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Making tickets cheaper on trains that are already rammed will not end well. ❌ Even worse overcrowding ❌ Less money to invest in better services

Wes Streeting has this morning set out his tax plans - specifically bringing capital gains tax into line with income tax He says that the current system is unfair because it penalises work Higher or additional rate taxpayers will pay 24% on gains in the current financial year. Streeting said that the rates should mirror income tax bands - so 40% for higher rate taxpayers and 45% for additional rate taxpayers He says that the approach could raise £12billion a year Streeting said: “A member of my family is a cleaner in Lancashire. She pays a higher tax rate on her salary than her landlord pays for the growing value of the home she lives in. She slogs her guts out, he puts in far less effort, yet the state rewards him more than her. And we wonder why people are angry. “The system is penalising work. It’s not fair and it’s bad for our economy. We need a wealth tax that works. A pound made from simply owning assets should not be taxed less than a pound made from a hard day's work. We can do it in a way that is pro-growth, pro-entrepreneur and pro-work.”

If you earned £1,000,000 a day from when Napoleon was born, you would have less money than HS2's projected cost. Stuff like this, alongside bat tunnels, is why.

The Uk has a very competitive grocery market, with thin margins. Food prices rise because input costs go up. Government tinkering with price caps is not a serious solution to people on low incomes being unable to afford essentials. Focus on boosting incomes & support with big...

Colmore Row, or Scarmore Row? The 3 giant scars on one of Birminghams finest streets.

This is the former Birmingham Labour Transport Cabinet member, responsible for declaring a “road safety emergency” and reducing 40mph urban main roads to 30mph, now immediately calling for his *own* policy to be reviewed.

There’s a lot I could say, and will eventually, about thinking behind this work, where it goes etc but for now I want to focus on this from my father’s eulogy for my grandfather. This is what our politics is *for* to me. It must be for something, and someone, or it’s nothing.