8 Responses to Start the Week 6th July 2026

  1. atlas_shrugged says:
    July 5, 2026 at 9:07 pm

    Africa or Mexico, Mexico or Africa?

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  2. taffman says:
    July 5, 2026 at 9:47 pm

    It looks like Al Beeb and the ‘meeja’ are getting very worried about Nigel … ?
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0424end7vo

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  3. Flotsam says:
    July 5, 2026 at 10:00 pm

    A ramble through Local Taxation. Sorry not BBC other than the fact The BBC support Marxism.

    With the Labour/Marxist talk of Mansion Tax, I’ve got to thinking about Local Government Taxation in the context of our far Left Government. What is Council Tax? Is it a tax that pays for local services or is it a politics of envy a means of taxing the rich.
    At the other extreme from Council Tax was Thatcher’s Community Tax (Poll Tax) which was to replace the old Rates system.. Everybody paid the same based on the idea everyone uses local services and should contribute to the cost. Ideologically people who paid no Tax were voting in elections. Poll Tax failed due to riots by people who used public services but felt they shouldn’t pay for them.

    Council Tax was brought into being after the Poll Tax debacle . Rather than a flat rate per household a graduated scheme of value bands ensured people living in more valuable properties paid more, there is an upper limit, the highest band is H and if you lived in a Mansion the most you would pay is the same as people living in any band H property. These days the value of Band H properties could probably start at about £800K and could extend to hundreds of millions.

    The Marxists want Mansion Tax, or is it a few extra bands? Is it fair that the more valuable your house the more you have to pay? Mansion Tax, is it merely the Politics of envy? Marxism? Mansion Tax is proposed to kick in at a property value of £1.5 Million, in some areas that’s not a Mansion value. People buying and living in higher value properties will be paying significant amounts of other Taxes.

    I call Council Tax, Hut Tax, look it up.

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  4. Fedup2 says:
    July 5, 2026 at 10:02 pm

    Admin note

    As part of our enhanced service to site users – we will be providing added to support to those affected by the result of the Eng er land footy game – trained counsellors will be available …
    More sane people will go noo noo …

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  5. wwfc says:
    July 5, 2026 at 10:10 pm

    Look what we had. We gave it away like it meant nothing.

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  6. wwfc says:
    July 5, 2026 at 10:12 pm

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  7. harry142857 says:
    July 5, 2026 at 10:16 pm

    I can’t watch the England game, no licence, you see.
    Alternative version below.

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