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Re: Messing with taxes on homes never ends well – politicalbetting.com
People pay taxes with sorrow.
They pay rates with rage.
They pay rates with rage.
ydoethur
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Re: Messing with taxes on homes never ends well – politicalbetting.com
Labour’s issue is they simply can’t kill this speculation. It gave them a big problem last summer too. You can’t stop journalists writing stories/speculating; but it goes to show the government is in the doldrums as they can’t move on from it.Is it Reeves staff (SPADs) etc briefing the press or civil servants in the treasury ?It could easily be CCHQ interns brainstorming and briefing the right-wing press. Most of the measures Reeves is said to have considered last year did not come to pass.
Re: Squaring the Circle – politicalbetting.com
I presume the govt will now lean on Labour and Lib Dem councils to accommodate asylum seekers in hotels.
Taz
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Re: Squaring the Circle – politicalbetting.com
A rather gruesome sight in our garden: amid a heap of feathers a pigeon's body with a decapitated head and no head to be found. No sign of the corpse having been eaten. Could it be a fox?Sounds like the work of a hawk to me.
Pigeons are so dozy I've seen them lined up on the fence watching one of their own being torn to shreds just feet away. Hawks feast on these stupid birds.
glw
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Re: Squaring the Circle – politicalbetting.com
The end of the Isak statement sounds like a lost Love Will Tear us Apart verse
https://x.com/bradder68/status/1957904478612422778?s=46&t=CW4pL-mMpTqsJXCdjW0Z6Q
https://x.com/bradder68/status/1957904478612422778?s=46&t=CW4pL-mMpTqsJXCdjW0Z6Q
isam
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Re: Squaring the Circle – politicalbetting.com
My assumption is that all these "leaks" in the press about IHT and council tax are ideas from the Treasury being shared in real time.
All of which will damage confidence and dampen growth all the way into the Autumn, just as it did last year but it doesn't mean Rachel Reeves is actually going to do it.
She'd have to be very "brave" to touch people's houses.
All of which will damage confidence and dampen growth all the way into the Autumn, just as it did last year but it doesn't mean Rachel Reeves is actually going to do it.
She'd have to be very "brave" to touch people's houses.
Re: Squaring the Circle – politicalbetting.com
Is it measuring shrivelled old imperialist dicks time again? Comes round quicker every year.
Re: Squaring the Circle – politicalbetting.com
Good morning, everyone.
I am very surprised. Shocked. As astonished as when I got a letter that my account interest rate had been reduced following the Bank of England's decision.
Oops, CPI now 3.8%So, the Bank of England's MPC, tasked with using interest rates to manage inflation with a target rate of 2%, decided to cut rates when inflation was way above target and now inflation's risen.
I am very surprised. Shocked. As astonished as when I got a letter that my account interest rate had been reduced following the Bank of England's decision.
Re: Squaring the Circle – politicalbetting.com
We're still discussing the thread header after 600+ comments and twelve hours.My assumption is that all these "leaks" in the press about IHT and council tax are ideas from the Treasury being shared in real time.The question you have to ask is what are they actually planning to do given the complete insanity of capital gains tax on primary properties especially as there is no mention of limiting it to downsizing.
All of which will damage confidence and dampen growth all the way into the Autumn, just as it did last year but it doesn't mean Rachel Reeves is actually going to do it.
She'd have to be very "brave" to touch people's houses.
This is why I don't think that any government will touch property taxes...
ydoethur
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Re: Squaring the Circle – politicalbetting.com
The politics of empire is interesting.
Take India. If empires are bad, then why does Modi invoke the Chola Empire - a vast, religion-based, militaristic and trading empire with a large navy - as the way forward for a developed India? Why does he give background support for Russia in its imperialist ambitions in Ukraine?
If empires are bad, and he wants reparations for what the British empire did, why does he support Russia building an empire? Why was the Chola Empire admirable, and the British Empire not?
Take India. If empires are bad, then why does Modi invoke the Chola Empire - a vast, religion-based, militaristic and trading empire with a large navy - as the way forward for a developed India? Why does he give background support for Russia in its imperialist ambitions in Ukraine?
If empires are bad, and he wants reparations for what the British empire did, why does he support Russia building an empire? Why was the Chola Empire admirable, and the British Empire not?
