Uk Is Set For The Biggest Tax Con In 50 Years.

[gulliver1]

This  present load of Cons are going to Con you even more.Their latest Con is to keep NIS and Tax thresholds frozen until 2028 which will rake in £40 billion a year by 2028.Pity the Cons won't be in power trouser to most of this tax payers hard earned money.

[naomi24]

If they won't be in power firstly how are they going to do it, and secondly how are they going to 'trouser' it?

[ynnafymmi]

The Rutherglen by-election win should give all us anti-nationalists(whether English Tories or Scottish SNPers)a bit of hope,gulliver.However,one swallow and all that.

[10ClarionSt]

Lots of people in this country, mainly Tories probably, think there is no hardship or poverty because most people have a car, a mobile phone, a computer, a widescreen tv, various kitchen gadgets and appliances, gym/club membership, foreign holidays and home ownership. What poverty and hardship? 😉

[Bobbisox1]

Apart from the last two on your list ymf, so have most of the workshy, the home ownership and foreign holidays come with working hard  all of your working life for them 

[naomi24]

//most people have a car, a mobile phone, a computer, a widescreen tv, various kitchen gadgets and appliances, gym/club membership, foreign holidays and home ownership.//

 

If most have all that the poor must be very much in the minority, so really you have to ask yourself why they are poor.  I know people who live on benefits and they're not poor.  

[10ClarionSt]

There's a young guy who sits outside a Supermarket near here, all day, begging. I think he's trying to give the impression that he's homeless and poverty racked when he actually lives in a flat round the corner and has a nice car. Begging is his job, by the looks of it. 

[New Judge]

Their latest Con is to keep NIS and Tax thresholds frozen until 2028...

It may be the "latest" to you but the freezing of tax allowances until 2025-26 was first announced in March 2021 (i.e. two and a half years ago). In his Autumn Statement 2022 (i.e. a year ago) Chancellor Hunt extended the freeze by a further two years. Perhaps news arrives by pigeon post in your neck of the woods.

[gulliver1]

The Tories are doing some odd things with an election looming. Freezing the tax and Nhs threshold.Removing the winter fuel allowance for pensioners to pay for the triple lock on state pensions then making the fastest u turn ever ,when someone whispered in Sunaks ear that most pensioners are Tory voters .

[brainiac]

Who said the winter fuel allowance is being scrapped?

[gulliver1]

11.49 Sunak has u turned on this one and is thinking of means testing pensioners for this allowance ..Gambling that most pensioner are weathy enough not to qualify .

[Bobbisox1]

Means testing of anything would be too costly, we're in October now and the WFA gets paid out around the middle of November,he'd best get his skates on 🙈

[barry1010]

It wouldn't be complicated to means test WFA.  It could be paid only to those pensioners in receipt of pension credit but it wouldn't apply this year.

[gulliver1]

Bobbisox. 11.58 You can say good bye to your fuel allowance when you try to vote the Tories back into power. You will not qualify,Too wealthy.

[Bobbisox1]

And you'd know that how? Gulliver

[gulliver1]

12.09 Because you are the only person a on AB that ever goes on holiday.🤣

[Bobbisox1]

I doubt that very much 😎

[Zacs-Master]

I think Bobbie meant how do you know the Tories will means test the heating allowance, Gulliver🙃🙄

[naomi24]

gulliver, you've still not explained how they're going to do this if they're not in power.

[gulliver1]

Naomi  12.17 That's just it.. They won't be in power .And to suggest this latest Con, they have just made sure they won't be in power . Think the Tories have just had enough now they are tired and out of touch can't sort the mess out that they themselves have created and want Out.

[New Judge]

All these things that you say the Conservatives are about to do can be easily reversed if and when Labour gain power.

It will be interesting to see (a) whether they gain power and (b) if they do, how many of these measures, taken by The Most Evil Government The World Has Ever Seen, are reversed. I must confess that, along with most politicians, I do not listen to his musings too closely, but as far as I can tell from Mr Starmer, whilst in opposition he has not done too much opposing.