So, one in and one out. I think the Govnt is missing a trick here. They should launch a TV programme with a public vote for the āone outā. Saturday night TV, Ant and Dec to host, Ā£1 a text to vote. The extra cash would help Nanny Plum and her anorexic purse.
Muhammed from Kabul in. Gregg Wallace out. Simple.
Thinking about it, Starmer is likely the first fucker on the boat, so probably not a go-er.
Speaking of things that Labour are fucking up, South Western Railways has been a shit show since itās nationalisation
The Ayatollah works three days in London and two out of three trains she gets back home are either cancelled late or not stopping at Ashurst- the last one being the most common
And today - going to get the train to The Eastleigh game and surprise surprise nothing is stopping at ashurst
Who was it who was harking back to the halcyon days of British Rail? It was shit and it turns out it still is
By the way ticket prices will increase because everyone is claim compensation for every delay even if they are not travelling but have a valid ticket eg season ticket
27 500 migrants
Covered up due yo a data breach.
Even Parliament didnāt know you were paying for it
18,500 Afghans brought to UK in Ā£7bn Government secret airlift revealed after superinjunction battle
Calling bullshit on Ā£7bn - thatās Ā£375k each. It would have been cheaper to charter a private jet for each of them
The bigger scandal is the over a million foreign nationals are claiming universal credit
Not if you factor in the admin involved in bypassing UK immigration, finding accommodation for them all, and doing all of that in complete secrecy to keep it from the press and public.
It might get to Ā£7bn once the lawyers are done - 900!have signed up for compensation class action - hopefully they will deduct the cost of flights, accommodation and forged passports
Diane Abbott suspended again for backtracking on her comments about race.
I donāt know why they were so controversial in the first place. Should be perfectly obvious that people are visibly black or brown are going to get more shit from racists than the Irish, the Jewish or the gingers.
I doubt any of the latter are getting racially profiled by the Old Bill.
The Gingers may be
This is turning into the Richard Murphy thread. I like him, heās a good communicator of a complex subject.
This is the meat of itā¦
SO Rachel has managed to turn the Ā£20bn black hole into a Ā£40-50 bn black hole (depending on source) despite increasing taxes
This is largely down to U turning on the measures they had earmarked for funding their manifesto give aways and some optimistic estimates of how much tax their changes will raise
Unfortunately they gave away the money before getting the savings and then couldnt get their reforms through. Why doesnāt a government say, we will spend this money once we have these reforms through. Make the spending conditional. Its not fucking difficult
So how are they going to fill this hole
They cant tax the businesses any more - they are already struggling after the NI rise. Plus she is threatening to enforce an increase in Employer pension contributions
They cant hit the HNWs - half of them have already fucked off to Geneva or Dubai after the non dom reform.
The super rich private school parents have already avoided the VAT rise by prepaying their kids entire tenure at the school - so the VAT rise on school fees only really hurt the middle income families and hasnāt raised anymore money. In fact it has cost the govt money because all the school were able to go back and claim the VAT on all capital projects over the last 10 years, Genius,
She wonāt cut benefits because she canāt get her party to agree
She canāt restrict public sector wages because the unions pay for labours campaigning
She can dick about with inheritence tax - but again that only affects the middle income because the super rich will either fuck off or pay some one far brighter to circumnavigate it. Also IHT raises very little in the grand scheme of things
She cant piss about with CGT too much (she already has dipped that well) and anymore will negatively impact the city and erode the tax take there.
Which leaves income tax - and the recommendation to fill this hole is 5p in the pound across basic and higher rates.
Which, again, the super rich will get around, impacting, again, the middle earnersā¦
Yep - bend over, lube up, bite down and prepare to receive
They might go after council tax. they are saying houses havent been revalued since 91 so potentially fair game
But tax is based on the proportional house values. It does not really matter if the house is valued at Ā£10k or Ā£10m, if that is still the top value it will pay the top rate.
A revaluation exercise will cost shitloads and lead to appeals and more cost