Well, that's two things that make me happy. 1. I have never purchased anything from Gail's bakery, and 2 I don't watch BBCQT anymore.

It's nowhere near good enough on Labour's big target, growth - and growth is essential to keep Farage out of No. 10.

SMEs know EU SM+CU is essential so they can export more and contribute to GDP growth yet Brexit is barely even mentioned.

Hopeless, just hopeless.

I don't get how this is supposed to work. Councils in London and SE will get a lot more council tax revenue but most councils elsewhere will get next to nothing.

Like Brighton & Hove will become under Devolution plans. Funny how a logical expansion west to incorporate Shoreham & Worthing was scrapped to incl Newhaven, a Special Economic Zone. Deregulation & exploitation? @uklabour.bsky.social

It's largely pathetic, lacking in true courage, ambition & intelligence.

See also. This price range in the South East seems to cover mainly large but dowdy properties bought to rent out and pleasant but hardly luxurious family homes. The people who own them aren't going to starve but it's hard not to feel that the real mansion owners just pay whatever tax they choose.

'Mansion Tax' Someone living in a £20m mansion pays......wait for it.....an extra 7.5k a year in tax. LOL

My heart is weeping for them.

The Telegraph scrambling to find someone who lives in a £20m house but who is somehow also broke

It's all so supine and pathologically risk averse. A government trying to survive day to day, too scared to take the kindness of big decisive action which would repair the country and win an election. An unbelievable wasted opportunity.

Downside: There is no plan and no courage. No attempt to sort the tax system. No strategy for the economy, like the one @johnspringford.bsky.social suggests here getting-out-of-the-hole.uk. Even good policies, like mansion tax, simply fiddle for pennies instead of properly reforming property tax.