Ditto. The young working person who has to spend their entire earned income is paying both income tax and NI on their income, and is paying a high proportion of their income in sales taxes (VAT, fuel… (View Post)

Sale of my mother's flat went through on the last day of March, with the whole chain desperate to conclude before the stamp duty change. That this, on a macro scale, affected the economic data i… (View Post)

Bizarrely, one of the 4% was a regular PB’er at the time. (View Post)

First! (View Post)

I suspect we are currently at peak Reform. Spotting the decline, until it becomes obvious, will be difficult, but in some months time we will see it, as happened to the SDP during the early ‘80s. (View Post)