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A system that nobody involved has ever thought made the slightest sense.

Although I can understand why Starmer might not labour that point in justifying not getting more involved. :lolol:

He might have been a lawyer, but I'm not sure that Starmer has any particular experience in tax or property that would make his opinion worth all that much.

The economy and government Tony Blair took over from were quite drastically more competent than the one we have at the moment. If the Conservatives made Ken Clarke their leader now I'd seriously consider voting for them.

Nobody knows how much space there is to move to the left (or right to be fair) until they try it and suddenly find they've lost the election. Such is life in our f***ed up country. You can only take people with you if you have a reputation for economic competence and you can only earn that if...

To be frank, given the state of the current government, if the Labour manifesto said "we're going to hunt down [Sid] and kneecap him" I'd still vote for them.

I'll believe the Conservatives are toast when I see them voted out.

You think they won't have sold all the stationary then? You mad optimist you.

Well hopefully. I'm sort of expecting the next government to enter the treasury to find everything that wasn't nailed down has been flogged on whatever resale/social media site the kids use nowadays, so I'm not terribly optimistic of any short term progress.

None of those problems can possibly be solved within 100days, regardless of how they're funded.

You may recall (or might not, I've no particular expectation of anybody reading the shite I post on here and even less of anybody remembering any of it) that I'm in favour of STV (so not PR but a fair step in that direction while avoiding many of the obvious objections). That doesn't mean I...

You're really selling it to us. :lolol: On the subject of the SNP, politics in this country might be quite different if they'd won a vaguely proportional number of seats in the last 3 elections rather than almost all of the Scottish seats in 2015 and 2019.

Did you think you could never come home again because you'd left part of your mind there somewhere?

And that's why it would cost well over £500billion a year.

Thanks for the polite reply. I completely agree with your assessment of the problems. That said, I'm slightly wary of the implication by some on this thread that UBI would somehow pay for itself by simplifying the benefits system. A quick Google suggests that the total budget for the DWP for...

UBI is itself a state intervention. There may well be lots of benefits to it as have been well described on this thread, but I don't see that situation as one that particularly justifies it.

If the word bullying had been used, rather than personality clash, then I would obviously be significantly more sympathetic. That said, I still don't view it as a problem for the Chancellor of the Exchequer to deal with.

I'll be honest, I don't see that as a problem that the state should be intervening in. I realise it might ultimately have deeper and darker consequences down the line, but getting sacked because you can't get on with your new colleagues in a new team crosses my personal line into "have you ever...

I can throw in expressions like marginal value or price elasticity of the currency if it makes you feel any better. If you have a lot of something (pretty much anything) than the value to you of one more of that thing is less than if you only have a small amount of it. That is a straightforward...

To be clear, my argument (as presented) is that the rate is raised as high as practical for everybody. If we were in a position where we were taking in more tax than we spend, then we could have a conversation about dropping the rates. If we want to introduce fairness to the conversation, which...