howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Button wrote:A nice sound-bite and not a bad idea, even if Charlie was never exactly clear on what he wanted it spent on.
My understanding was that it would pay for a new IT system capable of dealing with 250, 000 declarations per annum plus a large increase in staffing levels at the port.
Button- Location: Dover
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I hope you're wrong - one would need to know in what area CDS allegedly couldn't handle more declarations (think you may have one or more zeros missing in your post, although what's wrong with monthly recapitulative CFSP ones?), plus one really doesn't want more UKBF deployed this side of the Channel. In short, it's sound-bite time again.
(Not my real name.)
Guest 2388- Registered: 12 Nov 2017
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unsurprising to see that Hammond has done jack shit for the housing crisis - time to go
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Martina wrote:unsurprising to see that Hammond has done jack shit for the housing crisis - time to go
He muttered something about 300,000 homes a year in the mid 2020s and something about lifting planning restrictions but nothing about improving things for people who rent. I don't know if the stamp duty thing for first time buyers will help much with the size of deposits needed for people to get on the housing ladder.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Martina wrote:unsurprising to see that Hammond has done jack shit for the housing crisis - time to go
'Local authorities will be able to charge a 100 per cent premium on council tax on empty properties' announced for starters.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/03/number-empty-homes-hits-highest-rate-20-years-calling-question/
The funniest bit of the budget was seeing Jeremy getting all shouty. Perhaps he's on some new tablets?
We had a teacher like him at school. Next thing was he didn't turn up for weeks. Then we found he'd taken 'early retirement'. All a bit sad really.
Then John McDonnell had a car crash interview on BBC! How he ended up Shadow Chancellor of Exchequer God knows. I remember on the GLC, Livingstone sacked him for financial incompetence, when he proposed a budget described by Ken as the"biggest f***ing lie since Goebbels"
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Captain Haddock wrote:'Local authorities will be able to charge a 100 per cent premium on council tax on empty properties' announced for starters."
And the main course was?
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'If no one went no faster than what I do there'd be a sight less trouble in this world'
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Indeed:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42096806
Thankfully Not Being in Tory It Doesn't Apply (with apologies to Kevin Rowland).
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Yet here's what has actually happened if you crunch the IFS figures!
'If no one went no faster than what I do there'd be a sight less trouble in this world'
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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We are in good hands indeed, just another 43 years for the Tories to clear the debt, meanwhile our living standards will fall for the foreseeable future.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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All doom and gloom! So how exactly are we doing compared to other countries:-
Not bad at all is the answer!
But what about the workers with our low wage growth I hear you ask.
UK stats
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/wage-growth
German Stats
https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/wage-growth
So Wage Growth in the United Kingdom averaged 2.86 percent from 2001 until 2017, while Wage Growth in Germany averaged 0.81 percent from 2006 until 2017!
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Captain Haddock wrote:All doom and gloom!
Time for a visit:
Book early to avoid the rush.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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So we are in a race to the bottom with Germany.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Ha ha ha Howard! OF COURSE we are doing worse than the sunlit uplands of McDonnell and Corbyn's land fit for heroes where lots of free stuff is provided for everyone paid for by someone else. PLEASE tell me which actual country you would like to compare us to?
I note in passing that even lefty leaning Channel 4 seems to have cottoned on to the Labour Party's complete lack of understanding on financial matters.
https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-john-mcdonnell-doesnt-seem-to-understand-how-government-debt-works'If no one went no faster than what I do there'd be a sight less trouble in this world'
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Capt: "OF COURSE we are doing worse than the sunlit uplands of McDonnell and Corbyn's land fit for heroes where lots of free stuff is provided for everyone paid for by someone else."
The Tories promote free stuff (corporation tax cuts, no rental caps etc.) provided for the few by cutting benefits to the working poor, whilst continuing to cut the facilities that we, the many, pay for through national and local taxation. I gladly pay my taxes FOR the benefit of all and NOT for the benefit of those few with their privileged, obscenely wealthy snouts in the trough.
I say YES to free stuff*: NHS; EDUCATION; LIBRARIES; MUSEUMS; DENTISTS (*because free stuff is not free, it's OUR tax and NI).
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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I take it your Grace that the purpose of tax is to get revenue rather than clobber success? Corporation tax DOWN = revenue UP. What's not to like?
https://www.ft.com/content/ca3e5bd2-2a7e-11e7-9ec8-168383da43b7
'Rental caps' do not necessarily work:-
https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/08/economist-explains-19
https://www.ft.com/content/1108ece4-a3a6-11e7-9e4f-7f5e6a7c98a2
If only life were as simple as you seem to think it is...............
(I note that Ch4 have now deleted their expose of the fiscally incompetent McDonnell! )
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Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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If you believe it is complicated, you have bought into the myth propagated by those with a vested interest in protecting their interests at the expense of the nation.
Government should represent ALL who live within the UK. That is, indeed, simple thinking; nonetheless, it is absolutely irrefutably correct, is it not?
The rental caps argument...if you commute into London, do you expect the shift worker that sells you a meal-deal in the station WH Smith's or J Sainbury's to have to commute in from an hour away too?
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Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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Corporation tax DOWN does NOT equate to wages rising. Wages are the driver of the economy. If your average-paid worker had £200 extra per month, they would spend it in the High Street, days out, petrol, cinema tickets, a restaurant visit, train tickets, paying off debt. They are, I might venture, highly unlikely to send it off-shore into a tax haven and avoid VAT, fuel duty etc.
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Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.