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'The Green Party's proposal for a wealth tax on 1% of assets above £10m and 2% on assets above £1bn comes top of our list of tax reforms that Britons would support, with 75% giving it their backing.

93% of Green voters and 87% of Labour voters and 80% of LD voters back a wealth tax on the richest. Even 70% of Tory and 61% of Reform voters in favour

https://x.com/YouGov/status/1981319728174928268
https://ygo-assets-websites-editorial-emea.yougov.net/documents/YouGov_-_Tax_reforms.pdf

How much would it raise in the first year? I assume tax evasion/avoidance/put the Stubbs in the lorry would kick in from year 2 onwards.

Yes, plenty of the rich affected would base themselves in Monaco, Switzerland, Dubai, Florida, the Bahamas, Singapore etc if such a tax came in

They can’t take their Knightsbridge townhouses with them

And so the wealth tax argument reaches it natural conclusion - the only part of wealth that can be easily taxed is land and property.

And we simply don’t tax property efficiently or enough

And it’s going to apply to far more people than just the so called super rich with ‘wealth’ in excess of £10 million.

The super rich may not be able to take their townhouses with them but they can sell them off. They don’t need to own an asset that may be a liability.

More enshittification news. Met Office forecast pages have been redesigned to something like an accident with a bucket of blue poster paint in a kindergarten. With BIIIIIIG pictures of clouds etc and far less info.

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/

#grumpy

That's not enshittification.

It looks like the redesign is intended to present a summary of the information first, to avoid information overload, and you can find more detail on something in particular if you want it. The intent is try to help users - whereas enshittification is purposely making something worse for users to increase profit.

And it's only blue when the weather is. When the forecast is for rain the background changes - giving an immediate visual indication of the weather. I quite like that.

Anyway, real weather nerds have a script that downloads the forecast data directly from the Met Office, so they can create your own charts. Which reminds me, I have to sort out the migration before they turn off DataPoint..

More enshittification news. Met Office forecast pages have been redesigned to something like an accident with a bucket of blue poster paint in a kindergarten. With BIIIIIIG pictures of clouds etc and far less info.

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/

#grumpy

You can revert back to the old design, but only if you answer a question about why you prefer the old one.
"The new design is shite" did the trick for me.

The questionnaire that they offer as an alternative is actually geared to saying how much one loves it. E.g. there is a choice o a dozen or so descriptor words. Only two are at all negative - the rest are positive. Not allowed to write in 'shite', either. And it's very difficult to make a freehand comment too without effectively being made to say "I lurve the new design because it's shite".

#even grumpier

I think its called "consultation". The Scottish government are, of course, the true masters of the art.

FPT: It was great to get the insights of an Plaid Cymru voter on the last thread.

Thank you @HYUFD

I voted for 4 Tories on that Town Council ballot, I only voted for a Plaid candidate as there were 6 votes and he and another were the only other candidates to vote for and he had at least bothered to canvass our halls. I on principle always use every vote.

If I lived in Caerphilly though today I would likely tactically vote Reform to try and beat Plaid

We know your reason for voting Plaid but it is quite amusing and you do get teased !!!!!!!!!

As someone living in Wales, and affected by the Senedd politicians, I would have no hesitation in voting Plaid to keep Reform out even if that means a Plaid First Minister and a confidence and supply Plaid minority government

I do not want Reform in power anywhere

You say you want rid of Labour in Wales, but Plaid will offer exactly the same policy platform with added grievance mongering. And in order to keep out nationalists, you'll vote for a different colour of nationalist. Apologies but I don't understand the basis of your arguments.

Plaid are best placed to beat labour, and if labour are trounced as is possible, then the 2026 Senedd will see a Plaid First Minister rather than a Labour or Reform one

I expect in reality a Plaid FM with a minority government as I just do not see the numbers for a reform - conservative coalition

What is certain is uncertainty for a long time to come

FPT: It was great to get the insights of an Plaid Cymru voter on the last thread.

Thank you @HYUFD

I voted for 4 Tories on that Town Council ballot, I only voted for a Plaid candidate as there were 6 votes and he and another were the only other candidates to vote for and he had at least bothered to canvass our halls. I on principle always use every vote.

If I lived in Caerphilly though today I would likely tactically vote Reform to try and beat Plaid

We know your reason for voting Plaid but it is quite amusing and you do get teased !!!!!!!!!

As someone living in Wales, and affected by the Senedd politicians, I would have no hesitation in voting Plaid to keep Reform out even if that means a Plaid First Minister and a confidence and supply Plaid minority government

I do not want Reform in power anywhere

You say you want rid of Labour in Wales, but Plaid will offer exactly the same policy platform with added grievance mongering. And in order to keep out nationalists, you'll vote for a different colour of nationalist. Apologies but I don't understand the basis of your arguments.

The last time I voted Plaid in the Senedd they tried to nail together a rainbow coalition including UKIP and the Tories so I am not inclined their direction. However, if it's them or Reform next May, needs must.

Labour, LD and Green voters need to vote Plaid this time out.

FPT: It was great to get the insights of an Plaid Cymru voter on the last thread.

Thank you @HYUFD

I voted for 4 Tories on that Town Council ballot, I only voted for a Plaid candidate as there were 6 votes and he and another were the only other candidates to vote for and he had at least bothered to canvass our halls. I on principle always use every vote.

If I lived in Caerphilly though today I would likely tactically vote Reform to try and beat Plaid

We know your reason for voting Plaid but it is quite amusing and you do get teased !!!!!!!!!

As someone living in Wales, and affected by the Senedd politicians, I would have no hesitation in voting Plaid to keep Reform out even if that means a Plaid First Minister and a confidence and supply Plaid minority government

I do not want Reform in power anywhere

I think given a choice between the SNP and Reform I would vote for......... God knows but it wouldn't be either of them.