Westminster Voting Intention: CON: 41% (-1) LAB: 30% (+2) LDM: 15% (+1) BXP: 5% (=) GRN: 3% (=) Via @Survation, 20-23 Nov. Changes w/ 13-16 Nov

This is a little one eyed. It also seems like you’re saying we work hard and earn massive amounts of money so therefore we should retain it all. Being a top earner myself, this sort of attitude really f***s me off. Mental

These are assumptions, but why not...

‘Ridiculous amount of tax’ is relative. Yes if you’re earning 10m a year, you’ll be paying more tax than most people earn over several decades. Non starter. You knew the rules when you decided to move to an insanely expensive part of London and build your businesses.

From the limited amount of information you provide, it doesn’t really sound like you’re on the breadline.

• X2 kids in an inner city private school - 20/30k each per year

• Both own your own businesses and use dividend as salary, likely pay close to the minimum personal salary, get paid in dividends, with the majority charged at the higher rate of tax (like myself)

• employing 12 people indicates a reasonable turnover, for both businesses combined let’s say minimum 3-5m a year

• for arguments sake, combined personal salaries/dividends of 3-400k

• own a property in w12, 1-2 million minimum

Taking into account corporation tax and dividend tax on those figures, even if they’re a bit less than that you’re hardly left with nothing. Or should I say, ‘the little we have left’. Pull the other one.

Especially when any perceived lack of disposable is your own choice - choosing to spend 40-60k on your kids education, private healthcare, whilst living in W12 and no doubt the lifestyle/keeping up appearances nonsense that accompanies that. It almost sounds like you want some sort of tax credits for doing so. Incredible.

Your combined disposable monthly income alone after tax is most likely close to or more than the average UK wage of a paramedic.

Yeah you pay more tax, as do I as a top rate earner and there’s a good reason for that. Could the systems that distribute it back Be better? f*** yes. Do I resort to lazy stereotypes when discussing how said money gets spent? No. Could the government do more to prevent people from gaming the system? Yes. Do the majority of people on benefits game the system? No.

‘We get nothing back for it’. You’re not supposed to. Especially when you’re earning that much. Don’t like it? Move elsewhere to a more corrupt society so you can game the system, pay less tax and have ethically questionable political influence to satisfy your needs.

I started to feel sorry for her. She was embarrassing.

Boris wasn't impressive but he got stitched up good and proper by the comrades at the BBC.

...or downsize the business, lay off staff to do so and prevent their taxes from entering the system....SW19 I agree with a lot of what you posted as I do with W12...what i would say though is that 'historically' when taxes have been raised so has the unemployment rate...low taxes mean more businesses investing in jobs and the economy...taxes aren't the ONLY way to get money in the system...it's the easiest, but not the ONLY way