Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Ill be hit but Im not bothered. Get your purse out Cyners and stop being a skin flint.

Spitefull errrrrr what about the BEDROOM TAX you NUMPTY of course its political.

my own house is probably a bit borderline, but my comment remains
you can also bet this tax, if enacted, will be applied like stamp duty rather than income tax

Don't forget it was Labour that invented the bedroom tax!

Plus we'l nab a decent take off the rich foreigners down south using housing as investments.

NO it wasnt and Ive proved this once before.

How would this tax be applied, single prop or all props owned?

How much as a percentage?

It will only be levied on the balance over £2m. There will be special arrangements for people who are asset rich but cash poor to avoid taxing poor pensioners living in expensive houses. That means you might as well just increase income tax on the richest people as it is just that.

Haze,

At last, that is a good idea from you.

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It is interesting that not talking about something in a speech gets more talking about the "something" than if you did.

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If the problem with Labour is that they are not trusted with the economy the bigger problem for Cameron and the Confidence Tricksters around him is that nobody trusts the with anything.

Not even the queen and her pussy.

Sun mocks Miliband for turning down Help for Heroes photo op


Miliband absent as Nick Clegg, David Cameron and Nigel Farage pose on Sun front page with Help for Heroes wristband


Patrick Wintour, political editor


theguardian.com, Thursday 25 September 2014 10.04 BST




The Sun’s front page today. Photograph: The Sun


Ed Miliband was locked in another war with the powerful Sun newspaper after the news organisation claimed he had refused to join their campaign to support Help for Heroes, which helps British army veterans.

Nick Clegg, David Cameron and Nigel Farage all posed on the front page of the Sun with a Help for Heroes wristband.

However, Miliband’s aides said he was too busy dealing with a shadow cabinet meeting about whether the UK should join attacks on Islamic State (Isis).

According to the newspaper, the Labour party leader turned down four requests to endorse a campaign for Help for Heroes “for fear of offending Labour lefties”.

The Sun’s front page contrasts images of Cameron, Clegg and Farage sporting the wristbands with a white square in place of Miliband.

But a Labour source said: “It’s untrue that Ed refused to back the Help for Heroes campaign. He was busy with the shadow cabinet discussing how to respond to the Isil [Isis] threat in Iraq.”

The Sun said: ““We approached him [Miliband] four times in total. Most recently yesterday [Wednesday] afternoon and told him it was going to happen and he would be empty chaired if he didn’t do it.

“He was not asked to hold up anything Sun branded. Every day this week there has been a Help for Heroes feature or news story, it has been well flagged up. The other three political leaders posed with selfies.

“The idea that it would have been a big chunk out of his day is just wrong. It was absolutely not a stitch up, this was the next part of the campaign.”



More classic millibandus here: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/25/sun-ed-miliband-help-for-heroes

Haystack - 25 Sep 2014 10:27 - 46399 of 46401

It will only be levied on the balance over £2m. There will be special arrangements for people who are asset rich but cash poor to avoid taxing poor pensioners living in expensive houses. That means you might as well just increase income tax on the richest people as it is just that..........ends

dick head they are, they are bringing back the 50% top tax rate.

ohhhhhhhhhhhh dear Hays gets worse and worse.

Labour were intending to reassess the banding for council tax, because the bands had been set years earlier when house prices were much lower, Labour wanted to reassess these outdated band/house prices. So if you have added that conservatory or extention etc, look forward to a higher band. Could be known as the Milli - band, and be as popular as the poll tax
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Yep but we need if for the NHS, cant let it run down anymore like under the Tories.

gf chucking more money at the NHS is NOT the answer, it needs to be more efficient, there is so much money being wasted it is unbelievable.
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Some on outsourcing to private companies back pockets!

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Just a thought about mansion tax.

If somebody has a holiday home/s (home or abroad) would that be added together for Taxable total?

quite so george, as the doctors etc will endorse
it's also a sad fact that whereas uk used to set the gold standard for training nurses etc, this is certainly not the case any more

But we are world class when it comes to pen pushers.

http://order-order.com/2014/09/25/miliband-forgets-to-mention-the-deficit-two-more-times/

I see Mili - liar's 'ordinary girl' attended the same school as Samantha Cameron at a cool £15K a year. Another cheap attempt at conning the voters. Red Fred will no doubt be appalled at this, I know from his posts he abhors con artists.
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