Meenzer 15466 Posted November 27, 2015 Share Posted November 27, 2015 Well I'm sorry, but if the rich aren't allowed to become even richer, how will they ever get to be the only ones who enjoy all of that lovely growth we're doing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 34953 Posted November 27, 2015 Share Posted November 27, 2015 By the way, Osborne's 3% stamp duty premium, which on paper is a good idea to dissuade landlords from buying up all shared property and allow FTBs instead to buy homes.... Well a Treasury spokesperson has admitted that limited companies with portfolios of 15 properties or more are exempt from the increased stamp duty. So the wealthier you are as a property developer, the better positioned you are to keep buying up property. You could not make this lot up. We're all in this together Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 34953 Posted November 27, 2015 Share Posted November 27, 2015 http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/quarter-of-tory-mps-are-landlords-says-research/6524104.article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44559 Posted November 27, 2015 Share Posted November 27, 2015 Expect that news to be all over nowhere. Aye, I only heard about it cos of where I work. I've seen it nowhere in the press though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedfernMag 0 Posted November 27, 2015 Share Posted November 27, 2015 (edited) TT Christmas Party (nsfw) Edited November 27, 2015 by RedfernMag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 21868 Posted November 27, 2015 Share Posted November 27, 2015 from the FT George Osborne takes a leaf from Ed Balls’s bookGeorge Osborne’s revised spending plans bear an uncanny resemblance to those of his erstwhile rival, former Labour shadow chancellor Ed Balls, according to economists.Before the May general election, the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies calculated Labour plans meant departments would have £30bn more to spend by 2019-20 than under the Conservatives.At the time, Mr Osborne argued the UK general election was a choice between “chaos and competence” and repeatedly criticised Labour for having what he categorised as “unfunded” spending commitments.But on Wednesday, the Chancellor rowed back from the cuts he had pencilled into departmental spending by just over £30bn — in effect bridging the gap between the two pre-election spending policies.Gavin Kelly, chief executive of the Resolution Trust, said the plans “now look more like what we might have expected to see had Labour won power.“Mr Osborne has confirmed in his Summer Budget and then Autumn Statement not just his political pragmatism but also his openness to ideas from a variety of sources: he’ll steal ideas from both Ed Miliband or Ed Balls.”Paul Johnson, director of the IFS, said that there was now a “really big gap” between the outlook now and what voters would have expected from the Conservative manifesto. That document heavily emphasised tax cuts and spending cuts.The U-turns came as Mr Osborne shifted the emphasis of his economic programme, with additional tax rises and extra spending pencilled in to lessen the cuts to public services.Instead of anticipated cuts of over a third to all non-protected government departments, the annual spending review instead raised stamp duty on rental properties, increased local taxes and imposed an “apprenticeship levy” on employers. Cuts to unprotected departments were reduced to 18 per cent, the IFS calculated.Ironically, Mr Osborne has also breached his self-imposed cap on welfare spending as a consequence of his retreat from plans to cut £4.4bn from tax credits, although there are still cuts for some low earners to come as a new benefit, universal credit, is phased in to replace existing welfare payments.Mr Balls declined to comment for this article but Karim Palant, his former head of policy, said that the changes showed that Labour was right to warn that Mr Osborne’s stated plans were “implausible” and it was “making the most credible arguments in the Spring.”The softening of spending cuts is also a vindication for those economists who had questioned whether the deep public spending squeeze would be politically palatable and deliverable in practice.Michael Saunders of Citi said the shift “has probably made the fiscal plans more politically sustainable and hence more likely to be delivered”.Those close to Mr Osborne laughed at the suggestion he was changing his political clothes, saying “we are merely occupying the central ground”.Business paid a price for the shift, as details of the apprenticeship levy were published on top of the estimated £4bn annual costs of the national living wage already announced by the chancellor.Mr Palant noted that when Labour suggested a 1p rise in corporation tax, “this was painted as the end of Britain as a capitalist economy”, but the £3bn apprenticeship levy imposed by Mr Osborne represented a far more substantial tax on business.Middle England’s favourite investment vehicle — property — was also hit hard, with those purchasing buy-to-let properties or second homes facing an additional 3 per cent on stamp duty. When Labour proposed an annual “mansion tax” on properties worth more than £2m, Mr Osborne said the idea would be “unworkable”.But with the country still only half way through one of the biggest deficit reduction programmes in the developed world, this does not mean austerity has been forgotten.Carl Emmerson, deputy director of the IFS, cautioned though that while it was “certainly true” Mr Osborne has moved closer to Labour manifesto, in terms of easing the planned cuts particularly to unprotected departments over this parliament, there were still major differences.“There are still some quite big cuts to come, whereas under Labour’s plans it was possible only pretty small cuts to departmental spending might have been required,” he said.Mr Osborne is planning to achieve an absolute £10bn surplus by 2020, whereas Labour had pledged to run a surplus on the current budget — which excludes investment — “as soon as possible.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44559 Posted November 27, 2015 Share Posted November 27, 2015 Errrr NSFW. Toonpack on the left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedfernMag 0 Posted November 27, 2015 Share Posted November 27, 2015 Errrr NSFW. Toonpack on the left. edited Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 34953 Posted November 27, 2015 Share Posted November 27, 2015 Errrr NSFW. Toonpack on the left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 4712 Posted November 27, 2015 Author Share Posted November 27, 2015 Corbyn announces last night that his Dad's from East Boldon. Dark days indeed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 7012 Posted November 27, 2015 Share Posted November 27, 2015 Renton getting a raging boner today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 21441 Posted November 27, 2015 Share Posted November 27, 2015 Renton getting a raging boner today Shut it you non-cockknocker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted November 27, 2015 Share Posted November 27, 2015 Very disappointed with this Tom Watson. Not sure what his game is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 42196 Posted November 27, 2015 Share Posted November 27, 2015 Corbyn announces last night that his Dad's from East Boldon. Dark days indeed Game changer- the dorty, Communist Mackem shithouse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anorthernsoul 1221 Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-could-be-prosecuted-for-war-crimes-over-missiles-sold-to-saudi-arabia-that-were-used-to-kill-a6752166.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 17158 Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/05/jeremy-corbyn-new-politics-self-righteous-left-wallows-in-cruelty?CMP=fb_gu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 4712 Posted December 6, 2015 Author Share Posted December 6, 2015 "They may possesses the self-righteousness of “a teenager who had just become a vegetarian”. Got this far...... So much sums up my view of you lot at times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 17158 Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 Did central office clear that comment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJS 4375 Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/05/jeremy-corbyn-new-politics-self-righteous-left-wallows-in-cruelty?CMP=fb_gu"Some left wingers are bellends which I'm going to use to justify smearing Corbyn because I'm a Tory, Zionist cunt" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 34953 Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 By coincidence, this sums up my view of CT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 4712 Posted December 6, 2015 Author Share Posted December 6, 2015 By coincidence, this sums up my view of CT I think we all well know your view of me Katie. Somehow, you need to ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howmanheyman 32890 Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 I saw a dog eat it's own shit outside Warkworth castle once but I didn't know CT, then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howmanheyman 32890 Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 'Didn't need shit, used Swiss chocolate log instead. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15466 Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 Buried it. Then detected it and dug it up again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anorthernsoul 1221 Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 He's fit to vote and take home his pretty wage, but unfit to stand trial. The horrible nonce cunt is being protected due to the fallout it will bring. Sickening. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/12036837/Lord-Janner-Judge-rules-dementia-sufferer-is-unfit-to-plead-in-child-sex-abuse-trial.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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