UK Politics (11 Viewers)

[Nicholas]

William Hague foreign secretary hahaha

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[Bjerknes]

Breaking news: Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown takes Chief Market Strategist role at Barclay's Capital precious metals trading desk.

 

[Ford Prefect]

dont worry, there will be a general election soon,either they will get a majority or labour might be able to do something with the lib dems, but i would rather the torries held a majority then what is now going to happen.

 

[mikhail]

I'm not sure it a PR referendum. A lot of places are saying it will be AV.

That'll be a tougher sell. The "breaks the link with the voters" argument SKY and the Tories like so much actually partly applies to it.

Breaking news: Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown takes Chief Market Strategist role at Barclay's Capital precious metals trading desk.

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[Red]

dont worry, there will be a general election soon,either they will get a majority or labour might be able to do something with the lib dems, but i would rather the torries held a majority then what is now going to happen.

It'll be interesting to see how the coalition goes.

They have supposedly tied themselves to it for a fixed period (3 or 4 years depending what you read), so it may be awkward to call an election unless both sides agree to it.

That'll be a tougher sell. The "breaks the link with the voters" argument SKY and the Tories like so much actually partly applies to it.

I like the Additional Member System in Scotland. Nice compromise.

Never in my years of studying electoral systems in Modern Studies at school did I think any of it would actually become relevant.

 

[Boksic]

Breaking news: Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown takes Chief Market Strategist role at Barclay's Capital precious metals trading desk.

 

[mikhail]

They have supposedly tied themselves to it for a fixed period (3 or 4 years depending what you read), so it may be awkward to call an election unless both sides agree to it.

There are a lot of tough decisions ahead of them. I can see the Lib Dems being tempted to break the government a few times. They might resist that, or not.

 

[Red]

It's going to be very interesting to see how things go.


Suggestion is the Tories are already looking at chucking VAT up to 20%.

This comes all of two weeks after they said they had 'no plans' to raise VAT.

 

[Nicholas]

It's going to be very interesting to see how things go.


Suggestion is the Tories are already looking at chucking VAT up to 20%.

This comes all of two weeks after they said they had 'no plans' to raise VAT.

Politicians will say anything to get into power. Liers the lot of them.

 

[The Curr]

What is the current rate of VAT? It's already 21% here.

 

[Nicholas]

What is the current rate of VAT? It's already 21% here.

17.5%

We had it down at 15% last year.

 

[Red]

It's 17.5% here.

Dropped down to 15% for a few months when the government tried to get folk spending money to get the economy moving a bit.

 

[The Curr]

We had it down at 15% last year.

Dropped down to 15% for a few months when the government tried to get folk spending money to get the economy moving a bit.

That didn't work?

 

[Red]

It was only meant to be a temporary thing.

Don't know if it worked.

Saving £2.50 when spending £100 didn't make me spend more.

 

[Nicholas]

That didn't work?

It was only meant to be a temporary thing.

Don't know if it worked.

Saving £2.50 when spending £100 didn't make me spend more.

As Red said, I was not in a hurry to go out and spend and when I did, I did not notice the difference anyway. Should of scrapped VAT all together that would of got people spending.

 

[Boksic]

It's going to be very interesting to see how things go.


Suggestion is the Tories are already looking at chucking VAT up to 20%.

This comes all of two weeks after they said they had 'no plans' to raise VAT.

Is it not that the government are increasing VAT to 20% in order to accommodate the Lib Dems proposal of £10,000 tax free allowance?

 

[Red]

My impression was that the LiB Dem tax policy would be largely covered by the scapping of the Tory IHT plans.

I may be wrong, but I've seen it suggested a VAT rise would be a deficit reduction measure, rather than anything else.

 

[Boksic]

My impression was that the LiB Dem tax policy would be largely covered by the scapping of the Tory IHT plans.

I may be wrong, but I've seen it suggested a VAT rise would be a deficit reduction measure, rather than anything else.

Pretty sure that the tax allowance is being going to be funded by increased VAT and Capital Gains Tax increases

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

Our (T&T) general election is tomorrow. And it's sad how in this age that people are still determining their votes on race, history and alliance. Issues aren't the primary focus.

 

[The Curr]

So, are you going to vote for the whitey?