thisisnottaken1
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fecking scumbags. No different from the Tories
They are Tories.
Replaced by Morgan McSweeney.
Meanwhile…for NI residents (and interested others) -
Did you read the article?Except the UK budget hasn't been announced yet; and is that the windfall from Apple taxes that the Irish government really didn't want to collect?
BBC can do better than this.
No, I only skimmed the article and judged it premature.Did you read the article?
The €14bn (£11.7bn) tax windfall from Apple will be spent, and forms part of the €25bn (£20.8bn) budget surplus the government will have this year…and further large headline surpluses are forecast for the coming years. Hence the establishment of a sovereign wealth fund given that this tax bonanza could end one day.
By contrast, much of the discussion around the British budget has centred on the "£22bn black hole" in the public finances and whether that should be filled with tax rises, spending cuts or a tweak to the "fiscal rules" which would allow more borrowing.
It may be of course that the UK government is engaging in expectation management and the budget will be less miserable than advertised, as you’ve alluded to.
However, forecasts like the following don’t bode well for the future:
National debt forecast to treble over next 50 years
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cewlwkg82ggo
UK national debt is currently at almost 100% of GDP.
The OBR says its base scenario is a national debt of 274% of GDP in 2071, with risks from war, disease, cyber-conflict and trade tensions pushing that even higher.
It’s in the article.No, I only skimmed the article and judged it premature.
How has Ireland come up with such a handsome surplus?
One of the most interesting things about recent westminster politics is the lack of interest in how we got here. Even in recent history, how did we go from people who we may disagree with politically but were not actually insanely corrupt jackasses, to johnson, truss and now clearly bought and paid for starmer?
There was an article in the observer about 3 weeks ago that explained how the labour right deliberatly threw 2 elections because they were worried about labour winning, ruining their career paths. It was an excerpt from a book written based off the stuff these same labour right , like mcsweeney, told the author, because they are proud of what they did.
The book is out now, and someone on twitter has been posting bits of it. This is why we got johnson and truss.
These are both 'shots across the bow' stuff from Starmer, he is serious, but lots of other stuff needs seeing to first. I suspect once we have seen the detail from the upcoming budget Non-Dom/VAT on Private Schools, etc.will melt into the distance.... 'getting his retaliation in first' (straight from Mike Summerbee's playbook )That's what you get when your policies are driven purely by ideology.
Man I can't believe the Starmer Party is everything the people on the left had been saying they were for five years.
Who knew?
So Rishi isn't a true British but Badenoch is? Honestly we should drop these people off in Siberia somewhere and leave them to it.
Been thinking Jenrick will win all along tbh- he's had rabid support from the right wing press for being pretty much fascist and overtly xenophobic (being generous).Despite being top just 24 hours ago, Cleverly is now out. Admittedly an incredibly low bar but the final 'semi sane' one is out.
Badenoch or Jendrick, one of the 2 crazies will be leader.
I’ve always assumed Jenrick will win.Been thinking Jenrick will win all along tbh- he's had rabid support from the right wing press for being pretty much fascist and overtly xenophobic (being generous).
Been thinking Jenrick will win all along tbh- he's had rabid support from the right wing press for being pretty much fascist and overtly xenophobic (being generous).