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General UK politics VIII - The Last Tory

Telegraph as picked up on Rachel Reeves replacing a picture of Dominic Lawson with one of Ellen Wilkinson. They are outraged that she has replaced Lawson with the Communist party member Ellen Wilkinson.

Forgetting that Wilkinson was elected as Labour MP for Middlesbrough East in 1924 and later Jarrow. As part of the Ministry of Home Security she had responsibility for air raid shelters and implemented the production and distribution of Anderson Shelters.

Appointed as as minister for education under Attlee she was instrumental in the implementation of the Education Act 1944, which provided universal free secondary education and introduced free school milk (Famously taken away by Thatcher)

But, to the Telegraph she's just a picture of a communist that has replaced Lawson.
 
CPS have said
That was obviously aimed at Jenrick who was spouting all over social media about the case. He gets the charges wrong then launches into "cover-up" dogwhistle while surely knowing how the law limits what information can be released before trial

Robert Jenrick
@RobertJenrick
The public had a right to know the truth straight away.

I am seriously concerned that facts may have been withheld from the public.

Keir Starmer must urgently explain what he knew about the Southport attack and when he learned it.

Accompanying video in post

 
Telegraph as picked up on Rachel Reeves replacing a picture of Dominic Lawson with one of Ellen Wilkinson. They are outraged that she has replaced Lawson with the Communist party member Ellen Wilkinson.

Forgetting that Wilkinson was elected as Labour MP for Middlesbrough East in 1924 and later Jarrow. As part of the Ministry of Home Security she had responsibility for air raid shelters and implemented the production and distribution of Anderson Shelters.

Appointed as as minister for education under Attlee she was instrumental in the implementation of the Education Act 1944, which provided universal free secondary education and introduced free school milk (Famously taken away by Thatcher)

But, to the Telegraph she's just a picture of a communist that has replaced Lawson.
FFS!

Ellen Wilkinson did more for the folks of this country than Nigel Sodding Lawson ever did or was capable of doing.

I hope someone has burned the picture of the smug climate change denying twunt.
 
A reminder that Axel Rudakubana is a Christian.

But...But...But...He had an Al Quaeda training manual, so he was "radicalised"...

Just like everyone I knew who had copies of The Anarchist's Cook Book was a bomb-throwing nihilist...Errrrr, now I think about it at least one of those was implicated in some animal rights fire bombings...
 
The Tory benches look absolutely shell shocked.

A sea of stunned, sullen faces.

This is a seriously well constructed budget in the circumstances. And fabulously delivered.
 
The police are saying the murders and attempted murders are 'not believed' to be terrorist related. This is surely a blatant lie when the prima facie evidence (Al-Qaeda training manual, manufacturing a highly restricted substance, ricin, and stabbing random members of the public with a knife) and of course subject to a finding of mens rea. It is disingenous to claim that that the stabbings were not believed to be terrorist-motivated. Pretending it is not for fear of upsetting nasty unpleasant far-right racists is not going to inspire public confidence in police (i.e. political) transparency.

Imagine if police said a suspected rapist was 'not believed' to be a man for fear of upsetting angry feminists, when he turns out to most definitely be one (subject to being found guilty at trial). People aren't fooled by this patronising attitude, when the police are public servants and answerable to UK taxpayers.

For the first time ever, I find I agree partly with what Robert Jenrick says about this matter, although not about Starmer needing to resign or his views on immigration.
Oh good grief, it's the airport carpark fire all over again.
 
Increase in Capital Gains Tax
Freeze on fuel duty next year 5p cut to fuel duty on petrol and diesel, due to end in April 2025, will be kept for another year
Introduction of VAT on private school fees from January
Increase in National Insurance contributions for employers from April
Freeze on income tax and National Insurance thresholds will not be extended beyond 2028

The non-dom tax regime will be abolished from April 2025
Stamp duty land surcharge for second-homes raises by 2% to 5%
Air passenger duty on private jets is increasing the rate by a further 50%

Inheritance tax threshold freeze extended by further two years to 2030, with unspent pension pots also subject to the tax from 2027
Exemptions when inheriting farmland to be made less generous from 2026

New tax of £2.20 per 10ml of vaping liquid introduced from October 2026
Tax on tobacco to increase by 2% above inflation, and 10% above inflation for hand-rolling tobacco

Legal minimum wage for over-21s to rise from £11.44 to £12.21 per hour from April
Rate for 18 to 20-year-olds to go up from £8.60 to £10, as part of a long-term plan to move towards a "single adult rate"
Basic and new state pension payments to go up by 4.1% next year due to the "triple lock", more than working age benefits
Eligibility widened for the allowance paid to full-time carers, by increasing the maximum earnings threshold from £151 to £195 a week

Cut to duty on draught alcohol
£22.6bn increase in the "day-to-day health budget
£5bn in house building investment
Funding secured to extend HS2 to London Euston
Commitment to deliver upgrade to trans-Pennine rail line between York and Manchester, running via Leeds and Huddersfield

Increase in Carers allowance and change in benefit rules.
Currently, carers who get the benefit are only allowed to earn up to £151 a week. Anyone who goes over that, even by a few pennies lose all their allowance.
Carers will be able to earn £45 more a week allowing overall earnings of up to £10,000 a year without losing any of the benefit.


Rishi Sunak calls it "an enormous borrowing spree" which contains "broken promise after broken promise"

Have I missed anything?
 
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Business taxes

Companies to pay NI at 15% on salaries above £5,000 from April, up from 13.8% on salaries above £9,100, raising an additional £25bn a year

Employment allowance - which allows smaller companies to reduce their NI liability - to increase from £5,000 to £10,500

Tax paid by private equity managers on share of profits from successful deals to rise from up to 28% to up to 32% from April

Main rate of corporation tax, paid by businesses on taxable profits over £250,000, to stay at 25% until next election
 
£11.8bn allocated to compensate victims of the infected blood scandal

£1.8bn set aside for wrongly prosecuted Post Office sub-postmasters

Government to stop receiving surplus cash from pension scheme for mineworkers

An extra £6.6bn for the devolved nations - £3.4bn for Scotland, £1.7 billion for Wales and £1.5bn for Northern Ireland
 
Rachel Reeves on BBC coverage

"I will shortly be appointing our Covid Corruption Commissioner"

"They will lead our work to uncover those companies that used a national emergency to line their own pockets"

"That money belongs in our public services and taxpayers want that money back"


Tory benches looking furtive.
 
Seems like a good budget, raising taxes but allocating the money to things that matter rather than handing out for dodgy contracts. And the increased air tax was a nice touch, such get a few quid out of Sunak before he departs for the USA.
 
Clarkson (He's a farmer now apparently) says

Jeremy Clarkson
@JeremyClarkson

Farmers. I know that you have been shafted today. But please don’t despair. Just look after yourselves for five short years and this shower will be gone.
 
And the increased air tax was a nice touch, such get a few quid out of Sunak before he departs for the USA.
Is that so? In Denmark, an increased air tax has also been proposed, and the press found out that it did not affect the rich, because they use private planes, and do not use tickets.
 
Is that so? In Denmark, an increased air tax has also been proposed, and the press found out that it did not affect the rich, because they use private planes, and do not use tickets.
Air passenger duty on private jets is increasing the rate by a further 50%
They will cost more to fly so you pay more to charter them.
 
Is that so? In Denmark, an increased air tax has also been proposed, and the press found out that it did not affect the rich, because they use private planes, and do not use tickets.
This is on private planes.

Can't see £450 being a problem to someone who can afford to run a private plane.

A colleague was talking to me a couple weeks weeks ago about how wealthy billionaires thought they had to be to keep up their lifestyle and most who were asked came up with £200M as that enabled private jets
 
It's part of the plan to destroy farming in the UK. Part of the WEF plot to reduce the population through starvation.

Alternatively it's so the government can take over the bankrupt farms and control food production through collectivisation. That way they decide who gets the food.

Even more alternatively it's so the bankrupted farms can be given to immigrants as ordered by Starmer's Muslim masters as part of the great replacement.

Take your pick, I've seen all three today.
 
Brexiters are pro-farming now, the threat to farming was laughed off during the Brexit referendum.

Don’t pretend you care about farming now Clarkson just because you play at it for comic effect on TV.
 
Brexiters are pro-farming now, the threat to farming was laughed off during the Brexit referendum.

Don’t pretend you care about farming now Clarkson just because you play at it for comic effect on TV.

But, Andy, did you not get the memo explaining that Project Fear is only A Thing if it is claimed by BlowJob, ReeSmog or Slithery Gove?
 
Reeves announces 10-year plan to revamp the NHS pencilled in for next Spring.

In the meantime, Reeves pledges:

£22.6 billion increase in day-to-day NHS budget.

£3.1 billion increase in NHS capital budget.

£1.5 billion towards NHS capacity and diagnostic hubs.
 
Ben Houchen said

"Looking through the budget, here's what there is for the people of Teesside, Darlington and Hartlepool except for massive tax rises that will cost every household £1400"

Apart from investment in our hospitals and NHS, schools, local authorities, infrastructure, the general economy and a cheaper pint


What he means is there's nothing in it for him and his cronies.
 
Ben Houchen said

"Looking through the budget, here's what there is for the people of Teesside, Darlington and Hartlepool except for massive tax rises that will cost every household £1400"

Apart from investment in our hospitals and NHS, schools, local authorities, infrastructure, the general economy and a cheaper pint


What he means is there's nothing in it for him and his cronies.
Yes, it's irritating all the people complaining that Labour are raising taxes. First off, they haven't done all the extreme things some of the commentators were predicting. Second, they need to undo 14 years of Tory cuts, so of course they need to raise taxes; what they don't seem too good at (which is partly due to the largely right-wing press) is communicating how this will benefit most people.
 
There was no indication of that in his post. It looked just like a statement he had thought up himself. There was no source for the comments.

The second part of my comment stands though. All the people who are outraged by the latest revelations like the person who made this tweet are trying to gaslight us.
Er the whole thing started with the word 'Apparently'. It was pretty clear to me what he was doing.
 
"This is not the sort of Budget we would want to repeat," she told the BBC's political editor Chris Mason.

"But this is the Budget that is needed to wipe the slate clean and to put our public finances on a firm trajectory."

Quite shocked by Chris Mason's piece on the budget. I know the BBC used to be terrified of upsetting the Tories but that should be lessened now... He described the budget as having "tax rises so huge they can be seen from space" WTAF?! What am I missing?
 
Quite shocked by Chris Mason's piece on the budget. I know the BBC used to be terrified of upsetting the Tories but that should be lessened now... He described the budget as having "tax rises so huge they can be seen from space" WTAF?! What am I missing?
That is also what is needed after the kamikwazi budget and Hunt's profligacy
 
Quite shocked by Chris Mason's piece on the budget. I know the BBC used to be terrified of upsetting the Tories but that should be lessened now... He described the budget as having "tax rises so huge they can be seen from space" WTAF?! What am I missing?

It's in Mason's job description that he has to channel his inner Kuenssberg and Robinson.

Other than that it was a pretty appalling piece.
 
The Conservative party laugh and jeer while Rachel Reeves talks about funding for two vital injustices

Speaker has to intervene to quieten them down

Rachel Reeves, "The Infected Blood Scandal and the Post Office Horizon Scandal"

"The leader of the opposition Rishi Sunak rightly made an apology to the victims of the Infected Blood Scandal on behalf of the British state"

"But he did not budget for the costs of compensation"

Rishi Sunak looks down in shame

"Today, for the very first time, we will provide specific funding for those infected and those affected, in full".. £11.8 billion in this budget"

"And £1.8 billion to compensate victims of the Post Office Horizon Scandal"
 
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