Wait, wait, wait… The average middle-class voter who is struggling to get by is starting to turn away from the Tories and their leader’s suggestion is to reduce taxes on the wealthiest people? Not to improve services or perhaps address the issues that drove former conservative party voters to Labour. No. Cutting the taxes of the elite, further reducing funding for services that the majority of voters use or rely on is the obvious answer.
Smash&Grab tactics with… do I smell a hint of Scorched Earth in the mix there?
I am not from the UK do allow me a question: From what yearly income on, do you guys have to pay the „top tax“ and how high is it at the moment?
£125,140 a year you pay 45% income tax. But it’s not quite that simple because you don’t pay 45% on everything, just whatever is earned above that and the other thresholds https://www.gov.uk/income-tax-rates
Depends how you look at it. You lose £1 of PA for every £2 earned over £100k, which is an effective 50% tax rate.
Plus it adds the irritation of having to file a tax return even though you’re on PAYE
Interesting- compared to my country Germany where you have to pay 42% for everything you earn above (!) 62.810 €
Guess Germany hates its middle class even more than the UK…
Do the UK old people have lead in their brains too? Stop voting for Tory shitbags.
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Rats know they’re losing so they want to give farewell gifts to their cronies before leaving and punish the poors for not voting Tory.
Also helps to harm economy and national redources as much as possible so that the next administration fails to do anything and Tories can return in a further election cycle.
How do you look at an election defeat and think: “That’s what we need. More of exactly the same.”
When tf is there supposed to be another election in the UK? It almost feels like a strategy from the Tories to continually have their PMs resign so they stay in power. It would be nice for the UK to have some sanity again
The last election was in 2019, so the next one must be no later than 2024.
Jan 2025 is the latest they can hold it, if I remember correctly.
Though it would be beneficial to evict Starmer from the red Seat before that happens too.
It absolutely wouldn’t be. What are you on about? A big part of why Labour are polling well because they look like a safe pair of hands. Starting an interparty factional war over who the new leader should be will completely damage that and possibly lose there election.
Half of the Tory base are either indifferent to a Labour victory or would actively vote for them. If you throw another Corbyn in the mix that will change and the base will come out again. It’s simple electoral math. Please stop advocating for more Tory rule.
January 1st 2025 assuming they don’t call an earlier election.
Waiting until January would be a mistake though because it would mean that your campaigning over Christmas which is a terrible time to be doing campaigning. Everyone’s busy with other things and no one wants to be thinking about politics.
There’s 5 years between elections unless the ruling party calls one early so a pm resigning doesn’t help but calling an election early and winning does. We’re still on the clock from Johnson’s 2019 landslide win - which he called 3 years early because they were way ahead in the polls. Truss and Sunak didn’t call early elections because they already had a big majority and would probably lose seats.
