Sir Keir Starmer !

The PL spent millions on freebies to try and persuade MPs not to bring in an independent football regulator.

Millions on hospitality to MPs, Tory MPs.

Come on Boris we know that, it's just the total hypocrisy of the goody goody brigade of the labour party who insist that "it's not us guvnor, it's only them Tories who get up to those things"....Hypocrisy.

This budget is going to be a real watershed moment for this Government.

Reasonable growth in the first half of the year followed by 0.2% growth over the last quarter.

Now Labour cannot necessarily be blamed for growth since they have come in but their messaging has been so very negative. There is an expectation that the wealthy and businesses are going to be the ones making up the shortfall that they have continually talked about, the difficult, painful decisions they have repeated over and over.

Businesses will have been waiting to see what this Govt will do and that will have no doubt contributed to their decisions to invest, and that is likely to have fed into the stagnant growth.

If the message continues to be doom and gloom, if they are going to hit businesses with things like reversing the NI tax cut paid by employers and more layers of windfall tax then this will have an impact continued investment, especially hiring.

It will have already grated with some that when it came to making tough decisions they have taken money from OAPs while very quickly agreeing generous pay rises with various Unions.

The impact of their VAT on private school fess is also something that in my opinion is poorly targeted, a populist policy perceived to be hitting the wealthy but in my experience, far from it.

Dev

Why do you express sympathy for parents of private school kids but describe pay rises for workers, who most likely can't afford private schooling, as generous?

Working class people forced to get by on 2008 wages whilst those who chose to send their kids to private school voluntarily should expect sympathy, na.

comment by H von H. (U16981)
posted 1 day, 1 hour ago
Come on Boris we know that, it's just the total hypocrisy of the goody goody brigade of the labour party who insist that "it's not us guvnor, it's only them Tories who get up to those things"....Hypocrisy.
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Its a false equivalence between concert tickets and fast track covid contracts, for example.
Labour are behaving like amateurs though, hands in the cookie jar stuff. Probably why Sue Grey got reassigned, maybe good at admin but useless at suppressing daft stories.

https://www.endfuelpoverty.org.uk/energy-giants-see-457-billion-profits-as-consumers-bills-rise/#:~:text=As%20of%20the%20end%20of,before%20the%20energy%20crisis%20started.

Why shouldn't a windfall tax apply to this and why were we subsidising 11m pensioners whether it's needed or not?

comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 1 hour ago
Dev

Why do you express sympathy for parents of private school kids but describe pay rises for workers, who most likely can't afford private schooling, as generous?

Working class people forced to get by on 2008 wages whilst those who chose to send their kids to private school voluntarily should expect sympathy, na.
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My problem is with perception:

The perception that all people who send their kids to private school are rich toffs.

Also the perception that all working class people are being paid 2008 wages or are poor.

Both are nonsense.

comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 17 minutes ago
comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 1 hour ago
Dev

Why do you express sympathy for parents of private school kids but describe pay rises for workers, who most likely can't afford private schooling, as generous?

Working class people forced to get by on 2008 wages whilst those who chose to send their kids to private school voluntarily should expect sympathy, na.
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My problem is with perception:

The perception that all people who send their kids to private school are rich toffs.

Also the perception that all working class people are being paid 2008 wages or are poor.

Both are nonsense.
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Strange perception you've got there. Doesn't answer the question why you sympathise with private school parents by describe a pay rise for workers as generous?

comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 56 minutes ago
comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 17 minutes ago
comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 1 hour ago
Dev

Why do you express sympathy for parents of private school kids but describe pay rises for workers, who most likely can't afford private schooling, as generous?

Working class people forced to get by on 2008 wages whilst those who chose to send their kids to private school voluntarily should expect sympathy, na.
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My problem is with perception:

The perception that all people who send their kids to private school are rich toffs.

Also the perception that all working class people are being paid 2008 wages or are poor.

Both are nonsense.
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Strange perception you've got there. Doesn't answer the question why you sympathise with private school parents by describe a pay rise for workers as generous?
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Why do you think that taking the VAT tax relief away from charities providing education is good thing?

Is private education a bad thing?

What is the purpose of making them even less accessible?

Why does a train driver deserve a pay rise on average from £60k to £69k since 2022? Working class train driver! not to mention their final salary pensions.

comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 2 hours ago
comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 56 minutes ago
comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 17 minutes ago
comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 1 hour ago
Dev

Why do you express sympathy for parents of private school kids but describe pay rises for workers, who most likely can't afford private schooling, as generous?

Working class people forced to get by on 2008 wages whilst those who chose to send their kids to private school voluntarily should expect sympathy, na.
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My problem is with perception:

The perception that all people who send their kids to private school are rich toffs.

Also the perception that all working class people are being paid 2008 wages or are poor.

Both are nonsense.
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Strange perception you've got there. Doesn't answer the question why you sympathise with private school parents by describe a pay rise for workers as generous?
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Why do you think that taking the VAT tax relief away from charities providing education is good thing?

Is private education a bad thing?

What is the purpose of making them even less accessible?

Why does a train driver deserve a pay rise on average from £60k to £69k since 2022? Working class train driver! not to mention their final salary pensions.




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Half the private schools in Britain are registered as charities, pull the other one.

Who said it's bad?

Ah the old train drivers. Strikes with the TOC's were for better pay and conditions for all staff, like cleaners, station staff, ticket office staff. Its a very tabloid tactic that to focus on just the drivers.

I suppose Junior Doctors payrise was generous too?

Crazy logic