@DB68284248@lancelachlan@robprogressive I have 3 kids, so that would be 60k per year plus a threefold likelihood of visiting hospitals. Doesn’t appeal so much
@Jo_Marney@alexnunns Palestinians are not Hamas. Hamas were reported to have killed 1,000 people indiscriminately on October 7th. Since then Israel has killed 53,000 Palestinians indiscriminately. A measured response or an attempt at genocide?
The criticisms of the India FTA are based on a series of misunderstandings.
🔴"Easier immigration". No. There is nothing in this deal about migration. Nothing. There is an extension of the CATEGORIES under which people can apply for work permits, but the total number can still be capped.
🔴"National Insurance Exemption". False. There is a general presumtion against double taxation. All employees of foreign companies get a 12-month exemption from paying NI. Britain has reciprocal treaties with several countries to extend that period, and India has now joined their company. Since foreign employees can't claim pensions or related benefits unless they have paid in for 10 years, it seems only fair.
🔴"Cheap competition". Tariff reduction is always good for both sides; but the main beneficiary is the country removing its tariffs. We are not cutting duties on Indian textiles or seafood as a favour to India; we are cutting them as a favour to ourselves. When prices fall, we have more to spend on other things, which drives growth.
🔴Even from a protectionist point of view, it is hard to see what we are losing from cheaper Indian garments. They are in competition, not with British products, but with imported garments from other Asian countries, especially China.
🔴Look at the big mutual gains in services - accounting, auditing, telecoms etc. India has not opened its vast market to anyone else on such terms.
🔴The tariff reductions are also significant, and cover 99 per cent of our traded goods.
🔴This is only the 16th FTA that India has signed, and is vastly more ambitious than the previous 15. We are now closely invested in one another's success. Given that India is the 4th largest economy in the world, about to overtake Germany to become the 3rd, this matters.
🔵In short, instead of carping, Conservatives should take credit for having initiated this important work, and congratulate @jreynoldsMP for completing it.
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@matjamcar @KarabergKara oh Matt 🤦♂️. How old are you? If it were not for initiatives such as DEI you would be living in a world that @KarabergKara has highlighted. And it was really not that long ago.
And they were critical of the council not of Keir Starmer.
Also did Labour pass the Online Safety Act in 2023? Bit difficult as they had not been elected at that time. You keep drinking the Kool Aid lies from Farage and Tice
@jacob3866278, seeings as I cannot reply I have posted your comment and will reply here. Greater Manchester Police visited the pensioner to say that a complaint had been made but no crime had been committed. It was their duty to do so.
@jacob3866278 @justdave89now @Phil197881 No new laws have come into being regarding Facebook posts. Existing laws are in place with respect to inciting violence, and thus you could be prosecuted, irrespective of medium, for breaking the law. This has been true this year, last year, 20 years, 50 years ago.
@jacob3866278 @justdave89now @Phil197881 I did not say Farage was aligned to Hitler. You stated Labour cancelled/postponed elections, which clearly from my link was not the case. Thus your ignorance, and ignorance in general leads to fascism.
@penhaphi @justdave89now How am I misleading when the fact remains that elections were postponed on the request of Councils due to boundary changes. Nothing to do with ‘bloodbath’
@BristolNewland @justdave89now 1. Spend 20 years convincing the UK to leave its biggest export market. 2.Succeed. 3. UK economy loses £100 billion annually 4. Come back 10yrs later, point out the wrecked economy & road potholes. 5. Voters go "Yeah!" 6. Win elections. British politics is a black comedy.