I agree that we should be recruiting more police, but recent tragic events would not be down to lack of resources. We need to make that clear - but back to the election, we need more bobbies on the beat, we need better care in hospitals and I hear from my wife who works in a school how tight budgets are (having to use teaching assistants to take classes because they can't afford replacement teachers). Labour has provided the most thouroughly costed proposals and those earning less than £80k a year don't have to pay more, and those earning that figure and more don't have to pay much more.
Something I feel strongly about is animal rights. How we treat and respect animals defines us as a nation. Labour's policies in this area can be seen below.
I agree that we should be recruiting more police, but recent tragic events would not be down to lack of resources. We need to make that clear - but back to the election, we need more bobbies on the beat, we need better care in hospitals and I hear from my wife who works in a school how tight budgets are (having to use teaching assistants to take classes because they can't afford replacement teachers). Labour has provided the most thouroughly costed proposals and those earning less than £80k a year don't have to pay more, and those earning that figure and more don't have to pay much more.
Something I feel strongly about is animal rights. How we treat and respect animals defines us as a nation. Labour's policies in this area can be seen below.
My brother is a Maths teacher and he is getting out at the end of this academic year because he doesn't like what education has become or where it is going. His students at GCSE have a 95% pass rate and A-level it is 100%. This is in a bog standard Comprehensive school. I admit he is rather excitable, when a Tory canvasser knocks on his door he simply says 'fuck off Fascist' and slams the door in their face. On the other hand if a Tory knocks on my door I keep them talking as long as possible.
My brother is a Maths teacher and he is getting out at the end of this academic year because he doesn't like what education has become or where it is going. His students at GCSE have a 95% pass rate and A-level it is 100%. This is in a bog standard Comprehensive school. I admit he is rather excitable, when a Tory canvasser knocks on his door he simply says 'fuck off Fascist' and slams the door in their face. On the other hand if a Tory knocks on my door I keep them talking as long as possible.
that's very mature behavior for someone that teaches kids
My brother is a Maths teacher and he is getting out at the end of this academic year because he doesn't like what education has become or where it is going. His students at GCSE have a 95% pass rate and A-level it is 100%. This is in a bog standard Comprehensive school. I admit he is rather excitable, when a Tory canvasser knocks on his door he simply says 'fuck off Fascist' and slams the door in their face. On the other hand if a Tory knocks on my door I keep them talking as long as possible.
that's very mature behavior for someone that teaches kids
My brother is a Maths teacher and he is getting out at the end of this academic year because he doesn't like what education has become or where it is going. His students at GCSE have a 95% pass rate and A-level it is 100%. This is in a bog standard Comprehensive school. I admit he is rather excitable, when a Tory canvasser knocks on his door he simply says 'fuck off Fascist' and slams the door in their face. On the other hand if a Tory knocks on my door I keep them talking as long as possible.
that's very mature behavior for someone that teaches kids
Yes. That's right. The behaviour, language and professionalism exhibited by thousands of teachers in their classrooms should also be expected of them 24/7, even if in their own homes, on their own time and in their own company. All teachers should be banned from smoking, drinking, swearing, having a heated argument, playing 'pull my finger', going for a shit, watching '18' rated movies or having sex because that wouldn't be appropriate behaviour for someone who teaches kids. If you can't do it in the classroom, you can't do it at all. It doesn't matter how good he is at teaching, if you don't like how he behaves away from the class, judge him on that.
One thing I don't recall seeing being touched on (could be wrong) is the big proposed hike of Corporation Tax by Labour. Is this really a good thing? Yes, it has the potential to provide more money for spending in other areas but could this have a potential negative effect?
Firstly, are larger companies not likely to shift the services they provide to another country where the tax is potentially lower, thus costing people their jobs? Only takes a few large companies to shift and then Labours nearly fully costed manifesto is borrowing or pulling £££ from elsewhere?
Secondly, more corporation tax to pay means less profit which could mean lower pay increases for staff? This has an obvious knock on effect in terms of people spending less.
Lastly, what about small businesses that have few members of staff or those operating through limited companies (contractors of the various sorts) ? Would these be hurt by the raises or is there some sort of exemption in place with regards to turnover? I'd imagine a lot of businesses that just get by with very few members of staff would be hurt hard by this?
I agree that we should be recruiting more police, but recent tragic events would not be down to lack of resources. We need to make that clear - but back to the election, we need more bobbies on the beat, we need better care in hospitals and I hear from my wife who works in a school how tight budgets are (having to use teaching assistants to take classes because they can't afford replacement teachers). Labour has provided the most thouroughly costed proposals and those earning less than £80k a year don't have to pay more, and those earning that figure and more don't have to pay much more.
Something I feel strongly about is animal rights. How we treat and respect animals defines us as a nation. Labour's policies in this area can be seen below.
One thing I don't recall seeing being touched on (could be wrong) is the big proposed hike of Corporation Tax by Labour. Is this really a good thing? Yes, it has the potential to provide more money for spending in other areas but could this have a potential negative effect?
Firstly, are larger companies not likely to shift the services they provide to another country where the tax is potentially lower, thus costing people their jobs? Only takes a few large companies to shift and then Labours nearly fully costed manifesto is borrowing or pulling £££ from elsewhere?
Secondly, more corporation tax to pay means less profit which could mean lower pay increases for staff? This has an obvious knock on effect in terms of people spending less.
Lastly, what about small businesses that have few members of staff or those operating through limited companies (contractors of the various sorts) ? Would these be hurt by the raises or is there some sort of exemption in place with regards to turnover? I'd imagine a lot of businesses that just get by with very few members of staff would be hurt hard by this?
Just curious like...
I own a small printing business. I sure we will not be hurt. In fact if people have more money in their pockets it helps our business.
I agree that we should be recruiting more police, but recent tragic events would not be down to lack of resources. We need to make that clear - but back to the election, we need more bobbies on the beat, we need better care in hospitals and I hear from my wife who works in a school how tight budgets are (having to use teaching assistants to take classes because they can't afford replacement teachers). Labour has provided the most thouroughly costed proposals and those earning less than £80k a year don't have to pay more, and those earning that figure and more don't have to pay much more.
Something I feel strongly about is animal rights. How we treat and respect animals defines us as a nation. Labour's policies in this area can be seen below.
If ever there was an argument for increased investment in public spending, monday's event is it. Surely no one would begrudge a higher level of proportionate taxation (if spent efficiently) to help the police and the intelligence services - again this would be a taxation to the benefit of us all.
I don't care where it comes from, me, high earners, those tossers in charge of Google who have a very 'unique' tax status.....this is the definition of being strong and stable in my opinion, going after the resources to fund a fairer society and not backing down because a few CEOs threaten to up sticks to Ireland
One thing I don't recall seeing being touched on (could be wrong) is the big proposed hike of Corporation Tax by Labour. Is this really a good thing? Yes, it has the potential to provide more money for spending in other areas but could this have a potential negative effect?
Firstly, are larger companies not likely to shift the services they provide to another country where the tax is potentially lower, thus costing people their jobs? Only takes a few large companies to shift and then Labours nearly fully costed manifesto is borrowing or pulling £££ from elsewhere?
Secondly, more corporation tax to pay means less profit which could mean lower pay increases for staff? This has an obvious knock on effect in terms of people spending less.
Lastly, what about small businesses that have few members of staff or those operating through limited companies (contractors of the various sorts) ? Would these be hurt by the raises or is there some sort of exemption in place with regards to turnover? I'd imagine a lot of businesses that just get by with very few members of staff would be hurt hard by this?
Just curious like...
I guess no one knows what will actually happen except the socialist view goes something like :-
Imagine you tell a shopkeeper that he will pay £10,000 extra rates every year. His initial reaction is that he will close the shop.
But then he learns that all his competitors will also have to pay the money and it will be used to build a free car park for shoppers and staff to use. Suddenly things don't seem nearly so bad. The extra rates will easily be covered by profits from the extra customers attracted by free parking.
In fact, he thinks he wouldn't mind paying an extra £20,000 a year if the money was used to provide a bus service for customers without cars or to pay for education so that he could hire local people and not have to rely on attracting people from abroad or to have policemen on duty to preventing shoplifting and reassure customers etc etc
One thing I don't recall seeing being touched on (could be wrong) is the big proposed hike of Corporation Tax by Labour. Is this really a good thing? Yes, it has the potential to provide more money for spending in other areas but could this have a potential negative effect?
Firstly, are larger companies not likely to shift the services they provide to another country where the tax is potentially lower, thus costing people their jobs? Only takes a few large companies to shift and then Labours nearly fully costed manifesto is borrowing or pulling £££ from elsewhere?
Secondly, more corporation tax to pay means less profit which could mean lower pay increases for staff? This has an obvious knock on effect in terms of people spending less.
Lastly, what about small businesses that have few members of staff or those operating through limited companies (contractors of the various sorts) ? Would these be hurt by the raises or is there some sort of exemption in place with regards to turnover? I'd imagine a lot of businesses that just get by with very few members of staff would be hurt hard by this?
Just curious like...
Fairly sure our current tax rates are very favourable amongst the other Western non tax haven countries, I would seriously doubt they'd go to all the bother of relocating just for a small increase in taxes. Although how that would actually play out in the middle of Brexit no one knows.
One thing I don't recall seeing being touched on (could be wrong) is the big proposed hike of Corporation Tax by Labour. Is this really a good thing? Yes, it has the potential to provide more money for spending in other areas but could this have a potential negative effect?
Firstly, are larger companies not likely to shift the services they provide to another country where the tax is potentially lower, thus costing people their jobs? Only takes a few large companies to shift and then Labours nearly fully costed manifesto is borrowing or pulling £££ from elsewhere?
Secondly, more corporation tax to pay means less profit which could mean lower pay increases for staff? This has an obvious knock on effect in terms of people spending less.
Lastly, what about small businesses that have few members of staff or those operating through limited companies (contractors of the various sorts) ? Would these be hurt by the raises or is there some sort of exemption in place with regards to turnover? I'd imagine a lot of businesses that just get by with very few members of staff would be hurt hard by this?
Just curious like...
Corporation tax rates in the UK are currently 19% - I believe Labour's plan is to raise that to 26% - which would still be one of the lowest amongst the developed economies - Germany for example is 30%
My brother is a Maths teacher and he is getting out at the end of this academic year because he doesn't like what education has become or where it is going. His students at GCSE have a 95% pass rate and A-level it is 100%. This is in a bog standard Comprehensive school. I admit he is rather excitable, when a Tory canvasser knocks on his door he simply says 'fuck off Fascist' and slams the door in their face. On the other hand if a Tory knocks on my door I keep them talking as long as possible.
that's very mature behavior for someone that teaches kids
Yes. That's right. The behaviour, language and professionalism exhibited by thousands of teachers in their classrooms should also be expected of them 24/7, even if in their own homes, on their own time and in their own company. All teachers should be banned from smoking, drinking, swearing, having a heated argument, playing 'pull my finger', going for a shit, watching '18' rated movies or having sex because that wouldn't be appropriate behaviour for someone who teaches kids. If you can't do it in the classroom, you can't do it at all. It doesn't matter how good he is at teaching, if you don't like how he behaves away from the class, judge him on that.
not at all just thought its a bit childish - opinions an all and in a society where were meant to respect each other - or so that's what we get told every day. telling someone to fuck off and calling them a fascist - isnt exactly respectful is it? we get people on here crying after foul language is used at football matches.
My brother is a Maths teacher and he is getting out at the end of this academic year because he doesn't like what education has become or where it is going. His students at GCSE have a 95% pass rate and A-level it is 100%. This is in a bog standard Comprehensive school. I admit he is rather excitable, when a Tory canvasser knocks on his door he simply says 'fuck off Fascist' and slams the door in their face. On the other hand if a Tory knocks on my door I keep them talking as long as possible.
that's very mature behavior for someone that teaches kids
Yes. That's right. The behaviour, language and professionalism exhibited by thousands of teachers in their classrooms should also be expected of them 24/7, even if in their own homes, on their own time and in their own company. All teachers should be banned from smoking, drinking, swearing, having a heated argument, playing 'pull my finger', going for a shit, watching '18' rated movies or having sex because that wouldn't be appropriate behaviour for someone who teaches kids. If you can't do it in the classroom, you can't do it at all. It doesn't matter how good he is at teaching, if you don't like how he behaves away from the class, judge him on that.
not at all just thought its a bit childish - opinions an all and in a society where were meant to respect each other - or so that's what we get told every day. telling someone to fuck off and calling them a fascist - isnt exactly respectful is it? we get people on here crying after foul language is used at football matches.
and another point your career does differ into what people expect off you, if you saw your local doctor pissed out of his head in a pub one night im sure you would be disgusted the local builder not so much.
The problem is, we can look at austerity failing every time it has been adopted - but we go on doing it. A question -Which is the richest country? The USA - it is also the most unequal - but forget about that for now - Can anybody answer when the richest country on the planet was last in a position when it did not have a deficit?
The answer is it was before the civil war. I think it stands at around 440 bn dollars right now. Now the deficit in 1860 was about 60 million. So if you are a Conservative politician, you must surely argue that the US has got massively poorer since then. Of course the truth is that it has got massively richer.
Please research the world's leading economists. Here is an 8 minute clip. It is worth open minded people watching the clip below to undertstand surplus and deficits and research more. Mark Blyth is another top economist worth listening too. Not the rubbish the press and certain politicians tell you. He is in the clip referring to both parties as he was referring to the previous election when Milliband's Labour proposed austerity also at that time. In fact this government has employed his policies since rather than the ones they stood behind!
The Conservatives have followed Labour's austerity light proposals beacuse they know austerity doesn't work. But people understand it and the press back this up. This poses another question - why do the press back this up.
Let's talk about the rich - not the people earning £80k, £100k or even £200k. The establishment - the elite want to make more money - privatise everything, have small government. Austerity provides this. The banks/corporations are part of this elite. The tiny percent who own most of the money.
The ex US president Jimmy Carter noted recently that this elite rather than sit on their money, have become political. When you get the press telling us to vote this or that, it is the owner, the press baron's view. And they don't tell us what is best for us, but what is best for them. The aim of these people and corporations is to make as much money for themselves and they don't care about anybody else.
If you want to identify what is going on, look at the financial crisis - or as it has been referred to as the GLOBAL banking crisis. Was this caused by public spending? Was this caused by the Labour party? If you answer yes, there is little hope for you. We all know how and why it happened. Why is this government focussing on the rest of us to find the solution and allowing the banks to carry on as before? We have been conditioned to destroy public spending for a crisis that had nothing to do with public spending. Putting money in ordinary people's pockets is the best way to make that money work and for your economy to grow. Austerity is an excuse to create the sort of economy that the elite like - they can screw up as was the case in the financial crisis, but get bailed out by the ordinary person and be allowed to continue.
If you look at both the Conservative and Labour manifestos, only one shows real economic insight, detailed costings and is a meaningful document. I'm sure some holes can be picked in it, but it is the most comprehensive manifesto that a political party has published in recent time. There are chasms in the Conservative manifesto not holes? The flavour of real economics flows through the Labour manifesto - but still people don't believe they can be trusted to run the country. This is counter intuitive and defies the evidence. But they believe it because everybody says it - it is a label attached to Labour and Corbyn.
Labour won't win the election and we will have missed the opportunity for a better Britain and better lives. I only hope Labour continues in this direction and a point will come soon enough when people will start to question why we still have austerity. If the Labour party continue with this message, that will be their time! Every vote for LAbour will not be wasted - it is a vote for teh party to continue with the real alternative!
My brother is a Maths teacher and he is getting out at the end of this academic year because he doesn't like what education has become or where it is going. His students at GCSE have a 95% pass rate and A-level it is 100%. This is in a bog standard Comprehensive school. I admit he is rather excitable, when a Tory canvasser knocks on his door he simply says 'fuck off Fascist' and slams the door in their face. On the other hand if a Tory knocks on my door I keep them talking as long as possible.
that's very mature behavior for someone that teaches kids
Yes. That's right. The behaviour, language and professionalism exhibited by thousands of teachers in their classrooms should also be expected of them 24/7, even if in their own homes, on their own time and in their own company. All teachers should be banned from smoking, drinking, swearing, having a heated argument, playing 'pull my finger', going for a shit, watching '18' rated movies or having sex because that wouldn't be appropriate behaviour for someone who teaches kids. If you can't do it in the classroom, you can't do it at all. It doesn't matter how good he is at teaching, if you don't like how he behaves away from the class, judge him on that.
not at all just thought its a bit childish - opinions an all and in a society where were meant to respect each other - or so that's what we get told every day. telling someone to fuck off and calling them a fascist - isnt exactly respectful is it? we get people on here crying after foul language is used at football matches.
and another point your career does differ into what people expect off you, if you saw your local doctor pissed out of his head in a pub one night im sure you would be disgusted the local builder not so much.
That depends whether it was a Monday night or a Saturday. People in public service jobs are entitled to enjoy their free time just like the rest of us. And from what I remember of the med students at university, they were the epitome of "work hard, play hard". When they let their hair down, they REALLY let their hair down.
• Invest an extra £11 billion every year into the NHS and social care by the end of the next parliament, raising caps on medical school and nurse training places, and increasing funding for mental health and dementia
• Raise the threshold for paying income tax to £13,500, cut taxes for middle earners, abolish the TV licence and cut VAT on household bills
• Scrap tuition fees for science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine students • Provide up to 100,000 new homes for younger people every year
• Maintain all pensioner benefits and the pensions Triple Lock
• Protect disability and carer’s benefits
• Spend a genuine two per cent of GDP on defence, plus £1 billion every year
• Fund 20,000 more police officers, 7,000 more prison officers, and 4,000 more border force staff
• Revive our coastal communities and fishing villages
• Cut Business Rates for the smallest businesses
• Commission a dedicated hospital ship to assist our armed forces and deliver humanitarian medical assistance worldwide
• Invest an extra £11 billion every year into the NHS and social care by the end of the next parliament, raising caps on medical school and nurse training places, and increasing funding for mental health and dementia
• Raise the threshold for paying income tax to £13,500, cut taxes for middle earners, abolish the TV licence and cut VAT on household bills
• Scrap tuition fees for science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine students • Provide up to 100,000 new homes for younger people every year
• Maintain all pensioner benefits and the pensions Triple Lock
• Protect disability and carer’s benefits
• Spend a genuine two per cent of GDP on defence, plus £1 billion every year
• Fund 20,000 more police officers, 7,000 more prison officers, and 4,000 more border force staff
• Revive our coastal communities and fishing villages
• Cut Business Rates for the smallest businesses
• Commission a dedicated hospital ship to assist our armed forces and deliver humanitarian medical assistance worldwide
I assume it's all been costed down to the penny as to how they will fund it.
Muppets can say what they like when they know they will never be asked to deliver it.
• Invest an extra £11 billion every year into the NHS and social care by the end of the next parliament, raising caps on medical school and nurse training places, and increasing funding for mental health and dementia
• Raise the threshold for paying income tax to £13,500, cut taxes for middle earners, abolish the TV licence and cut VAT on household bills
• Scrap tuition fees for science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine students • Provide up to 100,000 new homes for younger people every year
• Maintain all pensioner benefits and the pensions Triple Lock
• Protect disability and carer’s benefits
• Spend a genuine two per cent of GDP on defence, plus £1 billion every year
• Fund 20,000 more police officers, 7,000 more prison officers, and 4,000 more border force staff
• Revive our coastal communities and fishing villages
• Cut Business Rates for the smallest businesses
• Commission a dedicated hospital ship to assist our armed forces and deliver humanitarian medical assistance worldwide
UKIP definitely avoiding the far right side of the screen
• Invest an extra £11 billion every year into the NHS and social care by the end of the next parliament, raising caps on medical school and nurse training places, and increasing funding for mental health and dementia
• Raise the threshold for paying income tax to £13,500, cut taxes for middle earners, abolish the TV licence and cut VAT on household bills
• Scrap tuition fees for science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine students • Provide up to 100,000 new homes for younger people every year
• Maintain all pensioner benefits and the pensions Triple Lock
• Protect disability and carer’s benefits
• Spend a genuine two per cent of GDP on defence, plus £1 billion every year
• Fund 20,000 more police officers, 7,000 more prison officers, and 4,000 more border force staff
• Revive our coastal communities and fishing villages
• Cut Business Rates for the smallest businesses
• Commission a dedicated hospital ship to assist our armed forces and deliver humanitarian medical assistance worldwide
I assume it's all been costed down to the penny as to how they will fund it.
Muppets can say what they like when they know they will never be asked to deliver it.
There is no evidence that if an otherwise attractive country for business like the UK raises corporation tax a few % points, within a range which keeps it below say Germany or USA, any significant businesses bugger off.
There is however plenty of evidence that if civilized countries start behaving like banana republics with very low corporation tax, e.g. Ireland and Luxembourg, these countries get corporation tax revenue that should be going to other countries, due to the tax evasion of giant companies which pretend that they are settling transactions large and small across Europe in one of those two countries. I refer of course to Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, and Starbucks.
It is deeply regettable that the election debate is once again banging on about the rate of corporation tax, when the first and most important question is missing entirely from the debate: how do we equip HMRC to ensure they actually recover the corporation tax due from these companies, as intended by successive Parliaments?
There is no evidence that if an otherwise attractive country for business like the UK raises corporation tax a few % points, within a range which keeps it below say Germany or USA, any significant businesses bugger off.
There is however plenty of evidence that if civilized countries start behaving like banana republics with very low corporation tax, e.g. Ireland and Luxembourg, these countries get corporation tax revenue that should be going to other countries, due to the tax evasion of giant companies which pretend that they are settling transactions large and small across Europe in one of those two countries. I refer of course to Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, and Starbucks.
It is deeply regettable that the election debate is once again banging on about the rate of corporation tax, when the first and most important question is missing entirely from the debate: how do we equip HMRC to ensure they actually recover the corporation tax due from these companies, as intended by successive Parliaments?
HMRC could help themselves by not bullying and intimidating small, honest decent taxpayers by issuing penalties that are not due and then threatening legal action and debt collection so that these people are frightened into paying anyway!
This issue is very topical and raw for me I'm afraid. I've just, after many months, got a written agreement in the post today that a 30 year old woman, who has recently started a small one (wo) man band business having being made redundant, will be refunded the penalties erroneously extorted from her as a result of the unjustified intimidatory tactics employed as standard by HMRC.
This is by no means an isolated incident in my experience either; to the point that I am of the opinion that there is an unwritten policy employed by HMRC to give up on big business as they have the resources to fight back and instead scare the s*** out of the little person who often does not have the time or resources to fight back and just swallows it.
Yes, I have complained to HMRC about the tone of some of their standard communications. We are very open and honest about everything and have nothing to hide so always resent getting standard letters with a threatening tone. The people you talk to on the helpdesks are very good and tell you to ignore it, but the people behind the written comms are complete tools.
I bet the tax cheating big corporations don't receive this treatment. Well we now they dont as they pay less tax than us.
Ukip's manifesto launch - they were the first party out of the traps after the re-start of national campaigning - is obviously designed to woo the Ukip/Tory yo-yo voters back, having seen them leave in droves in the latest local elections. By putting forward hard, right-wing proposals and rhetoric (guaranteeting defence spending targets; cutting foreign aid; raising ingeritance tax thresholds; opening a grammar school "in every town"; and hiring more police, prison officers and border control) as well as their usual foreigner-bashing (moratorium on low-skilled immigration; no amnesty for illegal immigrants; a "social attitudes" test(!)) and targeting Muslims (banning Sharia law; moratorium on Islamic faith schools) they will test the resolve of frothing, right-wing former Ukippers to return to the Tory fold.
So, it appears not everything is going as swimmingly for Theresa May as she'd expected on her infamous walking tour.
Tory support is dropping. Labour is steadily increasing its polling. Many Ukippers intending to return to the blue may be tempted to remain purple. And the public will no longer buy the rhetoric that Labour's numbers don't add up, because Labour's manifesto is costed and hers isn't. Although, on the bright side for the Tories, it's probably a good thing that theirs isn't costed: so far school meals have been shown not to be accounted for and the dementia tax has required a headline-grabbing u-turn.
This election is proving much more interesting than a lot of people thought. And more difficult than Mrs May had intended.
May is still going to win - but a reduced majority will be what she deserves after the cynical act of calling an election simply because Labour looked weak. Labour has a lot of work to do to achieve that though.
May is still going to win - but a reduced majority will be what she deserves after the cynical act of calling an election simply because Labour looked weak. Labour has a lot of work to do to achieve that though.
To be honest a maintained majority or even a slight increase will blow out of the water her claim of strong and stable government required to see us through Brexit.
"I need to see off the saboteurs". Don't worry Mother Theresa - they will still be there but not saboteurs - they will be holding you to account.
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How we treat and respect people defines us as a nation.
Let's get that right first before we concern ourselves with foxes.
His students at GCSE have a 95% pass rate and A-level it is 100%. This is in a bog standard Comprehensive school.
I admit he is rather excitable, when a Tory canvasser knocks on his door he simply says 'fuck off Fascist' and slams the door in their face.
On the other hand if a Tory knocks on my door I keep them talking as long as possible.
The behaviour, language and professionalism exhibited by thousands of teachers in their classrooms should also be expected of them 24/7, even if in their own homes, on their own time and in their own company. All teachers should be banned from smoking, drinking, swearing, having a heated argument, playing 'pull my finger', going for a shit, watching '18' rated movies or having sex because that wouldn't be appropriate behaviour for someone who teaches kids. If you can't do it in the classroom, you can't do it at all.
It doesn't matter how good he is at teaching, if you don't like how he behaves away from the class, judge him on that.
Firstly, are larger companies not likely to shift the services they provide to another country where the tax is potentially lower, thus costing people their jobs? Only takes a few large companies to shift and then Labours nearly fully costed manifesto is borrowing or pulling £££ from elsewhere?
Secondly, more corporation tax to pay means less profit which could mean lower pay increases for staff? This has an obvious knock on effect in terms of people spending less.
Lastly, what about small businesses that have few members of staff or those operating through limited companies (contractors of the various sorts) ? Would these be hurt by the raises or is there some sort of exemption in place with regards to turnover? I'd imagine a lot of businesses that just get by with very few members of staff would be hurt hard by this?
Just curious like...
I don't care where it comes from, me, high earners, those tossers in charge of Google who have a very 'unique' tax status.....this is the definition of being strong and stable in my opinion, going after the resources to fund a fairer society and not backing down because a few CEOs threaten to up sticks to Ireland
Imagine you tell a shopkeeper that he will pay £10,000 extra rates every year. His initial reaction is that he will close the shop.
But then he learns that all his competitors will also have to pay the money and it will be used to build a free car park for shoppers and staff to use. Suddenly things don't seem nearly so bad. The extra rates will easily be covered by profits from the extra customers attracted by free parking.
In fact, he thinks he wouldn't mind paying an extra £20,000 a year if the money was used to provide a bus service for customers without cars or to pay for education so that he could hire local people and not have to rely on attracting people from abroad or to have policemen on duty to preventing shoplifting and reassure customers etc etc
The answer is it was before the civil war. I think it stands at around 440 bn dollars right now. Now the deficit in 1860 was about 60 million. So if you are a Conservative politician, you must surely argue that the US has got massively poorer since then. Of course the truth is that it has got massively richer.
Please research the world's leading economists. Here is an 8 minute clip. It is worth open minded people watching the clip below to undertstand surplus and deficits and research more. Mark Blyth is another top economist worth listening too. Not the rubbish the press and certain politicians tell you. He is in the clip referring to both parties as he was referring to the previous election when Milliband's Labour proposed austerity also at that time. In fact this government has employed his policies since rather than the ones they stood behind!
The Conservatives have followed Labour's austerity light proposals beacuse they know austerity doesn't work. But people understand it and the press back this up. This poses another question - why do the press back this up.
Let's talk about the rich - not the people earning £80k, £100k or even £200k. The establishment - the elite want to make more money - privatise everything, have small government. Austerity provides this. The banks/corporations are part of this elite. The tiny percent who own most of the money.
The ex US president Jimmy Carter noted recently that this elite rather than sit on their money, have become political. When you get the press telling us to vote this or that, it is the owner, the press baron's view. And they don't tell us what is best for us, but what is best for them. The aim of these people and corporations is to make as much money for themselves and they don't care about anybody else.
If you want to identify what is going on, look at the financial crisis - or as it has been referred to as the GLOBAL banking crisis. Was this caused by public spending? Was this caused by the Labour party? If you answer yes, there is little hope for you. We all know how and why it happened. Why is this government focussing on the rest of us to find the solution and allowing the banks to carry on as before? We have been conditioned to destroy public spending for a crisis that had nothing to do with public spending. Putting money in ordinary people's pockets is the best way to make that money work and for your economy to grow. Austerity is an excuse to create the sort of economy that the elite like - they can screw up as was the case in the financial crisis, but get bailed out by the ordinary person and be allowed to continue.
If you look at both the Conservative and Labour manifestos, only one shows real economic insight, detailed costings and is a meaningful document. I'm sure some holes can be picked in it, but it is the most comprehensive manifesto that a political party has published in recent time. There are chasms in the Conservative manifesto not holes? The flavour of real economics flows through the Labour manifesto - but still people don't believe they can be trusted to run the country. This is counter intuitive and defies the evidence. But they believe it because everybody says it - it is a label attached to Labour and Corbyn.
Labour won't win the election and we will have missed the opportunity for a better Britain and better lives. I only hope Labour continues in this direction and a point will come soon enough when people will start to question why we still have austerity. If the Labour party continue with this message, that will be their time! Every vote for LAbour will not be wasted - it is a vote for teh party to continue with the real alternative!
• Invest an extra £11 billion
every year into the NHS and
social care by the end of
the next parliament, raising
caps on medical school
and nurse training places,
and increasing funding for
mental health and dementia
• Raise the threshold for
paying income tax to
£13,500, cut taxes for
middle earners, abolish the
TV licence and cut VAT on
household bills
• Scrap tuition fees for
science, technology,
engineering, mathematics,
and medicine students
• Provide up to 100,000 new
homes for younger people
every year
• Maintain all pensioner
benefits and the pensions
Triple Lock
• Protect disability and
carer’s benefits
• Spend a genuine two per
cent of GDP on defence,
plus £1 billion every year
• Fund 20,000 more police
officers, 7,000 more prison
officers, and 4,000 more
border force staff
• Revive our coastal
communities and
fishing villages
• Cut Business Rates for the
smallest businesses
• Commission a dedicated
hospital ship to assist our
armed forces and deliver
humanitarian medical
assistance worldwide
Muppets can say what they like when they know they will never be asked to deliver it.
avoiding the
far right
side of the screen
That reminds me of a joke about the word countrsyide. But I won't repeat it here...
There is no evidence that if an otherwise attractive country for business like the UK raises corporation tax a few % points, within a range which keeps it below say Germany or USA, any significant businesses bugger off.
There is however plenty of evidence that if civilized countries start behaving like banana republics with very low corporation tax, e.g. Ireland and Luxembourg, these countries get corporation tax revenue that should be going to other countries, due to the tax evasion of giant companies which pretend that they are settling transactions large and small across Europe in one of those two countries. I refer of course to Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, and Starbucks.
It is deeply regettable that the election debate is once again banging on about the rate of corporation tax, when the first and most important question is missing entirely from the debate: how do we equip HMRC to ensure they actually recover the corporation tax due from these companies, as intended by successive Parliaments?
This issue is very topical and raw for me I'm afraid. I've just, after many months, got a written agreement in the post today that a 30 year old woman, who has recently started a small one (wo) man band business having being made redundant, will be refunded the penalties erroneously extorted from her as a result of the unjustified intimidatory tactics employed as standard by HMRC.
This is by no means an isolated incident in my experience either; to the point that I am of the opinion that there is an unwritten policy employed by HMRC to give up on big business as they have the resources to fight back and instead scare the s*** out of the little person who often does not have the time or resources to fight back and just swallows it.
I bet the tax cheating big corporations don't receive this treatment. Well we now they dont as they pay less tax than us.
So, it appears not everything is going as swimmingly for Theresa May as she'd expected on her infamous walking tour.
Tory support is dropping. Labour is steadily increasing its polling. Many Ukippers intending to return to the blue may be tempted to remain purple. And the public will no longer buy the rhetoric that Labour's numbers don't add up, because Labour's manifesto is costed and hers isn't. Although, on the bright side for the Tories, it's probably a good thing that theirs isn't costed: so far school meals have been shown not to be accounted for and the dementia tax has required a headline-grabbing u-turn.
This election is proving much more interesting than a lot of people thought. And more difficult than Mrs May had intended.
"I need to see off the saboteurs". Don't worry Mother Theresa - they will still be there but not saboteurs - they will be holding you to account.