Yep, Rayner/Streeting etc are impressive because their extreme examples of social mobility is so unusual. But we have to be careful here - I have colleagues who have been at least as successful as me… (View Post)

Nah, we’d hold all the cards so would be able to achieve a brilliant settlement. (View Post)

Since when do the specifics matter? People voted for Brexit in 2016 with no real sense of what they’d actually get, the same would be the case in another referendum. (View Post)

CGT increase is problematic for a whole host of reasons, among them making housing even more attractive as the store of your wealth than it already is. Won’t come to a conclusion yet but I’m not gett… (View Post)

No one. You use last sale price + HPI change for your local area. (The 1% was my idea for replacing loads of taxes like IHT, cutting NICs etc. 0.5% covers council tax only, probably needs to be more … (View Post)