Quotes of the week

Nov 17, 2017 | In the news

An independent (financial adviser’s) view

‘You couldn’t make it up’

‘Leading Brexiteer John Redwood has urged investors to reduce their exposure to UK assets in his role as strategist for investment firm Charles Stanley’

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‘I feel I’ve been deceived’.

Delegate at the The Flat Earth International Conference which attracted hundreds of attendees who believe the shape of the Earth is a disc instead of a sphere. Maybe a (second) referendum would decide the issue…

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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.