CornwallFox

If the business you work for operated in an environment where ordinary people had money and/or the government was injecting additional funds into the economy to rebuild our nation, then the tax level would be less important, because there'd be more liquidity in the economy, there'd be more opportunity to make money, more reason to invest. You can cut taxes as much as you want but nobody has any money to spend in the first place. And government spending, which underpins the entire economy, has been held back year after year. No business is going to invest without orders, whatever the tax rate. Tax cuts for businesses in the UK have not produced the investment or growth claimed when tried before. Here's an article on this very thing. https://www.ippr.org/articles/cutting-corporation-tax-not-magic-bullet-for-increasing-investment

Indeed, taxation has gone up. Good article here: https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/06/27/uk-workers-tax-wedge-infographics/ Thing is, we've hugely reduced taxes on the rich over the years and had to recoup it elsewhere. The public sector is in pieces after years of cuts, there is nothing more to cut except services, as reform have found out in local government where they've been cutting local services and still having to raise taxes. Cost of living is the biggest political issue of our time and the reason why focus is on immigrants, benefits etc is because nobody working has any money and sees those other things as unfair. They weren't such big issues before cost of living hugely increased, and really the economy never recovered from 2008 as it was stifled by austerity at every turn. The choices are either blame foreigners and benefit recipients, cut both them discover they weren't the issue . Or spend some money as a government, get British businesses creating for the British people, fund them to invest. By actually turning on the taps for the first time in a generation.

There's also something lesser spoken about: the rise of self employment. The self employed are often tradesmen who made their way in their chosen craft before launching themselves. As business people though, although they see themselves as working class, they don't vote for anything the working class traditionally voted for. They don't like minimum wage rises, employment rights etc. They like less tax on business. They actually vote against the working class at every turn. They apparently hate graduates. Graduates now often earn less, have huge debt, careers like teaching just don't pay, many highly qualified individuals go to the public sector where they are treated and talked about not much better than dirt. But they are actually the struggling strivers now, who still vote for wage rises, business taxes etc, but are somehow considered the middle class. And, of course, the more self employed you have, the less tax revenue as they use every possible way of getting around paying tax. But with the numbers involved now that has a serious impact on what other tax rates need to be.

Since Harold Wilson, taxes on employees were at their lowest under Sunak, and their second lowest under Starmar. Cost of living is way too high. That's the issue. Prices won't come down, but they need to stabilise and then wages grow. But obviously any time the minimum wage is raised we get nashing of teeth on the right. Well how else do you propose cost of living is dealt with? Tax employees less, okay, so who do you want to tax more to make up the shortfall?

Just saw some sky adverts. Ten years ago today we lifted the premier League trophy.

Years ago they did a fan's match that was free with old players being the managers of the two teams. That was better than this.

Is this just because migrants are disproportionately in low paying jobs which the welfare state subsidises? The problem is low wages.

Error in climate related measurements..... Things are even worse than was thought re vehicle related CO2 emissions Climate scientist finds large errors in a global climate pollution database https://share.google/LAiZCav9eZWB2GIAd

Had never heard of Doechii until today but wow

Needs to be an up and coming manager like MON was at the time. somebody just ready to manage the team that will be their breakthrough

Yes, yes and yes please

Just need to make sure we keep some u18s in the squad and a betting firm paying us so we can keep buying the sponsor free kit.

They see situations blown up by the media who then lie about what's being done. You might be right about calling out the electorate but something needs to be done regarding misinformation on social media and the actual media. I don't mean random shouting about bias, I mean things like Nigel farage owning a share of GB news, who then gone him his own platform and spread actual lies about what's happening.

One might point out that Norway is only one of the Scandinavian countries. Other Scandinavian countries exist that have pretty much phased out fossil fuels. Though tbh, I wouldn't even bother when the debate is with somebody that doesn't debate honestly. Hence why I blocked him a while ago.

Happiest countries on earth are the Scandinavian countries. In general policies that are similar to what Corbyn and now the greens suggest. Notably less national debt, better health, more equal societies, happier populations. Smaller GDPs, less multinationals, less of those billionaires that supposedly hold our country together, yet ordinary people have less reasons to be unhappy.

The difference is that reform policies are BNP policies. Green party policies are pretty much Norwegian policies.

His right hand man? Is he the one that strokes Yaxley-Lennon's ego? He is a massive 🍆 after all

Lack of any striking threat throughout the season is what has done for us. And most the season being pushovers at the back too.

The left doesn't think all businesses are extracting huge wealth. That's where you're going wrong in trying to understand the left. The left thinks that huge wealth is being extracted by very small numbers of people. Huge wealth. Unimaginable sums that are large enough to effect economies. There's a reason why tax rates have increased despite spending cuts - what money there is had been squirreled away by the super rich who don't wish by the same economic roles as you or I. Unless something is done about this tax rates for individuals or businesses won't get much better.

Absolutely have to play the young lad up front that's scored a decent number in the youth set up instead of dumb or dumber

Tbh para the pension isn't enough, although let's remember pension credit exists as a top up for those in need. I think the issue is that many working age people that are struggling see the pensioner cohort - again, not all pensioners, but the average pensioner - vote against the interest of workers and young people again and again and again and again. So when it comes to the issue of generational fairness there isn't much good will left. If pensioners voted to make all ordinary people better off, then this wouldn't be an issue.

Whoever invented the latest ready meal covers that absolutely will not come off and just rip around the edges

Didn't realise that one of the many things not declared by Farage is that he has a stake in the parent company of GB News. Utterly stinks.

It's not a problem. The headline figures given are always the maximum theoretical value if every public sector official retired together and survived at the same time, rather than a realistic annual cost. Public sector pensions have been through multiple rounds of changes during the Tory years. None of them offer what you get told when the papers focus on the old schemes, not the new. They are no longer final salary, they require much more being paid in, the only positive is they are better linked to actual guaranteed changes in cost of living than private schemes that rely on investment returns. So public servants can pay up to 12% of their wages in, much more than private sector workers generally do. And got a much smaller return than previous schemes. Public sector workers accept paying more in but getting a better return on what goes in, in return for accepting much lower wages per skills, experience and qualifications. And the pay they do get is subject to having to work in a post for 5 years before getting paid the going rate. It's often said they get pay rises annually by moving through their pay grades, actually the pay grades exist to hold down their wages until they get the proper rate after five years, it's a cost saving. I am a public sector worker, within a commercial industry, bit hard to explain. I could get paid quite a lot more in the private sector. But I want to feel like my efforts are actually to help the country, not somebody's bottom line. And I accept lower wages on the basis that the pension return is still pretty good, even though I pay in a big chunk of wages. If you cut the pension schemes further, you're going to have to pay a lot more out in wages, which I suspect would actually cost more per year as that is to a huge living cohort of staff, rather than to pensioners whose time receiving a pension is more limited. Also, why do we consistently have to punch down? Why do we attack the public sector pay and pensions, benefit recipients etc, and never want to attack those extracting all the value from the economy? Why don't we fight for better pensions the private sector, rather than trying to drag everybody down? I can never understand the mindset of right wing supporters that are ordinary people.

In the accounts it talked about something like £120m that the club hasn't drawn down from KP, available should it be needed.