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SPR
SPR
3 Sep
9:23am, 3 Sep 2024
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SPR
Were you there real issues with Athwal's selection?
SPR
SPR
3 Sep
9:52am, 3 Sep 2024
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SPR
I can imagine there's jobs that a Labour MP shouldn't do but the theory should be in the current system where many are renting, a Labour landlord could in theory be a "if Carlsberg did" situation.
SPR
SPR
3 Sep
10:02am, 3 Sep 2024
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SPR
Apparently Labour may be considering scrapping the Council Tax Single person discount (25%). Story essentially that Rayner denied they were going to increase council tax but wouldn't confirm or deny that they could scrap the single person discount.
paulcook
paulcook
3 Sep
10:08am, 3 Sep 2024
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paulcook
Scrapping winter fuels
Scrapping single person council tax discount
Reducing discount rate on rail fares
Increasing the cap on bus fares
Increasing the cap on water bills

Great.
Fields
Fields
3 Sep
10:16am, 3 Sep 2024
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Fields
Would be a real problem for me personally.

Why go after wealthy people when you can just increase an unavoidable tax that disproportionately affects the poor?

Are they going after the £2 bus fare? That would be a huge problem for me also.
Johnny Blaze
Johnny Blaze
3 Sep
10:19am, 3 Sep 2024
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Johnny Blaze
Not scrapped, means-tested.
Not announced.
34% to 33.4%
"Whitehall insiders claim." According to The Sun.
Ofwat.
paulcook
paulcook
3 Sep
10:19am, 3 Sep 2024
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paulcook
Fields wrote: Are they going after the £2 bus fare? That would be a huge problem for me also.


Read something in passing either yesterday or Sunday so again it may be rumour or just further doom-mongering.
Fields
Fields
3 Sep
10:19am, 3 Sep 2024
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Fields
I expect a Labour govt to be committed to raising people out of poverty not stamping them down. If the UK wanted a govt that hates poor people they would have voted Tory

JB - don’t bother replying with a lengthy C&P odyssey, speaking for myself I skip these posts as they’re content free
LindsD
LindsD
3 Sep
10:34am, 3 Sep 2024
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LindsD
Perhaps the CT thing is a bit like winter fuel. My Mum gets it but doesn't need it. So means testing might be a good thing.
larkim
larkim
3 Sep
10:38am, 3 Sep 2024
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larkim
There are definitely some benefits which could legitimately be means tested to avoid unjustly enriching *some*, but whether it is worth the administrative cost of doing it is always the challenge.

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