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Re: You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when I met you – politicalbetting.com
This week has the potential to be hilariousThe point is Trump always wants to be on the media and he will be asked whether Starmer is standing beside him, or hiding in a fridgeSir Malcolm Rifkind on Sky suggests that Starmer and Trump will avoid a press conference because 'we all know what the questions will be'Morning all.
Yep, as i suggested yesterday. He cant affird the questions or allow HMKs guest to be embarrassed by the questions.
Of course no presser would open its own questions
Re: You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when I met you – politicalbetting.com
Subtle for me.(Subtle?)Surely Making Plans for Nigel was just a Love Action for Ms Ferrari?Yay, somebody spotted my subtle musical reference in the headline.
And now he is Being Boiled over it...
Re: You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when I met you – politicalbetting.com
With rollover relief yes. Otherwise no one would ever sell. If they could avoid itI've no idea and not much more interest but it is entirely possible that she was making her own way when they met in low paid employment but that her parents are loaded and helped her out buying this property. The 2 versions are not necessarily inconsistent.CGT on the vendor? Both taxes try to claw back some of the capital gain in the housing market boosted by successive, mainly Tory, governments.
My concern is despite all this gotcha nonsense for Farage and Rayner the focus is never on how ridiculous our rules and indeed taxes are on the buying of property. Why on earth should buying a house be a taxable event? How does this help job mobility, younger buyers wanting to have families, investment in the housing stock etc etc? Are we not acting directly against several important public policies? They are stupid taxes and have become ever more so as we try to penalise those with more than one property.
Re: You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when I met you – politicalbetting.com
Hasn't the groundwork for the Reform surge mostly been done by the Conservative party?The hard bit for Farage will be keeping up the pretence that he is an everyman anti-elite crusader. Difficult to do when you are part of the elite. If not this then something else - and it may well be policy.Good morning
If the current trend continues and refuk continue to lead, their policy positions will come under scrutiny.
Policy can win or lose an election, even if people agree with the policies they have to agree with the person saying them. Ask Jeremy Corbyn about this - popular policies until you say whose they are.
Farage has the inverse problem - the popular guy who will Fix People's Problems. But as we get into actual detail and people start to actually think, how much of this will survive as people have it explained to them in black and white how the Nigel's policies are the exact opposite of what they expect? How voting Reform will make their lives worse, not better?
I expect "fake news" to be used a lot to try and explain away awkward facts...
It worked for Starmer [ Ming vase] and look where we are now
To be honest I think Farage will find it difficult to gain a majority, but then if Labour with Starmer continue on the same path then they are putting in a lot of groundwork for Farage to win
As far as his girlfriend's flat is concerned I doubt he will be found to have done anything wrong though many seem to think this is the 'gotcha'
Re: You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when I met you – politicalbetting.com
Surely Making Plans for Nigel was just a Love Action for Ms Ferrari?
And now he is Being Boiled over it...
And now he is Being Boiled over it...
Foxy
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Re: You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when I met you – politicalbetting.com
I've no idea and not much more interest but it is entirely possible that she was making her own way when they met in low paid employment but that her parents are loaded and helped her out buying this property. The 2 versions are not necessarily inconsistent.Yes, Stamp Duty is a tax on labour mobility as a design. It also is part of the reason why people dont downsize. Both it and Council Tax would be better replaced with a single property tax paid annually.
My concern is despite all this gotcha nonsense for Farage and Rayner the focus is never on how ridiculous our rules and indeed taxes are on the buying of property. Why on earth should buying a house be a taxable event? How does this help job mobility, younger buyers wanting to have families, investment in the housing stock etc etc? Are we not acting directly against several important public policies? They are stupid taxes and have become ever more so as we try to penalise those with more than one property.
If Ms Ferrari did indeed use family money to buy a house then surely she would have to have proven to her solicitor the source of funds? It should be easy for her to kill the story if so, as the evidence is at hand.
Foxy
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Re: You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when I met you – politicalbetting.com
CGT on the vendor makes a lot more sense than what we do right now but it also discourages downsizing, job mobility etc. Almost all taxes have some negative effects but property taxes seem to me to be much more pernicious than most.I've no idea and not much more interest but it is entirely possible that she was making her own way when they met in low paid employment but that her parents are loaded and helped her out buying this property. The 2 versions are not necessarily inconsistent.CGT on the vendor? Both taxes try to claw back some of the capital gain in the housing market boosted by successive, mainly Tory, governments.
My concern is despite all this gotcha nonsense for Farage and Rayner the focus is never on how ridiculous our rules and indeed taxes are on the buying of property. Why on earth should buying a house be a taxable event? How does this help job mobility, younger buyers wanting to have families, investment in the housing stock etc etc? Are we not acting directly against several important public policies? They are stupid taxes and have become ever more so as we try to penalise those with more than one property.
DavidL
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Re: You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when I met you – politicalbetting.com
I've no idea and not much more interest but it is entirely possible that she was making her own way when they met in low paid employment but that her parents are loaded and helped her out buying this property. The 2 versions are not necessarily inconsistent.CGT on the vendor? Both taxes try to claw back some of the capital gain in the housing market boosted by successive, mainly Tory, governments.
My concern is despite all this gotcha nonsense for Farage and Rayner the focus is never on how ridiculous our rules and indeed taxes are on the buying of property. Why on earth should buying a house be a taxable event? How does this help job mobility, younger buyers wanting to have families, investment in the housing stock etc etc? Are we not acting directly against several important public policies? They are stupid taxes and have become ever more so as we try to penalise those with more than one property.
Carnyx
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Re: You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when I met you – politicalbetting.com
It really doesn’t matter.
Farage could be caught bang to rights evading tax and it wouldn’t matter. We’ve had a decade of Trump as a case study of how this works.
We should know by now that these people move in a different political context. It’s not about what you do or don’t do, it’s about whom you hate. If the people you hate are the same people your target voters hate, then you’re home and dry.
Farage could be caught bang to rights evading tax and it wouldn’t matter. We’ve had a decade of Trump as a case study of how this works.
We should know by now that these people move in a different political context. It’s not about what you do or don’t do, it’s about whom you hate. If the people you hate are the same people your target voters hate, then you’re home and dry.
TimS
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Re: You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when I met you – politicalbetting.com
I've no idea and not much more interest but it is entirely possible that she was making her own way when they met in low paid employment but that her parents are loaded and helped her out buying this property. The 2 versions are not necessarily inconsistent.
My concern is despite all this gotcha nonsense for Farage and Rayner the focus is never on how ridiculous our rules and indeed taxes are on the buying of property. Why on earth should buying a house be a taxable event? How does this help job mobility, younger buyers wanting to have families, investment in the housing stock etc etc? Are we not acting directly against several important public policies? They are stupid taxes and have become ever more so as we try to penalise those with more than one property.
My concern is despite all this gotcha nonsense for Farage and Rayner the focus is never on how ridiculous our rules and indeed taxes are on the buying of property. Why on earth should buying a house be a taxable event? How does this help job mobility, younger buyers wanting to have families, investment in the housing stock etc etc? Are we not acting directly against several important public policies? They are stupid taxes and have become ever more so as we try to penalise those with more than one property.
DavidL
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