The BBC was always very obliging to Labour in the terms they used to describe Tory policies..the Bedroom Tax of course springs to mind, occasionally with an additional ‘so-called’ prefix as if that made it non-partisan, then we have the more current ‘dementia tax’.
What about ‘Garden Tax’? Will the BBC be using that term, so-called or otherwise? Unlikely as it is a Tory term for Corbyn’s proposed suggestion that a land tax might be in order to raise more money for local government. Just how much money we don’t know, and who exactly will pay it we don’t know….isn’t the BBC eager to investigate? Perhaps it is that ‘magic money tree’ Amber Rudd suggested was going to be the source of Corbyn’s funding? Magic money gardens…..Corbyn sticking to his metric?… going for the inner city vote…the flat dwelling workers and Nottinghill/Islington media luvvies who have no gardens?
A Labour government will give local government extra funding next year. We will initiate 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.
Had a Google of ‘BBC’ and ‘Garden Tax’ and nothing turns up…which is odd as it’s making the front pages of the papers and the farmers are up in arms warning us that food bills will rise…something normally the BBC would be desperate to report….from Horticulture Weekly…
Labour manifesto ‘garden tax’ concerns raised
Labour’s manifesto contains proposals to replace council tax and possibly business rates with a Land Value Tax (LVT) on homes and gardens.
Under proposals, the new tax would be imposed as an up to 3% levy on the value of land.
The annual tax is calculated using the market rental value of land so would hit those with large gardens harder.
The Institute for Public Policy Research says the tax might become a “tax on gardens”.
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.
I’m sure this will provide a rich source of jokes for the BBC’s finest from the News Quiz, HIGNFY and the extremely partisan muppets on the Today show…..no not Robinson and Webb, though easy mistake to make, I mean D’Ancona and Behr whose comedy run down of the election this week was basically a Labour political broadcast with jokes…much like its manifesto I suppose.
I worry that some idiot like Corbin will reinvent capital gains tax on property sales . The liberals floated this a few elections ago and they don’t exist any more.
It would appeal to the vindictive streak in the Corbin socialists as well the under 35s who have been brainwashed by al beeb into believing anyone with assets should be culled. Fingers crossed. Bought more popcorn
This is as clear a statement of Corbin’s politics of envy as you can get. If you have any assets, Labour wants to take them off you and redistribute them to plant some magic money trees.
Bonkers.
It will (apparently) ‘free up’ a lot of cheap land for development, which is a good thing (obviously!), as it will be necessary to house all those immigrants and state supported children in the council houses Corbyn wants built (on our gardens and agricultural land). Not to worry about the fact we won’t be growing anything here any more, or have any fresh water… or natural environment to speak of. Although council run allotments are safe… apparently, and we’ll all be encouraged to work on them (communally) with our new multicultural, socially enriching neighbours for our ‘mutual well being’… which will be ‘nice’.
You might as well add Death Tax to Garden Tax, not that the BBC will say much . Labours proposal to reduce the inheritance tax exemption back to £650,000 should be as big news as the Dementia Tax, which of course will now be capped .
Corbyn’s programme may be costed but it sure ain’t funded . Labour are not levelling with us on taxes yet the BBC days little about this.
Dementia Tax, which of course will now be capped !!
Is it me, or does Comrade Corbyn bear a passing resemblance to Comrade Brown (albeit after six months on Slimfast) in that photo at the top.
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiYxoqHq5_UAhWLWBoKHYjFBd4QjRwIBw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailysquib.co.uk%2Fworld%2F1157-unelected-supreme-comrade-gordon-brown-delays-non-election.html&psig=AFQjCNFegwchM5rJgK0M9BVMEFuPdaKCrA&ust=1496498710700982
Just the once, we can let Al-Beebia off the hook. The Useless Tories should have been talking about the garden tax every chance they’ve got. Instead, we’ve got the Dear Leader quaking about ‘strong and stable’ long after it’s become a joke.
You’re right about BBC comedy though, If anyone on the right had come out with anything as stupid as Lady Nugee’s complaint that you can’t sell food to Australia as it will spoil on the way, you’d never have heard anything else on the TV for five days. The next edition of HIGNFY would be held from inside a meat locker.
Who knows or cares about Craig Mckinleys fiddles or otherwise re Thanet. Farage was probably cheated out of it, but the BBC and Labor were more than happy with that at the time.
Funnily enough, pops up again in election week. Be nice to see if the timing is coincidence , or are we talking Putin here? As for Gerard Coyne getting cheated, bullied and suspended during HIS election against Corbyns money bags-Len McClusky?…well, Martha will not be leading on THAT.
Nor will any BBC scum.
The BBC are utterly shameless and transparent-and they`ll need to know there`s a reckoning for all this.
Fake new from the bBC
and here is how the bBC reported this story yesterday. A story they have conveniently removed :
here is how others reported this story:
US
Britain ‘Disappointed’ With Trump’s Climate Move
Reuters:
Britain ‘disappointed’ with Trump’s climate move
Russia:
Theresa May expressed her disappointment with the US decision
UK
Theresa May tells Donald Trump of ‘disappointment’ over decision to pull out of Paris climate change accord
Paris agreement: Theresa May tells Donald Trump she is ‘disappointed’ at decision to withdraw from climate deal
Theresa May ‘disappointed’ at Trump’s withdrawal from Paris climate agreement
Theresa May tells Donald Trump she’s ‘disappointed’ at his decision to pull US out of Paris climate agreement
The bBC we lie is what we do
Whatever they call it Land tax or garden tax ,most people are not fools who understand that the amount of giveaways being promised by Corbyn simply cannot be funded by just the rich.Also Corbyns definition of rich probably includes many hard working people who own a house .and want to pass it on in their family.
The BBC may not publicise Corbyns deceitful manifesto ,but as I say people are not fools.
In addition Brexit means more to many people of all parties than any of the free stuff,that’s why they voted against their party in the referendum.
Please worry ye not Deborah. Hang in there, just for Scrobs!
Although Treezer had to say that UK inc just couldn’t continue with the national debt, the Conservatives have just let all the fools like Farron, some sort of unknown Green party thing, Corbyn and his loony left, to get on with digging huge holes for themselves.
When the Conservative majority has been established early next Friday, the ‘analysts’ will all be out in force, wondering why nobody on the Tory side seemed to worry!
Love the polls! They’re absolutely – even stupidly – pathetic, and are a waste of time, and useless at the ‘work’ they proclaim to do.
Stay calm, wait for the whites of their eyes, and continue dreaming of the Conservative overall majority – probably not as much as the hundred, but way into the sixties, so Attenborough will crap himself, as will all the other nobodies on Election night.
Drinks cooling as we speak, but I will need to keep the single malt for breakfast…
Man-made Climate change.
Of course Climate change is a man-made figment of corrupt politicians, who funded environmentalists posing as scientists, while denying funds to any scientist who even dared question it. So it is that any public poll of scientists, be they biologists, chemists or anthropologists, would have them all agree with this fake hypothesis. Or else lose their grant funding.
You forgot Nobel Prize winning Railway Engineer, Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, in your job list, NCBBC.
Hope you have seen my reply to your excellent resume elsewhere NCBBC.
No more to say!
Which will be the best country to emigrate to if the Marxists – Corbyn and Sturgeon – get the opportunity to inflict their class-warfare on us?
It’s strange really – when the campaign started and the conservatives looked a certainty to get a land slide al beeb almost started to behave itself but now that the atmosphere has changed al beeb seems to be taking the brakes off and being the Goebells of The Labour Party . I just hope the sensible people of Blighty don’t pay to much attention to the machinations and x the right box on the day.
Otherwise we are screwed
Fed, hang in there, and never worry!
Points are to a useful majority, but you won’t hear that from the BBC!
Have a drink on me while you’re waiting!
Some of the Eastern European countries are quite good. They’ve suffered Communism and Islam in the past and so are naturally keen to avoid it again. Strong Christian ethos. Traditional values. Distinct lack of ‘diversity’. Cheap wine and beer. Beautiful scenery. Less developed. Will suit some. But, best to Научете местния език or Afla limba locală!
I`ll be looking at Hungary, well away from the Munich-Vienna-Budapest train line, near the Slovak or Romanian border.
If the young and the public sector dependency REALLY want Venezuela and Islamic riots with no pensions in five years-best to go before you`re forced to.
It just won`t be my country anymore. And there`ll be real trouble if we don`t realise just how close we are to Islamofascism with full media takeover of the airwaves.
If Corbyn is PM it will not make any long term difference. Short term yes it will as the trends now visible will accelerate.
That is the intensification of the split between the shires and the cities as Corbyn’s party is almost entirely city based and that of the state supported or payrolled.
This group have deep hostility towards the country, the land and those who create their own wealth . They need us because they cannot function without our labour and money.
This makes them prey to envy and a type of hostility to all who do not fit the needy profile of their client and voter base.
This is the BBc to a T .
But long term we face existential threats that will overwhelm us and Europe. Almost now certainly not to be avoided without a complete reversal of policies and behaviour by our elites.
Just think for a moment. A few days ago we had a terror attack in Manchester killing our young . There is nobody in power who has the faintest idea what to do about this and how to stop the next one, There will be another as we all deep down know.
Those who warn like Mark Steyn and Daniel Greenfield and others are marginalised and accused of non existent so called distortions ,racism or various phobias. Free speech is waning. Our own Tommy Robinson faces such state hostility it makes no sense at all except to the terminally deluded .
If we are honest with ourselves we know our culture is lacking vigour and sliding into irrelevant identity and overtly sexual politics. This was the intention of the Gramscians and Marxists and they have all but succeeded. Destroy the family and you weaken fatally a people.
Outside cultures and you know which one in particular see us as weak, lacking any strength of character and ripe for taking. They are not going to stop and why should they? This is the way of the world and always has been.
Corbyn will just bring forward the days of pain and reckoning. Perhaps this is for the best as it could concentrate the minds of those still not bodysnatched by progressive fantasies.
I don’t think Corbyn will win but it’s equally discouraging that the conservatives seem to have cut their core support adrift . The nationalisation of child care and failure to give meaningful tax relief to married couples all undermine the family. Many of our social problems are caused by the decline of the traditional family. The attack on buy to let landlords with just a few properties is a disgrace. These investments represent a pension for those not in receipt of gold plated public sector pensions. Osborne shamelessly attacked buy to let to distract from his governments failure to get more houses built. The failure to control migration and the likelihood that high net migration will continue for years even if May gets elected. The starving of cash for our armed services, a navy with a mere handful of ships, a pitifully small RAF and An army that couldn’t even put one division into the battlefield. Meanwhile there is a stubborn refusal to cut the burgeoning foreign aid budget, which is a constant irritant to conservative voters .
Britain will continue to change beyond recognition whoever wins, it will simply happen faster under Corbyn.
Agree with every word of that.
Conservatism has conserved very little over the last few decades. There seems to be an illogical belief within the party that the centre ground in politics must be the most virtuous place to be because it gives the superficial impression of being untainted by left or right. Unfortunately, the centre ground is not where it used to be.
On a different note, I’m halfway through Douglas Murray’s book. Outstanding. Interesting that more or less the same messages are coming from Douglas Murray, Mark Steyn, Tommy Robinson etc, even though their styles and backgrounds couldn’t be more different. Pity nobody is listening.
Perhaps the money tree will be shaken ever so slightly (if Labour win) to give every man, woman and child in the UK £1,000,000 to eliminate poverty. After all a mere £60 odd million is just a rounding error on the big projects like HS2 whose cost is estmated in billions.
Charm
I think your plan would cost £60bn plus. But you are right about HS2.
That’s actually 60,000 billions in American style. Or £60,000,000,000,000.