Ed Balls: Conservatives planning extreme spending cuts
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You are probably right. I think 'why bother' if you have that much money, why go through that hassle? Just buy it and be done with it. But then, that mentality is one of the reasons I am not rich and they are I guess
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your just being pedantic because you didn't think of it first
30% VAT on very high value luxury items isn't that harsh when most of pay 20% of most things bar food, books and energy.
and please don't call me a socialist, I'm far from and just trying to think out of the box, try it
Increasing VAT on luxury goods is going to disproportionately impact middle to low earners. A 10% increase on the cost of a TV is quite a lot for a middle or low earner, but for someone with a lot of cash its no big deal.
What we need is a thorough review of how we run our country and how we can better manage it for the long run. It seems to me that Frank Underwood had it right: Welfare is not a sustainable system.
British forces are colloquially known as "The Borrowers"
Er, John Lewis.
The employee-owned worker co-operative, you mean?
(Where the owners/shareholders also happen to be the employees)
I'd like to see how they're going to cut any more from the Police.
They used to have a level called "Minimum Manning" i.e. the minimum number of police needed for an area. Now that the previous round of cuts have reduced the number of frontline police and they can't meet minimum manning, they've introduced "Critical Manning" levels. Which in our particular area, we are regularly under.
They used to have a level called "Minimum Manning" i.e. the minimum number of police needed for an area. Now that the previous round of cuts have reduced the number of frontline police and they can't meet minimum manning, they've introduced "Critical Manning" levels. Which in our particular area, we are regularly under.
simply not true.
maybe in the jobs you have worked in but that's not my experience at all.
on top of that, you do need some workers somewhere along the line. do you expect everyone to be a shareholder / owner? sounds a little like communism to me.
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More cuts to the Military too are rumoured.
They'll cut to to the level it gets completely out of control then some corporation (that their mates or they are on the director's board of) will come up with an idea to sell them Robocops and a Skynet. And we all know how that one will end.
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Omni Consumer Products would have been an enormous success if they'd just designed ED-209 to cope with stairs or be smart enough to take the lift..
Cuts is good!!!. Live within your means!! (some of you, anyway)..
EVERYONE SHOULD GET FREE MONEY AND NOT HAVE TO STRUGGLE AT ALL WE ALL DESERVE IT EVERY MUM IS A WORKING MUM LABOUR WILL FIND THE MONEY BEG BORROW STEAL FROM THE IMF WE WILL FIND A WAY ALL SCHOOL CHILDREN WILL SPEND 4 HOURS A DAY PRODUCING TEN POUND NOTES
My mate in the navy reckons the big rumour is they are to scrap all non nuclear subs and eventually bring down the surface ships to 12 front line.
This force looks really stretched fighting crime (stopping 4 year olds for cycling on the pavement LOL
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