BS: Brexit & other UK political topics

Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 15 Nov 22 - 02:38 PM

So you don't know how many people have avoided the correct procedures then, Bonzo. You and your mentors in the right wing press can only guess yet based on this guess you demonise all migrants to this country. My Dad was a migrant in 1945. Perhaps I should go back to Poland as I do not fit in with your idea of true Brits. Who will be your scapegoats when you have sent us all back? Jews? Gays? The disabled?

And, yes, I would support the rights of people wishing to travel to Qater regardless of their race, religion or sexual orientation. Although why anyone would want to go there is beyond me.

Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 15 Nov 22 - 03:41 PM

Bonzo, please cut the racist crap. If you are going to use terms like invade, then people coming to UK to seek asylum should at least be issued with firearms so they can invade properly. Your language is totally contemptuous. Consider yourself lucky you have never lived in a country that has been invaded. My partner is Czech; her mother lived through the German in 1939, and she was 4 years old in 1968 when Czechoslovakia was invaded by the Soviet Union. If you had lived in mainland Europe during WW2, you might have at least learned a bit of humility. Even better, just stop posting. Nobody will miss you.

Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Nov 22 - 02:14 PM

Bonzo is BONK!O for a while, to see if that gets his attention.

Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 17 Nov 22 - 04:01 AM

Any guesses for what the autumn statement will hold?

One report is that the 45% tax limit will be lowered and the windfall tax on power companies will be increased. That would be good if true but I suspect most money will be saved by screwing over benefits claims and the NHS yet again.

Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics
From: Rain Dog
Date: 17 Nov 22 - 05:03 AM

Only a couple of hours to wait until we find out. Then we will have speculation about if all of it will be passed as intended.

Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Nov 22 - 12:11 PM

A comment from a Guardian below-the-line on the *unt statement:

"(The) problem is that Reeves and Starmer are the wooden cheeks of the same policy-less arse - Tory shit peddler he may be, but Hunt, sad to say, is no worse than the dross on the opposite bench"

I couldn't agree more (and I'm still a party member...)

Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 17 Nov 22 - 01:49 PM

No mention, in *unt’s ‘Autumn Statement’ today, of the 23% increase in vehicle fuel duty which is to come into effect next March. 12p per litre on petrol and diesel. So the poorest in society will be hit again, and getting to those minimum-wage jobs will be even more expensive.

What was that joke about ‘Caring Conservatives’?

Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 17 Nov 22 - 01:54 PM

…also not mentioned in *unt’s speech was the fact that the tax surcharge on banks’ profits will be cut from 8% to 3% next year.

Old Osborne’s “We’re all in it together” sounds hollower and hollower, dunnit?

Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Nov 22 - 03:10 PM

The freeze on tax thresholds is nothing short of criminal. In times of high inflation and a cost of surviving crisis, that simply drags people at the very bottom of the earnings scale into paying tax. Toryism writ bloody large.

Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics
From: Rain Dog
Date: 17 Nov 22 - 05:24 PM

"Electric car owners to pay road tax from 2025, Jeremy Hunt announces."

Need to check your attics for any scalextric cars you still have. Probably best to sell them before they become liable to tax.

Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Nov 22 - 09:50 AM

Here is the new Brexit & other UK political topics thread. This iteration is closed but the discussion continues on the new thread to save loading this long one from Mudcat's server.