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   Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 17:24:18 JST Mrs Cloudy

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   • Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
   • Emeritus Prof Christopher May

   @TimWardCam @ChrisMayLA6 funny. What I see from the Tories is totally incompetent, amoral bollox. For everyone.

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     Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE (timwardcam@c.im)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 17:24:20 JST Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE

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     • Emeritus Prof Christopher May

     @ChrisMayLA6 As a pensioner what I see from the Tories is

     * triple lock suspended whenever they feel like it

     * tax cuts spun as going to "everyone in work" actually go to everyone in work except pensioners

     * fiscal drag and thus increased income tax.

     OK, so they're promising to maybe not do the last one again, but they're not going to get elected so they can promise what the fuck they like in the full knowledge that they're not going to have to deliver.

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     Emeritus Prof Christopher May (chrismayla6@zirk.us)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 17:24:21 JST Emeritus Prof Christopher May

     Torsten Bell sums up the problem with the Tories trying to bribe older voters with a tax cut (reversing their own tax-grab conducted via fiscal drag)...

     'Trying to bribe baby boomers with small tax cuts completely misses the point that they’d like something else. A functioning NHS'!

     [The sound of chickens coming home to roost]

     #Election2024

     https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/02/baby-boomers-are-much-more-worried-about-the-nhs-than-their-pensions-mr-sunak