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General UK politics VIII - The Last Tory

Andy_Ross said:
What a surprise

Houchen’s £200mn vanity project collapses, leaving Middlesbrough to pick up the pieces
Imposed against the council’s will, Lord Houchen’s MDC has collapsed, leaving wasted millions and unanswered questions

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Houchen’s £200mn vanity project collapses, leaving Middlesbrough to pick up the pieces

Imposed against the council’s will, Lord Houchen’s MDC has collapsed, leaving wasted millions and unanswered questions
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I'm massively surprised that the Labour government didn't order a full forensic audit of the TVA in 2024. It's obvious there's something very rotten going on up there and Houchen is neck deep in it.
 
She knows they all get killed when they are 5 ir 6 years old anyway.


Annunziata Rees-Mogg
@zatzi
There are an estimated 20,000 foxhounds in the U.K.

Those who want to ban trail hunting - hounds and horses chasing a scent trail laid by man - would lead to them all being put down.

That’s what ignorant “animal rights” campaigners want.

20,000 dead dogs.
 
Andy_Ross said:
She knows they all get killed when they are 5 ir 6 years old anyway.


Annunziata Rees-Mogg
@zatzi
There are an estimated 20,000 foxhounds in the U.K.

Those who want to ban trail hunting - hounds and horses chasing a scent trail laid by man - would lead to them all being put down.

That’s what ignorant “animal rights” campaigners want.

20,000 dead dogs.
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"We love animals and if you stop us tearing some of them apart with dogs we'll execute every mother ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ one we own"

◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ psychotic hypocrites
 
Peace on earth and goodwill to all men..... unless they're not white and you shill for the Telegraph.

Allison Pearson
@AllisonPearson
This is the first year I haven’t donated to @salvationarmyuk
Even the best charities have embraced woke nonsense and damaged their core mission.
Sally Army should not be feeding illegal migrants who get 3 meals a day paid for by taxpayers
 
On top of the Middlesbrough Development Corporation collapse, Coxy is trying and claim that Teesside Airport has made a profit this year.

It’s bollocks. The “profit” is derived from a government grant of just over £10 million, not trading revenue.
Without that grant, the airport would have lost £8.9m.

He thinks we’re stupid.

It's going to get worse, it just lost two regular scheduled routes.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Peace on earth and goodwill to all men..... unless they're not white and you shill for the Telegraph.

Allison Pearson
@AllisonPearson
This is the first year I haven’t donated to @salvationarmyuk
Even the best charities have embraced woke nonsense and damaged their core mission.
Sally Army should not be feeding illegal migrants who get 3 meals a day paid for by taxpayers
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There is now a right-wing War on Christmas.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Weekly YouGov voting intention poll for The Times/Sky News

An early Christmas gift for Keir Starmer as Labour halves Reform's lead

RFM 25% (-3)
LAB 20% (+2)
CON 19% (+2)
LDEM 15% (+1)
GRN 15% (-2)

Reform seems to have peaked around the end of October

https://twitter.com/x/status/2003359494496223546
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Who ever thought bullying, antisemitism, incompetence, racism, questions about tax and income and outright treason would hurt their figures? Albeit just by 3%..
 
Andy_Ross said:
Weekly YouGov voting intention poll for The Times/Sky News

An early Christmas gift for Keir Starmer as Labour halves Reform's lead

RFM 25% (-3)
LAB 20% (+2)
CON 19% (+2)
LDEM 15% (+1)
GRN 15% (-2)

Reform seems to have peaked around the end of October

https://twitter.com/x/status/2003359494496223546
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Starmer is finished! Starmer must go!

Errrrr, this is how you do it, isn't it?
 
The government has given in to farmers on IHT. So they've taken the hit from the (very one sided) coverage and are now giving in to the people who voted for Brexit, voted for Tories and will now vote for Reform Ltd.
 
I think they've been fairly smart about trying to defuse this bomb. People might have genuine sympathy for farmers wanting to be able to pass on a million* pound asset untaxed (I mean, what's a viable farm worth, and what does a million buy these days? Joe public surely has no more idea than I do. And if you have to break it up and sell part to keep the rest then is it still viable?) but bump it up to two and a half million and I think sympathy for the little guy is going to be much more limited.

* pace what P.J.D. said about other allowances.
 
P.J. Denyer said:
The government has given in to farmers on IHT. So they've taken the hit from the (very one sided) coverage and are now giving in to the people who voted for Brexit, voted for Tories and will now vote for Reform Ltd.
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The wealthy always win.

ETA:

Is the prime minister aware that some farmers who have terminal diagnoses are now actively planning to expedite their own deaths so that they hit before April?​
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Jack by the hedge said:
I think they've been fairly smart about trying to defuse this bomb. People might have genuine sympathy for farmers wanting to be able to pass on a million* pound asset untaxed (I mean, what's a viable farm worth, and what does a million buy these days? Joe public surely has no more idea than I do. And if you have to break it up and sell part to keep the rest then is it still viable?) but bump it up to two and a half million and I think sympathy for the little guy is going to be much more limited.

* pace what P.J.D. said about other allowances.
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What got me was the discussion about it often had the other allowances go unmentioned giving a false impression, rarely mentioned that it was being taxed at half the rate of other people's assets or businesses and almost never mentioned that payment could be made over ten years, unlike the rest of us who have to cough up smartish. I heard a few people who were tenent farmers actually welcome it as it would reduce agricultural land value by making it a less attractive tax dodge and encourage more onto the market allowing them to get a toe in the door but their voices were rarely heard. I also understand that some of the larger landowners were giving their employees paid days off (ie paying them) to protest although they weren't themselves effected.

In this discussion, as with so many about IHT, most of the people who seemed to be speaking against it wouldn't (from their description of their circumstances) have been touched by it, and there was also the suggestion that the whole value would be taxed not just the value above the limit + allowances, you often a hear a similar thing when income tax is discussed, just today I heard a teacher (ffs) saying it would cost her money to work more hours as she'd go up a tax band..
 
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