Swanjaxs
Roger Freestone
One call and I'll sort them both out! Chinese burns and wet willie's for both!!Thanks, knew I could rely on you![]()
One call and I'll sort them both out! Chinese burns and wet willie's for both!!Thanks, knew I could rely on you![]()
Clean break from the likes of Drakeford and Morgan was, is needed. The whole literal stink caused by Vaughan Gething hasn't helped their optics, either.Ironically over the last 20 years or so I’ve voted other than Labour more than I’ve voted for Labour. I won’t be voting for them next May either unless the polls change dramatically between now and then.
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I actually agree that a change would be healthy. My concern us what that change would end up being.Clean break from the likes of Drakeford and Morgan was, is needed. The whole literal stink caused by Vaughan Gething hasn't helped their optics, either.
25 years in power for one party can't be a healthy thing.
I think we share the same concern, there.I actually agree that a change would be healthy. My concern us what that change would end up being.
Triple lock and winter fuel.Where would you cut?
‘We’ is shorthand for the public at large.You've used the word "We" quite a lot.
That's not how I think or expect to live my life.
‘We’ is shorthand for the public at large.You've used the word "We" quite a lot.
That's not how I think or expect to live my life.
Like who?There are plenty of other people they can go after, maybe the ones who are a bit closer to home.
Not much I disagree with there. Although I’ve never been as convinced as some are that there are such large numbers of people swinging the lead on benefits.Triple lock and winter fuel.
Disability and out of work sickness benefits need completely redoing. Those in genuine need get nowhere near enough and there are large numbers that shouldn’t be getting anything.
Universal credit needs a massive overhaul as well. We are effectively subsidising huge companies who rely on minimum wage jobs to maximise their profits. Those who are looking for work need a higher amount.
I’d cut the amount we spend on defence.
And the NHS requires a massive overhaul. More money needs to go into primary care and nursing and convalescent care which would save huge amounts from the rest of the NHS. The whole system needs digitisation. And we must start actually enforcing rules around non residents using the NHS without payment (I agree with the use of national ID).
I’d raise income tax, reduce NIC (the 8% rate), I’d increase NIC over the UEL, I’d impose an exit tax, and bring in revenue based taxation on the tech giants. I’d also increase VAT on non food online shopping. I’d also reduce the VAT registration threshold. I’d increase the rates of CGT and increase NICs for non PAYE income.
The majority of people I know are quite happy to pay their fair share of taxes and don't expect any handouts in life.‘We’ is shorthand for the public at large.
I don’t think it’s so much the people ‘fiddling’ benefits per se.Not much I disagree with there. Although I’ve never been as convinced as some are that there are such large numbers of people swinging the lead on benefits.
That Bradford stat can’t be right surely? If it is that’s full on mentalI don’t think it’s so much the people ‘fiddling’ benefits per se.
But there are currently 1 in 8 young people doing literally nothing. That’s awful for the country.
And, an almost unbelievable statistic, 43000 people just in Bradford (population 560,000) are on PIP. I use that as an example as their MP raised it in the welfare debate. It’s not actually possible that such a high percentage of people are in genuine need. I’m not saying I believe they are corrupt, so it has to be that the system is just insane.
There are thousands of people out there taking the piss of the welfare state.I don’t think it’s so much the people ‘fiddling’ benefits per se.
But there are currently 1 in 8 young people doing literally nothing. That’s awful for the country.
And, an almost unbelievable statistic, 43000 people just in Bradford (population 560,000) are on PIP. I use that as an example as their MP raised it in the welfare debate. It’s not actually possible that such a high percentage of people are in genuine need. I’m not saying I believe they are corrupt, so it has to be that the system is just insane.
Nothing that I mentioned is a ‘handout’ and the public expect all of that list to be provided. The reason I know that is because any move to change any of it is met with absolute uproar and a government doing it losing the next election.The majority of people I know are quite happy to pay their fair share of taxes and don't expect any handouts in life.
What we do expect is transparency and fairness. There is a real struggle out there for middle earners at the moment, let alone those in the lower tier.
We all know who they should be going after and we all know full well they wont. The tax payer is an easy target.