Labour policies

[albie]

In a box;
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EEQQznQXsAUNcEL.jpg

If we are going to have a discussion with a GE coming up, best to know what is on offer.
Conference next week could make changes for the new manifesto.

[bpoolrover]

Some good things and some not so good, they just need a decent leader to try and implement them

[Bentley Bullet]

Skills-based immigration system? There will be one or two lefties on here against that!...........................................Unless, of course, they have changed their minds like good old socialists tend to do!

[Herbert Anchovy]

Skills-based immigration system? There will be one or two lefties on here against that!...........................................Unless, of course, they have changed their minds like good old socialists tend to do!

All sides of the political spectrum change their mind BB. Didn’t Boris Johnson recently ‘change his mind’ about closing Parliament?

[Bentley Bullet]

Indeed Herbert. I know politicians change their minds, the difference being when it's a Tory he's called a liar!

[albie]

Tax policies in a box;
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EEU4OD4VUAA6FPK.jpg

Looks good to me.
Private schools to pay their way as well;
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EEU4NiGU0AkergE.jpg

Good of the Telegraph to big up such a popular policy.

[bpoolrover]

A 4 day week sounds good unless your admitted to hospital on a Friday as you will be there till at least monday

[Ldr]

A 4 day week sounds good unless your admitted to hospital on a Friday as you will be there till at least monday

yeah because none of us work weekends, prat

[bpoolrover]

Do you not find that if you go in hospital on a Saturday you don’t come out till Monday? Unless very serious does a doctor even see you at a weekend most of my family work or have worked in the Nhs I’m not sure what you find offensive about it you Pratt

[bpoolrover]

https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrJS9QV5ntdI08AAip0g81Q;_ylu=X3oDMTByZzJoOXByBGNvbG8DaXIyBHBvcwM0BHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzcg--/RV=2/RE=1568429718/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fhealthydebate.ca%2f2013%2f08%2ftopic%2fquality%2ffewer-hospital-staff-on-weekends-puts-some-patients-at-risk/RK=2/RS=bWoJXcb.2sxlBe6ColLn_Dbtxj0- The article is out dated but it has been the same where there is far less at a weekend for at least 40 years,I’m sorry if you took offence as none was meant

[idler]

In the last couple of years I have had X-Rays and an MRI scan on a Sunday at Bradford Royal Infirmary. That would have been unheard of a few years ago so I think a lot of jobs and appointments are now being attended to on a week-end.

[bpoolrover]

That’s good idler hope all went well

[Sprotyrover]

Orgreave enquiry, that’ll be a nice money spinner,where to start, I doubt there is even a roster of the Police officers on duty that day. Hillsboro was a totally different kettle of fish there was a duty roster and it was preserved from day one.ialso wonder why the last labour government didn’t do something when they were in power for 13 years.

[Sprotyrover]

Recognise the State of Palestine! Then what do we do. Declare war on Israel?

[Sprotyrover]

20% tax on private health insurance,I reckon most folks will cancel theirs. And put more street on the NHS. I know I will.

[Sprotyrover]

Re privatising rail travel goof idea but cost £50. + Billion.

[Sprotyrover]

But British policy.. dead in the water as Labour will keep us in the EEC and Labour won’t have a say in it.

[Sprotyrover]

Tax laws:90% of all UK tax revenue comes from 10 % of the workforce....I would be very careful who I upset in relation to tax and taxation.you don’t shoot the Golden goose and cook it!

[BillyStubbsTears]

Tax laws:90% of all UK tax revenue comes from 10 % of the workforce....I would be very careful who I upset in relation to tax and taxation.you don’t shoot the Golden goose and cook it!

Sproty.

That's so incorrect, it's hard to know where to start. You regularly hear that sort of shite trotted out by right wing politicians and here you are repeating it.

The richest 10% pay about 55% of all income tax. But income tax is only 25% of all the tax the Govt takes.

[DonnyOsmond]

Recognise the State of Palestine! Then what do we do. Declare war on Israel?

The Palestinians were there before WW2. I don't see the issue with the West Bank being Palestine?

[bpoolrover]

Tax laws:90% of all UK tax revenue comes from 10 % of the workforce....I would be very careful who I upset in relation to tax and taxation.you don’t shoot the Golden goose and cook it!

Sproty.

That's so incorrect, it's hard to know where to start. You regularly hear that sort of shite trotted out by right wing politicians and here you are repeating it.

The richest 10% pay about 55% of all income tax. But income tax is only 25% of all the tax the Govt takes.

the top 1 percent pay around 10 percent the top 10 percent around 30 percent I believe, but it’s still a lot and if you try tax them to much I doubt you will achieve the result you wanted

[RedJ]

Tax laws:90% of all UK tax revenue comes from 10 % of the workforce....I would be very careful who I upset in relation to tax and taxation.you don’t shoot the Golden goose and cook it!

Sproty.

That's so incorrect, it's hard to know where to start. You regularly hear that sort of shite trotted out by right wing politicians and here you are repeating it.

The richest 10% pay about 55% of all income tax. But income tax is only 25% of all the tax the Govt takes.

the top 1 percent pay around 10 percent the top 10 percent around 30 percent I believe, but it’s still a lot and if you try tax them to much I doubt you will achieve the result you wanted

Why's that then?

[Sprotyrover]

Recognise the State of Palestine! Then what do we do. Declare war on Israel?

The Palestinians were there before WW2. I don't see the issue with the West Bank being Palestine?

I suppose it just boils down to what Jeremy Corbin views as the state of Palestine, I suspect it's is the entire state of Israel .
It's a complex problem that won't be resolved on the Board, but I doubt you will ever see the West Bank back in Palestinian control.

[SydneyRover]

The government has to raise taxes from somewhere to run schools, hospitals, police, armed services etc.

''Inheritance tax would be scrapped by the Brexit party – good news for the very rich

A minuscule number of wealthy people would benefit from such a move. Everyone else would be hit by higher taxes

There are bad ideas, really bad ideas, and there’s abolishing inheritance tax. This is the new top priority announced by the Brexit party – one of only two policies it has beyond Brexit.

Scrapping inheritance tax is a very expensive pledge: it raised £5.3bn for the Treasury last year. And it’s particularly expensive when there’s a political consensus that we need to spend more – earlier this month a Conservative government set out proposals to increase the size of the state, at the price of binning their fiscal rules''

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/16/scrapping-inheritance-tax-wealthy-brexit-party

[drfchound]

The government has to raise taxes from somewhere to run schools, hospitals, police, armed services etc.

''Inheritance tax would be scrapped by the Brexit party – good news for the very rich

A minuscule number of wealthy people would benefit from such a move. Everyone else would be hit by higher taxes

There are bad ideas, really bad ideas, and there’s abolishing inheritance tax. This is the new top priority announced by the Brexit party – one of only two policies it has beyond Brexit.

Scrapping inheritance tax is a very expensive pledge: it raised £5.3bn for the Treasury last year. And it’s particularly expensive when there’s a political consensus that we need to spend more – earlier this month a Conservative government set out proposals to increase the size of the state, at the price of binning their fiscal rules''

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/16/scrapping-inheritance-tax-wealthy-brexit-party

You don’t have to be VERY rich to have to pay inheritance tax.

[glosterred]

Like any political parties policies/promises they aren’t worth the paper they are printed on.

[SydneyRover]

The current allowance whereby no inheritance tax is charged is on the first £325,000 (per person) of someone's estate – which is the value of their total assets they leave behind when they die. Couples can leave a home worth £650,000 without it attracting inheritance tax (singles £325,000).

Anything over this limit is subject to a 40% tax bill.Oct 24, 2014

Presently, anyone making a gift through outright transfers of values of assets, has to survive a period of at least seven years for that gift to remain free of inheritance tax. Any gifts that are made during that period are known as 'potentially exempt transfers' (PETs).Oct 28, 2015

[Ldr]

Everyone should pay the same % tax on everything

[SydneyRover]

Everyone should pay the same % tax on everything

Then your going to have to get people to pay a higher %age of their earnings in tax or cut services. This type of taxation would meant that their is no threshhold so you would pay tax from the first pound you earn.

[Ldr]

Exactly, chances of ppl accepting it 0% since everyone on here wants others to pay for everything