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Who’s still wasting there money on UKIP, they aren’t even called that any more are they!

Forgot to cancel their direct debit

I think it mean anyone on the rich list spend money on the parties in the past and present, rather than what they spend in 2022?

Meet the man who has eaten a Big Mac a day for 50 years
https://archive.ph/BQmpj

Here's a bonus link so you can appreciate his haircuts https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/web-stories/meet-the-man-who-has-eaten-a-big-mac-a-day-for-50-years/slideshow/91702595.cms

One of the recent doomsday podcasts talks about Russian funding of any disruptive party that weakens European powers - SNP, Catalonian indy movement, etc. I wonder what the break down of what comes from where is.

Remind me where Aaron Banks' wife is from again?

Yeah that was my thought.

I can well imagine 90% is from him*.

No comment on where it was before his bank account.

So pleased scomo is gone is 'straya. Hopefully 'Albo' will actually do something in stopping the fossil fuel industry. I won't be holding my breath though.

Oooh. I didn't know there were allegations that she's a Russian spy tho.

Loadsamoney multiple homeowners moan about having to pay tax:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-61525903

Good.

That look like a good solution, encourages holiday let to ensure tourism.

I don’t mind second home, I do mind when it fuck the locals in being able to actually live and work in their communities

https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/media-centre/political-party-donations-and-loans-published-q4-2021

Now...how accurate that is, is another question.

We know from the ukip donations "woopsies" that it may not be.

Also not sure if wallpaper donations for 10 Downing Street are in there ;)

Good.

Surely if it's a viable business they can absorb the tax, and hotels probably already pay a premium in council tax etc.

Looking at his hair, you have to assume that all of the burgers have some how fucked with his mind.

Quite an old news, check Supersized Me.

Also he does quite a lots of walking which is probably more than what of Americans do*.

*anecdote.

Has anyone told Yoko he's still alive?

Really? They used to burn them down in the 80's.

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There were post box fire bombs in the Chester Estate Agents at the time.

What goes around comes around.

It was a joke at the time. 'Come home to a real fire, buy a cottage in Wales'.

It won't work.
The out is simple- 'let' to friends and family for essentially nothing in 'low' season, remain as business, pay same level as tax as before.
Just political hot air with no substance.

And that's just a basic out, the tax accountants will find other ways around it. Because that is their job.

the tax accountants will find other ways around it. Because that is their job.

easy, just levy a 10,000% tax on tax accountant services then

Great idea, if it can be made to work.

I was reading about Abersoch, where we used to go on holidays as a kid (nb we were camping - never had a second home), and they've closed their primary school because local familiea can't afford to live there, and people with family in the area going back generations are living in caravans because the houses are all snapped up for holiday homes.

Short of banning second home ownership, which would obviously be the best solution, this is at least an attempted step in the right direction.

We could also solve the tourism need by having the State build specifically designated holiday homes and mandate that people can only stay in them.

It's honestly a conundrum. If at any point I can afford to, then I'll probably buy a second home. And I dare say a lot here would see it the same.

It'll never be "banned" - it's too much of an economic stimulus.

No chance. Zero desire for an extra roof, boiler etc to worry about. On holiday I'd rather go to lots of places where someone else has the hassles of property ownership.