Cut inheritance tax, I'll pay more tax so some kids can get a free house

[Cyclone]

By selling off the NHS to their mates. By giving tax cuts to the rich and shifting the burden to the poor.

They want people to work, sure, for zero hours contracts or on minimum wage.

[exxon]

By selling off the NHS to their mates. By giving tax cuts to the rich and shifting the burden to the poor.

They want people to work, sure, for zero hours contracts or on minimum wage.

 

Which parts of the NHS have been sold off? What part of the million and a half jobs were zero hour contracts? Hasn't minimum wage increased rather a lot since 2010?

[999tigger]

Which parts of the NHS have been sold off? What part of the million and a half jobs were zero hour contracts? Hasn't minimum wage increased rather a lot since 2010?

 

Min wage during that period has gone from £5.93 to £6.70. So about 20p a year.

[Cyclone]

Which parts of the NHS have been sold off?

 

It's a work in progress, they've only been in power for 18 months.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-31435842

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nhs-sell-out-tories-sign-largest-5323402

 

At the moment the strategy is to under fund it and to run a massive PR campaign about how it's failing, has failed, how all the Drs spend their time on the golf course and how the junior doctors contract must be changed.

It WILL then actually fail, because there are insufficient doctors joining or being trained, because it's already a very hard job.

And once it's well and truly failing, due to the actions of the current government, they'll declare that privatisation is the only way to save it, and sell off all the bits that can make money to their friends.

 

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What part of the million and a half jobs were zero hour contracts? Hasn't minimum wage increased rather a lot since 2010?

 

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/02/number-of-workers-on-zero-hours-contracts-up-by-19

 

Do you live in some sort of conservative PR bubble? Can't you read the news?

 

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http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/oct/28/uk-living-standards-return-to-pre-recession-levels-after-seven-years

 

Household income increases. But if you look at the details, it hasn't for the average working person, it's increased primarily for the pensioner.

[max]

Which parts of the NHS have been sold off? What part of the million and a half jobs were zero hour contracts? Hasn't minimum wage increased rather a lot since 2010?

 

Rather than asking that question on here it would have been simpler to Google it verbatim. Which parts of the NHS have been sold off

[999tigger]

The Financial Times reported in April 2013 that there are almost 100,000 zero hours contracts in use across NHS hospitals, the number

having risen by 24% over two years.

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Increased use of zero hours contracts in the NHS had previously been noted by the British Medical Association, as reported in the

British Medical Journal

:

Mark Porter, chairman of the BMA council, said, “An expansion of zero hours contracts in the NHS is of great concern. While they have a minor role in allowing

recently retired doctors to continue to work, they are not conducive to planning coherent cohesive services which focus on the care of patients.”

2

 

From a parliamentary briefing paper Sept 2015

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=8&ved=0CEoQFjAHahUKEwiktbn_vefIAhXLOxQKHeexDBY&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.parliament.uk%2Fbriefing-papers%2FSN06553.pdf&usg=AFQjCNGAI9Ow0lfMLc7F2w0TRXAeLjDYkw&cad=rja

[jfish1936]

I've seen problems with inheritance taxes, e.g.:

1/. A business such as a farm is valued, and a tax is levied, so large that the farm must be sold to pay; the famioly is forced off the land.

2/. In the glorious days of the 1940s, rent control held down the sale value of rented property. So a house, valued at 2,000 pounds "with vacant possession", could only be sold for 50 pounds with a sitting tenant.

Therefore, owning rented houses was economic suicide (some list members will be cheering!), as their sale didn't raise the cash to pay the tax, and the government wouldn't accept the house at their own valuation.

The solution was to sell to Peter Rachmann or a similar character; really good for the tenants! (Google him if you don't know)

[exxon]

Min wage during that period has gone from £5.93 to £6.70. So about 20p a year.

 

Don't you mean about £400/year each year, or a £2000 pay rise over the period.

Edited October 29, 2015 by exxon

[999tigger]

Don't you mean about £400/year each year, or a £2000 pay rise over the period.

 

No, you asked by how much it had increased, everyone expresses it in the hourly rate including the government. The reason being that people work different hours.

 

You would also need to factor in inflation over the five year period to show whether the rise was in real terms or not.

[exxon]

It's a work in progress, they've only been in power for 18 months.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-31435842

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nhs-sell-out-tories-sign-largest-5323402

 

At the moment the strategy is to under fund it and to run a massive PR campaign about how it's failing, has failed, how all the Drs spend their time on the golf course and how the junior doctors contract must be changed.

It WILL then actually fail, because there are insufficient doctors joining or being trained, because it's already a very hard job.

And once it's well and truly failing, due to the actions of the current government, they'll declare that privatisation is the only way to save it, and sell off all the bits that can make money to their friends.

 

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http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/02/number-of-workers-on-zero-hours-contracts-up-by-19

 

Do you live in some sort of conservative PR bubble? Can't you read the news?

 

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http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/oct/28/uk-living-standards-return-to-pre-recession-levels-after-seven-years

 

Household income increases. But if you look at the details, it hasn't for the average working person, it's increased primarily for the pensioner.

 

 

I can read the news but I prefer not to take the left wing bias from the Mirror or Guadian.

 

To be honest I'm pretty happy with the way things have gone since Brown was kicked out. The inheritence tax is something the government has tackled and it is very popular in the country as a whole. It won't suit the despots from the socialist republic, but at least it will give them something else to moan about whilst they get used to being in opposition.

 

Incidentally what do you think Corbyn meant when he said folks should be able to inherit a normal family house?

 

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No, you asked by how much it had increased, everyone expresses it in the hourly rate including the government. The reason being that people work different hours.

 

You would also need to factor in inflation over the five year period to show whether the rise was in real terms or not.

 

 

I didn't ask anything at all.

What's the matter don't you like the fact that the minimum wage has increased by around £2000/year. That's 13% you know. Not too bad considering the financial mess Labour got us into.

Edited October 29, 2015 by exxon