The Labour Government

I do hope I'm wrong, but rumours are rife (FT, Times, Telegraph) that Labour are going to nuke small family firms with inheritance tax (currently exempt).
Please no, that would be a fucking disaster as many would have to be sold to pay a HMRC tax bill. Those that aren't sold would have to cut back on investment to pay the tax - the only area of UK business with sufficient investment in the future of the business.
 
Sale Moor Blue said:
well that's never gonna happen now Trump has an easy run to being the next president.
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A bit like the boats, unless we deal with France and create a replica of the Dublin agreement or set up processing centres in Calais.

If not, it’ll be exactly the same as the drug cartels. Talk a tough game but be able to do nothing, bar arresting the occasional middle man and lots of runners.
 
PPT said:
Each generation is more wealthy than the previous. And each generation says it has failed to do so. I think most people would be prepared to pay more tax if it meant better public services. I agree it has been the direct opposite under the Tories and they had to go. Do I trust Labour to improve public services? Not in a million years. They will piss it away like all of them do. There is nothing wrong in inheriting wealth and never has been. The capitalist system is far from perfect but it is far better than socialism or anything similar. The next five years will prove that unequivocally…
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Collectively it may be but the disparity in distribution grows too. That and the state has shrunk too. Every now and again, the world does a reset which is normally a war, which we haven’t had in a long time.
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
A bit like the boats, unless we deal with France and create a replica of the Dublin agreement or set up processing centres in Calais.

If not, it’ll be exactly the same as the drug cartels. Talk a tough game but be able to do nothing, bar arresting the occasional middle man and lots of runners.
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Yes but as I've always said, what is the main pull to why they are coming here? People miss the point with this.
The benefit system is too generous.
 
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Alan Harper's Tash said:
It isn’t. It’s much worse than most.
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Well it has to be something and if it's not what I say it is then they need to find out why and stop us becoming a magnet.
We look after people that don't pay into the system too much in my opinion, much better than people who work hard.
But immigration hasn't been controlled for years, successive goverments just never control it.
 
Sale Moor Blue said:
Well it has to be something and if it's not what I say it is then they need to find out why and stop us becoming a magnet.
We look after people that don't pay into the system too much in my opinion, much better than people who work hard.
But immigration hasn't been controlled for years, successive goverments just never control it.
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Ok. France and Europe as a whole take many more than we do.

Leaving the EU meant France doesn’t have to stop the boats. The only way we can return to how it was is by reinstating the Dublin agreement, if possible, or set up processing centres in France.

Some think rounding up asylum seekers and firing them into space (or some random other country) solves the issue, but it hasn’t so far.
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
Ok. France and Europe as a whole take many more than we do.

Leaving the EU meant France doesn’t have to stop the boats. The only way we can return to how it was is by reinstating the Dublin agreement, if possible, or set up processing centres in France.

Some think rounding up asylum seekers and firing them into space (or some random other country) solves the issue, but it hasn’t so far.
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Yes but my point remains, why do they want to come here?
 
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