February 2021 politics thread - jab and snow

[colinzealuk]

@wewerewerewolvesonce

I’m genuinely curious as to how he’s going to justify it

Isn’t the line that “we want to see a return to OCED average levels of corporate taxation, but during the recovery from a pandemic is not the time - we need to focus on business investment and growth instead.”

Seems they’re going for the economically responsible/friend to business angle, but I’m not exactly convinced that what they’re calling for is incompatible with a higher tax on profits.

[wewerewerewolvesonce]

@colinzealuk

Isn’t the line that “we want to see a return to OCED average levels of corporate taxation, but during the recovery from a pandemic is not the time - we need to focus on business investment and growth instead.”

Yes, although perhaps I’m missing something but higher corporation taxes don’t prevent things like investing in R&D or fixed capital (to some extent I guess certain investment allowances are being lowered).

[colinzealuk]

Yeah, that’s kind of what I was getting at with my last bit… I don’t see why Labour can’t call for both, but I think that’s down to them trying to brand themselves as pro-business / new management still. In my mind it’s a losing battle and the best pitch Labour have had since the earliest of New Labour in terms of cosying up to business in a way that wasn’t laughable is when Miliband talked about “Responsible Capitalism”.

[marckee]

I thought that this was pretty funny

Atomic Mitten (misslucyp)

[marckee]

This is a brave tweet…

Jo Maugham (JolyonMaugham)

[marckee]

Election Maps UK (ElectionMapsUK)

[FKA_Adam_Jeffson]

[wewerewerewolvesonce]

[Icarus-Smicarus]

normal

Sam McBride (SJAMcBride)

[Kallgeese]

Fuck’s sake.

[Matt_was_taken]

fucking hell.

[AtTheBorderGuy]

Scottish election campaign materials starting to trickle in. I’ve had leaflets from the Tories and the Lib Dems. Literally every line was about the SNP; not a single policy between them. Contemporary party politics sucks.

[TheWza]

Unionist parties before the election: A vote for the SNP is a vote for another independence referendum.
SNP before the election: We intend to hold an independence referendum if we win the election.
[SNP wins election]
SNP after the election: We intend to hold an independence referendum.
Unionist parties after the election: Now is not the time. Once in a generation. Dividing families. My DaUgHtEr In PoRtSmOuTh WoUlD bEcOmE a FoReIgNeR. More/better/faster/sexier/federal devolution.

[FKA_Adam_Jeffson]

Oh good

Johnson's poll lead over Labour boosted by Covid vaccine rollout

[Icarus-Smicarus]

lol interesting choice of words

The Irish Times (IrishTimes)

[dingaling]

No words

[the_ravens]

Bringing in here because it’s not directly corona chat any more

Coronavirus Thread 5 #ssp

Agreed - this has been going on for years in England with supply teachers. A lot (all?) councils outsourced their services for sourcing and placing supply/temporary teachers to private companies. Going rate for a supply teacher is around £100-150 per day or something like that depending on area/experience, but the private companies charge 3 times that to the school/council. Absolute racket.

It’s (IMO) an inevitable consequence of private sector involvement.

In my first job as a graduate IT dev/support guy my time was charged to clients at about six times what I was paid!

[the_ravens]

March Attacks: The Politics Thread

I just wanted to create a new one with a rubs title. Enjoy