I’ve emailed my MP twice over two weeks to ask WHY they all voted against it.
No reply….
“This is absolutely not a windfall tax. It is a temporary energy market profit levy.”
So that’s the latest U-turn to agree that it is in fact the right policy. So if I vote labour I know I’ll get the right policy, but five months earlier? Thanks for the clarity. Seems like the only way we actually get good governance out of these fools is by exposing scandals so they’re forced to announce good things to try and cover them up. 🙄
No you don’t get it, uh labour are communists !
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What’s happened is the government has done a deal with oil companies months ago seeing that this was coming
People have been suggesting the crazy notion that large companies are taxed proportional to their profits for centuries…
Rachel Reeves is an absolute snake.
Was one of the excuses “we need to wait for the Sue Grey report?”
I guess it’s not quite the same plan Keir Starmer wanted – am I right?
Nothing will make our economy better than stealing business profits.
Wish there was a party I could vote for who were fiscally Conservative.
Good ploy. When opposing party proposes sommat popular just stall and bog it down until voters forget whose idea it was. Then propose it under ye own banner with token modifications.
Brilliant
Ah Rachel ‘party of business’ reeves. If she’s got a point you know it’s bad.
Theft isn’t moral. No matter the reason.
If you want to address what you feel is unfairness, it’s not retroactively. It’s proactively. Change the tax structure to incentivise more robust competition, instead of current policy that empowers anti-captialist cronyism between business and state.
But that will never happen because it doesn’t help the people y’all keep electing to “represent” you. Wake. The. Fuck. Up.
The reason the Tories didn’t want to do a windfall tax was solely not to help the not so well off, by helping the not so well off would mean the rich that have shares in oil & gas would mean a cut in there profits that they are making from the people who are struggling to pay there bills. If that Sue Gray report hadn’t hit Boris & Co where it hurts, the Tories wouldn’t of done a thing with a windfall Tax and just carried on as usual, taking the piss out of the ordinary people and putting profits first for the already rich shareholders, ie families & friends.
“Businesses not welcome here” is what it should be called. You’ll all be moaning about unemployment 6 months from now, blaming the government again because of course there responsible for everything that happens in your life.
Yeah, they held it back so they could present it as a win when they needed more political capital.
Now it’s revealed that the political capital was saved at the expensive of millions of tax payers for the purpose of… *checks notes* Helping our ape, proto-fascist, liar of a PM keep his job after he’s caught breaking the law while occupying the highest office in the land.
Perhaps we should instigate a period of unprecedented Anglo-French relations so we can borrow their guillotines for a bit…
They also called for longer and harsher lockdowns that would have put us in a far worse position than we are now, especially had they got their way and locked down over the 2021 Xmas period and into the new year… and any cunt who agreed with it deserves to suffer during this ‘crisis’
Fuck the Tories and fuck the cunts who vote for them. I hope whoever voted for them is suffering. It’s all your fault! Also fuck the Brexit voters. Fucking clowns the lot of you!
If I recall correctly, the Libs Dems also put forward a suggestion for a windfall tax months ago only for the conservatives to shoot them down as well.
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It baffles me that Labour can’t think bigger. They knew perfectly well the Torys would u-turn on this, so why weren’t they demanding wage and benefit increases, price freezes and much more? All they can do now is cry and moan that they had the “idea” while the Torys outflank them to the left (again).
And what exactly is your connection to the labour party?
I posted a comment about OP’s obvious party political leanings based on their posting history. Mods removed it, proving their bias.
About time them clowns in Westminster stopped either the he said she said. We said mentality and started working together instead of just arguing like a bunch of kids
All political parties are crap. Watch Labour get into power and fuck the public over like the tories.
I wonder what popular policy we will be getting the next time Boris fucks up
I agree with the windfall tax, but lets stop with the petty point scoring politics
Lets worry about solutions to move further forward, not who came up with ideas first
Initially proposed by Dale Vince from Ecotriciry, just for clarity
I emailed my local MP (Hi Nick if you’re reading) asking why he voted against a windfall tax a couple of weeks ago. I got a reply for once, explaining how a windfall tax could impact the oil industry in the north sea and could be detrimental to the energy industry in the UK.
Time for another email asking why the backtracking.
If the Tories can pinch your policy without blinking, maybe it’s not sufficiently effective enough? The windfall tax patter is pure single-event, light-touch nonsense.
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I’ve emailed my MP twice over two weeks to ask WHY they all voted against it.
No reply….
“This is absolutely not a windfall tax. It is a temporary energy market profit levy.”
So that’s the latest U-turn to agree that it is in fact the right policy. So if I vote labour I know I’ll get the right policy, but five months earlier? Thanks for the clarity. Seems like the only way we actually get good governance out of these fools is by exposing scandals so they’re forced to announce good things to try and cover them up. 🙄
No you don’t get it, uh labour are communists !
/s
What’s happened is the government has done a deal with oil companies months ago seeing that this was coming
People have been suggesting the crazy notion that large companies are taxed proportional to their profits for centuries…
Rachel Reeves is an absolute snake.
Was one of the excuses “we need to wait for the Sue Grey report?”
I guess it’s not quite the same plan Keir Starmer wanted – am I right?
Nothing will make our economy better than stealing business profits.
Wish there was a party I could vote for who were fiscally Conservative.
Good ploy. When opposing party proposes sommat popular just stall and bog it down until voters forget whose idea it was. Then propose it under ye own banner with token modifications.
Brilliant
Ah Rachel ‘party of business’ reeves. If she’s got a point you know it’s bad.
Theft isn’t moral. No matter the reason.
If you want to address what you feel is unfairness, it’s not retroactively. It’s proactively. Change the tax structure to incentivise more robust competition, instead of current policy that empowers anti-captialist cronyism between business and state.
But that will never happen because it doesn’t help the people y’all keep electing to “represent” you. Wake. The. Fuck. Up.
The reason the Tories didn’t want to do a windfall tax was solely not to help the not so well off, by helping the not so well off would mean the rich that have shares in oil & gas would mean a cut in there profits that they are making from the people who are struggling to pay there bills. If that Sue Gray report hadn’t hit Boris & Co where it hurts, the Tories wouldn’t of done a thing with a windfall Tax and just carried on as usual, taking the piss out of the ordinary people and putting profits first for the already rich shareholders, ie families & friends.
“Businesses not welcome here” is what it should be called. You’ll all be moaning about unemployment 6 months from now, blaming the government again because of course there responsible for everything that happens in your life.
Yeah, they held it back so they could present it as a win when they needed more political capital.
Now it’s revealed that the political capital was saved at the expensive of millions of tax payers for the purpose of… *checks notes* Helping our ape, proto-fascist, liar of a PM keep his job after he’s caught breaking the law while occupying the highest office in the land.
Perhaps we should instigate a period of unprecedented Anglo-French relations so we can borrow their guillotines for a bit…
They also called for longer and harsher lockdowns that would have put us in a far worse position than we are now, especially had they got their way and locked down over the 2021 Xmas period and into the new year… and any cunt who agreed with it deserves to suffer during this ‘crisis’
Fuck the Tories and fuck the cunts who vote for them. I hope whoever voted for them is suffering. It’s all your fault! Also fuck the Brexit voters. Fucking clowns the lot of you!
If I recall correctly, the Libs Dems also put forward a suggestion for a windfall tax months ago only for the conservatives to shoot them down as well.
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It baffles me that Labour can’t think bigger. They knew perfectly well the Torys would u-turn on this, so why weren’t they demanding wage and benefit increases, price freezes and much more? All they can do now is cry and moan that they had the “idea” while the Torys outflank them to the left (again).
And what exactly is your connection to the labour party?
I posted a comment about OP’s obvious party political leanings based on their posting history. Mods removed it, proving their bias.
About time them clowns in Westminster stopped either the he said she said. We said mentality and started working together instead of just arguing like a bunch of kids
All political parties are crap. Watch Labour get into power and fuck the public over like the tories.
I wonder what popular policy we will be getting the next time Boris fucks up
I agree with the windfall tax, but lets stop with the petty point scoring politics
Lets worry about solutions to move further forward, not who came up with ideas first
Initially proposed by Dale Vince from Ecotriciry, just for clarity
I emailed my local MP (Hi Nick if you’re reading) asking why he voted against a windfall tax a couple of weeks ago. I got a reply for once, explaining how a windfall tax could impact the oil industry in the north sea and could be detrimental to the energy industry in the UK.
Time for another email asking why the backtracking.
If the Tories can pinch your policy without blinking, maybe it’s not sufficiently effective enough? The windfall tax patter is pure single-event, light-touch nonsense.