I’m not sure how Spain can cope with this number of doctors, engineers & IT experts! Do they have job vacancies enough to retain their specialist skills?
So in the last 4 years we’ve lost more than half of our millionaires presumably due to tax increases and our governments answer is to *checks notes* increase taxes. Got it.
Lisandro Martinez pays approximately £2.9million in tax to the BRITISH government, which subsequently goes towards the defence of the Falkland Islands…
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A reminder, Andy, of the Thatcher era:
• Income tax: 83% → 40%
• Basic rate: 33% → 25%
• Inflation: 21.9% peak (1980) → 2.4% (1986)
• Days lost to strikes: 29.5 million (1979) → 1.9 million (1990)
• Real pay for the average earner: up by a third
So @andyburnham you posted this to sound tough.
But you’ve just hired as your Director of Political Strategy a trustee of a charity actively campaigning to REINSTATE the British citizenship of this monster who raped 30 girls in Rochdale.
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE KIDDING?
If they want to scrap PIP we could always go back to DLA and basing it on the medical opinions of the doctors who actually treat the claimant and not some DWP decision maker with an NVQ L3 in health & social care and 3 weeks job training