[Pierre]

Originally Posted by Hugh

You appear to have accidentally left out another part of that Bill - the bit that raised the income thresholds for being charged income tax at the higher rate.

And of course, the Higher Threshold for Low Income workers was just one small part of a huge & complex Bill - but I’m sure you knew that he wasn’t just voting on that one small part of the Bill.

https://assets.publishing.service.go...tory_Notes.pdf

I’m sure he weighed up all the options and decided those on lower incomes weren’t worth it.

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Originally Posted by jfman

If you are going to make the claim that billionaire owners of media are altruistic and don’t seek to influence voters, or that people aren’t influenced by the media I’d love to hear it.

There’s a $1.2trn advertising industry to challenge the second point.

I didn’t make any such claim, got anything else