Latest Moan From You and Me 2024

As far as tax rises go; just remember that when a salary goes up so does the tax paid, the NI and the pension contribution. Also having more disposable money will increase the VAT take and generally make people and the economy better.

 

I agree, that's how it is supposed to work, but it only works for those that get the pay rises.
Because it also pushes up inflation.

As with all things some people get left behind if they don't have political clout.

 

I think he has already ensured this will be a one-term Labour gov.

 

Why do politicians keep announcing things are a "once in a generation" opportunity? It is a completely meaningless statement as any decision can be reversed or revisited at the drop of a hat as soon as it is serves some purpose to do so, without any reference to whether the public voted for this or support it. Total drivel to pretend otherwise.

 

Unless he turns things around, and saying it's going to take 10yrs is not what people want to hear.
I think he forgot to mention that in the run up to the election.
So he's basically saying he needs two terms.
It's definitely back to austerity.
The good times didn't last long, I think I blinked.

 

Which good times were those, @pete?

 

I hear some people booking hotels for the big event are getting refused dew to tec problems then they see that the price's have gone up by x3

I wonder if it's about making money!!!!!!!!!!

 

As I said, I blinked.

 

He's still got 5 years to totally **** up the country. Because of the massive majority nobody can stop them doing whatever they want. I hope those who would normally have voted Conservative but decided not to 'in protest' now realise what they have unleashed on the country.

 

The thing is @KT53, you can only vote for what's on the ballot paper, so lots of people are forced to tick the least worst option. Cameron wasn't a good option. May wasn't. Boris wasn't. (And we had no choice at all re Truss or Sunak.) But they seemed better than the alternatives, so got in.

 

I didn't vote, why, it's because there wasn't any one i could trust and i still don't trust any
We was down the pan a long time ago but things didn't get better

 

He only has a massive majority in the house of commons, not amongst the electorate.
It could be a year or two, but if things don't start getting better at some point it will come back to bite him.
And I think he knows it.

I still wonder if he will be in charge for a whole term.