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How will these "promised" tax cuts be paid for?
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 4 Oct 2014 14:03 |
A well known newspaper which specialises on financial matters, and claim they are non-partisan in respect of their reports, were more positive about the economic plans of the Conservative Party than those of the Labour Party - at the time of the last election, they were also quite positive about the fiscal policies the Coalition Government were going to adopt. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 4 Oct 2014 09:26 |
letz lern 2 spell |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 4 Oct 2014 08:29 |
Mayfield, I agree with that, especially the zero rate on brochures, leaflets, and pamphlets - charging VAT on them might reduce the amount of junk mail we get through our letterboxes :-| |
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Mayfield | Report | 3 Oct 2014 19:22 |
Only a small thing but I would remove the vat exemption from newspapers etc. Once upon a time they were the only way for most people to get news, now there is no excuse for the paper barons to be exempt. |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 3 Oct 2014 16:31 |
What I would do if I were in government to change things for the better - would be to create growth by investing in infrastructure that created real growth and real jobs instead of creating growth built on increased house prices, rising rents, increased household ebt and low wages. |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 3 Oct 2014 15:48 |
It's all very well people making sarcy jibes but, seriously, what would you do if you were in government to change things for the better? |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 3 Oct 2014 15:42 |
If Cameron keeps his promises, personally I don't think he will as he is both a master of the art of smoke & mirror politics and he a master in the art of escapology - judging by some of his performances I think he must have taken lessons from Harry Houdini ;-) |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 3 Oct 2014 15:02 |
TheBlackKnight - is it any wonder that many young people today are disillusioned :-( |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 3 Oct 2014 13:00 |
Before the last election the Tories promised a massive change in the threshold for inheritance tax. It didnt happen and now a govt whose deficit reduction plans have gone pear shaped cannot honour the 2010 promise. |
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TheBlackKnight | Report | 3 Oct 2014 12:08 |
This is how the Gov help the young. imho not |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 3 Oct 2014 09:21 |
maggiewinchester - that was hilarious :-D |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 2 Oct 2014 16:27 |
Oooh ooooh - I won't post the link, as there are rude words in it, but to hear Cameron speaking the truth, go to Youtube and watch |
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Dermot | Report | 2 Oct 2014 16:16 |
'The poor man, face to face with wealth, becomes conscious of his poverty, broods over his unrewarded merits, and dreams of perfect states'. |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 2 Oct 2014 15:58 |
Since the current government came to power the poorest in our society have shouldered the brunt of the savage cuts to out of work and in work benefits, many of these people are on the minimum wage, many others have had any wage increase limited to 1% - that's if they were one of the lucky ones. |
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Leslie | Report | 1 Oct 2014 19:11 |
Onefootinthegrave,,love the pen-name...I am 83 and never voted Labour but if John Smith had been able to carry on he would have my vote...I believed and admired him...LES.... |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 1 Oct 2014 15:29 |
Dermot - up until 20 years ago I was quite involved in politics, however, after the death of my friend John Smith in 1994, the prodigy of Margaret Thatcher - Tony Blair, took the reigns, and there ended any vision I had of seeing a fairer and more equal society emerging in my lifetime - these days my only interest in politics is trying to sieve the dross from the bits of coal, trouble these days is there is more dross than coal :-( |
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Dermot | Report | 1 Oct 2014 14:31 |
Our politicians have developed a soothing public language of deception that is concealing what we call a rotten system. |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 1 Oct 2014 14:08 |
This extract from an article in the Financial Times in many ways sums up my view of politicians:- |
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Mayfield | Report | 1 Oct 2014 14:04 |
Was that a pink elephant, or a pig I just saw fly by the window! :-P |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 1 Oct 2014 14:04 |
modern British politics amounts to a giant financial con whereby the old rob the young blind. It is grotesque. |
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