Reform party ditch all the tax cuts they promised

Notch7 said:
The tax cuts were always a false promise used to generate votes, as anybody paying attention knew.

Tice also said that plans to drop the income tax threshold to £20,000 will become an “aspiration”

Note that these promises were pushed over this summer when they were riding high in the polls

They are still promising to reduce spending…..but Reform councils have already dropped such claims, so Reform can’t be trusted on that either.

www.theguardian.com

Reform UK abandoning manifesto pledge of £90bn in tax cuts, deputy leader admits

Richard Tice says party will concentrate on cutting civil service and scrapping net zero once in government
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Sadly it is just a reflection of the state our country is in, there has to be tax rises, I would guess Rachel will be breaking her promise too. Country is heading towards a total mess, Brexit was the beginning of it, followed by years of the most incompetent gov ever (not helped by covid) And now sadly the current lot seem clueless or they are just trying to appease the far left with their crazy economics

VAT and/or basic Income Tax has to rise to pay for it all (the easy nom dom money tree seems to have vanished)
 
pete01 said:
Is it ok with you? Oh thank god
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You can be impressed by who you like

Expect others to be surprised though.

So, no I don't think he is impressive. Do you mind ?

I don't care if you mind or not, I make up my own mind
 
carmanmemoranda said:
You can be impressed by who you like

Expect others to be surprised though.

So, no I don't think he is impressive. Do you mind ?

I don't care if you mind or not, I make up my own mind
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I already have made my own mind up what's it to you?

And no I dont mind, in fact I dont give a sh1t
 
pete01 said:
but you must admit that bloke is impressive?
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How was that clip evidence of him being impressive?

Here is the analysis that you should have done:

1) he says only 50% of Drs in foundation years have jobs in place. The reason is because there are not enough speciality training places due to lack of funding in Primary care trusts.

The question you should be asking is: how would Reform fund it given their policy is massive funding cuts.


2) he uses Drs as the example of how w could use British citizens if above is solved

The question you should be asking is: why has he framed it with Drs….there is a crisis in social care and there are shortages in various clinical roles including nursing

To fill those roles with British citizens would require far more getting trained….and that’s only going to happen if University grants are available as an incentive……how would Reform pay for that.

3) He uses the old trope of “health tourism” It’s not actually true, people coming here on visas have to pay an NHS surcharge of £1035 per year.

There is some “health tourism” as anybody pretty much can get emergency care. I dare say it could be made chargeable but how much would the admin cost?



Zia Yusuf was doing what Reform do: sell simple solutions to complex problems, sure he sounded plausible but once you follow the actual practical trail his arguments fall apart like a suit bought at poundstretcher
 
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