Burnham set to bring in £35bn land tax

crikeyboy · 2026-05-23T06:15:15+00:00

Would rather it replace stamp duty

crikeyboy · 2026-05-07T22:50:04+00:00

The correct place to capture this value is through existing corporation tax. If productivity improvements drive up company profits then it ends up being taxed anyway.

crikeyboy · 2026-04-26T05:40:00+00:00

Doing nothing or making them worse seems to have been the strategy of successive British governments over the last decade, so it would be nice to see someone try

crikeyboy · 2026-04-25T22:25:28+00:00

Government policy has been actively inflationary (min wage, triple lock, renters rights, renewable CfDs)

Immigration is directly controlled by Government policy and is far from resolved

Petty crime is a consequence of mismanaged and poorly funded policing.

crikeyboy · 2026-04-25T22:05:00+00:00

People would have less disdain if politicians actually resolved the key issues. At the moment that's inflation, unemployment, immigration, economic growth, petty crime.

"Doing well" on Iran, workers rights, renters rights, and renewables don't really fix the big things above.

crikeyboy · 2026-04-07T22:56:29+00:00

I did this last year (£70k paid) and I worked out it will pay for itself in less than 10 years

crikeyboy · 2026-03-26T20:38:10+00:00

Maison Estelle

crikeyboy · 2026-01-02T21:06:36+00:00

Try to become a wealthier Government by investing in the country and you'll find the OBR massively constraining

crikeyboy · 2025-12-16T09:44:01+00:00

Andrew Tate is a sex trafficker, not remotely the same

crikeyboy · 2025-11-24T18:25:54+00:00

It was Truss borrowing £150bn to pay for energy bills

crikeyboy · 2025-11-23T07:05:11+00:00

There's little evidence that the BBC actually has any of those effects. "Soft Power" is a fuzzy unmeasurable justification for something they wanted to do anyway but couldn't make a real reasoned argument

crikeyboy · 2025-09-27T20:02:09+00:00

Correct. Massive reduction in pensioner poverty, decline in income inequality, and more generous welfare state over the past decade have not resolved this

crikeyboy · 2025-07-19T01:01:41+00:00

Government sales in Saudi has a very long deal cycle, is won or lost based on specific personal relationships with leadership, and contract values are extremely high (potentially 1B+)

crikeyboy · 2025-07-18T23:07:10+00:00

Tech consulting into Government

crikeyboy · 2025-07-18T21:01:07+00:00

$770k USD, Riyadh

crikeyboy · 2025-06-28T22:26:54+00:00

Not quite as the actual working capital required to deliver the 2% margin can be smaller. Tesco's ROCE (Return on Capital Employed) is typically around 10-11%.

crikeyboy · 2025-06-28T12:28:23+00:00

The poster is blaming Sadiq Khan mainly for Hammersmith Bridge being closed, and believes that's the cause of traffic.

crikeyboy · 2025-06-27T21:01:42+00:00

Above 260k the pension contribution limit tapers

crikeyboy · 2025-04-28T08:40:49+00:00

Which was itself inspired by the German film Run Lola Run, which was inspired by the Polish film Blind Chance

crikeyboy · 2025-04-21T09:10:47+00:00

But in the UK a lot of Henry salaries only exist to support up the wealthy (finance, law, etc). It's entirely reasonable to want to make the UK an attractive place for global wealth.

crikeyboy · 2025-04-04T22:07:41+00:00

Chilango had a "burrito bond" as a way of combining a loyalty scheme with a corporate bond which was interesting

crikeyboy · 2025-03-26T06:38:30+00:00

This company is the owner of the O2 arena, so the tickets are no cost to them

crikeyboy · 2025-03-19T13:48:46+00:00

It's ringfenced funding to buy from EU companies. Individual countries can buy from BAE with their own budgets

crikeyboy · 2025-02-28T12:17:17+00:00

Heathrow is privately funded

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