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Expanding Democratic franchise posted:reducing the voting age to 16, giving full voting rights to all UK residents, making sure everyone who is entitled to vote can do so by introducing a system of automatic voter registration, and abandoning plans to introduce voter ID which has been shown to harm democratic rights. Presumably that includes EU citizens too? Noice.
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sebzilla posted:It's in the "Funding Real Change supplementary document (CTRL+F for "entrepreneur" will show the relevant section.) Okay cool just found it. lovely Guido takedown was pretty much the first link on Google, so go to https://labour.org.uk/manifesto/ directly instead. All sounds sensible, and with the dividend tax changes and corporation tax going up to 26% it might finally get rid of the incentive for limited company contractors to pay out in dividends (not deducted from corporation tax, doesn't count for NI) rather than salary (which is counted against corporation tax and attracts NI) . Specifically, currently it's 19% corporation tax plus 7.5% dividend tax on the first 40k then 32.5% for the rest. Versus 25.8% joint NI costs plus 20%/40% income tax. (Ignoring nuances like minimum salary for NI contribution years etc) So this is actually a level playing field now of 26% corporation / NI plus 20/40% income tax. Nicely done. RE the inevitable rich bastard comments: Companies won't employ you as a contractor if you're in a sole trader setup. I've worked gigs for seven different companies in the last five years, including in Germany, India and Dubai. I've been taxed via my UK resident company the whole time.
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Polly Toynbee praising Labour's manifesto to the rafters 
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Nov 21, 2019 15:51
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Oh my god, the Cult of Corbyn are just as bad as the Trump chuds! 
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Nov 21, 2019 15:51
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Love a good chant me
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Nov 21, 2019 15:52
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Nov 21, 2019 15:53
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Also known as the tune of: yes we can I'm with her not me, us four more years This already happened a few weeks ago: https://twitter.com/NColtrain/status/1190407355059429378
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Nov 21, 2019 15:55
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Bape Culture posted:Love a good chant me Looking forward to the lib dem rallies where they chant "status quo".
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Nov 21, 2019 15:56
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fuf posted:Also known as the tune of: It's a serious source of frustration for me that people like this dweeb are in positions of authority in academia
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Nov 21, 2019 15:57
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chants like "Not For Sale", "Oh Jeremy Corbyn", "We Want Tables"
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Nov 21, 2019 15:59
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THREE WORD CHANT! THREE WORD CHANT! THREE WORD CHANT!    
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Nov 21, 2019 16:00
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Edison was a dick posted:I think the general thrust of why it's problematic is that the equalities act doesn't distinguish between sex and gender, and TERFs read it as "biological sex" and use it as a dog-whistle, so if you're attuned to them it can read as saying it's going to force service provision along birth assigned gender. Yeah, at best it's a bit tone-deaf - it could mean "ensure it is understood that the act doesn't give you free reign to be transphobes" but language like "enforce single-sex based exemptions" is definitely used a lot as a TERF dogwhistle for something along the lines of "ban trans people from anywhere with the word Women in it" and I hope the Labour party clarify this. Inclusive education and self-identification is nice, though I would have liked them to also mention something about non-binary identities. even like, acknowledging it's a thing they plan to think about, which would put them miles ahead of the tories at this point
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Angepain posted:Yeah, at best it's a bit tone-deaf - it could mean "ensure it is understood that the act doesn't give you free reign to be transphobes" but language like "enforce single-sex based exemptions" is definitely used a lot as a TERF dogwhistle for something along the lines of "ban trans people from anywhere with the word Women in it" and I hope the Labour party clarify this. Inclusive education and self-identification is nice, though I would have liked them to also mention something about non-binary identities. even like, acknowledging it's a thing they plan to think about, which would put them miles ahead of the tories at this point Angepain, you don't have PMs. Would you like to come on the Praxiscast for our trans rights episode? You'd be joining some cool people (and also me) and it would be great to have your perspective on what's going on in Scotland!
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Nov 21, 2019 16:02
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Oh no not three syllables
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Nov 21, 2019 16:03
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Edison was a dick posted:I've dropped my MP candidate a message asking if he's got a line on any clarification of this. That makes sense, thank you and to everyone else who posted about this!
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Nov 21, 2019 16:07
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Adam boulton is still really mad about the Neruda quote https://twitter.com/piercepenniless/status/1197531639393460227?s=19
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Nov 21, 2019 16:09
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Honestly, this is one of my preferred solutions for MP corruption. But it also includes stringent penalties for literally any other income during that time, AND the complete removal of expenses.
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Nov 21, 2019 16:11
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Imagine thinking £82k a year is a poor wage - it's top 2% of income earners already. If the top 2% isn't good enough for this country, why would the top 1% or 0.1% be any better?
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Nov 21, 2019 16:14
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Nothingtoseehere posted:Imagine thinking £82k a year is a poor wage - it's top 2% of income earners already. If the top 2% isn't good enough for this country, why would the top 1% or 0.1% be any better? 82k plus expenses which include a place to live in London. After expenses it's easily 100k+
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Nov 21, 2019 16:15
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I think MPs probably should be paid more - as long as they are severely restricted in other sources of income like Labour is planning. For example, it should be illegal for an MP to be a landlord.
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Nov 21, 2019 16:16
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Nov 21, 2019 16:16
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i'd absolutely hate to have mediocre people as MPs, which the current system definitely prevents. oh wai
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Nov 21, 2019 16:17
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Meanwhile in trump's impeachment inquiry lol https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/status/1197533816677683201?s=19
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This is cool https://twitter.com/BrisBeerFactory/status/1196718986249035776?s=20
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Nov 21, 2019 16:18
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thespaceinvader posted:Honestly, this is one of my preferred solutions for MP corruption. Current MP basic salary is over £70k. If they're complaining about not making enough they shouldn't be in public service. And the expenses system is good if used as intended : otherwise MPs with larger offices, like ministers and the LOTO would need a massive hike in salary to cover operating costs.
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Nov 21, 2019 16:22
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I'm hitting the streets this weekend with a folder full of forms to get homeless people signed up. Went to a meeting last night where I got some tips from homeless organisations and people ont the streets about how to approach it. Should be interesting.
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Nov 21, 2019 16:22
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Jose posted:Meanwhile in trump's impeachment inquiry lol It's the same Fiona Hill? I'd seen that someone named that was testifying in the states, but I assumed it was a weird coincidence.
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Nov 21, 2019 16:24
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https://twitter.com/BethRigby/status/1197519906142654464 What the? Pro Corbyn from Sky?? Since when did those chants have a tune?
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As a general comment, a lot of people still really have no conception of how much good public sector pensions are worth compared to the dogshit on offer in the private sector. You can gross the amount MPs are paid up by about 40% a year to get to the equivalent amount they'd have to earn in the private sector to account for the lost pension value. Arguably considerably more given the amount of market risk a private sector pension faces vs a government guaranteed one.
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Nov 21, 2019 16:26
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https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1197533872310947846?s=20 Someone embed this tweet I don't know how. Jez drops shitloads of good stuff in 60 seconds. Edit: Oh it does it automatically I am not good with computer
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Nov 21, 2019 16:28
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Isn't there... only one way you can chant three one-syllable words?
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Nov 21, 2019 16:30
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https://twitter.com/RMCunliffe/status/1197506141368016896 or just have being an MP like jury duty over a few months and you get paid the same as your other job plus expenses? I like it when people try and overexageratte a leftist concept to try and make it seem like poo poo when they just make it sound better. 
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I honestly think this Rachel Riley thing is going to be the beginning of the end of her career. Katie Hopkins is the go-to example but you can chart it with others: 1. Mainstream TV (the Apprentice) 2. invited onto Mainstream News that wants to amplify a particular point of view (5 Live) 3. becomes "controversial" and pushed to the fringe (Sun column, Mail column, LBC show, invited onto Question Time for "balance") 4. eventually crosses the line into toxic waste and is banished to obscurity and self-publishing. You can chart Louise Mensch on that (1. marketer, 2. MP, 3. Menshn and QT, 4. Patribotics and self-publishing) and Farage (1. stockbroker, 2. MEP, 3. LBC and QT, 4. not banished yet). Rachel Riley is currently at 2 but this might push her to 3, and from there it's only a matter of time because the controversy becomes the identity then, and they always have to push it further to try and stay relevant.
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Necrothatcher posted:Bit of a hit piece in the Standard. quote:What about the mural he approved of (it showed a group of hook-nosed bankers playing a game of Monopoly on the backs of huddled dark-skinned people, and could have come straight from any African country, which are all the same to me anyway).
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Nov 21, 2019 16:34
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OwlFancier posted:Isn't there... only one way you can chant three one-syllable words?
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Nov 21, 2019 16:35
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Riley needs to be hammered on her past comments, particularly how she had nothing to say over Jimmy Carr being pulled up for an anti-Semitic joke. She wants to sow division then she can loving reap it.
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TheRat posted:https://twitter.com/BethRigby/status/1197519906142654464 Sky news aren't owned by Murdoch anymore and there's been a vibe on most of their programming for months that they're sick of the Tories shenanigans.
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