Oh yes, I'm fed up all right, and I've been fed up for the past 5 years.
What absolutely galls me is that the government takes us for complete mugs, thinking that we believe every lie and evil nonsense that comes out of its mouth, and I am sick to death of being told that we must be "kind" to each other, when these politicians treat us like absolute dirt!
I repeat to people ad nauseam that we must stand up en masse to this pernicious insidious take over of the country, its' native people, our lives, our thoughts, and our very essence, but it is so very hard to motivate so many.
Since when has the contract between governments and those who vote for them shifted so drastically that it is no longer politicians working for those who elected them, but the electorate now working for, and being expected, to bow down to governments?
I have just had this conversation with someone at the gym. We were especially talking about driving & local road restrictions.
In my borough, they have definitely launched a campaign against motorists. Not the non licensed, non insured drivers of course, but all law abiding drivers. It started with the bus lanes that eliminated the handy short stay parking for when you needed to pop into a local small business. I have seen many small businesses close due to lost passing trade. This continued (under the cover of lockdowns) with the LTNs (low traffic neighbourhoods).
I’m sure the fact that many local councillors live in these places is just coincidental. What this means is that we are paying for their private roads. We are prohibited from driving down their roads but they are free to drive on ours.
The council are very happy to authorise the planning for a huge estate on every spare piece of land, however, they are surprised when there are more car owners on the borough. “We must reduce traffic” they bleat and ensure it is increasingly difficult and expensive to drive our cars.
Yes, us ever fleeced and law abiding citizens have our lives made increasingly difficult although the criminals are given an easy ride.
There are OAPs like me who’ve been arrested on peaceful protests. We’re up for it again. I’m just waiting for someone with a profile to get it started. I remember watching a documentary called Taking Liberties about Blair government. It’s just got worse. I’m up for protest. I’ve had enough of no response to multiple emails to my Labour elected July 2024 MP. More action needed.
I was a landlord. Gosh, that sounds fancy. I owned a three bed semi in Lincolnshire that I rented to a family. I kept the rent low and did without an agent - my experience with them was horrific.
I was, needless to say, taxed on the modest rental income. At least, what was left after paying for gas and electric safety certificates, boiler services, replacement radiators, replacement electric showers etc etc.
When I came to sell (I'd had enough of having next to zero net return and promises of even more regulations from Labour), I was clobbered with capital gains tax. Had I not kept the property for 16 years the capital "gain" (barely inflation) would have been less. A lot less. As it was, providing a decent, stable home for a young family was penalised.
When I took back possession, I had to replace two internal doors, the kitchen, the bathroom, the windows and front door. Oh, and the guttering, fascias and soffits. Total cost around £20k.
I sold the house for £193,000 (as I said, Lincolnshire). My CGT tax bill was around £14,000.
Small landlords are Public Enemy Number 1 to the neoliberal system. As a small landlord you’ve put your savings into an asset that makes you independent of both the state (you intend not to claim benefits) and the globalist financial system (since your cash ends up in bricks and mortar rather than a bank). Lots of self employed tradesmen and artisans have invested into becoming small landlords as a form of guaranteeing themselves some sort of old age pension. At least, that was the idea. But governments don’t like independent people. All the new rules and regulations coming in, like landlord registers, courses that you have to take for obtaining accreditation like you need in Wales already, are not to make the housing stock better for renters, but to result in exactly what you have been forced to to: give up on your secure investment because being a small time landlord is made too onerous, and slip back into dependent servitude.
More than anyone, we have the fake opposition useless Tories for allowing this to happen. We know Labour are evil, they make no secret of it, it's the Tories who were supposed to be the dam holding back the idiot Left who have failed us.
I’ve been PAYE all my life so they’ve had me before I got mine… as for savings, no point at all plus you can’t take it with you so the matteres is safer I guess.
Starmer and Reeves are gutting the country but still can’t make their sums add up… I’m sure there are several billion a year being wasted on those that have found the golden goose here but haven’t even added to the foie gras farce!
Once a country gets to the point at which half the population is a net beneficiary of government funds (they work for the gov't and/or receive more in benefits than they pay in taxes) democracy no longer works. Who's going to vote for smaller government when they personally benefit from a big bloated one? It will keep going until enough productive people leave (or give up) and the whole shit show comes tumbling down. Sadly, though, I think we have further to slide before we hit rock bottom. It's going to be ugly.
I think the stats are actually 53% public sector to 47% private sector.
The whole show will come tumbling down sooner rather than later, but people walk around as if they are in a bloody daze, with no idea of what is going to happen to this country.
That’s the nub of the problem we have in Australia. Neither major party will cut back spending because over half the country are on the state teat in one form or other.
I agree 100%. Not only in the UK, but most Western countries are the same. Why is it that when I worked in the middle east for 8 years, at at least double the salary in my home country, paying no tax? Zero! The last few years they are changing this 'gap' too....
On a slightly different note I went to Tate Britain today to see an exhibition of Britain’s 80’s photography. I have never seen such a divisive, woke and left leaning propaganda exhibition in my life.
Suffice to say that the majority was underrepresented in this exhibition and nuance and balance were not words I would use.
All exhibitions are like that. They can't resist slanting anything and everything to support a victim-oppressor narrative that bears no resemblance to reality.
"laughing all the way to the literal mattress", hahahaa, funny lady Laura made me smile. I wish I had a magic flying mattress, I'd be off in an instant. France perhaps, then I could set about rowing back to Blighty and get treated special, as all ethnic minorities ought to be but of course I keep overlooking I already am one, a W.A.S.P., so why am I slowly dying on the street?, ah well, at least there's no wretched tax return forms to fill in on Skid Row. Keep it coming lady as I like to feel I have some kind of connection with real humankind.
If you really want to punish yourself, stop thinking of tax in a monetary sense and think of it as time - most people earn a living by selling their time.
We are being forced to hand over more and more of our most precious resource. Work harder, pay more tax, live less. 🤬
I’m almost beyond anger now and increasingly feel sorrowful. This government feels like a dictatorship and I fear for the further damage they’re going to inflict if they remain in power for another 4 years.
Oh yes, I'm fed up all right, and I've been fed up for the past 5 years.
What absolutely galls me is that the government takes us for complete mugs, thinking that we believe every lie and evil nonsense that comes out of its mouth, and I am sick to death of being told that we must be "kind" to each other, when these politicians treat us like absolute dirt!
I repeat to people ad nauseam that we must stand up en masse to this pernicious insidious take over of the country, its' native people, our lives, our thoughts, and our very essence, but it is so very hard to motivate so many.
Since when has the contract between governments and those who vote for them shifted so drastically that it is no longer politicians working for those who elected them, but the electorate now working for, and being expected, to bow down to governments?
Vox populi anyone??
Communism by stealth…….
…….you will give us all of your money, and we will decide how much to give you back - and what you can spend it on.
exactly right
I have just had this conversation with someone at the gym. We were especially talking about driving & local road restrictions.
In my borough, they have definitely launched a campaign against motorists. Not the non licensed, non insured drivers of course, but all law abiding drivers. It started with the bus lanes that eliminated the handy short stay parking for when you needed to pop into a local small business. I have seen many small businesses close due to lost passing trade. This continued (under the cover of lockdowns) with the LTNs (low traffic neighbourhoods).
I’m sure the fact that many local councillors live in these places is just coincidental. What this means is that we are paying for their private roads. We are prohibited from driving down their roads but they are free to drive on ours.
The council are very happy to authorise the planning for a huge estate on every spare piece of land, however, they are surprised when there are more car owners on the borough. “We must reduce traffic” they bleat and ensure it is increasingly difficult and expensive to drive our cars.
Yes, us ever fleeced and law abiding citizens have our lives made increasingly difficult although the criminals are given an easy ride.
There are OAPs like me who’ve been arrested on peaceful protests. We’re up for it again. I’m just waiting for someone with a profile to get it started. I remember watching a documentary called Taking Liberties about Blair government. It’s just got worse. I’m up for protest. I’ve had enough of no response to multiple emails to my Labour elected July 2024 MP. More action needed.
I think there’s a lot of people waiting for the protests on mass to start
Who do you think the notable people who could galvanise this is?
That's exactly the issue. Who's going to lead us?
I’ll be there in the front line when that starts.
Brought to you by the Tory party and taken to breaking point by Labour. They all hate us.
I was a landlord. Gosh, that sounds fancy. I owned a three bed semi in Lincolnshire that I rented to a family. I kept the rent low and did without an agent - my experience with them was horrific.
I was, needless to say, taxed on the modest rental income. At least, what was left after paying for gas and electric safety certificates, boiler services, replacement radiators, replacement electric showers etc etc.
When I came to sell (I'd had enough of having next to zero net return and promises of even more regulations from Labour), I was clobbered with capital gains tax. Had I not kept the property for 16 years the capital "gain" (barely inflation) would have been less. A lot less. As it was, providing a decent, stable home for a young family was penalised.
When I took back possession, I had to replace two internal doors, the kitchen, the bathroom, the windows and front door. Oh, and the guttering, fascias and soffits. Total cost around £20k.
I sold the house for £193,000 (as I said, Lincolnshire). My CGT tax bill was around £14,000.
No wonder landlords are getting out ASAP.
Mindblowing!
Small landlords are Public Enemy Number 1 to the neoliberal system. As a small landlord you’ve put your savings into an asset that makes you independent of both the state (you intend not to claim benefits) and the globalist financial system (since your cash ends up in bricks and mortar rather than a bank). Lots of self employed tradesmen and artisans have invested into becoming small landlords as a form of guaranteeing themselves some sort of old age pension. At least, that was the idea. But governments don’t like independent people. All the new rules and regulations coming in, like landlord registers, courses that you have to take for obtaining accreditation like you need in Wales already, are not to make the housing stock better for renters, but to result in exactly what you have been forced to to: give up on your secure investment because being a small time landlord is made too onerous, and slip back into dependent servitude.
More than anyone, we have the fake opposition useless Tories for allowing this to happen. We know Labour are evil, they make no secret of it, it's the Tories who were supposed to be the dam holding back the idiot Left who have failed us.
There's one word to describe all you've outlined and more given those in power and their politics... Abuse! There's only one way to treat Abusers...
I’ve been PAYE all my life so they’ve had me before I got mine… as for savings, no point at all plus you can’t take it with you so the matteres is safer I guess.
Starmer and Reeves are gutting the country but still can’t make their sums add up… I’m sure there are several billion a year being wasted on those that have found the golden goose here but haven’t even added to the foie gras farce!
Once a country gets to the point at which half the population is a net beneficiary of government funds (they work for the gov't and/or receive more in benefits than they pay in taxes) democracy no longer works. Who's going to vote for smaller government when they personally benefit from a big bloated one? It will keep going until enough productive people leave (or give up) and the whole shit show comes tumbling down. Sadly, though, I think we have further to slide before we hit rock bottom. It's going to be ugly.
I think the stats are actually 53% public sector to 47% private sector.
The whole show will come tumbling down sooner rather than later, but people walk around as if they are in a bloody daze, with no idea of what is going to happen to this country.
Frankly, it's scary!
That’s the nub of the problem we have in Australia. Neither major party will cut back spending because over half the country are on the state teat in one form or other.
I hear you loud and clear all the way in Australia because its the story here
Absolutely. Inane and stupid laws with vacuous politicians that think that we are stupid.
I agree 100%. Not only in the UK, but most Western countries are the same. Why is it that when I worked in the middle east for 8 years, at at least double the salary in my home country, paying no tax? Zero! The last few years they are changing this 'gap' too....
I fully agree with the sentiment of this article.
On a slightly different note I went to Tate Britain today to see an exhibition of Britain’s 80’s photography. I have never seen such a divisive, woke and left leaning propaganda exhibition in my life.
Suffice to say that the majority was underrepresented in this exhibition and nuance and balance were not words I would use.
All exhibitions are like that. They can't resist slanting anything and everything to support a victim-oppressor narrative that bears no resemblance to reality.
I avoid art galleries and the theatre these days.
"laughing all the way to the literal mattress", hahahaa, funny lady Laura made me smile. I wish I had a magic flying mattress, I'd be off in an instant. France perhaps, then I could set about rowing back to Blighty and get treated special, as all ethnic minorities ought to be but of course I keep overlooking I already am one, a W.A.S.P., so why am I slowly dying on the street?, ah well, at least there's no wretched tax return forms to fill in on Skid Row. Keep it coming lady as I like to feel I have some kind of connection with real humankind.
If you really want to punish yourself, stop thinking of tax in a monetary sense and think of it as time - most people earn a living by selling their time.
We are being forced to hand over more and more of our most precious resource. Work harder, pay more tax, live less. 🤬
I’m almost beyond anger now and increasingly feel sorrowful. This government feels like a dictatorship and I fear for the further damage they’re going to inflict if they remain in power for another 4 years.