Correct decision but oh what a fcking omnishambles his new lot are.
Thatâs only 42 billion of unfunded tax cuts left then 
I sincerely beleive the only people who think this will take political pressure off are the Tories, loons.
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I think theyâve done it so when they deliver a real terms cut to benefits they donât get asked the question is it fair that the poorest people are paying for tax cuts for the richest to which they have no answer. Even the Tories know that politically it wonât wash.
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I find the pound bouncing back due to the 45p band being kept doesnât sit right. The amount of money involved was relatively small. I would love to know what bets the âchosenâ financial people (Odey in particular) made just before the U-turn was announced, Iâd be shocked if they didnât cash out their bets against the pound and make bets on it just before. It all stinks.
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Astute observation
I will fucking love it if the Tory party splits into two. Love it.
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The only way that might happen is after a losing General Election
While they are still in Government they would lose their first born before losing power
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Witch hunt now under way to find a scapegoat for the 45p policy
Front runners are Chris Philp, the chief secretary to the Treasury and Andrew Griffith, who was Boris Johnsonâs policy chief and is now financial secretary to the Treasury.
In the meantime, our push for green energy is world leadingâŚ
Out of sight, out of mind.
My money is on Philp getting booted very soon
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I wonder how much you have to donate to the Tory party to secure a peerage? Iâve got ÂŁ6 in old shape pound coins that I could donate.
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Arise Sir Hermit
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Except the rich still benefit more than the poor, it doesnât even answer that point in full.
Ha, money grubbing cunts telling porkies. So easy to confuse saw dust with whole logs!
Drax owned by the Germans if I have followed the trail correctly in
The 45p tax rate U-turn is a distraction - its effect will be trivial compared to the budget as a whole, it may even have been included as a âsacrificial lambâ - thrown to the wolves so the wavering-faithful can turn-round and say âLook what capable and compassionate leaders we have!â while they continue to dry-buttfuck all of the rest of us. Collective attention-spans are so short now, most people can be relied-upon to lose interest now and just accept the new status-quo, while the tories crack on behind the scenes privatising the NHS, neglecting services and infrastructure, concentrating wealth in the 1%, and promoting poverty everywhere else.
The incompetence and ineptitude thing is a distraction - sure Thick Lizzy and Special-K have weird personalities, but politics isnât a beauty contest, and demonstrably not a talent show - they are front-men for the likes of the ERG, Centre for Policy Studies, Cornerstone Group - theyâre not remotely interested in whatâs good for Britain, theyâre interested in whatâs good for party donors, lobby-groups, and the business interests of themselves, their families and their friends.
Politics is not a career-choice for people who are Actually Good At Things (those people can make a lot more money for a lot less grief elsewhere), itâs a career choice for big egos and minor talents with Humanities degrees from the right universities. They do their thing, they make their contacts, they line-up their token directorships, they fuck the country over according to whatever dogmatic agenda inoculated them, and then they fuck-off - completely unaccountable for all the harm they may have done, to an easy life of cash for fuck-all and self-justifying tours of various lecture circuits.
tl;dr - âSystemâs Broken / Heads on Polesâ
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