The Tories are all stabbing each other in the back, and the Labour opposition is kind of just sitting there, by the looks of things. Meanwhile, the cost of living has skyrocketed, and it doesn't look like it will be coming down any time soon. Wages on the other hand, still aren't rising in line with the cost of living, and a recent pay rise may have put lots of low-income poeple into a higher tax bracket, which means that they are worse-off in real terms. We're heading for the cool zone certainly, if not already there.
I must admit, I haven't been following Johnson's woes too closely. With all the talk af mass shootings in the States and the collapse of the Democrats, I didn't see that Sunak and Javid, two of the top Tory cabinet members, had resigned yesterday; besides which, it just seemed like more people complaining about him having a party during lockdown, which I personally just can't get that angry about. All of the things he has done, and that's the one the public can't stand?
However, it's looking like he won't survive to lead the party in another election because of some more recent allegations about hiring a known sex pest as the Deputy Chief Whip, then lying about it, and because of the loss of safe Tory seats in the recent by-elections.
If he's ousted before the end of the year, we could even end up with another general election - the third in 6 years (I feel like another election would probably happen in 2023 though, which upsets the statistics a bit). It would also mean that neither of the last two Prime Ministers have managed to complete a full term.
What do you guys think?
Edit: as some have pointed out, I was wrong about tax itself, but means testing thresholds are usually the same which means that benefits could still be cut off as wages rise even marginally in line with the cost of living.
It does have a progressive marginal income tax. Not sure what our original poster is referring to.
Might just not know, at least in the us people don't understand this shit at all. I had a high school teacher that among other things taught econ to seniors, and he didn't understand how marginal tax brackets work. Dude was literally a fucking slumlord, called himself that, and was too dumb to know how taxes work.
That was a mistake on my part. But because of means testing, certain benefits will get cut off if your income passes a certain threshold. I gave an example with bus passes in another comment in this thread.
ah, yeah, that's fair then. means testing does put this effect on people