An Apology to Readers
Below you can see that yesterday Guido suggested there had been some kind of policy U-turn on Death Taxes by the ventriloquist's dummy that is the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Guido even illustrated it with a big blue U-turn just to drive the point home.
As the sharper readers have pointed out, it was no such thing. In fact it was just essentially a re-presentation of, what Alastair Darling let slip this morning on the Today programme, was an already scheduled raising of the IHT threshold from £300,000 to £350,000. It additionally removed the necessity for spouses to visit a financial advisor for one aspect of estate planning. There was no new tax cut. It was a U-turn in rhetoric only.
Darling and Brown will still be rubbing their hands every time a middle-class, family-home-owner dies, the uninvited smiling guests at the funeral wake to present the bereaved with a tax bill.
Guido apologises for any confusion caused.
As the sharper readers have pointed out, it was no such thing. In fact it was just essentially a re-presentation of, what Alastair Darling let slip this morning on the Today programme, was an already scheduled raising of the IHT threshold from £300,000 to £350,000. It additionally removed the necessity for spouses to visit a financial advisor for one aspect of estate planning. There was no new tax cut. It was a U-turn in rhetoric only.
Darling and Brown will still be rubbing their hands every time a middle-class, family-home-owner dies, the uninvited smiling guests at the funeral wake to present the bereaved with a tax bill.
Guido apologises for any confusion caused.
24 comments:
Maybe we should encourage people to take a life size cardboard cut out of brown to funerals!! He is fatally wounded after all!
Another tree card trick by the laughing joker.
Haven't they effectively raised it from 300000 to 600000 by allowing partners or spouses to pass on their allowances?
You couldn't do that before could you?
Is anybody in a house worth more than £700000 middle class?
Three genuine questions to which the genuine answers are no, yes and no you class-obsessed freak show.
Genuine Question, it is all assets not just the value of the house.
You were previously able to combine allowances by setting up a discretionary trust but relatively few people did that. There is now no need to do so.
"Is anybody in a house worth more than £700000 middle class?"
If you live in London - yes.
This was a policy, amongst a number of others, that was aimed specifically at Labour marginals in London. By carefully targetting policy at people in marginal seats the Tories have quietly built up a lead in those marginals that would ensure that they would win a majority at the next election.
However, as far as I can see this has become irrelevant with the passage of events. 1 week of Labour conferences followed by 1 week of Tory conferences have given the public all the information they need to make an informed choice between the parties. In a full election campaign you can immediately see that Labour would crumble under pressure and their majority in the commons would be demolished. Since the last polls the situation has only got worse for Labour as they have shown just how unfit they are to govern under Gordon Brown. They are already finished, and they haven't yet had to deal with the wheels coming off the economy....
"Darling and Brown will still be rubbing their hands..."
That's right Guido. The IHT announcement from Brown's stuttering puppet turns out to be just more spin and lies. No surprise there then!
BTW The postmen are supposed to be back at work (I use that term loosely) today. Has anyone received any mail yet because there's none being delivered round this part of Gloucestershire so far as I can see.
The postal system in this country is falling apart yet all Brown does is try (unsuccessfully) to score cheap political points against the Tories.
The governance of this country has become a shambolic joke since Brown took over and we will soon begin to resemble some bankrupt third-world banana republic if things don't improve fast.
The devil will be in the detail.It is only a partial "cure".I wonder how the scheme will work for surviving spouses who remarry.
I apologise if this is a little rude or appears rascist - it is not intended to be. bUT Watching 'the clunking fist' sniggering to himself yesterday during his Darling's speech, was anyone else reminded of a phrase first seen in Viz Magazine's "Roger's Profanisaurus":
"GRINNING LIKE A WANKING JAP"?
Labour aren't going to hold on to Holborn and St Pancras when the electorate chooses to pass their council houses and flats (bought under Conservative right- to -buy) to their heirs, rather than hand their heirs a huge tax bill and nowhere to live in their own community where they grew up; (though unfortunately didn't go to secondary school as Labour have been denying 30,000 families a secondary school for more than 30 years).
Not only is the devil in the detail - as always - but single people don't count at all, it seems.
Married people and civil partnerships only - no one else.
Good job we can still vote though, isn't it.
almost in liquidation
Postmen
Yes, the idle buggers are out and about in Shropshire, though by the look of the bag they're clearing packages and parcels first.
"GRINNING LIKE A WANKING JAP"?
LOL. That describes the grotesque smirk on Brown's odious face beautifully.
I told you that cunt Brown was psychologically flawed didn't I.
Now do you believe me?
anon 11.13
Having returned for a few days to pick up £thousands in overtime the posties are back on strike again from next Monday.
What's the PM doing about it as more and more businesses get closer to going under?
Almost Bust, just wait till the dinosaurs running the public sector unions realize the magnitude of the coming squeeze on their "boys and girls" [puke]. Shades of 1978-9 & Sunny Jim, methinks.
"...rubbing THEIR hands..."
It's not the duplicity - it's never the duplicity - it's the incompetence that gets me every time.
Makes me nostalgic for dear old Ali C. As Fink pointed out in the Times today, "if my intelligence is to be insulted, at least it could be done well."
anon 11.04/11.20: He looked so excited I thought he was in the vinegar strokes...
At least with his hands down his pants he couldn't pick his nose...
Perhaps he gets a bogey on his fingers first. That should stop it slipping off, the little prick!
Can anybody explain the financial implications of the cut in the SERPS pension that was slipped stealthily into Chancellor Brown's financial statement yesterday?
Seems it was missed by most papers
To various:
there/their now fixed.
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