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Post by oggyoggy on Apr 19, 2024 7:09:11 GMT
Thank you for this heads up oggy, but if you get past the anti-Brexit Guardian headline and read the actual words of the report: “A clear picture emerged of underlying fragilities at a global and UK level, not fundamentally rooted in Brexit but exacerbated by it in some specific ways, especially through some companies removing the UK from their supply chains"
So why now after 3 years into Brexit is there a problem? Because there is a massive problem in the EU with drugs shortages and they are keeping them for themselves. I quote from various articles: "A fragile supply chain and increased demand are causing a shortfall in the EU’s stock of critical medicines." www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article/bitter-pills-medicine-shortages-in-europe#:~:text=In%20its%202023%20survey%2C%20the,began%20polling%20members%20in%202013 "According to the official national database at PharmNet.Bund, which monitors medicine supply in Germany, over 400 drugs are listed as not available at all in the country. " www.euronews.com/health/2023/06/21/a-medicine-shortage-is-behind-the-looming-death-of-community-pharmacies-in-germany#:~:text=Bund%2C%20which%20monitors%20medicine%20supply,ways%20to%20serve%20their%20patients There are reports in France that shortages of common older medicines are increasing. Experts say it’s in part because pharmaceutical companies are de-incentivised from producing them. www.euronews.com/health/2023/10/10/trying-to-find-solutions-worsening-drugs-shortage-is-leaving-pharmacists-and-patients-in-t#:~:text=Earlier%20this%20year%2C%20French%20President,better%20positioned%20than%20last%20year%E2%80%9D It appears the problems in Europe have been going on for some time: think.ing.com/articles/why-there-is-no-end-in-sight-for-the-eu-drug-shortage-crab-carolina-lal-pharma/"EU initiated an attempt to tackle the medicine shortfall that the union has been experiencing for over two decades now. Europe has witnessed a 20-fold rise in reported drug shortfalls from 2000 to 2018" www.eos-intelligence.com/perspectives/life-sciences/medicine-shortage-in-the-eu-a-deep-dive-into-its-causes-and-cures/It appears other governments are reacting to the supply shortages quicker than the UK government: www.rfi.fr/en/france/20240222-drugs-shortage-sees-france-restart-local-production-and-target-antibiotics-useThe problems in health services in Europe extend beyond drug supply: www.statista.com/topics/10625/public-hospital-crisis-in-france/#editorsPickswww.stem.it/en/community/the-german-health-emergency/So the root cause of the UK's problem is drug shortages in the EU. Leaving the EU has probably aggravated the problem but has not created it, as it has been building for many years. Whose to say it would have been any different had the UK remained in the EU? Just like the shortage of tomatoes last year? However in this case, judging by the above articles the problems in the EU are far more deep rooted than bad weather causing temporary food shortage. During EU membership the UK slipped into a massive trade deficit with the EU instead of investing in our own industry. This problem is not a Brexit problem but a consequence of being a member of the EU and allowing globalisation of markets and reduced national self sufficiency. The solution is for the UK to be more self-sufficient and spread dependency across the world and less on the EU. Absolutely. And our devalued currency and trade barriers make it much worse for us, and both of those are a direct result of Brexit. I agree the headline is over the top. But Brexit has made the drug shortage worse for the UK. That is an absolute fact.
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Post by oggyoggy on Apr 18, 2024 16:29:23 GMT
I had an ironic chuckle at one comment. I know of at least one person who will dispute/misinterpret it. The fact that the fall in sterling’s value after the Brexit vote in 2016 coincided with drugs being in much shorter supply globally due to pharmaceutical firms experiencing shortages of ingredients, which drove up prices, has also played a key role in creating the shortages.
That has forced the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to agree to pay above the usual price for drugs that are scarce to try to ensure continuity of supply far more often than it used to. “Price concessions” rose tenfold from about 20 a month before 2016 to 199 a month in late 2022, and cost the NHS in England £220m in 2022-23, the thinktank found.
I can’t think who you mean!
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Post by oggyoggy on Apr 18, 2024 15:45:46 GMT
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Post by oggyoggy on Apr 18, 2024 6:03:30 GMT
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Post by oggyoggy on Apr 17, 2024 20:52:11 GMT
Orban, the Putin sympathiser who has tried his best to destroy the rule of law in Hungary Farage who has lied, lied and lied again to fool people to vote to leave the EU. His lies now exposed, this unelectable man just fills his pockets with speaking events intentionally being controversial to turn people against one another. Suella Braverman described pro-Palestinian protesters as "hate marchers", said living in a tent as a homeless person is a lifestyle choice, she broke the ministerial code on multiple occasions. Do you want me to go on? And you supported Corbyn, Starmer and his rabid left dogs ? No, I didn’t vote for Corbyn and Starmer is closer to Tory than he is to Corbyn in terms of politics. Hardly a rabid left dog. Also, I won’t be voting for Starmer/Labour. So I am not supporting either of them.
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Post by oggyoggy on Apr 17, 2024 19:21:22 GMT
No, because it made a completely irrelevant event full of some of the most hideous people in politics relevant for five minutes. Who are these hideous people. Why in your opinion are they hideous. Simply because they have a different point of view. Orban, the Putin sympathiser who has tried his best to destroy the rule of law in Hungary Farage who has lied, lied and lied again to fool people to vote to leave the EU. His lies now exposed, this unelectable man just fills his pockets with speaking events intentionally being controversial to turn people against one another. Suella Braverman described pro-Palestinian protesters as "hate marchers", said living in a tent as a homeless person is a lifestyle choice, she broke the ministerial code on multiple occasions. Do you want me to go on?
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Post by oggyoggy on Apr 17, 2024 13:00:01 GMT
It is Farage’s dream come true. He becomes relevant in the media for a day or two, not because of his politics or messaging or a speech he has made, but because he got cancelled. Do you agree with him getting cancelled then? No, because it made a completely irrelevant event full of some of the most hideous people in politics relevant for five minutes.
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Post by oggyoggy on Apr 17, 2024 7:26:48 GMT
It is Farage’s dream come true. He becomes relevant in the media for a day or two, not because of his politics or messaging or a speech he has made, but because he got cancelled.
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Post by oggyoggy on Apr 16, 2024 21:10:15 GMT
Foghorn Gleghorn, yes. Farage, no, that’s just you. Big Nige gets you lot in a tizzy every time. It’s a good watch😉 He’s not my type
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Post by oggyoggy on Apr 16, 2024 19:43:15 GMT
Unemployment up sickness up this government is a total shambles Shhhhh the lefties are obsessed with big Nige Foghorn Gleghorn, yes. Farage, no, that’s just you.
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Post by oggyoggy on Apr 16, 2024 17:08:52 GMT
He is a prime example of the elite establishment he claims to hate. Everything he does is with the intention of increasing his bank balance and to get attention. IE -forming a company called REFORM then calling it REFORM UK (political party) to suck money out of the stupid ,Its strait out of the Trump playbook....................... And at the same time he is too afraid of electoral defeat again to actually stand as a candidate for the party he created.
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Post by oggyoggy on Apr 16, 2024 16:33:56 GMT
As much as I dispose the tight it is nit dennmicratic todo this ban terrorists and those that encourage violence but people need to see these nut jobs for what they are If you are talking about Farage then I agree, people need to see him for what he is not only a charlatan but yesterdays charlatan He is a prime example of the elite establishment he claims to hate. Everything he does is with the intention of increasing his bank balance and to get attention.
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Post by oggyoggy on Apr 16, 2024 8:10:42 GMT
According to the FT, privatised water firms have paid £78 billion in dividends since 1991, including £2.5 billion in two years since 2021. That £78bn is taxed at a far lower rate than the rate I pay for the majority of my income! The privatised water companies still have £8.2bn in debt www.ft.com/content/c3cdfefb-c912-4699-bb7f-72c5c6515757
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Post by oggyoggy on Apr 14, 2024 8:01:05 GMT
I really hope Israel doesn’t retaliate.
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Post by oggyoggy on Apr 13, 2024 22:19:30 GMT
Mr Coke Obviously I'm not going to quote your ginormous post, I haven't even read all of it I got through the Preamble and then the first thing i read is this The UK went into a technical recession during the second half of 2023 driven by reduced personal spending, due to increased interest rates, and reduced government spending in the last quarter. Nevertheless Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased slightly to £2.274 trillion.Whether I agree with your reasoning why UK entered a Technical Recession or not is neither here nor there. Subjectively you say GDP increased slightly from December2022 to December 2023, it did in absolute numbers from £2,270 Trillion to £2,274 Trillion i.e by £4Bn or 0.1% You later credit UK Inflation reducing, it did to 4% You however fail to join the dots that in order to remain on par UK GDP would also need to increase by 4% not 0.1% I've said before I consider you an intelligent man so I don't see why you need to Gaslight, for whom is it targeted? I have also said if your happy with Brexit, enjoy your Sovereignty But the reality is that the UK Economy is at best in Stagnation even based on the figures you like to quote. I'm not even going to attempt to persuade you why Brexit has damaged the UK Economy, there are enough reputable Economists that analyse why. Perhaps you could link just one Economist that believes Brexit has been an Economic success for UK I might take you seriously I stated that the UK GDP increased during 2023 by 0.1% and you state "in order to remain on par UK GDP would also need to increase by 4% not 0.1%". Your statement is infelicitous for the following reasons: 1. GDPs declined worldwide in 2023 due high interest rates to reduce inflation. The UK inflation was the highest in the G7 for various reasons, not least lower UK government intervention than other governments. However the OECD average inflation was 5.4% in 2023, much higher than the average GDP growth of 1.6%. Not many developed nations' economies GDP growth matched inflation in 2023; only Italy in the G7. The UK did achieve growth though, unlike many economies that contracted in 2023, including 9 in the EU, of which Germany, the Netherlands, and Ireland are 3 of the UK's 4 top export customers. The UK economy grew despite some of our main EU export customers' economies contracting in 2023. All the other EU countries' economies growth rate reduced in 2023, just like the UK. This emphasises the importance of the UK reducing its high dependence on the EU economy. 2. The above national measures of performance are in the countries' own currency. I pointed out in my long post that although Germany's economy had contracted in 2023, it moved above Japan to third largest in the world despite Japan's economy growing in 2023. This apparent anomaly was because of the fall in the value of the Yen. The fall in the value of the Yen has been quite dramatic. Sterling increased in value by 13% against the Japanese yen from £1.00:¥159 at the end of 2022 to £1.00:¥180 at the end of 2023. That paints a very different picture of Japan's GDP growth of 1.9% in 2023, which could actually be considered a contraction compared with other economies. Whilst on the topic of the value of currency, there was a 6% rise in sterling against the US dollar during 2023 from £1.00:$1.204 at the end of 2022 to £1.00:$1.275 at the end of 2023, and a 9% rise against the Chinese yuan renminbi from £1.00:¥8.31 to £1.00: ¥9.08. Those values put America's 2.5% growth and China's 5.2% growth in 2023 in context against the UK's 0.1% growth. The French and Italian economies GDP grew by 0.9% and 0.7% during 2023, whilst the sterling to Euro exchange rate rose by just over 2% from £1:00:€1.128 to £1.00:€1.154 between 30th December 2022 and 29th December 2023. The UK's inflation was the highest in the G7, but which country's economy actually grew the most? 3. We could enter the world of semantics debating whose economy grew the most or performed the best; the issue is how is the UK performing post Brexit? We were told by those economists opposed to Brexit that the economy would go into recession if we voted to leave the EU. The reality is it has taken a worldwide pandemic in 2020 and world economy contraction in 2023 to cause recessions and the UK is still performing economically better today than several other countries. 4. You high-light UK GDP but ignore Gross National Income. GNI calculates an economy's total income, regardless of whether the income is earned by citizens and residents within the country's borders or outside of them. In the modern world there are many who regard it as a better gauge of a country's economic performance than GDP. This could be particularly true for the UK which has a very high dependence on foreign investments, and those who work abroad. UK GNI increased by 5% to £2.65 billion in 2023 from £2.52 billion in 2022. Manipulation My posts simply state the facts, more often than not supported by references, with a few of my personal comments. I am not unbiased and am simply trying to present the performance (good and bad), but also highlight success, and achievements in post-Brexit UK. I am not satisfied with the economic progress being made on Brexit, but I am happy with progress under the circumstances. In fact I would say Brexit has gone surprisingly well economically so far given we had to endure May, Johnson, pandemic, war, Truss, Sunak, and Red Sea terrorism. Why Brexit? I spelt out my reasons for supporting Brexit on page 1,232; economic success was not a reason per se. Sovereignty is of primary importance to a nation. The laws of the land should be made and enforced by those who are answerable to the people, held accountable, and removed if they screw up. Success was achieved on the day the UK left the EU when sovereignty returned to parliament; economic success will take longer, and can only come from getting the UK's balance of payments back into equilibrium. That is clearly going to take years, establishing new trading relationships and then business taking advantage of the opportunities created. The UK has dug a very deep hole during our EU membership creating a massive trade deficit, and a huge dependence on the EU for food imports and as our prime customer for exports. It will take time to climb out of that hole. I have posted on trade at length in section A5 of my long post above. UK trade held up in 2023 despite the large drop in energy and related prices and UK exports increased significantly year on year driven by services exports. This is especially pleasing as it was recently announced by UN Conference On Trade & Development that the UK moved up to the 4th highest services exporter in the world in 2022 overtaking France, Netherlands, and Japan. www.export.org.uk/insights/trade-news/uk-becomes-world-s-fourth-largest-exporter-as-services-boom/Stagnation You regard 0.1% growth in 2023 as stagnation. I would say relative to many other countries and given the high interest rates it is a respectable achievement. (I refer you to my long post above on the impact of highest interest rates on the economy when the UK was a member of the EU in section A1, reference 5.) The UK has performed better than many other economies, but consider Poland whose growth was 0.2% in 2023. That has been achieved on the back of receiving over €150 billion since joining the EU in 2004. www.statista.com/statistics/1135294/poland-s-contributions-to-and-receipts-from-the-eu-budget/Consequently Poland has enjoyed remarkable economic growth during the last decade of typically 4% pa increase in GDP. tradingeconomics.com/poland/full-year-gdp-growthPoland hardly noticed the pandemic economically, only experiencing a minor reduction in GDP of 2% in 2020, and its economy quickly recovered to strong growth in 2021 and 2022. Nevertheless the action of the European Central Bank to reduce inflation impacted on Poland, such that it's growth in 2023 was only 0.1% higher than the UK's growth. Much of that EU funding Poland received till 2020 was paid for by British tax payers. Would that the UK's contribution to Poland's economy (and the rest of the EU - see appendix 2 in my long post) been directed to the UK economy, particularly post 2008, by either government spending (less austerity) or lower taxes, depending on your political position. You don’t understand inflation.
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Post by oggyoggy on Apr 13, 2024 10:11:52 GMT
When do the riots you want stopping cease to be protests? Or are you of the opinion that nobody should be able to state their opinions in public if they are against the government of the day? The Sarah Everard vigil springs to mind. It is far more nuanced. The last proper riots in this country were sparked by the police killing Mark Duggan well over a decade ago. Since then there have only been comparatively minor disturbances of the peace at some protests. The police have generally handled them ok, although some not as well as others (Sarah Everard vigil). Good Morning Oggy,hope your'e well. Take the other night in London. Eid was being celebrated which is supposed to be a peaceful celebration.And then all of a sudden things were thrown at the police. Why? Why start throwing objects towards the police. Why the disruption? What was the point? It was supposed to be a celebration. As I said its just my opinion of which some people will disagree with and I'm open to this. That other people see things from a different angle and have valid opoints from which I'll learn from. I don’t know why, but it is hardly a riot. Is the answer to ban Eid celebrations from public spaces? Not in my opinion.
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Post by oggyoggy on Apr 13, 2024 9:03:04 GMT
Gentlemen,we should not be arguing over who is right and who is wrong. We all have different opinions,I have mine and I know some won't agree but that's okay with me. The point is all this rioting must be stopped. People are getting hurt and unfortunately losing their lives. The Government must get a grip to stop all this nonsense. I fear it will end up in civil war as people can only take so much before they snap. And then more people will lose their life or get injured. I feel strongly on the matter but will keep certain views to myself. Have a good day Gents and hopefully 3points for the Potters. When do the riots you want stopping cease to be protests? Or are you of the opinion that nobody should be able to state their opinions in public if they are against the government of the day? The Sarah Everard vigil springs to mind. It is far more nuanced. The last proper riots in this country were sparked by the police killing Mark Duggan well over a decade ago. Since then there have only been comparatively minor disturbances of the peace at some protests. The police have generally handled them ok, although some not as well as others (Sarah Everard vigil).
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Post by oggyoggy on Apr 13, 2024 8:35:35 GMT
Today is a day for strong hearts, strong minds and comradeship where you will die for your team mate on the pitch. What could possibly go wrong 😔 Today is a day for Tony Pulis
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Post by oggyoggy on Apr 13, 2024 8:22:31 GMT
Is anyone else still in complete denial about our predicament? I mean, surely we are not really going to go down! How have we sunk this low?
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Post by oggyoggy on Apr 12, 2024 17:18:00 GMT
But she may not have done anything wrong. Nadeem Zahawi and his father were found to do nothing "deliberatley" wrong despite descending from his grandfather who used to be the governor of the central Bank of Iraq. I'm pretty sure they knew exactly what they were doing. No doubt an investigation will find she also didn't do anything "deliberately" wrong. The thing is I've had family sell a council house and pay capital gains on the profit and as part of the process there are a number of things you have to fill in with your solicitor in relation to whether it was your primary residency and such. Any solicitor worth their weight would have made it clear what it means for it to be your primary residency. If Angela still said it was hers primary residency, when it wasn't despite solicitors advise, then that's on her. Of course though it could have been her primary residency but if it was then why the silence? Why not speak out and make that clear and refute the smears. So I wouldn't be surprised if she did wrong. But just like with Zahawi I'm prepared that any investigation will no doubt find it wasn't deliberate. Working in an area of law where your residency is vital, I can tell you it is one of the most complex areas, with huge amounts of case law. This frequently occurs following the breakdown of relationships and working out the jurisdiction of the habitual residence of a child for example. If similar applies in her circumstances, it will be complicated and a grey area, certainly not black or white. Let’s see if anything comes of it.
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Post by oggyoggy on Apr 12, 2024 12:53:41 GMT
Let's be honest, Rayner is a nasty piece of work and incredibly thick - I think we can all agree on that. I don't mind her tbh. Something quite attractive about the potty mouth and sassiness. With that said she should own her mistakes and put an end to this council house stuff. If she hasn't paid the tax she should have then hold your hands up and rectify it rather than brushing it under the carpet. You can't call others out on their tax affairs and then go into hiding when your own come up. Best way to silence critics is to own up to your mistakes. Doing nothing and shirking responsibility isn't a good luck and Labour will eventually use it against her too nevermind tories. But she may not have done anything wrong.
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Post by oggyoggy on Apr 12, 2024 12:52:24 GMT
HMRC will slap her with the appropriate fine and penalty for any tax she should have paid and did not, and rightly so. Will they go after non-doms like Lord Ashcroft who has secured hundreds of millions of pounds of government contracts (such as with the NHS) and funnels the profits offshore so he need not pay any tax for the massive profits he makes back to the treasury. The priorities are all wrong as he has dodged hundreds of millions of pounds. Far worse than anything Rayner has allegedly done. What are your views on my post you quoted? About the tax payer footing the bill for housing benefit of a former carer who accidentally claimed an extra 30p a week in benefits and was forced to sell his home to repay all benefits paid, became homeless and suicidal as a result, has a criminal record and is now costing us thousands a month? Is that fine in your eyes? Should she resign ? If she is found guilty of committing a criminal offence then yes. If she has not paid enough tax, no, she should apologise, pay what she owes together with penalties and interest and costs etc and move on. Should Hunt resign for his tax affairs? Amazing how Knype and Philteen’s comments on an article about as grave a miscarriage of justice as any of the individual sub post masters found criminally liable by Royal Mail is to bring it back to Angela Rayner’s alleged £2k she owes in tax.
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Post by oggyoggy on Apr 12, 2024 11:12:17 GMT
HMRC will slap her with the appropriate fine and penalty for any tax she should have paid and did not, and rightly so. Will they go after non-doms like Lord Ashcroft who has secured hundreds of millions of pounds of government contracts (such as with the NHS) and funnels the profits offshore so he need not pay any tax for the massive profits he makes back to the treasury. The priorities are all wrong as he has dodged hundreds of millions of pounds. Far worse than anything Rayner has allegedly done. What are your views on my post you quoted? About the tax payer footing the bill for housing benefit of a former carer who accidentally claimed an extra 30p a week in benefits and was forced to sell his home to repay all benefits paid, became homeless and suicidal as a result, has a criminal record and is now costing us thousands a month? Is that fine in your eyes? i was shocked that a deaf heroin addict had the funds to buy the drug. i suppose there could be more to the story if you dig deeper into it without the slant solely being on 30p error.
So your takeaway from it was shock at a heroin addict who is deaf being able to afford drugs. You are utterly heartless.
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Post by oggyoggy on Apr 12, 2024 10:42:53 GMT
Let's be honest, Rayner is a nasty piece of work and incredibly thick - I think we can all agree on that. I disagree about her being incredibly thick. She has risen to the top despite having none of the silver spoons in her mouth of most MPs. I don’t think someone incredibly thick can do that else wouldn’t they all? Whether or not she is a nasty piece of work is a matter of opinion.
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Post by oggyoggy on Apr 12, 2024 9:32:26 GMT
www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/12/carers-allowance-benefit-error-30p-a-week-dwpWhat has our society come to? The government forces a carer, who saves the tax payers hundreds of thousands of pounds by being an unpaid carer, to sell his home for a mistake on a form worth 30p a week. That carer becomes suicidal after being dragged through the courts and is now homeless after being forced to sell his home, so now costs the tax payer £1300 a month in benefits to house him etc as his life has been utterly ruined. Had he been dodging tax using a tax haven he would have been ignored. I have seen on other threads people who typically support the right wing parties and come out in defence of the tories complain about two tier policing of Muslims compared with football fans. What about two tiered treatment of tax dodgers v benefit claimants? One is almost lauded for being clever, the other hounded until they lose everything and try and kill themselves. One is rich, one poor. Anyone dubious of what I am saying should read the above article before responding. It is awful how the tories treat the vulnerable people in this country. In fact I would go as far as to say it is the single worst thing about them as a party. They really are the nasty party. Perhaps Labour will be the same. They certainly protected the vulnerable under Blair - Sure Start as a good example, and look at NHS waiting times compared with under the tories! Angela certainly is by everybody in the labour party except SIR kier ?
HMRC will slap her with the appropriate fine and penalty for any tax she should have paid and did not, and rightly so. Will they go after non-doms like Lord Ashcroft who has secured hundreds of millions of pounds of government contracts (such as with the NHS) and funnels the profits offshore so he need not pay any tax for the massive profits he makes back to the treasury. The priorities are all wrong as he has dodged hundreds of millions of pounds. Far worse than anything Rayner has allegedly done. What are your views on my post you quoted? About the tax payer footing the bill for housing benefit of a former carer who accidentally claimed an extra 30p a week in benefits and was forced to sell his home to repay all benefits paid, became homeless and suicidal as a result, has a criminal record and is now costing us thousands a month? Is that fine in your eyes?
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Post by oggyoggy on Apr 12, 2024 6:20:19 GMT
www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/12/carers-allowance-benefit-error-30p-a-week-dwpWhat has our society come to? The government forces a carer, who saves the tax payers hundreds of thousands of pounds by being an unpaid carer, to sell his home for a mistake on a form worth 30p a week. That carer becomes suicidal after being dragged through the courts and is now homeless after being forced to sell his home, so now costs the tax payer £1300 a month in benefits to house him etc as his life has been utterly ruined. Had he been dodging tax using a tax haven he would have been ignored. I have seen on other threads people who typically support the right wing parties and come out in defence of the tories complain about two tier policing of Muslims compared with football fans. What about two tiered treatment of tax dodgers v benefit claimants? One is almost lauded for being clever, the other hounded until they lose everything and try and kill themselves. One is rich, one poor. Anyone dubious of what I am saying should read the above article before responding. It is awful how the tories treat the vulnerable people in this country. In fact I would go as far as to say it is the single worst thing about them as a party. They really are the nasty party. Perhaps Labour will be the same. They certainly protected the vulnerable under Blair - Sure Start as a good example, and look at NHS waiting times compared with under the tories!
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Post by oggyoggy on Apr 11, 2024 11:41:16 GMT
Because we don’t tax big companies or rich individuals enough. There is plenty of money to solve (at least partially) most of society’s problems, but it is increasingly held by a tiny percentage of individuals. Until we redistribute wealth properly, it will continue to get worse. Rishi Sunak paid a lower average rate of tax than I did in the last 2 tax years. He and his family is many millions (perhaps billions) times richer than me and my family. I have no problem with mega incomes and mega businesses profits so long as they are paying proportionately suitable tax rates so that state schools can be funded to at least be able to afford hot water and the NHS works efficiently and we can nationalise all utilities and have more police officers and more housing and some social care provision. Make the rich pay. They won’t notice other than they will get richer at a slightly slower pace. Labour have said some very good things recently about closing loopholes used by the rich. The proof will be in the pudding though. The sovereign wealth fund of Norway sits at $1.6 trillion or $250k per person because they kept control of their oil. Let’s invade Norway!
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Post by oggyoggy on Apr 11, 2024 10:27:21 GMT
When will it stop? Tesco pre tax profits went from 800 million to over 2 billion. Similar profits been reported by BT, BP, British Gas, HSBC, British Gas and others. Can someone explain why we are in a cost of living crisis with energy, utilities and food at record prices. Yet the companies who have raised all these prices are trebling their profits? Feels more like corporate greed to me. But anyway enough of that chat about the ludicrously wealthy and the big corporations. I'm obviously wrong with my presumptions and I'm sure Jeremt Hunt or Rachel Reeves will be able to correct me and tell me to simply ignore those record profits and get strapped in for austerity so that we can speed up inequality and normalise people being poorer ☺️ Anyone voting labour to "get the tories out" is voting for this type of behaviour too. Personally I'd rather inequality tackled but some seem to find red austerity comforting because it's a nice change of colour from blue austerity. Once we have more austerity though you can't complain because giving labour a vote is you accepting and voting for this. Because we don’t tax big companies or rich individuals enough. There is plenty of money to solve (at least partially) most of society’s problems, but it is increasingly held by a tiny percentage of individuals. Until we redistribute wealth properly, it will continue to get worse. Rishi Sunak paid a lower average rate of tax than I did in the last 2 tax years. He and his family is many millions (perhaps billions) times richer than me and my family. I have no problem with mega incomes and mega businesses profits so long as they are paying proportionately suitable tax rates so that state schools can be funded to at least be able to afford hot water and the NHS works efficiently and we can nationalise all utilities and have more police officers and more housing and some social care provision. Make the rich pay. They won’t notice other than they will get richer at a slightly slower pace. Labour have said some very good things recently about closing loopholes used by the rich. The proof will be in the pudding though.
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Post by oggyoggy on Apr 7, 2024 10:40:25 GMT
You nor anyone else has any information to support that view. She's a target for the Mail because she is an ordinary woman brought up on a council estate. She isn't in the political class and the campaign against her should be a shame on everyone that believes in equality of gender and class. If she was an Etonian born into wealth or a homosexual security risk we would be ushered to move along. It's a pathetic stunt politically motivated to smear her. Show the proof she lied or shut up. . The priorities seem wrong to me.
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Post by oggyoggy on Apr 6, 2024 13:45:42 GMT
Up by a third, despite payouts decreasing. Obviously other factors affect price, but seemingly rates have increased somewhere between 2-5% in countries such as Spain and France. Makes you wonder how they can justify such an increase. I'm not sure "car parts are more expensive now" cuts it. An absolute scam. Greed by the rich and they know they will get away with it because we have a government who prioritises the super wealthy over everyone else. Premiums up a third here, but up just 6% in Italy, 5% in Spain and 2% in France. Hopefully one of the foreign companies realises they can make an absolute fortune here by under cutting the UK opposition. Hopefully Brexit doesn’t make that impossible for them.
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