Namtab posted:

Far age didn't get knighted and carswell made fun of him for it.

Looke posted:

what was that?

UnlimitedSpessmans posted:

yeah it's ok though because I'm being very encouraged to get a job thanks to the lovely people at the goverment doing everything in thier power to make sure I can't get money.

i'm sure I just need to work harder obviously.

LemonDrizzle posted:

having actual business models and profits is passé these days don't you know?

Guavanaut posted:

Some good news. The Government has dropped plans to allow local authorities to opt out of every child protection law of the last century from Children and Social Work Bill.

jBrereton posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax67_yNCdWA

XMNN posted:

the uk should grow more of its own food but unless we start growing opium poppies i dont think its going to make a significant impact on the economy tbh

JFairfax posted:

Ben Carson is another

Pissflaps posted:

labour will lose the next election.

LemonDrizzle posted:

also, lol

https://twitter.com/BBCNormanS/status/839381593630330880

Looke posted:

quote:

Hammond says he wants taxes to be fair.

That means people have to pay what is due.

He says a series of measures will raise an extra £820m over the forecast period.

He says the top 1% of income tax payers pay 27% of all income tax - a higher proportion than under Labour.

But there has to be fairness amongst individuals, he says.

Oberleutnant posted:

Oberleutnant posted:

i just coming t post this gently caress yOU!!

MikeCrotch posted:

Am I the only one who is finding how much flak the government is taking weird, over what feels like a "business as usual" budget? Like of all the things to criticise in this or previous budgets the "white van man" tax seems pretty small fry.

Not that I'm complaining mind.

Baron Corbyn posted:

Yeah, one of Osbourne's tactics was to build up to something incredibly lovely in the budget so that when they u-turned on it, people would be happy about that instead of mad at the bad poo poo. He usually had the good sense to do the u-turn before the budget so it'd get a good reaction for not doing the bad thing we thought he would.

Pissflaps posted:

How I miss you sweet Ed

https://twitter.com/Ed_Miliband/status/839848114517311488

Pissflaps posted:

You have a point but compared to now it seems like a golden age for the Labour Party.

jBrereton posted:

Imagine having the open goal of Michael Gove as your official opposition and somehow loving it up with mixed messages about immigration that pleased nobody, a through-government propaganda campaign with the same ugliness as the Iraq War days, and threatening to attack the poor for voting wrong unless they somehow get rid of you.

loving shameful.

Darth Walrus posted:

Remind me, where was that neat old article about how and why the Economist is poo poo? I know the reasons, I just want to read that article again.

Taear posted:

Nepal's a sovereign nation. You mean Tibet.

And that's a ridiculous comparison to make - Taiwan does because of the specific political situation after the Civil War and that's it.