Your 6 most disliked UK politicians active today

Osbourne who you probably see as an hero is cutting 5bn fron welfare either way it doesnt matter with the sale of public assets. Hes doing that anyway with the money he saves he is paying for tge loss on sale if public assets making the rich richer and the poor poorer.You said your neutral but i have not seen you argue with a tory find me an example

Find me an Urban area a birmingham a manchester or liverpool sized city who win a tory majotity seats wise you will not find ne bar London then yiu have ****ty seaside towns which have small populations which are won by then conservatives which arw somehow equal to massive towns and cities .

You seemed to be...
You're trying to de-politicize the issues stating that 'everyone should have their taxes cut' as if it is simply common sense in order to remove debate from the assertion you are making.

I accept there is an argument for reducing taxes but personally there are plenty who don't think taxes should be cut and have good reason for that view.

I personally want us to have the very best and most well funded PUBLIC healthcare, education and services in the world and want as little to no privatization or profit driven motive in the process. Thus taxation in my opinion should rise for those who can afford it.

And 'everyone having their taxes cut' is frankly not true anyway. How about VAT which has shot up again? Or how about the fact that wages in real terms have fallen? Offsets a modest increase in the personal allowance.

You've hardly been much better yourself Jammy Duel. Writing things like 'Labour will mess things up' and making loads of posts simply sniping at 'lefties' and resorting to Daily Mail sensationalist type headline posts and then asking for 'sensible debate'.
When will you stop being a mouthpiece for the tory party and actually regain your ability to think independently?
Step off your high horse and stop acting like you're better or more intelligent then other people.
The election was 6 weeks ago, unless they're paying you there's no reason to keep acting like a tribal football supporter as you have been.

Bull**** – see studies cited here
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/dec/22/poorest-uk-households-pay-half-income-tax-campaigners

Tax payers' alliance and ONS would disagree with you

I also guess you ignored what Jisby said, as quoted in the article, "but those at the top are already contributing far more than anybody could reasonably describe as their ‘fair share’"

p.s. did you realise that Jisby is a Tory, or at least used to, claiming not to be non-partisan on the basis of his position?

At least it's a recent article, better than many manage

The top 1% of this country own as much wealth as the bottom 55%. Although pointing this out according to the tories makes me a left wing extremist who hates ambition, the argument that those at the top pay too much tax when there is such staggering inequality is really nonsense.

The very very top do pay too much tax, IMO, but then do some of those at the very bottom. Bar the impracticality, I advocate a perfectly flat tax rate (for both direct and indirect taxes combined), perhaps with a negative income tax at the very bottom, although I am somewhat uncertain on that point. However, given the impracticality, I see what we have as an accetable compromise, however that does not mean that the taxes are perfect. By one mean or another the VERY bottom need their taxes reducing (bar where they choose to spend their money on alcohol and tobacco, that should be added on top of the "flat" rate, same as with the rest of the system), whether that be by further increase in the tax free allowance in the not quite bottom, or further income support at the very very bottom, but the taxes should also be cut at the very top, namely by abolishing the 45pc rate of income tax.

For starters universal basic income would be a brilliant idea which is favoured by many on the right as well as the left.

Why should the 45pc rate be abolished? It was actually the tories who chose to raise Labour's 40pc rate (not counting boosting it to 50p weeks before the election).
One decent thing I will give the tories credit for.

Those at the top paying that rate have extraordinary amounts of wealth. If taxing them a little extra massively increases our public services and brings millions out of poverty that surely outweighs the people who are annoyed they have to spend a day less in the Bahamas over Easter.

Our concern should be those struggling to eat and find shelter, not those struggling to find a 7* hotel in Dubai.

For starters universal basic income would be a brilliant idea which is favoured by many on the right as well as the left.
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It isnt a good idea as its economically implausible, or the Greens idea of it is. Their one would cost around £90bn a year more than the total NHS and Trident budgets combined!!! - Where on Earth are you going to find that much money from?

Thread for you?

Unfortunately there are probably too many for me to narrow down to six

Yes, he's still an MP just not leader.

iain duncan smith (his 500th mention on the forum ) - for celebrating during the budget