The media scrutiny of Reeves Budget

Zoophonic said:
This is the sort of stuff the Torygraph are focussing in on. You have to laugh otherwise you would cry.
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Ha ha ha ha… that’s absolutely nuts !! She didn’t even touch CGT on buy-to-let’s . What difficulty has she caused them ????? Loss of £300 entry fuel allowance ???? Seriously what are they whining about ?
 
Zoophonic said:
This is the sort of stuff the Torygraph are focussing in on. You have to laugh otherwise you would cry.
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It can only be satire.

I don't even understand what their angle is because it's so obviously not true. What changes have been made that actually affect them and would force them back to work? I get that some changes will mean they will have slightly less money but there is nothing that would take all of their money away. Surely the paper could have come up with a more believable story
 
SmallTown said:
It is getting a lot worse, the double standards of the media is a danger to our democracy. How do we fight it though?
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You need people willing to say what they actually think/know, rather than nodding along with the unknowledgeable know-it-all who parrots some guff they read online.

I had my hair cut this morning and the barber shut down a bloke moaning by saying how the minimum wage rise is irrelevant because he already pays over it and the NI rise is nothing compared to the energy bill spike a couple of years ago.

People were complaining on the local news last night about pensioner issues (£460 rise is greater than the fuel allowance, surely?) saying "If we survive the winter." It's not 1362 and your plague ridden grandkids can't fetch the firewood; we let this hyperbole float around us because it's seemingly impossible to counter it in such quantities.

There's bleating about the inheritance of farms today and it's more rubbish. My in-laws are a massive farming clan and eight of them retired and sold up because it's a bloody hard job to do when you're past 70. Who plans to work until death?
 
People with money tend to be right wing as it protects their position. It stings when young lefties follow the devil and turn right to make sure they stay wealthy.
They buy media and push the right wing agenda. It is nothing new.
Citizen Kane was filmed in the 40s.
 
For someone like me who has voted both ways over the years, and voted Labour this time, for me it comes down to how do you define the "fair share" that everyone talks about. I have a good well paying job that I have worked hard to achieve having left school at 16 and starting on a YTS (I'm 55 now), and I feel that I can look myself in the mirror and say I easily pay way more than my "fair share" of taxes. If you add up my Income Tax, NI, Council Tax, Tax on Fuel, VAT, etc. its a big amount in both percentage and actual terms that goes to back into the government coffers be that national or local. To be honest, I dont mind paying if its being spent wisely and for the betterment of society but there are still lots out there not paying their fair share, and not just at the top end of society either. Look at your typical high street these days and the "service industry" businesses that occupy them, many of which are cash only. Are most of them paying their "fair share" compared to PAYE employees..........I very much doubt it.
 
This is the first budget for many years that I haven't felt that I have been mugged by hidden rises not mentioned in the headlines.
I used to run my own small business and would have been affected by NI and minimum wage rises and it would have been hard to manage. I couldnt move my prices, so would have had to cut hours or miss pay rises, so I would have had to make my workers more productive.
 
Boro in Devon said:
This is the first budget for many years that I haven't felt that I have been mugged by hidden rises not mentioned in the headlines.
I used to run my own small business and would have been affected by NI and minimum wage rises and it would have been hard to manage. I couldnt move my prices, so would have had to cut hours or miss pay rises, so I would have had to make my workers more productive.
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I don't understand the complaints about minimum wage. The wage rise is linked to median wage inflation so your prices will rise to cover it, as will any of your competitors. This complaint only ever makes sense in isolation if you were the only one raising your costs and prices but that isn't the case because it affects every business in the same way.
 
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