It doesn’t necessarily show pensioner incomes have increased significantly. It will certainly show the effect of fiscal drag due to the lack of increase of the personal allowance. (View Post)

Yes it will, probably by ten years. However they won’t do anything to arrest the growth of the benefits side of the welfare bill which they should also tackle. However SKS lost that battle early on. (View Post)

Yet state benefits, that are also income, are not subject to tax. They should be. (View Post)

I suspect they will tolerate it longer than the US. (View Post)

He names Durham as a failing council too. I’d strongly dispute that. They’re doing a decent job so far and the council tax increase was only 1.99% (View Post)