The unfairness of things seriously, seriously depresses me. I NEED the joy I get at work - and the sertraline. Was close to clocking off for good at times when I was street homeless and realised I couldn't get my possessions back from my landlord after he illegally evicted me and took all my stuff, leaving me with the clothes I arrived home from work, with the main police station being closed due to underfunding and the fact that it was considered a civil matter and that legal aid had been removed. I had some quality stuff by the way, along with a lot of sentimentally valuable things from both deceased parents and from my kids when they were little. I struggle to type now, tbh, when I think about it. Yeah... today was good. *sips his stella in the beer garden*Tis good. How are you finding work and wages at the moment? Is everything on the move upwards?
That's.. interesting. Reverse image search says it comes from this http://election2015.ifs.org.uk/distributional-analysis
Looks like, for those not on benefits, it's a little gain from the tax cuts and increases... makes sense
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The policies are costed so I don't think they are making it up on the fly so much as suffering from the occasional brain fart.
The Tories don't seem to be getting questioned to the same standard either.
no offence taken at all.
Thats the problem isn't it, its a business, its about getting people through the doors, it isn't about providing an education that sets graduates up for for their life post education, it isn't about providing the country with the skilled workers it needs, its about getting 9k a week of as many students as possible.
Whats worse is that these problems arn't even on the agenda, people are so obsessed with fee's, (that don't really effect peoples lives) that they are ignoring the fact our higher education system is a mess.
That's what I said initially though - the "taking out of tax" was more than offset by cuts in tax credits and other things like child benefit. I like the idea of the raising of the threshold but in terms of outcomes, at least over the coalition parliament, it wasn't good for those lower down. Though that chart does also show that the richest did pay a lot which is to be lauded.Tis good. How are you finding work and wages at the moment? Is everything on the move upwards?
That's.. interesting. Reverse image search says it comes from this http://election2015.ifs.org.uk/distributional-analysis
Looks like, for those not on benefits, it's a little gain from the tax cuts and increases... makes sense
On this new thing of removing tuition fees - just saw on the Guardian that it could cost £10bn, and surely there are better ways of spending that. The analysis of the Labour policy at the last election (reduce to 6k) showed it disproportionately benefited kids from higher up the income scale.
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I am totally disbelieving that Labour can deliver this land of milk and honey in the face of Brexit.
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What are the chances of Labour going up in the polls between now and polling day? Surely a 5-7% increase between now and election day can swing the election? Provided Jezza Corbyn campaigns well?
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We don't want to kill people in Yemen is pretty good answer to those questions.
We are in a world/system where a moral position is priced out of the realm of possibility.
Probably longer odds than Corbyn scoring some massive own goal on the one show and loosing votes
Yeah but thats not enuff unfortunately.
A bit like saving the environment by not selling cars or planes. Its a shit situation.
They won't win. Guess they're thinking they may as well propose stuff to reduce the gap.
Just watched Theresa May on the One Show. She just came across as boring, conservative and slightly awkward. Nothing of note was said or even asked, so I suppose not negatives there for her.
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I'm actually quite confused by the scale. Where is the boost to the 1%'s following the reduction of the 50p tax rate? Is that really included in that far right bar?
His campaigning will probably increase the troy majority.
It won't stop, but distancing ourselves from a reprehensible regime who are the antithesis of most of what our modern society believes would be fairly commendable.
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According to the site:
Also came across the IFS analysis of Labour's time in power:
You need a financial argument not to support such a regime?
Seems a double standard for arms sales and interventionism
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If it was up to me I'd stop any deals with them immediately, but the financial/jobs argument is used by the unions. As with the nuclear debate, the unions don't always chime with Corbyn's politics.
Writing manifestos you know you'll never have to fulfill must be bloody easy work.
i think thats one of the biggest problems with Corbyn(other then most people hate him because he is two left wing) is that he's promesing the earth.
£10 an hour minimum wage, while eradicating zero hour contracts and delivering full employment, in the face of all the problems Breixt will bring and ever increasing Automation. Save the NHS, Remove Tuition fees, He's gonna build 200,000 house a year while protecting the environment.....
People keep saying its costed, but reading it it does feel a bit too good to be true and i'm a Corbyn supporter!
Don't forget abolishing tuition fees, walking away from trade with Saudi Arabia and making the country less attractive to big business to invest in.
It all sounds completely fanciful considering the huge economic challenges we face in the near future. It would even sound fanciful in the light of recent economic circumstances without the prospect of Brexit.
the worse part about that is I agree, I like Corbyn and i will be voting for him, but at times he does come across as naive.
Well they won't be by a Tory Cnut like Ferrari. LBC also employ Hartley-Brewer & Hopkins I believe.
''It was suggested in June 2006 by Conservative leader David Cameron that, if he joined the Conservative Party and put himself forward, Ferrari could win the ballot to be the party's candidate for Mayor of London''
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He very well may be a Tory but that the shadow education secretary went on his show without doing her basic homework after the Abbott debacle is really really shoddy and indicative of woeful incompetence from her team and Labour.
Not all Tories are cnuts btw, obviously. There are some decent folks over on that side of the divide - they are genuinely quite a 'broad church' - possibly more tolerant of the proper RW nutters than they ought to be though. Not helped by being in thrall to the neo-Liberal economics of heartfelt belief in the free market of course, the bellends.
I also think their message is easier to transmit to the non-interested or to the selfish, self-interested and / or plain old fashioned stupid.
(he posts in an ideologically superior Lefty way) <--- a previous point I had some agreement with, actually.
I also think their message is easier to transmit to the non-interested or to the selfish, self-interested and / or plain old fashioned stupid.
(he posts in an ideologically superior Lefty way) <--- a previous point I had some agreement with, actually.
Yup, I do think Corbyn gets a much harsher time from the media than his Tory counterparts but that doesn't excuse basic incompetence when heading into interviews.
Where did I say they aren't poor. Just that the increase isn't helping a lot of those it's intended to help.
Yes the Tories are about tax cuts, and what they can't cut they privatise, because the people who own these newly privatised services are Tories
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I saw her earlier on BBC Breakfast actually & thought that her & Abbot wouldn't be winning many hearts & minds in enemy territory, tbh.
I also thought she was quite a well-meaning good egg for want of a better way of describing it, whereas Abbot just seems to be in complete lunatic mode most of the time, just recently. I don't think DA has moved with the times all that much, so outside her comfort-zone / 'home constituency' in a general sense, is quite prone to flapping around cluelessly.
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They do some bloody good impressions then.
The Torygraph are fuming at what seems to be at least part of the Labour manifesto. Lovely stuff.
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*Whistles*.
If accurate it seems like pure fantasy. They have dived right off the deep end.