Council tax is actually wealth tax (for broke AND rich people)
Why do I have to pay over £5,000 to have my bins emptied?
Just because my house is bigger? Or in a different area?
It’s the same ‘service’ whether your house is worth £200K or £2 million.
Up to £5,835 a year to get your bins emptied.
Oh, and if I ALREADY pay a national tax, why am I paying a local tax on top?
So embarrassing.
Immigration has fallen sharply and even Americans are openly shocked at how gullible the British public are. Cringe doesn’t even cover it.
We urgently need a serious conversation about why small boat numbers are shoved down our throats every single day like it’s the only thing happening in the country.
News services, especially publicly funded ones like the BBC, should never be agenda setters. They have a duty to licence payers to report facts, not amplify fear, not drip-feed panic, not distort reality through repetition.
If people are angry, ask who keeps winding them up.
@OperaSocialist We are losing educated working individuals to tax havens and countries with better work life balance and gaining unknown skill/ education migrants most of which have not been documented of vetted.
This is the danger of the lies spread by Farage, Reform, GB News etc.
Immigration is actually falling massively in the UK yet the public think the opposite.
All the average person needs to do to become a millionaire is split a $500 investment each month into Bitcoin and the S&P 500
Why aren’t more people doing this? It’s not that hard.
Been a long time since a Rangers striker has been up for the battle against big heid the baw SPFL defenders the way Chermiti was last night, held the ball up great, linked the play well and set up a goal.
He might not be the write off we first feared!
If you want to know why this country is skint, it's nothing to do with immigrants, it's because the Tories spent 14 years finding ways to give all our money to their mates.
Reform would give it to themselves
@djp3007@Artemisfornow Yes - exactly. People have seen huge property gains for simply living in a house. It’s not really an award for taking risk it’s simply living and staying in one place. No real rationale for it being CGT free other than it always has been.
@DWJCarter@Artemisfornow So someone who has lived in a house for 20, 30 years bringing up a family maintaining and improving the property over those years and is now empty nesting or facing it won't sell up because they would face CGT on say £500,600,700k gains just to downsize and maybe free up cash?
🚨 If the government decides to tax assets, there are 2 ways they’ll do it.
▪️Tax homeowners on sale – removing the capital gains exemption on main homes.
▪️Revalue council tax bands – so annual bills increase with house prices.
That means ordinary people, already struggling with higher mortgage rates, get hit twice.
And retirees living off pensions (sometimes very small pensions) will be forced out of their homes, paying huge taxes just to move and then stamp duty on the next place.
This is YOUR money, being literally stolen by an incompetent government which has spaffed £ BILLIONs on projects you would never vote for (which is why they didn’t ask you)
If you thought the Poll Tax was bad, you haven’t seen anything yet.
Today’s Poll: Would u agree to 3% extra council tax to help tackle climate change inc energy-efficient housing, improved air quality and flood defences.
Pre-pandemic a council proposed a referendum on this, I polled then (link in replies), this is to see if views have changed.
I just saw a news headline - English officials' warning of a lack of water due to heatwave. My immediate thought - keep away from our water. You're not getting it!
@CF3Loyal Dowell is a CM and he’s being played out of position. Yes he’s not good enough and it’s frustrating but hopefully Martin gets the best out of him as a CM.
It’s incredibly frustrating that Mikey Moore is not in the CL squad for tonight due to delays with his registration. We need pace and creativity in the wide positions so may need to start Antman just one day after signing. Anything is an upgrade on Dowell I suppose!
With Antman in (which I think is a superb signing) I reckon that’s all the wingers now in place. He along with Moore, Gass, Cortes and Curtis are the players vying for those spots I’d say.
It’s a good set of options imo, but clearly 1 (2?) strikers are needed to compliment that.