It looks that way. The big difference between what the Tories proposed on IHT and what Labour are now saying is that £1 million would have been an individual's allowance whilst under Labour it will be rising to £350,00.
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Darling doubles Inheritance tax threshold
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It looks that way. The big difference between what the Tories proposed on IHT and what Labour are now saying is that £1 million would have been an individual's allowance whilst under Labour it will be rising to £350,00.
Uncle Spielberg
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The Large One
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No, don't flounce out on me.we can't all be as perfect and clever as you, alas if only we could
You said I was 'correct all along' - which is a deliberate misrepresentation. Are you going to answer me about what I was 'correct all along' about, or are you going to carry on flouncing?
Uncle Spielberg
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I think I may as well carry on flouncing if its all the same to you, to be honest there really is no point having a policitical discussion with you as all Tories are the Devils Spawn and all Labour people are Angels, its hard to debate anything with this mindset
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I thought you might carry on flouncing. Being deliberately misrepresented pisses me off royally, as you have done again in this quoted post.
I'm happy to have a debate with you, but it can only be done on a reasonably intelletctual level. Lord knows there are plenty on here who can beat me in a political debate, and I enjoy locking horns, and I can often respect their positions when I don't agree with them. But I can't be doing with this behaviour, with your political goonery and your flouncing.
I really ought to know better than to open your 'political threads'.
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Cynical opportunism. As a socialist, Darling is bound to want to squeeze the rich by imposing punitive rates of inheritance tax. The Labour Party is intellectually bankrupt. Its sole purpose in today's world is to run capitalism better than the Tories. Clement Attlee must be turning in his grave.
The Large One
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That's modern day politics for you. Though I'm not convinced about the 'socialist' tag.
Southover Street Seagull
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If you get as high in Government and the Labour Party as Darling you won't be a Socialist, well not in this Government anyway.
Uncle Spielberg
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Alan so you are honestly trying to tell me that he would have done this , this week anyway even if Cameron did not beast them last week in his speech and the tide had turned against them, you are serious telling me Labour had planned all along to double iht and also limit it to married couples off their own back as you dispute me saying they had stolen 2 tories policies ie
1. Increasing IHT threshold regardless of nit picking £ 700 k or £ 1 m
2. Giving tax breaks and incentives for married couples
NMH
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If, by some stretch of the imagination, the tories got in - it saves them the trouble of doing it. (or promising it, and then turning out to have been lying).
Still, the tory bench will jeer and proclaim every sneeze that labour make, as a victory for them.
Still, the tory bench will jeer and proclaim every sneeze that labour make, as a victory for them.
The Large One
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What's the point you're making?
George Osborne shouted his mouth off at his party's conference saying how he was going to do this and the other with Inheritance Tax. Why did he have to do that? Was he convinced there was going to be an election, and if so, why didn't he wait until it was called? As was seen, it was a possible vote winner.
What has happened the spectacular naivety of Osborne has meant that the agenda was set, Brown and Darling picked up on it, first by not calling the election, which meant the Tories were gazumped, leaving them with their dicks caught in their zipper.
It matters not one jot whose policy it was originally, Labour have swiped it for their own, and the Tories have nowhere to go with it. They can scream all they want, they were the ones who laid their hands first, and as is always the case, the party in power holds the aces. The Tories are hardly going to blast the government for it; the best they will be able to come up with is 'we though of that'. Sorry, they're going to have to do better than that.
Now if this was on top of an election, it would only be taken as (as mentioned on here) cynical opportunism, and it would possibly lose votes. But it's not - an election is still two years away, and who knows what's going to happen then?
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The Tories are missing a trick by not abolishing inheritance tax altogether.
They're all a bunch of ****s
They will find some way of stitching everyone up.
They will find some way of stitching everyone up.
Garth is rarely correct, but this is indeed one of those times. They've blatently pinched a Tory proposal and modified it so that it's more palatable to the less well off, whilst nodding in the direction of this middle-England that The Express and Daily hateMail both seem to think makes up the majority of the nation.
Your tone is a bit patronising IMO - yes there are slight differences but the fact is, Labour have nicked a Tory policy. FACTOID.
Uncle H speaks the TRUTH. Personally I could not give a flying f*** about paying tax when I am dead, I would much rather not pay it while I am alive.
The Large One
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That's not what he said. He said 'I was rght all along...'.
Of course I was patronising - he ws flouncing. So there.
He flounced after you patronised - it was as if you'd mentioned superglue and desert orchid in the same sentence.
Wow! Two pages on the fact that Labour have appropriated a Tory policy! SHOCK. Correct me if I'm wrong but Labour's success over the last 10 years is down to approprating Tory policies and giving them a social democratic twist? Equally the Tories are now moving to the centre and have been appropriating Labour policies. That's politics!
The Clown of Pevensey Bay
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It's all bollocks, though. If you're a couple and you've got a half decent solicitor, you'll buy the house as "tenants in common", so you in effect have half a house each rather than one house between you.
(There's more here http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/tax-ad...ticle.html?in_article_id=404318&in_page_id=78)
This means that your inheritance tax threshold goes up to £300K or whatever, or, er, £600K if you're a couple.
Which means nothing has really changed.
This is simultaneously opportunist and stupid by Labour! Well done darling! I mean Darling!
(There's more here http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/tax-ad...ticle.html?in_article_id=404318&in_page_id=78)
This means that your inheritance tax threshold goes up to £300K or whatever, or, er, £600K if you're a couple.
Which means nothing has really changed.
This is simultaneously opportunist and stupid by Labour! Well done darling! I mean Darling!
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