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Re: Election 2019 - Week 3
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Originally Posted by nomadking
Just when you thought Labour are getting free and easy with other people's money. They were just getting warmed up.
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/t...e955fb2ea22509
(Shareable link from the Sunday Times, so hopefully will be readable to non subscribers)
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Boris Johnson today pledges in the Tory manifesto that his government will not raise the rates of income tax, national insurance or VAT, setting up a dramatic economic showdown with Labour over tax and spending.
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In a blueprint for a post-Brexit Britain, the Tory manifesto outlines measures to tackle the cost of living, including £1bn for extra childcare and a pledge to maintain the triple lock on pensions as well as free bus passes for the elderly.
The 60-page manifesto, entitled Get Brexit Done, Unleash Britain’s Potential, will be launched today in Telford, a marginal seat the Tories won by just 720 votes in 2017. It will pump new money into the NHS, police and schools.
Specific pledges include:
● A £10bn plan to raise the national insurance contributions threshold for working people, saving 31m taxpayers £100 next year
● A new £1bn fund for flexible wraparound childcare to increase the availability of after-school and holiday clubs to benefit an extra 250,000 primary school pupils
● Keeping the pensions triple lock, winter fuel payment and the older person’s bus pass — in a bid to secure the grey vote
● Scrapping hospital car parking charges for NHS staff on night shifts, as well as disabled and terminally ill patients and their families and those who require regular visits to hospital
● £2bn for the biggest ever pothole-filling programme
● Keeping the existing energy price cap and spending £6.3bn on efficiency measures to cut fuel bills in 2.2m homes targeting social housing and fuel-poor families
● £3bn for a new National Skills Fund and a pledge that a Tory government would eventually introduce a “right to retrain”.
Plans to cut inheritance tax are understood to have been junked because they would seem too beneficial to the better off and Tory sources were divided about whether plans to remove stamp duty on properties under £500,000 had made the cut.
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Not going to raise taxes, but spending more money...
---------- Post added at 09:21 ---------- Previous post was at 09:20 ----------
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Originally Posted by nomadking
If only there was equality and men would be compensated for having to have worked for an extra 5 years, or simply for the extra 1 or 2 years.
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If only women didn’t have to take time off work to continue the human race...
(I actually agree with the equalisation of pension ages, just not how it was done)
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Last edited by Hugh; 24-11-2019 at 13:18.
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