Current Affairs The Conservative Party

[Agent Blue]

 

[edge]

They will cut everything to the bone to cover this bollocks ,
Tory heaven, rich get richer, poor get poorer, workers rights fked,
Then they will cut local government, and say they can't afford anything the plebs need to help along the way.
Hate this shower.
They are a disgrace there own party.
I can understand a tory viewpoint normally, bit this lot are so far beyond that they are just corrupt spivs.

 

[Rita_Poon]

'kami-kwasi-economics' (not mine)

Seems truss is queasy for kwasi...

 

[sbbefc]

If you're a millionaire receiving the £55,000 bonus would you invest it or would you take advantage of current interest rates and save it?

 

[Rita_Poon]

If you're a millionaire receiving the £55,000 bonus would you invest it or would you take advantage of current interest rates and save it?

New

Mistress

!

 

[Bruce Wayne]

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

So a decade of low interest rates when money could be easily borrowed and spent on improving infrastructure, but austerity was more important. Now interest rates are rising so the government decided it's time to borrow and fritter it away on giveaways, the common sense of Conservatism.

 

[FrenchDarrenBent]

They told us Corbyn was the economic idiot.
Funny how the conservatives (for now at least) hold the line.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Billions lost through this freedom to tory donors tax.
Lying tory saying it will take 5 years to recover it..

 

[Bruce Wayne]

In addition to the tax measures, here are some of the regulatory changes. Some seem okay, such as the lifting of bans on onshore wind and planning reforms for housing. Others less so, such as the sugar tax and fracking.

• new investment zones would encompass streamlining existing planning applications (and these are potentially big zones, if the councils and authorities in discussions are any guide – the Greater London Authority, for example);
• environmental reviews would be shortened and reformed;
• childcare deregulation proposals (probably on staffing and occupational licensing) are forthcoming;
• new planning reforms for housing are forthcoming;
• the onshore wind generator ban will be lifted;
• the fracking moratorium has been lifted;
• the cap on bankers’ bonuses will be abandoned;
• agricultural regulation will be reformed;
• the sugar tax and lots of other anti-obesity regulations will be abandoned;
• the arduous tax rules on contractors known as IR35 will be scrapped;
• all future tax policy will be reviewed through this prism of simplification;
• there will be an expansion of the number of welfare claimants who must submit to more intensive work coaching with the aim of increasing their hours

 

[paultheblue]

I watched BBC news earlier and they interviewed a woman on a cake stand in West London moaning that they have done nothing for the working middle class,
You sell donuts and pastries at a car boot sale luv you are not middle class.
Why is it that being working class is viewed by these people as something to be ashamed of , working class people are just people who inhabit the north.
I was a business owner for 35 years, I grew up in Walton I have voted Labour all my life I am working class their I have admitted it.
They only good thing to come to out of this economic disaster is seeing all these new red wall Tories whining about how the government is doing nothing for them

 

[neil999]

In addition to the tax measures, here are some of the regulatory changes. Some seem okay, such as the lifting of bans on onshore wind and planning reforms for housing. Others less so, such as the sugar tax and fracking.

• new investment zones would encompass streamlining existing planning applications (and these are potentially big zones, if the councils and authorities in discussions are any guide – the Greater London Authority, for example);
• environmental reviews would be shortened and reformed;
• childcare deregulation proposals (probably on staffing and occupational licensing) are forthcoming;
• new planning reforms for housing are forthcoming;
• the onshore wind generator ban will be lifted;
• the fracking moratorium has been lifted;
• the cap on bankers’ bonuses will be abandoned;
• agricultural regulation will be reformed;
• the sugar tax and lots of other anti-obesity regulations will be abandoned;
• the arduous tax rules on contractors known as IR35 will be scrapped;
• all future tax policy will be reviewed through this prism of simplification;
• there will be an expansion of the number of welfare claimants who must submit to more intensive work coaching with the aim of increasing their hours

Childcare deregulation doesn't sound great.... Less staff per child

 

[neil999]

Have the anti obesity regs worked? Guess difficult to quantify

 

[Amw79]

In addition to the tax measures, here are some of the regulatory changes. Some seem okay, such as the lifting of bans on onshore wind and planning reforms for housing. Others less so, such as the sugar tax and fracking.

• new investment zones would encompass streamlining existing planning applications (and these are potentially big zones, if the councils and authorities in discussions are any guide – the Greater London Authority, for example);
• environmental reviews would be shortened and reformed;
• childcare deregulation proposals (probably on staffing and occupational licensing) are forthcoming;
• new planning reforms for housing are forthcoming;
• the onshore wind generator ban will be lifted;
• the fracking moratorium has been lifted;
• the cap on bankers’ bonuses will be abandoned;
• agricultural regulation will be reformed;
• the sugar tax and lots of other anti-obesity regulations will be abandoned;
• the arduous tax rules on contractors known as IR35 will be scrapped;
• all future tax policy will be reviewed through this prism of simplification;
• there will be an expansion of the number of welfare claimants who must submit to more intensive work coaching with the aim of increasing their hours

You can see the ideology, low tax, low regulation. The Institute of Economic Affairs Libertarian view on how to run a country. They’ve been lobbying for years for this type of approach, and have finally got the MPs in place to do it.

The questions that remain are, will it actually create growth, in order to fund public services?

Do they even want to fund public services?

If it doesn’t create the expected growth, what then? What will be cut in order to pay for all this?

If it really is a Libertarian approach, the aim will be reduce the state to the bare minimum and get everything privatised. Is this what a majority of the county want?

 

[COYBL25]

Have the anti obesity regs worked? Guess difficult to quantify

I’d say, that a trip to your local Asda is all you need to do, to see that they haven’t worked.

Obese adults no longer shock me, as there’s that many of them. It’s the amount of obese kids, that shocks me.

It’s a health time bomb waiting to go off.