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Re: We need to talk about abolishing the budget – politicalbetting.com
My Labour-voting brother has given the view that Labour are 'worse than the Tories' on the back of the budget.
The policies on NI on pension contributions ('should be encouraging people to save so they don't have to rely on the state in the future') and freezing tax bands for even longer that main targets of his ire.
I'm starting to wonder if we may start to see a recovery in Tory polling. As their time in office fades into the past, many in the mainstream will simply switch back to the other party of government.
Personally I think it'd be great to have Badenoch-led Tories leading in the polls over the traitorous Farage-led Reform. Albeit I won't be voting for either.
The policies on NI on pension contributions ('should be encouraging people to save so they don't have to rely on the state in the future') and freezing tax bands for even longer that main targets of his ire.
I'm starting to wonder if we may start to see a recovery in Tory polling. As their time in office fades into the past, many in the mainstream will simply switch back to the other party of government.
Personally I think it'd be great to have Badenoch-led Tories leading in the polls over the traitorous Farage-led Reform. Albeit I won't be voting for either.
Ratters
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Re: We need to talk about abolishing the budget – politicalbetting.com
Last Christmas I bought my pal an elephant for his room.
He thanked me profusely, but I just said “don’t mention it”.
He thanked me profusely, but I just said “don’t mention it”.
Re: We need to talk about abolishing the budget – politicalbetting.com
YouGov poll just out:Wow. Might as well have gone for the 1p on income tax then.
Q: Did Labour keep their promise not to increase IT/NI/VAT?
Yes 16
No 57
rkrkrk
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Re: We need to talk about abolishing the budget – politicalbetting.com
Three cheers for the Australian Labor government which has banned social media for the under-16s. The best thing that's happened for a long time imo.It will give Australian youth more time to practise cricket. Have you thought this through?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crrkw1p14eqo
Re: We need to talk about abolishing the budget – politicalbetting.com
If you realise it's feudalism, it makes a kind of sense. Putin thinks ultimate sovereignty for Ukraine vests in Russia and him personally because of a bunch of Swedes in Kyiv in the 8thC or whenever. He's OK with someone running the place with due allegiance shown, but it's his. No more negotiatable than his name is Putin.I can't really get my head around the Russian attitude. They already have literally the largest country in the world. And they can't run that with any degree of competence! Why don't they just stick to what they have, maybe try to run it a bit better so its population isn't in terminal decline, the few remaining people perpetually drunk and depressed. Once they manage that maybe we can talk about handing over chunks of other people's countries for them to fuck up.What about that chunk of Iran they effectively controlled in the early '40s?Putin says it’s impossible from a legal standpoint to sign any agreement with Ukraine because it doesn’t have a legitimate government. There we go again.Look, I'm not taking that little squirt Putin seriously unless he demands all of:
https://x.com/yarotrof/status/1994062033684152808
Ukraine
Belarus
Moldova
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Georgia
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Kazakhstan
Tajikistan
Kyrgyzstan
Alaska (Russian till 1867)
Finland (Russian till 1918)
The central part Poland (Congress Poland*, Russian till 1918)
* approximating to today's Voivodeships (regions) of Mazovia, Podlachia, Lodz, almost all of Lublin, and parts of: Warmia-Masuria (tiny bit), Kuyavia_Pomerania, Great Poland, Opole (tiny part), Silesia, Little Poland, and Carpathian Foothills (tiny part).
FF43
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Re: We need to talk about abolishing the budget – politicalbetting.com
GOVERNMENT CLIMBDOWN:
Unfair Dismissal rights will only come in after 6 months employment, not on Day 1 as planned.
Change due to Lords blocking the legislation; this is the agreed compromise.
Unfair Dismissal rights will only come in after 6 months employment, not on Day 1 as planned.
Change due to Lords blocking the legislation; this is the agreed compromise.
MikeL
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Re: Voters back restricting trial by jury (but not for themselves) – politicalbetting.com
It's a mystery to me why anyone with that sort of wealth would choose to spend their life living in Dubai. Each to his own I supposeNet migration falls to 204,000.All those millionaires heading to Dubai. Great news for my business, not so great for Rachel.
That’s a huge drop.
OllyT
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Re: Voters back restricting trial by jury (but not for themselves) – politicalbetting.com
Can I just say that the amount of time that poor lawyers have to spend hanging around the courts to no purpose waiting for Juries is a disgrace.
DavidL
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Re: Voters back restricting trial by jury (but not for themselves) – politicalbetting.com
The justice system is massively underfunded, thanks to spending cuts over the last decade and a half.@Cyclefree had it right yesterday.Uncharacteristically simplistic for you? What has one thing to do with the other?
Just scrap the spend on digital ID and put it into the Justice Dept.
Rather than completely changing the basis of how we administer criminal justice (with minimal public debate, and significant implications for individual liberty) in order to cut costs, there is a very strong case for simply funding it better to do its job.
The money has to come from somewhere, and the digital ID scheme (also controversial, and quite likely useless) seems as good a place as any.
Nigelb
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Re: We need to talk about abolishing the budget – politicalbetting.com
Getting the important mail picked up..
