I've been pushing back a little in the local Facebook groups & it is remarkable how much Reformists are on a hair trigger. Being political about the flags or asylum seeker accommodation or how rubbish the council is? A-OK. Criticise reform & all hell breaks loose. What about XYZ conspiracy peados?!

"Nige? He's just yer average solid, salt of the earth career politician and leader of a policial party. Not like SATAAAAAAAAAAAARMAAAAAAH, the scumbag."

To illustrate how disingenuous this campaign is

“85% have made payments to get better cars” does *not* mean “85% have bought Beamers”. Most people don’t lease Beamers with the scheme. The extra payments are adaptations to allow disabled people to use the cars, wheelchair hoists for eg

"Oh you mean we should reform it in some way?!"

Absolute wasted chance to bang on about how they're reforming this, reforming that reforming the other.

Now Reeves has had not one, but two bad budgets & she'll promise to leave everything alone so if they *do* do anything they get shouted at again.

I mean, yes - you're point is solid. But also there are also examples of magical thinking therein:

Most things are an enforcement issue as it turns out!

The only thing they've achieved is to make me jealous of your hair.

Indeed. Yeah, maybe your parents really are toxic and you should cut them out of your life. But everyone hates their parents at some point, how confident are we in the ability of that Reddit thread to give you good advice on this exactly

Maybe he could hypnotise the bond market into shrinking its yields?

Well one of the options for wealth taxes used in other places is that you can defer them until death. A lot of wealth (e.g property) isn't liquid after all. You could tweak it so it would end up being roughly the same for the median estate - but get more liquidity from others who had it lying about

Although it all seems quite easily get-roundable as per the bottom of the article which has handy hints so the Orwellian nightmare of only inheriting £1m instead of £1.2m doesn't happen to you!

Agree. I guess it stops them from just sitting on it. AIUI, It's to try & lower the number of aristocratic families just insulating their wealth from society. I don't have any sympathy for this woman but I can see why it's outdated. Chaminda's right this attitude needs to be faced down tho.

That's pretty good I recon!

Putting aside the morality, messaging general awfulness etc. When compared to the median / average worker they may as well be saying 'you need to earn a million bajillion pounds to have a hope!'

This.

It's been amazing to see him circle the drain of right wing wingnuttery so fast.

It was more a comment about flexibility rather than WFH itself. Some roles you can't at all obviously. But in general, hybrid working is a thing that can balance mentorship, with performing the work, with accommodation for needs like health issues. But that is very management dependent.

Indeed. I worry about the conveyor belt we have from uni (plentiful mental health support, accomodation for needs re: work) to afterwards ("Good luck out there! What do you mean you want to work from home!?").