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It’s Rishi Sunak’s 1st birthday as PM.How does he choose to celebrate? By pushing ahead with Liz Truss’ plan to axe the cap on bankers’ bonuses. The cost of living and mortgages are at the front of people’s minds. Yet he thinks this is a priority? https://t.co/y4UrwvMNOo
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Applying the tax to ‘all or almost all’ transactions could help fund state handouts
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/labour-vat-tax-expansion-fund-welfare-state/ (£££)
The Telegraph helpfully and not in a scary way speculates that Labour will extend VAT, based on nothing more than a VAT expansion to "all or almost all" transactions being suggested by an OBR consultant.
It also has a voodoo poll showing IHT as the most unfair tax.
Voters will have their vengeance.
https://twitter.com/BidenHQ/status/1717326034066972682
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This will blow over for Starmer. He may lose a few Muslim votes but I doubt it's going to affect things very much.
On bankers bonuses? Yes he will reverse it. Rachel Reeves has already made quite clear that she's not going to tolerate abuse from the top.
Numerous right of centre posters here have huffed and puffed loudly and vehemently over May, then Johnson, then Truss, and now Sunak. But come next year I’m sure most of them will put a cross in the Tory box.
Why? FPTP.
But I cant see a Londoncentric professional wishing to upset the apple cart, he needs the banks on board and will quietly let the issue drop.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/25/north-carolina-congressional-map-gop-gerrymander-00123574
...North Carolina’s new map, which was approved Wednesday by the state legislature, is particularly efficient at securing a GOP advantage in a state that’s closely divided for many statewide races — setting off a scramble among Republicans for the opportunity to run in the newly safe seats.
The map packs as many Democratic voters as possible into three blue districts, while distributing Republicans across the remaining districts to make sure they remain largely out of reach for Democrats. The maps were drawn so Republicans would hold a strong majority of the state’s seats even in particularly bad years for the GOP.
The new map will remake the state’s delegation from an even split of seven Democrats and seven Republicans to one that would likely lock in 10 Republicans and three Democrats, with one competitive battleground seat that Democratic Rep. Don Davis currently holds...
Where's Respect these days ?
The left have Labour and the Greens. And a bunch of fruitcake marginalia. It’s precisely symmetrical except in Scotland and Wales where they also have the SNP and Plaid.
I’m inclined to agree with you they’ll quietly let the issue drop.
But it’s politically toxic for Sunak to abolish the cap. Whereas Reeves deciding not to reintroduce it wouldn’t be so problematic.
“She [the angry author of a book about famous black Britons] would have expected people to name figures such as Quintus Lollius Urbicus, who became governor of Roman Britain; the formerly enslaved Olaudah Equiano, who became
an abolitionist and writer”
Genius
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/26/half-of-britons-cant-name-a-black-british-historical-figure-survey-finds
That government is just as incompetent in telling people what they should earn as it is in everything else when they interfere in the market isn't something he can grasp. Nor, in fairness, do 63% of the country, apparently.
Some of us are in Sicily and woke up for no reason at 6am and are drinking red wine and eating peppered salami and fully intend to go back to sleep at 9 and then sleep til noon
Do we even have an education system??
Covid-19 meant that death rates in 2020 were much higher than recent years. In England & Wales they increased by 13% compared to 2019.
But even in 2020, death rates for England & Wales were lower than they have EVER been in Scotland!
https://x.com/actuarybyday/status/1716805711903207528?
What they actually do about any of this when they come to power, is another matter entirely. If there’s no political or financial upside for the government at the time, my money is on nothing.
At the risk of being contrarian, maybe a Labour govt willing to tax-and-spend would legitimately be better. It would certainly be better than debt-and-spend.
Inland is good, except the bits strewn with miles of uncollected roadside rubbish. The Roman villa of Casale was my favourite, and the Etna vineyards.
It does seem like the slopes of Etna are worth a look
The author did cite two other figures, who I had heard of. But I doubt I should have heard of Mary Seacole if not for her involvement in the debate on precisely this subject. And the composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor had barely started his career before the 20th century. Obviously a lot more black Britons achieved prominence in the 20th century.
I'd never heard of Quintus Lollius Urbicus.
Also, Wikipedia suggests he was a Numidian Berber, and therefore not black. The assumption African = black is the sort of Afro-centric ignorance that leads some to think Cleopatra was black.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintus_Lollius_Urbicus
If you are strongly opposed to big bankers' bonuses and will vote accordingly you will be voting Labour anyway, as the poll figures show while most Labour and to a lesser extent LD voters oppose removing the cap on the bonuses most Conservative voters don't
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonine_Wall
Given that they still have a large majority, and no hope of remaining in power beyond a year it would be nice to think they could do more of this sort of thing, but I'm sure normal service will be resumed soon.
I am sure that a similar approach to the renewed talks with the BMA will be welcomed by the Tory faithful.
The number of people who get remembered - outside the ranks of historians - is tiny. If you were to ask the man in the street to name one Roman, the reply would almost certainly be “Julius Caesar.”
And, I’m sure it would break the author’s heart to learn that Mary Seacole was a Tory and a supporter of the British Empire.
Another point is the polls. If Starmer were struggling or neck and neck and with a less-than-great chance of winning the next election, then it genuinely might be worth a disgruntled big-name frontbencher's while to resign to win the support of the left in a likely leadership election. I take it back if I'm wrong, but there's no cosplay Cook figure (who did so for honourable reasons) - nor is this Iraq. Even if he loses a junior minister or two - those rarely make much of a dent in the grand scheme of things.
Also in which Democratic governed states can seats be redistricted by a bare majority in the state legislature without a power of veto for the governor ?
The book, The Women Who Made Modern Economics, included reproduced material from online blogs, Wikipedia, The Guardian and a report foreword by Labour MP Hilary Benn without acknowledging the sources.
https://www.ft.com/content/e4c190b0-cc4e-4dc4-945b-9f680ce1c67f
'No no no...I never said that'.
'But we have it on film'
'No no no.....you don't'
I'm sorry Heathener. Starmer is very capable of screwing this up. He's everything his enemies accuse him of being. He's more William Hague than Tony Blair. He might ride this one out but there's only so long he can keep looking like a Sunak mini -me before voters start wondering whether they're better with the real thing.
The House election result, 222 to 213, almost exactly matches the national vote share won by Republicans and Democrats.
They’re my earliest historical memories of significant black British figures anyway.
https://www.100greatblackbritons.co.uk/
Of course it won’t win any votes but if it enhances London as a place for financial services it will help improve our tax base.
You lot are 20% behind in the polls. You can't have policies that appeal to the remaining Tory voters and repel any other voter. You need policies which will appeal to people saying they won't vote for you.
Despite the holier-than-thou bluster you are intelligent, so much know this. So is there another angle? A desperate need to shore up the remaiing Tory vote because otherwise it goes elsewhere?
Is the thinking that unless you appall 75% of the electorate with this bonus thing, you might lose another 5% of your remaining chunk to ReFUK? Because otherwise why would you do it? And don't say "for the good of he country" as your only definition of what is good for the country is you lot in government. And this helps remove you from government. So why?
I have no beef with colourblind casting in drama (though it should go in all directions) but it’s ahistorical to show Victorian London, say, which large numbers of black characters if one is trying to portray reality.
Israel's Army Radio reports that ground forces carried out a "relatively large" operation aimed at attacking Hamas positions in Gaza.
https://news.sky.com/story/israel-gaza-latest-israel-sends-tanks-into-gaza-as-troops-complete-ground-incursion-12978800
https://news.sky.com/story/off-duty-british-israeli-soldier-flung-back-seven-hamas-grenades-before-eighth-blew-up-in-his-hand-12992802
This is First World War stuff. Posthumous GC incoming?
Out of the ten most gerrymandered states, only one is Democratic.
We have a shortage of millions of homes. All the Greenock's in the country are already included in that data and don't make up the shortage.
Making places like Greenock desirable absolutely can and should be possible, but its not either/or, there still needs to be millions of homes built to cope with the population growth we've already had (and the population growth which is yet to come).
Here are the last half dozen percentages of national vote and corresponding percentages of seats in the House of Representatives for the GOP.
2022 50.6% 51%
2020 47.2% 48.9%
2018 44.8% 45.7%
2016 49.1% 55.4%
2014 51.2% 56.8%
2012 47.7% 53.7%
If our politicians aren't there to make the argument with the courage to lead, then what is the point of them?
And Good Morning to everybody. Gloomy and drizzly, though!
As noted above, it's much more difficult to estimate the numbers who had been there for several generations.
However if one's trying to portray a parallel universe version of Victorian London, like Bridgerton, there's absolutely nothing odd with it at all.
We already know its fiction, not reality. If its fiction, anything can be different.
In the 1950s and 1960s however the Democrats successfully gerrymandered lots of seats, especially in the South. Politics is a ruthless business, if you don't like it don't whinge, get even!