One of the beauties of STV is the ability of voters to choose between multiple candidates standing for a party. So this means that where you have a party standing by a complete rogue who is one of th… (View Post)

How do they intend to value houses to determine which are worth more than £2m? My Dad bought a substantial house in London with his second wife in 1997 for £325k. The house next door sold for £1.88m … (View Post)

It's entirely to do with the government being skint and needing to raise some extra funds for all the things they want to spend money on. Every political party prefers to cut taxes, and you can be as… (View Post)

He's not too poor to live there. Between the two of them I'm sure my Dad and step-mother could afford the tax. But still. £20k pa is a lot of money if they can avoid it by moving to a smaller house t… (View Post)

Oh, really? I thought cliff edges in the tax system were all the rage? Not going to make a smidgen of a difference to my Dad then. (View Post)