Most private landlords with one or two properties rarely paid tax on the income, unless HMRC comes knocking and for a long time they didn't. Income just wasn't declared, it was easy to pay it into various different accounts. HMRC have been tightening up big time in recent years, but in the past three decades its been easy street for landlords compared to any other business.

Having a business with assets that are worth 300-400,000 each it seems odd to be self employed outside of a limited company. Its a bit different than someone who does a bit of trade.

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No, we don't. We just try to see the bigger picture.

My picture is bigger.

Play the man to distract from the fact that deep down you know they are right

And they do. Many labour members are also trade unionists who give up their time to ensure both the workforce and management are happy with pay structures and working conditions. If that isn't helping the working man or woman, I don't know what is.

You haven't understood, or have deliberately misinterpreted, what I said.

I have never claimed that you support Labour. I think that you are a typical leftie blowhard, for whom no party, collective or group fingerless glove wearing, placard bearing assortment of malcontents is 'aligned to your politics'. I do not believe that you even have a set politics, more a collection of envy, derision and acknowledgement of what you hate, but you are unsure of how to form this into a cognitive ideology, which shouldn't make you sad as 99% of your comrades around the world and in history are in same place as you.

What I do know, and what I was commenting on, is that you pour disdain on a group you claim to support, the white working class, for having the temerity to oppose the views you think hey should hold, because you want them to hold them. You comments on here about 'Daily Mail, Sun and Express readers' display a contempt of people you find repulsive and yet you cannot understand, and neither can your kind, understand why his disenfranchised group has been welcomed by UKIP, and listened too, whom will act upon their concerns, whereas you tell people worried about their jobs, families or communities, that their well being is less important than chasing your pet social engineering projects, such as 'fighting transphobia' or 'holding Israel to account'.

Take the above in. Don't knee jerk a poor response like your one above and I am always happy to provide any observations on your 'politics' you may wish to receive.

Edited by matt_himself (19 Nov 2016 7.53am)

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