To reduce hours when labour win election

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I fall into the “60%” tax bracket. With the upcoming elections and knowing the government always hammer the middle ground….woudlnt it make more sense for me to cut my hours for a more relaxed life, eligibility for childcare, reduced tax?

It’s something I know about, yes, as it overlaps with my work.

By definition I meant the unemployed bit. If they have a job they are not unemployed.

I doubt that.

Really? It is usually the ones earning £100k plus moaning on here.

If people do as pp say and fuck off there won’t be much laughing

People will lose it more than they are on this thread

They are also not realising that behind the populist policy. Starmer has backtracked and he won’t be high taxing and spending. We can’t afford to. Already running the credit card to the max each month to pay the welfare bill as not enough people paying in. The lack of logical thinking in the general population is mind blowing. Hence why they think anyone can walk into a STEM job. No - that required an ounce of intelligence.

The ones earning over 100k and claiming to work incredibly hard seem to spend the most time on MN.

Hmm… I don’t think it is. Same posters all day quoting themselves.

Plus many work so not taken, take, take.

Offensive bollocks.

There isn't a "credit card" that's just stupid populist rhetoric of a type that has been popular ever since Thatcher's patronising dense sound bites.

Why does every thread on mumsnet at the moment descend into attacking the disabled? Is this the in fashion thing for morons? First it was the women ruining the country by taking jobs, then immigrants, now its the disabled being attacked. It doesn't matter how much you earn, if you hold these views you will be remembered by future generations of your family as a vile person.

Yes, it is pathetic.

Under a Tory government, more children go to bed hungry. Tory policies increase child poverty. So if you vote Tory, that is what you're voting for.

I am not looking forward to paying more on my children's school fees, but I'm looking at forgoing holidays not needing food banks to nourish my kids. I'll vote Labour at my own personal expense because I cannot be the kind of person who would rather children go without coats and shoes and food than me pay a bit more tax out of my high earnings. I'm still very well rewarded - but maybe under a Labour government I'll have access to a functioning health service and clean water rather than my taxes paying dividends to millionaires while our infrastructure crumbles.

I am confused why would any child go to bed hungry? We have so many food banks. Surely that is just parental neglect.

Food banks are a symptom not a solution.

You often have to have a referral and you often can't have more than 2 referrals in a given period. They are not an answer to poverty.

JOBS are answers to poverty.

That's surprising given the majority of people in poverty are in work.

Incredible isn’t it.

We have so many food banks thanks to Tory austerity. It's shameful that they're needed - and disgraceful that anyone believes they plug the gaps sufficiently. Hungry children coming to crumbling schools, ill from black mould, inadequately dressed for the weather are a political choice and not a necessity or an inevitability. It would be nice to assuage any pangs of conscience by deciding it's personal choice and fecklessness but that's simply not true.

I am a high earner.
I am either a high earner because I was helped into the world by the NHS, educated by the state education system and am paid lots of money in a system with an infrastructure paid by the state. Someone like me should be happy to pay tax.

Or, I could be a high earner from a posher background (I am not), in which case I had private education and private healthcare. In that case, I would have had a privileged life build around a state, that includes educating, caring for its population, helping to provide healthy people who gave me that affluence.

Either way, I should be paying tax.

The only thing I see to grumble about is that tax is progressive on earned income, whereas income from being rich (housing and stocks) is lightly taxed.

Confused? Jesus!

So mumsnet is full of pensioners and long term sick? Do you have any experience with being long term sick?

And you want them all doing OU courses to do what - pick up high earning jobs? Or just to get them off MN?

I thought at first you were just a Tory but now I'm thinking you must be a Tory policy maker.

I’m not a Tory or a Tory policy maker. So stop troll hunting. I’ve never voted Tory. I won’t vote for Labour either. They can’t answer how they will get us out of the highest state dependency on record which we borrow to fund. They need to make work pay and fast.