Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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Captain Haddock wrote:Yet Starmer admitted yesterday that there had been no 'impact assesment' in spite of the fact that Labour had previously claimed that withdrawing the allowance would lead to an extra 4,000 deaths?
As with Milliband's net-zero policy, they are shooting from the hip without thinking about the inevitable unintended consequences.
In my day, we couldn't go to the toilet without first providing a 50 page economic and social impact assessment. That all went with Brexit; if you don't have an impact assessment for Brexit, what would you have it for?
Keith Sansum1
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Hi Neil
Glad your reading my comments as they are supposed to be .
I won't be bullied into stop posting
of course you know that lol
I wonder Neil , by your comments that you don't agree with your leaders savage cuts on the our pensioners?
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Button
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Itch, itch, scratch, scratch. Lol.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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See he was on the news yesterday.
Neil , are you aware of what other bad news and cuts are coming our way, warned by your leader recently ?
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Captain Haddock
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Keith Sansum1 wrote:See he was on the news yesterday.
And I always thought socialists viewed the world through rose-tinted glasses - not gold-plated ones!
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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There will be tax rises next, I'd have thought. I don't see cuts in services. Indeed, it's Tory voters who normal run for the hills with tax rises, many other people accept that you need to invest in public services. Labour will push the unions for reform where it is needed mind you - it won't be a free for all.
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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I wouldn't anticipate tax rises in income tax or NI of course, it will be the high end stuff.
Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
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Think the pensioners will take another hit- single person council tax discount and fuel duty will rise again. Strangely most pensioners are buying their own clothes- and we still manage to look presentable
Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
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Not sure what happened to the remainder of my post…….
After years of saving and being prudent many of us face being hit with inheritance tax. Many of my friends are looking for cost effective ways to pass on their money and seeking advice from accountants and tax advisors. I believe that I have the right to spend my hard earned money as I please. I’m still paying a lot of tax.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Arthur wrote: Strangely most pensioners are buying their own clothes- and we still manage to look presentable
Speak for yourself Arthur!
meanwhile Keir Starmer has declared more free tickets and gifts than other major party leaders in recent times, with his total now topping £100,000 after recent support for his lifestyle from Labour donor Waheed Alli.
“To accept tickets for one Taylor Swift concert, Mrs. Starmer, may be regarded as a misfortune; to accept for two seperate concerts looks like carelessness.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/sep/18/keir-starmer-100000-in-tickets-and-gifts-more-than-any-other-recent-party-leader
(Disclosure - all my spectacles are by Cutler and Gross. My daughter got a 70% discount on the frames and Specsavers put the lenses in! #Winning )
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Weird Granny Slater
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If you're over 28 and still paying for your own work clothing, glasses, theatre and football tickets, consider yourself a failure.
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregmem/contents2425.htm
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
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Pensioners are such an easy target simply because we can not strike and hold the country to ransom.
Seems the so called black hole is not that deep after all if the recent pay offers to train drivers and doctors are anything to go by.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Neil
It appears your leader is using a view that to settle strikes .
Junior Doctors , train drivers .
Rather than have them out on strike which is costly
Settling strikes is the cheaper option.
Not so sure reforms that Labour wants are going to come so easily Neil
Most of these strikes have been resolved because of no reforms
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Starmer Scroungers 12 : 1 Tapp Wanderers
Well, last season, Geoff, it was men against boys, with Starmer out of the blocks early doors and no holds barred. This year I don't see Tapp making much of a go of it; don't get me wrong, he's a fresh-faced kid and a breath of fresh air and all that, but he doesn't know the game and he's a little unsettled right now. He's a learner, though, and he'll catch up.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Oh dear. How embarassing.
"Numbers Don't Add Up" | Labour MP SKEWERED Over Net Zero By Julia Hartley-Brewer
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Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
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Completely out of his depth! Has to fall back on the same old tired phrases! Wonder what freebies he has enjoyed?
Button- Location: Dover
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Arthur wrote:Wonder what freebies he has enjoyed?
Funny you should say that..!
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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He's blocking people that disagree with him .
Suppose that's learning fast lol
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Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
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That’s a very democratic attitude from our newly elected MP! He’s certainly got a lot of learning to do………did he assume that the electorate would blindly follow his leader ?
I compared notes with a friend who had also emailed home regarding the winter fuel payments- we both had the exactly the same reply ( presumably written by head office). Assume my friend is one of those who is also blocked after their reaction
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Yup. He blocked me on Twitter and Facebooki yonks ago so I'm forced to e-mail him helpful hints e.g. -
[I]Hi Mike,
Top Tip - Avoid JHB.
She's taking the piss and everyone in town is laughing at you.
"Numbers Don't Add Up" | Labour MP SKEWERED Over Net Zero By Julia Hartley-Brewer
Best wishes
Bob F
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Sep 23, 2024, 8:12 PM
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