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Difficult decisions or a disdain for certain populations?
So I keep hearing about difficult decisions and obviously IHT and WFA are two of decisions that Labour have made.
Considering that a 1.2% NI increase has also been received quite badly and this will generate 25bn a year why did Labour reduce WFA (saving 1.4bn a year) and imposed harsh IHT on farmers (saving approx 500mn a year)?
If both of these decisions were instead imposed on NI then the 1.2% increase would have been 1.29% instead.
In my opinion these were quite easy decisions by Labour and they simply wanted to show two groups of the population who historically are not Labour voters who was in charge.
08:34 UTC
Rachel Reeves CV-Gate - Should she resign?
06:22 UTC
Regarding the Southport/Starmer connection
I’ve seen the article about No 10 denying claims of Starmer representing the south port killer’s father, but while trying to argue with my right wing friends I did some digging and Casemine (which is a pretty reliable source of case law in the legal field) has the judgment for the case which lists Starmer as the lead lawyer in the case. If he did represent the father like this suggests why are they denying it instead of arguing that he was simply doing his job as a lawyer and not intimately championing the father or his activities in Rwanda?
https://www.casemine.com/judgement/uk/5a8ff76960d03e7f57eac40a?utm_source=amp&target=amp_jtext
EDIT: as has been pointed out in the comments I’m almost certainly wrong about this post. I’m keeping it up in case others who followed a similar line of thinking find this and see the correct information in the comments but it seems like the case I linked involves an unrelated Rwandan woman and it’s just the initial being the same as the killer’s father causing the confusion.
TLDR: I put my tinfoil hat on too quickly and got caught up without thinking critically… my bad
20:40 UTC
How do I leave the party?
Hi, I'm currently a member looking to cancel my membership. not sure if this has been posted about before but keep me right! am i best just to cancel my direct debit? thanks
19:38 UTC
I’ve found this farming issue really hard to make heads or tails of understanding.
It’s obviously a debate with vested interest from tax-evading cunts like Clarkson, and other scrotes like Tice and Anderson rearing their heads with the protestors immediately rings alarm bells to me.
But it also seems like a lot of things (at least in my limited research from my dumb brain) are quite disputed? Like how much modest/smaller farms actually cost seems difficult to make heads or tails of.
It’s just something that I want to be more informed on, but I find it really hard to discern what disputed parts of the conversation are legitimate or not.
13:48 UTC