Markwadsworth

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• More Than You Might Have Thought...

  

  In his post, Lola points out that 75% of tenants' income goes out in tax, one way or the other. However, according to insurance company More Than, this is,... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2016 DEBATE

• The Daily Mirror Channels Its Inner Daily Mail

  From The Daily Mirror: Mum died after plunging down 50ft well 'while gardening' at £600,000 home Irina Nadiotis, 58, is thought to have been stuck in the... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2016 DEBATE

• Nobody Move Or Female Workers Get It!

  Harriet Harman on (over the) top form in The Guardian: Harriet Harman has claimed campaigners calling for Britain to leave the EU are more likely to associate... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2016 DEBATE

• Nobody Move Or Your Country's Credit Rating Gets It!

  Left in the comments by PaulC156, from The Telegraph: If the International Monetary Fund and its co-conspirators in the Treasury wish to deter undecided voters... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2016 DEBATE

• Nobody Move Or House Prices and Share Prices Get It!

  Today's scaremongering from the FT, via MBK (as usual): A vote by the UK to leave the European Union risked triggering “sharp drops in equity and house prices,... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2016 DEBATE

• Yet Another Face Palm Moment..This Time - PPI

  Here Of course it bloody is. The 'government' is entirely to blame for the (non) PPI 'crisis'. As all of you may know, had you been keeping up at the back,... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2016 DEBATE

• Nobody Move Or Sterling and Interest Rates Get It!

  

  Yesterday's Project Fear output, via MBK: From The Times: Leaving the European Union would immediately cause the value of the pound to plummet by as much as 20... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2016 DEBATE

• "It's a Beautiful Day"

  This fairly recent Michael Bublé song is the perfect background music for smug middle aged people to drive round in their open-topped cars, so I have heard it... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2016 DEBATE

• Evil Climate Sceptics Bashing Solar Power as Per Usual...

  ... or maybe not? Emailed in by Ben Jamin' and Physiocrat, article by Euan Mearns A new study by Ferroni and Hopkirk [1] estimates the ERoEI of temperate... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2016 DEBATE

• "The Motive for the Attack is Unclear"

  The BBC surpasses itself with this one: One man has been killed and three others wounded by a knife-wielding man near Munich, with police investigating a... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2016 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Labour's "anti-semitism Problem" & Likely Outcomes of Brexit

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: Is Labour's "anti-semitism problem" just the politically correct term for "too many radical Muslims"? Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2016 DEBATE

• Nobody Move Or the Schools Buildings, Whisky Distillers, Drugs Companies and...

  All emailed in by MBK: From Schools Week: Loans totalling hundreds of millions of pounds to build new schools in the UK could dry up should the country leave th... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2016 DEBATE

• What. A. Complete. Prat.

  Here Oh, now this is getting so very, very silly. Apart from anything else it is a gross insult on the peoples of the Continental countries that they are so... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2016 DEBATE

• What's the Problem Here?

  Tax Freedom Day is 31st May*. Let's call that 41% (ex the additional deadweight costs of regulations) Rent Freedom Day is 5th May. Let's call that 34% That's 75... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2016 DEBATE

• Georgon Osbrown on Top Form

  Emailed in by MBK from The Telegraph: "We're doing the work on it now but the emerging Treasury analysis backs up what you are hearing from major banks like... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2016 DEBATE

• Post-Brexit, the UK Would Have No Free Trade Agreements with the USA Or China…...

  As somebody on the internet pointed out (I can't remember who): "So what?". The UK is a Member State of the EU, which in turn has no formal free trade... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2016 DEBATE

• EU Related Failure Linkfest

  CAP - Here Bank of England - Carney Says that on BREXIT the Bank will cut interest rates. So, he's got an infallible crystal balls then? Seemingly, no. Also,... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2016 DEBATE

• "Holborn Tube Station to Trial 'standing Only' Escalators for Six Months"

  From The Evening Standard: Tube commuters will be told to stand on both sides of the escalator at a busy central London station for six months - in a new trial... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2016 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (394)

  An earlier variant of KLN 393, from here: … while the land value tax is paid over time, the burden of the tax (its incidence, in economics jargon) falls entirel... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2016 DEBATE

• Captain America: Civil War of The Roses

  From Wiki and Wiki: Lawyer Gavin D'Amato is in his office discussing a divorce case with a client. Noticing the man's determination to divorce his wife, Gavin... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2016 DEBATE