When we say 'the political case' we really mean: the press are a misleading fucking nightmare on the stuff and the public are utterly muddleheaded about it. But the press doesn't like admitting the first and no-one likes admitting the second.
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The most persuasive case I can think of is a majority of 158 seats. Whatever you think of FPTP, there's a huge majority who voted for change. And the change they voted for is not the change they're getting.
They already pay tax and for people with a single dwelling, the tax burden would almost reduce given the huge accumulation of land by a minority of people.
My council tax is about 0.5% of the value of my home. If we apportion council tax to home value, that means massive variations across the country as home prices in the SE dwarf everywhere else.
There is no easy, equitable way of applying local taxes.
That would cause some to relocate from areas with high property prices to areas with lower property prices, which would likely have a flattening effect on this massive variation.
I get it's really easy to misrepresent and losers shout louder than winners. But surely: no council tax , no SDLT, tenants don't pay, S.E. gets whacked - others less (so back door levelling up). Has the kernels of something they could effectively communicate.
It’s genuinely disturbing how tirelessly the rightwing press and their political soulmates work against the best interests of our country and the public’s wellbeing to entrench their own wealth and influence. And - worse - how powerless we are to stop it.
It's exhausting how this just continues and there is never any push back, along with the way that so many still just swallow the headlines as though something being printed makes it true.
There never seems to be any push back from governments. Leveson, Ofcom, what’s the point. No one seems interested in any standards. The BBC gets a letter from Mrs Trellis about balance and there’s much pearl clutching but gb news get to spout nonsense all day every day? Nada.
I went to view a flat with my daughter yesterday. The communal area hadn't been cleaned for god knows how long the flat itself you couldn't swing a cat in. Turns out the landlord owns 400 properties. 400!
I've reposted this! Government needs to really get on top of some of these 'slum' landlords as that is what they are. My daughter rents and is so lucky to have a lovely landlord.
Yes, it shouldn't be allowed. We weren't the only ones viewing, which made it farcical. A guy joked with the estate agent that someone has a nice pension, and that's when she said oh it's much more than that he owns 400.
Labour made some deal with the press before the election, the press then proceeded to break that deal from the day after the election, but the government is still honouring the deal. The lightweight Culture Secretary remains AWOL, so they've only themselves to blame.
It's disturbing and depressing. The country needs a reset. However, a reset for many appears to be duped into Reform's vile politics (self harming). The progressives around the world are swimming against the tide...why?
Even more galling is when people argue passionately that necessary things cannot be done - even when they not only could be but used to be the default position - when doing those things would be massively in the commenter’s own interests. They think they are being adults. They are just dupes.
I would implement a land tax rather than a property tax. Encourage people away from single home large properties and into more condensed living (easier for car-free living). Also would not discourage home renovations.
this is the thing about labour that baffles me more than anything, shit scared of the media but have done NOTHING to undo the state of the post Tory BBC, play by the rules your opponents do and stack it with people who'll push your agenda or at worst be partisan
When several generations have measured success on the postcode they live in, it's going to be a tough sell. Property values in the UK are pretty much land values. Mostly about where, rather than what.
Apart from the completely naive comment that landlords would pay it and not tenants, which can only have come from someone who has never rented from a landlord...
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The Telegraph ought to like it though, as it will give them a whole range of poverty cosplaying stories when the school fees stuff runs dry.
If only we had a government with a stonking majority?
A land tax would hit working families who have managed to buy a property, especially in the South East.
I want to hit those who don't have to work, pensioners with passive income would still have their allowances that way.
There is no easy, equitable way of applying local taxes.
And Starmer is faffing around worrying that he may lose 70 of them in 4 years time.
So 404 will spend 4 years doing nothing.
I would implement a land tax rather than a property tax. Encourage people away from single home large properties and into more condensed living (easier for car-free living). Also would not discourage home renovations.