We(Ireland) pay more taxes than you.
UK General Election - 12th December 2019 | Con 365, Lab 203, LD 11, SNP 48, Other 23 - Tory Majority of 80
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i have nothing better to do so i was looking at some polling and every single thing in the labour anifesto that they asked about was massively popular.
abolishing charitable status of pvt schools - +41,-19; building 100k council homes +62,-12; nationalising railways +47,-20; abolishing tuition +51,-20.
corbyn: +22,-58.
I saw that Ireland voted against some EU tax avoidance reforms last week too with a think tank warning that their economy could collapse if international tax avoidance was tackled.
I'm just not sure what conclusions you can draw about an individual's private beliefs when they are acting as leaders of, and in the interests of, their respective nations. You wouldn't say Reagan was a commie for meeting Gorbachev would you?
I do think there are grounds for believing May can be challenged on racism in general by the way based on her public policy: Windrush, hostile environment, ending of free movement etc. But I think your anti semitic argument is really thin and you are only advancing it to try to excuse your hero.
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Definitely confirms what I’m saying. It’s funny because do I think he’s a terrorist-sympathising anti-Semite? No. Do I disagree with his economic policies? Wholeheartedly
I didn't post the speculative parts of the article because they are just that... Speculative. The bits you've quoted literally state "may", "could", "might" several times as below.
I agree productivity is a bit problem but being productive and running a surplus aren't mutually exclusive... Germany have been doing it for years. In fact I'd argue low taxes promote greater investment which promotes greater productivity. I'd argue the tax and spend conservative policies of the last decade have depressed productivity (although this is a problem for many western high tax economies).
I obviously disagree with your statement regarding zero hour contracts as all that I've read on this front states they suit the majority of people who opt for them. My Romanian cleaners are doing in 1 hour what my full time cleaners did in 1.25 hours... They're more productive simply because they work more efficiently (less chatting, less distracting other staff, they don't get paid for not turning up etc)... They earn more per hour than the previous cleaners also. Which I believe over the last few years is a common theme (real terms wage growth), which you'd always expect to lag after a destructive recession.
I'll finish saying that if Blair had stuck to a more responsible 3% spending increase per annum between 1999 and 2006 we'd have been able to spend at £80b extra per annum 2008 -2010 and still be in the same position whilst almost certainly avoiding the worst of the recession. That's the ridiculousness of spending everything you have when times are great, you merely screw yourself over when times aren't (which is almost always less than a decade away). Every family knows you build up a nest egg when times are good.
Have a good weekend though as I'm sure you completely disagree!
"It should be borne in mind however that the extra inputs received may have improved the quality of the output in ways not..."
"period from 2001 to 2007 then the quality of public services might have deteriorated".
"It could also be the case that diminishing marginal returns"
"It may also be the case that the impact of extra inputs on outputs only shows up fully with a lag"
"This could explain why productivity and “bang for each buck”
"However there may be good reasons to expect productivity growth to differ"
"new technologies and management processes may boost productivity in some industries but not others.
The problem is that it will be a majority of right wingers. I think they will sacrifice Boris if he reneges on not extending.
Starmer doesn’t have anything like the internal support to win. He was one of those that resigned in the 2016 coup. The first successor will certainly be a Corbyn loyalist.
If anything I’d say the next leader will have to go further than the current manifesto rather than sand off the rough edges, because they have to win a vote from among the membership. The nature of that campaign will always be people trying to outdo each other. No candidate is going to go out to the members saying that we could win next time if we just compromised a little. To lose again would depress members, but not so much as to turn away from Corbynism just yet.
Equally the Scandinavian states have advantages that allow them to do that.
Norway has a huge oil fund backing up their liabilities (we wasted ours long ago), whilst Sweden was never saddled with decades of post war rebuilding like we were. Finland did have some reparations to pay but it was all cleared by the early 1950s and was nothing like on the same scale of the rest of Western Europe. Their models might have worked in the UK once upon a time but not now.
Popular indeed - spending money always is. But I wonder what reply the'd get if they'd also asked how credible the policies were, or deliverable?
they might reply with various versions of feck off, or, if there is a cosmic sense of humour, gerronwivit
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You ok hun?
You are selling it as a better economic system though, but unless these countries have little to no poverty without exploiting other countries somewhere down the line I don't really see how you can say that.
Why do you put everyone on the lowest wage there? Where does all the other money go? If you're telling us there is £51m for wages, why not have everyone on £1.7m? Then you can make sure you get just as much of those juicy taxes without having people earning around 166,667x more than others?
I'm simply pointing out your inconsistencies and hypocrisy when it comes to evaluating a politician's potential anti semitism. As commented on by another poster you are very quick to wave thin arguments around for Corbyn. You are equally quick to dismiss arguments for Theresa May.
Your double standards are very telling.
PS. I don't have a "hero". Just a pragmatic choice in this election.
I'd not heard of the book Boris Johnson wrote in the early 2004. Sounds terrible.
What does Boris Johnson’s terrible novel Seventy-Two Virgins tell us about him?
It’s sexist, racist fundamentally undiplomatic, and stars a tousled, bicycling Tory MP who believes everything is up for grabs
"...Arabs are casually noted to have “hook noses” and “slanty eyes”; a mixed-race Briton is called “coffee-coloured”; and there are mentions of “pikeys” and people who are “half-caste”.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jul/17/boris-johnson-seventy-two-virgins-novel
What does Boris Johnson’s terrible novel Seventy-Two Virgins tell us about him?
It’s sexist, racist fundamentally undiplomatic, and stars a tousled, bicycling Tory MP who believes everything is up for grabs
"...Arabs are casually noted to have “hook noses” and “slanty eyes”; a mixed-race Briton is called “coffee-coloured”; and there are mentions of “pikeys” and people who are “half-caste”.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jul/17/boris-johnson-seventy-two-virgins-novel
Not seen this pitiful appearance of Boris’ in the Andrew Marr show before (Click) but it’s absolutely pathetic. It saddens me that anyone thinks that this man and his party are right for this country.
No double standards, I think you could argue May is racist on other grounds. Just not the shite ones you've chosen to debate on.
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Can't wait to hear about scones.
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Have you read the statement you quoted... That seems to cover it
BBC U-turn shocker. Marr should spend the entire slot asking Johnson why he is ducking the AN interview until he gets an honest answer.
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Never in a million years happen but it would be incredible if Marr was "taken ill" 10 minutes before the interview and Neil was subbed in.
Marr sits down, only to pull off his face to reveal...Andrew Neil.
What a shambles, their resistance lasted a single day and using a terrorist attack as an excuse as well. Pathetic from them absolutely pathetic
In all seriousness though, these debates/interviews need to be monitored and regulated in some way. It's contentious how useful they are, but if we are going to do them then they should be an actual set in stone thing, instead of something politicians deliberate on for weeks as to whether they want to do it or not.
Vardy's far too honest to deal with someone like Boris...
They need to start using NLP's to moderate the impartiality of BBC journalists. There's really effective models out there which can be used to gauge people's bias by analysing their phrasing.
Posted before but i don't think this gets the coverage it deserves. Johnson colluded to get to a journalist assaulted and on reflection its amusing apparently.
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It's astonishing this isn't talked about more often, the reaction is even grimmer though.
Yes that would be amazing!Yeah, a tenner an hour is feck all money, it's not like he's making it unrealistic.
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omg stop threating them
Absolutely disgusting.
Insensitive of me to say this perhaps but I wouldn't put it past his campaign team to be relieved that yesterday's horrific events gave them some reprieve to escape the proper scrutiny he'd get from Andrew Neil.
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Intriguing...
Why isn't Andrew Marr capable of asking tough questions?
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