The Politics Thread

[David Lee's Hair]

The misses would get on with him, she was all up for getting out of the car and having a go at the 20 car queue that was delaying us in St Neots last night... bloody idiots

[Dwight Schrute]

oh the banter

[Worthy4England]

Worthy the only flaw you and a lot of others have with taxing banks etc is the notion they would suddenly drop all the business they do in the UK and sod off abroad and forget that waiting in the wings will be some of their competitors or other folk like Branson etc who would love that "hole" to appear. There is a lot of money to be made in the UK for the banks and they squeal like stuck pigs with every bit of legislation, but still they trade on!

Indeed - which is why I said any tax increase on them would only br marginal.

[Worthy4England]

another 3 pages of smoke and mirrors
the rich and privileged like us going around in circles on things like this coz it deflects our attention from the basic facts that
# "Trickle down" economics is, and always was, a load of bollox. Brain drain my arse- chinless wonders couldn't cut it without the old school tie
# "Rolling back the state" = allowing the rich to keep their hands firmly in the pockets of the less rich while nobody spots them doing so
# the utter devastation of our industrial base has led to us being unable to organise our economy along mercantilist lines - we cannot balance our trade a la Germany so rely on being the centre of the financial world - a world which involves selling barrowloads of nothing to other people who buy it on the idea that it will go up in value

So your really well thought out plan to solve all this is still "let's tax a small group of people at 70%?"

Stunning.

Let the good times roll, already.

Oh and don't believe that chinless wonders don't get regular job offers from other countries.

Where you off to Worthy?

I've met Worthy. He actually has a chin to spare.

Well, of all the cheek!

[Worthy4England]

Just as an FYI, you don't pay more than 50% tax until you're somewhere between £3m and £4m per year so I think that the contention mummy makes that paying 50% of everything you earn to the state isn't quite right in the context it was given - it's on everything you earn over £150k. You pay a overall tax rate of 39% on £151,000 and about 40% on £200,000.

Thanks, but I was talking about marginal income (and associated effort), not the whole.

Interesting number though - is that the amount at which someone pays 50% of everything earned in tax, when NI is taken into account?

Yes.

[Bruce Rioja]

George Galloway, the vainglorious c*nt, has had an open-topped bus ride around Bradford like he's just won the World Cup.

[Harry Genshaw]

George Galloway, the vainglorious c*nt, has had an open-topped bus ride around Bradford like he's just won the World Cup.

I salute his indefatigability

Love him or loathe him, it's an incredible victory that gave all 3 main parties a serious kicking.

[lovethesmellofnapalm]

another 3 pages of smoke and mirrors
the rich and privileged like us going around in circles on things like this coz it deflects our attention from the basic facts that
# "Trickle down" economics is, and always was, a load of bollox. Brain drain my arse- chinless wonders couldn't cut it without the old school tie
# "Rolling back the state" = allowing the rich to keep their hands firmly in the pockets of the less rich while nobody spots them doing so
# the utter devastation of our industrial base has led to us being unable to organise our economy along mercantilist lines - we cannot balance our trade a la Germany so rely on being the centre of the financial world - a world which involves selling barrowloads of nothing to other people who buy it on the idea that it will go up in value

So your really well thought out plan to solve all this is still "let's tax a small group of people at 70%?"

Stunning.

Let the good times roll, already.

Oh and don't believe that chinless wonders don't get regular job offers from other countries.

hell no- only the start add:
nationalise all means of production
guarantee work or training for all over the age of 18
round the clock childcare for all women who wish to stay in their career. adequate family benefit for those who wish to stay at home to bring up families
abolish the Anglo Norman anachronism that is the Monarchy and HOL.
leave the EC
commit to a carbon free economy by 2025 and invest heavily in new technologies that can make it happen
export said technologies
withdraw immediately from foreign entanglements and leave NATO.
PLUS a lot more .... but i imagine you've caught my drift

[Bruce Rioja]

guarantee work or training for all over the age of 18

How you going to do that then?

[thebish]

dunno if non-facebookees will be able to see this... but - hey - made me smile!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/National- ... 7607840980

[Lord Kangana]

Obviously not if you're an Al Qaeda operative. As it may just defeat the object of whats trying to be achieved.

[thebish]

Obviously not if you're an Al Qaeda operative. As it may just defeat the object of whats trying to be achieved.

or... if you ARE an Al Qaeda operative - just send emails on that particular day about viruses that will BURN YOUR WHOLE C-DRIVE AND DESTROY WINDOWS - THIS IS CONFIRMED BY NORTON AND THERE IS NO CURE...

[Worthy4England]

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How did this bloke ever get to be Chancellor? He's apparently shocked at the millionaires that pay an average rate of 10% income tax. I've never been particularly close to HMRC, but I'm not shocked, not one little bit. Pissed that they get away with it, yes, shocked, no.

If stuff like this comes as a shock to him, god help us when there's something that sneaks up out of back-field.

[thebish]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17661011

How did this bloke ever get to be Chancellor? He's apparently shocked at the millionaires that pay an average rate of 10% income tax. I've never been particularly close to HMRC, but I'm not shocked, not one little bit. Pissed that they get away with it, yes, shocked, no.

If stuff like this comes as a shock to him, god help us when there's something that sneaks up out of back-field.

psstttt... he's not REALLY shocked!

[Worthy4England]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17661011

How did this bloke ever get to be Chancellor? He's apparently shocked at the millionaires that pay an average rate of 10% income tax. I've never been particularly close to HMRC, but I'm not shocked, not one little bit. Pissed that they get away with it, yes, shocked, no.

If stuff like this comes as a shock to him, god help us when there's something that sneaks up out of back-field.

psstttt... he's not REALLY shocked!

Ok, how can we have a bloke that tells whopping lies, running the country's finances?

[BWFC_Insane]

Its "mock shock" at its best.

"I'm really wery wery angwy that these wich people are not paying tax, wery wery angwy. I'm going to do something. But I'm not going to tell you (because then I'd have to make these people pay their wax which I've no intention of doing, pass me the caviar please tarquin) guffaw guffaw"

[Bruce Rioja]

Its "mock shock" at its best.

"I'm really wery wery angwy that these wich people are not paying tax, wery wery angwy. I'm going to do something. But I'm not going to tell you (because then I'd have to make these people pay their wax which I've no intention of doing, pass me the caviar please tarquin) guffaw guffaw"

Dear me.

[Zulus Thousand of em]

"Wax" for "Tax"? That's shite, that is.

[thebish]

"Wax" for "Tax"? That's shite, that is.

I've tried it - they certainly don't accept wax...

[Zulus Thousand of em]

"Wax" for "Tax"? That's shite, that is.

I've tried it - they certainly don't accept wax...

Indeed, and neither should we.