I’d rather they relaxed the conditionality on social security payments. Benefit sanctions and fraudulent health “assessments” are a wrse problem in society than a couple on hundred on my tax bill.
> Writing in the Sun on Sunday, the Prime Minister and Chancellor said when the National Insurance threshold rises overnight this coming Wednesday from £9,880 to £12,570 it will save 30 million British workers up to £330 a year.
£330 / year = £27 / month
We’re saved!
Would it kill these guys to speak to an economist before announcing policies? Or you know, someone who knows how to use a calculator?
These small changes are going to make fuck all difference in the real world with current inflation and energy prices ridiculously high. Honestly without people getting a proper wage rise, (those who need it),massively cutting tax on fuel (will never happen) and house costs going down (which is unlikely), we’re still going on a massive downward spiral.
The working and middle class have slowly been bled dry the last 12 years.
Taking with one hand, and slapping in the face with the other.
The more money you have, the more you benefit from this… They really couldn’t have chosen a less effective measure to help the average person.
EXCELLENT…. having stomped most into the ground with a decade of austerity, piled on more decaying matter pursuing those shitty uplands and this latest economic hit. Rishi and Bojo have decided to provide everyone with a straw to breathe.
…. Just the one.
Coming from a position of one of the biggest tax burdens in decades, it’s just optics.
Pension eligibility is linked to years of NI payments.
Won’t this mean low earners, e.g. p/t workers, will lose pension eligibility?
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I’d rather they relaxed the conditionality on social security payments. Benefit sanctions and fraudulent health “assessments” are a wrse problem in society than a couple on hundred on my tax bill.
> Writing in the Sun on Sunday, the Prime Minister and Chancellor said when the National Insurance threshold rises overnight this coming Wednesday from £9,880 to £12,570 it will save 30 million British workers up to £330 a year.
£330 / year = £27 / month
We’re saved!
Would it kill these guys to speak to an economist before announcing policies? Or you know, someone who knows how to use a calculator?
These small changes are going to make fuck all difference in the real world with current inflation and energy prices ridiculously high. Honestly without people getting a proper wage rise, (those who need it),massively cutting tax on fuel (will never happen) and house costs going down (which is unlikely), we’re still going on a massive downward spiral.
The working and middle class have slowly been bled dry the last 12 years.
Taking with one hand, and slapping in the face with the other.
The more money you have, the more you benefit from this… They really couldn’t have chosen a less effective measure to help the average person.
EXCELLENT…. having stomped most into the ground with a decade of austerity, piled on more decaying matter pursuing those shitty uplands and this latest economic hit. Rishi and Bojo have decided to provide everyone with a straw to breathe.
…. Just the one.
Coming from a position of one of the biggest tax burdens in decades, it’s just optics.
Pension eligibility is linked to years of NI payments.
Won’t this mean low earners, e.g. p/t workers, will lose pension eligibility?
…for non doms, and Conservative donors.