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Jordan spokesperson claiming the congressman didn’t say this: “Not true. Mr. Jordan did not say this.” https://t.co/sKS8lwknli
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My views are aligned with @DecrepitJohnL
The honours system is a bit of flim-flam. Not worth very much. If people need a pat on the head to give money to charity that’s a bit sad but whatever. It’s much more serious when it’s things like a seat in the Lords.
@Benpointer i fully accept it looks bad, although that’s partly the way the media chooses to present it. Perhaps you create a new class on honour specific for people who give a lot of money to good causes?
More disturbing is the use of fixers who get fees. That’s bullshit. The Prince’s Foundation doesn’t need to pay introduction fees
@kle4 re the Sacklers the issue is the Library and Gallery were funded by the family of the younger brother who sold his shares *before* OxyContin was launched. Yes he sold Valium but I don’t think that was as bad(?). So the campaigners were punishing people who weren’t responsible and damaging the cultural sector because their cousins did bad stuff
It’s not as simple as saying “let old people pay” - they paid for their parent generation. @MaxPB has got caught up in his crusade about BTL again and decided that all old people are evil and tax should be hypothecated to hit them.
The reality is that society as a whole needs to fund social care. There are positive externalities from not having old people blocking hospital beds or dying in the streets. Tax should be simple, broad based, low rates, and hard to avoid. Income tax meets all of those criteria.
F1: working on a pre-race ramble. Quite shocking how much bad luck I've had this year, but given I had numerous flukes in 2020 it does, at least, seem balanced.
(Though as ever, Churchill's remark about democracy applies)
So long as people are willing to defend political inadequacy simply to avoid a worse alternative, things won’t improve.
Betting PostF1: given the tight track and many red flags, I've backed under 16.5 classified finishers with two-thirds of a stake, the other third going on under 15.5.
https://enormo-haddock.blogspot.com/2021/09/netherlands-pre-race-2021.html
That he may turn out to be a poor president doesn’t make him a poor candidate. And there is still a decent chance that, as with Reagan, choosing and listening to good advisors can make up for personal and mental frailty.
And 14degC
Paralympics over, but some splendid examples of triumph over adversity.
Edit: however in this situation I don’t think it works. It’s a big and controversial topic. We need to fix social care, including spending more on it, and spending years arguing about the details of property tax will be a disaster. Just stick a penny on income tax.
Interestingly, monetary policy came up and Hayes is worried about inflation. “Why isn’t any MP talking about this?” Simple, lots of Gen Xs with massive mortgages.
Farage thinks the central banks simply want to inflate their way out of their debt.
And he became the Democratic Presidential nominee for two reasons:
1. Iowa fucked up.
2. Bloomberg wasted gazillions on... what exactly?
I would just make it harder and more expensive to sell to them…
However, forgive my ignorance, but how does the Irish system work?
(Obviously more complicated but that’s the quick summary)
More than half of British households have an Amazon Prime sub, if she makes it to the quarters and beyond the hype train will start full throttle. Though depends on time zones for her matches I suppose.
This will also effect the mid terms where Dems will tie all the GOP candidates to him.
That’s separate from the issue of whether they’re any good having won the election. Think of Blair. Brilliant candidate, one of the most brilliant election winners ever. Best record in elections of any candidate in the age of universal suffrage.
Bit meh as PM though.
The most you can claim is he was “good enough”
Edit: incidentally there is sadly something of a false premise in your first sentence.
So you need to include rollover relief on the principal residence - which massively cuts the tax generated
For me, if I get to the point that I have dementia to the extent that I need round-the-clock care, I'm checking out thank you very much. The idea that I would want to linger with not much or no quality of life whilst bringing expense, heartbreak and worry to others is abhorrent to me.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/annual-7-5bn-cost-of-eu-trade-as-bad-for-business-as-no-deal-brexit-jd7llrtb6
A wealth tax is unlikely they are reported to be hard to collect and don’t yield the numbers needed. Would CGT increase do,any better ?
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/sep/04/pressure-grows-on-starmer-to-back-tax-on-rich-to-pay-for-social-care
Assuming you mean my second sentence… there are still half decent republicans… you just need to know where to look. I rather like Nikki Haley (and she has an accent to die for)
That is why we will all need to pay to have a decent care system and more than the sums being discussed now. We simply cannot afford to exempt any group - no matter how hard done they be they may feel - from paying for a decent care system.
That is if we really want it. Sometimes it feels as if this debate is less about how to get a decent care system and more about seeing which group should be punished most.
And a decent care system will also involve people making different decisions about how they live their lives. It is not enough simply to put someone in a good home. It also means keeping an eye on how someone is cared for and being their advocate. Paying someone else and adopting an out of sight, out of mind approach is not good enough. Abuse and neglect will flourish in such circumstances.
We focus far too much on quantity of life over quality. A hangover from religious doctrine of course. (We also need to recalibrate out attitude to suicide.)
If he runs I suspect he would win the primary and he could win the general election too. Emerson last week has Trump on 67% in the GOP primary and beating Biden 47% to 46% in the general election
https://twitter.com/EmersonPolling/status/1433550803697115141?s=20
https://twitter.com/EmersonPolling/status/1433550303865958435?s=20
It was quickly dismissed by the treasury but seems to have a degree of support in parts of labour.
Good to see you back.
Safety car is almost a dead cert, there hasn’t been a clean session in any of the support series or practice sessions.
The challenge now is to make things work. As I've consistently pointed out none of these issues are a result of leaving the EU - we could have left and taken a different tack to not blow up things like free trade. They are explicitly a result of the Boris deal and that should be the attack - not on brexit.
Not unless your aim is to reinforce to half the population that they were right to vote leave.
Britain remains second in the medals table, a long way behind China, on both number of golds and total number of medals.
https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/paralympic-games/en/results/all-sports/medal-standings.htm
The risk is the inflation becomes more than transitory and stays for a while.
My son in laws mother has been suffering severe dementia for a few years now and is in specialist care.
She was a matron and has told the staff she does not want any medication but day to day she lives in a surreal world not knowing her family or loved ones and taking her medication
It is the dispirited moral the family suffer as well, and I have been very surprised at just how aggressively @MaxPB has attacked pensioners
The counterargument, at the front, is that Verstappen actually had a poor final lap with a purple but two yellow sectors, so he could've been significantly faster. If he can retain the lead then he might yet claim the win.
If there were a red flag market I would've looked at it with a very interested eye.
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-9957527/Retail-giant-Marks-Spencer-warns-suppliers-EU-border-chaos.html
Work hard, save, get your own home, then slowly lose it by having to either sell and downsize or have some sort of equity release nonsense.
Dr. Foxy, there's a reason medieval types loathed taxes. They were levied against property value (property as in general goods not just a home). Also, as a country, we need to save more. This is going to damage that as well.
Income tax should rise. It affects both the elderly and younger people and is fairer than raising NI.
Could you publish the tables
Thanks
I think it's a good system - it's enough to dissuade you from getting somewhere needlessly palatial and sitting on it as a way to park money but it's not a huge deal that's throwing all the poor old dears out on the street.
Basically, if Parliament legalized euthanasia and then provided for people to create living wills that said "please smother me with a pillow when I no longer recognize my own child," or some such similar thing, then the demand would likely be enormous and the amount of terrible suffering as well as money saved would be huge. But these mechanisms do not exist.
In truth, I would imagine that nearly everyone who goes to Dignitas is in the advanced stages of some other terminal illness, rather than being an early stage dementia patient.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-sect-behind-the-taliban-s-cheerleaders-in-the-uk/
As I've said before and it's the only sane approach (even before my daughter became an apprentice chartered Valuation Surveyer) is to introduce a land value tax and then use that to replace Council tax.
Yes it may result in prices dropping slightly but it really is the only possible option as everything else is rapidly ruled out.
As for the argument that some people are cash poor, I suspect a lot of the equity release firms will be happy to pay the money upfront or central government can find a way of doing it.
Absolutely right that we need a little Income Tax rise to fund this. It's fairer to all. I spent many efforts in trying to explain this very gently to @MaxPB but it didn't seem to sink in ... 😊
That doesn't work for care homes as at £60,000 a year everything adds up quickly.
Brexiteers launched a culture war that napalmed our children's future for a fantasy past, and now that it has turned out as well as Afghanistan they want us all to be friends and forget about it.
They won.
They will have to suck it up.