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2004, bush jnr. beat Kerry by 3m votes, 2.4% margin.

The MPs are working on the assumption that all the wealthy people connected with this country, even the ones like the Hinduja family and Jim Ratcliffe who are resident overseas for tax purposes, will happily pay the 2% on their worldwide assets. I wonder if that assumption is justified...

When he says "London's communities", he really needs to explain what he means. He needs to make it absolutely clear that he is talking only about communities of gangsters and criminals, and not (for example) black people in general.

He had a weapon and was using it.

What I am saying is that pension pots are savings, and there are ways of taxing pension pots that will (in theory at least) raise money for the government.

Pensions are savings too. Plenty to go at among the people who have saved for a pension, and of course retired people (as he clearly implied) are fair game for tax rises.

Very well, I apologise for making a post that does not fit in with what you consider right and proper. As for the drinking, don't judge lest you may be judged. :)

It's a general conversation about landlords, not (hopefully) rigidly restricted to the list of laws mentioned a page and a half ago.

Depends. For example, two of my next door neighbours rent their houses, relatively cheaply, and under these new laws may be forced out - the houses are 200 years old, all but, and may not be updateable to modern insulation standards. The tenant is happy with the deal, the landlord is happy...

"Beggar" is a euphemism for a slightly stronger word. I don't swear much. The point of the cumulative changes to landlord's rules, which I agree were started by the Tories, is to make being a landlord more onerous because it protects tenants' rights. It will take so much longer to eject...

Good news and bad news for landlords, I suppose. It will certainly push some of them out of the market, which is what the government aiming for of course, but it will drive the prices up for the Bit of a beggar for the tenants though. When a landlord sells up, he just needs to find somewhere...

I suppose. You're going for the ultra-green ideal of everyone living at subsistence level, with private ownership of assets being all but impossible? (Presumably you would ban overseas ownership of assets as well?)

At a guess, your parents forgot tick the "under 17" box on the electoral roll form. Did you get a voting card that year as well?

Even the most enthusiastic Remainer sources don't reckon that our economy would have grown 20% more than Germany in 4 years, had we stayed in the EU. 5% as a one-off is the biggest sensible estimate, and even that is based on the dubious idea that we were due a very significant leap forward in...

Is that £3,250 plus VAT?

Does that mean they use a ritually pure bread slicer? I could easily understand the principal of not buying halal meat, but not halal wheat. o_O

They haven't booted him out. They've just stopped paying him £2m a year for doing not a lot. He's still a non-executive director and still gets his free seats.

Helping? :unsure:

Ditto university. No reason in principle why they shouldn't put VAT on university fees too.

Yes. The beauty of increasing employer's NIC, from the government's point of view, is that it the practical effect falls entirely on the private sector. If the government has to pay an extra (say) 5% tax on wages, then they are paying it to themselves and can funnel it straight back to the...