Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
The USA also has local govt and state law which we do not have, I am sure the number of politicians is not that different per 100,000 to here.
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[Politics] Are Labour going to turn this country around?
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Well loads of yanks hate 'big government', simply government and taxes, it's in their DNA. They're not going to bankroll layers and layers of highly paid politicians do little for a low capita population in terms of a state.
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Government finances in surplus but miss forecasts
"However, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), which monitors the government's spending plans and performance, had predicted that the surplus would be higher at £20.5bn.
The smaller figure has added to growing speculation that Reeves will either have to cut public spending or raise taxes further to meet her self-imposed rules for the economy."
"However, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), which monitors the government's spending plans and performance, had predicted that the surplus would be higher at £20.5bn.
The smaller figure has added to growing speculation that Reeves will either have to cut public spending or raise taxes further to meet her self-imposed rules for the economy."
UK hiring on the rise as confidence lifts, research suggests
Companies increase hiring for first time since June, and households more optimistic about their finances
www.theguardian.com
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Regarding the old gnashers:
"Government pledges to get NHS dentistry back on its feet will mean just two extra slots a month for each dentist, experts have said.
Ministers have started the rollout of 700,000 extra urgent appointments pledged in the Labour manifesto, seven months after being elected.
It comes just a week after Sir Chris Whitty, England’s Chief Medical Officer, said the previous Government’s dental recovery plan had “clearly failed” to create more appointments.
Meanwhile, data published last week showed as many as six in 10 children in some areas have rotting teeth by the age of five, with clear differences between poorer regions of England and the more affluent.
The British Dental Association (BDA) claims the extra appointments would translate into each of the 24,200 dentists recorded as carrying out NHS services last year seeing the equivalent of a little over two extra urgent cases a month"
"Government pledges to get NHS dentistry back on its feet will mean just two extra slots a month for each dentist, experts have said.
Ministers have started the rollout of 700,000 extra urgent appointments pledged in the Labour manifesto, seven months after being elected.
It comes just a week after Sir Chris Whitty, England’s Chief Medical Officer, said the previous Government’s dental recovery plan had “clearly failed” to create more appointments.
Meanwhile, data published last week showed as many as six in 10 children in some areas have rotting teeth by the age of five, with clear differences between poorer regions of England and the more affluent.
The British Dental Association (BDA) claims the extra appointments would translate into each of the 24,200 dentists recorded as carrying out NHS services last year seeing the equivalent of a little over two extra urgent cases a month"
Presumably to get more money to flow towards the NHS dentists to increase the number and the appointments it would involve higher tax levels. Something I think you're not keen on?
I think the ‘Gnasher bird ‘ has flown and I really cannot see NHS dentistry making a marked comeback.
Thatcher was saved by the Falklands and Reeves will be saved by Trump.
The gov are going to (rightly) have to find £ hundreds of billions to re arm the nation and this will give Reeves the excuse she needs to make more cuts, raise taxes and break her own self imposed rules. She will have no choice and I think most people will understand this, but it will also let her off the hook for the economic ineptitude she has so far displayed.
mejonaNO12 aka riskit
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"The surplus - the difference between what the government spends and the tax it takes in - was £15.4bn in January, the highest level for the month since records began more than three decades ago."
Boooooooo
There's a huge surplus every January because of all the income tax which has to be paid in the month. This year it was huge but, interestingly, not as huge as was forecast.
But biglier than other Januaries?
SweatyMexican
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- Mar 31, 2013
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You can’t walk multiple decades into the woods expecting to turn around in one term.
The best we can hope for is to stem the bleeding… and to still be here in 5 years.
The best we can hope for is to stem the bleeding… and to still be here in 5 years.