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All the Digital ID descriptions in your post are possible today if you have the technology. My car listens to me, knows my Google sign on and exactly where I am and where I'm driving. HMRC knows all about me and my bank account details. Something like a Fitbit will hold all your health data, our on line lives are monitored and if we leave all the tech behind there are still facial recognition systems.
Frustrating again today. Millwall were quite limited and a weak ref helped them.
Overall I feel it's better that we have some very good players that are not quite coming together as a team rather than have not so good players grinding out results.
I agree.......and the brain to do it, you do not want people with a certain ideological view, you need someone with enough objectivity to re balance the system. I fear Torsten Bell will just tweak what we have now, a tax code that has become unhelpful and does not lead to sustainable improvements.
Yes, it's now become difficult to address. You'd have to raise the minimum wage, cut welfare and Corporation Tax and get all the other variables right to balance the impacts. The risk is that small businesses that employ most people in the UK are not all profitable; business rates, employment taxes, energy costs for business *etc. have all risen sharply in recent years. To undo all this you'd have to make some significant changes to the tax code which is quite risky as it is now very complicated, we are rather boxed into a corner after incremental tax rises have been eating up the room for change. We need someone who is particularly brave and very clever to reset the whole system. That is what is so frustrating about Starmer he has a big majority to do difficult things.
The bottom line is that the current inadequate infrastructure means that large wind farm projects in many locations are uneconomic, unless you guarantee payments for every KWH. So that's what the Government is doing, agreeing to hand over money for nothing at rates above the current cost of energy, we high already over inflated because of levies. It may be a good idea to invest in the infrastructure location by location so you can get the benefit of any additional wind power?
I wonder if Thunberg will claim that they are being held against their will, only to discover that those being held were refusing to be deported like last time.
This guy is a fan of Keynesian economics, which states for example that if the economy is in a slump then you should increase government spending on public works (like infrastructure projects) and lower taxes to increase aggregate demand and create jobs.
Yes, you can see how it all joins up, surveillance systems and digital identifications means that it is all too easy to take away people's access to fundamental parts of our life.
I've just been talking to an old team mate about Rangers and our man Russell Martin. He's noticed that things are worse immediately after half time at Rangers, sounds familiar. He reminded me of an old manager, Dave Ramage, who came out with some strange stuff. We were playing at Belper Town and Dave told our left winger to hug the touchline in the second half " because the floodlights are poor and they won't pick you up under the shadow of the stand ". He then turned to Jim Jarvie, by far our best player and told him to get the ball out to Stevie on the wing. Jim replied " I hope that's not the same Stevie that you can't see ".
As this is a football board, you can see quite quickly how it will be used to check people into football grounds. Anybody with any kind of offence related to disorder will not be granted entrance. Don't belief me, the police are now knocking people's doors for saying things that are not actually a crime and registering them, in the event of a DBS check these non crimes show on a person's record. That's what we are up against.
Here's the impact assessment of the rises in CT and CGT in the 2024 budget. It's okay saying tax the rich but the tax code is so complicated there many options around both CT and CGT. Furthermore if you raise costs to businesses guess what happens to CT. The issue here is not political philosophy but the financial competence of the current Government, you don't need to be clever to think that if you increase the jobs tax on business, increase the business rates and increase minimum wage all at the same time that the CT takes will reduce and unemployment creep up. It's exactly what's happened. If you read Torsten Bell's analysis to 2030 you'll find generalised assumptions such as small businesses have capacity to absorb tax increases and tax rises in the hospitality will lead to increase costs, which will be met by the middle class as they are the principal users of the hospitality sector. He says nothing about those hospitality price rises and the working class population!!
Here's the IOD assessment of the impact of the last budget. As you say there's a huge amount to be done but the last budget was a step in the wrong direction as well as the issues highlighted in the IOD report, the tax take has not come in from the last budget we are 40 to 50 billion short and the cost of borrowing is at a 28 year high. Remember the budget was to ' fix the foundations ' Unemployment and inflation has increased this year and if the Government takes more money out of the economy at the next budget then we won't see much growth in the short term and the negative financial trends will continue
If you want to do some work balancing your mental health, the Huberman Series has a four part series with Paul Conti. Each session is about three hours.
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