Chippy_boy
Well-Known Member
We don't often agree on here but that's a disgrace. If your grandparents had pissed their lives away, they'd have paid nothing.
As I read the current situation, you can pass a £425k estate on without incurring a penny of Inheritance Tax. Double that to £850k for a married couple. But if one of you is stricken by dementia, that same estate could get robbed of £750k. In effect they've simultaneously ramped up death tax on the poorly while reducing it for the healthy.
How the fcuk is this "Tories moving to the left"? It stinks and I'm amazed there hasn't been a bigger backlash.
Anyway, they have lost my vote. That'll teach the bastards.
Agree with every word.
This is what I said in my letter to my MP yesterday:
"Dear Luke,
I want to register my vehement opposition to the outrageous proposals on care costs in your manifesto.
For years, the Conservatives rightly have been trying to increase the inheritance tax allowance so that decent honest working people can go to their graves safe in the knowledge they are leaving something behind for their children. But what on earth is the point of inheritance tax allowance increases, if all your savings (bar £100,000) end up being wiped out on care costs? This proposal makes a mockery of the inheritance tax improvements.
Theresa May’s “solution” to the care cost dilemma is to say, “we’re not paying anymore - you’ll have to”. This is NOT a solution, it’s a bloody disgrace and I am absolutely furious about it. It means elderly people will face a lottery as to whether they have anything left to leave their children and may end up “hoping” they die quickly and cheaply. What a shocking position to put people in.
I’ve voted Tory at every single election since I was first eligible to vote in the 1970’s, but as a result of this manifesto proposal, I cannot and will not vote for you. If Labour had a credible leader I would certainly vote for them, but as it stands I am in a real dilemma. I may still end up voting for Jeremy Corbyn and since I am a passionate life-long Tory, I hope that makes you realise how strongly I - and indeed many other people I have spoken to - feel about this.
I hope you will urge your party leadership to reconsider these unfair proposals and that these terrible changes never come to pass.
Yours sincerely"
PS, there's no way I am voting for Corbyn, but I didn't think my MP needed to know that.