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If you want good services they need paying for. Not putting you’re head in the sand pretending everything is fine.

There is futile and then there is engaging with RBR.

Show some restraint and just let nevergoagain, is it potg, and right brain ronnie have a thread to themselves. The recent run of posts without any reaction I thought was very funny.

Well, I didn’t go as far as to say you were, just looking like, so in that respect I thought it was nice.

Is probably a decent idea to have some comprehension of the stuff you choose to post and share. Otherwise you’re looking more of a fuckwit than you usually do.

I mean, words fail me....

No, you specifically used the term 'working people'.

It's not no one, but that wasn't your question.

Something like less than 1% of adults who an income taxed are liable for CGT. So that is pretty much a resounding no. In terms of IHT, less than 5% of estates end up needing to pay IHT.

Do you have a pint of bitter with your chips?

Not too late for all future transactions of this nature. Unless you think the Blairs are the only people who exploited this loophole?

Rules need to change - in that transaction there was no mechanism to pay the stamp duty even if they wanted to. Has to be the motivation from law makers to change the laws accordingly. Hopefully that will start to happen now.

Difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion? ‘The thickness of a cell wall.’

It’s a desperate comparison.

Perhaps shorten the gap between those able to afford £20m 2nd or 3rd homes in Park Lane and those with nothing?

Our unemployment rate is relatively low at 4.4%, although the gig economy and zero hour contracts do obscure those figures. There will always be those unsuited to particular types of work, and gaps in the labour market are not always able to be filled by those out of work. Immigration is an...

Of course the elephant in the room is the economy. Western capitalist economies generally need population growth for economic growth. The reason immigration hasn't fallen is the economy is desperate for workers through various sectors; healthcare, farming, construction. Immigration growth isn't...

Maybe take the demand out of it. Better processing, more collaboration, even organised controlled crossings - deal with the root cause not the symptom. At the end of the day people are desperate enough to climb into an over crowded inflatable to cross the channel - what’s the deterant if you’re...

And I am sure the French might blame the Italians, Spanish, German, and Swiss governments for allow migrants to cross illegally from their borders.

You're aware the 40 Bills mentioned in the King's Speech don't all become law immediately?