All employees choosing to work after the age of 66 will also be paying increased NI.
Government's having been struggling with this issue for well over twenty years and have all spectacularly failed to agree on the way forward.
At least a plan has been formulated,like it or not,and clearly,there are winners and losers.
Dividends now to be included,but not,for the time being,landlord rental income.Why ??

I tend to take a kind of relaxed view of this sort of thing - not because I don't care but because there is naff all I can do about it -

Tory breaks Manifesto promises - Nothing really new there & given that we went into Brexit without really knowing what it would actually mean / cost (it was a kind of suck it & see situation) & then Covid came along with all that it brought with it, something no one has known in living memory so all told I am not surprised that manifesto promises made in 2019 were broken.

Overall - the cost has to be carried somewhere, there will inevitably be winners & losers in this - all I ask is that we as a country come up with the fairest way possible to get maximum benefit for what we are trying to achieve, that we stop wasting money on ridiculous projects that non one wants / needs & when we send money overseas we carry out realistic sufficient due diligence to see that the overseas donations really do get utilised where they are needed

The pledge that people in care won’t spend any more than £86,000 on their care starting from October 2023 is just the care part of the costs. It doesn’t include the accommodation and food etc. As nursing home care is £1,350 per week minus maybe £150-£180 government subsidies, just how much of the rest is kept score until it reaches the £86,000? As homes that aren’t nursing homes are around £1,000, I doubt it’s very much at all. I expect many will die before they reach the £86,000 or have blown all their house sale money on nearly £1,000 per week.

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Tax the rich, tax the rich. Came the plaintiff cry for the benefit scroungers, left wing luvvies and all sorts of talking heads on the news last night.

I am not rich, I am not poor. I have worked all my life and now run my own business and employ a couple of people.

I have a nice house, three kids settled and in their own properties because I worked hard to be able to fund them.

I pay my taxes and then some and I will happily bear the revised taxes that are due to hit.

And yet the feckless want me to throw even more money in the pot so they don't have to work, so we can give houses et al to the current flood of migrants and pour money to to oversea aid to feed the fat cats in those countries.

And where is the so call Opposition in all of this. No ideas, no alternatives just a bunch of hindsight time wasters whinging away.

Right, enough said time to work on my business, revise my investments to make more money and fund the things I care about... My Family

I am enjoying being back at Selhurst and having a beer with my mates just like we have done for the past 40 years. Through Thick and thin we stick with our club. Not chairman, players or managers, OUR CLUB!

There are about 25m homes in the UK and during those 50 years the UK population has increased by 13m. Regardless of the reasons for that increase there aren’t enough dwellings available and selling off council properties and the attraction of buy to let haven’t helped.

Yes, these are part of the reasons why home ownership is beyond reach of more than ever before, and it’s getting worse. And these reasons aren’t their fault, so just saying ‘’we had it hard too’’ when it’s much harder now, addresses nothing. In the ‘60s a couple in their 20’s could get on the property ladder, even if it was in need of repair. Absolutely no chance of that now until a decade later or more, sometimes never.

Edited by Rudi Hedman (08 Sep 2021 10.15am)

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