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Chris Jones
Oh well I stand correctedI'm not new. I just forgot my password.
I don't like Farage either. But the guy can survive a plane crash.
He can, mores a shame
Oh well I stand correctedI'm not new. I just forgot my password.
I don't like Farage either. But the guy can survive a plane crash.
It’s a policy which hasn’t been thought through and it’s going to cost a huge amount more than it will bring in - as it did in Greece, where they reversed it after two years.
In regards to where I have worked as an ecologist, I have already given you some clues where I have worked.
But here, I get to see some cool stuff, like this little owl, keeping an eye me at a manor house I was doing a bat survey at last year. There was a barn to the right just out of picture that had some tiles missing, which I assume was where it's nest was due to the number of times it entered and left.
I always find it funny when people call me out for lying, but end up being embarrassingly wrong.
Yeah, I am an ecologist and yeah, you people don't know a fraction of what you think you know.
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Yep. It's a policy based on a back-of-a-fag-packet report produced by a guy at the IFS who is best mates with the cabinet minister whose baby the policy is. Labour have only been back in power for a few months and they've already reintroduced the "dodgy dossier" to support ideology-based policies. The "ooops we overlooked the *checks notes* fundamentals of the VAT scheme when doing our analysis" is the new "ooops, when we said Iraq had advanced military capability of landing a warhead 3000 miles away within 30 minutes what we meant to write was *checks notes* they've got a rag tag assortment of 1960s hardware, some conscripts and a herd of camels"It’s a policy which hasn’t been thought through and it’s going to cost a huge amount more than it will bring in - as it did in Greece, where they reversed it after two years.
Yeah they look 1) totally clueless 2) totally gobsmacked that they're where they are. I think that's what's gone on with all the selfies in Ibiza and Taylor Swift concerts. They look like a bunch of 6 formers that have got to run the school for a day.I wish them well because a successful government is good for the majority of people but it does all feel a bit student union politics at the moment. Looking more and more like they don't really have any proper plans, scrabbling around for tax rises screaming about growth isn't going to work out.
Yeah they look 1) totally clueless 2) totally gobsmacked that they're where they are. I think that's what's gone on with all the selfies in Ibiza and Taylor Swift concerts. They look like a bunch of 6 formers that have got to run the school for a day.
And the cringe of the economic policy:
- They've said they'll stick religiously to whatever the OBR says, because "we're not Liz Truss" (my comment: you don't need to differentiate yourself from Liz Truss - she's literally an object of ridicule in the public consciousness)
- The OBR basically say taxes have to go up significantly to avoid austerity measures or borrowing.
- Labour have committed to their fiscal rules (strike through borrowing), not raising taxes on "working people", i.e. fudging everyone (if you love cringe humour dig out Starmer's interview when he's asked to define working people - it's actually hilarious).
That's left them in actual Alan Partridge territory....you've literally got ministers going "idea for a policy....me..... in trafalgar square, with a money tin....saying OH GOOOOD!"
But the whole talk of "holes" is economic illiteracy in and of itself. And Labour are finding that out. Lowering tax on something can often make that something more attractive and therefore you get more people giving you the tax albeit at a lower rate - this can often result in a higher overall tax rate. That's what the treasury are telling them about some of their tax rises: that they'll actually reduce tax income rather than raise it:So in their first 100 days they have successfully dealt with National Far right riots; the appointment of James Timpson to deal with the prison system is a good thing that needs time to be seen through; Have reached multiple pay deals where the last government failed. Easy to build a narrative that they've only been a disaster.
No doubt Labour need a vision right now on where they see the economy growing. But tbh the prospective Tory leadership candidates looked even more clueless despite being in power for more than 14 years. Take James "I'll scrap stamp duty" Cleverly but have no plans on how to fill the £29bn hole that will leave. And I liked him because he was the sensible one.
I'm willing to give Labour a chance as they seem eminently more sensible than the last lot.
It may well be a good idea but not in isolation which was how he was presenting it, in other words eye catching but not thought out. The IFS produced an interesting report on how removing stamp duty on primary residences can be part of a suite of tax measures.I'm not sure myself whether scrapping stamp duty is a good idea or not, but it would unlikely leave a *straight* hole and if it resulted in a propery market boom as property transactions are suddenly way cheaper, you may even see a break even or increase in tax revenue. It's often hard to predict exactly what impact tax changes will have.