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Katılım Temmuz 2026
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Every promise sounds easy until you have to pay for it.
That is basically the game.
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England's pupil-to-teacher ratio was 18.0 in the latest UK education comparison.
The number is clear. What is the policy debate still missing?
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UK GDP grew 1.4% in 2025 after growing 1.0% in 2024.
Policies that lift long-term capacity can impose costs before the gains appear. How should that balance be struck?
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The usual answer is that devolution can happen without fiscal power. The problem is that responsibility without revenue is limited.
What would a serious alternative look like?
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@Bolton_Leaguer @PaulEmbery The UK needs to also be attractive for ambitious people to come and remain here. We need to better support and encourage risk taking and wealth creation. But this isn't mutually exclusive to an exit tax.
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@Gimpuslegend @PaulEmbery Agreed it has to be paired with pro-investment policy such as lower taxes, better infrastructure and stronger support for small business. We desperately need more risk taking and wealth creation here. But once huge gains are built up, leaving shouldn’t make them untouchable.
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@DowningDraft @PaulEmbery This is draconian bullshit.
People have built up wealth here because they’ve worked hard and/or had skill.
How would exit taxes encourage anyone to invest in the UK?
Low IQ nonsense.
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This is the point. We shouldn't be worried about people leaving. The UK should be attractive for ambitious people to come and remain here. We need to better support and encourage risk taking and wealth creation. But this isn't mutually exclusive to an exit tax.
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@Gimpuslegend @PaulEmbery Agreed it has to be paired with pro-investment policy such as lower taxes, better infrastructure and stronger support for small business. We desperately need more risk taking and wealth creation here. But once huge gains are built up, leaving shouldn’t make them untouchable.
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Exit taxes work once. No one is coming here to build anything if they know they get robbed when they leave. The uj needs investment, lots of it. The welfare bill is outpacing receipts, we need a bigger tax base not a smaller one. Every high tax payer that leaves is a nail in the coffin. Keep it up and we'll have to decide which we're going tk scrap, welfare of the nhs.
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Of England's 208,600 net additional homes in 2024-25, 190,600 were new builds.
Who has the most power to change this: planning authorities, landowners, builders or government?
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The average person in England made 922 trips in 2024.
Who has the most power to change this: local authorities, transport operators or government?
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Borrowing can fund productive investment or postpone difficult current spending decisions.
How should voters distinguish investment from fiscal avoidance?
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UK long-term net migration was estimated at 171,000 in the year ending December 2025, down from 331,000 a year earlier.
The numbers are clear, but is there still more to be done?
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Among UK businesses with 250 or more employees, 49% reported using AI in June 2026.
Subsidising adoption may help productivity but can fund tools firms do not know how to use. How should that balance be struck?
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There were 503 recorded homicides in England and Wales in the year ending December 2025, 6% fewer than a year earlier.
Visible enforcement can reassure communities, but prevention may deliver more over time. How should that balance be struck?
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Short-term relief is quick; structural reform takes longer and creates visible losers.
How should government handle that trade-off?
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@lukerobertblack We’ve built a game where you can put this to the test. Build your Cabinet from real ministers past and present, see how well they gel, and find out how long you survive in Number 10.
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Here's some of our predicted Cabinet picks:
Deputy PM: Lucy Powell
Chancellor: Ed Miliband
Home Secretary: Shabana Mahmood
Foreign Secretary: Wes Streeting
Defence: John Healey
Health: Yvette Cooper
Education: Bridget Phillipson
Justice: Emily Thornberry
Business: Jonathan Reynolds
Work & Pensions: Liz Kendall
Housing: Angela Rayner
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@Gimpuslegend @PaulEmbery Agreed it has to be paired with pro-investment policy such as lower taxes, better infrastructure and stronger support for small business.
We desperately need more risk taking and wealth creation here. But once huge gains are built up, leaving shouldn’t make them untouchable.
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@DowningDraft @PaulEmbery Great... so, never start a business or invest here.
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@DowningDraft @PaulEmbery yes stopping people leaving is the sign of a high functioning country like east germany
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Agree. Would be a bold move. But a wealth tax without an exit tax feels pretty pointless, and I think they know this.
Think it's causing a fuss for no real reason. By the time we see the detail there will be enough exemptions and loopholes that impact on anyone will be minimal. But optically they can say they were "radical".
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@DowningDraft @PaulEmbery It would take you quite a while to impose an exit tax meanwhile you would see an instant decline. Equally, it would send all the markets into a Nosedive.
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@LFighter45887 @PaulEmbery The wealthy can always hire consultants or lawyers. That’s true of every tax.
But that shouldn't mean they are untouchable, and everyday working people should get hit even harder.
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@DowningDraft @PaulEmbery Even a typical exit tax would be almost unenforceable. These guys can hire entire tax consultant groups to drown a government tax department.
The government will spend billions to scrape back pittance
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