Labour: changes proposed regarding taxes could not only make life difficult, but virtually impossible

Taxes on property are legalised theft. The only fair taxes are taxes on real income. Under the publicised intention of a fairer system, taxes proposed by Labour are no different from expropiation implemented by the Soviet Communist Party when they took over power. People lost their homes and their land and they were no longer financially independent.

I have long criticized Business Rates, because they are not based on income. They are based on the space occupied by a business measured in square feet. So making money or not making money the said tax is a burden on businesses that prevents many from setting up companies. But the new tax based on the value of a property will ruin families and deprive them of the homes they work so hard to acquire.

If you say that you are going to charge as tax 1 per cent of the value of a property, if a house is worth 800,000 Pound then what you are actually saying is that families than own their houses will have to pay 8,000 as tax every year. Today, Council Tax is about 2500 Pound. So the new tax will be three times higher.

If you are a pensioner receiving about 12,000 Pound a year then you are going to be left with 12,000 minues 8,000 = 4,000 to pay for living expenses for an entire year. In other words, you are not going to have enough to survive.

Brexit: To be or not to be

Brexit: To be or not to be

The crisis that arose out of an impossibility is reaching a new climax. You cannot be and not be at the same time. You cannot be out of the EU and in the EU at the same time.

Brexiteers want an all out which is the real OUT and not the fake OUT proposed by Remainers that want to stay in by pretending that being out can be also mean to be in.

If you stay in the Common Market, if you stay in the Customs Union, you cannot possibly be out. If the price to stay in the Common Market and in the Customs Union is to continue following EU Rules, you cannot possibly be out. Out must mean out. Out means total freedom. Partial out means becoming a colony of the EU. 

What will happen to Prime Minister Theresa May? Well, there are several possible outcomes. She can manipulate the Conservative Party but has to also be able to persuade the Opposition for a deal with EU to be approved by the House of Commons. She could face a leadership challenge and fail to get enough support or she could face a leadership challenge and be removed from office. She could face a vote of No Confidence in the House of Commons and this would mean that the Conservative will have to choose a successor. Some mention the possibility of an advanced General Election but we must remember that the Conservative/Liberal Democrat Coalition that took office in 2010 change the way General Elections are called and created the concept of Fixed Term Parliament. Legislation would have to be approved in the House of Commons to be able to call an advanced General Election. Are there enough votes in the House of Commons to call an advanced General Election?

Angela Merkel stated this evening that there won't be any other deal, thus closing the door to any negotiation. Therefore, for the British Parliament, this is case of 'take it or leave it'. If the House of Commons rejects the deal presented by Theresa May and supported by EU, there is not going to be any deal. Remainers keep fantasising about a new deal that is not actually on the cards because EU has already rejected the possibility of any other deal.

EU is profoundly anti-democratic. EU is run by what we could call Democratic Centralism - the way the Communist Party operated in the Soviet Union = Decisions taken inside a cabinet in total secrecy without any Parliamentary scrutiny. Britain is a Parliamentary Democracy and Brexit means being a Parliamentary Democracy. Having Brexit means maintaining the democratic way of life. If you are given the choice between being in a Parliamentary Democracy or in a Soviet Democratic Centralism, what would you choose?