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tinyclanger2 wrote:I have a feeling that SD was making what's known as a small joke.

HindleA wrote:Yahyah how high is the Government expected to be?

Remember to laugh

RogerOThornhill wrote:Pure gold.

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AngryAsWell wrote:"At the Xmas party again? Blimey, how many a year do they have?"
Not sure, might be an odd children's Christmas party held by them, and maybe an OAP one, but in this case I meant "again" as a reference to last years party that caused a stink.

yahyah wrote:Government higher than expected again with income tax receipts slowing.
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edited to add.....Government borrowing higher than expected.

"Official figures showed that income tax receipts increased by only 1.1%, after several years of consistent 3%-plus growth..."

citizenJA wrote: Income-related tax down that much is regular people not being paid enough or at all.

Don’t call people stupid for voting for Brexit, cried the Daily Mail. The Daily Express came up with the term Project Sneer to condemn anyone who suggested that working-class voters might have been duped when they voted for Brexit. They are “not thick, not racist, just poor,” wailed the Spectator.

This didn’t last long though. The tabloids have decided working-class people are stupid after all. So stupid, it seems, that they can be led passively into taking industrial action by union leaders hell-bent on destroying the country. Yes, folks, the union barons are back again and they are planning to wreck Christmas with a wave of strikes.

Let’s look at what happened in the ballots for industrial action in the run up to Christmas.*

% Turnout % ‘Yes’ vote ‘Yes’ vote as % of all entitled to vote
Virgin pilots 80 88 70
Southern Rail drivers 77 87 67
Weetabix 70 90 63
BA cabin crew 60 79 47
Post Office 50 83 42
All were backed by large majorities of those who voted and most by a majority of those eligible to vote. All were above the 40 percent threshold in the yet-to-be-implemented Trade Union Act passed earlier this year.

Simon Jones
wonders whether the EU referendum got people back into the habit of voting to change things:

We’re currently seeing a wave of industrial disputes – railways, airline staff, Post Office workers, airport baggage handlers, Weetabix factory workers. While some suggest this is some wave of 1970s style union militancy, the fact is that the majority of these disputes are over ‘old-fashioned’ pay and conditions matters, and they are overwhelming supported by affected staff in secret ballots. Perhaps the Brexit vote has convinced ‘ordinary workers’ that they can change things by voting?

citizenJA wrote: Income-related tax down that much is regular people not being paid enough or at all.

yahyah wrote:Stephen...you do know that Christmas parties are held annually and the word again means once more, in addition, etc ?

Just checking. Not sure why her comment merited such a picky response.

Nigel Farage’s attack on Jo Cox’s widower is a new low. Enough
Owen Jones (Guardian)

Jon Pigeon ‏@PigeonJon 3h3 hours ago

My review of 2016.

Someone Died.
Someone Died.
Someone Died.
Someone Died.
Stupid Vote.
Someone Died.
Stupid Vote.
Someone Died.
Christmas.

tinyclanger2 wrote:(the punctuation, not christmas)

tinyclanger2 wrote:Off tomorrow so have a good one.