Top 10% of wealthiest (in salary terms) pay 60% of uk income tax revenue. Those who earn more than 47k pay 75% of national income tax revenueIt's just a little bit more tax for UK.
"The last remaining tax free savings" for ordinary people. Course, if you're in gov, you can have a special Act of Parliament made just for you to avoid pension tax, yay!
We can't. Politically suicidal to limit spending to income. John major tried that and what happened to him? EU 3% budget deficit is socially acceptable.
that was the result of Kier Starmer trying to outdo Farage and the Corbynistas in his party at the same time. Starmer does not have clear policies nor principles. He wheels and deals as the situation arises, like with Trump, Netanyahu and Zelinsky. Some like that, many don't.
Self seeking politicians happened.But the Sceance-tists said we would be living a life of ease with robots doing all the hard and dangerous work. Beep boop?
What happened to "scientific advancement"?
Why did we not "Progress" instead of regress?
That's true, for now - gather from tomorrow's headlines reeves will extend tax creep by two years, big stealth tax increase on workers. Much like additional NI contributions on business it will be another massive drag on spending, growth, investment. Populist voters who demand nordic level benefits, services without working, paying may be in for same lesson maga voters begin to learn from losing Medicaid.
True enough but Trump did the right thing by charging them tariffs on what they buy. Like Starmer, he's promised to cut taxes and not raise them, his choices are limited. He's just going about it in a haphazard way. He should have said '15% on all imports' and that will be enough to raise 500 billion dollars a year. Still not enough for tax cuts but would not cause so much ruckus with the rest of the world and a run on the dollar and US Treasury bonds.
VAT disguised as import protection for gullible nationalists, but with drawbacks, lack of competition, innovation, productivity at home. Imagine EU that didn't charge 55.3% import duty on Chinese ev's, where VW, Renault etc didn't get so lardy, uncompettitive and we could all buy new ev's for under 10k
The low turnout is fundamentally undemocratic. That should be enough reason to rerun the referendum.
So as turnout at UK 2024 election was low and below 2019 level then it was "fundamentally undemocratic"? And PM should rerun it, ad nauseum, until the result is to.. which level?
www.statista.com
In that 2024 referendum, about one million or one third of the electorate voted no.So as turnout at UK 2024 election was low and below 2019 level then it was "fundamentally undemocratic"? And PM should rerun it, ad nauseum, until the result is to.. which level?
Uh, "demo" = people, "cratic" = rule
You live in a 'Constitutional' Parliamentary Monarchy
"If voting made a difference, they wouldn't let you vote "
Mark Twain, again
Voter turnout in UK general elections has been declining, with the 2024 election seeing an estimated turnout of 60%, the lowest since 2001. Historically, turnout was consistently above 70% until the early 2000s.
UK voter turnout 2024| Statista
In the UK's general election of 2024 voter turnout was estimated to have been 60 percent, the lowest turnout since 2001, when it was 59.4 percent. Between 1922 and 1997 voter turnout never fell below 70 percent, but in 2001 it dropped to just 59.4 percent.
