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EMC being injured again demonstrating just how badly we messed up not being able to sign 1-2 wingers...

I’ve seen a ‘theory’ that this public spat has been engineered to promote the Green Party. Frankly, the concept of a new populist left party was baffling when the Greens existed in the first place. Across Europe the Green parties are either eco-socialists or part of a broader coalition of left...

Property taxes and wealth taxes aren’t the same. Council tax is basically a v outdated version of property taxes. The proponents of a wealth tax haven’t considered how to calculate tax owed from wealth either. A lot of ‘wealth’ is fluid i.e. a stock portfolio or the value of company. What...

See you tomorrow! We’re going to break the crisp bowl hoodoo tomorrow.

There’s a decent pub right by the train station if you’re scouting for a drink!

With Labour slipping in the polls, I came across this electoral map which appears to show the Lib Dem’s would be the official opposition if an election was held. Obviously this isn’t what would happen, there were polls showing LD overtaking Tory in 2024 but paints a bleak picture for Labour & Tory.

VAT for brick and mortar retail sites needs to be reduced. The high street is obviously doomed to fail if they have the same VAT as online marketplaces but with the overheads a store has v a warehouse in the middle of nowhere. In Portugal, their hospitality sector pays 7.5% VAT on food and...

There are valid arguments to reform council tax (and stamp duty) with some sort of land value tax. A lot of other countries have something similar. Which is much easier to administer than a ‘wealth tax’ which has the effect of driving off wealth and therefore the tax base.

Damn, you just wrote the next Green Party manifesto in 2 paragraphs! 😂

Rich people basing themselves in the UK is a net positive. Again, the top 10% of taxpayers account for 60-70% of our tax revenues. If the ‘wealthy’ are paying a higher and higher percentage of tax revenues, the issue isn’t the Why has wealth inequality grown? 1) we’ve hollowed out our...

It’s a career ender. The best thing for Lampard’s career is to take us up because if we get relegated, it doesn’t go against him. Much like McKenna’s reputation at Ipswich is intact despite going down without much of a fight. West Ham are a big club but they have delusions of grandeur. They...

Exactly. One thing Gary Stevenson omits is when talking about this tax regime is that most of the ‘loopholes’ have been closed e.g. benefits in kind were tax-free and companies could give interest free loans to executives and so on. A wealth tax is based on bad economics and A-level logic...

Billionaires/multi-millionaires don’t get rich by earning an income. It’s all in assets and the wealth is in many cases ‘paper value’. For example, Elon funds his lifestyle by taking loans out with his shares as collateral. The idea of taxing ‘assets’ continuously is pretty pernicious and...

… Maybe I got to see Oasis at the Ricoh way back when which has been my copium since missing out on the tour this year.

“Wealth redistribution” in this context doesn’t mean a direct transfer of ‘£xxx’ from one group to another. The vehicle for ‘redistribution’ is public services; social housing, schools and healthcare (you get the picture). If you don’t use public services often, you don’t feel the benefit. For...

Given the demand for Oasis tickets, this would be fantastic!

I wonder what agenda ‘Tax justice’ is peddling here… 🤔 It’s not a myth and the piece hasn’t debunked the numbers at all and its main conclusion is: ‘it’s only 1% of millionaires so tax them anyway’. That’s the actual argument so run with it rather than misleading the audience saying the 10.8k...

The Top 25% of earners make up and the ‘top 1%’ are paying a higher % of tax revenues that in the 1970s. They are paying their fair share and an ever increasing share of tax revenue. This sounds good but, it puts public finances in a precarious position as it’s reliant on a v narrow tax base...

There some contradictory electoral coalitions out there… None more so than a Corbynista ‘Jezbollah’ party with pro-Gaza independents! 😂 He’s been at their conferences / events lately, didn’t realise this was new information!

We don't have economic growth and the country doesn't feel prosperous... It tracks quite well with declining GDP per capita.