Markwadsworth

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4337 )

• "Labour Tax to Hammer Workers on £80,000"

  ... wails The Telegraph, despite not knowing how much tax Labour would make them pay if they get elected, which they won't. Funny, The Telegraph's response was... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2017 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (412)

  I like it when we get a pair of matching opposites, two arguments which neatly cancel each other out: KLN 1: "Rich people won't pay the LVT, they will all just... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2017 DEBATE

• Fun with numbers/FPTP

  From the BBC: According to analysis by polling expert John Curtice, if the results of Thursday's polls in Wales, Scotland and 32 county councils in England... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2017 DEBATE

• The Revolving Door

  From House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts, Tax avoidance: the role of large accountancy firms, 2013 (page 14) HM Treasury’s Office of Tax Simplificatio... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2017 DEBATE

• YPP (London) Meet-up, Tomorrow Friday 5 May

  We'll be at The Brewmaster from 5.20 onwards or so - if you think you'll turn up later than 6.30, please get in touch [email protected] or 07954 59 07 44. Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2017 DEBATE

• "Impact of Brexit on Businesses in the UK" NOT

  

  A delightfully misinformed and illogical bit of fear-mongering from Market Inspector: There are Brexit campaigners who have optimistic predictions for Britain... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2017 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (411)

  Emailed in by BenJamin' from Reddit: Brokenladder: You go to some financial entity who agrees to pay the LVT in perpetuity in exchange for 1M$ in cash. Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2017 DEBATE

• Self-defeating Argument of the Day

  Emailed in by MBK, from the comments in The Times: Simon Shinerock: OMG, will we never learn! Rent controls are proven not to work, forget theory, they dont... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2017 DEBATE

• Top Tips on Negotiating with the EU

  From The Daily Express: YANIS Varoufakis has urged Britain not to get caught up with EU negotiations in a stark warning to the Prime Minister. Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2017 DEBATE

• Complete Lack of Self Awareness.

  Here Mr Juncker suggested that this timetable was "too optimistic", pulling out of his bag "two piles of paper" - Croatia's EU entry deal and Canada's free trad... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2017 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: The French Presidential Election & Bank Holiday Monday Weather

  

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: If you were voting in the French presidential election: Macron - the Europhile, Goldman... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2017 DEBATE

• UK Car Manufacturing, Imports and Exports Puzzle - a Possible Explanation.

  From the European Automobile Manufacturers Association, shortly before GBP fell with a corresponding boost to exports/fall in imports: 80% of the UK’s automobil... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2017 DEBATE

• "We Choose To… Do the Other Things, Not Because They Are Easy but Because They...

  

  Before. Well, just after I started and then remembered I hadn't done the before photo: After. I made it from decking material, so hopefully reasonably water... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2017 DEBATE

• Daily Mail on Top Form

  Hedge fund boss accused of keeping his ex-Merrill Lynch Trader wife 'virtual prisoner' in their £3.4million Knightsbridge home 'demanded that she arranged... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2017 DEBATE

• Strweth Sheila, 'Straya Has Fake Charities Too!

  From the BBC: The vast majority of Australians worry that national drinking habits are excessive, according to new research. An online poll commissioned by the... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2017 DEBATE

• Home-Owner-Ists 1: Economic Reality 4.

  From City AM: New stamp duty rules are causing landlords to sell up in droves An unforced own-goal right from the kick-off there. Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2017 DEBATE

• There's a Right Way and a Wrong Way to Do Everything.

  The right way From a London Assembly press release: Recommendations include: • The Mayor must take a visible lead in tackling FGM. Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2017 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: North Korea; The French Presidential Election

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: How would you prefer Donald Trump to deal with North Korea? Stop ramping up the rhetoric and just... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2017 DEBATE

• "Central London Housebuilding Collapses 75% as Prices Continue to Fall"

  From Property Investor Today: The number of new homes breaking ground in central London has plunged by 75% year-on-year as house builders put planned projects o... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2017 DEBATE

• Reader's Letter Of The Day

  From yesterday's Evening Standard: Developers on rely [sic] high house prices Regardless of how liberal planning laws are, developers will cap their output at... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2017 DEBATE