All gone mammary glands up since Osborne left the Treasury.
Bring back George.
and the deficit is set to go up this year too.
Depends who CoTE is come 9th June I guess.
Hopefully not Hammond.
My instinct at the moment is that the re-shuffle will be limited mainly to a few people switching places. Leadsom will go and Hunt will be replaced if a suitable successor can be found; May might have the guts to send Rudd there (Fallon to replace, Brokenshire (?) to Defence).
All gone mammary glands up since Osborne left the Treasury.
Bring back George.
and the deficit is set to go up this year too.
Depends who CoTE is come 9th June I guess.
Hopefully not Hammond.
My instinct at the moment is that the re-shuffle will be limited mainly to a few people switching places. Leadsom will go and Hunt will be replaced if a suitable successor can be found; May might have the guts to send Rudd there (Fallon to replace, Brokenshire (?) to Defence).
All gone mammary glands up since Osborne left the Treasury.
Bring back George.
and the deficit is set to go up this year too.
Depends who CoTE is come 9th June I guess.
Hopefully not Hammond.
My instinct at the moment is that the re-shuffle will be limited mainly to a few people switching places. Leadsom will go and Hunt will be replaced if a suitable successor can be found; May might have the guts to send Rudd there (Fallon to replace, Brokenshire (?) to Defence).
I always thought that Brokenshire should be responsible for local government reorganisation.
In any reshuffle, I expect to see Priti Patel in a more prominent role - Brexit Sec or Home Sec?
In unionist areas of Scotland ie which voted No by more than 55% in 2014 I expect unionist parties to see a revival, especially the Tories. Those areas are concentrated in the borders, Edinburgh, Perthshire and Aberdeenshire as well as Stirling and East Renfrewshire elsewhere I expect the SNP to hold on and in Glasgow and the central belt it will be another SNP clean sweep. Unionists will also want to keep the SNP below the 45% Yes got in 2014 if they can
From looking at polling it seems Scotish certainty to vote is underperforming the national figure.
This is good news for SCon and bad news for the SNP.
All gone mammary glands up since Osborne left the Treasury.
Bring back George.
and the deficit is set to go up this year too.
Depends who CoTE is come 9th June I guess.
Hopefully not Hammond.
My instinct at the moment is that the re-shuffle will be limited mainly to a few people switching places. Leadsom will go and Hunt will be replaced if a suitable successor can be found; May might have the guts to send Rudd there (Fallon to replace, Brokenshire (?) to Defence).
I always thought that Brokenshire should be responsible for local government reorganisation.
In any reshuffle, I expect to see Priti Patel in a more prominent role - Brexit Sec or Home Sec?
You can't take Davis off the job now. He is the only one who has any idea what is going on with the negotiations.
All gone mammary glands up since Osborne left the Treasury.
Bring back George.
and the deficit is set to go up this year too.
Depends who CoTE is come 9th June I guess.
Hopefully not Hammond.
My instinct at the moment is that the re-shuffle will be limited mainly to a few people switching places. Leadsom will go and Hunt will be replaced if a suitable successor can be found; May might have the guts to send Rudd there (Fallon to replace, Brokenshire (?) to Defence).
Rudd for Hammond widely trailed.
I don't see it myself. Not impossible though.
Appointing the first female Chancellor of the Exchequer must have a lot of appeal for May.
Labour launching their manifesto at the University of Bradford. Does anyone have an explanation for why EM voters seem so solid for Corbyn whilst the WWC disappear?
All gone mammary glands up since Osborne left the Treasury.
Bring back George.
and the deficit is set to go up this year too.
Depends who CoTE is come 9th June I guess.
Hopefully not Hammond.
My instinct at the moment is that the re-shuffle will be limited mainly to a few people switching places. Leadsom will go and Hunt will be replaced if a suitable successor can be found; May might have the guts to send Rudd there (Fallon to replace, Brokenshire (?) to Defence).
I always thought that Brokenshire should be responsible for local government reorganisation.
In any reshuffle, I expect to see Priti Patel in a more prominent role - Brexit Sec or Home Sec?
You can't take Davis off the job now. He is the only one who has any idea what is going on with the negotiations.
Memo to Theresa May: walk slowly backwards, away from Donald Trump. You made a very bad mistake offering him a state visit when you walked hand in hand with him earlier this year. Luckily for you, your political opponent is Jeremy Corbyn so you will get away with it. But it does not serve your interests or the UK's interests to go anywhere near him now. Put that visit off for as long as you possibly can.
I would hope we would be increasingly careful what intelligence we share with the Americans now. Five eyes or not.
My own personal suggestions as an Englishman looking north.
1: Get GERS into running a regular surplus. Would put Scotland on a far more secure footing and make the question of whether an independent Scotland is financially viable an easy one to answer.
Doesn't GERS include UK spending so it would be an impossible goal for the Scottish government?
No it would not be an impossible goal as an independent Scotland would need to replace like-for-like Scotland's proportion of almost all UK expenditure. GERS figures have fluctuated quite a bit and it is not an impossible goal to reach a GERS surplus.
Doing a YouGov now. The VI question is "There is a general election on June 8th, which party will you vote for?"
Unusual phrasing. YG will need to be extremely careful about reporting actual votes cast if they keep this - postal votes will start going out within a week.
All gone mammary glands up since Osborne left the Treasury.
Bring back George.
and the deficit is set to go up this year too.
Depends who CoTE is come 9th June I guess.
Hopefully not Hammond.
My instinct at the moment is that the re-shuffle will be limited mainly to a few people switching places. Leadsom will go and Hunt will be replaced if a suitable successor can be found; May might have the guts to send Rudd there (Fallon to replace, Brokenshire (?) to Defence).
I always thought that Brokenshire should be responsible for local government reorganisation.
In any reshuffle, I expect to see Priti Patel in a more prominent role - Brexit Sec or Home Sec?
You can't take Davis off the job now. He is the only one who has any idea what is going on with the negotiations.
All gone mammary glands up since Osborne left the Treasury.
Bring back George.
and the deficit is set to go up this year too.
Depends who CoTE is come 9th June I guess.
Hopefully not Hammond.
My instinct at the moment is that the re-shuffle will be limited mainly to a few people switching places. Leadsom will go and Hunt will be replaced if a suitable successor can be found; May might have the guts to send Rudd there (Fallon to replace, Brokenshire (?) to Defence).
I always thought that Brokenshire should be responsible for local government reorganisation.
In any reshuffle, I expect to see Priti Patel in a more prominent role - Brexit Sec or Home Sec?
You can't take Davis off the job now. He is the only one who has any idea what is going on with the negotiations.
No, but you can dump Fox.
He's not Brexit sec though is he. He is WTO rules sec.
Doing a YouGov now. The VI question is "There is a general election on June 8th, which party will you vote for?"
Unusual phrasing. YG will need to be extremely careful about reporting actual votes cast if they keep this - postal votes will start going out within a week.
Surely if they simply don't ask if someone has voted by post they can't report it and they can't be breaking any rules?
All gone mammary glands up since Osborne left the Treasury.
Bring back George.
and the deficit is set to go up this year too.
Depends who CoTE is come 9th June I guess.
Hopefully not Hammond.
My instinct at the moment is that the re-shuffle will be limited mainly to a few people switching places. Leadsom will go and Hunt will be replaced if a suitable successor can be found; May might have the guts to send Rudd there (Fallon to replace, Brokenshire (?) to Defence).
I always thought that Brokenshire should be responsible for local government reorganisation.
In any reshuffle, I expect to see Priti Patel in a more prominent role - Brexit Sec or Home Sec?
Has Priti been doing well? I used to think she was slightly mad. What about replacing Fox with her?
All gone mammary glands up since Osborne left the Treasury.
Bring back George.
and the deficit is set to go up this year too.
Depends who CoTE is come 9th June I guess.
Hopefully not Hammond.
My instinct at the moment is that the re-shuffle will be limited mainly to a few people switching places. Leadsom will go and Hunt will be replaced if a suitable successor can be found; May might have the guts to send Rudd there (Fallon to replace, Brokenshire (?) to Defence).
I always thought that Brokenshire should be responsible for local government reorganisation.
In any reshuffle, I expect to see Priti Patel in a more prominent role - Brexit Sec or Home Sec?
You can't take Davis off the job now. He is the only one who has any idea what is going on with the negotiations.
No, but you can dump Fox.
What's Fox done wrong? Or done for that matter?
Being Liam Fox.
Why Theresa May brought that national security risk back into government whilst letting the likes of Dominic Raab waste away on the back benches I'll never know.
Can we exclude all North, East, South and Wests from constituency naming schemes in the next round please.
I'm trying to check two models against each other and extracting all the England constituencies I run into
"Basildon South & Thurrock East" vs "South Basildon and East Thurrock"
Why not just Billericay ?
Sadly the consultation period for the boundary changes has closed now.
We have some idiotic names. Wyre Forest's better known as Kidderminster ... absolutely nothing to do with Wyre North and Preston. Does everyone know that, even on PB?
I think we used to name most rural seats after the largest town in them.
Can we exclude all North, East, South and Wests from constituency naming schemes in the next round please.
I'm trying to check two models against each other and extracting all the England constituencies I run into
"Basildon South & Thurrock East" vs "South Basildon and East Thurrock"
Why not just Billericay ?
Sadly the consultation period for the boundary changes has closed now.
We have some idiotic names. Wyre Forest's better known as Kidderminster ... absolutely nothing to do with Wyre North and Preston. Does everyone know that, even on PB?
I think we used to name most rural seats after the largest town in them.
My favourite bit of constituency name farce is that the northern most part of Thanet is in the Thanet South constituency.
All gone mammary glands up since Osborne left the Treasury.
Bring back George.
and the deficit is set to go up this year too.
Depends who CoTE is come 9th June I guess.
Hopefully not Hammond.
My instinct at the moment is that the re-shuffle will be limited mainly to a few people switching places. Leadsom will go and Hunt will be replaced if a suitable successor can be found; May might have the guts to send Rudd there (Fallon to replace, Brokenshire (?) to Defence).
I always thought that Brokenshire should be responsible for local government reorganisation.
In any reshuffle, I expect to see Priti Patel in a more prominent role - Brexit Sec or Home Sec?
You can't take Davis off the job now. He is the only one who has any idea what is going on with the negotiations.
No, but you can dump Fox.
What's Fox done wrong? Or done for that matter?
Being Liam Fox.
Why Theresa May brought that national security risk back into government whilst letting the likes of Dominic Raab waste away on the back benches I'll never know.
I'm no fan of Dr Fox, but this has been his area of expertise - in particular contacts with the Americans - for a long time and TM and he get on well. We won't know what Fox has been up to until we get a bit further into the A50 negotiations. Expect leaks on lined-up trade deals to put pressure on and keep 'good news' rolling.
Corbyn seems not at all to know what he doesn't know. How he is perceived. How his worldview is past its sell by date. He should read the Dao De Jing on the required wisdom for leaders and knowing their limits: 知之为知之，不知为不知，是知也 zhi zhi wei zhi zhi, bu zhi wei bu zhi, shi zhi ye To know what you know and know what you do not know-then this is wisdom.
All gone mammary glands up since Osborne left the Treasury.
Bring back George.
and the deficit is set to go up this year too.
Depends who CoTE is come 9th June I guess.
Hopefully not Hammond.
My instinct at the moment is that the re-shuffle will be limited mainly to a few people switching places. Leadsom will go and Hunt will be replaced if a suitable successor can be found; May might have the guts to send Rudd there (Fallon to replace, Brokenshire (?) to Defence).
Rudd for Hammond widely trailed.
I don't see it myself. Not impossible though.
Actually trying to think of a viable option worse than Hammond - not many.
All gone mammary glands up since Osborne left the Treasury.
Bring back George.
and the deficit is set to go up this year too.
Depends who CoTE is come 9th June I guess.
Hopefully not Hammond.
My instinct at the moment is that the re-shuffle will be limited mainly to a few people switching places. Leadsom will go and Hunt will be replaced if a suitable successor can be found; May might have the guts to send Rudd there (Fallon to replace, Brokenshire (?) to Defence).
I always thought that Brokenshire should be responsible for local government reorganisation.
In any reshuffle, I expect to see Priti Patel in a more prominent role - Brexit Sec or Home Sec?
Has Priti been doing well? I used to think she was slightly mad. What about replacing Fox with her?
She can do no wrong :-)
Seriously, having her as Home Sec imposing migration controls would be a way to stop people pointing and shouting 'racist'.
Doing a YouGov now. The VI question is "There is a general election on June 8th, which party will you vote for?"
Unusual phrasing. YG will need to be extremely careful about reporting actual votes cast if they keep this - postal votes will start going out within a week.
Q2 was confirm I'm on the electoral register at the postcode they have for me Q3 was the named candidates - presumably this is to allow for seats where UKIP/Grn aren't standing
Then how likely to vote and how likely to change mind.
Amazing how it managed before zero-hours contracts.
I suspect banning ZHCs would have surprisingly little impact though it'd depend on how it was done. The more important question is how to ensure that the right balance exists between employee and employer.
How Labour would raise £48.6bn a year extra in tax
Corporation Tax - £19.4bn
Income tax increases for top 5 per cent - £6.4bn
Excessive Pay Levy - £1.3bn
Offshore Company Property Levy - £1.6bn
Labour’s tax avoidance programme - £6.5bn
Extension of Stamp Duty Reserve Tax to derivatives and removal of exemption - £5.6bn
Efficiency review of corporate tax reliefs - £3.8bn
Revising tax giveaways of Capital Gains Tax, Inheritance Tax, bank levy and scrapping the married persons’ tax allowance - £3.7bn
VAT on private school fees - £1.6bn
That IHT one is absolute electoral poison, and it raises buttons.
VAT on school fees wont get £1.6b either. Many parents wont be able to carry on I suspect.
20% tax increase on education, crippling.
I don't think anyone who can afford to send their children to private school will be 'crippled'. Some may, as has been suggested, back out, and spend the money on a new Range Rover or trip to the Maldives instead.
Jeremy thanks those in the party who have produced the manifesto in a very short period of time and thanks his shadow cabinet team. "If you look at it, you see experience, diversity, age range, and people who’s experience is rooted in real life experience, he says."
How Labour would raise £48.6bn a year extra in tax
Corporation Tax - £19.4bn
Income tax increases for top 5 per cent - £6.4bn
Excessive Pay Levy - £1.3bn
Offshore Company Property Levy - £1.6bn
Labour’s tax avoidance programme - £6.5bn
Extension of Stamp Duty Reserve Tax to derivatives and removal of exemption - £5.6bn
Efficiency review of corporate tax reliefs - £3.8bn
Revising tax giveaways of Capital Gains Tax, Inheritance Tax, bank levy and scrapping the married persons’ tax allowance - £3.7bn
VAT on private school fees - £1.6bn
That IHT one is absolute electoral poison, and it raises buttons.
VAT on school fees wont get £1.6b either. Many parents wont be able to carry on I suspect.
20% tax increase on education, crippling.
I don't think anyone who can afford to send their children to private school will be 'crippled'. Some may, as has been suggested, back out, and spend the money on a new Range Rover or trip to the Maldives instead.
Would be ideal for house prices near good state schools - they would go through the roof.
Perhaps a better investment than private education - you get your money back anyway.
I hope DavidL is correct as this haul would split the atom bettingwise for me in Scotland.
Can't say I'm too optimistic about East Lothian though, with Scottish labour going backwards still (But it was 10-1)
But the SNP appear to be dropping further than Labour - as evidenced by the Local Elections and the Holyrood results. Given that Labour did win East Lothian last year for Holyrood, why are they less likely to take the Westminster seat. Historically the SNP has tended to outperform at Holyrood elections compared to Westminster. 2015 was different because of the Referendum a few months earlier.
Mr. Patrick, still want to get the Book of Changes one day.
Shifting to Zhuge Liang, according to him the second kind of decadence in generalship is to be jealous and envious of the wise and able. Not sure he'd approve of Labour's tax plans.
Corbyn seems not at all to know what he doesn't know. How he is perceived. How his worldview is past its sell by date. He should read the Dao De Jing on the required wisdom for leaders and knowing their limits: 知之为知之，不知为不知，是知也 zhi zhi wei zhi zhi, bu zhi wei bu zhi, shi zhi ye To know what you know and know what you do not know-then this is wisdom.
Amazing how it managed before zero-hours contracts.
I suspect banning ZHCs would have surprisingly little impact though it'd depend on how it was done. The more important question is how to ensure that the right balance exists between employee and employer.
Because we have always had ZHC type employment ....Either casual work with no formal contract (a lot of pub work) or agency work.
All gone mammary glands up since Osborne left the Treasury.
Bring back George.
and the deficit is set to go up this year too.
Depends who CoTE is come 9th June I guess.
Hopefully not Hammond.
My instinct at the moment is that the re-shuffle will be limited mainly to a few people switching places. Leadsom will go and Hunt will be replaced if a suitable successor can be found; May might have the guts to send Rudd there (Fallon to replace, Brokenshire (?) to Defence).
I always thought that Brokenshire should be responsible for local government reorganisation.
In any reshuffle, I expect to see Priti Patel in a more prominent role - Brexit Sec or Home Sec?
You can't take Davis off the job now. He is the only one who has any idea what is going on with the negotiations.
No, but you can dump Fox.
What's Fox done wrong? Or done for that matter?
Being Liam Fox.
Why Theresa May brought that national security risk back into government whilst letting the likes of Dominic Raab waste away on the back benches I'll never know.
I'm no fan of Dr Fox, but this has been his area of expertise - in particular contacts with the Americans - for a long time and TM and he get on well. We won't know what Fox has been up to until we get a bit further into the A50 negotiations. Expect leaks on lined-up trade deals to put pressure on and keep 'good news' rolling.
There is no way anyone is doing anything other than a brutally one-sided a trade deal with this US administration and this US congress. Britain won't, for one.
Labour's entire manifesto is just taking the piss. Hey, voters, you are too dumb to understand so we won't even try - but here, have some brightly-coloured sweeties.
The next three weeks is going to see Labour's economics pulled apart by the media with the glee of a sadistic child de-limbing a fly.
Amazing how it managed before zero-hours contracts.
I suspect banning ZHCs would have surprisingly little impact though it'd depend on how it was done. The more important question is how to ensure that the right balance exists between employee and employer.
Genuinely - how does one abolish zero hours contracts? You have a right to a mionum number of X hours if requested - but what is X?
I think it would be workable if zero hours employees who actually work part/full time had a right to formalise that arrangement.
Odd priorities for Labour. They're proposing to splash out £48bn a year more on current* spending, and getting on for a quarter of that (£11.2bn) would go to university students in maintenance subsidies and abolition of tuition fees. Contrast that with the £2.1bn on social care, or the £5bn on healthcare.
* (plus countless further billions on nationalisations, infrastructure etc)
All gone mammary glands up since Osborne left the Treasury.
Bring back George.
and the deficit is set to go up this year too.
Depends who CoTE is come 9th June I guess.
Hopefully not Hammond.
My instinct at the moment is that the re-shuffle will be limited mainly to a few people switching places. Leadsom will go and Hunt will be replaced if a suitable successor can be found; May might have the guts to send Rudd there (Fallon to replace, Brokenshire (?) to Defence).
I always thought that Brokenshire should be responsible for local government reorganisation.
In any reshuffle, I expect to see Priti Patel in a more prominent role - Brexit Sec or Home Sec?
Has Priti been doing well? I used to think she was slightly mad. What about replacing Fox with her?
She can do no wrong :-)
Seriously, having her as Home Sec imposing migration controls would be a way to stop people pointing and shouting 'racist'.
I don't really see the need for any reshuffle at the top tier. Most of them have only been in post for less than 12 months and are still in the mastering their brief stage.
I would however make one exception to that, DEFRA. That department needs someone bright and a heavyweight to fight in cabinet because farming in the UK is going to be revolutionised by Brexit and it needs someone good enough to a) devise a new system and b) get it through cabinet, diverse committees and parliament.
How Labour would raise £48.6bn a year extra in tax
Corporation Tax - £19.4bn
Income tax increases for top 5 per cent - £6.4bn
Excessive Pay Levy - £1.3bn
Offshore Company Property Levy - £1.6bn
Labour’s tax avoidance programme - £6.5bn
Extension of Stamp Duty Reserve Tax to derivatives and removal of exemption - £5.6bn
Efficiency review of corporate tax reliefs - £3.8bn
Revising tax giveaways of Capital Gains Tax, Inheritance Tax, bank levy and scrapping the married persons’ tax allowance - £3.7bn
VAT on private school fees - £1.6bn
That IHT one is absolute electoral poison, and it raises buttons.
VAT on school fees wont get £1.6b either. Many parents wont be able to carry on I suspect.
20% tax increase on education, crippling.
I don't think anyone who can afford to send their children to private school will be 'crippled'. Some may, as has been suggested, back out, and spend the money on a new Range Rover or trip to the Maldives instead.
Perhaps, although not everybody who uses private schools are rich. I went and am of working class stock, although I was able to get in on the assisted places scheme long before that excellent system was abolished. I guess this is more about taxing private education out of principle.
"The longest suicide note in history" is an epithet originally used by United Kingdom Labour Party MP Gerald Kaufman to describe his party's 1983 election manifesto, which emphasised socialist policies in a more profound manner than previous such documents."
How Labour would raise £48.6bn a year extra in tax
Corporation Tax - £19.4bn
Income tax increases for top 5 per cent - £6.4bn
Excessive Pay Levy - £1.3bn
Offshore Company Property Levy - £1.6bn
Labour’s tax avoidance programme - £6.5bn
Extension of Stamp Duty Reserve Tax to derivatives and removal of exemption - £5.6bn
Efficiency review of corporate tax reliefs - £3.8bn
Revising tax giveaways of Capital Gains Tax, Inheritance Tax, bank levy and scrapping the married persons’ tax allowance - £3.7bn
VAT on private school fees - £1.6bn
That IHT one is absolute electoral poison, and it raises buttons.
VAT on school fees wont get £1.6b either. Many parents wont be able to carry on I suspect.
20% tax increase on education, crippling.
I don't think anyone who can afford to send their children to private school will be 'crippled'. Some may, as has been suggested, back out, and spend the money on a new Range Rover or trip to the Maldives instead.
...and then who pays to educate their children in the state system? Every child that this pushes out of private schools pushes them into the state system. It's a net reduction in tax take. And alot of unemployed teachers.
Can we exclude all North, East, South and Wests from constituency naming schemes in the next round please.
I'm trying to check two models against each other and extracting all the England constituencies I run into
"Basildon South & Thurrock East" vs "South Basildon and East Thurrock"
Why not just Billericay ?
Sadly the consultation period for the boundary changes has closed now.
We have some idiotic names. Wyre Forest's better known as Kidderminster ... absolutely nothing to do with Wyre North and Preston. Does everyone know that, even on PB?
I think we used to name most rural seats after the largest town in them.
I'm glad that they don't do that now. Hertsmere would be named Borehamwood in that case.
All gone mammary glands up since Osborne left the Treasury.
Bring back George.
and the deficit is set to go up this year too.
Depends who CoTE is come 9th June I guess.
Hopefully not Hammond.
My instinct at the moment is that the re-shuffle will be limited mainly to a few people switching places. Leadsom will go and Hunt will be replaced if a suitable successor can be found; May might have the guts to send Rudd there (Fallon to replace, Brokenshire (?) to Defence).
I always thought that Brokenshire should be responsible for local government reorganisation.
In any reshuffle, I expect to see Priti Patel in a more prominent role - Brexit Sec or Home Sec?
You can't take Davis off the job now. He is the only one who has any idea what is going on with the negotiations.
No, but you can dump Fox.
What's Fox done wrong? Or done for that matter?
Being Liam Fox.
Why Theresa May brought that national security risk back into government whilst letting the likes of Dominic Raab waste away on the back benches I'll never know.
I'm no fan of Dr Fox, but this has been his area of expertise - in particular contacts with the Americans - for a long time and TM and he get on well. We won't know what Fox has been up to until we get a bit further into the A50 negotiations. Expect leaks on lined-up trade deals to put pressure on and keep 'good news' rolling.
There is no way anyone is doing anything other than a brutally one-sided a trade deal with this US administration and this US congress. Britain won't, for one.
They did a deal with China quickly enough. OK, not a 'comprehensive' FTA, but both sides gained something, even if you could assess US as gaining more. Remember trade is not a zero sum game of 'You win, I lose'. Both sides gain from increased trade even if one side has a deficit.
How Labour would raise £48.6bn a year extra in tax
Corporation Tax - £19.4bn
Income tax increases for top 5 per cent - £6.4bn
Excessive Pay Levy - £1.3bn
Offshore Company Property Levy - £1.6bn
Labour’s tax avoidance programme - £6.5bn
Extension of Stamp Duty Reserve Tax to derivatives and removal of exemption - £5.6bn
Efficiency review of corporate tax reliefs - £3.8bn
Revising tax giveaways of Capital Gains Tax, Inheritance Tax, bank levy and scrapping the married persons’ tax allowance - £3.7bn
VAT on private school fees - £1.6bn
That IHT one is absolute electoral poison, and it raises buttons.
VAT on school fees wont get £1.6b either. Many parents wont be able to carry on I suspect.
20% tax increase on education, crippling.
I don't think anyone who can afford to send their children to private school will be 'crippled'. Some may, as has been suggested, back out, and spend the money on a new Range Rover or trip to the Maldives instead.
Wealth is distributed evenly, not in step changes, and there are therefore parents at the very bottom of the range who will be pushed out by a 20% increase. They are already driving shit non-Range Rover cars and not having holidays; not that I think that's necessarily a good thing, but it is a thing.
Amazing how it managed before zero-hours contracts.
I suspect banning ZHCs would have surprisingly little impact though it'd depend on how it was done. The more important question is how to ensure that the right balance exists between employee and employer.
Because we have always had ZHC type employment ....Either casual work with no formal contract (a lot of pub work) or agency work.
Indeed, which is why I suspect that a ban would have little impact in reality, and why it misses the important point about job security, flexibility and employee rights. If someone is on a ZHC, then they need the right to simultaneously take other employment, for example.
How Labour would raise £48.6bn a year extra in tax
Corporation Tax - £19.4bn
Income tax increases for top 5 per cent - £6.4bn
Excessive Pay Levy - £1.3bn
Offshore Company Property Levy - £1.6bn
Labour’s tax avoidance programme - £6.5bn
Extension of Stamp Duty Reserve Tax to derivatives and removal of exemption - £5.6bn
Efficiency review of corporate tax reliefs - £3.8bn
Revising tax giveaways of Capital Gains Tax, Inheritance Tax, bank levy and scrapping the married persons’ tax allowance - £3.7bn
VAT on private school fees - £1.6bn
How many jobs are lost by increasing Corporation Tax? And how much does that reduce the tax take for IncomeTax?
How many of the top 5% will a) retire b) fuck off elsewhere? And how much does that reduce the tax take for IncomeTax?
What tax avoidance measures is the current Govt. letting slip to the tune of £6.5bn? Give us some solid examples. Or else we'll just assume it is complete bollocks.
Amazing how it managed before zero-hours contracts.
I suspect banning ZHCs would have surprisingly little impact though it'd depend on how it was done. The more important question is how to ensure that the right balance exists between employee and employer.
Genuinely - how does one abolish zero hours contracts? You have a right to a mionum number of X hours if requested - but what is X?
I think it would be workable if zero hours employees who actually work part/full time had a right to formalise that arrangement.
The one aspect that crept into agency / ZHC, which was wrong and been outlawed, was demanding exclusivity.
Someone explain to these idiots that doubling the corporation tax rate isn't just going to double corporation tax receipts with no adverse effects. Actual company managers in the real world just don't think like that.
Idiot relics from the 1970s, at least Michael Foot isn't responsible for the longest suicide note any more.
@singharj: Confirmed: shadow defence secretary Nia Griffith turned down invitation to be at Labour manifesto launch. She is out campaigning in her seat
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Have you worked out who Nicola claims to be speaking for yet
http://players.brightcove.net/2540076170001/NykPWQNal_default/index.html?videoId=5178827459001
In any reshuffle, I expect to see Priti Patel in a more prominent role - Brexit Sec or Home Sec?
Popcorn to hand.
Why Theresa May brought that national security risk back into government whilst letting the likes of Dominic Raab waste away on the back benches I'll never know.
I think we used to name most rural seats after the largest town in them.
They've gone all in. Which means, I hope, Corbyn and the far left will totally own the thrashing they're about to get
Turns to look at Dawn Butler.
知之为知之，不知为不知，是知也
zhi zhi wei zhi zhi, bu zhi wei bu zhi, shi zhi ye
To know what you know and know what you do not know-then this is wisdom.
Corporation Tax - £19.4bn
Income tax increases for top 5 per cent - £6.4bn
Excessive Pay Levy - £1.3bn
Offshore Company Property Levy - £1.6bn
Labour’s tax avoidance programme - £6.5bn
Extension of Stamp Duty Reserve Tax to derivatives and removal of exemption - £5.6bn
Efficiency review of corporate tax reliefs - £3.8bn
Revising tax giveaways of Capital Gains Tax, Inheritance Tax, bank levy and scrapping the married persons’ tax allowance - £3.7bn
VAT on private school fees - £1.6bn
Amongst union activists anyway.
https://order-order.com/2017/05/16/was-mcdonnell-handed-deficit-note/
SNP 40
Con 12
LD 4
Lab 3
Vote share: SNP 40%, Con 30%, Lab 17%, LD 8%.
Is there a political betting offer on the Sun's June7th headline involving the words 'last one to leave' and/or 'turn out the lights'?
Seriously, having her as Home Sec imposing migration controls would be a way to stop people pointing and shouting 'racist'.
Q3 was the named candidates - presumably this is to allow for seats where UKIP/Grn aren't standing
Then how likely to vote and how likely to change mind.
I suspect banning ZHCs would have surprisingly little impact though it'd depend on how it was done. The more important question is how to ensure that the right balance exists between employee and employer.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4508746/Corbyn-hires-Stalin-apologist-lifelong-Communist.html
Jeremy thanks those in the party who have produced the manifesto in a very short period of time and thanks his shadow cabinet team. "If you look at it, you see experience, diversity, age range, and people who’s experience is rooted in real life experience, he says."
Perhaps a better investment than private education - you get your money back anyway.
Shifting to Zhuge Liang, according to him the second kind of decadence in generalship is to be jealous and envious of the wise and able. Not sure he'd approve of Labour's tax plans.
The next three weeks is going to see Labour's economics pulled apart by the media with the glee of a sadistic child de-limbing a fly.
I think it would be workable if zero hours employees who actually work part/full time had a right to formalise that arrangement.
* (plus countless further billions on nationalisations, infrastructure etc)
I would however make one exception to that, DEFRA. That department needs someone bright and a heavyweight to fight in cabinet because farming in the UK is going to be revolutionised by Brexit and it needs someone good enough to a) devise a new system and b) get it through cabinet, diverse committees and parliament.
Records are made to be broken.
Positively Trumpian
https://twitter.com/georgeeaton/status/864432051130421248
Hertsmere would be named Borehamwood in that case.
How many of the top 5% will a) retire b) fuck off elsewhere? And how much does that reduce the tax take for IncomeTax?
What tax avoidance measures is the current Govt. letting slip to the tune of £6.5bn? Give us some solid examples. Or else we'll just assume it is complete bollocks.
Labour's economic policy. Written on a Rizzla.
Idiot relics from the 1970s, at least Michael Foot isn't responsible for the longest suicide note any more.