UK Politics General Discussion

[Smiley]

No one is. Universal Credit is currently £400.14 per month, if you are single and over the age of 25. You are expected to spend 35 hours per week looking for work at this rate, equating to roughly £2.60 per hour... Well under the national minimum wage of £12.21 per hour.

According to www.entitledto.co.uk a couple with 2 kids would be entitled to £27,800/year inc housing, child benefit, etc. This equates to a pre-tax salary of £34k, or the equivalent of 1.5x minimum wage jobs (one person working full-time, one part time). It's not luxury, but it's not chicken-feed either.

As for increasing the tax take, 40% of everything you earn over £50k is high enough. At £60k your child benefit gets eroded, and at £100k you personal tax allowance. Anyone at the dizzying heights of £125k (not exceptional in London) has already paid £47k tax/NI. How much more would you want to take???

 

[Benzin]

As for increasing the tax take, 40% of everything you earn over £50k is high enough. At £60k your child benefit gets eroded, and at £100k you personal tax allowance. Anyone at the dizzying heights of £125k (not exceptional in London) has already paid £47k tax/NI. How much more would you want to take???

Maybe those who are "struggling" to live whilst earning £100k pa should budget better.

 

[Tom]

Most tax and benefit policies are designed to win votes, not for the good of the country. The following, in their one-size fits all approach, are bad for the country:

• Winter fuel allowance
• State pensions
• Tax-free allowances
• Minimum wage
• Fuel duty freezes
• Free school meals
• Stamp duty allowances
• Marriage allowance
• Inheritance Tax Nil‑Rate Band

Try telling that to voters though, particularly pensioners, who are more likely to vote and are behind the reasons for most of the above damaging policies. In an aging population it is a growing and urgent paradox that we cannot afford even half of these giveaways any longer - particularly since a large number of people want less immigration, which has been used by successive governments to top of tax receipts at the expense of our living standards for decades.

All people want to hear (and Farage is only too happy to oblige) that you can have all this and more, for even less tax than what you are paying now.

 

[rob666]

Populist policies.

No resale above face value of concert tickets.

Good luck with the enforcement there guys.

Especially when trading standards staff have been reduced by around fifty percent in recent times.

 

[John_P]

You'd hope the fact its made illegal and thus would be driven underground would put plenty of people off from both buying the tickets from those sources or even buying to sell in the first place.

Ticketmaster for example already have a resale platform on their own site were you can re-sell tickets for up to what you paid for.

The whole thing has been getting worse and worse the past few years so its good to see action being taken.