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What else are you supposed to do with gold apart from sell it? Fair enough he didn’t sell it at the highest rate but the alternative is so sit back and wait whilst key services struggle without sufficient funding. That, in effect, is placing the fate of social welfare on the roller coaster of...

Have you not visited the Brexit thread?

That’s just shit. And it’s totally in the government’s hands if they want to stop this. But they don’t....as it’s probably them or their mates in these syndicates.

Fair point. Apologies I misunderstood. As an aside they have put a ban on AirBnBs in Berlin now. The rules in Berlin are kind of how AirBnB was first conceived ie a way to make some occasional cash from your spare room. If you are doing this you’re fine...if you are a professional AirBnBer...

But surely you understand that if you have an extra £1 in your pocket due to raising personal tax threshold it’s pointiess if your rent and living costs have gone up by more?

I imagine he’s talking about the bigger picture and real terms and costs ie it’s pointless simply raising personal allowances when they’re adding taxes and removing things elsewhere, and the cost of living is going up etc.

This is an incredibly selfish, and not to mention defeatist, attitude though....and an attitude certain politicians will want you to have. Come on, surely you are better than this?

In effect it’s a lot lower than 9000 as health, I believe, doesn’t have a personal allowance... you will start paying around 7% of the 15% immediately. Health always gets left off comparisons.

As predicted.

And I wonder how long the first u-turn will take this time? 36 hours is my guess.

I expect another kick-in-the-teeth for the disadvantaged and the vulnerable, and some hand outs to their mates. Same old.....