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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well, fuck you too.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I would like to point the RWNJs finally got voted out in Oz last year (federal and most states). Of course Murdoch and co. are working hard to reverse that, but semi sane leadership is in place for at least a year or two more.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most English schools handing out clothes and food to children⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Yes I did read the thread, and the downvotes you constantly got indicates which of us is missing the point.

So, no, that’s not how it went.
- If a government wants to place a wealth tax they pass a law that says (for example) “everyone owning a house worth more than £2m owes £10000 plus 1% of the value as wealth tax per annum”
- Person A fails to pay tax, govt takes possession of house, sells it to highest bidder person b, they takes taxes payable out of sale proceeds give A whats left and transfer title to B
It’s not complicated, and the best part is you can’t hide a house, and you can’t play shelf company hidden directors jiggery pokery because if the law is written correctly the govt. can say “I don’t care who owns it, if the tax isn’t paid I take possession, end of discussion” pay up or else.

Central revenue gets their money slimey toffs get rinsed, poor people get basic services. Everyone who matters wins.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most English schools handing out clothes and food to children⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
You really have reading comprehension issues don’t you ?

The post notes that it’s near impossible to hide or move real estate overseas thus making it near impossible to avoid.

Even if someone tried to avoid the tax by destroying the building you still can’t avoid it because the land is the value not the building.

Ergo you pay the property wealth tax or the government reposses the property.

Unlike cash that can be hidden the asset is visible and hence tax is easily enforced
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most English schools handing out clothes and food to children⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Lol. Yes you can. What’s more the absolute best wealth to tax is land/ real estate because it’s really effing hard to hide, and can’t be shifted overseas.

You can destroy its value by physically removing the building but the bulk of the value is always in the land, the building itself depreciates.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most English schools handing out clothes and food to children⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Yes you can, it’s called tax, and it splits off a fraction of your assets when paid.

No idea why OP was focussing on mansions, but a property tax would sort that problem. Stick a £2m threshold on it so it only hits the filthy rich. Before you whine about asset rich cash poor; dont care sell it if you can’t pay. People are dying.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Revealed: undercover UK police officer deceived woman into 19-year relationship⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

Mary’s fiance was not gathering intelligence on protest groups.

Her siblings say that Avon and Somerset police have consistently put pressure on them not to speak publicly about the relationship, warning of the risk of social unrest if the news got out.

Embedded into a black community and speaking publicly will cause social unrest…

I think we have a racist spy-op instead of an anti-left syp-op this time

Ahh the British police are special some times
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨85% Of Car Drivers Break 20mph Speed Limits, Reveals U.K.’s Department For Transport⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Used to be years ago, but law changed some time in the last few years
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most motorists want noise cameras installed to clamp down on loud cars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Not that I have ever seen. Very common in the US though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But have you tried Jerboa?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Seconded. Jerboa is much better than lookout which I also tried, but the backspace bug is irritating
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK traditional TV viewing sees record decline, Ofcom report says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
That’s a good point - I know polling is becoming problematic because the majority of people still retaining landlines are older and conservative, it has become quite difficult to achieve demographic balance for the sample for polling (and internet polling has known biases too)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK traditional TV viewing sees record decline, Ofcom report says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Good point. But aren’t most of the matches (and most sports generally) on paid/cable tv ? Everything of any consequence seems to be on Sky or BT Sports ? I rarely watch sport so I’m a bit out of the loop. I understood a handful of major events are legislated to have to be available on the BBC but only a few. Is that wrong ?

The “live tv” in the article above is just the stuff you need a TV licence for I thought ? BBC and ITV ?

If all the football fans are able to watch on BBC then all of sudden that’s a much bigger number for sure.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK traditional TV viewing sees record decline, Ofcom report says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Not young and have two teenagers that don’t watch TV ever (youtube on the other hand, oh lord).

Probably biased sample (age, tech biased etc) but I did a couple of straw polls at the pub when I was thinking of ditching the tv licence and that’s the basis for the statement. They could of course be telling fibs 😁 but the general consensus was “why have the tv licence with what you can get from netflix Amazon disney etc”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK traditional TV viewing sees record decline, Ofcom report says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Sure, but how many of those are watching live to air ? As opposed to the witcher or whatever on a streamer ?

All my friends have TVs and most nights they’ll have something on, but it’s netflix, Disney+ etc.

I was the laggard on ditching the tv licence - I hadnt had an aerial in 10 years, but I paid it for access to the nonlive BBC stuff. After realising we never actually watched anything I asked around and most everyone responded that they’d ditched it, a few kept it for the occasional “event” programs.

It’s certainly not a valid poll (demographics of my pub mates varies on ethnicity but not so much on age and gender), so I appreciate it’s a loaded sample, but the near universal reaction was "you’re still paying a licence, really ? Why ?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK traditional TV viewing sees record decline, Ofcom report says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
OK, I’m confused up near the start of the article you have the rather startling (to me) stat

" the proportion of people who tune in each week was down from 83% in 2021 to 79% in 2022."

Then further down you have

“Ten years ago, the average evening audience sitting down to watch the evening schedule at around 9pm was around 20 to 24 million people. These days, on a summer Saturday, the number is getting close to half of that.”

12million is what, 20% of the UK population ?

On the first stat I find that extremely implausible, literally the only person I know who regularly watches live TV is my elderly neighbour (70 pushing 80), fair enough habits of a lifetime and all that. But none of the adults I know watch live TV except for “events” like the FA cup that aren’t on a streaming option. Literally none. How can 79% of the population be watching live tv and I know 1 out of what, 50 odd people do in my social circle ?

The 20% figure is far more reconcilable - I’m sure there’s a decent slice of people still watching East Enders and Love Island, but 79% is just gobsmacking
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plan to replace gas boilers with heat pumps should be reviewed, says Gove⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
EV Percentage of total vehicles sales has been rising each year for the past 10 years. Exact number varies country to country but for most western countries it is now between 10 and 20% of sales per annum (obviously 100% in Norway).

Vehicle fleet turns over about every 15 years in Western nations (give or take depending on country) i.e around 90-95% of cars are less than 15 years old (there will always be very old collectors cars, but that’s an entirely different ball game).

So in 7 years time unless EV sales suddenly plummet, at the very least 20% of used cars sales will be EVs. However EV cars are tracking perfectly to S curve of new technology take up (very small number to start then it explodes). So there is every reason to suspect that today’s 20% of sales will be significantly higher. In fact it is expected that they will be the vast majority of new sales in most western countries, particularly those like the UK who are banning ICE sales from 2030.

There will therefore be a reasonably large number of second hand EVs, an even larger number of hybrid PHEVs (as a lot of those have been sold over the past 5 years) and there will be an even larger number of very very low cost ICE vehicles as people exit the technology.

People will buy what makes sense for them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plan to replace gas boilers with heat pumps should be reviewed, says Gove⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
You really think people will stop trading in their cars after 3 years to get the latest model ? I sincerely doubt it. Rolling over the lease is built into the finance model (it’s not financially smart but that’s a different discussion).