Hit to households it is then. Its not like him or his pals will feel the difference anyway.
Hmmm…let me guess which one tories will run with…
I’m so glad we didn’t have Chaos with Ed Milliband. Imagine the trouble we’d be in.
It’s a hit to households no matter what.
a) He (somehow) opts to borrow more, to ease the pressure on those struggling. More borrowing = kicking the can down the road and the taxpayer will eventually have to foot the bill for this, which could be in the form of NI hike etc. Any tax hikes are likely to be kicked down the road dangerously close to election time, which might cause the red wall voters to turn on them and potentially cost them an election.
b) He doesn’t borrow the money, households suffer, but the core voters are well insulated anyway so while it might stink for a few weeks nobody is going to care/remember come election time.
Energy prices were going to rise due to lockdown before the Russian invasion. Its pure propaganda to just say energy prices are going up because of Russia.
And i don’t understand why the article is just focused at public sector workers. When there are many private sector workers who earn much less than public sector.
Remember when the banks were in trouble and we borrowed to help them out. Imagine if we did that for the people of this country too.
I think it was Chomsky who said the tactic is to restrict debate to within a narrow spectrum of views and then encourage vigorous debate within that spectrum.
Other possibilities do exist. We’re just collectively too dumb to demand them.
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Hit to households it is then. Its not like him or his pals will feel the difference anyway.
Hmmm…let me guess which one tories will run with…
I’m so glad we didn’t have Chaos with Ed Milliband. Imagine the trouble we’d be in.
It’s a hit to households no matter what.
a) He (somehow) opts to borrow more, to ease the pressure on those struggling. More borrowing = kicking the can down the road and the taxpayer will eventually have to foot the bill for this, which could be in the form of NI hike etc. Any tax hikes are likely to be kicked down the road dangerously close to election time, which might cause the red wall voters to turn on them and potentially cost them an election.
b) He doesn’t borrow the money, households suffer, but the core voters are well insulated anyway so while it might stink for a few weeks nobody is going to care/remember come election time.
Energy prices were going to rise due to lockdown before the Russian invasion. Its pure propaganda to just say energy prices are going up because of Russia.
And i don’t understand why the article is just focused at public sector workers. When there are many private sector workers who earn much less than public sector.
Remember when the banks were in trouble and we borrowed to help them out. Imagine if we did that for the people of this country too.
I think it was Chomsky who said the tactic is to restrict debate to within a narrow spectrum of views and then encourage vigorous debate within that spectrum.
Other possibilities do exist. We’re just collectively too dumb to demand them.