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I think when you get to the point of inventing scenarios where something might happen to prove a point you’d be better off just conceding the point.

But if you buy a 3 bedroom house in Finham or Kenilworth to ensure your kids get a better education you don’t pay stamp duty at the going rate for a 3 bedroom house in Bell Green do you. Your stamp duty is not subsidised for the sake of the standard of your children’s education.

That’s not how subsidies work. It’s a subsidy because the accusation is that if they charge VAT it becomes unaffordable. That’s the very definition of a subsidy. It’s also bollocks. Private schools are not a broken business model. I read the other day that the cost of private education to the...

It’s a tax break on a luxury item. By default that means it’s being subsidised by everyone else. It’s really not that difficult of a concept.

But that’s not the reality with schooling. People using private education are not doing it because their child is going to miss the start of term in state education if they don’t. Fair play to anyone willing to do it just don’t expect everyone else to subsidise the luxury with a tax break.

Of course it is. Socialism for the wealthiest.

Getting required medical attention is a necessity not a luxury. You can froth all you like but private education is a luxury.

By not paying VAT on a luxury.

Or security detail.

Just subside it with a tax break.

Putting a Russian in the House of Lords against the advice of security services whose family also happens to be under sanctions in almost every other western country but us. Then was the tennis match and donations with the wife of one of Putins henchmen. The tories are far more entangled with...

I think the whole country will breathe a sigh of relief with a change of government. There’s already 1 good indicator that things will improve with a change of government in that the markets didn’t soil their pants on the announcement of a GE and the very obvious certainty that there’s a change...

I don’t understand the opposition to a coalition government. The last time we had anything near to resembling a functioning government it was a coalition. Regardless of what you thought about the politics the one thing that they did do was get on with the business of Government without the...

Where are you getting postal voting is not allowed in Northern Ireland from?

Then the current PM made sure it effected the UK by lobbying for the RBS to takeover a distressed bank which bought down RBS. Still, he earned a few million out of it so every cloud… The hard truth is Sunak did more to crash the UK economy than Labour did in 2008. The criticism that should be...

Average mortgage payment in the UK is about £680 a month (£8160 a year), average rent is about £980 a month (£11760 a year).

In 2017 maybe. By 2019 he’d lost the room.

It’s a fair point but I refer you to every government in my living memory. This isn’t a disease of the Labour Party.

In the interest of balance the Tories have a £71B black hole in theirs. God knows how big Reforms is as they’re promising the second biggest spend after the Greens but unlike the Greens who are proposing big tax reforms to pay for it whereas Reform is promising tax cuts. Fact is Labour’s...

There is the flip side to that. He’s getting in by promising very little. If he changes his mind chances are it will be positive given how negative the manifesto is.