Its an incredibly difficult balancing act.

Any increases will cause a deeper recession and thus lower tax revenue. Increasing VAT will do the same.

We already have a stealth increase as the tax thresholds are being frozen for 4 years.

The delay in the next budget is to allow the government interest rates for borrowing to unwind after stupid truss.

They wont want to do anything to cause rates to increase again.

I believe anything they do will be long term such as the Covid NI tax which maybe reintroduced.

Insane....just full on insane.

Everything I stated to cut wasn't around before Blair and before the progressives started their victim culture nonsense, which has placed huge costs onto the public sector and purse.....It's nothing but expanded bureaucracy.

However, everything that this guy mentions that I'd apparently cut was in place. I literally stated in my post that public services must be protected yet this maniac just completely ignores that (if he even read it) and waffles on as if people like me would dismantle the welfare state.

It's so fecking irritating.

As for foreign food shops....well, we already have the recipe, thanks....not need for endless numbers of the third world.....More pyramid schemes that rob the youth of a future.

Edited by Stirlingsays (30 Oct 2022 11.15pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Benefit scroungers ? Your words fail me WE. In certain posts you have said there arnt any. When you vent you should really think about what you are writing. Not just come back at a poster because your views are at a tangent to theirs. Bad show old boy, bad show.

Agreed the whole diversity / equality manager role is just jobs for the boys err I mean girls err Trans well you know what I mean.

It is largely virtue signalling so that the public services and corporate can point at these managers and say "hey look we take it seriously".

There is actually a better way of doing it. When I worked in corporate we didn't have them it was made clear to me and every other manager that we were expected to obey the law which of course included discrimination. Then there is HR, I mean what exactly are those people doing all day this has to be central to their roles.

The problem with having specific people whose sole responsibility is this area is that everybody else then decides it's not their problem it's those folk.

The other problem is that if you appoint a Diversity Manager when you don't have a problem what is that person going to do? They will find problems and then demand more resources to tackle those problems.

As SS says it is a huge waste of money and resources you can obey the law without having to hire these people.

One more point

The new 'progressive' attitude has unfortunately amalgamated everything which is essentially anti-establishment and anti-traditional into one big pot of nonsense. This both paves the way for any inch becoming 10,000 miles but also inspires an attitude of 'attack one of us, attack all of us' or 'with or against us'.

Therefore, even the most ludicrous of notions get protection and to even question, let alone challenge, their existence is evidence of you being an enemy of this ideological nonsense and painted as some sort of villain. I maintain that this is the fragility of the failures who populate the support of these movement as they cannot possibly entertain the fact their anger may lie with themselves and not the world around them therefore any logical or common sense approach, discussion etc is off the table.

You should know this Stirling

Edited by Nicholas91 (31 Oct 2022 8.27am)

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

Whenever there are changes in society it is probable that some pendulums swing too far at first, and need correction. Things generally settle at a level of common sense, at which time there is a new normal and we all wonder what all the fuss was about.

Give it time and all will seem OK again.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.