John Watson

I am one of these statistics.
Not sure my bank or credit card provider would consider me "economically inactive".
And if I hadn't retired at 62, the person who is doing my old job now might be unemployed or emigrated to Australia - so how would that help the economy?

In my final med exam in Dec 1983 I had a question about immunodeficiency, and I was pleased to know enough to include a short paragraph about a new disease that was affecting young gay men in New York, and the virus which had just been identified.
Little did I know how that would go!
#WorldAidsDay

So someone earning £50k now (ie in the top 12% of earners) will pay more tax if/when their income goes up.
Good.
(I am in that bracket)

Please explain how someone warning £50k will pay more tax if thresholds and rates stay the same?

That would make it harder to distinguish from some other parties

The People's Front of Judea?

Birthdays are allowed exceptions. Our tree doesn't go up until after wife's birthday mid December

NOOOOO!
Christmas lasts until Epiphany (Jan 6th).

Of course ridiculous abuse of the system by taxi firms sending drivers hundreds of miles to pick up a passenger for a 2 mile trip should be stopped. But don't deny access to medical care.

Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis The ban is set to come in February and any exemptions will have to be signed off by the Home Office.

Just how is the asylum seeker in the hotel by the motorway junction supposed to get to the TB Clinic?

BBC News - Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I doubt if Labour need to worry about losing her vote in many more general elections.

I am guessing Mahmoud thinks he should be sent back to where he came from, now that Czechia is a safe country.

It isn't even Advent yet!

If you have to cut the number of cocktails on your round the world cruise that you planned for your retirement, this might enable a kid to go to school less hungry and concentrate better.
And in 20-30 years time that kid might be doing your bypass surgery.

All in favour of being a good person. My point is that politicians following the teaching of Jesus (whatever you think about claims of his divinity) would lead to a better society than the teaching of Thatcher (there is no such thing as society), Farage (blame foreigners), or Trump (greed is good).

Also "in early Christian times there was no state". I guess she has never heard of the Roman Empire.

If Badenoch wants to make the case that lifting half a million kids out of poverty is a bad thing, tell us why.
But don't claim this is somehow the teaching of a religion which she doesn't believe in and clearly knows very little about.
Try reading what the Bible reports that Jesus actually said.

Actually if they governed according to the actual teachings of Jesus, they would be doing a lot more to help the poor, the hungry, the sick, and the foreigner.

They were just about managing until Dad lost his job. So scrapping 2 child benefit limit will help.

Not sorry. I know another family who have been forced to move away from friends, community and kids school. Can't afford private rental. After 3 year wait they finally got a 3 bed council house, so more space for the 5 kids than current 2 bed. But further from Mum's minimum wage zero hours job

The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.

Don't think anyone on an MPs salary will personally benefit from increase in UC for families with more than 2 kids

Why does #BBC Chris Mason keep saying that scrapping 2 child benefit cap is "putting party before country"?
Opinion polls suggest that right wing press has persuaded voters who don't rely on benefits that poverty is Ok for other people's kids.
That doesn't stop child poverty being a bad thing.

Argument is that stocks and shares ISA is long term investment. Older people may be less interested in long term.
But tbh if anyone has more than £12k to spare to save in any type of savings, they are wealthy, so why not pay tax on unearned interest?

When I started work as a graduate with no student loan basic rate tax was 33%. Now my daughter pays 20% tax + 9% loan repayments (total 29%).
Maybe if we a went back to more tax, student loans wouldn't be needed (or at least interest on them could be lower)

*to HELP people

Or also to hell people who need a vehicle even if they don't need modification because they can't use public transport and may need to be able to fit a wheelchair or mobility scooter in the boot.

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

Add to that clinic provided by a different trust so if surgery advised would mean travelling to different hospital 15 miles away. And no access to her previous records from our local hospital.

Some years ago my daughter was offered an ENT appointment at a health centre because "more convenient" than hospital.
Home to health centre 5 miles. Hospital 6 miles.
Direct bus route to hospital. None to health centre.
Hospital parking poor.
Health centre parking non existent.
More convenient??