tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post200115892704455526..comments2024-03-29T14:09:49.674+00:00Comments on Liberal England: Nick the Punk vs The FinkJonathan Calderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-32059257952523139852008-11-11T23:17:00.000+00:002008-11-11T23:17:00.000+00:00And according to news sites this week Nick Clegg s...And according to news sites this week Nick Clegg said cut 4p of the basic tax rate to give someone on £30,000 a year 1000 quid. No mention of increasing the personal allowance!<BR/><BR/>Do you feel that people only vote after they have read our policy documents. I am commenting on what the public hear us saying, not our policy. You assume too much if you think I do not know what "policy before conference" says. My problem is with the message arriving with the public. Obama got it right, we have not, yet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-6855817260839341882008-11-11T01:28:00.000+00:002008-11-11T01:28:00.000+00:00Hugh: Lib Dem Policy since "Fairer, Simpler, Green...Hugh: Lib Dem Policy since "Fairer, Simpler, Greener" has included raising the threshold at which tax starts to £7185. That was how we intended to eliminate the 10% rate, whereas Gordon Brown did it by charging that band at 20%. That means that the pensioner you are talking about it, by my reckoning, is taken out of tax completely.<BR/><BR/>A lesson? How about <A HREF="http://www.libdems.org.uk/assets/0000/7890/Policy_Paper_81_-_Reducing_the_Burden.pdf" REL="nofollow">reading</A> our <A HREF="http://www.libdems.org.uk/assets/0000/9369/Policy_Paper_75_-_Fairer_Simpler_Greener.pdf" REL="nofollow">policy</A> before wading in?Andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15432543456476489561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-13756729650914653032008-11-11T00:22:00.000+00:002008-11-11T00:22:00.000+00:00And the 4p cut gives a pensioner on £7000 a year a...And the 4p cut gives a pensioner on £7000 a year an extra £40! Does this compensate for the abolition of the 10% rate? Gordon Brown got nothing for his base rate cut and stuffed for abolishing the 10% rate. A lesson?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com