Because the turkeys generally don't vote for Christmas, self preservation.Quote:
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Because the turkeys generally don't vote for Christmas, self preservation.Quote:
Originally Posted by WhileTheChief..
Top rate of income tax in China is 45%.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stairway 2 7
£50k was just a figure, what is the average salary? £30kQuote:
Originally Posted by WhileTheChief..
Top rate is 41% in Scotland, 40% in England.
A balance between what they have to charge and what they would like to charge?
Personally I would rather have a system of flexibility in local income tax to fund local services and a flat rate national infrastructure. But that's a whole different debate.
Let's put some numbers to it.
If I earn £12,500 today, my take-home pay is £1,012 per month. No income tax and NI of £29.
Next week i retire on the state pension of approx £9,300 and let's say I've got a small personal pension bringing my income up to the same £12,500. That's a perfectly reasonable, real life example.
As things stand, my take home income is now £1,042 as I don't pay NI as a pensioner.
Under the new rules I'll pay the £29 plus the little bit extra that's been announced, bringing me back down to the level i was on while working.
Is it really that bad?
If anyone wants to do their own calculations.Quote:
Originally Posted by WhileTheChief..
https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/tax-calculator/
…there’s also a universal credit benefit cut of £20 a week coming in very soon, in case anyone forgot.
....and probable inflation once the food shortages start to really kick-in post the next layer of Brexit restrictions.Quote:
Originally Posted by hibsbollah
Gives the same results as I posted:aok:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack
All those pensioners with their fancy cars. 😂Quote:
Originally Posted by Keith_M
If you earn £12500 today you're likely to be receiving Universal Credit, that Universal Credit is about to be cut by £1000 a year when the uplift is stopped and your NI contributions are about to rise by 1.25%. Using the previously mentioned figure of £50k you're paying the 1.25% increase but only paying 2% NI over approx £50k so the percentage of income lost is more from the person on £12500, how's that fair?Quote:
Originally Posted by WhileTheChief..
I thought this was a joke but sadly real. Looks like they actually are training people on jet skis to bump incoming immigrant boats 180 to send them back to France. The hope is they don't know how to drive it and will just go back. Utterly pathetic. Unconfirmed rumours they will first ask do any of you play tennis or have a hgv license, before sending back
https://mobile.twitter.com/BestForBr...54004641009665
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Originally Posted by Stairway 2 7
https://youtu.be/-KAWylrnlvA
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics...abinet-meeting
Just unbelievable. But everyday and commonplace down the rabbit hole.
Mind when sturgeon took too long to put her mask on that one time?Quote:
Originally Posted by hibsbollah
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This dick gets a new job every couple of months.
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At least there should be plenty coke available at xmas.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
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Gave Williamson sacked as education secretary.
Cabinet reshuffle happening now
Not before time. He seemed as hapless as Swinney.Quote:
Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns
So the Chris Grayling role in cabinet is up for grabs again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns
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BBC News trying to make it seem exciting and important. Shifting one money grubber around for another.Quote:
Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns
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BBC said on the news that this was a much anticipated reshuffle.
Did anyone know before today it was happening?
Laura Keunsberg?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack
Maybe overheard when she was cleaning Bozo's toilet.
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This Cabinet reshuffle shows that it is indeed possible to fail upwards. Be **** at your job and get a newer, better one a few months later.
I really want to say something original about this shambles of a government . But if you’d ask me to name the two absolute worst performers after Williamson in terms of opening their mouths and speaking, I’d say Liz Truss and Zahawi. Both promoted today to massive jobs, foreign office and education. Rabb gets deputy PM and justice. I can only assume he’s done it for tactical reasons.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryan91
Also keeps the Universal credit cut out of the politics news.
Edit- and this is our new ‘culture secretary’…
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/nadine-dorries-panto_uk_5a43bc80e4b0b0e5a7a417a7/
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Originally Posted by hibsbollah
Yes but an honourable mention for Dorries who really is a one person political cluster****. Every time you think they've reached the bottom they find another lower level and Dorries in Cabinet is one of those.
Some, like Coffey, are dissembling 'I speak your pish' Central Office identikit muppets. Others, like Dorries, have a particular talent for denseness cross-fertilised with a real nasty streak.
Dorries is there because she’s working class and a woman. I really think it’s that simple.Quote:
Originally Posted by One Day Soon
At least Alistair Jack kept his job. I don’t know what Scotland would do without him.
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I think she's there because she dog whistles for them. And by dog whistle I mean more like holding up giant message boards, and using a megaphone.Quote:
Originally Posted by hibsbollah
PMQs today was an utter embarrassment.
In what way? For whom?Quote:
Originally Posted by Northernhibee
I ask because, although it doesn’t make me warm to him any more, I thought that was Starmers best day yet in terms of actually getting some damage in on Bawjaws. Now going forward Universal credit needs to be hammered home, every day, mercilessly. When a minister thinks she can get away with saying taking £20 off UC ‘only represents two hours of work, we need to find a way of getting them that extra two hours back’, it reveals the utter stupidity mixed with contempt for the ‘hard working families of Britain’ I keep hearing so much about.
Gove's been handed a real easy job since there's absolutely no food shortages to worry about so we don't really need someone to take back control of supply.
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I meant more for Johnson. Not even close to answering a question, still with the “Scottish Nationalist Party” stuff and also lying about Labour wanting to scrap benefits.Quote:
Originally Posted by hibsbollah
Disgraceful.
Baffling that there's still no cabinet place for Andrea Jenkyns. She'd fit right in (and she worked in Greggs once).Quote:
Originally Posted by hibsbollah
Agree. I felt a real sense of disgust watching his performance today. He makes a joke out of everything.Quote:
Originally Posted by Northernhibee
https://twitter.com/independent/stat...161850372?s=21
Minister for the Union.
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I see the spineless six voted to send more children into poverty yesterday. Leveling up agenda going well, for them.
This guy actually makes policy rather than adverts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
shut up Ross once and for all, Diddy
Douglas Ross:
"I cannot sit here and listen to the First Minister say that the comments from the Health Secretary are the same we are hearing elsewhere in the United Kingdom.
I have heard no one else telling people to ‘think twice’ before they call an ambulance."
#FMQs
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Couldn't make it up. The equality minister is a bigot
https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/...mpression=true
Listening to LBC tonight and Camilla Tominay reckons Gavin Williamson is on for a Knighthood. There must be some serious skeletons in the PMs locker if this turns out to be true.
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Douglas Ross and Cole-Hamilton don’t even get a mention.[emoji23]
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Tories extended lead by two points in latest poll.
Baffling.
https://news.stv.tv/entertainment/do...mpression=true
Ross wants yet another job as if failing at all the rest wasn’t enough.[emoji23]
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https://amp.theguardian.com/politics...mpression=true
Another lie to add to the pile
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Dominic Raaaaaaaab and Liz Truss squabling over who gets the use of the weekend gaff. How the other half live :bitchy:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-b1923677.html
https://twitter.com/bbcdouglasf/stat...528742403?s=21
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Johnson and his corrupt cabinet members should all end up in jail, crooked shower of ******** the lot of them :agree:
good law project...
For months, Government has been refusing to hand over evidence in our challenge concerning Abingdon Health, the testing company awarded £85 million worth of contracts without competition. Yesterday we took Government to Court to fight for this evidence - and we had a good day.
The Judge ordered the search of Matt Hancock’s WhatsApp messages and personal email accounts. We believe this is the first time a Judge has ordered a Minister, or ex-minister, to hand over their personal WhatsApps and text messages.
In fact, the Judge seemed to share our view more generally that Government’s explanations for why they haven’t recovered information from Ministers’ devices simply do not stack up, and he ruled as follows:
- Lord Bethell must provide a Witness Statement to the Court to explain - once and for all - what happened to his phone.
- Government needs to provide a Witness Statement to the Court explaining how they are going to ensure they recover all the necessary data from Bethell’s phone.
- In addition to coughing up Lord Bethell’s private emails, Government must also trawl Matt Hancock’s personal emails and WhatsApps for relevant information as to how these contracts came to be awarded with no competition.
- We will now get to see previously hidden messages from the Ministers involved in awarding this lucrative contract. We will also issue an application against Professor Sir John Bell in respect of his documents (to cover WhatsApp, University of Oxford emails and personal emails). He has previously refused to share any of his records, despite his hugely significant role in the contract awards.
Will these documents shed more light on the murky goings-on in the awarding of these contracts? Contracts which Ministers overruled their own legal advisors to sign, leaving taxpayers with a multimillion-pound bill when it turned out the tests didn’t even work.
The Judge remarked yesterday that Good Law Project is “holding the government - correctly - to high standards of conduct, both in the awards of contracts and generally” - and we will continue to do so.
Thank you,
Gemma Abbott
Legal Director
So much for an Eton education when the best analogy Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson can come up with for the World coming to an end is the Muppets!
Muppet!!
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Originally Posted by Jack
he's a clown
Boris Johnson falls flat at UN summit with joke about Kermit the frog | The National
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Originally Posted by Jack
He really is very ***** at his job. You get the feeling that when the downturn in his/their popularity does eventually bed in he is going to be dumped pretty unceremoniously because he's the kind of character that once people dislike him, they really dislike him. He's whatever the Etonian version of Marmite is.
Does Kermit the Frog still resonate with people? Boris really needs to watch Malcolm Tuckers Zeitgeist Tapes.Quote:
Originally Posted by cabbageandribs1875
A dire joke in a speech by a dire joke.
If he cracked that in front of his supporters the most embarrassing thing would be the fake laughter from his sycophants. As it is he's still more embarrassing than the joke.
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We mock them constantly but it makes zero difference. They are still riding high in the polls. Johnson will be PM for the next decade.
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In mid term, in the state the country is in on multiple fronts, a five point lead is just embarrassing. Starmer is, by every measure, a worse leader than his predecessors, without even the benefit of having any policies or principles on which to be judged.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
i don't like Rayner, but........... i really wish she Hadn't held back:hilarious
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Scotland has at least a chance to miss all the pain that's heading our way
Indeed, but even in Scotland there are enough people prepared to be whipped mercilessly by their masters if it protects their precious union.Quote:
Originally Posted by cabbageandribs1875
Too many victims voting for the abusers on these islands...Quote:
Originally Posted by Bangkok Hibby
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Bozo has been found.
https://twitter.com/luckyma_man/stat...81268022140937
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Just £150k donation to the Tory party and you too could start ruling the lives of Scots.
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This should be duplicated on the Labour party thread. Sir Keir, started his speech yesterday by thanking his shadow cabinet and shadow lords.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
Charlatans, the lot of them.
Shadow Lords.Quote:
Originally Posted by ronaldo7
》Shadow Lords.《
It's like an episode of The Orville where they discover some M class planet with a dystopian, entitled ruling class. The crew know that the vast majority of its inhabitants just want to graft, party and get laid but they're not allowed to interfere.
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One of the benefits of Indy will be to turn Scotland into a full democracy.Quote:
Originally Posted by ronaldo7
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The frustration here personally is that we have 51% of the country who want to back a party on the left.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
But it doesn't matter as they won't work together or change the system. So we'll keep getting Tory rule.
The same guy ran no borders back in 2014.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
Rejected by the electorate at Holyrood, and still the Tories shoehorn him into the "Scottish office".
He didn't really use those words did he??Quote:
Originally Posted by ronaldo7
Thanks! Been racking my brains all morning to think where I'd dealt with him before! :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by ronaldo7
You're welcome.Quote:
Originally Posted by Future17
Here's some more info on him, but I'm sure you'll know about his dealings with foreign governments and DFID.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXQYuLUAbyw&t=795s
I wouldn't be so quick to label the Lib Dems as left.Quote:
Originally Posted by neil7908
One **** up after another and lies upon lies. Any other country in the world and the streets would be rammed with people calling for their heads. Chances are they'll even get reelected, how much more is the British public willing to take?
However much voters in England decide we should.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...test-elections
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If this wasn’t us, how would we describe it? If this was Viktor Orbán’s Hungary, or Poland, what language might we use? Would an announcer on the BBC World Service declare: “Amid fuel and food shortages, the government has moved to cement its grip on power. It’s taking action against the courts, shrinking their ability to hold the ruling party to account, curbing citizens’ right to protest and imposing new rules that would gag whistleblowers and sharply restrict freedom of the press. It’s also moving against election monitors while changing voting rules, which observers say will hurt beleaguered opposition groups … ”Quote:
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Bang on the money. It's about time the Scottish progressives in the Labour party started mouthing off to their "Leader", any of them.
The new Tory Lord up to no good, never mind No borders, and the astro turfing back in 2014, along with a subservient BBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXQYuLUAbyw&t=795s
13 Minutes in.
:agree: The UK is starting to look like a failed state.Quote:
Originally Posted by ronaldo7
Banana Republic? Assuming we can get the bananas.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
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Absolutely incredible the lack of real journalistic rigour in this country becoming more authoritarian by the day, very scary stuff imo. BBC are a state broadcaster at the moment.Quote:
Originally Posted by ronaldo7
BBC have always been that. It was clear in 2014.Quote:
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There are plenty down here who believe the BBC are too left wing, encounter it too frequently for it not to be a widely held view.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
There does tend to be a stereotype here and is probably based on a very long held view.
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Have you seen the supermarket shelves, we have become a carrot Republic, or should that be a carrot cartel?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostonhibby
Although the shape of the bananas we get will be dictated by Brussels 😉Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostonhibby
Yes was giving them the benefit of the doubt with the at the moment bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
Once we corner the global carrot market we will probably need free movement of labour from Europe to get them picked as most farmers round here will tell you, the local labour isn't exactly queuing up to pick them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns
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Boris Johnson condemned for saying ‘never mind’ about cancer outcomes | The Independent
Boris Johnson has sparked outrage on the eve of the Conservative Party conference after saying “never mind” about cancer death rates and the recent fall in life expectancy.
Grilled about his plans for Britain’s recovery from the Covid crisis, the prime minister chose to emphasise economic growth over health measures.
Pointing to the recent growth in wages, Mr Johnson told the BBC: “I’ve given you the most important metric – never mind life expectancy, never mind cancer outcomes – look at wage growth.”
Dearie me :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by JimBHibees
It’s all about the money for Boris and he has just told us that in the most callous way, horrible person who should be hung from the Tower bridge.Quote:
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Originally Posted by silverhibee
there's always going to be evil nasty politicians, i'm more concerned that there's people around us in society that agree with them and vote them in
I'm all in favour of capital punishment for certain crimes, do you really think Boris should be hung? I'd be interested to know your honest opinion.Quote:
Originally Posted by silverhibee
Just when you thought he couldn't slink any lower, the mask slips again.Quote:
Originally Posted by cabbageandribs1875
Nasty.
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Johnson completely ignores reality and keeps on lying.
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Dead in a ditch has a certain appeal.Quote:
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Carrot and Parsnip republic?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostonhibby
Got potential, if only there was a pool of labour somewhere willing to pick them all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jones28
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Johnson's performance on Marr this morning was possibly the worst performance in an interview by any British politician ever.
Which is why the coward only does interviews when he absolutely has to.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hiber-nation
Or he's with his favourite tame interviewer[emoji6]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...b1ea718eec.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by Jack
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He could have easily dealt with those awkward questions by simply taking Marr's microphone off him and putting it in his pocket.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hiber-nation
Yet again, we are forgetting the humble, indigenous turnip.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jones28
As the £20 universal credit uplift is about to be removed, tax rises are being implemented, and the Northern Ireland protocol is about to be ripped up. The Scottish tory MP, Andrew Bowie decides that having an egg and spoon race with times journo, Kieran Andrews is what conference is all about.
The times we live in.
https://twitter.com/AndrewBowie_MP/s...94355928997888