Because council tax is grotesquely unfair. Imagine how it feels if you are paying £1,400 in a one bed flat on Teesside! That's why myself and others are so keen to reform it. If go further and pop it… (View Post)

I wouldn't make any kind of adjustments for improvements to the house - we want to encourage that kind of investment, so a shell you buy In Greenock that you turn into a £500k house would still be ch… (View Post)

I agree in principle and like the effect, but it fails the easy-to-implement test. Last sale price + local HPI is the way IMO. (View Post)

Redcar comes first, neither have ticket barriers IIRC. A Jenrick-free zone, though one of the stations on that line has rubbish access for cyclists. I can't remember which, I was mostly drunk on that… (View Post)

Honestly it wouldn't surprise me if Kirk's pretty vicious anti-trans stuff was the motivation for this. But if it turns out it wasn't, this is now the third attempt to pin it on Trans. It's clearly t… (View Post)