It's precisely the same situation as we saw with the Winter Fuel Payments. It's all about desperately scraping around for small change here and there, because they've ruled out most of the big ticket… (View Post)

There were no good points for the elderly homeowners and their heirs, who expected estates to be preserved and transmitted completely intact and free of tax. Economic self interest is the overwhelmin… (View Post)

The most obvious place, and the one where the Tories will look first whether they are being serious or not, is Social Security. About 55% of all social security spending goes on pensioners whom, espe… (View Post)

I'm not so sure that cakeism is over. Labour has bet the farm on healthy economic growth that probably isn't coming, and there is a non-negligible prospect that the Conservatives will try to peddle s… (View Post)

Perhaps this is a reaction to nannying measures, though frankly if there was anything that deserved to be taxed and regulated to death it would be smoking, and if the Government does end up going aft… (View Post)