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Are you sure? My understanding is the reverse. Over the last 40+ years every gov has been centre or centre right. Hence the domination by the Tories and Labour under Blair. I’m also not convinced that many people voted for a centre left party this time, as opposed to voting a right wing (as...

That’s a train of thought that hadn’t occurred to me and I’ve re read your post several times and each time it chimes more. Let’s see what happens and if at the end of 5 years Labour has mended (or made progress mending) our society and reinstalled some faith in our democracy, then I will be...

Likewise on both counts. But the combination of economic, political and social illiteracy plus the dishonesty in their messaging has already killed the belief I had.

Hate to agree with anything Richard Tice says but this is spot on: “it feels like an assault on small businesses, on entrepreneurship, on hard work and that will end up being an assault on growth”. Small business owners are not ‘working people’ but MPs are. Freezing tax thresholds doesn’t mean...

In the same position so PM me your name and email address and will transfer. Priority to anyone who HAS been rude to me!

This would obviously work as none of these wealthy people would be able to afford top accountants to ensure they don’t pay it.

He did indeed kick off after the referendum which achieved absolutely nothing. If he had 'kicked off' during the campaign then he might have achieved something. But he didn't. He showed political expediency (ie changed his 'principles' to develop his career) under Corbyn and after Corbyn...

Wasn’t Starmer shadow home office minister under Corbyn? Starmer was very much part of corbyn’s Labour Party including (correct me if I’m wrong) as shadow home office minister. He (and others) could have at least tried to get some pro eu impetus going within Labour but he (and others) did...

Key line from this report "This is an argument for honesty from those who still claim Brexit offers benefits" This will never happen I have experienced first hand the chaos, loss of business and higher costs due to Brexit. It has really hurt. Yet I am regularly told that Brexit was never the...

Well elucidated and agree

You won me over with “ I was actively involved in the last campaign because I wanted to get rid of my constituency MP, Liz Truss” 👏👏👏

I don’t (☹️) but why? They pay far more tax than us assuming they pay what they should. What’s the problem apart from envy?

Sorry, quite right

I think that’s a very fair point. Tax mitigation means minimising one’s tax within the rules. If that enables the super rich to pay less tax than the HMRC would like, then change the rules. Tax avoidance, however, is illegal and the rules should be enforced.

To most people rich means someone who has more than they do. Hence the regular mantra of ‘tax the rich’ which's actually means ‘don’t tax me, just who anyone earns more than me’.

The answer is Organic and the difference is best illustrated by the massive price difference. Rearing chicken humanely without being drip fed antibiotics is extremely expensive. Either buy organic or don’t eat chicken would be my advice - from a welfare and health perspective. Unfair to those...

Absolutely fair comment, but we are talking about our government here who appear to have thrown away a potential £1 billion investment in our economy. A government with any economic nouse would have (behind closed doors) welcomed the investment but taken the opportunity to rectify and change the...

To lose ‘Business’ so soon, given there was real belief that Labour ‘got it’ whilst the Tories had alienated almost every sector of business in the Uk and around the world, is deeply worrying. Labour have run down the economy making both business and consumers extremely nervous, created...

Impossible to disagree but they will be judged in 4 years or so time on their record over a full parliament. Terrible start but all will be forgiven if everyone feels their lives have taken a turn for the better by then. Perhaps ‘jury out’ is the appropriate term right now

There have always been nutters in politics and the world in general. The problem is that now these people get global air time via social media etc combined with (I say this reluctantly) our current obsession with the ‘right to free speech’ rather than ‘right to free speech but with...