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 isleaiw1, on 16 June 2024 - 01:43 PM, said:

I know, I am a teacher. However, in 12 years of teaching at two different schools I don't know any teacher that has taken their pension early. They have left early, the main reasons being the workload and the appalling attitude of the kids and the abuse they received.

Let's be honest, the only real reason Labour are going to get into power is because of the dislike of the Tories since the pandemic and not because of the policies that they have come up with.

If the Tories hadn't have annoyed people with parties in the pandemic and numerous other untrustworthy acts then we would be seeing another Tory government.

The whole choice is woeful and the general public deserve better. It's the worst offering of political choice ever.

And by the way, if they retained teachers with decent salaries and incentives to stay in the profession then the current number of new teachers required wouldn't need to be addressed. Rather than paying students a tax free ?30k as a bursary to then leave at the end of their training year without any finicial payback, they could use that 30k to keep teachers in the profession. A tax free 5k bonus after 5 years, 10k after 10 years and 15k after 20 years.

 isleaiw1, on 10 June 2024 - 08:41 PM, said:

Will love to see how Labour deal with the North Sea Oil crisis after they continue to increase tax on oils firms. The problem is they won't actually raise any tax as most Oil companies will/are pull/pulling out. Shell and BPs profits from the UK barely register so very little income from them. At the same time, the UK's largest independent Oil firm Habour Energy have already declared they are moving production away from the North Sea in anticipation of Labour getting in. They have bought Wintershall and bought new fields in Africa. They did not even bid for any new licenses in the last round.

All that will happen is, last tax income will be raised, thousands will lose their jobs in the Oil industry (Scottish losses mainly) and we will see an increase in energy bills again as we will have to buy our Oil from abroad. This time the rises will be preventable rather than forced through world events.

Let's see if the promise of no tax rises in Income tax, NI VAT etc.

6500 new teachers is meaningless.

No short term.help for people who are struggling.

Anyone can spout ideas and policies, where is the money coming from to pay for all this as the country will not grow fast enough.

Highly ambitious plans, unfortunately I can't see anything other than higher taxes in future due to a lack of economic growth in the time frame required.

My view is that Labour will be the default winners. Not because that they are a credible opposition, but because people are fed up with the Tories.

Not a chance that the game would be on. It has been hammering it down here and really strong winds all afternoon. The whole area for the past few weeks has had loads of rain, fields are saturated as well. I live 5 miles from the ground.

Johnnyspireite7, on 21 November 2023 - 04:53 PM, said:

Apart from managing a kids football team, I also buy and restore lego and invest in in different sets. I have loads of the big sets.

The wife gets annoyed at the amount we now have so it's in the storage area.