The Chronicles of Rishi

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

I am sure you are the perfect human being, jfman, who has never said an unkind word to anyone, even when prodded and provoked mercilessly.

Although that is not my experience when dealing with your barbs on this forum.

My point, to get back to it, was that a simple comment in response to provocation, does not mean you are a racist.

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Sunak should never have taken over. We need somebody strong to lead this country and someone to face down these lazy name calling cancel merchants who continually take a holier than thou attitude and preach woke nonsense.

We have lost our way and Labour would only take us into a very dark tunnel from which we may never emerge.

You really don’t understand irony, do you?

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY

During which time we have had austerity following the election of the Conservatives, hampered by the coalition with the Lib Dems, two odd years of Covid that Starmer would have mishandled due to his obsession with lockdowns and restrictions, and on top of that, the Ukraine war.

The civil service is doing a pretty good job of destroying public services, for example with its failure to direct money being injected into the NHS, preferring instead to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds on making woke appointments rather than into front line services.

Speaking of "name calling"…

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by Hugh

You really don’t understand irony, do you?

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Speaking of "name calling"…

Where was I wrong, and why?

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Where was I wrong, and why?

Again, you seem to not understand the concept of irony - you railed against "name calling" by name calling and ad hominem statements, using value-free emotive statements.

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Again, you seem to not understand the concept of irony - you railed against "name calling" by name calling and ad hominem statements, using value-free emotive statements.

I called jfman a perfect human being. I’m sure he was chuffed.

Back to the subject please.

[Ms NTL]

No inheritance tax changes …. no ISA increases.....Rubbish budget

The other thing is that the tax thresholds are still static even after a year of high inflation. It's a massive stealth tax.

[Ms NTL]

Originally Posted by Damien

The other thing is that the tax thresholds are still static even after a year of high inflation. It's a massive stealth tax.

This is a massive stealth tax.

Originally Posted by Ms NTL

No inheritance tax changes …. no ISA increases.....Rubbish budget

tbf, something that would benefit under 4% of the population during a cost of living crisis wouldn’t be good optics…

[Mr K]

If there was any spare cash going maybe it should have been spent on our crumbling roads, railways, schools and hospitals, rather than a pre-election bribe. Radical I know.

[Dave42]

NEW: May election on the way? Tonight I’m told Tory party been instructed to be ready for a election from Jan 1st, with Issac Levido (Sunak campaign chief) joining CCHQ on that date full time.

Note: option on table doesn’t meant it’s going to happen. But the NI cut Jan 6 opens the door for May election.

https://twitter.com/BethRigby/status...54719163998367

Originally Posted by Dave42

NEW: May election on the way? Tonight I’m told Tory party been instructed to be ready for a election from Jan 1st, with Issac Levido (Sunak campaign chief) joining CCHQ on that date full time.

Note: option on table doesn’t meant it’s going to happen. But the NI cut Jan 6 opens the door for May election.

https://twitter.com/BethRigby/status...54719163998367

And by pure coincidence, by using a Statutory Instrument, the Conservative Government has just pushed through a new regulation on Election spending - it almost doubles the permitted spending in UK elections, with the national party spending limits for the next general election increased from around £20m to around £36m.

Without any debate, scrutiny or vote in Parliament.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/...0231235_en.pdf

[Russ]

Originally Posted by Dave42

NEW: May election on the way? Tonight I’m told Tory party been instructed to be ready for a election from Jan 1st, with Issac Levido (Sunak campaign chief) joining CCHQ on that date full time.

Note: option on table doesn’t meant it’s going to happen. But the NI cut Jan 6 opens the door for May election.

https://twitter.com/BethRigby/status...54719163998367

The Tory scum party booted out just in time for summer…..give us some nice mid-year warm weather and suddenly I’ll be looking forward to my 50th for the first time ever

[Ms NTL]

Originally Posted by Hugh

tbf, something that would benefit under 4% of the population during a cost of living crisis wouldn’t be good optics…

I do not doubt that your number "under 4%" is correct.

But there are financial advisors that make your assets disappear from the UK or they magically appear under the beneficiary's name.

The simplest one is the "7 year rule".

That's why it's only 4%

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Mr K

If there was any spare cash going maybe it should have been spent on our crumbling roads, railways, schools and hospitals, rather than a pre-election bribe. Radical I know.

Sadly tax cuts was always going to be straight out of the Tory playbook in the run up to a general election.

It might win them a few more base votes but next year is unlikely to be a great year economically and public services and everything else is still in a very grim state under 13 years of Tory government.