u/prsh_al

What is the reform voter's view on this?

Wes Streeting is suggesting that this is one of the first policies he'll implement when he gets in charge. I totally understand the metaphor of the hard working doctor paying 40% tax to a landloard who pays a much lower tax on the rental income through dividend.

I'm an entrepreneur and have a venture backed biz that is doing well. I earn well but the main payout for me will be when I exit my company.

Let's say for instance I am fortunate to sell my stake for £20m. My choice is

1. Pay £10m to stay in the UK

2. Pay £100k and live in the Athens Riviera in Greece, or £300k in Milan, or any mainland European country with the same flat tax approach.

I'm aware it's the smallest violin ever, but I've created 300 or so jobs in the UK, but I am obviously going to do what's best for my personal situation and emigrate.

I don't see why any entrepreneur wouldn't do similar

Not sure if I'm alone in this camp but I would love to see a government actually try and gut the country of all the rules and regs that have allowed nimbyism to stop us building.

It's almost impossible to build any infrastructure in the UK, HS2 being the clearest point in contention. We can't seem to build homes at any reasonable pace, nuclear facilities, nothing.

China built the Beijing-Shanghai high speed railway for £20m per km. It's not half the price, it's not a quarter of the price, it is roughly ten times cheaper than HS2.

And if we cannot deliver capital projects, we cannot make the country more productive nor create conditions of employment.

If we are serious about being a real country, shouldn't we be giving executive planning powers to the government and taking them away from local authorities? If the government wants to build HS2, all planning should just be approved.

If the government wants to build 1,000 affordable housing units in a plot of land, then it can just go ahead.

Sure there are some negative externaliities but given how unproductive we are as a country, the pros seem to massively outweight the cons.

Coming here to get a better understanding of how Green voters tie together Mothin and his views on the LGBT+ community

I checked on the Greens website and he hasn't signed any of the pledges related to LGBT and when asked about it he said something like "there are two Mothin Ali's".

He talks about respecting people of all creeds and how that is separate from his faith based beliefs (sorry if paraphrased wrongly)

Reading between the lines he clearly holds the faith based beliefs which have a pretty awful view of LGBT+ but maybe I'm wrong.

I voted for reform in the last general election (prev Cons) and planto do so again, but this vote green get illegals concept has really annoyed me.

I live in London and my borough might be green. That's annoying enough as I'm now worried that my council tax will go up to fund stupid policies but now apparently I am being targetted by reform for living in London?

Apart from the fact that the whole idea of sticking detention centres in the most expensive areas of London won't ever fly, it just makes Reform look unserious and quite petty.

"If you don't vote for us, we'll punish you."

They are right that England isn't doing as well as it used to and some foundational aspects of our government need to change (make it pay to work for god's sake), but this kind of thinking just makes me wonder if they could actually follow through on their agenda.

Am I the only one?