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Surely that's an extreme interpretation? Saying "I want the best for my family" is not the same as saying "I want the best for my family and don't care about the rest of the world". You're right that "right of centre" people do tend to prioritise the welfare of their won family above that of...

Nobody stirred anything. I did a qucik google and found a figure of 1.4m claiming pension credit. If it should have been 2.2m then it's 1 in 6 pensioners who will get it. Approximately.

Yes. As it stands, about 1 in 8 pensioners will get it.

Easiest way would be to sell the lot, two flats plus the freehold, at a premium. Obviously there would be CGT on your flat, though not your daughter's, but you should get excess profit because you have the flat 4 man over a barrel, which should ease the pain. And you'd be free of the whole...

Between the devil and the deep blue sea. On the one hand, even a tapered system is expensive; on the other hand, a non-tapered system is unfair. Someone who is a pound or two under the limit gets pension credit, along with other benefits (as detailed on the government help sheet attached) of...

Exactly. That's why Trigaaar's comment about Trump have more votes against him, needs taking into context. It's undoubtedly true that Trump had more votes against him than any other presidential candidate, it's true that Biden had more votes against him than any candidate other than Trump, and...

But he has also had more people vote for him as President than almost anyone else More than twice as many as Kennedy.

That would be a better argument if the Tories didn't also put into practice higher taxes and letting out the prisoners. And it's the pensioners' heating allowance that's gone, not the bus passes. The only one you have the right of, is the junior doctors' pay, which I agree is not going to help...

I'm sure these hypothetical rules would apply to black yobboes as well. They do exist, even if they aren't taking much part in the current riots.

Nail on head. If people don't like the job in the private sector they should apply for a job in the public sector; similarly, if they don't like the job in the public sector they should apply to the private sector. There is no point anyone from either side complaining about what the conditions...

It's a bit surprising really. Right back through history, to those who believed that "black" and "white" is important and we need to know which is which, "white" has been defined as pure blood white, and a hint of black ancestry made the person "black". They had different words for it -...

If the UK government decides that they want to take a percentage of the worldwide assets of someone who lives in another country, who is a citizen of another country, and those assets are in another country, they're going to struggle. They won't want to put a charge on shares in a UK company...

I have a suspicion that it might change people's behaviour, at least at the top end. If the Hinduja family, for example, are told that they will have to pay tax of £2 billion or else leave the country, which do you think they would choose? Do you think it might also have an effect on the...

Marginal rate on income between £100k and £125k is 62%, It's because that's the level where they phase out the personal allowance.

I don't disagree with what they see as a problem, just with the solutions. Step one is to see that some people are rich and others are poor; step two is to say this isn't fair; step three is to find the solution by making all people poor. It's the same with schools; step one, to see that some...

In my experience, the bulk of people who retire early are public sector workers. They can't be too badly off relative to their private sector equivalents.

They can't do anything if you "accidentally" step on one of them, and as you're falling, elbow one in the stomach. (As long as you do a competent pratfall, that is. Can't make it too obvious.)

If they restrict it only to those on pension credit, then it should be as easy to administer as it is now - just add it to the pension credit rather than to the basic pension. (If they hadn't already done the means testing for pension credit, then it probably would cost more than it would save.)

By careful position of signs, cameras and road markings, the income could be enough (and more), over time, to cover the cost of the work.

On the other hand, they need to be careful not to encourage a position where it's perceived that people who've spent everything get given more while people who've saved get it taken off them.