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Council housing, even "like they used to", has a lot of drawbacks. Unless councils can be persuaded to buy significantly more properties than the rental market needs, it is not fit for the same purposes that rental houses provide. For example, as it stands, if I rent a property near Burnley...

I think perhaps you're underestimating the difficulties of getting a mortgage. How easy do you think it is, for example, for an unemployed single parent to get a mortgage? Or a couple on the state pension with no savings? If the landlord is forced or persuaded to put his 48 tenants onto the...

I don't know how much the average smoker costs the NHS in treatment, but I doubt it's £100k. The average lifelong smoker lives 10 years less than the non-smoker, which means 10 years less pension - that's £100k based on the average payment per pensioner. There are plenty of reasons for wanting...

The practical difficulty is that to get an inflation proof annual pension of £12k, you need about £250k in your pension pot when you retire. If that amount is reduced by means testing, it's a hard sell persuading people to save for their pension, not because they will be better off, nut because...

Not going to happen IMO. People like their own cars too much. The joys of taking your children on a day out and carrying all your gear with you every time you get out of the car, are overrated. If you haven't got your own car, where do you keep the tin of sweets, the sunglasses, the...

Electric cars in 20 years won't be on the same technology as they are now. I suspect they will have found some way of recharging them that's as fast, or close to it, as it is to fill up with petrol.

They are means tested, but £220 a week income is considered enough for the pensioner not to need a pension credit so they also lose the fuel benefit. For some pensioners near the limit, the loss of the £500 or £600 they received last year will be significant.

I can obviously see the attraction to 18 year olds that they will get a full minimum wage and full employment protection right from day 1 of their new job. It means that no longer will an employer be able to take on an 18 year old knowing that he can pay him less and have a trial period. The...

Not all of them. They have specifically said that the promise not to increase employees' NIC will be kept (though by extension we can assume that the promise to Thanks. The problem I have getting my head round this is that the UK GDP is not performing noticeably worse than most of the world...

How is the £100 billion worked out please?

May recorded only 750k votes more than Corbyn and therefore didn't get a majority government. Starmer, on the other hand, recorded 3m votes less than Corbyn, and got a huge majority. It does tend towards the conclusion that it was Tories' unpopularity (losing almost half their votes) rather...

Whatever else the Labour government may have done 1974-1979, it wasn't fixing an economic mess. The IMF bail-out and the winter of discontent weren't down to the Tories.

It's poor of the school to reject him from A levels because he got a mark (that they think is wrong). They taught him, and they think he is clever enough to get a good GCSE (as per the mock), so if they refuse to teach him any more it is because they are more interested in their own league...

The figures for "subsidies" includes favourable tax treatment for consumers. So the 15% VAT discount for domestic customers counts as a subsidy to the fossil fuel industry (and also to the renewables industry).

You want VAT on domestic fuel to rise from 5% to 20% as a way of hitting the oil companies? Don't you think it would have more effect on the domestic consumers than it would on the oil companies, who after all don't get any of that money anyway?

How do you capsize a boat without anyone noticing?

I'm not going to disagree that they waste an awful lot of money by spending it on the wrong things and people. Nor am I going to argue that they shouldn't be storing up treasure on earth. All am saying is that's why they don't pay tax, for the same reasons as the RSPCA don't pay tax and...

They're a non-profit organisation (ie. all their income is ultimately spent on their core activity) so they wouldn't pay tax on profits anyway, even if they weren't a charity. As for VAT, businesses don't pay it - their customers do. There is no VAT on rent of agricultural land or on the sale...

Of course you could use that money for other purposes. If we accept the claim at face value, we could use the funds to run the NHS until the early hours of tomorrow morning, for example. Or pay an extra £6.60 a week in net benefits to a million families. (The most needy of the working classes...