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A bit unfair on UKIP? Publicity stunt for "The Producers" at Margate – UKIP conference venue. Hot pants & swastikas pic.twitter.com/cXwRT8vZ1j
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We are all cartoonists now!
Burger! For a moment I thought you had said demolition.
Labour lead by 0.8%
Interesting split between the four YG polls and five non-YouGov polls so far this week.
ELBOW of the four YG polls gives Tories a 0.2% lead.
ELBOW of the five non-YG polls gives Labour a 1.9% lead
There are number of people going to court on Monday(?).. that thought stuff like that was a spiffing idea.
In sums up entirely in one drawing the complete and terrible mess we are in from cradle to grave.
1. Somehow those earning over £150k will only be allowed to get 20p in £ tax relief on pension contributions.... Labour's never heard of salary sacrifice I presume?
2. LTA reduced to £1m
3. AA reduced to £30k pa.
Pillocks.
Could have announced that before Ed made his speech...
They need to simplify the tax system, put everyone on PAYE and then let them argue about a rebate.
Yes, but the case coming up fascinates me.
(mainly for possible defence comedy value)
A knife-wielding mob has hacked to death a US-Bangladeshi blogger whose writing on religion had brought threats from Islamist hardliners.
Mind you, I know a hedge fund who won't do sal sac as they fear it would be 'politically' seen as unacceptable tax avoidance... totally risk averse on reputation if you can believe that.
You are normally smart enough to avoid the obvious wind ups
Ran out of coffee?
Each self employed person would need to be their own employer, set-up a LTD co to take the income and pay salary, PAYE and NI etc..
Also, the public have been free to buy Lloyds shares, I did that back in 2011 at the bargain price of 27p.
Chris Atkins, several former RBS bankers, and various associates.
The guy who shot back into "fame" for the strange UKIP fantasy programme on CH4?
A career mainly in investigative journalism and expose.
At the very least, it is ironic, but with the possibility of a real comedy.
I real worry, I think, is that a significant chunk of HE funding is now no longer guaranteed. It will have to be negotiated with Treasury every few years.
But back to Labour's tuition fee debacle. Is there some collective insanity going on here? It seems the media, Labour, and most posters here can't count.
£9000 fees paid by provision of loans, costs the Treasury £9000 per student.
£6000 fees paid by provision of loans and £3000 paid directly to Universities costs the Treasury £9000 per student.
It is the same figure. - the Treasury pays out £9000 per student.
It does not require new "funding".
It is Fiscally neutral in the current budget and in future budgets for at least 10 years, if not forever (given NPV of the money and the likely repayment rates).
You could cut and paste that URL for different stories, and fill in the blank...
>> Labours Plan ................. is a financially illiterate policy. <<
But do the voters care?
Everything is going to be paid for by one tax.
Oh I see he didn't mean that one. I'd have thought Ingenious was closer to The Producers script than the Atkins case.
I have no idea about the content, but the cast list looks interesting?
Either you're employed, as in earning money for the company and being payed a salary, or you're not earning for the company and the company is dormant (and you are not employed by it)
Personally, I would keep University fees up at 9,000 quid so they don't get a drop in funding - but announce a Govt. contribution to personal repayment of student fees. So when students finally DO have to start making repayments, then the Govt. will pay the first X thousand as that falls due. With an aspiration that this will be raised to Y thousand over time as these graduates share in the proceeds of economic growth they are helping to underpin. It pushes back the time when students who go into work will have to make their own contribution. Perhaps significantly. Which helps the Bank of Mum and Dad in the meantime. But the hit to the Exchequer isn't too harsh too soon, as it only kicks in when students enter full-time employment.
Make it clear that the contribution comes from the Govt taxing the rich at a 5% higher rate than Labour did for 98% of their term of office.
Politically it paints the LibDems as the bad guys and Labour as the mad guys.
With more people becoming self-employed, this problem will grow. But there are lots of easy ways to streamline self-employed income tax payments, reducing my admin. costs and making life easier for HMRC. The trouble is that no-one who thinks of new tax legislation seems to have the slightest idea of life in the real world or ask for small businesses' opinions.
Has any Labour front bencher ever been self-employed and dealt with HMRC, the monster which they created in 2005? The HMRC staff who post anonymously on www.hmrcisshite.co.uk seem to think it's totally f***ed.
I know all about IR35 sadly... HMRC took 2 years to declare that I was not operating within its remit.
(the life of an IT Contractor)
Way to go Labour.....
Allegedly exploited? (you should know better than that, you pull enough people up for it)
At the last comment I know of, he was "looking forward to his day in court to prove his innocence" (the upcoming appearance is a pleading diet, or English equivalent)
As it happened I saw Marf this morning and she showed me an early draft. I thought it was good, but not imo out of the ordinary. It did not at that stage however have the sinister eye behind the door. Chilling, and exceptional.
Btw, the 'portrait' format of the Site does the cartoon no favours when the original is 'landscape' as this one is. Can't be helped, but a more sympathetic layout would make the impact greater still. (Nonetheless I believe the toon is trending heavily on Twitter already.)
Sorry. you were talking about "Ingenious"., where the plot revolved round a loophole created by the last Labour government?
I am glad you cleared that up.
Amongst its many virtues is the ruthlessness with which it kicks political correctness into the long grass and stamps it mercilessly into the dirt.
After 33 previews, the original Broadway production opened at the St. James Theatre on April 19, 2001, starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, and ran for 2,502 performances, winning a record-breaking 12 Tony Awards.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Producers_(musical)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/26/opinion/gail-collins-adieu-chris-christie-adieu.html?ref=todayspaper
Now such a mechanism may not be required since an annual £30k pension limit would restrict salary sacrifice mechanisms to those under £180k. In contrast in 2009/10 the annual limit on pension contributions was your annual earnings.
You are missing the cunning part, where the government sells off the loans book to the private sector.
(seems there was an unexpected hold up though)
Of course no one will say it, but this country was more socially mobile when fewer people attended university.
THOSE EARNERS ARE LIKELY ALREADY DOING IT NOW - WILL THAT BE STOPPED - HOW?
The Times sure seems to have it in for Christie though.
@PeterMannionMP: Labour's new policy: 'Live fast, die young, kids...cos we'll have pissed away all the pensions cash if you live to be old.."
I think, from memory, their in-price is around 72p and the break-even price (including the fees etc) is around 65p
In a world where the loan doesn't get paid off, then the system works as a de-facto graduate tax anyway.
It is nothing less than Madhouse politics that a system is sold on the fact that, er, it's ok you won't pay it back anyway (and there are *even* less people paying it back than the models suggested just a few years ago).
It is ironic that at a time debt is deemed to be really really really bad (copyright Tories everywhere) that it is deemed ok to lump such burdens onto young people. Another example of how Tories (and New Labour before them) have screwed over the young in favour of the old - who let's not forget didn't have pay anything directly towards their higher education.
"Because the government are not in the business of owning banks"
Only our government, they prefer other countries nationalized businesses to run things instead.
http://www.epo.org/about-us/annual-reports-statistics/annual-report/2014/statistics/patent-applications.html?tab=6
The only person who has suggested ending salary sacrifice for pension contributions recently (as far as I can see) is Steve Webb (he seemed to suggest employers would be happy to give the arrangements up voluntarily in the report I read if either that or my memory of it can be trusted).
Comparable to the damage Brown did a decade or so ago?
Ros Altmann@rosaltmann·14m14 minutes ago
Calcns used for final salary-type pensions allow members £50kpa pension (20x£50k=£1m) but DC members need £2m for £50k jtlife infln annuity
Anybody of my generation will remember Mel Brookes' film as one of the funniest and most cutting comedies ever to hit the silver screen. (It was made in 1968 and yes it was a Talkie.)
If you haven't seen it, just get a copy and watch. You won't regret it.
Peter Allen earlier on the radio wondered if he had gone to Syria for the noble cause of fighting Assad. When corrected by an expert that he had previously tried to join Al Shabaab, he then decided based upon the strength of a vox pops of current students like "Jose" saying nope never seen any radical stuff here, that Mohammed Emwazi definitely couldn't have been radicalized at University of Westminster...and besides aren't universities all about radical ideas.....oh and that these ISIS lot aren't really any threat to the West.
Again the expert had to explain that this guy tried to join Al Shabaab only months after graduating, that they have proof that University of Westminster has serious issues with radical and extremist material being openly shared and equally extreme speakers being invited to talk (which are often segregated) and those challenging the speakers are silenced.
But it is a very valid point that Christie shot to fame as someone to take on the unions and fix the budget problems arising from pensions and mandated benefits and that now that storyline is falling apart, particularly as Walker has risen with a far more compelling version of the same story AND has strong real conservative credentials. It perhaps makes Walker less attractive in the GE, but makes it a lot more likely that he can prevail in the primaries.
We are lowering the cost of going to University. For poorer people. For young, poorer people.
Ta-daaarh!
You can take your Mr Lewises and your fiscal implications and your marginal tax rates and your propensity to earn and stick them where the sun don't shine.
"Don't be dumb, be a smarty
Come and join the Nazi Party"
Lethal.