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Great reply. Truly.
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Great reply. Truly.
I think the most anti-Brexit candidate is Theresa May.
She's treating the Brexit voters this election in the same manner that the most hardcore remainers think of them, merely as neanderthals that will parrot any phrase you care to throw at them, rather than seeing them as neanderthals who hate their lives and think the country owes them free money which is actually the case.
She was in the notoriously difficult Home Secretary role for 6 years, a record term and particularly remarkable given that she presided over the Conservatives' miserable failure to meet their election promise to bring net migration down to below 100k where she should have been the first neck on the block, which would suggest she is a very shrewd political operator.
Why then did she bring the three stooges into her government, Boris Johnson, David Davis and Liam Fox, as opposed to bringing in those that she personally trusted to get the best deal for Britain on Brexit? Her other cabinet choices were sound enough, why did the three most important government roles in Britain's recent history go to those not competent enough to get anywhere near such positions up to this point, why did she set herself up to babysit three idiots for the duration of her time as Prime Minster when she had spent her whole life waiting for and dreaming about it?
Maybe she's just suddenly become an idiot, but then I add this to the way she treats Brexit voters and that the only reason she ever gives for not holding a second referendum on the terms of Brexit is that it would give the EU the incentive to give us a bad deal, and I think ultimately she is going to hold a second referendum. And with the pawns in place, herself absolved of all blame, and after 2 years of increased economic hardship and reality biting into the will of all but the most ardent leave voters, the moment will arrive that the three stooges come back with their inevitably crummy deal and the country will vote to remain, hung around Boris, David and Liams' necks.
Irrelevant.
Is he paid more tax we could give more money to schools
Reducing class sizes was one of the first things Jeremy was talking about as the election started. I certainly trust labour more than the conservatives to actually put some money towards it.
Anyone read up on this proposed labour garden tax? My council tax could increase to £600 per month.
Land value tax, it would replace income tax and many others I belive
It really wasn't.
How is this oaf the countries head diplomat?
How big's your fecking garden?Anyone read up on this proposed labour garden tax? My council tax could increase to £600 per month
Yes it was. I've saved it on a separate document so I can use it later.
It would seem to be a mixture of things, from existing policies to a range of hypotheticals. I've not read every manifesto out there mind, so it is possible that they are all on the table somewhere.
You can't, Labour has already spent the money in question.
Took the test just to see as if I was still living in the UK, being a traditional Tory voter up to 2005.
Labour 59%
LibDem 58%
Green 55%
Tory 54%
UKIP 45%
Don't rate any of them as I suspected
Labour 59%
LibDem 58%
Green 55%
Tory 54%
UKIP 45%
Don't rate any of them as I suspected
Well done Corb
I've never set up a crowdfund thing before. Anyone want to go ahead and set one up to help this poor chap out...?
Anyone read up on this proposed labour garden tax? My council tax could increase to £600 per month
Just reading about this:
Telegraph:
A surcharge on Britain's suburbs and rural communities.
Oh man I had no idea how poor he was. How could he possibly survive giving his employees fixed working hours.
Wtf? 'It will go off'
Conservative response to Thornberry saying Brexit food exports to will Australia ‘go off’
Responding to Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry’s comments that the UK food industry will struggle after Brexit because “you can’t export it to Australia – it will go off”, Neil Parish, Conservative candidate for Tiverton and Honiton and former chairman of the Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs select committee, said:
“Yet again, Emily Thornberry is completely out of touch with reality. Australia is already our 12th biggest export market for food and drink and demand is growing fast – because our great British food makes it Down Under in perfect condition.
“These comments would be funny but it is no laughing matter that Jeremy Corbyn and Emily Thornberry could be negotiating Brexit just 11 days after polling day.
“If they don’t think we can export food around the world, they would make an absolute meal of the Brexit negotiations – and we would all pay the price.”
ENDS
Conservative response to Thornberry saying Brexit food exports to will Australia ‘go off’
Responding to Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry’s comments that the UK food industry will struggle after Brexit because “you can’t export it to Australia – it will go off”, Neil Parish, Conservative candidate for Tiverton and Honiton and former chairman of the Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs select committee, said:
“Yet again, Emily Thornberry is completely out of touch with reality. Australia is already our 12th biggest export market for food and drink and demand is growing fast – because our great British food makes it Down Under in perfect condition.
“These comments would be funny but it is no laughing matter that Jeremy Corbyn and Emily Thornberry could be negotiating Brexit just 11 days after polling day.
“If they don’t think we can export food around the world, they would make an absolute meal of the Brexit negotiations – and we would all pay the price.”
ENDS
Did someone say lower house prices? It's like the tories are doing their best to galvanize younger voters.
Cheers, I'll try the quiz later as I'm as conflicted as you seem to be in this election.
Squeezing farmers further when subsidies disappear won't end well.
This is worse than Thornberry's comment though.
Not that big mate. About 50ft.
In the article it talked about council tax trebling and I currently pay just over £200 a month (over 10 months)
Where did she say that? Nothing's coming up on Google for 'Emily Thornberry Australia' or 'Emily Thornberry Exports'Wtf? 'It will go off'
Conservative response to Thornberry saying Brexit food exports to will Australia ‘go off’
Responding to Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry’s comments that the UK food industry will struggle after Brexit because “you can’t export it to Australia – it will go off”, Neil Parish, Conservative candidate for Tiverton and Honiton and former chairman of the Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs select committee, said:
“Yet again, Emily Thornberry is completely out of touch with reality. Australia is already our 12th biggest export market for food and drink and demand is growing fast – because our great British food makes it Down Under in perfect condition.
“These comments would be funny but it is no laughing matter that Jeremy Corbyn and Emily Thornberry could be negotiating Brexit just 11 days after polling day.
“If they don’t think we can export food around the world, they would make an absolute meal of the Brexit negotiations – and we would all pay the price.”
ENDS
We can but dream.
Link me?
I really doubt it's going to be anywhere near that extreme. Even if they're considering those levels it won't even make it to a vote.
Only thing in the manifesto is a brief sentence - "We will initiate a review into reforming council tax and business rates and consider new options such as a land value tax, to ensure local government has sustainable funding for the long term." So no real detail, just a "review".
Thanks mate.
Do you think that having a garden is evidence of one's increased capacity to pay taxes?
A review that wouldn't survive the political kite flying then, like the absence of a social care cap.
ETA: I wonder how much shorter we could make these manifestos if we took out all the platitudes and gestures. We could ditch 50 and 100 pages from Labour and Conservative respectively. All those trees...
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Let's hope not mate.
The state of British politics at the moment. Any half decent party leader would be walking away with it.
That's obviously not what's going to happen though. You're extrapolating wildly from what's in the manifesto.
Yeah, I'm just getting The Wild Thornberrys, as well.
For those playing the guessing game, it was indeed The Sun.