Bankruptcy!

[Rasputin]

I didn't see a smiley face but I am assuming your comments are toung in cheek?

These affect me personaly but I cant see anything in there that's not a damed good idea?

PS voted tory for the last 30 years but not this time

Whats the Conservitives plan?

OH yes I remember, cutting all burseries for training health care workers, and stopping all support for mental health care training whilst at the same time cutting back on welfair for disabled people and people suffering from mental health issues.

Allowing the NHS to lose 5500 immigrant nursing staff in the last 11 months due to an abject failure to provide clarity on their future status and as a result seeing applications from nurses in EU countries dropping from 1,304 last year ending July 2016 down to a massive 96 applicants in year to date 2017?

All this whilst the NHS have a shortage of 24,000 health care workers

And how have our beloved leaders solved this problem?

Yes out sorcing to the private sectors at a cost of a mear 1,000,000,000 (I billion ) to the tax payer

Great news for Share holders in Spire Healthcare who made a 1.5% loss in turn over last year. Thanks to supporting the NHS their patent take up is up 40% earning them a tidy 293million this year from our NHS

But don't worry the Conservitives have come down hard on the likes of Dr David Zigmond and Mina Alaxander for whistle blowing what the government is up too so it will frighten off other doctors from complaining about May's glorious plans for privitasation


I have never been a fan of Labours spend spend spend mentality. My personal description of the labour of old was a teenager with a credit card. However none of the above tax increases seem unreasnoble to me (dispite the fact they will affect me personaly)

ATB

Chasey

not joking at all I hope he gets assassinated along with his cronies. The guys a grade a arsehole living in the past and his idealistic tendencies will not and never have worked look at the stilly government controlled states not one of a beacon of light and they are in complete control. As per your whining regarding your daughters I have no sympathy. You chose a job knowing what it pays nobody is that altruistic to assume doing it solely for the love of saving humanity.

 

[Rasputin]

Yes by me

I am currently supporting two medical students (My daughters) so they can work FOR NOTHING at Westminster hospital to get their training and last time I cheked it was costing my daughters about 15K a year and me another 15 each

Do you know she has to pay half her uni fees of about £5000 whilst she works for the NHS for FREE getting her placement experience????

If the student loan system is unable to recover funds, change the damed system to one that's more secured. IE have the parents guarantee it or take out insurance to cover it.

Its not bl@@dy rocket science

stop spouting ******** about your daughters working for nothing is frankly not true and and bordering on an outright lie!! You won't get any synothay for their "plight"

 

[Chasey]

stop spouting ******** about your daughters working for nothing is frankly not true and and bordering on an outright lie!! You won't get any synothay for their "plight"

She works full time at a NHS Westminster clinic and gets paid nothing for it? She has her own case load just like the other workers there?

SHe still has to pay half her uni fees and £5600 a year for a train ticket because that's cheaper than renting in London and shes living off hand outs from mum and dad aged 21?

There used to be a grant to cover this the conservitives have scraped it

Those are the facts

Please explain the lie to me?

Or is the lie shes not working for free but in fact is paying out nearly 10K a year to work there?

OK you got me shes working for minus 10K not for nothing

 

[Chasey]

not joking at all I hope he gets assassinated along with his cronies. The guys a grade a arsehole living in the past and his idealistic tendencies will not and never have worked look at the stilly government controlled states not one of a beacon of light and they are in complete control. As per your whining regarding your daughters I have no sympathy. You chose a job knowing what it pays nobody is that altruistic to assume doing it solely for the love of saving humanity.

I didn't chose the job. they did

Personally, I did everything in my power to talk her out of it. She had A* inlaw and could be earning a fortune.

And it’s totally unfair to say they knew what they was getting into

With the Brexit vote she’s lost all EU funding for her PHD and with the conservative’smassive cuts to healthcare in preparation for privatization she has lost allfunding for the placement work

This is two years after starting the training.

Amazingly (to me as I am not one of them) there are still people out there who care more about other people than they do about money.

At 18 I was a junior shop steward and member of the labor party because I too believed in a farer society. But people like you kicked all that nonsense out of me long ago and I now realize it’s a dog eat dog world.

I sincerely hope my eldest will realize her mistake and take her skills to a country like the USA where she can easily earn a seven-figure salary.

I think she will meet a lot of people as ungreatfull as you in the next few years and begin to realise her loyalty and compassion are wasted on them

 

[big ears]

I must admit, that as I probably have not too many years left Comrade Corbyn's promises do appeal to me. The only problem being that I couldn't vote for that IRA Terrorist supporting t..t if he gave me a Gold Pig.
The only real choice is Mother Theresa who if she plays it right can clinch a deal with Johnny foreigner and get us reasonably unscathed out of that Crap and useless organisation the other side of Dover.
Frau Merkel has France and everybody else surrendering already, without even invading them, we have probably totally knackered the Fourth Reich by Brexit.
So let's get on with it and show the scheming B.....s that we can make it GB again and stuff those whingeing sods who think we can't.

I realise that it's a term of endearment but calling Mrs May, Mother Theresa is an insult to one of the greatest women of the 20th Century. The real Mother Theresa worked with the poor and destitute in the slums. Forgave all her personal wealth to help those less fortunate. Mrs May however does little of this. She lives in the lap of luxury in the SE, pulls a huge salary, refuses to be seen publically and if her trip to the south west recently is anything to go by, does not want to mix with the rank and file of this country.
How can we trust a leader who will not defend her political position on television but prefers to debate about who takes the f****g bins out!
When she is willing to take part in a televised debate on her policies she will gain some respect until then let's drop the Mother Theresa c**p because a saint she is not.

 

[teabag_46]

With the Brexit vote she’s lost all EU funding for her PHD

I don't really want to get into the Brexit debate again Chasey, but -

Brexit isn't going to happen for around two years, and nothing has been
agreed yet, by any of the current member countries, so, if she has lost
her EU funding, how can that possibly have anything to do with Brexit?

 

[finnbear270]

Groundhog day?

 

[Chasey]

What value has a "Clear plan" if it's unachievable Chasey?

I agree that privitasation of the railways is an almost impossible task despite the fact we are the only western country to have multiple companies controlling our rail links and as a result our quality of service is absolut rubbish

I also agree that privitasation of our energy supplys is also a tall order. I do however find it amusing that all the out voters seem happy with our energy supply being in the hands of the French and CHnese???? Most odd

I do however think its is possible to bring all the privitised rail services under the control of a central regulator with vastly increased powers and to cap profits against performance in a far more rigorous way.

That is achievable

I also believe the tax increases on the financial services and fat cats who are raping the system at massive personal gain like mini Oligarks is a good thing

Purchasing swathes of property using off shore funds and then reaping massive benefit from property value increases only to divert the cash off shore again is a billionairs honey pot we should put a large tax on.

It makes me laugh out loud people saying this will make us bankrupt???? we are already bankrupt

Our current debt at 07:48 am is £1,859,209,000,000 and its increasing at the rate of £5170 PER SECOND or £446,688,000 PER DAY

There are 30.8 million working people in the UK

SO our debt PER DAY is increasing by £15 per person per day or £104.00 per week

But our total UK debt as of 07:48am today is £296,000 per working person in the UK

SO explain to me how we are not already backrupt

 

[finnbear270]

I agree that privitasation of the railways is an almost impossible task despite the fact we are the only western country to have multiple companies controlling our rail links and as a result our quality of service is absolut rubbish

I also agree that privitasation of our energy supplys is also a tall order. I do however find it amusing that all the out voters seem happy with our energy supply being in the hands of the French and CHnese???? Most odd

I do however think its is possible to bring all the privitised rail services under the control of a central regulator with vastly increased powers and to cap profits against performance in a far more rigorous way.

That is achievable

I also believe the tax increases on the financial services and fat cats who are raping the system at massive personal gain like mini Oligarks is a good thing

Purchasing swathes of property using off shore funds and then reaping massive benefit from property value increases only to divert the cash off shore again is a billionairs honey pot we should put a large tax on.

It makes me laugh out loud people saying this will make us bankrupt???? we are already bankrupt

Our current debt at 07:48 am is £1,859,209,000,000 and its increasing at the rate of £5170 PER SECOND or £446,688,000 PER DAY

There are 30.8 million working people in the UK

SO our debt PER DAY is increasing by £15 per person per day or £104.00 per week

But our total UK debt as of 07:48am today is £296,000 per working person in the UK

SO explain to me how we are not already backrupt

And Labour's answer is? BORROWING?

 

[Chasey]

I don't really want to get into the Brexit debate again Chasey, but -

Brexit isn't going to happen for around two years, and nothing has been
agreed yet, by any of the current member countries, so, if she has lost
her EU funding, how can that possibly have anything to do with Brexit?

It was announced last year that in light of the tirggering of Article 50 the EU will suspended all future grant funding for PHD studies in her field. All students have been advised to seek alternative funding for their courses starting September 2019

 

[Chasey]

And Labour's answer is? BORROWING?

Did you read the manifesto? The Labour response was to increase tax for people earning over 80,000 a year increase it more for people earning over 123,000 a year

I don't know how many people earn over 80K but 100K and over its 4% of the UK population will be affected

But I personaly don't agree with punative income tax but I have to face the realiaty we are in such a deep hole extreme measures are required to dig us out of it.

I do however support increased taxation on big sum tax avoidance, off shore accounts, financial trading for profit, bonus payouts, etc. I find it frustrating when people earn say 60K a year and pay tax and NI on that, then get 100,000 in dividends and only pay 20% on that?

We have to do something to sort out the mess and if increased taxation on the top 5% of the country and closing massive tax loop holes is not an answer, what is?

 

[teabag_46]

Chasey, what is the point of massively increasing tax on earnings?

I am currently expecting a promotion at work, which will give me a (substantial)
pay rise; my wife has recently gained qualifications that would allow her to earn in
excess of £25,000 per annum.

If she were to work, then our combined earnings could well move us just into the
proposed 45% tax bracket, effectively wiping out any earnings my wife makes, as
well as a large part of my earnings - why the hell would anyone vote for that?

 

[finnbear270]

The outstanding item on funding for me is, The money is already here because we are NETT CONTRIBUTORS!, why can people not compute this info? the money heads off to Brussels & SOME of it comes back with the proviso it is spent where Brussels says it's to be spent.

 

[Cumbrian 1]

Typical labour - make those who work the hardest pay for those that cannot be bothered. The best thing about Corbyn is that labour will never be the ruling party whilst he is at the helm.

If you want fairness in the tax system then we should have one rate therefore the harder you work and the more you earn the more taxes you pay, having a tiered tax system that penalises the top earners and those that work the hardest does not seem fair in my eyes.

 

[big ears]

Brexit isn't going to happen for around two years, and nothing has been
agreed yet, by any of the current member countries

You have hit the nail on the head. This election is not about Brexit as we cannot be expected to vote a mandate of what has not even started to be discussed. This election is about giving the government a mandate on how to run our country. As yet the Tories have not released ANYTHING to tell us what they will do. They quote "strong and stable" but without substance. Financially we are in trouble as most countries are, and this debt has got significantly deeper under the present Tory government despite huge austerity measures. One could ask where have all the savings gone, tax breaks for the rich is the truth. The Labour tax plans are at least up front. There is already a 50% tax band over £150k they are just reducing that to £123k, 45% over £80 seems a good level if we can be sure where this money is going, i.e. To support education and health.
Yes Labour will spend they always have, no they won't return to the 70's as the unions are much less powerful now than then and the strike laws are different. The Tories will continue to cut and save and watch the national debt rise without a clear objective on how to rectify this apart from shead government responsibility for major spending areas, namely health and education.
The real danger in June is a landslide victory. History tells us that landslide victories do not produce good politics and tend towards extremist views either left or right which is not good for any of us. For me I hope of a slim Tory majority, this means any financial cuts will have to be debated and democratically fought. It also means that the Tories will have to hold the responsibility for the situation we now find ourselves in. Just think if we had a government who would spend and invest in one of our national services we would not have had the debarkle of the cyber attack on the NHS. If this government had listened and agreed to spend on updating security none of this would have happened. This is the reality of what the Tories stand for, they are willing to put us all at risk for the sake of austerity.
Think before you vote next month. Please!

 

[teabag_46]

It was announced last year that in light of the tirggering of Article 50 the EU will suspended all future grant funding for PHD studies in her field. All students have been advised to seek alternative funding for their courses starting September 2019

I think that the key words in this statement are -

SUSPENDED

ADVISED

It is not yet DEFINITE that she will not get funding from the EU.

If I were seeking funding, or a mortgage, loan etc. I would consider it good
advice to seek a second, or third source, rather than depending on one
single source, that might not have funded her anyway.

 

[Chasey]

Chasey, what is the point of massively increasing tax on earnings?

5% is not massive SO if you earn 80,000 you get £11,000 free of tax. Then you pay 20% on earnings over 11,000 up to 45,000, 40% 0n anything earnt over 45,000 and 45% on anything earnt over 150,000

Your NI is 12% reguardless of what you earn over £8,164.00

I am currently expecting a promotion at work, which will give me a (substantial)
pay rise; my wife has recently gained qualifications that would allow her to earn in
excess of £25,000 per annum

.

Unless one of you is earning over 80,000 a year it will not affect you its is a single sallery tax system at present so if you earn 75,000 and your wife earns 75,000 you both still pay max 40% tax dispite the income of 150,000

Personaly I think this needs looking into but all it would do is stop marrage and reintroduce cohabitation like it id with the old Mortguage system

If she were to work, then our combined earnings could well move us just into the
proposed 45% tax bracket, effectively wiping out any earnings my wife makes, as
well as a large part of my earnings - why the hell would anyone vote for that?

As above there is no joint calculation so you wont be affected by this unless you both earn over 80K each


Just to be clear you will only pay the 45% on earnings OVER 80 K so if you earnt 85,000 you will only pay 45% on the £5000

 

[big ears]

Chasey, what is the point of massively increasing tax on earnings?

I am currently expecting a promotion at work, which will give me a (substantial)
pay rise; my wife has recently gained qualifications that would allow her to earn in
excess of £25,000 per annum.

If she were to work, then our combined earnings could well move us just into the
proposed 45% tax bracket, effectively wiping out any earnings my wife makes, as
well as a large part of my earnings - why the hell would anyone vote for that?

the next time you are sick and have to go to hospital ask yourself who pays for all of this care we get free. The Tooth Fairy? And don't say the NI because that does not cover the whole cost. If we want a health service that is free at the point of delivery and an education system that is free up to 18yrs old we have to collect taxes to fund it. What is wrong with asking those who earn four times above national average wage to contribute a bit more?

 

[finnbear270]

Yes Labour will spend they always have, no they won't return to the 70's as the unions are much less powerful now than then and the strike laws are different.

Did you miss the statement from Labour on repealing some of the employment laws?

 

[Chasey]

I think that the key words in this statement are -

SUSPENDED

ADVISED

It is not yet DEFINITE that she will not get funding from the EU.

If I were seeking funding, or a mortgage, loan etc. I would consider it good
advice to seek a second, or third source, rather than depending on one
single source, that might not have funded her anyway.

OK let me be perfectly clear on this

They are not accepting applications RIGHT NOW