Tories may also reduce stamp duty in bid to win back voters and reduce pressure on PM, reports say
  • TwoGems@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    2 years ago

    Do the UK old people have lead in their brains too? Stop voting for Tory shitbags.

    • Worx@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      8·
      2 years ago

      We don’t need lead to hate foreigners, it’s our God-given right as rulers of the Empire!

      Uh… I mean… “we value our traditions” or something…

  • rockSlayer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    2 years ago

    When tf is there supposed to be another election in the UK? It almost feels like a strategy from the Tories to continually have their PMs resign so they stay in power. It would be nice for the UK to have some sanity again

      • Why9@lemmy.worldEnglish
        54·
        2 years ago

        Jan 2025 is the latest they can hold it, if I remember correctly.

        Though it would be beneficial to evict Starmer from the red Seat before that happens too.

        • buzziebee@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

          It absolutely wouldn’t be. What are you on about? A big part of why Labour are polling well because they look like a safe pair of hands. Starting an interparty factional war over who the new leader should be will completely damage that and possibly lose there election.

          Half of the Tory base are either indifferent to a Labour victory or would actively vote for them. If you throw another Corbyn in the mix that will change and the base will come out again. It’s simple electoral math. Please stop advocating for more Tory rule.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      January 1st 2025 assuming they don’t call an earlier election.

      Waiting until January would be a mistake though because it would mean that your campaigning over Christmas which is a terrible time to be doing campaigning. Everyone’s busy with other things and no one wants to be thinking about politics.

    • BenadrylChunderHatch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      There’s 5 years between elections unless the ruling party calls one early so a pm resigning doesn’t help but calling an election early and winning does. We’re still on the clock from Johnson’s 2019 landslide win - which he called 3 years early because they were way ahead in the polls. Truss and Sunak didn’t call early elections because they already had a big majority and would probably lose seats.

  • iZom@feddit.ukEnglish
    15·
    2 years ago

    Maybe one day I will be making lots of money and will want to pay less tax. I better start voting tory… Is that how they think people think? Or even worse, are there people who really think like that?

  • MrSilkworm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    Because this way, the Tories will definitely take the struggling middle class on their side during the next elections.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Rishi Sunak is considering a tax cut for the 5 million highest earners and reducing stamp duty in an attempt to ease the pressure on his leadership after two historic byelection defeats, it has been reported.

    The Conservatives may raise the 40% income tax threshold after Labour’s victory in Mid Bedfordshire, Nadine Dorries’ former seat.

    The Daily Telegraph reported that surveys have been carried out by Downing Street to ascertain which tax reduction could give the party the biggest political pre-election boost with the 2024 spring budget considered the earliest it could be announced.

    The Conservatives are also planning to reduce stamp duty for their general election manifesto next year if the economy has strengthened, the Times reported.

    A senior Tory told the Times that reducing stamp duty would be “aspirational” and improve the economy in addition to attracting middle-class voters who had left the party.

    Official figures showed that public sector net borrowing was £14.3bn last month, lower than the £20.5bn that had been forecast by the Office for Budget Responsibility.

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