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UKIP does though as well. I just dont think you can argue people were voting for left wing policies when they were switching to labour for lower taxes. That in itself causes the issue if they had won Corbyns "free lunch" of an uncosted manifesto would of unravelled and been a complete mess.

Looking at that graph. isn't May 2017 when the Tories announced the dementia tax?

Well my main issue is I don't agree with the rules. I think Kaosmark's suggestion of doing it regarding debt would be fairer. I can't think of any other industry where someone is wanting to come over and invest in one of the poorest parts of the U.K that we'd be saying no and thinking its a good idea to say no. Evertons new stadium will create jobs and investment like the etihad complex and investment in ancoats has in Manchester. If the Saudi's want to invest in Newcastle why not? These are areas that haven't really recovered since the deindustrialization of the North.

£184 million net spend since the Russians took over in 2016 so £23 million a year isn't mad though there were some big contracts handed out in that time period. I think Everton fans accept they have been badly run but are the War in Ukraine and increases in stadium interest debt post covid acts that deserve punishment when a number of clubs tried to break away and basically end any sort of reward/qualification for winning, we were told it wasn't fair to punish the fans. There is also the mater that all though City have 115 charges 7 of those are the same as they have hit Everton with twice in one season so why say can't city take those charges now whilst they investigate the rest? Everton are probably going to end the season with over double to punishment for going into administration and it feels like the rules have been rushed out to stop an independent regulator being imposed on the prem.

I'd say Streeting is spot on and its the main reason I'll be voting labour next time. Labour are doing the right thing looking at the Australian system. You can see a little plateu around "austerity years" 2011 - 2013ish apart from that spending has just got straight up in real terms and as far as I can see hasn't provided a better service.

No need for states after the apocalypse I guess:

Still dwarfed I guess by the people who have to support the winning team all the time. I think Spurs do something with their ground and NFL for extra revenue. Villa could be in the sh*t when the Grealish money rolls out of the 3 year period.

Yes but that was the point. The only 3 clubs that can get those types of players and hold on to them within FFP are probably Man Utd, Liverpool and Arsenal because 95% of people support the club (and therefore spend their money on) who are doing the best when they are a kid. Everyone else might as well switch to supporting ones of those clubs which I guess is what they wanted with the european super league.

City are under invesigation with Chelsea. Liverpool have still spent a decent chunk, aren't Salah's wages above some clubs entire yearly transfer budget? Its pretty boring for the neutral when only Newcastle. Leicester city and Everton have qualified for the champions league outside the usual suspects in the last 20 years. One club was forced to sell schmeichel and went down, one is probably going to go down this year with two sets of points deductions and the last appears to be in the prem's cross hairs.

Newcastle appear to be top of the rumours page each day. If this supposed firesale turns out to be true to meet FFP next season without the chumps league revenue then something is clearly wrong with the rules. How is any team supposed to push on and progress outside of Liverpool, Man Utd and Arsenal?

Yes Reform will run and will seriously damage the Tories. The conditions around brexit don't exist this time plus I think Farage was on record as thinking Corbyn was a communist, he probably doesn't feel the same way regarding Starmer

I can remember the advice pre-2000 and that was invest in the country you reside in, as you'll be spending your retirement there it reduces currency risk. Thats been terrible advice the last 20 years and I'm guessing explains people reporting back wildly different performance. The FTSE was 6930 in 1999, its now 7461. nowhere near the 10% YOY returns people here are reporting back. As I said thats mainly because we are in the internet age, there used to be European companies that dominated certain sectors, they are all American now and so if say you've been holding debenhams shares over amazon for retail because your tracker is based on Uk companies you've been having a bad time.

The issue with living in the UK is most people buy the FTSE without thinking about it. The problem with that is if you look over the last 20 years the U.K and Europes share of global GDP has plummeted since China and India signed up to the WTO. The U.S on the other hand has kept theirs mainly due to all the tech giants being American companies. Its one of those things that if you are buying trackers you have needed some diversification into countries that have not been getting poorer and with us being in the internet age, the big tech stocks.

Yes thats the difference. Most people don't use leverage when buying shares but are comfortable doing it when buying property. Definitely not a one way bet though. I think it was Feral who used to post on here who said a member of her family had a number of BTL's in a mining town and when the mine closed lost the whole portfollio to the bank after a margin call whilst in negative equity.

According to that poll the telegraph ran where reform are going to decimate the Tories. Mourdant was one of those losing her seat. On the FPTP thing. Farage got nearly 4 million votes in 2015 and 1 seat. Also worth pointing out he sat in the group to the left of the identity grouping of Lega, AfD and National Rally. Looking at places like France and Germany we could move futher to the right than Farage if we change the voting system.

I guess the diference is you can't make any more land via capitalistic method.

Yes depends on the house but also depends on the stock. My house is up a bit from where I bought it in crash of 08 but there are probably people still under water from 2007. On the other hand I bought apple shares that same year when the iphone was released. If your house had kept up with that investment it would be worth £1.8 million.

Yes agree with this. The highest taxes in 80 years are papering over the cracks. Alot of countries are not hitting replacement rates via births and with so many jobs nowadays being able to be done via a laptop from anywhere in the world I can see countries starting to compete for the younger tax paying workers and they'll simply move to places that treat them better.

I'm the same but I think it tracks the state pension by 10 years doesn't it.. so state goes to 66 private to 56? Been overloading it with bonds for the same reason over the last 6 months.

The rules are being changed before citys hearing in 2025 apparently.

Andy Burnham hasnt shut up about it. If he ever makes PM I think that independant regulator is nailed on 😆 Picking the points total at the end of the season so they don't know what their target is to stay up is a bit sh*tty though.

The mistake the Somali pirates made was they didn't declare support for Hamas. People would of stood up for them then.

Ukraine has been trying to get the Holodomor recondised as delibrate genocide for years.

Yep 10 million dead under the nationalists and 40 million dead under the communists. A bit of bad blood there. I can't see a Hong Kong style deal working.

Plus I think Taiwan is where the exisiting government fled during the Chinese civil war when the communists seized power so I guess they'd argue China should be handed back to them not the other way around.