of the total estate and will be subject to tax.
Welcome to social communism.
To where? How do you return them if you have no idea who they are?
I imagine it's one of the first questions when people apply; Where are you fleeing from?
I don't disagree, but I was more making the point that councils have been forced to make these decisions to raise revenue in the short term, and HMG does not have to do so, given their ability to borrow money. Anyway we will see what else the budget brings.
No comment will do. Then just get a job.
I don't blame them, they just want a better life.
If I had the choice, I wouldn't move to the UK - I'd go for Poland or Portugal somewhere warmer.
Never considered Poland as being warmer myself, I always thought it was fecking freezing in winter with all that snow and ice
Definitely agree.
Tbh with the twitter there’s still a tiny part of my brain which still hopes things won’t be so bad that I needed to post it.
Also I have to keep up my non bias pure logic and facts view of Starmer Labour Party!
Buzzing. Funny how it coincides with people's heating being switched back on. Can't imagine that was deliberate, though.
The current Secretary of State for Energy -
Maybe if they sack off the standing charge and make the energy companies use some of their billions in profits to maintain the energy infrastructure?
Failing that, fecking nationalise them and stop profiteering from what is now a necessity of modern life.
Bollocks, paymasters at work again.
https://www.globalwitness.org/en/ca...s-take-over-45000-from-oil-and-gas-lobbyists/
Sue Grays son is in the back pocket of these lot.
But where do we draw the line ? Nationalise energy then next thing you know it will be sausages!
But really the answer is just nationalise/take into public ownership. Sadly won’t happen with this government.
It's as if the Tories never left.
They've only been in power a few months so they can still blame the previous government. I look forward to this excuse being rolled out next year too
Cheers I haven’t see this.
Yep I’m expecting the same. British politics since 2010 is everyone blaming a former government for why things can never improve.
The increase for Q4 has always been known and completely expected - https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9714/
Nationalise everything that a human depends on to live in the modern age.Healthcare, Water, Electricity, Transport, Internet, OnlyFans
They are all incompetent, I watched an interview with Dominic Cummings few weeks back talking about how they had to use a his personal Google sheets account for the numbers on covid.
They didn't even have the death rates for the first few months from the hospitals digitally it was all done by phone and a fecking whiteboard.
If you watch it he says that the Head of the Civil Service is the real power in this country and its not the first time I've heard this.
# Name Dates Notes
1 Sir Warren Fisher 1919–1939 also Secretary to the Treasury
2 Sir Horace Wilson 1939–1942 also Secretary to the Treasury
3 Sir Richard Hopkins 1942–1945 also Secretary to the Treasury
4 Sir Edward Bridges 1945–1956 also Secretary to the Treasury
5 Sir Norman Brook 1956–1962 also Joint Secretary to the Treasury
6 Sir Laurence Helsby 1963–1968 also Joint Secretary to the Treasury
7 Sir William Armstrong 1968–1974 also Permanent Secretary, Civil Service Department
8 Sir Douglas Allen 1974–1978 also Permanent Secretary, Civil Service Department
9 Sir Ian Bancroft 1978–1981 also Permanent Secretary, Civil Service Department
10 Sir Douglas Wass 1981–1983 also Secretary to the Treasury
11 Sir Robert Armstrong 1981–1987 also Secretary to the Cabinet
12 Sir Robin Butler 1988–1998 also Secretary to the Cabinet
13 Sir Richard Wilson[26] 1998–2002 also Secretary to the Cabinet
14 Sir Andrew Turnbull 2002–2005 also Secretary to the Cabinet
15 Sir Gus O'Donnell 2005–2011 also Secretary to the Cabinet
16 Sir Bob Kerslake 2012–2014 also Permanent Secretary, Department of Communities and Local Government
17 Sir Jeremy Heywood 2014–2018 also Secretary to the Cabinet
18 Sir Mark Sedwill 2018–2020 also Secretary to the Cabinet
19 Simon Case 2020–present also Secretary to the Cabinet
Notice a pattern here in the titles?
I’m surprised they haven’t removed Case, he’s had a tonne of controversies.
Yeh of course..... then it will all be free, work perfectly, and sun will always be shining!!!