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Jesus lads, 'tis looking like BREXIT!
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<blockquote data-quote="How bad boy" data-source="post: 7425372" data-attributes="member: 3028"><p>Thing is, his government has actually got some decent ideas at times. </p><p>But even with the decent ideas, the execution is incompetent.</p><p></p><p>Like extending support for childcare down to 9 months old. Fantastic, would help loads of struggling families, however the funding provided to pay for it is insufficient for nursery providers to actually afford to provide it. </p><p></p><p>Or the energy price cap, did at least partially mitigate some of the worst of the problems with energy price rises for individuals. But then the mechanism for bringing prices back down again is absolutely fucked and massively disincentives companies to reduce prices.</p><p></p><p>The minimum wage has been increased from £8.72 to £11.44, a 31% increase in 4 years, a 20% increase in the past 2. That's a massive increase, and should be applauded. But at the same time, tax thresholds have barely shifted in that last 4 years, dragging way, way more people into higher tax bands.</p><p></p><p>Levelling up - good idea, invest in disadvantaged areas. Bad idea - giving far more per head of population to the least deprived places (<a href="https://www.progressive-policy.net/publications/the-levelling-up-fund-which-is-anything-but" target="_blank">https://www.progressive-policy.net/publications/the-levelling-up-fund-which-is-anything-but</a>). It's lovely, for example, that Reading received £19.1 million to build a new central library (the old one is ugly as sin...) and improving a local theatre, but it doesn't strike me as a sensible use of those funds.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="How bad boy, post: 7425372, member: 3028"] Thing is, his government has actually got some decent ideas at times. But even with the decent ideas, the execution is incompetent. Like extending support for childcare down to 9 months old. Fantastic, would help loads of struggling families, however the funding provided to pay for it is insufficient for nursery providers to actually afford to provide it. Or the energy price cap, did at least partially mitigate some of the worst of the problems with energy price rises for individuals. But then the mechanism for bringing prices back down again is absolutely fucked and massively disincentives companies to reduce prices. The minimum wage has been increased from £8.72 to £11.44, a 31% increase in 4 years, a 20% increase in the past 2. That's a massive increase, and should be applauded. But at the same time, tax thresholds have barely shifted in that last 4 years, dragging way, way more people into higher tax bands. Levelling up - good idea, invest in disadvantaged areas. Bad idea - giving far more per head of population to the least deprived places ([URL]https://www.progressive-policy.net/publications/the-levelling-up-fund-which-is-anything-but[/URL]). It's lovely, for example, that Reading received £19.1 million to build a new central library (the old one is ugly as sin...) and improving a local theatre, but it doesn't strike me as a sensible use of those funds. [/QUOTE]
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