Keir Starmer at it again..

[visage]

Also, it wont be commented on as much as Labour, but the Tories really are fucked.

 

[Kenny]

Andrea Jenkyns winning a Mayor role is annoying.
Do people not remember her at all?

Aaron Banks losing is a bright spot though in 1 of the 3 mayor seats Labour did hold onto.

 

[Kenny]

Results for Shropshire dripping through and looks look like the Tories (current Council) being smacked around and Lib Dems beating Reform.

A lot of 2nd places for Reform.

Labour getting some properly shit numbers but they struggle in this area anyway.

 

[Kenny]

Reform gained 7 councils so far. All very grim

 

[prawnking]

Tice and Farage are basically saying to working class people the same thing as Musk and Trump; you're paying through the nose for everything and it's all going on 'woke bollocks' and housing immigrants rather than stuff that helps you in your day to day standard of life. It's cutting through as well, but you probably have to speak to some working class people to know that

 

[Lupo]

A sitting independent won in our constituency with 383, 1 more than the Reform candidate. Lib Dems 3rd on 202, Conservative got 181, Labour 27 and Green 15

 

[Hereford Wolf]

Marina Hyde in The Guardian with the best line of the day:-

Is Farage’s win a new dawn? We could ask Labour, but they’re still fast asleep.​

 

[Templeton Peck]

Marina Hyde in The Guardian with the best line of the day:-

Is Farage’s win a new dawn? We could ask Labour, but they’re still fast asleep.​

Plenty of buyer's remorse now.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

We earn £100k but can no longer afford private school - there's £1.68 in the bank

On paper, my husband and I have it all: two well-paid jobs, our own home and two of our three kids at private school but at the end of each month we're scrounging

inews.co.uk

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

It's just bollocks though isn't it. He isn't paying 60% (or is it 65%, she changes her mind later on) tax on his salary. No-one in the entire country is.

 

[AndyWolves]

It's just bollocks though isn't it. He isn't paying 60% (or is it 65%, she changes her mind later on) tax on his salary. No-one in the entire country is.

As soon as you go over £100k you start to lose tax free threshold, you also lose free childcare hours

For every £1000 over 100,000 you earn you receive £400. I think it works like this until £125i

But anyone thinking they can afford private school on £100k is bonkers anyway

 

[Tony Towner]

It's called that because between £100k and £125k you lose your personal allowance. Anyone with any sense puts it in their pension though

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Yeah, but that's not the same, is it.

When you earn £100,000.01 a year you don't suddenly pay the Exchequer £60,000 a year, which is how she's framing it.

 

[AndyWolves]

Agree with that, but people say they pay 40% tax and everyone knows what that means

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Agree with that, but people say they pay 40% tax and everyone knows what that means

You'd be surprised

 

[AndyWolves]

The article is utter bollocks though and theme seems to be 'wah wah if I spend more than we earn then we have no money'. Private school is a minimum of £20k per year. £100k just under 6k a month, are they really spending 3 1/2 salary just on private school, going on holidays, nice cars etc and wondering why they're skint

Anyone who can't prosper on £100k is nuts, but that doesn't include private school

 

[AndyWolves]

It's called that because between £100k and £125k you lose your personal allowance. Anyone with any sense puts it in their pension though

I think this is also why there are a fair few new cars about too because people are SS to get them

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

It's just bollocks though isn't it. He isn't paying 60% (or is it 65%, she changes her mind later on) tax on his salary. No-one in the entire country is.

Of course it's bollocks.

It's an infuriating read.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

The article is utter bollocks though and theme seems to be 'wah wah if I spend more than we earn then we have no money'. Private school is a minimum of £20k per year. £100k just under 6k a month, are they really spending 3 1/2 salary just on private school, going on holidays, nice cars etc and wondering why they're skint

Anyone who can't prosper on £100k is nuts, but that doesn't include private school

The equivalent of me paying for corporate hospitality for every Wolves home game next season just for me, then wondering why I don't have a lot of spare cash in the week before payday.

I would say that in my experience of dealing with people who were educated privately, it really wasn't worth the money.

 

[sycophantia]

We earn £100k but can no longer afford private school - there's £1.68 in the bank

On paper, my husband and I have it all: two well-paid jobs, our own home and two of our three kids at private school but at the end of each month we're scrounging

inews.co.uk

Boo fucking hoo. Dunno if they mean 100 k each or combined, whichever you can have a nice life on either. It's pretty simple don't send your kids to private school, although my eldest teaches in a private school and half the kids are from families earning less than that. What they do is live on a budget that allows them to educate their kids how they want to.