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    Fair play to Boreham Wood for out-Boreham Wooding themselves.

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      Doncaster Belles' excellent riposte.

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        I couldn't help wondering if BW's website has been hacked.

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          Originally posted by Diable Rouge View Post
          Lovely stuff.

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            Only one of the four amendments are going to the vote, so the big result will be coming around 7.30-7.40. Andrew Neil chairing the BBC coverage, sadly.

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              I think there has been a lowering of expectations in that May could lose by a massive margin but still get to kick the can down the road.

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                Grace Blakeley has the answer.


                Raising top marginal tax rates is the best moral and economic course of action for the UK, but any socialist government that attempted to do so would be punished severely by “the markets”. Without constraints on capital mobility, investors will continue to exercise a veto power over domestic states’ fiscal policy, and tax competition will only get worse.

                The technical infrastructure for the implementation of controls is there – most of it could be performed electronically through existing software. A Conservative government – the party of British finance – would never use it. A Labour government should; and that means making the ability to deploy capital controls in day-to-day monetary policy a central pillar of any Brexit deal.
                I dunno, Grace, maybe the "existing software" would move a ton of money out before the election?


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                  Will somebody get a big bit of yellow, fluorescent sponge and shut that sodding gammon freedom bell up?

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                    Originally posted by Tubby Isaacs View Post
                    Grace Blakeley has the answer.



                    I dunno, Grace, maybe the "existing software" would move a ton of money out before the election?

                    But the top rate of income tax in the UK isn't very high by european standards, it could increase quite a bit before it would start to be a competitive disadvantage. Also why would a tax on income lead to capital flight?

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                      Originally posted by Satchmo Distel View Post
                      I think there has been a lowering of expectations in that May could lose by a massive margin but still get to kick the can down the road.
                      There is a bit of chatter about potential scale of abstentions so that the defeat doesn't look quite as spectacular, but that doesn't do much for the reputation of parliament, if any significant number of MPs chicken out of making a decision on the biggest issue most of them have been able to vote on (and which many of them pushed for).

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                        Originally posted by Walt Flanagans Dog View Post
                        Andrew Neil chairing the BBC coverage, sadly.
                        BBC Parliament is currently free of any big guns. It's refreshingly monotone.

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                          Originally posted by The Awesome Berbaslug!!! View Post

                          But the top rate of income tax in the UK isn't very high by european standards, it could increase quite a bit before it would start to be a competitive disadvantage. Also why would a tax on income lead to capital flight?
                          She's talking about taking it to 70%.

                          https://www.newstatesman.com/politic...pital-controls



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                            MPs are tweeting photos from the No lobby and it is rammed. Unless Mike Reid is about to step out and shout RUNAROUND! G-G-G-GO! then it's gonna be big. The chairman of the 1922 is in the no lobby, it appears,

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                              Originally posted by SouthdownRebel View Post

                              BBC Parliament is currently free of any big guns. It's refreshingly monotone.
                              Yep I switched once Farage got going.

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                                Lost by 230.

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                                  Ayes 202, Noes 432. Majority of 230. Ramsay Macdonald only managed 166 and Callaghan 89.

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                                    She's calling her own confidence vote.

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                                      She's going to frame the confidence vote as a "new mandate".

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                                        Originally posted by Walt Flanagans Dog View Post
                                        She's calling her own confidence vote.
                                        Nope, she's daring Corbyn to do it.

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                                          So that's what, basically about 65 non-payroll Tories voted for the deal?

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                                            I can't believe that she had the neck to mention the needs of EU nationals living here. Horrible, dishonest person.

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                                              Originally posted by Snake Plissken View Post

                                              Nope, she's daring Corbyn to do it.
                                              She dared everyone to do it. But he's obliged now anyway.

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                                                Corbyn calls for the confidence motion.

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                                                  Corbyn pulls the trigger. Frankly, he didn't really have a choice surely?

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                                                    I think Corbyn probably should have waited for the three days - to force May to offer an alternative. But I can see that would be waiting until after the heat's gone out of everything.

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