Rachel Reeves

[Londonlisa2001]

That will presumably allow Reeves and Starmer to claim they are keeping their promise not to increase tax on ‘working people’? I would think they’ll need to protect (state) pensioners somehow, and hit wealthy and multiple property owners, or they’ll be crucified and lose the over 65 vote, probably to Fartage.

I can see this one happening, as it gives them political wriggle room to pretend they kept their manifesto promise…one which never needed to be made.

People on only a state pension don’t pay income tax at the moment so it wouldn't affect them.

I never understand why pensioners though have any more protections than anyone else.

This generation of pensioners are the wealthiest generation in history.

 

[Londonlisa2001]

Yeah but this licence …

There is a real touch of sexism about all this.

If a male chancellor had left it to his wife to sort out the rental agreements with the estate agent and the wife had been emailing back and forth about it, there is absolutely no chance the papers would say he must have known what was going on. As he’d be far too busy and important to worry his head about ‘household matters’. Fundamentally this boils down to the press assuming that women should know about all household things. It’s pretty much the same as when they wonder how someone can split their time between a huge job and childcare if it’s a woman whereas a man? - doesn't cross their minds.

 

[exiledclaseboy]

There is a real touch of sexism about all this.

If a male chancellor had left it to his wife to sort out the rental agreements with the estate agent and the wife had been emailing back and forth about it, there is absolutely no chance the papers would say he must have known what was going on. As he’d be far too busy and important to worry his head about ‘household matters’. Fundamentally this boils down to the press assuming that women should know about all household things. It’s pretty much the same as when they wonder how someone can split their time between a huge job and childcare if it’s a woman whereas a man? - doesn't cross their minds.

I said at the start of this thread, they went after Rayner and brought her down over virtually nothing and now they’re after Reeves. With even less than they had against Rayner. It’s no coincidence they’re both women.

 

[Londonlisa2001]

I said at the start of this thread, they went after Rayner and brought her down over virtually nothing and now they’re after Reeves. With even less than they had against Rayner. It’s no coincidence they’re both women.

Look how easy Farage is having it over his girlfriend buying a house for £850k despite having never had any discernible income that could amass anything even approaching that in savings.

 

[monmouth]

People on only a state pension don’t pay income tax at the moment so it wouldn't affect them.

I never understand why pensioners though have any more protections than anyone else.

This generation of pensioners are the wealthiest generation in history.

Oh yeah, I forgot about the allowance

 

[Londonlisa2001]

Oh yeah, I forgot about the allowance

It’s getting close to the allowance.

But they should really increase the allowance to stop that happening.

Paid for by the other measures I’ve mentioned.

 

[Frankie Burrows Cap]

What the chancellor should do (and probably won’t) imo is as follows:

Raise income tax by 2% on basic rate and 1% on highest rate.

Cut NI by same 2%.

Increase NI above upper earnings limit from 2% to 4%. (I’m not sure people realise that you only pay 2% NI above about £50k a year and 8% below that. So the higher tax rates aren’t as high as people imagine as you get 6% reduction in NI.

Remove the taper where you lose personal allowance between £100k and £125k as that is an utterly stupid policy.

Introduce a new top band for council tax purposes.

Introduce an exit tax with immediate effect to catch those moving to Dubai etc for tax purposes.

Remove triple lock.

Introduce taxation imputed on in country revenue rather than profits for the tech giants to prevent them offshoring profits via transfer pricing.

That lot should more than cover what is needed.

As an economist layman this makes far too much sense.

 

[Pompeyjack]

Quite a sizeable chunk of our foreign aid budget is currently spent on asylum hotels and residences in this country.

For the first year an asylum seeker is in the UK, the costs come from the ‘foreign aid’ budget. So Reform, for example, often double count savings in this area.

So does that mean that if we stop the illegals coming on the boats, then we are able to cut our foreign aid budget? That's a brilliant idea .

 

[Pompeyjack]

I said at the start of this thread, they went after Rayner and brought her down over virtually nothing and now they’re after Reeves. With even less than they had against Rayner. It’s no coincidence they’re both women.

Boris and Sunak weren't women (I don't think) when they were hounded over the cake

 

[exiledclaseboy]

Boris and Sunak weren't women (I don't think) when they were hounded over the cake

Hounded over cake. Yeah ok.

 

[Pompeyjack]

Hounded over cake. Yeah ok.

Sorry Exil, that was a "tongue in cheek" coment. The point I was trying to make is, not only women get hounded.

 

[exiledclaseboy]

Sorry Exil, that was a "tongue in cheek" coment. The point I was trying to make is, not only women get hounded.

I didn’t say it was.

 

[exiledclaseboy]

Also never used the word hounded.

 

[Londonlisa2001]

So does that mean that if we stop the illegals coming on the boats, then we are able to cut our foreign aid budget? That's a brilliant idea .

If we spent more on foreign aid and less on defence we wouldn’t have so many people coming on boats in the first place.

The thing is, if you take much of the natural resource from other countries, bomb the crap out of them to force regime change favourable to taking more of their resources away whilst continuing to ramp up rates of excess consumerism such that the climate in other places makes them uninhabitable it really shouldn’t be that surprising when they want to live here instead.

But I know you know that as someone who doesn’t rely on right wing media and likes instead to consider a range of opinions.

 

[Londonlisa2001]

Boris and Sunak weren't women (I don't think) when they were hounded over the cake

Neither Boris Johnson nor Rishi Sinai lost their positions over ‘cake’.