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Kizzy 18-11-2019 10:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet (Post 10714569)
you dont get to the top by being unambitious :joker:

Who said you did?

Kizzy 18-11-2019 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Livia (Post 10714568)
A ferocious backlash was growing today against “crazy” plans from Labour to part-nationalise BT and give away its broadband services for free.

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell’s claim that it would cost only £20 billion was ripped apart by BT Group’s chief executive who said the true price tag would be close to £100 billion.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/poli...-a4288161.html

Not vested interests protecting shareholders and bonuses? ... was not expecting that.

arista 18-11-2019 10:34 AM

Corbyn is Now Live
at the CBI

arista 18-11-2019 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Kizzy (Post 10714560)
He only had a few mins to make his pitch and he had to get a snipe in...what a weak and pathetic man boris is, just shows how wholly unsuitable for the role of pm. About as statesman like as Johnny Vegas.


Yes But
some view Labour
as taxing so many Rich
that will leave the UK.
Thus closing down their Business
as they leave.....................................

Livia 18-11-2019 10:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by arista (Post 10714602)
Yes But
some view Labour
as taxing so many Rich
that will leave the UK.
Thus closing down their Business
as they leave.....................................

Right arista. People bang on about shares and the rich. Lots of BT shareholders are ex-workers in retirement. My Mum has BT shares, my parents didn't even own a house when she got them. But **** 'em, the capitalists.

bots 18-11-2019 10:48 AM

I remember when labour last tried hiking the tax up for the big earners. They put it up to 98% and they all just moved overseas. The same will happen again. Why stay in a country where you earn 2 pence in every pound you make.

Kizzy 18-11-2019 11:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Livia (Post 10714616)
Right arista. People bang on about shares and the rich. Lots of BT shareholders are ex-workers in retirement. My Mum has BT shares, my parents didn't even own a house when she got them. But **** 'em, the capitalists.

Maybe I should clarify ...major shareholders, not the ex workers who were duped with a couple of hundred quids worth as a bribe before a national company was floated on the stock market like BT and the post office.

Kizzy 18-11-2019 11:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by arista (Post 10714602)
Yes But
some view Labour
as taxing so many Rich
that will leave the UK.
Thus closing down their Business
as they leave.....................................

Many businesses will leave regardless... if this is a European base for a company they will be going anyway, if others are here to exploit tax loopholes they can go too. People pay tax relative to their income, business should too, it's not hard :/

Livia 18-11-2019 11:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bitontheslide (Post 10714620)
I remember when labour last tried hiking the tax up for the big earners. They put it up to 98% and they all just moved overseas. The same will happen again. Why stay in a country where you earn 2 pence in every pound you make.

Well, at least it'll get rid of a lot of the rich people that people on the left hate with such fervour.

I remember being shocked when Labour introduced tuition fees. Yeah, the Tories raised them... but Labour introduced them.

Kizzy 18-11-2019 11:21 AM

Personally I love rich people..who pay their fair share in taxes.
I see tuition fees have come up I'm assuming it's the obligatory whataboutism these conversations generate.
That was new Labour. . This is new old labour, much better.

arista 18-11-2019 01:17 PM

Johnson PM
announced at the CBI this morning
that Corporation Tax will not get
the Cut , as that money will go the NHS

arista 18-11-2019 01:27 PM


arista 18-11-2019 01:29 PM

The LibDem
Leader is now Live at the CBI London.

arista 18-11-2019 06:43 PM

https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/11963...png&name=small

Beso 18-11-2019 06:47 PM

Hope they ain't expecting a bagel when it's over.

The Slim Reaper 19-11-2019 11:29 AM

5 more years, 5 more years

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...got-blame.html

Poor forced to use food banks? They've only got themselves to blame for making bad decisions, says Michael Gove


Education Secretary says families are 'unable to manage their finances'
More than half a million people have turned to food banks, charities say
Labour condemn minister's remarks as 'insulting and out of touch'

Families become so poor they are forced to turn to food banks because of their own ‘decisions’, Michael Gove has claimed.

The Education Secretary argued that people who find themselves unable to buy essentials, including food and school uniforms have themselves to blame for being unable ‘to manage their finances’.

The remarks were condemned by Labour and ‘insulting and out of touch’.

More than half a million people across Britain have turned to food banks to stave off hunger, according to charities.

Ministers have previously argued that a surge in demand has in part been fuelled by jobcentre staff being allowed to refer the unemployed to food banks for help.

Cuts to benefits, frozen or falling wages and rising living costs have been blamed in part for some people struggling to make ends meet.

Mr Gove was challenged over reports that one in four parents are having to borrow to pay for school uniforms and some food banks were distributing uniforms to struggling parents.

He said he had recently visited a food bank in his Surrey Health constituency.

But he suggested that many cash-strapped families have brought their problems on themselves.

He added: ‘I appreciate that there are families who face considerable pressures.

‘Those pressures are often the result of decisions that they have taken which mean they are not best able to manage their finances.

We need to ensure that support is not just financial, and that the right decisions are made.’

Mr Gove was responding to a question from Labour frontbencher Luciana Berger who demanded to know ‘what more can he and his Government do to ensure that no students turn up to school embarrassed because they do not have the right clothes’

Labour seized on the response with Miss Berger saying she was ’appalled’ by Mr Gove’s comments.

The Labour Liverpool MP said: ’People I have met are ashamed to have to turn to food banks.

’I vehemently disagree it is because they have mismanaged their finances.

’This Government has got no answer to the millions of parents that are really struggling to get by.’

Citizens Advice Chief Executive Gillian Guy said: ’It is appalling to suggest the rise of food banks is due to poor financial management.

It’s a smack in the face to families who are working hard but can’t make ends meet, leaving them with no other option but to turn to food banks to feed their families.

’These comments are completely misjudged.’

Chris Johnes, director of Oxfam's UK Poverty Programme, said: 'Thousands are now turning to food banks, but they do not so out of choice, they do so when they have nowhere else to turn.

'The staggering rise in the numbers of people using food banks is down to failings in the benefit system, too many low paid jobs and rising prices that are dragging huge numbers into poverty.'

In May a report by Church Action On Poverty and Oxfam suggested up to half of those seeking help were doing so as a direct result of having benefit payments delayed, reduced or withdrawn.

Other factors behind the increase on those using emergency help - the 'hidden hungry' - include rising food prices, unemployment and energy costs.

But Energy Secretary Ed Davey told MPs that it was 'completely wrong to suggest that there is some sort of statistical link between the benefit reforms we're making and the provision of food banks'.

The Slim Reaper 19-11-2019 11:33 AM


Livia 19-11-2019 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by arista (Post 10715076)

After seeing the news last night, surely they would be better placed to camp outside the Brazilian Embassy.

Cherie 19-11-2019 12:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Livia (Post 10715641)
After seeing the news last night, surely they would be better placed to camp outside the Brazilian Embassy.

why Labour HQ, have they cut down a tree?

The Slim Reaper 19-11-2019 12:02 PM


Twosugars 19-11-2019 12:32 PM

A website cataloguing bojo lies and their corrections

https://boris-johnson-lies.com/

arista 19-11-2019 12:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper (Post 10715650)


Gavin Esler
should go back to Full reporting
for ITV or SkyNewsHD
sod the BBC.


And a Donation
from a bad think tank
send the money back

The Slim Reaper 19-11-2019 01:13 PM

Aaron banks and Dominic Raab discussing northern voters, and a back deal brokered between Johnson and Farage.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJvWkHiW...g&name=900x900

The Slim Reaper 19-11-2019 01:17 PM

I look forward to tory condemnation of his antisemitism

arista 19-11-2019 01:29 PM

That Text message does not look real.


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