That's ok then
If you're married your spouse gets everything free of inheritance tax and inherits your allowance. If you own a property that gives the surviving person £1 million to pass on without any tax implications.
You’re not wrong on this. Cameron, Osborne (his chancellor) and May caused no end of damage to the country.
So "some" people on benefits don't have multiple holidays a year then, yes you're right about the perception of social media etc, but its happening, I can work in-between 3 to 5 different properties over my working day and I see it for myself genuinely.
Truss lasted 40 days and the Queen died during that time and the country stood still for a fortnight. She wouldn't have lasted a month normally.
As someone who is left of centre and does agree with a Keynesian approach to managing the economy doesn't mean I don't get pissed off with your examples above. I have had to work at least one in three weekends for the last 30 years and my family have suffered for it while I listen and see examples of jobless folk "having an easy life". I do understand though that these are not the norm as Multi nationals avoiding billions upon billlions of tax payments are. Maybe if the latter stumped up then the revenue would reduce our input and give opportunities to those that you see.
It's only 3% of the population Max, that says a lot.That's ok then
Taxes have been paid on that inheritance over and over before any siblings get their hands on it, its like savings tax has already been paid on the money has been saved and invested and then they tax the interest that has been accrued over that investment.
It does show how effective the right wing, power hungry, fascist playbook is in blaming people, and folk falling for it though. Clearly the benefits system needs reform, it wasn't designed for a post-covid world. It's instructive that no one blames billionaires and super rich sociopaths, or private equity that leeches the system dry. I wonder why that is? The simplistic arguments also totally ignore the complexities, constraints and realities of real life political choice.
I consider myself lucky to have a small insight into the workings of central Government as my brother in law is a very senior civil servant and has worked with many PM's home secretary's etc and we have excellent chats about the personalities and failures . I was hoping he would defend Starmer more but there wasn't much coming that way. He did ask me how I felt the Senedd elections were going to pan out and I explained how the strength of the right wing is playing out and blurring reality. We went back to the dining table and his sister (not my wife) blurted out a whole bunch of the examples we had discussed and he said later, quietly, about how clearly social media is doing to affect her.
J, I don't categorise myself as left/right or centre, I couldn't careless, I see good in parts both sides of centre.
Any one with savings gets hammered though, they want you to have savings so that they can take taxes off the interest over a grand and above I think, conveniently ignoring the fact that tax has already been paid on that money saved, they see it as new money so its open season.
Absolutely S, it is all about opinions. My B-I-L did PPE at Oxford so his knowledge far exceeds mine although I have a good grounding with my Economics degree which was mainly centred on the Economics of Government but in no way do I think I am absolutely right about my opinions. I am deeply suspicious of the media which is mainly controlled by the "right" and as you eldest alludes to the higher authority. I would say that the Government kept the triple lock which has really helped pensioners. Even though I consider myself left of centre, that is one I would have looked.
