The knives are out..

Started by Scrumpy, October 03, 2022, 09:03:03 AM

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Scrumpy

' A little turbulence '.. !!!!!
It's about time they got their bloody act together.
It seems to me that whoever is voted in the 'others' spend their time trying to get them out..
A bloody shambles... 
Don't ask me.. I know nuffink..

klondike

Quote from: JBR on October 03, 2022, 06:09:14 PMIt would teach them a lesson if Labour got in next.
I don't think there is any if about it. It's a case of when. Some of the problems are not their fault but a lot of them are.

This guy is well qualified to be their next leader...



Scrumpy

Cometh the hour, cometh the man..
.. and he will..
Don't ask me.. I know nuffink..

Ashy

I don't think I could vote labour. I hope there will be a viable alternative.

JBR

Quote from: Ashy on October 03, 2022, 07:12:07 PMI don't think I could vote labour. I hope there will be a viable alternative.
I shouldn't really keep saying this, but there is.
I shall be voting for Reform UK (or perhaps a unification with other minority parties), come what may.
A missionary from Yorkshire to the primitive people of Lancashire

klondike

Any vote is a wasted vote. They all put bloody politicians in charge.

JBR

Quote from: klondike on October 03, 2022, 07:28:50 PMAny vote is a wasted vote. They all put bloody politicians in charge.
Well, I suppose we could all agree not to vote at all.
I suppose if nothing else it would send a clear message!
A missionary from Yorkshire to the primitive people of Lancashire

Ashy

They'll vote for their selves.

JBR

Quote from: Ashy on October 03, 2022, 07:53:52 PMThey'll vote for their selves.
Well, if Diane Abbott is in charge of counting, there's every chance that Labour will succeed.
I mean, look at Khan't.  He managed to become mayor by nefarious means.
A missionary from Yorkshire to the primitive people of Lancashire

klondike

Quote from: JBR on October 03, 2022, 07:34:35 PMWell, I suppose we could all agree not to vote at all.
I suppose if nothing else it would send a clear message!
I reckon the only message from that is "No need to put so much effort into fiddling the postal votes now. Yippeee|"

Ashy

Postal voting is probably worthy of its own thread, but until we get that sorted out, we are voting against the committee as it were.

Jacqueline

Quote from: JBR on October 03, 2022, 07:19:34 PMI shouldn't really keep saying this, but there is.
I shall be voting for Reform UK (or perhaps a unification with other minority parties), come what may.
So will I, I just couldn't stomach voting for the Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum parties.

JBR

Quote from: Jacqueline on October 03, 2022, 09:15:55 PMSo will I, I just couldn't stomach voting for the Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum parties.
Yes, and in addition to that, the Conservatives are more like Liberals now: as much left wing as right wing.
We'll see soon enough what Truss does about it.
A missionary from Yorkshire to the primitive people of Lancashire

klondike

I'll likely vote Reform too if they field a candidate here but I'm under no illusion that they'll either win any seats or make any of the others break out in a sweat.

Cassandra

I thought the new Chancellor's 'mini-budget' was very intelligent, which was his problem. The top 1% of highest paid individuals raise 30% of the aggregate personal taxation yield for the Treasury. By reducing the rate, he'd have probably gained a couple of billion, as is now, many canny high raters will likely migrate to either Lichtenstein or Belize, where the deduction is about 2%.  Also those we need here from Frankfurt or Paris will stay where they are.

The Beatles wrote a song about it - 'Taxman'.

"Let me tell you how it will be, there's one for you 19 for me, cos I'm the Taxman and take you for all you got"

In those days there were 20 shillings to the £, so a rate of 95%, which Angela Rayner & Co would consider way too lenient!

Forget envy and semantics and look for the nett gain to the revenue. More will equal less, but of course the socialists, (who know this very well) have enjoyed milking the 'Tax cuts for the rich, Robin Hood in reverse' cliche's and most have fallen for it.

In politics you have to be canny and now was not a time to do this. Too many 'kids' still around in the ranks of the 'Spads' at number 11 probably. The likes of Lawson, or Tebbitt would never have exposed their flank in such a naive way.

But there again of course, they weren't young enough to know everything.

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