And of course the Govt. should leave X - probably to come here. As @samfr.bsky.social noted, it's probably the only thing that breaks the inertia

I am shocked

Putting everything else aside... why would we, or Ukraine, do this?

Potentially - those were the treasury predictions

We rightly criticise a wealth tax for not being effective - this is the same. And a wealth tax has far more political utility!

At least with Employer NiC's it raised £25bn odd

Also... this just doesnt raise much money!

Famously un alpha the 1940s

Has he actually veen to Soho in, say, mt adult lifetime?

Yeah, here is fsr better... but also suspect its why it struggles to grip some twitter pilled people

'You're overegging it a bit here Charlie'

10 years pass

'Oh, actually you underdid it'

Yes, I think it's so driven or radicalised it will just transfer to the enxt person.

I don't think its coincidental that the time for PM's to reach this stage seems to be shortening with every PM that goes by. I'm not sure anyone can survive it.

Even Remembrance Day posts are full of it

(side point is that often people come up with these ideas independently, which is why they keep re-emerging, from ideological preferance rather than factionalism. And don't do the policy work or thinking around them. Rent controls are a classic of this genre - and thats largely unrelated)

Unfortuantely the latter tends to get further than the former...

So I think there are different types of student politician. Some genuinely are there for policy and fun - and they tend to end up okay.

Others are there for Politics and become factional/tribal. That partly leads to the stuff you're mentioning because working policy isn't the interest