This thread doesn’t half sum up the problem we have in this country.
The Chancellor was wrong to not check the agency had done what they said they would do. I imagine, however, she’s pretty busy and paperwork probably isn’t top of her list.
But having made this error and apologised, the screaming from some, even on here (Darran!) demonstrates the idiotic nature of discourse at the moment.
If the chancellor was removed from post 1 month before the budget, the market reaction would cost everyone on this thread money. Possibly quite a lot of money. Gilt yields would immediately rise meaning the cost of government borrowing would rise and the planned tax rises would be increased even further, or public services would be cut. Mortgages would also be higher in the short term at the very least.
You do NOT piss around playing games with the chancellor position at this point in the economic cycle.
The fact that Badenoch and her braying colleagues don’t recognise that is enough to make them utterly unsuitable for office.
And people on here and elsewhere should wake up and live in the real world.
The right wing press are pushing this now (remember this dates back over a year) to attempt to cause chaos before the budget. As they don’t want to pay tax and don’t care about public services.
What part of that is so difficult to understand?
This ‘crime’ is something where councils hardly ever issue any fines at all (not even a hundred quid or so) as long as it’s a one off and isn’t a mass landlord deliberately avoiding the license. The maximum figure is for deliberate, multiple avoidance.
Get a grip.
