Southampton was a strange example to use as well, given that both its MPs are Labour and will likely stay such (whilst improving their majorities) in a month's time.
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The Tories did allow couples to combine their IHT allowances though, which was a major step forward.
The fact the Tories needed to court a Liberal coalition to get in government despite being in the strongest position possible to win an election - after 13 years of Labour with a young, likeable candidate going against an unpopular, unelected Prime Minister (Brown) - belies any drift to the right. The opposite if anything, considering most long running incumbents can usually expect a strong swing to the opposition when they fall out of favour.
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Sad story, but is the Mirror really trying to pin this on Cameron. Stooping for political capital.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/danielle-ismay-suicide-tragic-woman-5505773
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/danielle-ismay-suicide-tragic-woman-5505773
Ok, so your reasonable tone in this post gets you a reply. What would you classify UKIP as. Right? The rise of ukip from nothing bunch of loonies to proper political party about to get 50 to 100 seats is purely down to the labour blunders. Right is not just the tories as you seem to think.
I am not going to argue this on a leftie dominated forum so this is my last reply to you.
Read what I wrote. Did not say the town of Southampton, but their supporters who would likely come from anywhere between winchester to bournemouth. Just like Chelsea support coming from way norht in Essex to all the way down in Surrey.
you're crazy. 50-100 seats. You're in for a shock come next month. Try three seats.I've never got the outrage about IHT. It's a relatively small tax on very large sums of unearned wealth. It's basically the best sort of tax going. It reduces inherited privilege, encourages personal responsibility and discourages hoarding of wealth in favour of spending in the economy.
Also, are you in Ashford or London for this vote?
My vote's in London. Labour wins this seat by like 10k votes.
First time I am eligible to vote, but wont bother
Should have kept on the Ashford roll.Someone reads the Mail on Sunday.
Wait, are we sure this guy isn't Liam? Young, right wing and quite obviously a bit empty. Next he'll be complaining that the 60 quid he paid in NI in his summer job is funding lazy Romanian's houses.
Ashford is almost definitely worse, its one the safest seats in the country. Damien Green is campaigning round this area tomorrow.My vote's in London. Labour wins this seat by like 10k votes.
First time I am eligible to vote, but wont bother
http://www.voterpower.org.uk/ashford
I get the inherited privilege angle but that is the minority. Thousands of hard-working professionals are now being caught in the IHT net because of house price inflation.
So you get taxed all of your earning life and then again when you die. It stinks.
I have sympathy for the old folk who'll get caught up in the Mansion Tax because they bought a house a in the 50s or 60s in what's become a rich area. But their kids for having to pay tax on the multi-million pound property they're about to inherit? Nah, feck em. Pay up.
Once you're dead, you're not really being taxed are you? The people effectively being taxed are those who are benefiting from income they haven't earned. I don't see any issue with it.
I have an issue with this whole 'bank of mum and dad' mentality - it's the complete opposite of a meritocracy.
Loads will get forced out of their homes cos they are on pensions. People forget places like Islington used to be shitholes back in the 70s.
So parents can only pass on an arbitrary figure tax-free to their kids? Sounds fair and often means kids having to sell the family home to pay the tax.
That's how it should work.
And I do sympathise with those people, but they're still incredibly rich now so they'll be more than fine.
Oh, and i did that revised political compass thing.
I think they've gotten a tad carried away in their assessment of the other parties though, the discourse simply isn't that far to the right. Or at least i don't perceive it to be.
I think they've gotten a tad carried away in their assessment of the other parties though, the discourse simply isn't that far to the right. Or at least i don't perceive it to be.
It's based on their manifestos is it not?Oh, and i did that revised political compass thing.
I think they've gotten a tad carried away in their assessment of the other parties though, the discourse simply isn't that far to the right. Or at least i don't perceive it to be.
Oh, and i did that revised political compass thing.
I think they've gotten a tad carried away in their assessment of the other parties though, the discourse simply isn't that far to the right. Or at least i don't perceive it to be.
Nick - Slightly to the left of the SNP. I'd probably agree though, I'm two squares up from the very bottom left.Increasingly IHT has become a geographical tax, people on fairly modest salaries in the 90s are now being trawled by the government. Your standard semi-detached house, apartment, or two-bed cottage is in the same company as an oligarchs' latest investment.
I vaguely remember the Greens talking about taxing expensive gifts. Can't remember how expensive though. It does seem pointless though, as there's already VAT.
I shouldn't have thought so, seeing as most of them are yet to be published.
If they'd asked some questions about foreign policy or defence spending i suppose i might have been a little farther to the right.
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Ok, just checked the odds on ukip.
You are right indeed, seems I got mugged off by the opinion polls there. I still blame the labour for the rise of ukip as any seats they get are one too many.
Bloody Talksport polls...
Well no they're not as they're deceased. Secondly, if you're being caught in the IHT net because of house price inflation then that's very much unearned wealth that they've benefitted from, taking back a small portion of that before its passed onto what are likely adults in the top range of income earners anyway doesn't stink.
Its nothing more than securing the votes of the Tory base and a desperate measure
Another bullshit pledge form the Tories who're in full panic mode.
Giving a bit back? I'm a higher rate taxpayer, a homeowner in a high council tax bracket and generally use private healthcare. I contribute far more than most and don't see why the government should grab a chunk of whatever assets I have left on my death.
Large gifts can already be taxed under iht if people die within 7 years of the gift... For example parents giving a large house deposit.
When I worked as an ifa I always used bypass trusts and pretty much mitigated any iht... All legal (avoidance rather than evasion)
They're asset rich can be cash poor. Bet you railed against old folk being kicked out of their houses cos of the so-called bedroom tax. As nick said, it's another geographic tax fleecing the SE.
The joys of discounted gift trusts etc...the financial planning certificate is a bit of a hazy memory for me these days.
Asset rich and cash poor is still rich. People who can't afford the bedroom tax on the other hand don't really have many financial choices.
I did that test and ended up in a similar spot, as everyone whose posted their results here has.Oh, and i did that revised political compass thing.
I think they've gotten a tad carried away in their assessment of the other parties though, the discourse simply isn't that far to the right. Or at least i don't perceive it to be.
The questions are so skewed. There was one about being pro/anti gay rights iirc. Presumably saying anti made you right wing, overlooking the fact Cameron brought in gay marriage, even though some in his party opposed it.
Even Hitler would come out bottom left if he took that test.
The gay questions would probably move you toward libertarian rather than left wing, which (I would hope) they're only using to measure how you want the budget to be run.
The majority of the (non-abstaining) parliamentary party opposed it, to be more precise.
Yes and no. Property isn't a liquid asset so useless when it comes to immediate expenses.
The bedroom tax is difficult. Should the state fund a mother now living on her own in a three bed house when families need them? Defo needs discretion when it comes to the disabled.