Thought I'd start a new thread as this is going to be a major talking point this year...have not made up my mind yet...(unlike bucksfizz)....but thinking of voting for an exit as Europe is not doing Britain any good at all it seems....

Spreadsheet Phil appears to be on a kamikaze mission..



Philip Hammond's 'tax on age' plan to save his job: take from old workers and give to the young



By Christopher Hope, Chief Political Correspondent
16 October 2017 • 7:24am




Philip Hammond is planning a Budget raid on older workers to pay for tax breaks for younger people as he battles to save his job. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is understood to be examining ways to link tax to age to promote “intergenerational fairness” in next month’s Budget.

Tax breaks would be offered to workers in their 20s and 30s, paid for by cutting reliefs for older and better off workers.

One Whitehall source said the Budget, to be unveiled on Nov 22, would be a “bold” attempt to “restack the deck for the next generation”.

The policy, already dubbed a "tax on age", will be controversial because it will target voters who are more likely to vote Conservative. The Tories' disastrous election result in June was blamed on a poorly-thought through "dementia tax".

It comes as Mr Hammond is fighting for his job amid fears that he could be the first Chancellor since Norman Lamont in 1993...



More: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/15/philip-hammond-mulling-new-age-tax-raid-older-workers-budget/

I've just posted most of that on the Budget thread Max..you blind or what 😀

I missed that one Stan.

But what do you think of Phil's proposal? Vote winner or what??

It's only newspaper speculation Max so I really don't have a view on it.

Phil's on his way out and so he should be.

I tried reading The Guardian once, too many smelling pistakes.

A Manu reading...well there's a surprise 😀

It was for the pictures really. Still feel pop-up versions would save printed editions.

Cheers,
KidA

Why don't he just promise students free education or summat , they'll flock over to Cons as they are intelligent sorts . ( or maybe just lie )

Urgent progress is needed on a Brexit transition period to prevent City firms implementing contingency plans that could put up to 75,000 UK financial services sector jobs at risk, a leading industry lobby group has warned. In a plea to negotiators ahead of the n meeting later this week, TheCityUK also said that the stakes are high for the remaining 27 EU nations, where jobs and inward investment will be at risk if a two-year transition period cannot be agreed quickly.

Watch the UK become a colony of the EU and China over the next 4years of Maybe government.

I await the budget!

So so sad .

This is them VIC ,miserable , part of the lets talk Britain down brigade , i'd have them strung up for treason .

Lefties are always miseries.

Another day closer to leaving.

Rejoice the march to suicide has started for some.

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It will be good to begging for leftovers from the table without being able to read the menu.

Perpetual Melancholy .

The problem with that argument, Fred, is that, with 1/7th of the EU's total GDP and population, yet only a 1/28th of a say of what's written on the menu, the UK wasn't able to eat rosbif and had to make do with frogs' legs and sauerkraut instead.

Personally, I quite like frogs' legs and sauerkraut, but I can understand why Dilbert prefers his lamb. :o)

In other words Freda you've had your chips .