As I’m a feeble-bodied and feebler-minded OAP I don’t get much and earn very little of that. But I’m still happy that the daft duty changes designed to force us all to switch from red wine to Prosecco have been at least postponed. Good news, everyone!
Being forced to switch from red to prosecco is a fate worse than death.
I think you’ve got your limbs mixed up with your lambsI went from red to Limbrini, two bottles-one to drink on the way home, one for when I get there. What's the prognosis?
Yeah, after all, why do you choose to be poor when you can be as rich as you like? Life choices.So they've reversed the social care NI increase that benefitted anyone in need, and those most likely to need the care, earning under 12k, see nothing.
Seems fair.
Waiting for the official prog from Paul but I understand that the eyesight is often the first to go. Not looking good then.I think you’ve got your limbs mixed up with your lambs
The scary bit in that article is how Truss and Kwarteng have been groomed from early in their political careers by those behind the IEA. I checked out the IEA website, and an image of Charles Moore appeared on the front page. That’s all I needed to knowLinked to this, a very sharp piece by George Monbiot including a section on how what we might call "trickle down ideology" works.
Has Liz Truss handed power over to the extreme neoliberal thinktanks? | George Monbiot | The Guardian
In short, Tory friendly press barons will do all they can to ensure those not benefiting from the tax cuts will come to see them as a good thing - tax cuts from which, of course, the press barons and their shareholders will definitely benefit. And the BBC will, of course, have to remain neutral, or else!
Yeah, after all, why do you choose to be poor when you can be as rich as you like? Life choices.
Once you start looking, the IEA is linked to every bad political turn in the last decade. My MP is co-chair of the Free Market Forum, an IEA offshoot. Its advisory council includes Matthew Elliot (former head of the Taxpayers Alliance, and Vote Leave, and head of 2011's NoToAV campaign), and Lord Borwick (whose son worked for Cambridge Analytica and was Chief Technology Officer of Vote Leave).The scary bit in that article is how Truss and Kwarteng have been groomed from early in their political careers by those behind the IEA. I checked out the IEA website, and an image of Charles Moore appeared on the front page. That’s all I needed to know
The last four decades. Thatcher was thick as thieves with the IEA goons.Once you start looking, the IEA is linked to every bad political turn in the last decade. My MP is co-chair of the Free Market Forum, an IEA offshoot. Its advisory council includes Matthew Elliot (former head of the Taxpayers Alliance, and Vote Leave, and head of 2011's NoToAV campaign), and Lord Borwick (whose son worked for Cambridge Analytica and was Chief Technology Officer of Vote Leave).
A very small group of highly ideological people has effectively taken over the Conservatives, and we don't know who has funded them. So much for democracy.
It’s the Tories Unchained. They are past their sell by date by the usual metrics so why not go for the nuclear option. In political terms it’s rational but hasn’t enough time to have an effect. In other words a disaster.