tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post8457123221025689802..comments2024-01-23T16:53:02.428+00:00Comments on Mark Thompson: The Conservatives have just lost the next electionMark Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00744387583593537268noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-16203920093422240232013-01-29T21:17:53.643+00:002013-01-29T21:17:53.643+00:00One cannot cut the top rate of tax while upping th...One cannot cut the top rate of tax while upping the VAT which will affect the lower income groups disproportianately more,including the pensioners. It is incredible that in the UK we have people openly supporting policies that are so grossly unfair and serve to make the wealthy, wealthier at the expense of the have nots.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-54887867003015671222012-03-22T21:16:00.703+00:002012-03-22T21:16:00.703+00:00The Granny Tax as such penalises all older people ...The Granny Tax as such penalises all older people who worked so hard for their pensions and the extra allowance was to allow them for the fact they have problems with care and the fact they are not working. The allowance is frozen until such time as it merges with the existing allowance given to all workers and non workers. <br /><br />The result is this raid has paid for the tax cut to the wealth and I think the granny tax will come back to haunt this government why because old people vote and they will see this as a big betrayal. I just think some of the coalition's policies are mad. They veer between ultra Lib Dem policies not all are bad or extreme right wing policies that even Thatcher would not dare push. Good riddance to the tories. They robbed old Peter to pay Rich Paul. ShamefulAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-20826745230635037142012-03-22T19:34:34.428+00:002012-03-22T19:34:34.428+00:00I can't see what's actually wrong with &qu...I can't see what's actually wrong with "granny tax". The worst off will be net gainers from all the pension changes, and right-wing pensioners have already escaped largely unscathed and should carry some of the load that we certainly are.<br /><br />Of course it's never 100% on way or the other but lean quite heavily in favour of this budget. Ozzy has cut my taxes now, made it more likely I'll still have a job tomorrow, and raised my pension the day after tomorrow. <br /><br />You're right that it was politically unpopular, but it always is, and I'm fully on board, for that matter, with cutting the 50% tax rate which was always about politics and was a rather disgusting move by Labour to create a situation like this that they could gloat over.<br /><br />As for them actually making a concrete promise, they won't. They won't reinstate 50% because they've already made their point and, knowing what a shite idea it was, won't bring it back. They will keep the higher threshold. They will keep the higher state pension, because their own means-tested pension credits justly proveed an embarassment to them when it became clear what a fuck supper it actually was.<br /><br />I never thought I'd be sitting here defending Ozzy Osbourne, but he's delivered the goods, in fact. I don't like a lot of government policy but this hits the spot, if not the headlines.asquithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14246701347539264295noreply@blogger.com