The Liberal Party is grateful to hear that member of the United Kingdoms armed forces have been deployed to assist the NHS during the current pandemic.
Whilst such support is welcome in times of acute national need, the country’s military personal risk being seen as a 4th emergency service, distracting them from their dedicate role of national defence.
Much of the strain being felt in our national health service comes from staff shortages driven by poor levels of pay for nursing staff aggravating the loss of staff and a lack of trainees who are UK long term residents.
These are long-term issues which cannot be resolved by simply relying on our military to plug the gaps on an open-ended basis.
The Liberal Party believes that the Government should concentrate on tackling the wider issues in the economy of recruitment, training and career development be it in the NHS, or logistics such as tanker drivers rather than repeatedly reply on are our equally over-stretched armed forces.
Cllr Steve Radford
Leader of The Liberal Party
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As a party, we are proposing that we increase the Income Tax threshold from the current £12,500 phased to £20,000.
There is a tripartite argument in favour of such a proposal:
- It would incentivise work and encourage good work ethic’ back onto the agenda.
- It would take people out of the lower end of the income spectrum out of paying tax completely. Free up 6 million people from income tax, by lifting the minimum threshold to £20,000, from £12,500 pa. This is 1 in 5 taxpayers. Basic income tax rate stays at 20%. This would be paid for by a tapered progressive tax rate.
- Would, stimulate the economy: tax cuts should be focused on low- and middle-income households who tend to have a higher propensity to spend high degree of their income than high-income households.
Motion approved at November 11th Liberal Party Special Assembly.
Cllr Steve Radford
Leader of The Liberal Party
