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Nilbop posted:Another day, another checkmark on the "Glad I emmigrated" box. yeah cheers we know
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The earthquakes are the point. Fracking isn't about fossil fuel supplies, it's about cracking England off its foundations and scudding across the high seas like the Isle of Wight hovercraft. When Boris Johnson said he wanted a buccaneering economy, he meant it literally. Rule Britannia, Britannia rule the waves!
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OwlFancier posted:I'm honestly not sure whether or not they originate as political inventions first or whether a lot of people just have an innate obstinacy and conviction that everyone else is a workshy layabout who is trying to put one over on them and not a proper hard man like they should be, and enough people together with those ideas generates a sort of gestalt Bad Takes Field that discharges as daily express articles. It's interesting in itself as an End Of History era thought (just slightly predating Fukuyama's Brain Moment) that's strongly "end of what? lmao no it's all fuctifino posted:TL;DR: Orwell was an optimist  It's not referenced in that book, but a bunch of dynamically organized elders, religious leaders, and medical patients relentlessly puffing in shifts outside the South African Constitutional Court was a big driver of decrim and a route to private growing being passed there too, which I'm sure the authors would consider an action at a distance* from the state if they thought about it, so good work there too  *usually about 5 to 100 metres depending on how lovely the cops were that day (I should update the op booklist too, any suggestions all?)
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Oops! https://news.sky.com/story/boris-johnson-thanks-vladimir-putin-for-inspirational-leadership-instead-of-zelenskyy-12703631 quote:As he listed the reasons why Ukraine's counter-offensive is proving to be successful, though, he inadvertently thanked Mr Putin, before quickly correcting himself and thanking Mr Zelenskyy. I know it's easy to make slips of the tongue but anything to humiliate Johnson is good.
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People often wonder how the Tories can commit such heinous evil, but the truth is they're just like that.
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Is that in Zarah's constituency? e: No, it's Taiwo Owatemi in Coventry NW (208 maj.) e2: Those gains for TUSC though, phwoar. Nearly into third spot. The revolution is coming. sebzilla fucked around with this message at 07:51 on Sep 23, 2022 |
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I originally thought the CCP had to be the Coventry Communist Party, but maybe it's the Chinese Communist Party come to take over?
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https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1572927212814495745 lib dem fightback
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forkboy84 posted:I originally thought the CCP had to be the Coventry Communist Party, but maybe it's the Chinese Communist Party come to take over? Their manifesto seems pretty good to be fair https://www.covparty.uk/policies/
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jack dee supports antivaxxers lol
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Looke posted:jack dee supports antivaxxers lol with his face like a peppered doodle because he got measles
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Wtf why is there a budget statement now. When I was a lad you had one budget every April, and nothing changed except booze and fags went up a bit.
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keep punching joe posted:Wtf why is there a budget statement now. Everything is on fire
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keep punching joe posted:Wtf why is there a budget statement now. Tories want to cut National Insurance lol
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holy poo poo loads of money being handed out but none for those who actually need it lmao whta the gently caress
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This is wild. Cutting the bankers bonus limit and the 45% income tax rate for earnings over £150k is particularly strong.
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peanut- posted:This is wild. Well I don't know about you but I'm really excited for some of that money to trickle down to me 
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Microplastics posted:Well I don't know about you but I'm really excited for some of that money to trickle down to me I think the dungeon behind the toilets got closed, sorry.
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quote:Kwarteng says the government will introduce VAT-free shopping for tourists. ?????????????????????????
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VAT will be added at the till and if you show your passport you can get it taken off. This is a good sign of a country in control of its internal market.
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VAT-free shopping was a thing for non-EU visitors until the end of 2020 iirc I guess they're gonna bring it back and probably allow EU visitors to do it too?
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I'm really tired, what's the loving point
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peanut- posted:VAT-free shopping was a thing for non-EU visitors until the end of 2020 iirc "Introduce a modern, digital VAT-free shopping scheme" So it'll be an expensive IT project to funnel money to a consultancy firm run by someone's partner, and then drop a stack of costs onto small businesses to implement it, involving an app that doesn't work and a website that's always down?
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Dropping NI back to 12% and basic Income Tax to 19% will give me an extra *checks notes* £39.01 per month. Truly the good times are here again.
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Guavanaut posted:VAT will be added at the till and if you show your passport you can get it taken off. This is a good sign of a country in control of its internal market. So is this designed so prices on labels look 20% cheaper (CON+5) and so your shopping will cost you 20% more than you thought when you get to the till unless you are a Johnny Forinner with a dodgy passport? VAT-free shopping has always been a thing if you spend more than £120 in the UK (IIRC) you can get it back at the airport. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 10:37 on Sep 23, 2022 |
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sebzilla posted:Dropping NI back to 12% and basic Income Tax to 19% will give me an extra *checks notes* £39.01 per month. Truly the good times are here again. Will be of almost no benefit to me as my total income is scraping along the personal tax allowance. Many part-time workers **because that is all that is available** will be in the same boat.
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I'd expect it'll be a case of tourists take their receipts to a desk at the airport and receive the refund there. Having to carry it out at the till is a terrible idea. so they'll absolutely do that.
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Red Oktober posted:I'd expect it'll be a case of tourists take their receipts to a desk at the airport and receive the refund there. Having to carry it out at the till is a terrible idea. so they'll absolutely do that. But they've always been able to get it refunded at the airport! so it's not even new.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:I'm really tired, what's the loving point Hello mate, Listen. It's easy to get miserable about this endless parade of bullshit. But like - it is possible for things to get better. Imagine like, Victorian times where people starved in the street (the times these ghouls want back). Imagine living in the 1300s. Those people must have thought nothing would ever change, and the world was the way it was, and there was no point hoping. But they weren't right, and it's possible we aren't right either. Like if you need to have a wallow and feel the despair then go for it, but try, when you have energy for it, to remember that in the end we don't actually know what's coming down the pipe.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:So is this designed so prices on labels look 20% cheaper (CON+5) and so your shopping will cost you 20% more than you thought when you get to the till unless you are a Johnny Forinner with a dodgy passport? Unrelated, wee regret to inform you that Toby Young still exists, and is being a 'modern sceptic' by uncritically believing the dumbest poo poo on earth. https://twitter.com/TheDisproof/status/1573230300083232768
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Red Oktober posted:I'd expect it'll be a case of tourists take their receipts to a desk at the airport and receive the refund there. Having to carry it out at the till is a terrible idea. so they'll absolutely do that. They’ve already been able to take receipts to a desk at the airport and get tax back. Maybe it got scrapped at some point in the decade or so I’ve been out of retail but we (the retailer) used to have to fill out these long-rear end forms with all the persons passport and travel details, manually look up how much of a refund they were entitled to on a separate and very easy to lose table of figures, then send them on their way to go get their money back with it when they eventually left the country.
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If you read it as they've accepted losing the next election I guess this is smart. Do a bunch of wildly unpopular poo poo that you really want to do, and leave the next government with zero options other than massive tax increases.
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I had wondered if the point is to cut a bunch of taxes stupidly so they can complain about any other government raising them again.
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History Comes Inside! posted:They’ve already been able to take receipts to a desk at the airport and get tax back. It was, they scrapped it Jan first last year.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Will be of almost no benefit to me as my total income is scraping along the personal tax allowance. Many part-time workers **because that is all that is available** will be in the same boat. Of course. Full time on NMW would see you getting about a tenner a month back from this. Obviously for part-timers it's less still. My partner will be getting gently caress all as a person who doesn't earn above the tax threshold anyway.
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History Comes Inside! posted:They’ve already been able to take receipts to a desk at the airport and get tax back. It's not in the realm of complete sci-fi, a lot of shops near the border in many countries used to have a no tax button on the till and allow a bit of flexibility with the take, this will just add a digital paper trail to it (at least until the first consultant says 'blockchain' and then the whole thing falls to poo poo). * 
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OwlFancier posted:I had wondered if the point is to cut a bunch of taxes stupidly so they can complain about any other government raising them again. Definitely. Labour *have to* go into the next election saying they'll raise taxes now, and you'll get idiots on QT getting red and mad about how they're not well off and shouldn't be taxed more for earning £100k because their mate earns £120k.
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Actually, we would scrap income tax entirely. ... Replacing it with profits from state owned monopolies. 
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