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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.
You can see Starmer adopting the Chinese approach with ID cards, all sorts of data will be held on them and certain freedoms will be dependent on your behaviour.
Expansionist is the work, the ECHR requires a Government to provide protection for anyone at risk of destitution. This has been turned into a narrow focus on migrants rights rather than the general population by lawyers, courts and Government. If migrants are given ' favourable ' treatment compared to other groups who are at risk of destitution them people are correct to call out the difference as the ECHR makes no provision for distinguishing between groups beyond those ' at risk of destitution '.
The Home Office state that they do not track how much they spend on immigrants taxi fares. We blame Governments but the civil servants are just as incompetent.
I see Starmer has now said the Palestinian pay to slay policy has to cease by before and peace process can start. The bloke is an idiot, you can't solve an entrenched conflict that has existed for such a long time by standing up and making individual announcements from thousands of miles away.
One of our problems is the complexity of the tax code. Here's an article that outlines the issue and why simply increasing the rate for the highest earners does not really work ; they have multiple income sources and the tax code is so complicated that there are different options with respect to how earned income and unearned income is taxed. The top earners are also likely to hold sufficient wealth to allow them to choose how and when they take 'income'. Throw in the increasing globalisation of the financial systems and there is a whole lot of wriggle room which in effect means that pushing too hard on a particular area such as income tax or capital gains tax will see a change in behaviour. If we are to increase taxes on the highest earners and owners we also need to make significant changes to the tax code and be smart enough to avoid the ' unintended consequences '. What hits the poorest hardest is taxes like VAT, Council Tax and fuel duty. The current government has opened the door for council tax increases and I would expect some increases in the scope of VAT and the level of fuel duty in the next budget. What we need is a budget that gets money moving in the economy.
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