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As far as I can see "so far" he is trying to be all things to all people and is often on a tangent to his local party.

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Yes - and at the same time, trying to be "different", so that people remember him.

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but thats exactly the new labour scenario. hes distancing himself from old toryism and creating new toryism.

dont confuse me with a fan though. i just can see the political sense in what hes doing

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methinks you do protest too much, sirrah! :p:

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Weirdest thing is, when Lib Dems were accused of blowing with the wind they got slated but DC seems to be getting away with it! :scratch:

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steady. ive already threatened you with that report post button ;-)

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that is a fair point. the lib dems are also establishing their brand values ;-) actually the one policy that seems to have been focused on is the 50% tax rate. a pretty big policy admittedly but am i missing other fundamental disagreements

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So much for not cutting taxes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6063832.stm

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And from that article -
"Shadow Chancellor George Osborne said the party would accept some recommendations and reject others.
Tory leader David Cameron has said that economic stability - not tax cuts - should be the main priority."

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the tories are still no different.

keeping the stealth taxes in place and cutting the income tax which is the fairest tax, wouldnt be surprised if council tax and vat remain untouched.

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Also from the article:
Or did certain people not read it fully?

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Reading on in that story, it seems a good idea..........

then the good ol' bombshell.........

:rofl:

BBC Politics

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The suggested income tax cuts (remember, this is not Tory policy at the moment, only the result of research) would aid the lowest paid by reducing the tax on people earning less than £30odd K a year, while still taxing income above that threshold at 40%.

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Lowering the amount that low earners need to pay sounds good to me. However, the recommendation is for £21bn in tax cuts. Where will the money come from, or more specifically, what areas will see reduced funding?

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I don't believe it was part of the team's remit to look into that.
It would be up to the Tory chancellor to decide whether to impliment any cuts or not, which is what they've said all along.
They'll have to look into where savings could be made, such as hospital managers (that's always a good one the media tells us we have too many of), or spin doctors, or the hundreds of extra civil servants Labour employed (I know, I've met some of them, and I object to £20,000 of our tax going to some obnoxious woman who's job is to recieve a fax, take a photocopy, and then fax it on to another office, yes, I kid you not, that was her job).
They'll also have to way up how much of that tax reduction will return to the treasury anyway when it is spent.
Spend £100 at tesco, and 17.5% goes to the treasury, then there's the 20% odd that goes to the treasury as income tax and NI for staff, and the amount from what the employees then spend.
So if a tax cut boosts the economy through more consumer spending (rather than them using credit which we currently do) then that will in turn feed money back into the treasury.

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I bet if they got in, and did lower taxes - my other half'd get a pay rise of significant proportions! :rolleyes: