Oct 2023
7:58am, 21 Oct 2023
15,665 posts
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jda
Reducing stamp duty would be nice (as and when we move) but now I'm retired they really need to cut taxes on unearned wealth  Cheg, the fantasy socialist republic requires FPTP, and that's just around the corner, along with the rapture. I'd be dollars to doughnuts that Fields is dead set against PR for precisely this reason. |
Oct 2023
9:19am, 21 Oct 2023
10,191 posts
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Fields
(Not the case)
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Oct 2023
9:40am, 21 Oct 2023
3,496 posts
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paulcook
Flicking through the front page round up on the BBC website, 2 things caught my eye both Tory backing papers Both were about Tory ideas to get voters back, first reduce stamp duty, second tax cuts for high earners. They haven't got a clue about most people's lives have they. What's sad is people who'll never have to worry about stamp duty or high earnings will still vote for them. Yet more unmandated, unmanifestoed policies by a desperate unelected man looking after nobody but his own. |
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Oct 2023
9:43am, 21 Oct 2023
10,192 posts
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Fields
Sunak’s anti climate change / pro car policies are literally going to kill children theguardian.com |
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Oct 2023
9:47am, 21 Oct 2023
10,193 posts
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Fields
Also, ever gone on one of those Facebook pages “Pictures of the past for the town you live in” Notice how the same people who comment about kids playing on the street, and how there was far less traffic congestion back in those days, are also anti ULEZ, traffic calming schemes, and any attempts to introduce cycle paths, cycle lanes! Quite amusing. |
Oct 2023
10:08am, 21 Oct 2023
31,118 posts
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Johnny Blaze
This *must* be part of the reason why we have seen parties win multiple terms since the Thatch. The party in power can use the Exchequer to give targeted bungs to potential voters, and people will go for it - some of the time. But sometimes there is a tide in the affairs of men, and all the venal bungs in the world won’t hold it back. The tidal pull exerted by economic incompetence can be powerful and the Tories have nailed that one in spades. |
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Oct 2023
10:11am, 21 Oct 2023
31,119 posts
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Johnny Blaze
I quite like Lisa Nandy. She always gives a good account of herself on QT, which garners plus points in my eyes. Burgon… sheesh. He’s a train wreck waiting to happen. |
Oct 2023
10:20am, 21 Oct 2023
48,205 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
Fields - good to know! Jda, interesting huh? Agree anti climate, pro car policies is horrendous for next generation. Sunak's got kids, hasn't he? |
Oct 2023
10:24am, 21 Oct 2023
31,802 posts
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macca 53
Having to defend the last 14 years of incompetence, corruption and decline on the doorsteps of Ordsall won’t go well, I’m telling thee now. Have you been to Ordsall lately JB? When I was working I did quite a bit of business with both soap factories and a couple of paint companies / I think every single one is now knocked down and built over with “executive” apartments… |
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Oct 2023
10:24am, 21 Oct 2023
31,120 posts
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Johnny Blaze
When you are super-rich you can buy yourself a way out of anything. Normal rules don't apply.
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