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That last paragraph is revealing, don’t you think? It’s the politics of envy behind the mask of ‘social justice’. A lot of non-doms are banking of Reeves reversing the clampdown because as you point out, significant numbers of wealthy people are leaving the UK.

What is the ‘proper process?’ I’m not sure a council would convene a session to vote on what flags fly on civic buildings. Ironically, to you and all the respondents below, the ‘progress flag’ was flown without the correct ‘consent’… 😂 Yet, in the face of this, an unelected CEO of the council...

They haven’t said that’s the most important thing. They made a request, it was denied so of course they’re going to cry foul over it.

Flying the Union Jack, the flags of the home nations and the county flags standard practice. That’s the simple why. If business or individuals wish to fly ‘x, y and z’ flags outside, go for it. Go anywhere in Europe and government buildings will have the EU, national and state flags flying...

There’s only conflict because the council CEO refused the request. There would be no ‘culture war’ if there wasn’t a song and dance about the refusal. Again, if it’s just ‘fucking flags’, then accept the request and move on. The refusal only energises Reform supporters and let their leadership...

Let’s flip the script, if a left leaning council requesting the flying of the pride flag and this request was rejected by an unelected bureaucrat, would you be ok with that? After all, who gives a shit about flags?

Using that logic, why not just accept the request? Let Reform win their ‘silly game’ rather than refusing and letting them play the victim to energise their supporters. I happen to agree that government buildings should only fly the flags of the UK and the county council flags.

Well, it is a pressing issue. It’s a simple request that’s being denied and it’s a foreshadowing of what’s to come if they ever formed a government. The language of it being a ‘coup d'état’ is a bit hyperbolic from Zia Yusuf. What right does this unelected CEO have? Frankly, the idea you need...

Exactly, the post-WW2 welfare state is just not viable anymore. It certainly isn’t being helped by low income mass migration either (separate issue).

Players are geared to maximise this goal. Let’s not conflate this with taking the maximum pay at each of their next steps. I’ll use two examples in our recent history to demonstrate this: MVE - supposedly Leeds were in the running to sign him. They could’ve paid him more but he chose us...

The middle class leftists types are driven more by envy of the rich than the downtrodden poor in my view.

You need to factor in NI and SFE repayments too. I maxed out my pension contributions to reduce my tax/SFE and NI. My salary that is in that bracket would be taxed over 50%. 40% income tax, 15% NI and an additional 9% on the SFE. Many middle class professionals are being taxed close to 55-65%...

There’s also a lot of feeling on the backbenchers that Starmer has his favourites and the left wing of the party iced out. So naturally, why would they be allow themselves to be voting fodder? For an agenda they don’t believe in and knowing they’ll lose their seat at the next election. In my...

There are many Labour MPs on this side of the house who know their chances of reelection are slim. So why not rebel on government legislation? Defections, not as sure but Starmer has withdrew the whip from quite a few MPs. As for Sultana, she was never going to be in government as a minister...

Which is what is happening with the non-doms after the closed the “loopholes”. As a rule of thumb, whatever new taxes are introduced rarely raise the sums they claim.

Oh, co’mon Fern, I’m only pulling your leg! It’s not strictly true that the government needs to ‘spend and tax’. After all, how else would have a budget surplus? ‘Unearned wealth’ is one of those slippery terms used by the left. If I invest money into companies that allows them to raise funds...

@fernandopartridge 😂😂😂

Starmer wants to be PM but doesn’t know what he wants to do in government. It’s taken less than a year to figure that out. A strong leader would’ve done that, Theresa May should’ve threatened to call a general election to whip the Brexit Spartans into line. She didn’t because she was a weak PM...

It’s set up and ready to go by the looks of it. I tried adding card details on mobile browser but the 2-factor authentication window would close whenever I tried to click an option. I’d happily join a scheme that opts into cup games. It saves the hassle of logging on and paying for it and a...

That and he’s proven himself to be a weak man who folds under pressure. Be it from his party, the public or anyone.