I can't speak for them, but it's a massive economic fallacy, one worthy of Richard Murphy, to assume that notional wealth can simply be taxed (i.e. converted into real cash and grabbed by t… (View Post)

No one ever seems to point out that those same billionaires had 'lost' shedloads of money when share prices collapsed at the start of the pandemic. It's all pretty meaningless stuff. (View Post)

It was Gordon Brown's preferred method of raising dosh for the NHS, and, IIRC, his first big tax hike. (View Post)

Ahem. Gordon Brown would like a word. (View Post)

I suppose on the plus side it's encouraging what is not in it. It's free of Corbynesque hard-left, anti-British lunacy, and doesn't harp on about trans rights or cancelling Churchill. … (View Post)