What do you want out of the new government?

[chillymorns]

Whoever they are.

I want -

A better management and investment in key areas of the NHS

Cheaper utilities

More money for disabled people and their families

More tax on those earning over a certain %, so maybe those on £100k plus being taxed a bit further

Cheaper railways being introduced

Better investment in local facilities

Please share yours I voted Labour last time and will do so again. The Tories just need to be gone, and I'm not convinced those with any sense will say otherwise

This article by Matthew Syed in The Times explains why without a secure, reliable, affordable energy policy we might as well whistle for all our wish list wants
https://www.thetimes.com/article/d0ef534d-861a-4742-a38f-bcd152a24d06?shareToken=7fb5c618e758cf97c920130d86b7dee9

Honesty and Integrity. We can dream !

Doesn’t anyone else get tired of hearing “more tax on those earning more than…”
what about encouraging people to try to improve things for themselves- earn more themselves… rather than expecting things to fall into their laps
and no I am definitely not a high earner

Honesty
Transparency
Accountability
Mandatory community-led investigation of corrupt public bodies
Fair pay
Retrospective punishments for corporate crime
Abolition of Ofsted

For starters.

Agree.
Many doctors reduce their hours or working week and even started retiring early when there was a cap on pension contributions. You get to the point when, there’s no point.

Stop borrowing money.
Get the public finances in order.
Reduce the debt to gdp ratio.

More likely that even more people will do what lots of doctors and dentists are doing and just reducing their working hours every week, i.e. knock off a day or half a day to get themselves back under the £100k. So, great, not only worsening the shortage of highly qualified/experienced and desperately needed workers, but also lose tax revenue too! Sounds like a brilliant idea!!!

What we really need is all these stupid cliff edges and ridiculously high marginal rates scrapped. Now that would be something I'd love Kier to do as soon as he gets into power. Even better would be graduated tax rates, i.e. not just 0/20/40/45, but how about 0/10/20/30/40/50 which would make the average tax graph a lot smoother than the current mountain range and remove the crazy high marginal rates.

By the way, I'd also put an immediate ban on any form of "marginal" tax (i.e. income tax, NIC, student loan, etc and loss of benefits) over 50%, so that any worker of any wage level never loses more in tax (or loss of benefits) than half of every extra pound they earn. Make work pay!!

The long and repeated lockdowns were caused by Johnson delaying and dithering on locking down. Labour did not have access to the data and the civil service so they acted on trust that Johnson was correct. They did not want to hamper efforts to quell the number of deaths by disunity in parliament.

i think the campaign of fear was generated by the amount of deaths.

I think that there was a lot of media hype re the number of deaths. When you look at overall death rates for the covid years, they weren't particularly high and lots of people died from things other than covid because they couldn't get treatment for other illnesses/diseases. Then of course we have the figures that were "died WITH" covid rather than died OF covid, which also skewed the figures to look worse than they were.

No one comes out of it well. Neither the Tories nor Labour. It was all an almighty cock up!

Take the 3 million excluded from covid support. It could have been a spectacular own goal for Rishi and Reeves/Starmer should have jumped all over it and hammered Rishi for excluding so many people so arbitrarily and without any logic nor fairness. They couldn't be bothered to research the reasons themselves so were like a damp squib in Parliament when "tacking" Rishi on the matter. A couple of unknown backbenchers did a much better job!

Humanity.
Oops !

As of today it seems they didn’t have that in their manifesto