No-one likes to be ignored, bossed about or treated with contempt... that almost always has led to trouble, across history and across the world.
Time to wise up again... we owe each other a duty of care and humanity... and to behave well if we want to be free and safe.
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My #1 tip is : find ways to build people up, all individuals, everywhere and always... rather than incessantly crushing people down. Any person loves to be free to make their own choices, yearns to be respected, to belong, and take charge responsibly of themselves. nc19aug24
The government wants faster growth. It then announces bans on new investment in oil and gas, on new diesel and petrol cars, and the closure of U.K. steel blast furnaces. That means more imports and slower growth.
@DougAMacgregor@TuckerCarlson Xi, has the goods on Biden... does as he's told or info will come out to put him and others in prison... e.g. Afghanistan exit. See Sun Zhou, how to win by cunning +gangster methods. Who benefits w Biden in post? Xi, on a path to world domination.
The U.K. exports more to the rest of the world than to the EU. We export more services than goods. Since Brexit our services exports have been very strong. We are now the second largest exporter of services after the US.
Recent increases in Non Dom tax have led to less tax from rich foreigners as more decide not stay or to come here to spend and invest. Labour plans would lose us more revenue.
The first thing we need to raise the growth rate and boost U.K. industry is cheaper energy. We over tax energy and have regulations which make it too dear.
The government needs to improve its offer to junior doctors, tackling working conditions as well as pay. We are losing too many expensively trained skilled doctors from the NHS.
After Brexit in 2016, I expected the UK would take the opportunity to remove the taxes that were primarily imposed by the EU for its own revenue such as import duties and VAT.
I never imagined that a Labour government would instead take that Brexit freedom to add VAT to one of the few industries that were exempt under EU VAT rules such as school and university education.
If Labour wanted to raise revenue, they would be imposing VAT on university fees. With 2.9 million university students of which 2.2 million are paying £9,250 per year and 680,000 foreign students paying on average £22,200, the VAT at 20pc would raise about £7bn each year.
This is considerably more than the £950m the Treasury estimates will be raised by adding VAT to private schools, and that is before considering the additional £1.1bn needed each year to educate the pupils that leave private education.
But we know Labour would not do this because charging VAT on private schools is about the politics of envy, not a revenue-raising exercise, especially as the Treasury has predicted it may end up costing the Government more money than it raises.
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