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Message posted by ZEINAB MOHAMED at 09:09 am, Tue 15th Apr 2008
Dear Mr Gordon Brown and the Labour Party In the next few days we will be entering our full opinions and notes to Mr Gordon Brown's speech. Yours sincerely Mrs Zeinab Mohamed Morris L0107858 Mr Paul
Morris L0107857
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Message posted by PAUL at 08:59 am, Tue 15th Apr 2008
Dear Mr Gordon Brown and the Labour Party In the next few days we will be entering our full opinions and notes to Mr Gordon Brown's speech. Yours sincerely Mr Paul Morris L0107857 Mrs Zeinab Mohamed
Morris L0107858
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Message posted by Anita at 04:31 pm, Thu 10th Apr 2008
I agree that it is very bad public relations as well as unethical to penalise low earners without children. On the subject of public relations, I just wish we could have the courage of our
convictions (or are they not shared by our leaders?), and publicise the social damage that is done to our society by the increasing inequality in wealth, in order to justify a reasonable increase in
taxation for those who have large incomes. The extra money could provide more social amenities such as youth workers in deprived areas, more parenting groups of a non-compulsory nature, subsidising
the Post Offices, renationalising bus services, anything that will repair the fabric of society and improve social (not just ethnic) cohesion.
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Message posted by Peter at 03:45 pm, Thu 10th Apr 2008
Like Stuart, I don't want to see anyone lose out from the simplification of the tax system through the 'abolition' of the 10p tax rate. There are remedies without 'playing to the gallery' and doing a
U-turn. I look forward to an early announcement in the House of Commons after the Spring Recess, and before the London and local elections on 1 May. Regular updates can be seen here:
http://petergkenyon.typepad.com/peterkenyon
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Message posted by Mark Vines at 04:18 pm, Thu 10th Apr 2008
As I understand it from the Evening Standard. Those on a salary £18500 or below will marginally lose out in the tax changes.So as a poorly paid health service worker in London , I might just escape.
It's not the amount of money involved, its the principle of a Labour government hitting the low paid. Why don't they uplift the tax threshold above inflation.Something Gordon Brown always refused to
do, to help with low pay.
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Message posted by Stuart at 12:25 pm, Tue 8th Apr 2008
I'm a new Labour loyalist as I believe largely in where we've got to and where we want to go as a sensible mainstream Party of the centre-left. However, I'm in a *state of disbelief* about the
Government's chosen path of hitting some of the lowest income tax payers through the abolition of the 10p rate. I'm *ashamed* of the policy and the arrogant disregard for ordinary people who don't
happen to have children. Don't patronise us with talk about this tax-hike being necessary to help contain child poverty. Childless people do contribute to society, and to hit those of them on low
incomes even harder with this 'tax simplification' is reprehensible. Sorry, but it's just beyond the pale and this tax increase on low-income people is a worrying sign of how disconnected some of our
representatives appear to have become. What are we playing at ?!
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