So Reform overtake the Tories, making the Tory plea to stop a Labour supermajority all the more pressing, from their perspective. However only 22% of the people intending to vote Reform think Labour will get any kind of a majority according to YouGov. What stones are these people living under? Mind you, if 10% of Reform’s candidates are ‘friends’ with the leader of another party which is fascist and proud of it, and their own leader doesn’t have a problem with this, perhaps I have been overestimating the average Reform voter.
Watched a bit of the "debate" last night which was thoroughly depressing..... Mordunt looked like she'd rather be anywhere else than there, the lib dem was a mouth almighty, the green wishy washy as usual, the SNP guy, seriously a waste of space, the Welsh guy came over well but they're basically a non entity, Farage pure sound bites and no substance and The Ginger Growler..... copyright Uber_Hoop..... I wouldn't vote for any of them.....
There are some seriously stupid people in this country. Most of them will be people who, rather than seeing what a disaster Brexit has been and realising that they'd been lied to, somehow believe that it would have been a success if the liar-in-chief had been handling it. It's kind of ironic that in 2015 Cameron promised them the referendum in order to stave off the Farage threat to the Tory party and here we are nine years later with Farage about to actually finish them off.
Anyone watching the reform UK political election broadcast 7.00 on bbc1 Just the message Britian is Broken Britian needs Reform It is unnervingly spooky. 2 or 3 minutes of the unnerving message in silence. Is it broken? No...that was it. Is it subliminal? It is downright creepy I don't like it
I am really not going to vote for a party that makes me feel disturbed, uneasy, spooked. No it's a big fail from me. Wrong market research
A political story from over here with a QPR twist. Luke Ming Flanagan MEP has just been reelected to the European parliament for the Midlands North West constituency. It will be his third spell in the parliament. He actually topped the polls despite being an Independent candidate. He supports the mighty QPR. I met him in the ground when we played a friendly against Shamrock Rovers 9 or 10 years ago. He is a good lad. Famous over here for liking to smoke weed.
Starmer is clearly looking to impose CGT on people's homes, which could depress the housing market. As Beth Rigsby said in the interviews, if a politician won't rule something out, it's coming in
It will be ‘interesting’ to learn how that is actually going to work. Obviously the sales price, minus associated selling costs, can be fairly easily and accurately calculated. However, the ‘cost’ of the property for CGT purposes will be far more difficult to quantify and determine. Owners may have lived there for decades, extended, altered, installed new fittings etc. Records (paperwork, paperwork etc) may not exist etc. to calculate the taxable profit. I wonder if rather than apply CGT, they would implement a Sales Tax, say 5% of the net proceeds. Either way, it won’t be popular
It’s a scare story Taff, don’t be suckered by this black ops Tory propaganda. There won’t be any tax on sales of primary home, as this would be incredibly regressive even for Starmer’s Labour, it’s not a tax on wealth, and there is already a purchase tax (Stamp Duty). Second homes attract 28% CGT already for higher tax rate payers (18% for basic rate). These rates might (indeed should) go up to at least match income tax rates.
