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CBI conference chairman desperate for BJ to finish his speech

adam wrote:1. We're going to cut taxes, because cutting taxes raises revenue.
2. We're going to cancel the tax cut, and cancelling the tax cut will raise revenue.

PorFavor wrote:

adam wrote:1. We're going to cut taxes, because cutting taxes raises revenue.
2. We're going to cancel the tax cut, and cancelling the tax cut will raise revenue.

Isn't that rather like what's known as a "compensating error"?

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I am absolutely delighted to be standing in Carshalton and Wallington against the LibDems' 22-year undemocratic, Remain stranglehold over a 56.3% #Leave constituency which really deserves much, much better. #ChangePoliticsForGood @brexitparty_uk

The Federation of Small Businesses has welcomed Jeremy Corbyn’s promise to tackle the late payments crisis which has left many small businesses waiting without cash for invoices to be honoured.

“Our late payment crisis remains the biggest scourge afflicting the UK’s small business community. It destroys 50,000 firms a year at a cost of at least £2.5bn to the economy,” said chairman Mike Cherry.

Corporation tax revenue has increased since 2010 even while the headline rate has been cut. But that does not mean that rate reductions have increased revenue.

First ... much of the rise in revenue since 2010 is simply recovering from the effects of the financial crisis and recession. We would have expected a recovery in profits even if the corporation tax rate had not been cut.

Second, while the government has reduced the headline rate of corporation tax, at the same time it has increased corporation tax in other ways, including reducing capital allowances for investment, introducing the bank surcharge, restricting companies’ ability to offset past losses against future profits, and a raft of anti-avoidance measures ... Taken together these measures recoup around £10bn of the £13bn spent reducing the headline rate.

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God knows what we did a previous life to deserve a choice between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn, but it must have been fucking terrible.

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We (the country) voted for Cameron rather than Miliband.

gilsey wrote:The Liberal Democrats and SNP have lost a high court challenge against ITV over its decision to exclude their party leaders from a televised election debate.

G4S has no place on ethical index, London Stock Exchange told

Campaigners say conscientious investors would be ‘horrified’ by link to controversial firm

Human rights campaigners have criticised the London Stock Exchange Group for including G4S on ethical investment indices, after the British security company was accused of contributing to human rights violations.

The FTSE4Good index, run by the London Stock Exchange Group’s FTSE Russell subsidiary, has included G4S for the past three years.

During that time, G4S, one of the world’s largest public sector employers, with 546,000 employees in 90 countries, has been at the centre of multiple controversies over its treatment of workers. (Guardian)

Welcome to the Conservative party election campaign. I have been a political reporter for almost three decades and have never encountered a senior British politician who lies and fabricates so regularly, so shamelessly and so systematically as Boris Johnson. Or gets away with his deceit with such ease.

5 Broken Cameras is a first-hand account of protests in Bil'in, a West Bank village affected by the Israeli West Bank barrier. The documentary was shot almost entirely by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son. In 2009 Israeli co-director Guy Davidi joined the project. Structured around the destruction of Burnat's cameras, the filmmakers' collaboration follows one family's evolution over five years of turmoil.

AnatolyKasparov wrote:All that can be done is to keep saying it and hope enough people notice.....

RogerOThornhill wrote:

AnatolyKasparov wrote:All that can be done is to keep saying it and hope enough people notice.....

Judging by some of the comments I've seen from rabid leave types, I don't think they care. Brexit is everything and they don't care whether their PM is a serial liar.