And it’s not just the executions, crucifixions and state-sponsored murders. The Saudis have been waging a war in another country, Yemen, every bit as bad as any other war for which you might sanction any other oil-producing state. Russia itself did and is doing some pretty horrible stuff in Syria to which we turned a blind, or at least a short-sighted eye. And there’s talk of relaxing sanctions against another ghastly regime in oil-rich Venezuela. I think they call it ‘realpolitik’; or, forget your principles as we need them more than, or at least as much as, they need us.
“Why most won’t need to worry about IHT on pensions”
Many a government has made the point that only a minority will be affected by this or that tax change or tinker. It is, however, both perception and aspiration which are important, and they are what makes IHT the ‘most hated’ of all taxes – along with all the others, of course.
