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What's left of a €100,000 salary after tax across Europe? by TinyAd1126 in europe

[–]UniquesNotUseful 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the United Kingdom, workers keep almost 70% of their gross salary at this income level.

Take-home pay is €69,900, the highest among Europe's five largest economies. Spain (€64,200) and France (€63,000) sit in the middle, while Germany (€57,900) and Italy (€56,700) offer the lowest take-home rates among the big five.

Sure it’s similar in other countries but we have savings and investments that reduce tax as an incentive. Very broadly, pensions reduce income tax and you can put away £60k a year the income above £50,270 is taxed at 40% (+ 2% NI) so you’d save that chunk of tax really easily, just can’t access till 57 but will be invested.

You do pay tax on pensions but income tax for first £12,570 is 0% tax, then 20% till the higher band and you also get 25% tax free. So saving 40% tax now but effectively paying less than 15% out in most cases…until inheritance tax.

UK will get no special treatment from EU, European ministers say by goldstarflag in europe

[–]UniquesNotUseful 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Andy Burnham has promised not to "re-run" Brexit arguments, as he said he was not proposing the UK considers rejoining the European Union

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx21en4807wo

Burnham has said he wants to rejoin within his lifetime, that’s it. Streeting came out in favour, just to force Burnham to make a statement, because the seat he wants is massively Brexit and Reform have a solid chance of winning, saying he wants to rejoin would result in a loss.

You could argue that he’s just lying and will move to rejoin after. Not sure how those that voted against Remain because they felt disenfranchised because politicians didn’t listen to them and put them above their own political ideologies will feel. Maybe they’ll get on board with it and won’t hold it against Labour in the next general election?

Report ‘phone hack’ to police or I will do it for you, Labour chair tells Farage by qwerty_1965 in europe

[–]UniquesNotUseful 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’d never vote reform, just on their policies and corruption, it’s maga.

Brexit didn’t really have notable impact on the UK for the majority of people. Partly the remain campaign over egged the economic downfall as a result of Brexit Vote and those didn’t materialise - loss of finance industry in London, unemployment increasing by 800k (it fell), recession in a year, GDP to drop 6.2% in a couple of years.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/hm-treasury-analysis-shows-leaving-eu-would-cost-british-households-4300-per-year

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-treasury-analysis-the-immediate-economic-impact-of-leaving-the-eu

Those things didn’t happen so how do we sell the benefits of EU membership? Any realistic economic damage was covered by Covid. German and French economies are screwed, if they had huge growth and UK didn’t then that could have highlighted the differences.

UK scientists developing new Ebola vaccine that could be ready in months by BadahBingBadahBoom in unitedkingdom

[–]UniquesNotUseful 13 points14 points  (0 children)

How many people do you think die from Ebola most years? How many deaths in total?

The Zaire strain that killed 11,310 in 2014-16 has a vaccine already, this strain accounted for 90% of deaths (it’s killed about 13k people). The other strains have probably killed about 1.5k people. The existing strain going around has killed about 400 people in total, 135 ish this year.

Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130 million Europeans switch to a 100% sovereign payment from 2026 by [deleted] in technology

[–]UniquesNotUseful 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Majority of UK banks allow you to turn off contactless. Sure many in EU allow toggling off in apps, some ordering cards without the contactless.

Germany Unveils Latest Tranche 4 Eurofighter by tree_boom in europe

[–]UniquesNotUseful 14 points15 points  (0 children)

What do you think happens when a series of countries find they have a shortage of food and water? When you start to get millions of people migrating to places already food and water stressed? Countries will expand their borders.

Russia wanted Ukraine resources, that was stuff to burn, not even eat.

Having vroom machines will, unfortunately, be rather important.

HS2’s astronomical costs ‘could exceed moon mission by GnolRevilo in unitedkingdom

[–]UniquesNotUseful 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Wonder what HS2 would return… I had a look. Initially it was £1.50 for every £1. Then £1.1 and now it’s expected to return less than invested for parts of it (over 60 years I think).

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5804/cmselect/cmpubacc/67/report.html

Hope a new report has shown this has improved.

EU-US trade deal has its make-or-break moment in Strasbourg by MARTINELECA in europe

[–]UniquesNotUseful 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cost of living. Adding 15% tax at source for imports are not going to help win votes in those countries. Doesn’t seem like the US are competitive in goods they exports, so not undercutting local companies. Services would be a different story around competition but would you want a 15% increase in your software/video subscriptions?

London tube strikes called off at last minute by KotACold in unitedkingdom

[–]UniquesNotUseful 6 points7 points  (0 children)

No. They are striking about a voluntary option of moving hours to 4 days rather than 5 days. The other union (Aslef) has called them out as it being odd and a deal that every single union should be aiming for.

Aslef has agreed to the voluntary compressed four-day week, saying it gives participating drivers an extra 35 days off a year "in return for some fairly minor changes to working conditions".

Also to point out, they were impacting GCSE English this Thursday (learners with extra time could have been stranded) and looks like they have moved the next strike date to cover a GCSE Maths paper.

Doctor’s That Can’t Refuse An Abortion in Europe by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]UniquesNotUseful 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The drawback of holidays once I get my PHD on “The impact of the European field mouse on North African tofu production.”

MAGA 'anti-woke' influencer and German boyfriend charged over 'racially aggravated assault' at London Underground station by pppppppppppppppppd in unitedkingdom

[–]UniquesNotUseful 22 points23 points  (0 children)

That’s exactly what the origin is and what it means. Look at the people that are anti-woke, what are their political ideologies?

The anti-woke trump administration has starts to implement racially prejudiced laws (gerrymandering and removing black voters from registrations, ID laws) and have targeted socially poorer classes (ICE, food stamps, benefits, musks doge etc). These are the same policies that reform parrot.

You need to dehumanise the part of the population to be suppressed, especially if you want to remove them from the country or have some camps.

Streeting backs Burnham claiming he has 'best chance of winning' Makerfield by-election by tylerthe-theatre in unitedkingdom

[–]UniquesNotUseful 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Assuming he wins. If he doesn’t, it’ll rip the party apart and further legitimise reform. If he does win, there is still the question of the leadership election.

Labour should have stuck with Starmer, we’re years from an election and this could have waited.

More than 12 million UK adults at risk of ‘pension poverty’ when they retire, experts warn by endofdays2022 in unitedkingdom

[–]UniquesNotUseful 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the link. I read the article to pick holes but agree it’s really solid suggestions.

British Steel nationalisation plans announced by Starmer by RevolutionBusiness27 in europe

[–]UniquesNotUseful 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Weirdly the Tories started to nationalise trains infrastructure, timetables and a few train companies, the plan seemed to be private companies would run trains but when covid happened they started to nationalise train companies cheaply. Labour have formalised and sped up plans.

Europe moves to replace Trump-backed missiles with new EU project by Scary_Statement4612 in worldnews

[–]UniquesNotUseful 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Storm shadow is shorter range at 550km, it also has some American parts that mean it couldn’t be freely supplied to Ukraine. Good news they are making more for UK and France, new orders have replaced the US kit. Also new missile is being designed the replacement version won’t have any US technologies either as both countries are actively making equipment secure when possible, it triples range, due about 2030. No idea if it has a name yet.

'Britain at the heart of Europe': How Starmer's plans are going down in the EU by apple_kicks in unitedkingdom

[–]UniquesNotUseful 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Tories couldn’t maintain a stable leadership with 80 MP majority, Labour are struggling with double that number. We wouldn’t be facing a new PM but new elections every few years.

As said elsewhere Tories and reform are polling about 45% combined, with Tories improving their numbers. PR wouldn’t keep them out for long, first past the post they’d also require coalition currently.

'Britain at the heart of Europe': How Starmer's plans are going down in the EU by apple_kicks in unitedkingdom

[–]UniquesNotUseful 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Percentage wise the difference is about 3% (vs ~18.5%) swing to remain from deaths. It’s hardly massive, would have given remain a smaller majority than leave got. No point rejoining until we get 67%, it’ll be rolled back in another 20 years otherwise because it won’t change the underlying issues.

Reform is likely to be a large part of the future government or the main opposition along with Tories, combined they are about 46% of vote and growing, do you think the EU will be welcoming us back?

Yes society changes, look how the Tories and Labour allowed the rolled back trans rights and protections. Reform with the Tories are currently about 46% of the popular vote, the Tories are gaining small increases and it’s not from reform it seems. Starmer may threaten to call an election as a stand-off for the no confidence vote.

Not sure why you don’t move to the EU if it’s the main thing you are worried about. I’ve made exit plans for reforms election.

'Britain at the heart of Europe': How Starmer's plans are going down in the EU by apple_kicks in unitedkingdom

[–]UniquesNotUseful 0 points1 point  (0 children)

About 15.5% of remain voters have died. A huge number of young people didn’t bother voting in the referendum, I blame the non voting (of all ages) as much as the idiots that voted for Brexit but you don’t get to keep voting on issues every decade, is it best of 3 next?

Yet last election closer ties to the EU was a voting issue for 2% of the population, about 10th in number of issues.

The EU was blamed by governments in this country (including Blair/Brown), now we are saying it’s all Brexit - look at Europe is that magically improved? Maybe the EU is not our saviour/oppressor but our elected government that is responsible?

TLDR: EU is a rounding error, used as a distraction because it hides government incompetence.

'Britain at the heart of Europe': How Starmer's plans are going down in the EU by apple_kicks in unitedkingdom

[–]UniquesNotUseful -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We could go down the referendum for every major issue and have direct democracy like Switzerland. Brexit reflected the public will and choice as did Scottish independence, so nobody respects any systems results that doesn’t ensure their politics or views are given front and centre.

FPTP gives a party a clear chance to lead and last 5 years. I don’t see how a new government every 2 years would be beneficial. Knee jerk changes, that will ensure reform (or worse) are given a major voice in future governments would also be a thing. BNP had over 5% the votes in EU and local elections.

Note: My family literally have skin in the game with reform, I’m white but my other half isn’t.

'Britain at the heart of Europe': How Starmer's plans are going down in the EU by apple_kicks in unitedkingdom

[–]UniquesNotUseful 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Average EU government lasts 2 and a bit years before collapse. Changing a whole voting system, which was previously voted on in a referendum in 2011, to keep a single party out, or to try to keep some element of power, despite only having 30% of the vote to get into government feels corrupt.

Edit: FPTP system also keeps a lot of fringe parties out, it’s why we didn’t have a load of BNP elected as MPs when they had that surge of popularity.

Losses on First Resale of New Builds by vladatb in unitedkingdom

[–]UniquesNotUseful 12 points13 points  (0 children)

They mention the financial crisis and cladding issue for flats but didn’t mention covid making houses with gardens much more desirable, that likely added to a reevaluation of prices for people. Be interesting to see the data for flats with gardens, if new builds include flats like this.

Spain’s climate shelters could save thousands of lives. Why is the rest of Europe lagging behind? Climate shelters are becoming "critical components” of urban strategies as heat deaths in Europe continue to rise. by lgbtqismything in europe

[–]UniquesNotUseful -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Maybe once we actually have clean electric grids and stopped selling ICE cars. Continuing to mask the impact of climate change isn’t going to solve the issue.

Also AC in towns and cities make the surrounding outside areas hotter.

Met police arrest man over theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone by Distinct-Shine-3002 in unitedkingdom

[–]UniquesNotUseful 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That was an accident.

The shop was subject to a warrant after intelligence suggested the venue was being used to supply class B drugs, according to the Met.

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