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Brexit Over?
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Dermot | Report | 8 Nov 2016 07:47 |
George Osborne's 2012 Budget offered tax cuts for the nation's wealthiest along side the notorious 'granny tax' plus ten billion pounds of benefit spending cuts. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 8 Nov 2016 00:18 |
I think it's atrocious that a person can work full time, yet still need tax credits to survive! Why aren't employers (including local/county councils) forced to pay a 'proper' wage? I know there's the 'living' wage - but that's just a re-naming of the |
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BrianW | Report | 7 Nov 2016 22:54 |
The whole benefits system is a mess but too much of a political hot potato to radically reform. |
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Kense | Report | 7 Nov 2016 20:28 |
That's right Dec, the pension problem is nothing to do with Brexit per se. |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 7 Nov 2016 15:13 |
Its probably more to do with trying to cut the Benefit bill. Despite general opinion, the OAP is the greatest load on that system. |
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wisechild | Report | 7 Nov 2016 13:37 |
I see that now the government are proposing to cut the rate of annual increase of the state pension. Nothing at all to do with Brexit of course. |
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Dermot | Report | 7 Nov 2016 12:38 |
'More than half of Brits lie to hide their lack of knowledge concerning current affairs. |
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Caroline | Report | 7 Nov 2016 11:25 |
ummm.....pretty much every day no doubt... |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 6 Nov 2016 21:20 |
It does make you wonder how many times we've been lied to, for the sake of lining a few pockets, doesn't it? |
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magpie | Report | 6 Nov 2016 20:54 |
Wow, where do we go from here?!! I've always rather wondered why we had a referendum after joining the Common Market and not before! Now it would seem I might have just found out! |
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Caroline | Report | 6 Nov 2016 16:48 |
sitting back waiting for the remoaners to pick that article to pieces...... |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 6 Nov 2016 13:43 |
...and here's an interesting slant on how this all began.... |
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Caroline | Report | 6 Nov 2016 13:39 |
Call me Dave resigned because it was his version of throwing his toys out of the pram when the masses didn't do as they'd been told to do ! |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 6 Nov 2016 12:49 |
You also have to remember that the nations wealthiest already pay huge amounts of tax. the top 1% of earners pay 30% of taxes collected.The best-paid 3,000 contribute, on average, £2.6 million in tax per year. To listen to the hype, you’d be forgiven for thinking the richest pay not a penny in tax. The truth is that the UK income tax system is reliant upon a very small number of highly mobile rich people. |
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Dermot | Report | 6 Nov 2016 08:17 |
David Cameron allowed a series of setbacks to overtake his easy-going leadership. His most damaging feature was that he headed a party of toffs who were on the side of their few friends & financial backers while being coldly indifferent to the rest. |
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Kense | Report | 6 Nov 2016 07:38 |
How does it prove that Caroline? When Cameron didn't get the result he wanted he resigned. |
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Caroline | Report | 5 Nov 2016 15:48 |
Rollo...I get the legal point....BUT...if nothing else this just proves Government don't really want to know or care what the public thinks or wants....they asked everyone to vote...they said what they'd do with the results....when they didn't get the result they thought they'd get they had no choice but to follow the law.......and no I'm not naive enough to think Governments ever actually care what the general public wants...this was an exercise in being seen to be doing what needed to be done, spending public money to get the outcome you wanted but being so out of touch with the general mood you didn't "win". |
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Dermot | Report | 5 Nov 2016 12:30 |
'Not alone would many UK residents like to leave the EU, they would love to detach the country from the entire world. Island mentality.' |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 4 Nov 2016 19:38 |
There's one thing that concerns me. Would MPs want to know her detailed negotiating position? Anyone who has been involved in negotiating a contract starts off high (or low) and ends up in the middle. |
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Denburybob | Report | 4 Nov 2016 19:17 |
Democracy is the least worst form of government. (Churchill?) |