How will they be unable to pay a relatively small fraction of £2.25 million as a tax bill when in possession of a £2.25 million estate? That's purely a cashflow issue that can be managed by vari… (View Post)

"Kamikaze Conservatives" is a good soundbite. Aside: Pleased to see this pedestrian priority lark working locally. Walking into town this morning a bloke in an SUV stopped for me to cross a… (View Post)

I think you are right on that. Ukraine will define whether Russian Rampage continues for the next decades as they have for the last 2 decades, and whether it will impinge on Eastern and Western Europ… (View Post)

Quite surprised that Mr Hunt is restoring LHA back to the reduced rate (30th percentile of local market rent) introduced by the Conservatives about 8-9 years ago, rather than cutting it again by impo… (View Post)

Not really. For anyone on high incomes receiving it will have the increase taxed at their highest marginal rate (Gordon Brown's weird tax rate at ~£100k-£120 exempted). The only people who get t… (View Post)