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Post by Pacifico on Feb 28, 2023 17:45:12 GMT
Labour becoming the low tax party? - is this why Starmer is short on policy and not making any spending commitments?  |
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Post by borchester on Feb 28, 2023 19:59:16 GMT
Labour becoming the low tax party? - is this why Starmer is short on policy and not making any spending commitments? Could be.
The latest projection is that the UK's economy will be crap in 2023, but pick up in 2024.
I don't know how true all this is, but if it is then Jeremy Hunt will spend this year either raising taxes or making disappointing reductions. Then, when Sad Sunak have been thrown out and the Treasury is raking in sacks full of cash, Starmer can start handing some of it back.
Meanwhile Sir Stodge is keeping his mouth shut and allowing the Tories to screw up
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Post by johnofgwent on Mar 1, 2023 1:04:00 GMT
The Windsor Knot or whatever the fuck the new NI deal is actually called promises about half way down ‘reductions in alcohol taxation in October’ which Fishy Rishi says he is keen to see impmemented UK wide including NI
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Post by zanygame on Mar 2, 2023 9:11:14 GMT
Luckily that 10 years of Austerity have put us in a strong position to accept another 10 years of austerity. What has happened to the UK's ability to grow? Why were we in such a bad place even before Covid broke out, surely all those cuts in spending and lower tax should have made us a leader with low debt and strong economics.  |
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Post by Toreador on Mar 2, 2023 9:13:55 GMT
Luckily that 10 years of Austerity have put us in a strong position to accept another 10 years of austerity. What has happened to the UK's ability to grow? Why were we in such a bad place even before Covid broke out, surely all those cuts in spending and lower tax should have made us a leader with low debt and strong economics. Too many service comapanies, too few manufacturing. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2023 13:11:25 GMT
Labour becoming the low tax party? - is this why Starmer is short on policy and not making any spending commitments? In all likelihood Tory and Labour voters differ markedly in who they think should be the benificiaries of tax cuts. I suspect that far fewer Labour voters than Tory ones want to see cuts in the top rates for example. Labour voters are probably far more focussed upon the kind of cuts that benefit the working poor and the struggling middle classes. I use words like "probably" and "suspect" because I have no facts to hand so the above is just an educated guess as to what I regard as probable, an opinion in other words. Opinions can be changed by the presentation of facts of course. |
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