UK Politics

[mattiloy]

How did this one fly under the radar?

 

So along with half the NEC and a load of erstwhile political lobbyists and Alistair Campbell’s nephew we now also have Sue Grey’s son MP.

 

Nice and representative. I wonder did Starmer just put a facebook status out saying ’anyone wanna be an MP?’

 

 

[mattiloy]

Getting rid of Northern Ireland would save the treasury north of 10bil a year.

 

Sinn Fein is now the largest party in both the westminster election and the assembly.

 

If I’m Hilary Benn, I’m calling that border poll tomorrow.

[LJS]

25 minutes ago, mattiloy said:

Getting rid of Northern Ireland would save the treasury north of 10bil a year.

 

Sinn Fein is now the largest party in both the westminster election and the assembly.

 

If I’m Hilary Benn, I’m calling that border poll tomorrow.

 
Friday would be a good day to announce it

 

Edited July 8, 2024 by LJS

[steviewevie]

 

[steviewevie]

Yo Blair, shut up.

[lost]

10 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Yo Blair, shut up.

????

 

 

[steviewevie]

8 minutes ago, lost said:

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that big?

 

I mean shut up with the whole public advice on everything. Not needed.

[lost]

1 minute ago, steviewevie said:

 

that big?

 

 

yep and thats apparently just to "stand still" to cover the aging population and north sea oil revenue as we move to net zero.

[steviewevie]

21 minutes ago, lost said:

 

yep and thats apparently just to "stand still" to cover the aging population and north sea oil revenue as we move to net zero.

Isn't he saying just get chatgpt to do everything?

[mattiloy]

45 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Yo Blair, shut up.

 

[steviewevie]

1 hour ago, lost said:

 

yep and thats apparently just to "stand still" to cover the aging population and north sea oil revenue as we move to net zero.

yeah well this was the conspiracy of silence thing that IFS was accusing all the main parties of. Have to see what Reeves does in the autumn, and some of it will depend on OBR forecasts but I expect there will be some tax rises somewhere. They will probably regret ruling out raising those main taxes.

[steviewevie]

 

[lost]

14 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

yeah well this was the conspiracy of silence thing that IFS was accusing all the main parties of. Have to see what Reeves does in the autumn, and some of it will depend on OBR forecasts but I expect there will be some tax rises somewhere. They will probably regret ruling out raising those main taxes.

 

Some of the papers look like they've jumped on the state pension being means tested. You'd think that would save a fortune but be pretty unpopular.

[steviewevie]

1 minute ago, lost said:

 

Some of the papers look like they've jumped on the state pension being means tested. You'd think that would save a fortune but be pretty unpopular.

the nuclear option

[steviewevie]

Means testing would probably open a massive can of worms....but wealthier pensioners should probably be paying more tax either on their income or wealth relative to worse off working people...

[steviewevie]

 

[steviewevie]

Good to see the popcon and the natcon lot meeting to see how they can kill off the tory party completely.

[steviewevie]

Levelling Up RIP

[steviewevie]

[steviewevie]

 

[steviewevie]

[Crazyfool01]

Just a quick dip back in … what a f**king great week or so that’s been … Lib Dem MP locally with a stonking 12k majority , sadly the timing went to sh*t so couldn’t help but did have a stake board … song sung by Chris Martin to me and I’m really quite optimistic about the adult start the new Labour govt have made . Things may not be entirely perfect but that’s always going to be the way of things a 12/10 week 

[steviewevie]

5 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

Just a quick dip back in … what a f**king great week or so that’s been … Lib Dem MP locally with a stonking 12k majority , sadly the timing went to sh*t so couldn’t help but did have a stake board … song sung by Chris Martin to me and I’m really quite optimistic about the adult start the new Labour govt have made . Things may not be entirely perfect but that’s always going to be the way of things a 12/10 week 

all good, although sorry about the Chris Martin bit.

[steviewevie]

 

[cellar]

3 hours ago, steviewevie said:

Means testing would probably open a massive can of worms....but wealthier pensioners should probably be paying more tax either on their income or wealth relative to worse off working people...

100% they should pay more tax. 

Also need to bin tax relief that Higher and Additional Rate earners get on their pension contributions.

Will never happen though.