It's no more unfair than paying more taxes through fiscal drag.
So taxing the 10k on the basis that it’s a “gain” is manifestly unfair.
If you manage to get a cost of living increase to match inflation and keep your real income the same (unlikely for most people) you still get taxed based on the whole of your income, and the “extra” wage will be taxed at the highest rate applicable, leaving you worse off in real terms. Cry no tears for people being taxed on (some of) their inflating asset prices.
Rishi Sunak saved £300,000 in tax thanks to cut he voted for in 2016
PM’s tax bill would have been higher had Tories not cut top capital gains rate
If your 100k asset is worth 110k after a year, you haven’t actually made anything at all in real terms with inflation at 10%. So taxing the 10k on the basis that it’s a “gain” is manifestly unfair.
It's only taxed if you realise the gain, not because your asset has risen in value.
He's 'realised' a lot of gains.
He’s ‘realised’ a lot of gains.
Good that he's taken a view of our economic prospects and has decided to dump loads of stock, regardless of CGT.
So Sunak's taking his culture war to Banksy. He really has his finger on the pulse!
After ten+ years of cuts, the police haven’t got the manpower to investigate rape cases and now they’re going to spend their time handing out fines for vandalism, are they?
Yet more government by Daily Mail headline
From the Guardian article… it’s like a tick list for gammons. Another one to file with the 40 new hospitals and Rwanda flights in the ‘things that will never actually happen’ section…
Victims of crimes will also be given a say over the type of punishment that offenders should face, as will communities, under an “immediate justice” scheme to be unveiled by Rishi Sunak on Monday.
In an attempt to show that “justice is being done”, offenders will be made to wear jumpsuits or hi-vis jackets and work under supervision. Cleaning up graffiti, litter-picking or washing police cars have all been given as possible punishments
The tories hate normal people laughing.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-65079772
Grand scale hypocrisy from pill head and nose powder connoisseur Gove.
Hypocrisy maybe, but I agree with banning the sale of laughing gas. On the other hand I'd legalise cannabis.
@Edukator That’s a whole different can of worms.
I can’t really comment much about laughing gas, despite seeing the empty canisters everywhere in some parts of Stockholm (and people buying it for their culinary cream foamers…), but cannabis has a production tail that is really bad for the people at the end.
That said, I’d agree that legalising it via sale of known-good, legally produced cannabis from registered businesses would be a general positive. But it would require the government to accept it as a legal drug (never gonna happen), tax it appropriately (I.e. not massively) and to have the resources to find and prosecute illegal production, import or distribution, something that the police are woefully I’ll equipped for now.
Interesting how when they get advisory decisions about, say, brexit, or MP wages, those must be followed. But when they ask for advice about drugs, they can do the opposite.
It's already illegal to supply, of course, with the exact right legislation in place to tackle any abuse problem at the dealing and supply end. It's just that this legislation isn't used much, partly because of resourcing but mostly because of the levels of harm- do you want your drug squad chasing down NOS dealers or crack dealers? That decision's already been made, at government level and at local level.
This is entirely about criminalising possession, which means it's essentially about criminalising urban-dwelling young males between 18 and 25 with lower than average levels of education and earnings. I bet you one million pounds that most arrests from this are of black inner city kids, and one hundred million pounds that most searches are the same.
Gove- yes gove the cokehead- openly admits it's not about public safety, or about drug harms, or about actually stopping drug abusing behaviour. It's about littering. Bloody littering! Which oh yes is also illegal already but not really enforced because of the exact same thing as above. And dropping the spent cans in a park can't trigger the new possession offence anyway as they're empty!
Sure laughing gas can be harmful, in extreme cases. Abuse should be discouraged, sanely. But there is absolute no possibility that it's as harmful as a criminal record. Laughing gas might be a gateway drug, probably not but it's possible, and it might be a fair indicator of other criminality. But there's no possibility that it's as much of a gateway as a criminal record for possession. It might be an overall harm to society, but not as much as putting more stress on the justice system for no gain, never mind the other harms.
It's theatre, obviously, but it's also pure tory maliciousness. They can find theatre that doesn't "coincidentally" ruin people's lives for no gain whatsoever, but given the choice, that's what they want to do.
Luckily it'll not actually be used much, because again, not enough police and it's a low level offence. Oh except that it's an ideal low level offence for harrasing kids of the officer's choosing and making fishing trip stops and searches with no probably cause other than "you are young". But I'm sure there's no danger of the <checks notes> still institutionally racist Met doing anything bad with that.
Quick another set of laws for er stuff we have laws for already.
Can’t we just appoint the street judges and dispense instant justice 🙂
More primary colours, AND CAPITAL LETTERS IN BIG BLOCKY FONTS
They've even underlined all the rufty tufty words in red to let you know how serious they are
https://twitter.com/RishiSunak/status/1640248287155322883?s=20
Hypocrisy maybe, but I agree with banning the sale of laughing gas. On the other hand I’d legalise cannabis.
IMHO there’s a market for a state controlled happy ‘drug’, the only way you’ll ‘win’ the war on drugs is to change the nature of the game.
Good old JD vintage ‘77 and still valid today 🙂
IMHO there’s a market for a state controlled happy ‘drug’, the only way you’ll ‘win’ the war on drugs is to change the nature of the game
I agree partly. Society couldnt cope with too wide a variety of substances (socially, in terms of healthcare, policing and so on). But there should be some options for folk who want to get happy/off their face and don't like or have issues with alcohol.
I think characterising dealing with illegal drugs as a war may be part of the problem though.
Reads better without any of the block capital words.
Introducing for perpetrators, illegal drugs in anti social behaviour hotspots.
Litter, graffiti and fly tipping for the public, to report antisocial behaviour.
I think characterising dealing with illegal drugs as a war may be part of the problem though.
Just another way of dividing and conquering.
As noted. There is a demographic being targeted here. Young males, oddly enough, not those being sent to Harrow or Eton.
Tougher punishment? In what way and will magistrates take much, if any notice, when sentencing?
Cracking down? How? Where are the resources and how will results be made visible?
Increasing police and uniformed officer presence?
Have the police signed upto this? Have they even been consulted? When will the additional numbers required to deliver this be available for deployment?
Launching a new tool? Only for it to be ignored.
As for tools, the gov is full of them.
Higher fines? Over to the magistrates, again.
If it wasn't for the fact sunak is a non-smoking teetotaller, I would have said this was written on the back of a fag packet down the pub at the end of a long night.
Hopefully the digital tool to report antisocial behaviour will be overloaded with reports at the next tory party conference.
Sunak'll have sometimes eye out with all those gesticulations one day.
It's like some low impact martial art I've never heard of.😁
...and in a surprise no-one expected:
Laughing gas: Experts warn nitrous oxide ban will not stop use
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65085987
I reckon that was his real accent slipping out and everything else is a con.
His hand movements are a transmogrification of Blair and Johnson.
I also saw that part of the plan on antisocial behavior, is to tackle homelessness, I take it they are going to start arresting people for working in business being homeless now, as there is no budget for affordable housing, mental healthcare and addiction treatment .
Maybe that is part of his plan? After all, in prison you would get a roof over your head, three meals a day, etc...
4D chess from the social wellness genius
Fieldwork the last three days:
https://twitter.com/DeltapollUK/status/1640391456052457472
It's not really going in the direction that Rishi Sunak might have hoped. I guess it might reflect voter reaction to the unexpected increase in inflation. Although in all probability it will fall again next month.
Admittedly, in my big post I forgot to mention that NOS has danger to manifold.
^^ Time to deploy another 3 word slogan? They don't last as long as they used to.
One which reflects the seriousness and desperate urgency of the situation......
"Please Vote Conservative".
^excellent!
Rishi pointing the finger like a crap Lord Kitchiner, needs a byline though...
Less like;- 'Your Country Needs You', more like ;- "Oi, you there..."
As the local elections loom, Rishi addresses the one issue even more gammon-triggering than the small boats. Expect more important announcements regarding wheely bin collections in due course
https://twitter.com/rishisunak/status/1641864999789379584?s=46&t=1lK7Dw1b6RqGJyvufO-trQ
Jake the Snake Berry was all over facebook last week 'campaigning' about this. Surprised he can tell what the state of the roads is in Rossendale and Darwen from his lair in Anglesey.
The state of the roads does need addressing but it's more than a bit galling the current lot who've presided over the total annihilation of highways maintenance suddenly get interested prior to local elections. Clearly a central office election ploy, I don't expect any actual improvement and I'm guessing the £5.5 billion is probably existing funding after cuts have been applied.
It’s time to put an end to pothole pain.
Cones Hotline incoming in 3..2..1..
Also, I note that the BBC has had enough of the trade deal bullshit.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65124741
From that BBC link:
The government said other "benefits" of being in the bloc included, a boost to the services sector, by UK firms not being required to establish a local office or be resident to supply a service, meaning they will be on a par with local firms.
Said by either an idiot or someone who has never attempted to do it.
And it's in an opposite time-zone, anyone who has ever worked with an opposite (or even +/- 6 hour time-zone knows what a PITA it is.
the one issue even more gammon-triggering than the small boats.
Oh those leftie muesli-munching cyclists who love potholes. They probably go out under the cover of darkness to dig potholes and windup patriotic Brits.
https://twitter.com/NatalieElphicke/status/1641927211446935552?t=6s-D1sqi8uSLVGAlLu6Bdg&s=19
Tory MP Dover shuts of her replies...
Partner is on a bus with school kids 18hrs at the port.
Everyone happy to blame the French apparently. Easy one.
