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If yes Jezza is going to clobber you for it to fund his 'free' spree.
OK, not specifically on a garden but your rates could rocket under labour. How come Mr Corbyn has not been grilled on this?
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OK, not specifically on a garden but your rates could rocket under labour. How come Mr Corbyn has not been grilled on this?
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We all pay domestic rates. It's just that they like to call it something different now, but it is still based on the rateable value of your dwelling.
We are already taxed for being a good citizen and having a garden, working in it so nature benefits and the locals can appreciate it. The scumbags in the council cottoned on to their ability to take our rates and not provide services we've paid it for, and to charge any potential cash cow citizens, who have no way to fight back, for supplying that same service if they need it to continue being the good citizens. Such as adding an additional charge to collect plant material that the council can profit from by turning into compost.
We are already taxed for being a good citizen and having a garden, working in it so nature benefits and the locals can appreciate it. The scumbags in the council cottoned on to their ability to take our rates and not provide services we've paid it for, and to charge any potential cash cow citizens, who have no way to fight back, for supplying that same service if they need it to continue being the good citizens. Such as adding an additional charge to collect plant material that the council can profit from by turning into compost.
Anyway, Corbyn must be 'doing a Liberal'. Knowing he ain't getting to win next time he can suggest any garbage he wants. No one in their right mind would implement a potential "poll tax" level disaster on themselves (although, that said, May seems to want to try with some of the things she's suggested of late).
hereIam, Mrs May doesn't want to fleece pensioners. Quite the opposite. I posted this elsewhere earlier, but I'll post it again here.
//Currently homes are required to be sold in order to pay care costs before the subject has died, often leaving nothing for anyone to inherit, whereas under the proposed new rules property will not be required to be sold until after the owner has died. The cost of the care they received will then be taken from the estate, leaving a minimum if £100,000 for the beneficiaries to inherit, and the care costs will be capped, so in many instances there will be far more than £100,000 left over. Those with less than £100,000 to their name will pay nothing. Furthermore, it is proposed, quite rightly, to stop paying a winter fuel allowance to wealthier pensioners, but the poorer people won’t suffer in either instance so what’s the problem?//
To respond to the question, that red mist that clouds Mr Corbyn's judgement probably results from those visits he made in his youth to cities in East Germany and other such places he so admires where the luxury of a garden is almost unheard of. All those endless blocks of dreary grey flats, you see.
//Currently homes are required to be sold in order to pay care costs before the subject has died, often leaving nothing for anyone to inherit, whereas under the proposed new rules property will not be required to be sold until after the owner has died. The cost of the care they received will then be taken from the estate, leaving a minimum if £100,000 for the beneficiaries to inherit, and the care costs will be capped, so in many instances there will be far more than £100,000 left over. Those with less than £100,000 to their name will pay nothing. Furthermore, it is proposed, quite rightly, to stop paying a winter fuel allowance to wealthier pensioners, but the poorer people won’t suffer in either instance so what’s the problem?//
To respond to the question, that red mist that clouds Mr Corbyn's judgement probably results from those visits he made in his youth to cities in East Germany and other such places he so admires where the luxury of a garden is almost unheard of. All those endless blocks of dreary grey flats, you see.
It's just a different way to fleece. Instead of a limit/cap on how much you pay it's a limit on how much is magnanimously left in the estate. Whilst we have a publically funded health care system claiming to be free at the point of delivery it should be funded to cover care in old age, it's the same issue.
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