the snap general election thread

setmefree2

Without a doubt the Tory Manifesto was a car crash - politics students will be studying it forever....

I have to say - grammar schools, fox hunting, and bashing pensioners - what were you thinking?

LuckyG

Does anyone think there's any truth in this "garden tax" that has been highlighted in Corbyn's manifesto?

http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/810616/general-election-2017-jeremy-corbyn-council-tax-bills-homeowner-john-mcdonnell

wotsthat

SNP manifesto out today. Pretty clear a vote for the SNP is a vote for another independence referendum at the end of the Brexit negotiations.

https://www.snp.org/manifesto

prosaver

LuckyG wrote: »

Does anyone think there's any truth in this "garden tax" that has been highlighted in Corbyn's manifesto?

http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/810616/general-election-2017-jeremy-corbyn-council-tax-bills-homeowner-john-mcdonnell

a bit sneaky ..maybe he after the flat, apartment vote?:D


https://twitter.com/search?q=garden+tax&ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Esearch

wintersunshine

LuckyG wrote: »

Does anyone think there's any truth in this "garden tax" that has been highlighted in Corbyn's manifesto?

http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/810616/general-election-2017-jeremy-corbyn-council-tax-bills-homeowner-john-mcdonnell

Being widely reported in the Tory press today - must admit it's the first I've heard of it....

LuckyG

wintersunshine wrote: »

Being widely reported in the Tory press today - must admit it's the first I've heard of it....

Me too, my husband has just sent me the link.

LuckyG

I'll be voting conservative regardless and I'm a registered nurse, I'm happy to keep the tiny 1% pay rise and have someone half decent running the country. Small sacrifice to pay I say, especially with some of Corbyn's beliefs.

setmefree2

The Garden Tax

A costings document that accompanies Labour's manifesto lets slip the party's plan to hold a 'review into reforming council tax and business rates and consider new options such as a land value tax, to ensure local government has sustainable funding for the long term'.
A blueprint for how the new tax would work has been drawn up by the Labour Land Campaign, which has received glowing praise from both Mr Corbyn and his Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, who has said the levy will 'raise the funds we need'.

Under proposals, the new tax would be imposed as an up to 3 per cent levy on the value of land.
A Tory analysis estimates this would result in a yearly tax bill of £3,837 for an average family home in England – a massive 224 per cent increase on the current average council tax bill of £1,185.
The calculations are based on the assumption that land value is about 55 per cent of a house price.
The tax would fall hardest on areas with higher land prices, including London, the South and flourishing market towns. Tory campaign chiefs warned that some families could be forced to sell off their gardens to lower their bills and that it would incentivise people to build over green space.
The National Farmers Union has warned that if agricultural land, which is currently exempt from council tax and business rates, is also hit it would simply lead to hikes in food prices.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4553476/Labour-s-secret-plans-4-000-garden-tax.html

setmefree2

Labour business spokesman Rebecca Long-Bailey earlier this month endorsed plans to have 'a land tax to ensure local government has sustainable funding in the long term'. Mr McDonnell has previously said the levy would be a 'radical alternative to austerity'.
During his leadership campaign in 2015, Mr Corbyn said he had been 'impressed by the work of the Labour Land Campaign … on making the case for LVT which can capture for local benefit some of the private gains generated by public investment'.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4553476/Labour-s-secret-plans-4-000-garden-tax.html

However

A Labour spokesman last night dismissed the criticism, saying: 'This is desperate nonsense from the Tories. Labour has no such plans.'

prosaver

the farmers are going to be knacked