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Whilst it is true in general that NI is regressive because of its step-down (the main point made by Maugham), that logic doesn’t apply to this increase, which is a flat 1.25% with no step down. It’s certainly not progressive but it’s not regressive either, in itself.
Is it on all income then? ie 13.5% up to £50K (rather than 12%) and 3.75% above £50K (up from 2%) All the searches I've done seem very vague on that point but the impression I get is that it will still cut off at £50K.
 
Is it on all income then? ie 13.5% up to £50K (rather than 12%) and 3.75% above £50K (up from 2%) All the searches I've done seem very vague on that point but the impression I get is that it will still cut off at £50K.
Judging only from the “if you earn this then you will pay that” tables that the newspapers are so fond of, it applies to the complete income above the LEL (or whatever they are calling it these days).
 
In itself, no. But it’s still also the case that the higher up the pay scale you go the more likely the individual is to have other forms of (unearned) income. So proportionality it could be argued as regressive.
I considered going into this but it is complicated by the fact that an equivalent additional levy is going to applied to dividends too. And there will be many pensioners on lower incomes that don’t pay any NI at all. In the end, I think the point is that applying an addition to NI with no upper limit is not inherently a regressive measure in itself, and not in the way implied by that Maugham thread. That doesn’t inherently mean I agree with the approach or think it is the fair one, I just don’t want the anti-Tory backlash to be based on the wrong thing.
 
Looks promising - email from CPRE:

This could be the win we’ve been working towards.

Today’s Times front page reported that the government is set to ‘abandon’ its damaging proposals to deregulate the planning system [1].

If the reports are true, this is a huge campaign success. Without your collective action over the past year, signing petitions and piling pressure on your MPs, this wouldn’t have been possible.

Together we’ve chipped away at the government’s proposed developers’ charter. Together we’ve made the case that local democracy should be at the heart of the planning system.

See if it will (not) happen.
 

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Link to the BBC Breakfast tweet - TRIGGER WARNING contains a clip of this revolting piece of shit
 
It’s ‘there’s no such thing as society’ and ‘get on your bike and get a job’ 2.0 (or 5.0…I’ve lost count). Divide to conquer divide to rule. As old as Satan.
 
They're really not incompetent or stupid right? You do know that right? Look at the record of Tory success since 1979. I'm not suggesting there's a deficit on the left in ability either.
Never underestimate the enemy. The title of this thread pisses me off.
 
They're really not incompetent or stupid right? You do know that right? Look at the record of Tory success since 1979. I'm not suggesting there's a deficit on the left in ability either.
Never underestimate the enemy. The title of this thread pisses me off.
There is a lot of money behind them to pay for competent marketing around the time of elections, but the individuals fronting this libertarian nightmare are the worst kind of overpromoted British management class.
 
There is a lot of money behind them to pay for competent marketing around the time of elections, but the individuals fronting this libertarian nightmare are the worst kind of overpromoted British management class.
Sure. The point I'm making is don't underestimate the enemy.
 


If thats the case why did they cancel Xmas last year, I was going to be with my most of my family and we arent strangers, the Torys are such utter, utter fuckers.
 


Although I am not a fan of Peston, will be interesting if this time he is right.

I mean they have such a load of talent to choose from.

I Think Coffey and Raab will be gone and Patel promoted to grand empress of the cuntry.
 
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