One of the things the Tube staff are complaining about is that they might have to work at any station up to 45 minutes away. It sounds like it would be difficult to fit a 45 minute commute into their 35 hour working week.
Shame that Osborne couldn't find a few billion in the budget to replace every train on the Underground with driverless technology. Small beer compared to the economic cost of these parasites bringing the city to a halt yet again tomorrow.
I think the best bit of the budget was the 2% spending on Defence. That is not appreciated in people's wallet, but is essential in a more dangerous world.
One of the things the Tube staff are complaining about is that they might have to work at any station up to 45 minutes away. It sounds like it would be difficult to fit a 45 minute commute into their 35 hour working week.
Shame that Osnorne couldn't find a few billion in the budget to replace every train on the Underground with driverless technology. Small beer compared to the economic cost of these parasites bringing the city to a halt yet again tomorrow.
Isn't that TFL job to find that money ?
I mean I agree they should, but TFL =/= The Gov't...
Its a bit pointless commenting on the detail of this budget. Will it pave the way for a general cut in the basic rate in a few years? This would seem to me to be the pertinent question. Worrying about the usual knee jerk responses from the familiar army of tame lefties and the slide rule workings of the professors has been shown to be a waste of time.
They have made a lot in the past of equalising corporation and income tax rates so you do have to wonder if this might presage a cut in the next few years.
I hope Polly for once is right on this fact. Polly Toynbee @pollytoynbee This shrink-the-state budget cuts the size of the UK government to below - yes smaller than - the US. http://bit.ly/1fnxrsG
I hope Polly for once is right on this fact. Polly Toynbee @pollytoynbee This shrink-the-state budget cuts the size of the UK government to below - yes smaller than - the US. http://bit.ly/1fnxrsG
Norman Smith will be back off to Wigan Pier again.
I hope Polly for once is right on this fact. Polly Toynbee @pollytoynbee This shrink-the-state budget cuts the size of the UK government to below - yes smaller than - the US. http://bit.ly/1fnxrsG
Tom Clark is a rum sort
"Children will be cut out of the system, and therefore impoverished, simply because they have been born into bigger families. "
One of the things the Tube staff are complaining about is that they might have to work at any station up to 45 minutes away. It sounds like it would be difficult to fit a 45 minute commute into their 35 hour working week.
Shame that Osnorne couldn't find a few billion in the budget to replace every train on the Underground with driverless technology. Small beer compared to the economic cost of these parasites bringing the city to a halt yet again tomorrow.
Isn't that TFL job to find that money ?
I mean I agree they should, but TFL =/= The Gov't...
Maybe TFL thought they already had, given they announced the service before they'd agreed a rate. Management by press release.
I hope Polly for once is right on this fact. Polly Toynbee @pollytoynbee This shrink-the-state budget cuts the size of the UK government to below - yes smaller than - the US. http://bit.ly/1fnxrsG
One of the things the Tube staff are complaining about is that they might have to work at any station up to 45 minutes away. It sounds like it would be difficult to fit a 45 minute commute into their 35 hour working week.
To be fair, the train drivers need to commute before the trains are running. What they need is an all-night service.
I hope Polly for once is right on this fact. Polly Toynbee @pollytoynbee This shrink-the-state budget cuts the size of the UK government to below - yes smaller than - the US. http://bit.ly/1fnxrsG
"Andy Burnham, the favourite to win the Labour leadership contest says he will give local authorities the power to seize private landlords’ properties by means of compulsory purchase orders where they prove to be unfit.
According to a report in the Sunday Times, council bosses will be given the power to seize rental properties owned by private landlords if Mr Burnham is elected leader in the forthcoming contest and Labour wins power at the 2020 election."
Loony leftie Councils can just decide who is unfit and seize a property. Are those weeds in thr front garden unfit?
One of the things the Tube staff are complaining about is that they might have to work at any station up to 45 minutes away. It sounds like it would be difficult to fit a 45 minute commute into their 35 hour working week.
Shame that Osnorne couldn't find a few billion in the budget to replace every train on the Underground with driverless technology. Small beer compared to the economic cost of these parasites bringing the city to a halt yet again tomorrow.
Isn't that TFL job to find that money ?
I mean I agree they should, but TFL =/= The Gov't...
Maybe TFL thought they already had, given they announced the service before they'd agreed a rate. Management by press release.
TfL - small case "f".
Except that the new signage on the Shenfield Line stations (transferred to "TfL Rail" last month) has the "F" capitalised, erroneously!
There was once a fifth horseman, Kaos, but he left them before they were famous because of artistic disagreements. He is now known as Ronnie Soak, a very successful dairy products merchant.
The horsemen don't really care about performing the apocralypse in Thief of Time, Death is the only one who insists on riding, and even then, what he really wants to do is...
One of the things the Tube staff are complaining about is that they might have to work at any station up to 45 minutes away. It sounds like it would be difficult to fit a 45 minute commute into their 35 hour working week.
To be fair, the train drivers need to commute before the trains are running. What they need is an all-night service.
priceless. No wonder they do not like 24 hour trains.
No wonder Jeremy Corbyn’s rivals for the Labour leadership are rattled - This humble MP will be demonised as a lefty dinosaur – but he can confound expectations with a modern, relevant message
One of the things the Tube staff are complaining about is that they might have to work at any station up to 45 minutes away. It sounds like it would be difficult to fit a 45 minute commute into their 35 hour working week.
For every whinging, whining Tube driver there must be hundreds, if not thousands of people, many of them immigrants, willing to drive trains and sign no strike agreements. Probably for lower salaries too.
This is an interesting article in the Spectator. It talks about how the threat from Wahabism in the UK is exaggerated, but that the Deobandi sect is dominant and worryingly illiberal. I was most surprised that only two mosques in the UK follow a modernist approach.
Joe Root peaking as a player in this past year has been well timed indeed. With Cook in much better form this year notwithstanding a failure today, I am feeling much more optimistic about this summer, even if I would not expect a series win (which in fairness I never expect, even in the good times, as I grew up watching England in the 90s).
I still cannot get over how good Steven Smith has apparently become as a batsman though. He was brought in as a spinner, and not a great one at that, IIRC!
To tie this in flimsy fashion to the matter at hand, I wonder if Osborne is peaking at the right time. A derided figure for much of the last parliament, he built up his already significant influence, improved his reputation, and now seeks to seem credible to the public at large as Cameron's successor, which once seemed fanciful. I'm not sure if he can do it, but for someone who has been chancellor for 5 years, his profile in terms of leadership potential has been muted, so he is old guard but is fresher than longstanding contenders like May, paradoxically.
Mr. Flashman (deceased), was something announced about the self-employed?
Investors were given a boost to their pockets in today's Budget, with chancellor George Osborne pledging to reduce the amount of tax paid on dividends.
The dividend tax credit is being scrapped and, in its place, a £5,000 tax-free dividend is being introduced.
The changes will be implemented for all taxpayers from April 2016, the chancellor said today.
“This simpler system will mean that only those with significant dividend income will pay more tax,” Osborne said. “Investors with modest income from shares will see either a tax cut or no change in the amount of tax they owe.”
However, tax rates on dividend income are also changing. Basic rate taxpayers – who currently pay 10 per cent - will pay 7.5 per cent.
Higher rate taxpayers will continue to pay 32.5 per cent.
Additional rate taxpayers will be hit with a 38.1 per cent tax.
Which do you dislike more - the freeze on in work benefits, the raising of the tax thresholds or the 5k divi allowance ?
The total lack of reform on banks. The inability to rebalance the economy. And the pointlerss dicking about on tax reform.
The man's a twat.
a) Banks are in reasonable shape, have far higher capital ratios and are being returned to the private sector
b) Corporation tax cut to 18%
c) Ah - BTL landlord are we ? Or self employed ?
LOL
the banks are a cartel and should have been broken up to restore competition to the market. Even GO has admitted this but choses to do nothing about it.
Not much point cutting corporation tax if it's being apid in Luxemburg or Ireland.
Own several compainies and am still waiting for a shorter tax code than Browns in 2010.
"Everything that makes people proud is waning, from science to the arts, transport, libraries, sports, parks and swimming pools."
What planet does she live on?
In every part of this land, I see new transport investment (particularly trains and trams), new sports and fitness facilities (many private sector led so perhaps they don't count on Planet Toynbee), and some fantastic arts and libraries that have not only stayed open but have diversified or expanded. And much more promised.
Here in Manchester, the city centre is a giant building site currently whilst they put yet more tram lines in to the rapidly expanded network, the mainline stations are being rebuilt, the train lines are being electrified and capacity increased, road projects long promised are actually going ahead, our major international airport continues to expand and drive massive inward investment, the revamped Central Library is magnificent, we have world class sports and leisure facilities, there are cranes and building sites on virtually every corner.
I don't think we're alone.
Does she ever make it out of her Islington ghetto?
"Everything that makes people proud is waning, from science to the arts, transport, libraries, sports, parks and swimming pools."
What planet does she live on?
In every part of this land, I see new transport investment (particularly trains and trams), new sports and fitness facilities (many private sector led so perhaps they don't count on Planet Toynbee), and some fantastic arts and libraries that have not only stayed open but have diversified or expanded. And much more promised.
Here in Manchester, the city centre is a giant building site currently whilst they put yet more tram lines in to the rapidly expanded network, the mainline stations are being rebuilt, the train lines are being electrified and capacity increased, road projects long promised are actually going ahead, our major international airport continues to expand and drive massive inward investment, the revamped Central Library is magnificent, we have world class sports and leisure facilities, there are cranes and building sites on virtually every corner.
I don't think we're alone.
Does she ever make it out of her Islington ghetto?
Sure she is not esconced in her Tuscany villa with servants proffering wine and nibbles?
Does she ever make it out of her Islington ghetto?
Why would you want her to?
In all seriousness, I agree with her on libraries. Those in Gloucestershire have been eviscerated - time was when they were far better resourced than most university libraries, now there's hardly anything left except tacky teen fiction, half of it LGBT which is paid for from a different budget. Those here in Staffordshire are not up to much either.
The problem is though that people don't use them any more, because it is actually often nearly as cheap to buy books via Amazon's marketplace as to borrow them for two weeks on inter-library loan. And there's no easy solution to that problem for the library system.
Mr. Flashman (deceased), was something announced about the self-employed?
Investors were given a boost to their pockets in today's Budget, with chancellor George Osborne pledging to reduce the amount of tax paid on dividends.
The dividend tax credit is being scrapped and, in its place, a £5,000 tax-free dividend is being introduced.
The changes will be implemented for all taxpayers from April 2016, the chancellor said today.
“This simpler system will mean that only those with significant dividend income will pay more tax,” Osborne said. “Investors with modest income from shares will see either a tax cut or no change in the amount of tax they owe.”
However, tax rates on dividend income are also changing. Basic rate taxpayers – who currently pay 10 per cent - will pay 7.5 per cent.
Higher rate taxpayers will continue to pay 32.5 per cent.
Additional rate taxpayers will be hit with a 38.1 per cent tax.
I am confused by this.
Dividend tax was 10%. There was a 10% tax credit which meant that basic rate tax payers paid nothing on up to £42,385 (the basic rate tax upper limit). Now they will pay 7.5% on anything over £16000 (personal allowance plus new £5000 dividend allowance.)
If, from an early age, the expression of bonkers views results in attention, notoriety and money flowing into your bank account, you're likely to end up completely insane eventually.
Apologies if this point has already being made. But what if Osborne jumping all over labours territory was also a deliberate attempt to influence the labour leadership race, forcing the Labour leadership candidates to tack even further to the left to distinguish themselves?
Apologies if this point has already being made. But what if Osborne jumping all over labours territory was also a deliberate attempt to influence the labour leadership race, forcing the Labour leadership candidates to tack even further to the left to distinguish themselves?
Apologies if this point has already being made. But what if Osborne jumping all over labours territory was also a deliberate attempt to influence the labour leadership race, forcing the Labour leadership candidates to tack even further to the left to distinguish themselves?
If, from an early age, the expression of bonkers views results in attention, notoriety and money flowing into your bank account, you're likely to end up completely insane eventually.
" In what is thought to be the first case challenging an election result in Scotland since the 1960s, the Election Court will sit on 7-8 September in the Court of Session. A hearing to finalise arrangements, including whether the proceedings can be broadcast live, will take place on 31 August. "
Apologies if this point has already being made. But what if Osborne jumping all over labours territory was also a deliberate attempt to influence the labour leadership race, forcing the Labour leadership candidates to tack even further to the left to distinguish themselves?
If they are sensible they will take a Cameron and Osborne circa 2005 approach, ie accepting Tory proposals where they are sensible eg the living wage, benefit cap and IHT cut and defence spending at 2% increase per year and focus in on opposing more controversial areas eg in tax credit details, ending housing benefit for under 21s, the public sector pay freeze and the scrapping of dividend tax credit
"Everything that makes people proud is waning, from science to the arts, transport, libraries, sports, parks and swimming pools."
What planet does she live on?
In every part of this land, I see new transport investment (particularly trains and trams), new sports and fitness facilities (many private sector led so perhaps they don't count on Planet Toynbee), and some fantastic arts and libraries that have not only stayed open but have diversified or expanded. And much more promised.
Here in Manchester, the city centre is a giant building site currently whilst they put yet more tram lines in to the rapidly expanded network, the mainline stations are being rebuilt, the train lines are being electrified and capacity increased, road projects long promised are actually going ahead, our major international airport continues to expand and drive massive inward investment, the revamped Central Library is magnificent, we have world class sports and leisure facilities, there are cranes and building sites on virtually every corner.
I don't think we're alone.
Does she ever make it out of her Islington ghetto?
This is what I was getting at earlier.
You can try to manipulate as much faux outrage and XXX crises as you want, go to any major city centre and the evidence of your own eyes will say the opposite.
In fact, that might have something to do with this year's 'shock' election result.
Frankly, who cares what line the BBC or Mess Polly take on it?
" In what is thought to be the first case challenging an election result in Scotland since the 1960s, the Election Court will sit on 7-8 September in the Court of Session. A hearing to finalise arrangements, including whether the proceedings can be broadcast live, will take place on 31 August. "
Tbh it is not clear anyone comes out of this smelling of roses.
Apologies if this point has already being made. But what if Osborne jumping all over labours territory was also a deliberate attempt to influence the labour leadership race, forcing the Labour leadership candidates to tack even further to the left to distinguish themselves?
If they are sensible they will take a Cameron and Osborne circa 2005 approach, ie accepting Tory proposals where they are sensible eg the living wage, benefit cap and IHT cut and defence spending at 2% increase per year and focus in on opposing more controversial areas eg in tax credit details, ending housing benefit for under 21s, the public sector pay freeze and the scrapping of dividend tax credit
Burnham, Cooper, Corbyn, Kendall.
You take the cutout image of a sensible person and impose it on any one of those four, and you can't get it to fit anywhere. Kendall would be closest, but not close.
When these changes bed in, and people look at their overall incomings and outgoings, I wonder how many "victims" of the changes will find they're actually a bit better off overall?
When these changes bed in, and people look at their overall incomings and outgoings, I wonder how many "victims" of the changes will find they're actually a bit better off overall?
Apologies if this point has already being made. But what if Osborne jumping all over labours territory was also a deliberate attempt to influence the labour leadership race, forcing the Labour leadership candidates to tack even further to the left to distinguish themselves?
If they are sensible they will take a Cameron and Osborne circa 2005 approach, ie accepting Tory proposals where they are sensible eg the living wage, benefit cap and IHT cut and defence spending at 2% increase per year and focus in on opposing more controversial areas eg in tax credit details, ending housing benefit for under 21s, the public sector pay freeze and the scrapping of dividend tax credit
Burnham, Cooper, Corbyn, Kendall.
You take the cutout image of a sensible person and impose it on any one of those four, and you can't get it to fit anywhere. Kendall would be closest, but not close.
Apologies if this point has already being made. But what if Osborne jumping all over labours territory was also a deliberate attempt to influence the labour leadership race, forcing the Labour leadership candidates to tack even further to the left to distinguish themselves?
If they are sensible they will take a Cameron and Osborne circa 2005 approach, ie accepting Tory proposals where they are sensible eg the living wage, benefit cap and IHT cut and defence spending at 2% increase per year and focus in on opposing more controversial areas eg in tax credit details, ending housing benefit for under 21s, the public sector pay freeze and the scrapping of dividend tax credit
Burnham, Cooper, Corbyn, Kendall.
You take the cutout image of a sensible person and impose it on any one of those four, and you can't get it to fit anywhere. Kendall would be closest, but not close.
We shall see what they come out with, but I think Burnham, Cooper or Kendall would be capable of such an approach, albeit Corbyn probably not
Apologies if this point has already being made. But what if Osborne jumping all over labours territory was also a deliberate attempt to influence the labour leadership race, forcing the Labour leadership candidates to tack even further to the left to distinguish themselves?
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I mean I agree they should, but TFL =/= The Gov't...
I think that cost him the set.
Polly Toynbee @pollytoynbee
This shrink-the-state budget cuts the size of the UK government to below - yes smaller than - the US. http://bit.ly/1fnxrsG
Only saw small snippets. How many Horsemen of the Apocalypse were unleashed?
"A return to public squalor and private excess"
None. But Osborne nuked a den of Labour foxes.
It is organised by The People's Assembly, not one of their more cunning stunts.
"Children will be cut out of the system, and therefore impoverished, simply because they have been born into bigger families. "
No blame on the parents Tom you old trooper ?
"Andy Burnham, the favourite to win the Labour leadership contest says he will give local authorities the power to seize private landlords’ properties by means of compulsory purchase orders where they prove to be unfit.
According to a report in the Sunday Times, council bosses will be given the power to seize rental properties owned by private landlords if Mr Burnham is elected leader in the forthcoming contest and Labour wins power at the 2020 election."
Loony leftie Councils can just decide who is unfit and seize a property. Are those weeds in thr front garden unfit?
Except that the new signage on the Shenfield Line stations (transferred to "TfL Rail" last month) has the "F" capitalised, erroneously!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ilford_station_signage_2015_01.JPG
Maybe she plans to run this like that HIPS project?
http://wingsoverscotland.com/making-lemonade/
Well they will need re-training for their life after the next GE.
There was once a fifth horseman, Kaos, but he left them before they were famous because of artistic disagreements. He is now known as Ronnie Soak, a very successful dairy products merchant.
The horsemen don't really care about performing the apocralypse in Thief of Time, Death is the only one who insists on riding, and even then, what he really wants to do is...
http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Four_Horsemen
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2015/07/five-policies-that-george-osborne-has-just-stolen-from-ed-miliband/
Thought you were horrendously trying to refer to Chaos, whose offspring include Eros and Gaia.
https://twitter.com/Sunil_P2/status/550716028293251073
Owen Jones
No wonder Jeremy Corbyn’s rivals for the Labour leadership are rattled - This humble MP will be demonised as a lefty dinosaur – but he can confound expectations with a modern, relevant message
http://bit.ly/1JO8T8Z
For every whinging, whining Tube driver there must be hundreds, if not thousands of people, many of them immigrants, willing to drive trains and sign no strike agreements. Probably for lower salaries too.
http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2010/04/20/the-ultimate-general-election-2010-playlist
Total waste of oxygen.
Russell Brand has endorsed Labour – and the Tories should be worried
http://bit.ly/1R6P12e
The only way they will be under 300 is if they are all out..
The inability to rebalance the economy.
And the pointlerss dicking about on tax reform.
The man's a twat.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9230671/who-runs-our-mosques/
I still cannot get over how good Steven Smith has apparently become as a batsman though. He was brought in as a spinner, and not a great one at that, IIRC!
To tie this in flimsy fashion to the matter at hand, I wonder if Osborne is peaking at the right time. A derided figure for much of the last parliament, he built up his already significant influence, improved his reputation, and now seeks to seem credible to the public at large as Cameron's successor, which once seemed fanciful. I'm not sure if he can do it, but for someone who has been chancellor for 5 years, his profile in terms of leadership potential has been muted, so he is old guard but is fresher than longstanding contenders like May, paradoxically.
b) Corporation tax cut to 18%
c) Ah - BTL landlord are we ? Or self employed ?
Investors were given a boost to their pockets in today's Budget, with chancellor George Osborne pledging to reduce the amount of tax paid on dividends.
The dividend tax credit is being scrapped and, in its place, a £5,000 tax-free dividend is being introduced.
The changes will be implemented for all taxpayers from April 2016, the chancellor said today.
“This simpler system will mean that only those with significant dividend income will pay more tax,” Osborne said. “Investors with modest income from shares will see either a tax cut or no change in the amount of tax they owe.”
However, tax rates on dividend income are also changing. Basic rate taxpayers – who currently pay 10 per cent - will pay 7.5 per cent.
Higher rate taxpayers will continue to pay 32.5 per cent.
Additional rate taxpayers will be hit with a 38.1 per cent tax.
Dividends aren't something that affect me.
Not actually sure what I want... England to keep smacking it about all over the park I guess !
the banks are a cartel and should have been broken up to restore competition to the market. Even GO has admitted this but choses to do nothing about it.
Not much point cutting corporation tax if it's being apid in Luxemburg or Ireland.
Own several compainies and am still waiting for a shorter tax code than Browns in 2010.
Osbrown is back with a vengeance.
"Everything that makes people proud is waning, from science to the arts, transport, libraries, sports, parks and swimming pools."
What planet does she live on?
In every part of this land, I see new transport investment (particularly trains and trams), new sports and fitness facilities (many private sector led so perhaps they don't count on Planet Toynbee), and some fantastic arts and libraries that have not only stayed open but have diversified or expanded. And much more promised.
Here in Manchester, the city centre is a giant building site currently whilst they put yet more tram lines in to the rapidly expanded network, the mainline stations are being rebuilt, the train lines are being electrified and capacity increased, road projects long promised are actually going ahead, our major international airport continues to expand and drive massive inward investment, the revamped Central Library is magnificent, we have world class sports and leisure facilities, there are cranes and building sites on virtually every corner.
I don't think we're alone.
Does she ever make it out of her Islington ghetto?
More to follow...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/microsoft/11725629/Microsoft-expected-to-announce-major-job-cuts.html
Just a minor misjudgment there....
In all seriousness, I agree with her on libraries. Those in Gloucestershire have been eviscerated - time was when they were far better resourced than most university libraries, now there's hardly anything left except tacky teen fiction, half of it LGBT which is paid for from a different budget. Those here in Staffordshire are not up to much either.
The problem is though that people don't use them any more, because it is actually often nearly as cheap to buy books via Amazon's marketplace as to borrow them for two weeks on inter-library loan. And there's no easy solution to that problem for the library system.
Dividend tax was 10%. There was a 10% tax credit which meant that basic rate tax payers paid nothing on up to £42,385 (the basic rate tax upper limit). Now they will pay 7.5% on anything over £16000 (personal allowance plus new £5000 dividend allowance.)
Where am I going wrong here?
http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/555/cpsprodpb/10F94/production/_84142596_tax_credit_spend_gra624_v2.png
He wants councils to compulsory purchase private landlord properties if they don't approve of their standards.
http://www.shetnews.co.uk/news/10993-court-case-to-examine-carmichael-s-re-election
" In what is thought to be the first case challenging an election result in Scotland since the 1960s, the Election Court will sit on 7-8 September in the Court of Session. A hearing to finalise arrangements, including whether the proceedings can be broadcast live, will take place on 31 August. "
You can try to manipulate as much faux outrage and XXX crises as you want, go to any major city centre and the evidence of your own eyes will say the opposite.
In fact, that might have something to do with this year's 'shock' election result.
Frankly, who cares what line the BBC or Mess Polly take on it?
You take the cutout image of a sensible person and impose it on any one of those four, and you can't get it to fit anywhere. Kendall would be closest, but not close.
I suspect rather a lot.
Admittedly Johnson and Starc appear to have been more or less unable to locate the cut strip, but even so...
Whilst I agree Jones is mad as a box of frogs, he doesn't seem (from what I gather) to have the vindictive streak that characterised Brown.