[The Weeping Angel]

Some might say we should turn to wealth taxes to fund more spending. This forgets that we have already raised taxes on the wealthy: on speculators who have driven up the price of family farms, on private jet users, on non-doms and by changing some inheritance tax rules.

Olympic class sophistry there, Dan. If the ultra wealthy were suffering more than the lightest of scuffs, the Telegraph would be doing a lot more than wheeling out him off that motoring programme.

Pathetic.

Labour should raise taxes on wealthy people

Labour raises taxes on wealthy people

Those rises don't count because reasons.

[kreuzberger]

The wealthiest can live in Timbuckfuckintu for all I care, but a fair and equitable approach to CGT would still be deliciously domiciled in London. Taxing the fuck out of the bookies would also not be amiss.

And, if we are on the subject of penny-pinching, handing another 3bn quid to Tames Water's shareholders doesn't sit well with me when our poorest peers are about to be required to reach down the back of the sofa for the umpteenth time.

Dan Neidle's Portugal is a good example of why this perverse, inverse game of financial whack-a-mole will eventually run out of road - when the wealthy stumble across a low tax / low cost pot of unearned treasure, they will raid it for every last possible cent. Lisbon is basically broken on every measure.

[kreuzberger]

Those rises don't count because reasons.

Those reasons aren't rises in any meaningful form.

(Christ, you are more blisteringly dim than I ever thought possible.)

[The Weeping Angel]

Two things

1. That 3 billion is a loan which Thames is trying to find a bank who will lend it to them it's not coming from the taxpayers money.

2. When will that road run out? I can't see Qatar or the UAE introducing a wealth tax. Neidle does suggest a numnber of aslternatives.

[The Weeping Angel]

Those rises don't count because reasons.

Those reasons aren't rises in any meaningful form.

(Christ, you are more blisteringly dim than I ever thought possible.)

You can't just dismiss Labour's tax rises out of hand.

[The Weeping Angel]

Meanwhile

[Youngian]

Are the Telegraph aware of this move? They'll go loco with rage.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Previous Chief Inspector of Schools, Amanda Spelman, has really attacked the government’s Education policy, seemingly for its restrictions on academies.

Antonia Bance (who is very good when not talking about assisted dying) says that none of the academies in her constituency have raised concerns about the new bill.

I think Spelman can from Ark, which is one of the better academy chains. There are lots of mediocre ones. I’ve never been clear what’s supposed to improve these.

[Tubby Isaacs]

My alternative to a wealth tax is the rest of us step up and pay more, broadly based, tax. Income tax better than NI. I agree with Neidle on Wealth Taxes.

But I accept that if the government doesn’t do this, then the calls for a wealth tax will grow because it’s certainly better than nothing.

[The Weeping Angel]

My alternative to a wealth tax is the rest of us step up and pay more, broadly based, tax. Income tax better than NI. I agree with Neidle on Wealth Taxes.

But I accept that if the government doesn’t do this, then the calls for a wealth tax will grow because it’s certainly better than nothing.

I think they should look at more tax rises at the same time it does annoy me that a lot of the discourse seems to ignore you the fact that Reeves raised taxes in her budget.

[The Weeping Angel]

WCA to be scrapped.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

No freeze of PIP.

We will not means test Pip, because disabled people deserve extra support, whatever their incomes.
And I can confirm we will not freeze Pip either.
Instead, our reforms will focus support on those with the greatest needs. We will legislate for a change in Pip so people will need to score a minimum of four points in at least one activity to qualify for the daily living element of Pip from November 2026.
This will not affect the mobility component of Pip and only relates to the daily living element.
And alongside this, we will launch a review of the PIP assessment led [Stephen Timms] in close consultation with disabled people, the organisations that represent them, and other experts, so we make sure Pip and the assessment process is fit for purpose now and into the future.

[Killer Whale]

The problem is that people are so used to bad faith, and in many cases are used to acting in bad faith themselves, that they're never going to trust another government ever again to be working in the best interests of anyone, let alone the most vulnerable.

[Andy McDandy]

And there will always be a large chunk of the populace whose reaction to anything will be "Oh yeah, and how's that supposed to help me? And who's paying for it, eh? Muggins here, I'll bet!". And sadly we're not allowed to beat them severely about the head and groin.

[mattomac]

Seems all the worst aspects have disappeared bar the real terms freeze.

Hopefully the cash will go back in to funding employment support.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Seems all the worst aspects have disappeared bar the real terms freeze.

Hopefully the cash will go back in to funding employment support.

That seems to be the idea.

[The Weeping Angel]

Read a piece in the I about how Labour are losing women mainly because of rises in NI contributions and school fees.

[Abernathy]

What do you mean by “losing women” ? Women voters ? Women members ? Aunties, sisters, mums, grannies ?

[The Weeping Angel]

Women voters.

[kreuzberger]

Without the basic courtesy of a link to this DMGT output, we are left to speculate.

Sisterly solidarity with the c. 7% of families have to pay VAT on school fees? Yup, them and the downtrodden tooth fairies.