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How Osborne's YouGov "well-badly" ratings have slipped since November. pic.twitter.com/1qRYOBQjOQ
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Actually it was a decent PMQs from Corbyn, had Dave on difficult ground.
The irony is of course this is the one day of the year political saddos don't care about PMQs
My suggestion would be a reversal of the benefit-in-kind tax treatment of employer-provided private health insurance.
Maybe also something on simplification of marginal income tax rates alongside a rise in the 40% threshold?
Do we have a budget bingo market anywhere?
Corbyn's air pollution delusions:
It's correct that over 99% of solar capacity in the UK has been installed since David Cameron became PM https://t.co/p43MXeRV08 #PMQs
One in six European babies is now born in the UK. Incredible repercussions for maternity units, midwives, schools, teachers.
I still don't understand how you see the Leave campaign as being empowered to construct an alternative. Because if the campaign was unaminous the remainers would immediately (and correctly) say "But they can't guarantee that will happen - rather than [say] EEA, it could be a disastrous exit with no agreements". If Cameron were to say something like "I promise that we will do our best to negotiate our future outside the EU in line with the agreed views of the Leave campaign" you'd have a fair point. But he hasn't, and won't. At the moment what you're saying is akin to criticising England for not having a settled first XV on the basis that people in the West Stand are arguing about whether Farrell or Tuilagi should be at 12.
New GOP delegate count:
Trump - 696
Cruz - 417
Kasich - 146
Uncommitted - 26
I think he has been a moderately decent Chancellor, broadly going in the right direction whilst failing to do much about some of the key the underlying issues we face such as stupidly high house prices, too many imports and a lack of skills in the economy. Blame not solely at his door though.
Wealth inequality has definitely grown as well, there must be a sensible, effective and fair way of getting a bit more from the "1%" or even 0.1%. This is getting noticed some way beyond the usual lefty anti-capitalist circles who think salaries should be capped at £50k or whatever.
My private medical provided by my employer has a policy value of c.£2.5k and HMRC make it tax deductible; I'm a 40% taxpayer.
So I basically paid over a grand for it last year.
Not sure it's worth it.
Long Supreme Court vacancies used to be more common https://t.co/EWph7HJQJ5 https://t.co/U7hRWoXOyZ
The referendum will deliver Leave or Remain and a mandate for future action accordingly. If Leave, the meaning of Leave will be discerned primarily from the way in which the Leave camp has conducted its campaign. At present, that's not going to be very informative, to put it mildly.
It is for the Leave camp to construct a prospectus. Remain has done that. It may well be that the Leave prospectus would lack plausibility (certainly Leavers aren't shy about suggesting that about the Remain prospectus) but right now it hasn't even got to the stage of clarity or coherence.
To really encourage companies to offer it, make the cost of insurance deductible against corporation tax - but only on condition that all employees are enrolled if they wish to be. Imagine what would happen to NHS demand if Tesco could be persuaded to offer comprehensive health insurance to all their employees.
Is there one anywhere else?
This was the market as this morning
https://twitter.com/LadPolitics/status/710026591376646144
Chris Leslie's squad coordinating outfits #pmqs https://t.co/EDd87yEE0l
The question isn't "is the grass on the other side of the fence green or yellow?", it's "do you want to be on this side of the fence or not?"
Personally speaking, I want to be on the other side of the fence. I'd rather the grass was green, but I would prefer yellow grass to the slough of despond* that we are currently standing in
* It looks green, but...
Kevin Meagher
'Mr Deputy Speaker' comes out as 'Diabetes Beaker' on BBC subtitles #Budget2016
The GOP already create problems for themselves in blocking Srinivasan, but Brown Jackson could put them in a further bind. Either they support her, which makes her a great very liberal SCOTUS pick for the next opening and also undermines their argument for not backing Sri, or they oppose her, and thus unfairly stop both a qualified Asian American and a qualified African American women at the same time.
It took Freud years and several theses-to get an '.ian'. I'd stick with that
Time for a change at COTE ?
Gosh - borrowing up from £4.6bn to £21.4bn in 2018-19. Almost £16bn off course. #Budget16
Edit: He says it will raise 9bn but will cut the headline rate of corp tax from 18% to 17%
16/17 £55.5bn deficit (+£6bn)
17/18 £38.8bn deficit (+14bn)
18/19 £21.4bn deficit (+21.5bn)
Adam Boulton
GO targeting help for small business - one of the heartlands for #Brexit. No business rates for 600k of them.
@DannyShawBBC ·
Govt's drugs advisers say "poppers", used mainly by gay men to enhance sexual experience, can't be covered by the new legal highs ban
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I was an immigrant worker at an american amusement park (one of the biggest, not Disney) in 1998... Not new. But the overseas workers were, like me, students from Europe, primarily UK, mixed in with students from universities in surrounding states. I've heard this has changed more recently, with a significant increase of the number of overseas, as the wages have stayed pegged to a stalled minimum wage.
Walt Disney are not alone , most American corporations do it including Hi Tech, high pay ones. Just read the Register or The Channel and it is full of it.
Corporation tax:
28% in 2010.
17% in 2020.
Business rates for 600,000 small businesses:
Dead.
Now that's a legacy.
He gets my vote in the next Tory leadership election
LauraK
Other big moves on devolution, Greater Manchester will get some powers over criminal justice + many more elected mayors
East Anglia, West of England and Lincolnshire to get elected mayors #budget2016
Disability budget will rise by more than £1bn - will spend more supporting disabled people than any point under Labour #Budget2016
As revealed ahead of budget, Osborne grants £115m funding to combat homelessness & rough sleeping #budget2016