It's all a big con, the major challenges for providers is business rates and energy prices, fees are being raised back of this. There is not enough providers and nothing in the announcement indicates that will change. But as ever, people will not read beyond the headline I bet. Also its staggered due to the election, no other reason.It seems the 30 hours of free childcare doesn't actually come into action until September 2025:
"As a result, it will be a staged introduction, with 15 free hours of childcare for two-year-olds in April 2024, and in September 2024 for those aged over nine months, then 30 hours for all from September 2025."
So another exaggerated lie in our budget for 2023/2024. I'm sure the BBC will make that clear in their headlines though.
"30 hours free childcare for 2 year old and those aged above 9 months from September 2025, announced in the 2023/2024 budget"
Of course they will after all the unbias claims of the last week.
Maybe Jeremy will announce a free spaceship for everyone for September 3023 while he's at it.
2024 for half support then 2025 for full inplentation. No rush then. Just before the GE. In the meantime they can use a "fixed child care" line as PR. Too little too late.That's quite the money-saver in regards to childcare.
Nevermind, I've just seen the dates . Not convinced this will get people back into work with any real rush!
They really need to fix the High Income Child Benefit Charge thresholds though. How can two people who earn £49k each not be penalized but a household with a sole earner earning £60k fully penalized?
Exactly, when they are in power the Tories look after their own.The Tories just can't resist giving a big tax cut to the very (as far as I'm concerned) wealthy, every single budget. This time in tax relief on pension contributions, just when everyone else's tax is actually going up because of the continued freezing of personal allowances. The excuse is to stop surgeons retiring early, which they could have addressed by raising surgeon's wages or increasing their government pension contributions, ie without giving every very high earner in the country a big tax cut. But they're Tories, that's what they do.
I doubt if they'll have to wait until 2025 either.
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Matthew Goodwin is an ideologue whose views should be taken with a massive tonne of salt.
Am I being conned by this soothing voice and calm demeanour or does he speak a lot of sense?
Exactly that.Tax payer funded propaganda trip
Am I being conned by this soothing voice and calm demeanour or does he speak a lot of sense?
He describes a lot of the dire political hinterland very accurately and that there is no real alternative to the two party system ever emerging until new positions are taken within that hinterland.Am I being conned by this soothing voice and calm demeanour or does he speak a lot of sense?
I gave him 7 minutes. Think he's full of shit. Lots of people are afraid of the boogeyman we've created. Metropolitan, woke, elites ruining shit not letting us trash our economy and send all the brown people to rwanda. Its nonsense.
Am I being conned by this soothing voice and calm demeanour or does he speak a lot of sense?
That’s 8 minutes longer than I’m prepared to give him.I gave him 7 minutes. Think he's full of shit. Lots of people are afraid of the boogeyman we've created. Metropolitan, woke, elites ruining shit not letting us trash our economy and send all the brown people to rwanda. Its nonsense.
Cheers. Quite a bit I don't know in there. Goddwin does the standard right wing ''populist'' thing which is to act like neoliberalism wasn't supported by the people he calms are now rejecting it(Tbh they don't seem to be rejecting it that much as the tories are always winning elections). The tory voter who is complaining about immigrate boats today is the same tory voter that put Thatcher in office to destroy the unions(In exchange for high house prices).
I have to admit I merely skimmed through it, but my impression was that it's more a criticism of his language and apparemt bias, and not his methodology? I might have got that wrong though.
I had never heard about him before today, and I don't live in Britain, but my ideologue radar didn't immediately go off. I feel like it's quite symptomatic of the current information landscape that you find it accurare and others call it ideologically driven nonsense. I don't know what to think nowHe describes a lot of the dire political hinterland very accurately and that there is no real alternative to the two party system ever emerging until new positions are taken within that hinterland.
I feel his 'sense' is reflective of how things are right now, whether we agree with it or not.
Is that his claim to fame? If I knew that I probably wouldn't have posted the video in the first place.
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I have some personal knowledge of him.I have to admit I merely skimmed through it, but my impression was that it's more a criticism of his language and apparemt bias, and not his methodology? I might have got that wrong though.
I had never heard about him before today, and I don't live in Britain, but my ideologue radar didn't immediately go off. I feel like it's quite symptomatic of the current information landscape that you find it accurare and others call it ideologically driven nonsense. I don't know what to think now
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But remember folks, it's Gary Lineker who makes the "unhelpful" remarks about immigration according to this absolute psychopath.Tweet
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