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Post by mids on Jun 17, 2010 8:57:10 GMT
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Post by lala on Jun 22, 2010 21:49:44 GMT
Post budget initial shock'n'horror reaction: +0 ... 5% pay cut for MPs. Silly gesture politics. +1 ... Tax cut for the poorest, funded by the wealthiest. good and redistributive. +1 ... The 55% rule is a good thing, would be even better at 66%. +1 ....$10 billion of new spending. Even better, it makes the Tories look like scaremongering hypocrites. -1 ... Plans to reduce the number of constituencies a VERY BAD THING. +1 ... Increasing the capital gains tax, but ... -1 ... Osbourne trying to hold off on it, pandering to wealthy Tories. -1 ... Cutting business tax. Don't these fuckers know there is a DeT MowTIN? -1 ... Hague's empty words on IDF killings. After ripping off our passports, why are we still talking to these murderous savages? +1 ... Opening the books on spending. Possibly just to humiliate the last administration, but still a good move towards openness. -1 ... Cameron and Osborne going overboard with the debt crisis rhetoric. Don't they realize they've won the election and have to actually act responsibly, now? -1 ... Not changing the CGT rates to match income tax rates. -3 ... VAT at 20%. Take that, pensioners and unemployed types! And for all the other ridiculously unnecessary austerity measures. +1 ... Raising the tax free threshold a touch.
OVERALL: 2/10 - Osborne brings the government into very dangerous territory, and puts immense pressure on the coalition. Only a nod to the Lib Dem policy of raising the tax free threshold redeems an appalling, ideologically tainted budget of cutting. As always, the poor have to bear the brunt of cuts, directly, through VAT rises, and indirectly, through the reduction in public services.
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Post by lala on Jun 30, 2010 0:38:36 GMT
Cameron announces an inquiry into the torture of suspected terrorists: +0 ... 5% pay cut for MPs. Silly gesture politics. +1 ... Tax cut for the poorest, funded by the wealthiest. good and redistributive. +1 ... The 55% rule is a good thing, would be even better at 66%. +1 ....$10 billion of new spending. Even better, it makes the Tories look like scaremongering hypocrites. -1 ... Plans to reduce the number of constituencies a VERY BAD THING. +1 ... Increasing the capital gains tax, but ... -1 ... Osbourne trying to hold off on it, pandering to wealthy Tories. -1 ... Cutting business tax. Don't these fuckers know there is a DeT MowTIN? -1 ... Hague's empty words on IDF killings. After ripping off our passports, why are we still talking to these murderous savages? +1 ... Opening the books on spending. Possibly just to humiliate the last administration, but still a good move towards openness. -1 ... Cameron and Osborne going overboard with the debt crisis rhetoric. Don't they realize they've won the election and have to actually act responsibly, now? -1 ... Not changing the CGT rates to match income tax rates. -3 ... VAT at 20%. Take that, pensioners and unemployed types! And for all the other ridiculously unnecessary austerity measures. +1 ... Raising the tax free threshold a touch. +1 ... Inquiry into allegations of torture.
OVERALL: 3/10 - This coalition really is rather strange. They are doing a lot of bad, stupid stuff in the economy, but they are managing to pick up a few kudos for positive moves on the constitution and reining in the authoritarian horrors and abuse of human beings countenanced by the last government,
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Post by lala on Jul 6, 2010 21:49:52 GMT
Another point of because of the insane decision to stop building new schools. f**k**g future eating dingbat idiots. +1 ... Tax cut for the poorest, funded by the wealthiest. good and redistributive. +1 ... The 55% rule is a good thing, would be even better at 66%. +1 ....$10 billion of new spending. Even better, it makes the Tories look like scaremongering hypocrites. -1 ... Plans to reduce the number of constituencies a VERY BAD THING. +1 ... Increasing the capital gains tax, but ... -1 ... Osbourne trying to hold off on it, pandering to wealthy Tories. -1 ... Cutting business tax. Don't these fuckers know there is a DeT MowTIN? -1 ... Hague's empty words on IDF killings. After ripping off our passports, why are we still talking to these murderous savages? +1 ... Opening the books on spending. Possibly just to humiliate the last administration, but still a good move towards openness. -1 ... Cameron and Osborne going overboard with the debt crisis rhetoric. Don't they realize they've won the election and have to actually act responsibly, now? -1 ... Not changing the CGT rates to match income tax rates. -3 ... VAT at 20%. Take that, pensioners and unemployed types! And for all the other ridiculously unnecessary austerity measures. +1 ... Raising the tax free threshold a touch. +1 ... Inquiry into allegations of torture. -1 ... Cancelling school building programme. Idiotic, both in the short and long term. OVERALL: 2/10 - Again, the curious nature of the coalition is highlighted. They are doing some VERY GOOD THINGS constitutionally and around the reckless authoritarian excesses of Labour. But they're being so idiotic on the economy that it is impossible to see how any of that will matter in a few years time. It's nice to know that, in the future, people will have know the truth about the torture allegations. Only, these dregs be too busy, scraping a living out of the unsympathetic soil and fending off bandit raids from outside the walls of their fortified settlements, to care much. And, of course, they won't be able to read ...
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Post by lala on Jul 8, 2010 15:48:40 GMT
+1 ... Scrapping the police's power to stop and search without suspicion.
OVERALL: 3/10 - A nudge up towards respectability, as the coalition's Not Insane attitude towards civil liberties is again evident. Disappointing to see Labour immediately jump to the defense of the arbitrary and draconian powers it gave the police.
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Post by lala on Jul 16, 2010 1:29:42 GMT
-1 ... Ill conceived NHS reforms.
Overall - 2/10 The British people are far fonder of the NHS than the Conservative Party is, and it works damn well. Another ideologically driven move, that no-one would have voted for if the Tories had been honest about it. The coalition is once again in very dangerous territory.
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Post by lala on Jul 28, 2010 11:06:59 GMT
+1 ... Nick Clegg calling the Iraq invasion illegal. And Damien green declaring a burqua ban would be 'unBritish.'
OVERALL 3/10 - A nudge up after a couple of ministers talk a good fight.
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Post by lala on Aug 11, 2010 5:07:12 GMT
-1 ... Ending secure tenancies for council tenants. Missing the heart of the problem (stock supply) and acting as a disincentive for people to better themselves. OVERALL 2/10 - The Tory need to make war on the state, in typically short sighted and counter productive manner, continues to drag the coalition down.
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Post by lala on Aug 23, 2010 10:04:06 GMT
-1 ... Reneging on pre-election calls by both coalition members for an inquiry into energy pricing. OVERALL: 1/10: After just a hundred days, the coalition is on the edge of the abyss. Can they actually sink lower?
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Post by Woolf on Aug 23, 2010 12:56:37 GMT
They would need to be in the Trieste to get close to how far Nu Labor sank.
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Post by lala on Aug 23, 2010 16:49:55 GMT
In fairness, I suspect NuLab's hideous behaviour in foreign policy and civil liberties would have seen them plumbing similar depths.
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Post by lala on Aug 29, 2010 16:38:51 GMT
-1 ... Stupid and unnecessary law allowing councils to prioritise locals over immigrants in allocating council housing, rather than simly basing it on need - even though immigrants only make up 2% of the social housing sector. OVERALL - 0/10 A piece of stupid, unnecessary and diversionary rabble fodder legislation, designed to appeal to the Daily Mail and the Sun, addressing a non-existent problem and ignoring the real one, which is the lack of social housing stock. Already at zero, after barely four months in office.
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Post by Muz on Aug 29, 2010 16:44:10 GMT
+1 ... Excellent and perfectly sensible law allowing councils to prioritise locals over immigrants in allocating council housing - even though woolly headed muppets think it's a bad idea.
In fact, +2. One for the law, and one for it not being la la sanctioned.
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Post by lala on Aug 29, 2010 17:07:33 GMT
Rabble.
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Post by Repat Van on Aug 29, 2010 17:08:49 GMT
I think it depends on how long the immigrants have been in the country. I don't think economic migrants (i.e. non refugees /non asylum seekers) should have any access to state funds in at least the first two years in the country.
Although that said I guess I still support housing being allocated on need, which is why long term tenures are a nonsense.
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Post by Scooby Do on Aug 29, 2010 17:10:13 GMT
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Its not NuLabour.
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Post by Repat Van on Aug 29, 2010 17:11:35 GMT
Actually what the planned law is, is:
"The government plans to give councils the power to set their own housing allocation policies. This would allow them to give preference to people with strong connections to the local area."
Which I don't have any issue with. Councils should be able to set their own housing allocation policies. This doesn't mean they will all decide to prioritise locals. And if they do so what. It would be priority for locals, not merely 'Brits over immies'.
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Post by Muz on Aug 29, 2010 18:40:48 GMT
+1 again for la la kneejerking.
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Post by lala on Oct 9, 2010 7:50:23 GMT
-1 ... Scrapping child benefit for high tax earners, creating a glaring anomaly. A tiny tweak to the top tax rate would have been fairer, but blind ideology stops the Tories being sensible. -1 ... Stupid and unnecessary law allowing councils to prioritise locals over immigrants in allocating council housing, rather than simply basing it on need - even though immigrants only make up 2% of the social housing sector. -1 ... Reneging on pre-election calls by both coalition members for an inquiry into energy pricing. -1 ... Ending secure tenancies for council tenants. Missing the heart of the problem (stock supply) and acting as a disincentive for people to better themselves. +1 ... Nick Clegg calling the Iraq invasion illegal. And Damien green declaring a burqua ban would be 'unBritish.' -1 ... Ill conceived NHS reforms. +1 ... Scrapping the police's power to stop and search without suspicion. -1 ... Cancelling school building programme. Idiotic, both in the short and long term. +1 ... Inquiry into allegations of torture. +1 ... Raising the tax free threshold a touch. -3 ... VAT at 20%. Take that, pensioners and unemployed types! And for all the other ridiculously unnecessary austerity measures. -1 ... Not changing the CGT rates to match income tax rates. -1 ... Cameron and Osborne going overboard with the debt crisis rhetoric. Don't they realize they've won the election and have to actually act responsibly, now? +1 ... Opening the books on spending. Possibly just to humiliate the last administration, but still a good move towards openness. -1 ... Hague's empty words on IDF killings. After ripping off our passports, why are we still talking to these murderous savages? -1 ... Cutting business tax. Don't these fuckers know there is a DeT MowTIN? -1 ... Osbourne trying to hold off on it, pandering to wealthy Tories. +1 ... Increasing the capital gains tax, but ... -1 ... Plans to reduce the number of constituencies a VERY BAD THING. +1 ....$10 billion of new spending. Even better, it makes the Tories look like scaremongering hypocrites. +1 ... The 55% rule is a good thing, would be even better at 66%. +1 ... Tax cut for the poorest, funded by the wealthiest. good and redistributive. OVERALL: -1/10. The coalition moves into negative territory following the stupid decision to cancel child benefit for high earners, creating a disparity where families with two income may still receive the benefit when they earn far than a family on a single income. Simply unfair, stupid and wrong.
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Post by lala on Nov 11, 2010 21:14:39 GMT
Haven't been updating this for a while, mostly because I've been busy and becuase, after 6 months, it is pretty obvious where this government is going. from a high of +8 to -1 in six months is quite impressive. Still, the last few weeks have seen the unmitigated disasters of the conmprehensive Spending review and Iain Duncan Smith's benefit 'reforms.' So I'm lopping another -1 off to reflect these developments. It could have been more, but I'd previously taken 3 points off when the scale of the cuts had been outlined. -1 ... George Osbourn's comprehensive spending review exceeds expectations of wrongheaded horribleness. OVERALL: -2/10. After the initial surge of Good Ideas and interesting tweaks, the coalition is plunging into depths of hideousness from which it isn't likely to emerge. The tragedy is that the good stuff has generally been stuff which is nice but not essential, for people's day to day lives and the economic recovery. But where they've gone wrong has been in the areas which will affect people's lives.
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