06-30-2020, 12:48 PM
(06-30-2020, 12:26 PM)baggy1 Wrote: That's as I remember it SM, but its been so long since I have looked at it. I also remember that paying lump sums in dividends reduced the amount of EE NI because of thresholds which made it attractive.
(06-30-2020, 10:46 AM)Shabby Russian Wrote: No cause for alarm it seems that Al's proposals are more Penn and Teller than FDR.
Again all promises but no delivery, it's interesting to see how easily the masses are fooled by big numbers. The 1 BILLION POUNDS (Austin powers style) announcement for schools doesn't come close to the estimated £6.7Bn required to get schools up to satisfactory standard from a 2017 NAO report, and forgets to mention that it was our good friend Michael Gove that canned the 'Building Schools for the Future' Program in 2010.
How many billions did we cut from public sector budgets during the last ten years?
Suddenly kids from poorer backgrounds are considered a priority after years where programs of support were cut.
The police are now very important after thousands of jobs were lost... just as the nonsense about defund the police stuff is in the media.