CatmanV2
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“excess profits of energy producers”. I think most people would understand that.
For sure. I said could be applied.....
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“excess profits of energy producers”. I think most people would understand that.
Thanks. I still can't find any link to Shell. Unless 'wife of BP person' is the same thing as Shell. which seems unlikely.Here’s what I could find in terms of donations from energy company linked parties…
Liz Truss reveals campaign donation of £100,000 from wife of ex-BP executive | Liz Truss | The Guardian
Contributions were revealed minutes before the new PM announced details of her plan to tackle rising energy billsamp.theguardian.com
In addition she received £30,000 from pro-fracking parties.
Liz Truss Campaign Funded by Donors From Pro-Fracking Groups and Climate Denier
The leadership campaign of the UK’s new prime minister was partly funded by individuals involved in influential pro-fracking think tanks and a former Brexit Party MEP who has called climate change a “myth” and a “religion”. Two days after taking office, Truss gave the green light for new...www.desmog.com
Surely that scale is very wrong.. you’d hope our rivers don’t have the same amount as the government!
The ‘not’ budget.
Well looks like the market has well and truly reacted… at least initial reactions anyway.
As the top voted comment in The Times stated:
“"Fiscal event" sounds too much like "Special Military Operation" for my liking. This is a budget by another name, only rebranded in the hope of avoiding searching scrutiny. Perhaps we should refer to it as the "Special Fiscal Operation".
And like Putin, the Government seems to have bet the house (well potentially our children’s houses) on it.
Mini-budget 2022: pound crashes as chancellor cuts stamp duty and top rate of income tax – as it happened
Tax cuts to cost Treasury around £37bn in 2023-24, official figures revealwww.theguardian.com
I wonder what the percentage of the population earn a £150,000 plus a year in the UK ?
I know I have never earned that much in my life.
So for people on minimum wage life is going to be very hard
Wow there's a massive gap between the high and low earners thenAbout 1% I think. That's what the guy on the BBC just mentioned
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Wow there's a massive gap between the high and low earners then
This is true. I have a friend who has worked in many overseas countries and he keeps pointing this truth out. The 45% tax rate abolition was actually only a small percentage of the total government ‘spend’ but of course so much of the media only picks up on this. A mistake to have done it in my view but I think it is more a way of trying to gain traction for the election in two years time as they can then bill Labour as a tax raising party to try and stop all the London elites voting red. Doubt it will work but that’s my view on the logic…On a global scale we all on here are un-imaginably wealthy. And probably anyone earning UK average wages is probably in the 1% of highest paid people globally.....
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Most politicians.I wonder what the percentage of the population earn a £150,000 plus a year in the UK ?
I know I have never earned that much in my life.
So for people on minimum wage life is going to be very hard
Yeah but the person left With 17.5 circa to live on is struggling because of what these polies have done.
That’s what makes this place interesting…..Thanks. I still can't find any link to Shell. Unless 'wife of BP person' is the same thing as Shell. which seems unlikely.
Funny, when I renamed this thread to the whinging * (etc) thread I thought the name would be a deterrent to posting whingey bollox stuff. And yet we continue.
The Conservative Party here (Republicans) beat on the Dems as "tax-and-spend" liberals...but the last time there was welfare reform, for example, a liberal was president. The only times in recent history that we have had budget surpluses (surpli?) or made significant strides on deficit reduction was under Democratic administrations.This is true. I have a friend who has worked in many overseas countries and he keeps pointing this truth out. The 45% tax rate abolition was actually only a small percentage of the total government ‘spend’ but of course so much of the media only picks up on this. A mistake to have done it in my view but I think it is more a way of trying to gain traction for the election in two years time as they can then bill Labour as a tax raising party to try and stop all the London elites voting red. Doubt it will work but that’s my view on the logic…
...and I say this as someone who was a registered Republican until George W. Bush. And at that time, I thought I had seen the Worst Possible President to be elected in my lifetime. Hoo boy.The Conservative Party here (Republicans) beat on the Dems as "tax-and-spend" liberals...but the last time there was welfare reform, for example, a liberal was president. The only times in recent history that we have had budget surpluses (surpli?) or made significant strides on deficit reduction was under Democratic administrations.
The Republicans are the "-and-spend" party. Cut taxes for themselves and their pals, and then crank up the dollar printers. All while selling brown dirt farmers on the idea that they are (or can become) identically resourced.
When you see someone in 2022 driving a twenty year old Hyundai with a Trump bumper sticker (and I have), then you meet the definition of "voting against your own self-interest.". But the con job plainly works in enough places.