Hmmm. On Council Tax based on property market value, we need smoothing too. What happens if we get a GFC as 2010, or another Loopy Lizzy who goes full fruitcake with economic policy? Revaluations eve… (View Post)

Er ... what rhetoric? The only thing in the Lab manifesto is about offshore trusts aiui, I'd say that is the Telegraph continuing it's journey to being a large format Daily Express. And ver… (View Post)

I didn't aim to suggest particular conclusions, just to suggest that in addition to the individual behaviour, it may be more than "bad person", and that to deal with it we need to unde… (View Post)

I think that's perhaps rather exaggerated. At present that is the other way round - the same worker in London is more likely to be paying a little more than half what the worker in Newcastle pay… (View Post)

I'd see this as unwinding some of that distortion over time. 0.5% of an average house in London is £3k, which is not exactly excessive. A band D house in Ashfield is currently around £2k. If it … (View Post)