The UK Labour Party

[seafoid]

The latest wheeze seems to be to reduce the threshold for the 40p and 45p rates thus bringing more people into the higher marginal rate bands while freezing the threshold for the 20p rate, ensuring that as wages rise most people pay more in tax.

I think this will be popular with the public as most people don't know what tax thresholds are and a competent government would spin this as people who earn more pay more.

The rates of tax in the UK are mental.

A 50k threshold is not what it was 10 years ago.

https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/northern-ireland/budget-2025-extra-370m-for-northern-ireland-far-short-of-what-is-needed-says-finance-minister/a2061171961.html

Over the past five years, the number of higher rate income taxpayers (40%) in Northern Ireland has doubled to 131,000.

"One in seven Northern Ireland income taxpayers are now paying the higher or additional rates and this will increase to close to one in five by 2030. It was one in 18 in 2000."

[Armagh18]

The way it's going it won't be long til minimum wage workers are in the higher bracket ffs

[Armagh18]

Cheer up Munchie it's nearly Christmas

[Milltown Row2]

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[Deerstalker]

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Forgot to log out by the look of it

[Armagh18]

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Forgot to log out by the look of it

Meant to post in the United Ireland thread. Poor Munchie having a bad day.

[seafoid]

What's the thoughts on Zack Polanski? See him popping up a fair bit now with a lot of sound bites. Comes across well from what I've seen and seems to be saying a lot of things that hit home imo. Seems to be keener on hitting the rich than most. But no doubt there'll be inconsistencies when you dig a little deeper.

Grade A bullshitter.

Get a hint of that alright, but being leader of the Green Party, he's going to have to over egg things to get screen time. Similar to Reform to a degree trying to make headlines. He talks well in any interviews I've seen.

Greens and Reform would always have been treated as the tails of a bell curve but that **** Farage seems to have Reform moving towards much greater popularity. Hopefully that doesn't transfer into votes in a GE when people wake up to the fact that he could be running the country. A hung parliament a very likely outcome.

Labour and the Tories are polling low. On current polling Reform would win 346 seats. Tories 14. Reform is unstable. Anything could happen in a GE.

[Munchie]

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Forgot to log out by the look of it

Meant to post in the United Ireland thread. Poor Munchie having a bad day.

I am not having a bad day, since when is posting facts tantamount to having a bad day, suspect those taking umbrage my points are a little too close to home.