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As an entrepreneur, Quarry is scathing about Truss and Kwarteng’s priorities. “They’re showing scant recognition of what is important to business,” he said. “As a businessman who has built a number of businesses, it does not matter a jot to my investment decisions whether corporation tax is at 19 per cent or 25 per cent or possibly higher.”

He added: “A 45 per cent marginal rate of tax is no disincentive for me to work. Above 50 per cent might be a tipping point but below that, the personal tax reductions for higher earners are pointless and simply exacerbate the feeling of inequality.”

Quarry has been impressed by Starmer and his team. At conference he met Rachel Reeves, the shadow chancellor, Wes Streeting, the shadow health secretary, Peter Kyle, the shadow Northern Ireland secretary, and Bridget Phillipson, the shadow education secretary. They were, he said, “universally sensible, fiscally responsible, centre-ground, mature, honest, pro-business and seeking to act in the best interest of the country”.

He added: “I do think Starmer and his colleagues really do want to build a very close partnership between government and business.”

Labour is seeking more donations from individuals amid concern that trade unions are less willing to fund the party. Lord Levy, who helped to raise more than £100 million for Labour under Sir Tony Blair’s leadership, has been helping Starmer. Fran Perrin, daughter of the former Labour donor Lord Sainsbury of Turville, gave £250,000 this year.

RogerOThornhill wrote: ↑Mon 03 Oct, 2022 11:49 am Another lie...I think they should probably pack up and go home now...

Gerard Lyons, an economist who has given advice to the Liz Truss team, has said Kwasi Kwarteng was wrong to say that he was not warned that unfunded tax cuts would alarm the financial markets.

In his Today interview Kwarteng said he could not “remember” being warned by Lyons that the markets would not tolerate unfunded tax cuts. But Lyons told PA Media:

Well that’s incorrect. I was very clear.

frog222 wrote: ↑Mon 03 Oct, 2022 11:18 am Some light entertainment --

AnatolyKasparov wrote: ↑Mon 03 Oct, 2022 11:36 am The "no regulations at all for businesses employing under 500 people" is maybe the "best" one so far.

SMALL BUSINESSES THEMSELVES actively don't want this.

PorFavor wrote: ↑Mon 03 Oct, 2022 2:09 pm Good morfternoon.

Chris Philp says (Sky TV News), "I'm no grass."

Kwarteng says the government will deregulate in a series of areas: childcare, agriculture, immigration, planning, energy, business and financial services.

Sky'sGoneOut wrote: ↑Mon 03 Oct, 2022 6:34 pm Suella strikes again.

Tell us more

Probably best not to without the agreement of the whatsap group.
Liz was an Account Manager (sales person) and I was for my sins her Technical Sales Support in C&W in the early 2000s

I was asking as I can not believe she held any position of importance prior to politics….

It was not a position of importance in any way.

In 2000, Truss was employed by Cable & Wireless and rose to economic director before leaving in 2005.[29]

After losing her first two elections, Truss became the full-time deputy director of Reform in January 2008,[30] where she advocated more rigorous academic standards in schools, a greater focus on tackling serious and organised crime, and urgent action to deal with Britain's falling competitiveness.[

AnatolyKasparov wrote: ↑Mon 03 Oct, 2022 8:44 pm The thought of JRM in "adult" films is certainly........something.

Sky'sGoneOut wrote: ↑Mon 03 Oct, 2022 9:44 pm This is great.

Tories accuse police of failing to protect conference delegates from protesters

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2022 ... protesters

So basically the Tories accuse the police of allowing delegates to be spat at and physically assaulted and the police respond by saying, 'Nah that never happened and where's our money you tight bastards'.

My favourite Doctor Centrist is Rory Stewart. Last week he was interviewed by Joe.co.uk, who did his usual thing of saying the Conservative Party had left him rather than the other way around, presumably when it declined to elect him leader. “If only all Tories were like you,” comes the chorus, “I’d consider voting for them.”

Liars! For a start, the myth that the Conservatives have suddenly gone mad because they are cutting taxes for the rich is, well, a bit rich given that they did exactly the same during the Coalition, when Rory was still a Tory MP. Rory is lauded now because it is useful to find an ex-Conservative to attack the Conservatives, but his cuddliness is very much in the eye of the beholder. In that same interview, he said that though Truss can be fun to talk to, it is “difficult to have a detailed, thoughtful conversation with [her]. It’s almost as if there’s attention deficit disorder.” That’s not very nice, is it?

He went on to say that politics has declined into provocative simplicity, which is sadly correct, but if that sensationalist approach is found among the people who wrote the budget, might we not say it’s found among some of those who criticise it as well? The Financial Times knocked up a loopy graph that plotted parties by ideology and claimed that the Tories had leap-frogged the US Republicans to the far-Right of the economic spectrum. This is ridiculous; they still support progressive taxation, the NHS will go unreformed and they’ll let in even more migrants. These political compasses exist not to show where politicians stand but to mark out a zone of acceptability in our discourse, somewhere around the Rory Stewart centre. Step an inch away, to Left or Right, and you are labelled a lunatic.