danny.

Not sure calling people facists helps either. The amount of people on social media now that call everyone they don’t agree with facists and Nazis is crazy, and all it’s done is devalue the words.

Nah that’s just your own personal bias against me Trav

I think any reasonably minded person would agree that all humans are humans, from any part of the political spectrum. You obviously don’t mean this in its face value terms though, ie you’re equating someone being against certain political policies or worldviews as not seeing people as human. I can understand that viewpoint but it’s a massively oversimplified version of things designed to illicit an emotional reaction and frame someone as bad if they don’t agree with a claim. We’ve seen this over and over with Middle Eastern conflicts, religions and welfare and forms of migration amongst other topics.

The way you’ve framed that with obvious loaded language and bias is trademark left. It’s obviously disingenuous to redact complex situations to a good/bad binary, feels like a false equivalence fallacy no doubt born from an ideological worldview.

Sure. In that niche tightly focused example of local businesses that sell kids toys (any even left these days!?) they could benefit, but would also be hit with increase in corporation tax, NI, income tax and dividends tax… Feels mainly left to me, maybe 60/20/20 left/centre/right. But it’s so hard to objectively analyse things like this as a human. Also the window has shifted so much someone that was left 20 years ago is labelled far right now.

You could apply all that to tax cuts to individuals too. I was very against austerity too, wasn’t a good move for the country. But then tax rises without benefit to working people as a trade off have the same effect as austerity, disposable income goes down, businesses suffer, they make layoffs and close, people then have no business or job, disposable income goes down, repeat.

The other downside to it is destroying the economy. There wouldn’t be any gain to the economy because the local businesses you mentioned would have any additional revenue wiped out by gigantic tax hikes needed to fund that. Without a magic money tree the argument that endless welfare boosts the economy makes no sense.

Not sure it would make any difference, what’s the relation between immigrants and the English Channel?

Using that logic we might as well just pay everyone £2k a month welfare as It’s good for the economy.

I don’t really know what you mean by concentrate on one side of that choice. She’d have had head room of over £6bn without just that one policy. I haven’t gone into child poverty in my posts recently on here as it’s not something I know a lot about, I don’t have children, and I’m not in political power. I’m sorry if you feel like I’m not debating honestly, happy to try and clarify or amend whatever I have said is dishonest? I don’t agree taxes are low in this country, I pay a lot of tax each year in return for very little, but anecdotally aside we also have the highest tax burden as a country since WW2, so not sure anyone would reasonably say we have low taxes.

Never had a bad meal at Anatolia on Allendale Road

Headroom and spending choices go hand in hand

We should definitely invest in flood defences. As much as the U.K. doesn’t like to invest in things.

Gotta keep up those esoteric verbose circumlocutory vocabulary numbers

It’s perceived value for those taxes too. And we have quite a lot of inequality in the U.K. in terms of paying in/value out ratio.

Didn’t have to be that low. She didn’t have to change policy to pay for people’s 7th and 8th children. These are choices, and choices that she increases tax on working people to pay for.

Works for Zelenskyy!

Do you live in a high-rise flat yourself, and happy there? You can't compare cultures though. I saw a documentary on social housing flats in Austria and it looked like a 5 star hotel with a pool and social clubs etc, looked amazing. Bring the exact same building to the UK and people would be using the pool as a toilet and playing drub and bass until 5am weekdays. I've lived in enough flats in the UK myself to understand why no one wants to live in a flat in the UK.

New signing?

This is all set up for a 98th minute Skipp bicycle kick 4-3 winner

All down to Skipp at CB, if he'd started the game we'd have won 6-0

He's weirdly done ok at CB 🤣

That's the frustrating thing with him, sometime he'll play like a UCL player for 30 minutes, and the next game back to a league 2 player for the 90.

and people said he was too short to play CB, I'd love to see a 6'4" player manage that magnificent diving chest

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