And claiming the Tory discount was not due to end is dishonest.
I said it was a 50% reduction in discount. I made no claim of positive or negative. And pointed out the positive of the first large scale public investment in buses outside London in over 40 years.
Do not put words in my mouth.
Now to actually claim the positives here. The tories planed to end the £2 cap costing about £225m a year and pay nothing to expand bus services back into the huge number of rural routs they have been ended over their leadership.
The Labour Party instead invested £151 in the £3 discount Plus another £925M in 25-26 to introduce new bus routes, make services more frequent and protect crucial bus routes for local communities.
Now explain how you can claim this is not an overall improovement.
The story is the discount was planned to end. But has instead been reduced by 50%.
You can only claim it is an increase if you claim a discount was not planned to end. And that is just a lie.
Not to mention a rather desperate effort to ignore the 1bln investment in buses. Something the government has not done outside London since privatisation.
Yeah im not an apple fan. (My brother would have a heart attack if I didnt say that. He loves them).
But the fact they controll both hardware and software means they can run on lower specs. They dont use it as well as they could. But android having to allow others to develop hardware. Provides a bit more ability for manufactures to implement less efficient drivers. This is why some higher spec low value stuff seems so slow compared to equal speced cheaper Samsung stuff etc.
Well nowadays yes. But when the term smartphone was invented. Really not.
The 1st iPhone was way lower spec then many high end phones of the time. Mainly Nokia but others as well.
Early androids and others def had no specific specs that differed them from other high-end phones such as Symbian Win CE (as crap as the OS was but then so was the smartphone mareted version recreated later on)
Seriously, marketing was the only thing that differed them from phones like the N95 and communicator etc etc.
And as I mentioned, the locked store front. That really seem to be the main difference but really I still find non-advantageous myself.
As likely as this is. (not that Oxfam is exactly the scientific research org I look to for evidence. I do not have any reason to doubt)
But it seems to me the top 1% is an easy target. When the huge commercial shipping to reduce labour costs and cheap plastic packaging etc used to handle it are equal if not a much larger overall cause of deaths.
Just a much harder oner to argue for the change of, even if public opinion can actually have more effect.
The top 1% have ignored public opinion since the invention of money. Commercial cooperation may try, but hiding or greenwashing is normally the closest they get.
Had one for a good few years. Moved from US back home to UK with it so lasted a good while.
Loved the thing. Hated when I had to give it up due to lack of support for newer software.
I still find it bloody hard to see how modern smartphone are technically different. When you consider early some android etc had keyboards etc. Basically, it's just marketing and a more locked in app/program store.
Yeah you may be younger, but let's remember many folks my grandfathers age did not consider white collar work, to be work.
That idea is as far from correct as this article. Anything that is taxed under PAYE is working taxes. As the Labour Party manifesto and Starmer called it.
Shares growth of property and renting is taxed as capital gains.
Owning a business is the one that depends on how you choose to do it. Most sole traders are by definition covered under Income tax if self filled rather than PAYE.
If you have registered an LTD, you have a little more choice. And most accountants will advise you do not pay yourself as income tax. So you will be treating your labour as an investment. And here we see why the wealthy want false claims like thi in the right wing media. Because there is a possibility, that advice may change in the future and business owners will lose some tax advantages to a pay lower tax % than their employees.
Nor are you a landlord while doing another job. If you are doing your own investment work while being paid a PAYE job. You are also a thief, but I doubt you have that recorded on your payslip.
It may sound silly. But so is the whole claim of this article. Starmer never said or even suggested landlords cannot work. He was asked the question, in relation to the Labour Party manifesto pledge not to raise "working taxes"
His answer was "not under the definition we are using" (for working taxes)
It is an utterly pathetic attempt to so division to claim "Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’"
He definitely did not say it and the telegraphs use of the word "suggests" makes it clear they know that.
It is nothing but an outright lie designed to sow division.
Because the right wing media wants it to be. The answer is simple.
Cool if owning property is work. Let's abolish capital gains tax and charge it as income.
Because at the end of it. That is what the telegraph etc is saying. They are trying to argue Starmer agreed to hold all taxes when the manifesto clearly stated working taxes.
Cool call their bluff all capital gains is now charged as income tax.
He said people who own any stock should be excluded from “working taxes"
More accurately, he said they do not fit his definition of working taxes. Because that was the question the telegraph was trying to miss represent.
As does the Tory party and every government since the 1950s. That is why we have capital gains tax as well as income tax.
This whole argument is nothing but absurdly biased reporting from right wing press. Intentionally launched to try and sow division in the electorate. Just like every Tory tactic since the election was announced.
He said that in his definition of working taxes. No, that person is not a worker.
And the Tory party agrees. That is why they call it capital gains tax rather than income.
This whole argument has been stirred by the right wing press since the election. Tories have constantly tried to claim the manifesto promise of no rise in working taxes means no tax rises at all.
It is an out right lie. And Starmer et al make it worse by refusing to address it.
Nothing the Tory party says or believes on taxation matches these claims. It is just a desperate attempt to sow division.
I'm going to assume you decided the extra weight may improve vacuuming in some limited situation.
But thanks for leaving the correction to make me wonder for a while. Made your comment almost enjoyable.