Single-handedly, Rachel Reeves is destroying the value of your home. The constant leaks that capital gains tax will be applied to any profit you make, and the suggestion that landlords will have to pay national insurance on rental income, have just about wrecked the market in what is most people’s most important investment.
I do hope you're pleased with yourself, Ms Reeves. The fact that you prize the demands of benefit claimants and illegal migrants above middle-class ambitions personally makes me sick.
We wouldn’t face these new tax demands coming from all angles were it not for the fact that Labour refuses to make cuts to any kind of welfare. You are much better off today claiming out-of-work benefits for sickness than doing a job on minimum pay.
How did we ever get into that position?
There are now 6.5million with their hands out rather than doing a day’s work. It’s no bloody wonder new taxes are required to fill the bucket. And with property being the major attraction, I have some bad news.
A mate of mine in the estate agency game has just told me that house prices in London and the South East are basically back at the 2018 level.
So, Starmer has only been in office for just over a year, and already he has driven prices down to the value of seven years ago.
Take Sir Terry Wogan’s grand house in Taplow, on the left bank of the Thames in Buckinghamshire.
It was 6,500 sq ft with a swimming pool, tennis court and five reception rooms. He and his wife raised their three children there.
Much-loved Sir Terry died in 2016, and he left the house to his wife. She died last year, and the family put the house on the market in November for a healthy £3.7million.
Are you sitting down? I've got a terrible tip-off about Rachel Reeves' property tax plan - Kelvin MacKenzieSince then, nobody has been to see the house. And Mark Wogan, 51, one of the children, has accused Reeves of killing market stone dead. He makes the good point that you would have thought somebody would come round just to see how Sir Terry lived.
As I understand it from experts, people must get used to the idea that house prices are what somebody will pay for it not what grand ideas you may have. The arrival of Labour has meant no homeowner is as wealthy as they thought they were.
Nobody is going to drop a tear for people who live in big houses, but in return, why should people who have made sacrifices to pay a mortgage believe they should be paying extra tax so that a SKID ( Skint Idle Dim Socialist) can live in warmth and comfort?
That’s not the way a Labour minister thinks. They are there for the benefit claimants and look upon you as a bank. In an interesting move, Rachel Reeves has drafted in Torsten Bell into her Budget team to dream up new ways of stealing money from you to give to the undeserving.
Mr Bell used to run the Resolution Foundation before becoming an MP and then Pensions Minister. He’s 42 years old, single and earning way north of £100,000 a year and therefore doesn’t face the many financial hurdles of family life.
But you can be sure he sees his job coming up with a load of pain for the likes of you and me. For instance, he wants to do away with the triple lock, which has given many old folk financial security when their ability to earn has disappeared.
It’s a dreadful thought that Labour have put together a team to dream up new ways to make you poorer.
Why not simply slash benefits? It would force people back to work and would also force those claiming mental health issues to put their problems aside and find a job that will pay their rent.
None of this is possible under Starmer. I’m afraid the next four years will drag, but the sunlit uplands do beckon.