“Climate Change: Thousands at Time is Now march”

Jun 26, 2019 | In the news

An independent (financial adviser’s) view

I remember the anti-Vietnam war protests when I was growing up and the many who branded the protesters nutters/troublemakers/hippies. The Civil Rights movement was at its height around the same time, then came anti-apartheid and of course before that, Ban the Bomb and Votes for Women. With the gift of hindsight, would you say any were wrong? No more than you’d now ask for an ashtray and light up in a restaurant or on a plane, I’d say.

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“Rachel Reeves may be forced to raise taxes”

“Rachel Reeves may be forced to raise taxes”

Why did she/they (in the old sense) think that tinkering around with IHT and CGT would be enough to sort out the NHS; and the potholes; and…and the list goes on. My guess is  that they asked the Treasury for a list of anything not involving income tax that they could get away with lightly, although they should already have learned from the winter fuel stuff that all publicity is not good publicity.