CAN REFORM UK CUT THE MUSTARD?

 

Richard Tice of Reform UK boasts that different pollsters show  growth in voter perception and support

The Dame wants to know what her readers think of its claim to be able to change the political landscape.

Only intelligent and perceptive comments please. 

Rough and rude comments are boring

PLEASE READ THE MISARA AUTUMN NEWSLETTER

One of the most active of resident associations is the Milner Street Area Residents Association.

On Tuesday 28th November at 7.00 pm it will hold its AGM at St Simon Zelotes Church.

One of the guest speakers will be Cllr Elizabeth Campbell. 

She will no doubt answer an array of questions, especially on planning matters.  

The Report is really exhaustive and well put together and well worth reading. 

Please email the Dame for your copy: damesathome@gmail.com 

A LABOUR SUPPORTER; EDMUND BURKE AND IHT

One of the Dame's erudite readers who also happens to be a Labour Party supporter quoted the great Edmund Burke on the matter of jealousy and strangulation of wealth producers. 

Burke was right in those days as his thinking is today. 

Burke said, "Cutting the throats of the rich does not provide one bit of bread and cheese for the poor." 

He was right of course.  We no longer cut the throats of the rich but we tax their estates to the hilt when they die, claiming the authority for doing so is rooted in redistribution of wealth principles. Inheritance Tax does not bestow optimal social security benefit entitlements on the needy, (if it did I would not object) but the reality is the poor strive on meagre benefits with workhouse diets with IHT being charged on estates.  

So the redistributive aspect of IHT achieves little in practical terms. 

Marxists love theoretical policies like soak the rich but analysis of practical outcomes is not their strong point.  

A SMALL CUT WON'T CUT IT, FELICITY

give us yer home

Inheritance Tax is a hated tax. 

If you are prudent and choose to invest taxed income into property or some other asset you get hit twice: it's a tax on wealth created in most cases by hard work. It hits the 'little people' not the really rich.

The Dame and others have been strident telling Felicity Buchan it should be abolished or, de minimus, the threshold raised or the 40% rate dramatically cut.

The government's hapless PR people are now softening the market by inferring that 40% will be reduced to 30% so when it goes to 25% everyone will cheer.

If Felicity thinks this will be something to crow about she will be very much mistaken. 

A small cut won't cut it.

GIVE THE MILLIONS BACK, CAMERON

a couple of wise guys with desert friends

According to The Dame's friend, James Hurley on the Times, Cameron received $10 million for 2 years of work at Greensill Capital. What sort of work is worth $5m a year?

Cameron also gave Lex Greensill, his boss, a Downing Street office.

Greensill is now being investigated by the Insolvency Service.....rather late in the day. Typical useless Insolvency Service.

If Lord Cameron had a sense of honour he would give the money back to help those defrauded by his friend.

FELICITY HARKENS TO THE DAME

 

Last week the Dame ticked off Felicity for for over-focusing on environmental and interfaith matters when constituents are more exercised over Inheritance Tax, Stamp Duty and Business Rates.

It worked: here is Felicity at the head of the table giving Mr Hunt such an earful that he looks quite stunned.

Felicity...did you not bring up that business killer, Anti Business Rates?

"It was good to join several London Conservative MPs at a meeting with the Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt MP, ahead of this year's Autumn Statement.

Some of the issues discussed included Inheritance Tax and Stamp Duty, as well as tax-free shopping and regenerating St Mary's Hospital.

I will be monitoring these issues closely, as well as the Statement itself, and will update residents in due course."

SUNK SUNAK APPOINTS FRIEND OF CONMAN

Lord 'Dodgy' Dave arrives

'Dodgy', Tory prime minister from 2010-16, was recently at the centre of the biggest lobbying scandal in Britain for decades when the Financial Times revealed he had secretly lobbied former colleagues in government on behalf of his employer Greensill Capital.  

DENT COAD RETWEETS A LIE ON A PAR WITH HOLOCAUST DENIAL

 

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Middle East Monitor reports that an IDF Apache gunship opened fire on Festival goers....a lie of such magnitude that it is on a par with holocaust denial. 

Despite this, an ex-MP thought fit to re-tweet it without doing a modicum of research

Middle East Monitor is recognised internationally as an apologist for Hamas. 

It supports Islamist positions within Palestinian politics and shares platforms with the Muslim Brotherhood.

In Israel Middle East Monitor is listed as a terror-supporting group.

It is also on the United States Treasury's list of specially-designated terrorist organisations. 

Middle East Monitor is sympathetic to Hamas, and the Hamas website and social media accounts post and share material from the Middle East Monitor.

In 2011 John Ware of BBC News described MEMO as a pro-Hamas publication.

LET'S NOT BE NASTY TO HAMAS

In all of these demonstrations, no banners are ever seen condemning Hamas for the murder, wounding, and hostage-taking of innocent unarmed civilians.

Hamas and its anti-democratic funders...Qatar and Iran have scored a massive PR coup.

To use Armistice Day to hold the next demo was smarter still. 

What useful idiots these demonstrators are to brutal regimes.

Still, one assumes carrying a banner condemning Hamas yet supporting Palestinians would be an invitation to a beating up or worse.....

A DAME; A QUEEN & AN MP

PJ haberdashery

The Dame once had a luncheon with the Queen of Denmark at her home in SW France. (forgive the old thing: she is an inveterate namedropper)

HM, a very erudite lady, mentioned she always tried to visit Peter Jones's haberdashery department when in town.

The Dame recited what John Betjeman had said: "When the end of the world comes I want to be in the haberdashery department at Peter Jones as nothing unpleasant could ever happen there"

The Dame gets the same feeling when reading Felicity's Updates.

The UK may be going to hell in a handcart but nothing nasty ever intrudes into the Updates! 

LET'S TALK ABOUT TAXATION TOO

Kensington 'forums' to discuss the environment are pointless. 

Felicity Buchan needs to launch a meeting to get constituents' views on the three taxes that really hit them hard in the solar plexus.

The chief executive of Frasers Group described Business Rates as a disaster.

Michael Murray said rent bills were now equal to the rates the group pays for the buildings, adding: “It makes it almost unviable. You’re almost paying rent twice.”

Another tax you pay twice is Inheritance Tax: few other constituencies are so hard hit by this tax as Kensington.

Finally, Stamp Duty...at historically high levels it is a tax that freezes the property market blocking people's opportunities to move up or down.

In positioning these meetings as feedback opportunities Felicity won't breach the ministerial code but she can show constituents she cares about the pain these taxes cause constituents.

Labour has already said it will deal with the burden of business rates. We now need a similar commitment on all three taxes.

A BALLY CHEEK FROM BALLYMORE

THINK has hit out at Ballymore for one of the greediest development schemes to be recently announced.

GREED

Ballymore is hoping that they can persuade Cllr Husband and the planning officers to approve a 2,500-unit scheme at Kensal Canalside without any proper infrastructural support.

It is time that Husband be removed from chairmanship of planning: he is unfit for purpose and a puppet in the hands of the planning department.

This is an extract from the THINK blog

"It is seriously impossible to see how 2,400 homes (for that is what Ballymore plans to build) can work there when there is no station close by and there is only one road in and one road out. We also are not terribly impressed with the designs and layout; we are far from convinced that even 20% of the homes will genuinely be “affordable ” (not forgetting that taller buildings have rather expensive maintenance upkeep) and we remain completely unconvinced that Ballymore is a socially responsible developer."

GERRY ADAMS SUPPORTS HAMAS...NO SURPRISE THERE

 

a couple wearing paragliding images as used by Hamas to sail in and murder innocents

Looking at the Hamas-supporting hordes clogging the streets of London it is easy to get the idea that they don't actually have 'proper jobs'....you know the sort of job that gives you a taxable income in order to do your little bit for the country...like paying for education, healthcare et al. And what normal company would give time off in support to Hamas?

To put it crudely, they look like like a mass drag on the country.

Their main occupation seems to be Jew-baiting. 

Without being discriminatory they don't look the sort you would give a job to.

How different from the Anglo-Jewish community who have made such a massive contribution to the British Isles in every field of endeavor...medicine, the law, business....the list is endless.

One cannot help but feel this hatred of Jewish people is in the greater part down to envy at their intellectual prowess and energy.

The Hamas supporters seem like a sad bunch of losers with nothing to do all day because they are unemployable. 

They don't look too well washed either....

Some things never change. When the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem met Hitler in 1941 they both agreed the Jewish race should be obliterated 'from the river to the sea'