Where a #HS2 White Elephant becomes a HS2 Dead Duck
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peter jones retweeted
We need more of this in Britain. Reboot civic pride and cobble the streets. Cobbled streets provide exceptional longevity (a properly installed cobblestone street can last for hundreds of years), natural water management, built-in speed reductions and a timeless aesthetic value.
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Rachel Reeves proposed borrowing £97 bn more next year than the Conservative government plan she inherited. John Healey wants to borrow even more and is trying to find ways within the Fiscal rules. A bad idea.
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I don’t have £2 million in assets, and I don’t earn £200k a year. I’m quite short on both counts. So the HMRC wealth audit doesn’t impact me. Yet.
But it signals a clear intention. A lack of respect for the individual. What is yours is only yours until the government decides they want it to fund further welfare expansion.
Property rights only exist in this country as long as your holdings are meagre enough to escape the fiscal Eye of Sauron. They will come for it all.
Is that Political, or just unadulterated idiocy. Or both.
ST (£) “London homebuyers are set to be frozen out of the government’s revived Help to Buy scheme as ministers plan to impose a house price cap of £500,000.” thetimes.com/business/compan…
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Guardian: The number of land titles in Greater Manchester owned by United Arab Emirates-linked companies increased from 51 in 2016 to 168 in 2026, equivalent to a 39% rise in the total area owned in a decade, from 73 to 101 hectares (180 to 250 acres).” theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
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Labour truly are experts at producing reasons to leave.
HMRC is sending out an intrusive letter to those people it regards as wealthy, asking for large quantities of information about their personal affairs and assets.
One person who received the letter said: “Who do these people think they are, the Stasi? This will only encourage more people to leave.”
Lizzie Murray, a partner at the accountants Saffery, advised that: “Taxpayers should not feel obliged to provide wide-ranging amounts of information to HMRC. Details of an individual’s wider asset base are only relevant to the extent that HMRC has concerns that income, gains or other taxable events relating to those assets have not been properly reported.”
While HMRC is currently claiming that these letters are only being sent to the very wealthy, no doubt it won't be long before every higher or additional rate taxpayer gets one.
This fishing expedition is an intolerable intrusion into the private lives of British citizens and should be stopped forthwith.
We post the full text of the letter in the thread below.
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peter jones retweeted
It's like they actually want everyone to leave. ...The HMRC letter asking rich people to reveal what they own
thetimes.com/article/1d92cd6…
The Vote Share: According to statistical estimates compiled for UK parliamentary constituencies, approximately 63% of voters in Ashton-under-Lyne voted to Leave, while 37% voted to Remain. [1]
"We need a pragmatic and honest conversation about the damage that was done, the promises that were said to the British people that never materialised."
Angela Rayner backs Andy Burnham on closer EU ties in the future.
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There is no money. London is a net tax contributor to social welfare. The ‘regions’ have very mixed abilities in terms of governance. That is what the Parliamentary system is for.
The Vote Share: According to statistical estimates compiled for UK parliamentary constituencies, approximately 63% of voters in Ashton-under-Lyne voted to Leave, while 37% voted to Remain.
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Healey’s startup adviser quits ahead of Budget over ‘sideshow’ treatment of entrepreneurs bit.ly/3VUDfmX
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Reeves’s stamp duty raid backfires as Treasury LOSES £500m in receipts. Also, HMRC WRITES OFF £13bn in tax as businesses collapse under Labour. Labour increased capital gains tax and the money coming into the Treasury FELL.
How incompetent are Labour, every measure they take to try and grab more of our money fails and they end up with less money. Financially illiterate. Policies which are punitive only ending up with the Treasury being worse off. Labour never learn. Get Labour out.
telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/ne…
