AIBU to want spending cuts rather than more tax rises?

You asked "who"... who else am I going to list, you think I have the personal.banking details for indivuduals? Or did you design it as a bad faith question?

This would damage our financial sector

No I didn't. What are you talking about?

I said "the UK government gets its greedy little hands on UK residents' worldwide income and capital gains, and IHT on world wide assets too."

Individuals.

It was you who listed "Shell, BP, Unilever, AstraZeneca, Rio Tinto.."

International companies.

They're welcome to i vest in the UK, they're not welcome to syphon the wealth out of it.
Why are we simping for large multinationals?

I mean wealthy residents too, but you insisted on taking the conversation down the route of companies so...

Good luck with getting any large multinationals investing in the UK if you don't allow them currency movement by the way 😂

So you're talking about the structure and operations of international companies?

Not wealthy UK residents?

Glad we cleared that up.

Shell, BP, Unilever, AstraZeneca, Rio Tinto...
Or are you just parroting Right Wing the poor should be in the workhouse nonsense?

It used to work like that - if you didn't have ILR and wanted a job/to change jobs, the company needed to prove that there was no-one else suitable from the UK and EU.

There still isn't eligibility for benefits without ILR either.
But bluntly put, if you've been given a work visa for the UK, and are no longer needed, then yes, home time.

Similar level of populist delusion as 'the rich need to pay their fair share' when they are already subsidising everyone else way, way above anything that could be considered fair or reasonable.

Triple lock needs to go
Civil service pensions need to be reduced
Get the Royal family to pay their share of tax, and not just what they fancy paying

Would you like to give some examples: of how to do it and of who has?

Or are you just repeating populist Leftie nonsense?

Not difficult enough apparently.

It's sadly very difficult to invest money outside the UK and not have to pay UK tax on it.

As I said, the UK government gets its greedy little hands on UK residents' worldwide income and capital gains, and IHT on world wide assets too.

Woke nonsense? Or merely sentiments with which you personally disagree?

Good to chat. Enjoy your Sunday.

So you’d be happy for this country to formalise the creation of two-tier economics and exacerbate the issue of ghettoisation, would you? Oh well, you do you.

No I'm talking about the millions being sent out by the wealthy to avoid tax.

Ermm...no....
Why would it?

Whereas currency export restrictions almost always lead to black markets and also bribery of customs officials. Or at least always have in the socialist countries where it was common. The UK did OK when we briefly restricted currency exports during and after the war - but the UK was pretty honest at that time. Our culture has changed hugely since then.

Unless you mean benefit recipients sending taxpayer money out of the country, despite the pleading that benefits are barely enough to live on. I've already said that I'd support stopping that.

"...often leads to corruption"
But letting peoole send vast amounts of money out of the country without restriction or penalty doesn't?

Currency export restrictions? The UK feels more and more like the USSR every day...

It can occasionally be helpful short term to prevent an economic shock, but it tends to stifle foreign investment and trade, and often leads to corruption.

There is a massive amount of Tong wastage in the civil service and public services, including the NHS which is poorly run at the top and needs less management and more boots on the ground, anyone that works within these will tell you this. All due to a lack of being held to account in spend in all areas, like a usual business would (and before anyone starts I get the NHS is not a business, but the wastage on management and admin is ridiculous). Cut nett zero.

Thats before we get into the other suggestions on here.

Yes, I am sorry, but it is high time we cut spend, made hard work pay by making it rewarding. Reward small businesses for growth and employment and raised the tax the thresholds. Let’s get more money back in people’s pockets and savings pots and more people out making that money and boosting the economy.

We also need to stop MPs taking back handers and having other jobs and cut the House of Lords. The system is far too corrupt and self serving in politics.

Change English to British and explain to me what exactly is the problem with a country having a policy of prioritising its own citizens for employment?
Or housing, healthcare or anything else actually.

Oh stop inventing nonsense to bolster your own sense of self-satisfaction.

It's not racist to want to employ UK residents instead of handing out visas to people we're not responsible for, leaving the UK people we have to pay for on benefits instead of them doing that perfectly easy to do unskilled job.

It's also not racist to expect immigrants to integrate, learn the language, take on key UK values, work and contribute. That's what you sign up for when you join a new country - or else it bloody should be.

These are perfectly normal expectations, and if you had the slightest vision you'd understand that there's no moral high ground in blindly running the UK into massive decline through thoughtless woke ideology.

Or changing what private schools which are a charity do with their money.

Oh wait, except there is a difference! When people pull their kids out of private school the government has to pay an extra £8k per year to educate them (where their parents were picking up the bill previously)... whereas if someone gets a less expensive motability car... <crickets>

This sounds great.

The UK is very different from EU countries, in that our benefits don't depend on previous contributions. That approach is on course to sink us.