raybanwomble

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Or perhaps the uk need to stop being so london centric and spread the investment around to bring the other areas up to the same level

Could this not be partly helped by allowing the North to up income tax and drop corporation tax, allowing it to invest more and also steal business from London?

There are lots of ways to skin a cat, I really think the UK needs something creative to try and sort the mess we are in. I don’t see what is currently on offer by any party, healing the polarisation.

We all care about our fellow human beings on here, usually when the shit hits the fan for a forum member everyone contributes despite their political affiliations. A lot of us just differ on implementation, we need to find a bipartisan way to make this dingy **** island a better place.

bit of a big ask, london has benefitted from over investment, so to expect other areas of the country to get up to the same level withought similar over investment is unrealistic.

its also political MOlgrips. Look at the investment in public transport – thats a political choice – its cheaper, they get huge amounts spent on London at the expense of the rest of the country. too often London gets the money and sucks money out of the rest of the country and the rest of us pay for it.

How big is Cardiff compared to London?

If you know your history, you’ll know Wales was never an autonomous modern state.

Most autonomous regions have one large city, simply because as soon as one place gains primacy in the modern commercial age then it snowballs because the businesses need to be where the other businesses are.

Check out how much the council tax is in Westminster – cheapest in the country I believe 🙁

Labour’s 10% company theft plan.

Theft to some, sharing the companies wealth with those that have helped to create it to others. All depends which side you are on I suppose.

Expect to see most large companies (> 250 employees) follow in order to avoid Labour’s 10% company theft plan.

Twaddle. There is always threats of companies moving abroad in such circumstances, very little actually happens.

Why would they start moving abroad now when the polls points to a Tory victory?

Besides there’s no loyalty in business irrespective.

Any decent company would want to make it work for their workers. Shows them for what they are *if true*.

Parasites.

Its like the idea that every rich person will move abroad if we put a penny on income tax – when actually our tax rates will still be lower than in the rest of the EU so they would be still even after a tax raise under labour be paying more tax wherever they move to.

Tories & their bonkers brexit behave already scared off 1tn in assets

That’s cost the treasury ~1% of tax take already

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2019/03/11/new-research-lays-bare-900bn-city-brexodus/quote

Fk business

Expect to see most large companies (> 250 employees) follow in order to avoid Labour’s 10% company theft plan.

This has got to be the funniest post that I’ve read for ages on this thread.

Yes, the reason that the companies are leaving is a recently announced policy by a party that probably won’t get elected, NOT the clusterfudge of asshattery that has been a Tory led Brexit looming for the last three or four years.

The mental gymnastics performed by Tory voters never ceases to amaze me.

If the tories get the majority the polls are predicting then I may well revisit my emigration plans.

Shift up Scotroutes, we are on our way!

Oops

John McDonnell confirms that the £58bn cost of meeting the WASPI women's demands are not costed in the Labour manifesto. #ridge

— Kevin Schofield (@PolhomeEditor) November 24, 2019

At least it’s only a meagre amount like £58bn, eh?

CaptainFlashheart

Member

Oops

So Labour are going to fix yet another Tory managed cockup?

shame on them!

How would you feel if your pension provider …blah blah blah… nothing you could do about it?

The same as what I’d do when Labour put my tax bill up to pay for all Jezza’s nonsense. I’d lump it and pay it.

This wanton act of equality only puts women on the same footing as men anywho.

A lot of the pension uncertainty is the result of a Labour wheeze anyway. One of the first acts of the last Labour Govt was to plunder all pension funds; an act that made most of them unsustainable and pretty much killed the DB pension for most normal peeps.

Once the private DB pension was not sustainable, it opened the door for Public sector pensions to be deemed ‘unsustainable’ and wasn’t there a lot of fuss when their contributions were increased, and the benefits reduced?

Pensions are only forecasts, until you actually receive them.

Yes, Labour should have included this, and the cost of it, in their manifesto. That doesn’t make it (or the people effected) something that they should just brush aside, as the other UK parties seem happy to do.

As others have said, pension age needs to be aligned, and, obviously, parties of all colours are going to be pushing pension age in general up. But people need to be properly forewarned so they can prepare for it.

Actually it was the tories allowing employers to stop contributing to pension fund that damaged them the most.

But then – when did a right winger ever stop blaming labour ” now look what you made me do”

boomerlives

Subscriber

So Labour are going to fix yet another Tory managed cockup?

Not the way they are going, they aren’t

ah well…. but still, all journeys start with a step in the right direction 😉

All great balls ups start by falling backwards too.

Like instigating leaving the EU?

Johnson will tell a Tory audience in the West Midlands. “Uncertainty ended, investment unlocked, a nation moving forward once again,”

by which our great leader basicly confirms that:
Uncertainty has been created, investment has been frozen and a nation is in limbo.

makes sense.

Missed my point, a wee bit.

Labour’s great alternative to a bumbling buffoon is Corbyn. Hence BJ is looking a fave to keep the reins.

If they had a reasonable man, with a reasonable plan, they would be in No. 10 already (or woman, obv, but it spoils the soundbite)

Actually it was the tories allowing employers to stop contributing to pension fund that damaged them the most.

A scandalous act; reputed to have cost pensions £18bn

Blair/Brown estimated at costing £100bn.

The Tory’s also contributed to the demise of the DB pension by making further demands on the funds by insisting on a widows pension once the principle pensioner had carked it. The bastards

Inconvenient facts aside, both recent Labour and Tory Govt’s have both done terrible damage to all pensions, but I’ve yet to see a Labour fanboi admit it.

any certainty

Neither does labour’s plan, to be fair.

I am a centerist politically.

It’s nice you think that.