The fall of the Tory party

I guess salary sacrifice may get round this.

I know he's a knob and all...and I think I've said this before. But...

listening to Jeremy Hunt on the newsagents podcast. It's so refreshing to hear a politician who appears to be intelligent and able to hold a conversation.

appears to be intelligent

Only a veneer. He's into homeopathy and a load of woo woo bollocks.

With all this budget chat I keep forgetting that Sunak isn't chancellor. I'm not really keeping up.

And worst of all, he's a Tory.

listening to Jeremy Hunt on the newsagents podcast. It's so refreshing to hear a politician who appears to be intelligent and able to hold a conversation.

I thought the same thing.

And then I thought of this:

Nah he's another serial politician that will do nothing and move on to another job after failing again.

If it's salary sacrifice pension, which many are, then throwing more into your pension will reduce the taxable income. I expect there will be many doing this to scrape under the 100k threshold.

I would imagine all the big earners will be getting nannies provided by work to compensate, or probably have them anyway, much easier than worrying about your own kids. They'll all be off to board at 13 anyway.

The "big" earners will be over that dip, but I agree, I'd rather have to worry about that than making rent or picking between eating and heating the slum.

Johnson gets Uxbridge re-selection. Could be the Portillo moment of the next election, if he stands. Mind he will probably step down if it looks like he will lose.

Lol. What are you on about.

How many companies paying someone £100k will also give them a nanny? Sure there are companies who offer sickness nannies to cover a certain amount of time if your kids are ill, but if they gave you a nanny that would still be a BIK.

What adjusted net income is
Adjusted net income is total taxable income before any Personal Allowances and less certain tax reliefs, for example:

trading losses
donations made to charities through Gift Aid - take off the ‘grossed-up’ amount
pension contributions paid gross (before tax relief)
pension contributions where your pension provider has already given you tax relief at the basic rate - take off the ‘grossed-up’ amount
When your tax

Johnson gets Uxbridge re-selection

He's got to step down surely?

I know he's thinks he's all that, but ultimately it's hard to imagine he's got the balls to risk losing. Far better to make up some excuse and go back to being a 'journalist' for a bit.

Someone at our nursery told me that's what they've been offered as its cheaper/easier than the admin to stall her salary.

So it happens. Take that as you will.

Can confirm. My other half was a nanny to a family including a partner at one of the big investment banks. They got sickness cover nanny but had to pay her themselves.

Depends how next Wednesday goes...

But yes, almost certainly off the speaking circuit. Not that he doesn't do this already on Parliamentary time.

I hope he's condemned to giving speaches at estate agent award ceremonies for the rest of his life, in an eternal loop of just breaking even on ruinous childcare and divorce settlement costs.

It’s a joyful world isn’t it?

‘Hello boss. My child is ill, I need to go home and look after them.’

‘Fuck off cunt. Work is more important than your child feeling loved and supported when they’re poorly. Stay at your fucking desk, we’re sending a nanny.’

You assume the parent wants to go home to look after the child and not palm them off to an employee like they do from 7am to 7pm monday-friday

Lol. What are your kids like when they're ill?

Mine:
Day 1: quiet and watch TV
Day 2-5: absolutely fine and bouncing off the walls but still have to be off due to nursery rules while you're struggling to catch up on zero sleep from Day 0-1.

More likely he'll appear on someone's list for the Lords in a couple of years, after the big corporates have stopped booking him, and then Bamford will want the rest of his pound of flesh...

Samesies, but the schools let them back after 2 days. 5 days is madness.

A bit. But ill children are all dopey and warm and nice to cuddle.

Yeah but shareholders/managers/directors are cunts and don't care about external factors like family being ill / teachers on strike. Get the fucking work done serf. There's a deadline.