Lots of words but very little substance, standard for politicians of all sides.

Non Dom tax, Labour seems to think that they can cancel this and all the non dom money will stay in UK and be taxed to raise 3 bn. This is naive at best or deliberately misleading at worst.

Clawing back COVID fraud and corruption, I am in general agreement with this but the vast majority of wasted money was organised crime setting up shell companies often from overseas, not a few despicable people taking the P. Trying to turn this into a political witch hunt will not produce results.

Labour can't resist trying to make any issue a " class war ".

I don't expect much in the way of actual policies until the pre election manifestos are published as is SOP for all sides.

The two party system is broken and we now IMO need PR to get more voices represented in parliament

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

Labour is always going to root out fraud, root out tax avoidance and evasion (always, of course, wrongly insinuating that the corruption is all carried out by rich Tories) etc etc, but it never happens. While we're at it, how about claiming back all the money lost to benefit fraud, NHS treatment without entitlement etc? Funny; I don't remember her mentioning any of that, albeit that those would be impossible tasks too.

Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)

Hear Hear.

Rachel Reeves speech was a word salad of mind-numbing banality, treacle laden platitudes and a load of old pabulum.38 minutes of empty twaddle and not a single mention of "Inflation".

Without further ado I shall now return to the Football discussions.

Edited by Willo (10 Oct 2023 8.52am)

It was widely (including in the House of Commons) referred to as 'The Brain Drain'.

Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)

I have it on reasonable authority that large numbers of very wealthy individuals - non-dom or not - are positioning themselves to take everything out of the UK if Labour get in - and i mean everything!
The cost to the taxpayer will be eye watering.
The Caymens, Portugal and more will all see the wealth from here using their money over there.
I think the Bahamas as well.
Others here will know more places than me.
I seriously do not think that Labour realise the damage that they will cause just because it sits well with the left wing die hards.
Ordinary people like us will bear the brunt of this massive drain on tax coming in and very quickly as well.
If Rachel Reeves is any good - and she isn't - then she should already have worked it out and got these people onside.
It goes further though - no tax coming in but also wealthy people not spending their money in the UK as well - if you think it's bad now - just wait and see how much worse it will be!

I have three grand children. When you have watched 2 hours of Cocomelon, Peppa don't seem so bad.