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The move could usher in an end to a protracted political crisis in the European Union country following the annulment of a presidential election by a top court. Parliament approved the new administration in a 240-143 vote in Romania’s 466-seat legislature. The new coalition is made up of the leftist Social Democratic Party (PSD) the centre-right National Liberal Party (PNL), the small ethnic Hungarian UDMR party and national minorities. It caps a month-long period of turmoil in which far-right nationalists made significant gains in a parliamentary election on December 1 a week after a first-round presidential race saw the far-right outsider Calin Georgescu emerge as the front-runner. “It will not be an easy mandate for the future government,” Mr Ciolacu, whose PSD party topped the polls in the parliamentary election, said in a statement. “We are aware that we are in the midst of a deep political crisis,” he said. “It is also a crisis of trust, and this coalition aims to regain the trust of citizens, the trust of the people.” Romania’s 16 ministerial positions will be shared among the parties, which will hold a slim majority in the legislature. It is widely seen as a tactical partnership to shut out far-right nationalists whose voices found fertile ground amid high living costs and a sluggish economy. Mr Ciolacu, who came third in the first-round presidential ballot despite polls indicating he would win the most votes, has served as prime minister since June 2023. After parliament’s approval, President Klaus Iohannis swore in the new government and warned the new Cabinet that it is entering a “difficult new period” in which “for many Romanians, there are major concerns”. Romania was plunged into turmoil after Mr Georgescu’s surprise success in the presidential race, after allegations of electoral violations and Russian interference emerged. Days before the December 8 run-off, the Constitutional Court made the unprecedented move to annul the presidential race. “We go through complicated times, but I think we all learned from mistakes of the past,” Mr Ciolacu said. “I hope that together with my colleagues in the coalition, we’ll find the best solutions to get past the challenges we have in front of us.” Mr Ciolacu said that the new government would aim to quickly organise the rerun of the presidential election in which the new coalition has agreed to put forward an agreed common pro-European candidate. Cristian Andrei, a political consultant based in Bucharest, said that the new government made up of the same political parties will likely embrace “soft populist” rhetoric such as economic patriotism, anti-austerity, and a peace solution in neighbouring Ukraine to counter the rise of far-right populism. “This will be a way to answer the concerns of many Romanians who voted for populists... but will not solve the fundamental problem of trust,” he said. “The only decisive factor now will be who and how convincing the pro-European candidates will be against this popular revolt.” George Simion, the leader of the far-right Alliance for the Unity of Romanians, which came second in the parliamentary election, said that all politicians from his party on Monday would vote against the Ciolacu government. In 2021, the PSD and the PNL also formed an unlikely but increasingly strained coalition together with UDMR, which exited the Cabinet last year after a power-sharing dispute.LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Rams keep doing just enough to win, and a team that appeared to be rebuilding this season has climbed all the way to the brink of another playoff berth. The Rams improved to 9-6 and took control of the NFC West on Sunday with their fourth straight victory since Thanksgiving. Their 19-9 win over the New York Jets in sub-freezing temperatures was not dominant — they trailed 9-6 entering the fourth quarter, and they were outgained by nearly 100 yards — but Los Angeles still matched its largest margin of victory this season and continued to look like a looming nightmare for any postseason opponent. The Rams have now won eight of 10 since their bye week, when they were 1-4 and the NFL world wondered whether they would trade Super Bowl MVP receiver Cooper Kupp or even quarterback Matthew Stafford to spur their roster reboot. Los Angeles decided not to punt its season, and Sean McVay's team has driven from last to first. “You don’t want to ride the emotional roller coaster that these games can take you on,” McVay said Monday. “You do have the ability to stay steady, to stay the course and try to right the ship. Certainly that’s not complete by any stretch, but our guys have done an excellent job of not allowing the way that we started, especially in those first five games, to affect what we did coming off that bye.” The Rams also have clinched their seventh winning record in eight regular seasons under McVay — an achievement that shouldn’t get lost in the recent successes of a franchise that had 13 consecutive non-winning seasons before it rolled the dice and hired a 30-year-old head coach back in 2017. After winning it all in February 2022 and then having the worst season by a defending Super Bowl champion in NFL history, the Rams have made the most of their time in between true powerhouse status and a major rebuild. They also started slowly last year, entering their bye at 3-6 before a 7-1 finish. The Rams can become the first team in NFL history to make back-to-back postseason appearances after being three games under .500 each year. These Rams don't stand out on either side of the ball, although their talent level appears to be higher on offense than defense. Instead, they've mastered a delicate balance of complementary football — the offense and defense covering each other's weaknesses and setting up their teammates for success. The Rams have scored more than 30 points just once all season, and they managed only 31 points in their last two games combined. Their defense has allowed only one touchdown in the past two games — but right before that, Josh Allen and the Bills racked up 42 points and 445 yards in the most recent of a few defensive stinkers from LA this season. The Rams keep winning anyway, and now they can clinch McVay's fourth NFC West title by beating Seattle in two weeks. “Fortunately, we’re in a position where you don’t necessarily have to rely on other things to happen if you just handle your business,” McVay said. Kyren Williams and the offensive line are driving the Rams' offense. After a slow start caused partly by McVay being forced to abandon the running game when the Rams repeatedly fell behind early, the 2023 Pro Bowler has surged to career highs of 1,243 yards and 13 rushing touchdowns with his 122-yard performance in New York. Stafford's 110 yards passing were his fewest with the Rams and the second-fewest in his 16-year career from a full game. Sunday's weather was a major factor, but the Rams must throw the ball effectively to somebody other than Puka Nacua. Kupp has just 193 yards receiving in his past five games combined. Defensive back Jaylen McCollough made a career-high nine tackles in only 31 snaps. The undrafted rookie continues to be a remarkable find, earning playing time alongside veteran safeties Quentin Lake and Kam Curl and fellow rookie Kam Kinchens. CB Cobie Durant didn't play for the second straight week despite being cleared to return from his bruised lung. Veteran Ahkello Witherspoon got every snap in place of Durant, who started LA's first 13 games. McVay praised Witherspoon's recent play when asked why Durant didn't get on the field in New Jersey. The Rams' improved health, particularly on both lines, is the key to their surge. McVay reported no new injuries out of the road trip following Tyler Higbee's successful season debut. 12-1 — The Rams’ record in December with Stafford as their starter over his four years in LA. The Rams need to win at least one of their final two games to wrap up their first NFC West crown since 2021. They host eliminated Arizona on Saturday night, but can't clinch the division unless the Seahawks lose to moribund Chicago. The Rams are currently the NFC's third seed, but that doesn't matter a whole lot because both the third and fourth seeds will have to play one of the NFC North's two powerful wild-card teams in the opening round. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/NFL
Tax-obsessed Labour won't like it... but my radical plan to stop the poor paying any tax AT ALL would benefit every one of us, by LORD SAATCHI By LORD SAATCHI FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY Published: 11:43 EST, 28 December 2024 | Updated: 11:43 EST, 28 December 2024 e-mail View comments Labour isn’t working. Those are the words used back in 1979 when – in the grip of a failing government and soaring unemployment – we masterminded an advertising campaign to propel the Tories back to power. It was the slogan my firm, Saatchi & Saatchi, chose – plastered on the now-iconic poster of hundreds waiting in the dole queue. Clearly it worked, propelling Margaret Thatcher into No 10 for the next decade. But, 45 years on, how depressingly relevant that poster remains. Today, 4.5 million adults aged 18 to 65 are not in employment, education or training. They cost the country billions in benefit payments every year. Labour’s undeclared dream is for the majority of people’s income to be taken in tax And the worst part? Labour prefers it that way. Sir Keir Starmer and his Cabinet believe that tethering people to State handouts will keep their government in power for longer. It is a cold political calculation – with terrible social and economic costs. Don’t suppose for a minute that the ‘economically inactive’ population consists merely of stupid or lazy people. On the contrary, any professor at the London School of Economics will tell you that very many have made a rational, financially sound decision not to work. They know there is no incentive to get out of bed in the morning because, after paying income tax and losing benefits, they would be worse off than staying on the dole. Working for a low salary that is taxed is pointless. My decades in business taught me that incentives are imperative – for customers, for the workforce and for employers. We all need sound reasons, including financial ones, to get out of bed. But in Britain today, there are countless compelling incentives to remain workless. Chief of these is income tax, which is payable above a salary level of £12,570. Any income above this threshold is subject to taxation, initially at 20 per cent. Yet the official ‘poverty line’ is below half of average earnings: £17,000 or less. It is utterly unjust – not to mention economically insane – that some of the poorest people, who earn £12,570 to £17,000, are forced to pay income tax. Even more perversely, in the vast majority of cases, they are then ‘reimbursed’ with benefits. Read More BRYONY: Starmer's lunacy has tipped me over the edge. He's a clown in donated designer clothes This situation has grown steadily worse. This year alone, the Government has pilfered £6 billion from the poorest by not raising the starting threshold for income tax in line with inflation. This trick is known as fiscal drag and it is doing a cruel job. The scandal is worsened by the fresh injustice of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s increased National Insurance levies on employers – another anti-work tax. How can these injustices be corrected? One obvious answer is for the lowest earners to keep more of their money before they start paying tax. That would immediately make it more worthwhile to work for a living. Among the 2.6 million benefit claimants who do work, a high proportion earn less than £17,000. Clearly, they’d be no worse off if their benefits were reduced, provided, of course, their income tax was cut by the same amount. In other words, the cost to the Treasury of raising the income tax threshold to £17,000 (estimated at £4 billion to £6 billion) would be cancelled out by the saving in benefits. Government spending would decrease and millions of people now caught in the bewildering complexity of the welfare system would be freed. Consider the ludicrously complicated mass of benefits, exemptions, credits and so on – which the citizen has to navigate. Some benefits, such as Universal Credit, are means-tested; others are not. Iniquitously, estimates suggest thousands of households are paying a marginal tax rate of up to 95 per cent on parts of their income – a figure approaching the 98 per cent levy on unearned income that was in place when Mrs Thatcher became PM. The solution to this shambolic mess must be radical reform. Raising the tax-free threshold would not only cut administrative costs but also reduce pressure on the NHS. After all, benefits claimants are more likely to suffer from health problems stemming from being isolated at home. The fact is that a rapidly expanding workforce would drive the economic growth that Labour has promised – and which the country desperately needs. Lord Saatchi says it’s time for a radical new approach and greater independence for all And, perhaps most notably, there would be a dramatic fall in immigration. Such reforms would mean less need for immigrants to take the jobs that those who already live here have little incentive to fill. All this can happen only if Britain returns to traditional Conservative values: hard work, enterprise, fair pay and meritocracy. Those ought to be Labour values, too. But the Starmer government won power on the back of a cold calculation: the State buys popularity through benefit payments of one kind or another. Worse, Labour’s undeclared dream is for the majority of people’s income to be taken in tax. Eventually, that could get to the point where almost everyone is obliged to call on the State for assistance. This is little more than economic enslavement – in which the Government makes itself master by using the tax benefit system as a whip. The result, of course, isn’t economic growth, despite all the promises Reeves has made to business leaders. Instead, there is demoralisation. All surveys confirm that Britain has felt ‘worse off’ since Labour came to power – and very few people expect things to get any better in the next five years. But how can the national picture improve – when millions feel working will make them even poorer? A report by former Labour Health Secretary Alan Milburn found that in the Yorkshire town of Barnsley, 70 per cent of people claiming sickness benefits said they wanted to work – but only ten per cent were actively in contact with employment services. How frustrating for them, and expensive for the rest of us. This madness suits nobody except self-serving Labour politicians. There are three million people of working age claiming sickness benefits, up by one million in just five years. A Channel 4 Dispatches documentary this month, Britain’s Benefits Scandal, spoke to people in Hull trapped on welfare benefits. A man called Michael said he’d applied to train as a plasterer but had to withdraw when told that, as soon as he began his apprenticeship, his benefits would stop. He wants to earn a living in a much-needed profession – but how is he supposed to eat or pay the rent while he learns? Gavin, a taxi-driver, contacted the Department for Work and Pensions to say he no longer needed sickness benefits. He was told to wait for reassessment. Three years later, he is still waiting... with the money still pouring in. This chaos cannot go on. The tax system should be a social glue – a means of binding the country together while enabling people to live better lives. But now it is little more than a political weapon. It’s time for a radical new approach and greater independence for all. The power of taxation can be used to the benefit of everyone – before that dole queue starts forming again to remind Sir Keir Starmer that he is not working. • Lord (Maurice) Saatchi was chairman of the Conservative party from 2003 to 2005. Labour Keir Starmer Margaret Thatcher Share or comment on this article: Tax-obsessed Labour won't like it... but my radical plan to stop the poor paying any tax AT ALL would benefit every one of us, by LORD SAATCHI e-mail Add comment More top storieshas a in his life. The quarterback made the on the , revealing that he is dating a woman named . Aaron Rodgers drops love bomb on air While discussing his holiday shopping routine, casually mentioned the new relationship. He explained how he had switched from traditional mall shopping to ordering gifts online. However, the quarterback also shared his experience of dealing with a for his girlfriend's gift, noting the stress it caused him. said. revelation seemed to take and the crew by surprise. 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