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This polling betrays a fatal flaw with taking a policy position at face value. Wealth taxes are superficially v popular, but pollsters don’t ask the question: if these taxes lead to shortfalls of revenue, will you be willing to pay more tax? Germany modelled a wealth tax and reckoned it would...

All. It’s the sum of migrant hotels (15bn over 10 years) £1.5bn and the cost of welfare benefits to foreign nationals, which sits at £941m per month as of March 2025, doubling from £461m per month in March 2002 (source: DWP). Around a 6th of all UC payments. It applies to all migrants and the...

JDS, he looked hopeless. Torp and Rudoni always had solid underlying numbers. BTA was a solid Championship striker when we signed him. Thomas and Kitch were good in 23/24, they’ve developed over time.

Most of the pots have been decided for the World Cup, a fun draw would be: England-Australia-Scotland-NZ / ROI (if they made it). One to avoid would be Italy if they win their playoff, they’ll be in Pot 4 by the looks of it.

In 2016, it wasn't fun...

What Zach Polanski or the Labour Left doesn’t tell you is the following: - How is wealth actually defined? - Will there be any exempted asset classes? - What are the costs to administer this new levy? - Why have such taxes been repealed in 9 European countries as well as India? ‘Exit taxes’...

Zero facts to support your arguments, zero credibility Tony. Everywhere that applies a wealth tax ends up losing tax revenue elsewhere, therefore, are actually net Wealth taxes may be a new shiny toy for the Labour Left, Green Party and Gary Stevenson, but not for the rest of Europe.

Bring tinnies on the train and a meal deal costs about a tenner from WHSmith at New St. Train ticket probably a £8-10 too. £30 for football tickets was relatively normal 10-15 years ago for an adult, its one of the few things that hasn't risen with inflation, everything else, has. Look at your...

No, quite the opposite. It is not a serious policy and will almost definitely not raise the sums it claims because assessing wealth is far more complex than assessing income. The countries that have repealed wealth taxes found it administratively burdensome for low tax yields, for example...

Having been around home nations at these major tournaments, they have no love for us so will always wish them the worst.

It’s not a binary choice. What’s stopping a government addressing both? For example, there are 4 million people on UC that have never worked, it’s effectively UBI by the back door. Welfare dependency keeps people in a life of poverty. Likewise, the tax burden being the highest it’s ever been...

The critique was on the concept of a wealth tax. It promises to reduce ‘wealth inequality’ but in reality, even the most optimistic outcome barely touches public expenditure. The cost of migrant benefits and hotels totals around £13.5bn a year. Considering the total welfare bill is set to raise...

Understand that ‘the left’ is a catch-all phrase. In any case, @chiefdave has expressed admiration for Polanski and iirc, called his winning of the Green Party’s leadership before he was on my radar. So it’s fair to conclude that at the very least, he’s a centre-left. I’m sure he can speak for...

Where’s this come from?

Out of his arse.

Do you believe a wealth tax would raise that per year? Check in with France and Norway. Besides, that 2.1bn figure is a nonsense. The cost of hotels alone is 1.5bn a year (and rising) and foreign born nationals are claiming 1bn a month (and rising), with 27-37% of non-EU ILR holders on UC. At...

This will be interesting… how are Mussolini and Trump’s governments similar?

From that, it’s plain to see that you and others on this thread have no understanding of fascism outside of v vague labels. You compared Trump to Mussolini… Mussolini was a socialist before being expelled from the party for supporting Italian intervention in WW1. So how is Trump like Mussolini...

Completely missed the point. There’s a lot to admire about FDR but he was accused of being fascist, to socialist/communist. But of note, in the section, that in the 1930s there were those that viewed fascism as a ‘third way’ between communism and capitalism. This is certainly how fascists...

Brush up on your history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Franklin_D._Roosevelt