"You could get rid of 50% of non patient facing staff in the NHS and no one would notice." The right wingers have been saying that for decades. But it's already been done. Privatisatio… (View Post)

Haven't noticed any fights at Holyrood - it's at Westminster where Scottish (and other) MPs have fights. Especially in the bar. As we all remember, or do we? (View Post)

(But also the cases of (a) downsizers (b) pension lump sum (c) legacies (d) compensation payments - by no means all of whom will be middle aged with income to spare.) (View Post)

Make still more sense to do that and make the banks pay basic rate tax on non-ISA interest at source, to take the opportunity of simplification. (View Post)

Pandering to people who had savings income rather than salaries. Who are a certain age and vote a certain way. Is the only explanation I can think of. (View Post)