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[Doctor Gollum]

Bozzle resigns and...

The next day Vlad impales Ukraine?

[Sir Tigger KC]

Presumably the Deputy PM Dominic Raab directs operations whilst the Tories fight it out. 

[Doctor Gollum]

How undramatic... Must be why the news failed to mention it 

[Sir Tigger KC]

All 'the news' cares about is getting rid of Boris....   

Although the bonus if Boris does go is that we also get rid of Princess Nut Nut Carrie Antoinette, which would be nice as she seems to be at the centre of much of these shenanigans!   

Two birds with one stone as some might say! 

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

I would be very happy to see the back of him. Its what happens after that is the problem.

[Sir Tigger KC]

I would be very happy to see the back of him. Its what happens after that is the problem.

Yes and who's up next for our fourth Tory PM in just over 5 years? 

Neither 'Dishi Rishi or the very wooden Liz Truss fill me with enthusiasm TBH.   

[Doctor Gollum]

On the strength of his performance as Chancellor, he would make a better PM than the last Chancellor that got promoted by accident. 

I notice TM suddenly found her voice yesterday... Raab would be progressive rather than a back step

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

All the possible contenders have the charisma of limp lettuce leaf between them. Truss is as unprincipled a Politician as you could find.
She started out as a Libdem activist, became Tory who argued in favour of remain. Within a few weeks said she would vote Leave if the vote was rerun.
Her only belief is that she wants to climb to the top of the greasy pole by whatever means she can.
Rishi has shown no signs of competence whatsoever really. Its easy to hose the country with eye watering sums of money and take national debt to levels previously unimaginable.
His only answer to now solving the problems that created are to put up national insurance for "ordinary hard working people", as they like to call us.
A very unimaginative Chancellor imo.
Gove - same as Truss.

[Doctor Gollum]

If £89-250 extra a year breaks the bank, then people have much bigger problems than an NI rise...

Politicians should always be considered untrustworthy.

We could vote for someone 'charismatic' to tell us what the civil service are doing to ru(i)n the country but I can't see that being anything like an improvement over the current system... 

[STEMO]

If £89-250 extra a year breaks the bank, then people have much bigger problems than an NI rise...

Politicians should always be considered untrustworthy.

We could vote for someone 'charismatic' to tell us what the civil service are doing to ru(i)n the country but I can't see that being anything like an improvement over the current system... 

What is this £89-£250 extra a year?

[LC0112G]

If £89-250 extra a year breaks the bank, then people have much bigger problems than an NI rise...

Politicians should always be considered untrustworthy.

We could vote for someone 'charismatic' to tell us what the civil service are doing to ru(i)n the country but I can't see that being anything like an improvement over the current system... 

What is this £89-£250 extra a year?

The Average UK wage is £26K ish. NI is payed on income above about £12.5K. An increase in NI of 1.5% therefore means an extra 0.015*(£26K-£12.5K) = £202.

The minimum is 0 though (if you earn less than £12.5K), and there is no maximum (if you earn mega bux)

However, pensioners are forgiven for not realising this since they don't pay NI on pension income (Yet) 

[STEMO]

If £89-250 extra a year breaks the bank, then people have much bigger problems than an NI rise...

Politicians should always be considered untrustworthy.

We could vote for someone 'charismatic' to tell us what the civil service are doing to ru(i)n the country but I can't see that being anything like an improvement over the current system... 

What is this £89-£250 extra a year?

The Average UK wage is £26K ish. NI is payed on income above about £12.5K. An increase in NI of 1.5% therefore means an extra 0.015*(£26K-£12.5K) = £202.

The minimum is 0 though (if you earn less than £12.5K), and there is no maximum (if you earn mega bux)

However, pensioners are forgiven for not realising this since they don't pay NI on pension income (Yet) 

Yep, I know that. But why £89-£250?
The average UK wage wasn't mentioned in the post replied to.

[STEMO]

It doesn't really relate to this at all:

[LC0112G]

I think I had my sarcasm detector turned up to too sensitive a level  And I'd got it in my head the NI rise was 1.5% when it seems it's only 1.25%.

The median UK wage is (apparently) about £31.5K. It is therefore fair to say most people will pay less than £250 p/a extra.

However, if you're paid (say) £100M by PAYE, then the extra NI would be £1.25M. 

DG wouldn't have got his figures from that website since he doesn't believe in the BBC.

[STEMO]

I think I had my sarcasm detector turned up to too sensitive a level  And I'd got it in my head the NI rise was 1.5% when it seems it's only 1.25%.

The median UK wage is (apparently) about £31.5K. It is therefore fair to say most people will pay less than £250 p/a extra.

However, if you're paid (say) £100M by PAYE, then the extra NI would be £1.25M. 

DG wouldn't have got his figures from that website since he doesn't believe in the BBC.

I don't do sarcasm, well, not too often. You will get agreement, ridicule or piss taking, that about sums up my repertoire.