Politics 2024/25 General Election Voting Intention (2022)

[Scouse]

I'd also like the hidden costs covered - like children who remain at home to look after their parents - and who aren't recompensed for it.

I don't think we should be paying family for doing what family has done since humans evolved.

It's only recently that we split up family groups wholesale. Hunter gatherer societies look at what we do as madness.

If you can make the moral case for this, then fine. But what would you cut to fund it?

 

[Tom]

I wouldn't cut anything. That's the kind of churlish point always made on news interviews and it ignores the fact that good investment generates more tax. Investing in people, even if they're just caring for family members, will do the same.

 

[Scouse]

good investment generates more tax. Investing in people, even if they're just caring for family members, will do the same.

Please to be explaining how paying people to stay at home is going to generate more tax? How does this work, exactly? Where's the tax receipts for this coming from?

I think this is a nice soundbite. Warm and fluffy platitudes. But that's all it is.

However, I am totally up for being educated.

 

[Gwadien]

Diane Abbott readmitted into Labour Party after suspension

The long-serving MP apologises for past comments and says she has been issued with a "formal warning".

www.bbc.co.uk

I like that Diane Abbott is the headline here, not the other MP who's husband was arrested on Chinese spying charges - she should fall on her sword, or forced to be tbh.

 

[Embattle]

Diane Abbott readmitted into Labour Party after suspension

The long-serving MP apologises for past comments and says she has been issued with a "formal warning".

www.bbc.co.uk

I like that Diane Abbott is the headline here, not the other MP who's husband was arrested on Chinese spying charges - she should fall on her sword, or forced to be tbh.

That's good, because I'm fairly sure if Diane Abbot was made to fall on her sword, she would miss.

 

[Gwadien]

That's good, because I'm fairly sure if Diane Abbot was made to fall on her sword, she would miss.

Thanks for making point, one is a harmless old woman that has done some weird stuff, whereas the other one is probably a bit more important?