We will raise the starting point of income tax to £10,000. This will be a tax cut of around £700 for most people, this has been accounted for and you can view the details on page 102 of the manifesto. Around 3.6 Million people will be completely exempt from income tax
April 16, 2010
Raising the personal Allowance to £10,000 per person £16,795 (million) Closing tax loopholes and cutting relief that benefit the wealthy (total raised) 9,085 million Greener Taxation (total raised) £3,315 Million Anti Avoidence Measures (total raised) £4,635 Million (that’s a total raised of £17,025 million raised and doesn’t include long term savings like scrapping ID cards and no… [Read more…]
April 15, 2010
I think we seam to be able to get a general impression from what the different Commentators/members/activitis/supporters/Candidates. Lib Dem: “YESSSSSSS NICK CLEEEEGGGGGGGGGGGGG WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO” (with a few comments about how both Brown and Cameron agree with him) Conservatives: “Well it does appear Nick Clegg did best, however Cameron defiantly came second and had a few moments when he… [Read more…]
April 15, 2010
After the amazing campaign that Obama conducted, from relative obscurity, suspicion of being a terrorist and being up against the full force of the Hillary Clinton Primary campaigning team, there have obviously been many people trying to emulate various elements of his campaign and style in general. Every party leader has trying to use some… [Read more…]
April 11, 2010
There have been a lot of comments, in the run up to the campaign, that the distrust and general negative attitude of voters towards Conservatives and Labour suggest that the Liberal Democrats could do very well (especially as the general perception has been that we haven’t been as damaged by the expenses scandal). The second is… [Read more…]
April 11, 2010
Today I finally got out and did my first piece of proper conversing for the party, I was lucky enough to go around with Two of the local Council candidates (Ghazala Hayat and Kerry Williams) and the Local MP Ed Davey, it was really good to get some advice from experienced candidates. Anyway I though it might… [Read more…]
April 9, 2010
The last you heard from me South West London NHS review had just joined twitter and facebook and had started asking what the public opinion was on NHS services. Since then its good to see that in London the key service that people want protected is the NHS and this is the service that they least want… [Read more…]
April 8, 2010
In my constituency, Kingston and Surbiton, like many around Britain we will be having our local election campaign along side the general election campaign. The benefit might be that we actually manage to raise the profile of our local elections and have higher turnout than we would have normally. The potential downside is that some really good local councillors… [Read more…]
April 6, 2010
Every election campaign us Lib Dems have had the same question/accusation pointed at us “But you have no chance of winning/isn’t voting for the Lib Dems a wasted vote/won’t this help party X get in?” these questions are age old and I’ve looked at them myself to some degree however this election we have a slightly different… [Read more…]
March 28, 2010
Today a saw that I had the missfortune of picking up the local conservative “in Touch” magazine. Normally I wouldn’t write a blog post on something like this but this one made me break that general rule due to one particular element of it, the section titled “Voting Lib Dem will help Gordon Brown stay… [Read more…]
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