Originally posted by CoolCat
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They've already got 12.5% NI corp tax rate.
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And they will get most of them - for Northern Ireland...
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Err, yes (as in it was agreed).Originally posted by RSoles View Post
The decision was made in March 2015, actual rate expected to start next year.
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In which case I reckon the new regime will start very soon...Originally posted by RSoles View PostComment
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And extremely inflexible on just about everything else...Originally posted by northernladyuk View Post
They are flexible on the bin collections.His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...Comment
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LOL at some of the ignorance on here.
DUP manifesto.
Discussion of what they want on Corporation Tax here. They want it reduced to at least 12.5% (to compete with the south). EU rules would require, if they get that, a reduction in their block grant. They will want that reduction to go away once Brexit is complete. They would certainly support lower CT for the rest of the UK. They are a low-tax, efficiency in government, party. They are hardline on security / law and order. They want to give intelligence services greater power to investigate potential terrorists. They want increased spending on education and the NHS and want to keep the pensions triple lock (my guess is they will win that argument, with the third component perhaps reducing from 2.5% to 2.0 or 1.5.
In short, on fiscal policy and law and order they are pretty much classic conservatives along the lines of Thatcher and what the Tories used to be. Low tax, limit bureaucracy, law and order, but not unwilling to spend on public services.
On social issues like abortion, they are hard right. But then, so is their constituency. Northern Ireland is not England or Scotland.
On homosexual rights, they are about where most people were 25 years ago (they think it is immoral, they oppose gay marriage or any particular endorsement of homosexuality), and to the left of where most people were 50 years ago (they aren't trying to outlaw gay sex).
On Northern Ireland issues, they are hard-line unionist, but they do work with nationalists/republicans who repudiate violence. Paisley and Martin McGuinness were known as the "Chuckle Brothers", they became good friends. They'd throw red meat to their constituents because that's the way politics work in Northern Ireland, but they worked together in the Assembly. They've always been able to attract a reasonable percentage of Roman Catholic votes, probably because they took a very hard line against terrorism and the terrorist thugs weren't helping Catholics, either.
On Europe, they are pro-Brexit but want a "frictionless border" with the south, not a "hard border" (LOL, our daftie Scot just makes stuff up as he goes along, doesn't he?), and ease of trade with the Irish Republic.Comment
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