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One of the Tories I know keeps telling me about all these extra taxes that are coming my way, but yet I haven't seen any of them - he is recently retired so I'm guessing it is due to being sat on Twitter all day believing the other Tories.
Yet, when we got hammered by Kwarteng and Truss, it was 'about time you lot started paying higher mortgage rates' you can't make it up.
The EU is struggling. The UK has the highest growth in the G7, and our economy grew 0.2% in May. Germany will be lucky to grow 0.1% this year.
Yet, remainers tell us that if we were in the EU we would be surging ahead, despite the rest of the bloc struggling.
How? Why? Who would be providing all this extra trade from the EU to make us enjoy exceptional growth in the developed world? Why would we be the outlier?
Even the Statesman calls it baloney. https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/brexit/2024/01/sadiq-khan-brexit-baloney-wont-fix-economy
Rich remain Tories like Heseltine and his European Movement, Cameron and Osborne are still conning people because EU membership is better for rich people like them. And people on the Left do their bidding. Do they think the 2 vile people behind austerity - an ideological choice - are pro-EU because they have suddenly become compassionate altruists?
I can't understand why people who detest Tories for their cruelty unquestioningly back the same side as the 2 worst Tories there are, and the official position of their government.
As for Labour, I think ensuring OAPs can put heating on is more important than foreign climate, with bills due to increase again.
We need a coach now mate. On the up.
The energy cap is going to increase in October. https://www.energylivenews.com/2024/07/22/uk-energy-bills-predicted-to-rise-by-194/
You hope Labour would alter that - after yesterday they are looking after the rich - a government with a red rossette - being more nasty than the Tories - Starmer has lied his way to power .. Worse to come - well I never saw the rich get hurt yesterday ,...
I didn't say any of that, but okay, wrong thread for this, though.
As to your final point, this is not affecting pensioners on pension credit and there will also be provision for cases that fall in-between the gaps. Even the Tories had provision in these cases.
Considering the above, it seems like a sensible policy that allows money urgently needed to be spent in another sector.
Let's try give them a bit longer than 3 weeks to try and undo nearly 15 years of damage.
Well, if I have to pay a bit more in taxes, but they fix the country then so be it!!
But the only FPN Johnson received was for a cake presentation on a workplace break with colleagues who he had been with all day.Blame anything but the truth, any of our Governments could not run a P up in a brewery, mate .. Unless they have parties when everyone is in lockdown, that is
On the same absurd interpretation of the law applied (that every single gathering had to be essential for work purposes) it means the gatherings some NHS staff did for tiktok dances were also illegal. They were not essential for work purposes, either.
I am most definitely not a Tory. But I am for the rule of law, fairness and equal enforcement of the law.
You may say, "But there were loads of parties at 10 Downing St."
And those present were FPNd.
There were also many other MPs from other parties who broke lockdown law and received no penalties. But only Sunak & Johnson were sanctioned.
That is not equal application of law. And that affects us all. If a PM and Chancellor can't get equal treatment before the law, what chance has the young disabled woman from a poor area before a PIP tribunal?
It's good that Dave and Pete have tagged Joe into this thread.
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