Two obvious trends from Thursday's elections:
The Fascist Frog & ReformUK Ltd have gained most in areas where the Brexit vote was most evident;
The Green Party of England & Wales has done best where voters are younger.
(Given that the Brexit vote itself was quite strongly age-determined a decade ago, we might conclude that the GPEW is in a better demographic position than Reform?)
@ChrisMayLA6 I think the young will learn once they start to work, that reform is the better option.
The greens have destroyed a lot of jobs in sweden.
Well, Brexit (which is where Reform finds its origins) has destroyed a lot of jobs in the UK, especially for the young.... likely different countries, different conditions
@ChrisMayLA6 This is true, _but_, we must not forget that this is the combination of brexit and socialist market policies. So a socialist country does better in the EU where it can claim tax money from other countries to paper over holes in its own budget.
A socialist country outside the EU, has to live with the results of its bad policy.
I propose to you, that had the UK turned itself into a capitalist paradise, post-brexit, with massive tax cuts, implementing massive bank secrecy laws, to
@ChrisMayLA6 become an international tax haven, to implement freedom of surveillance, to become a data haven, legalizing gambling, prostitution, etc. I'm 100% convinced, that the UK would right now be booming.
Well, of course to an extent it is a tax haven (through its connections with UK territories that are), we do have legalised gambling, we have relatively low taxes & the capitalist desire for cheap labour has been fulfilled.... yes still the economy is in a pretty poor state
@ChrisMayLA6 Are you sure? Based on my own research, and you know I am an avid tax planner, the UK is pretty far from a tax haven.
Banking secrecy does not exist these days, and didn't you abolish the tax non-resident status or what ever it was called?
Doesn't income taxes hit, or go beyond 40%? And what about CIT? I pay either 7% or 17%, 7% is almost acceptable, 17%, is borderline criminal.
If gambling is legal, how come Malta and Cyprus attract so many gambling companies and not the UK?
@ChrisMayLA6 Well, maybe I have to have a closer look. Last time the UK did not seem that attractive compared with some of the low-tax EU countries and/or micronations.
But... if we broaden the scope to include the channel islands, and caribbean, then you do have a point! But I imagine that the benefits of those low tax areas, accrue in those very same areas, and do not spread to include the UK.
I'm not sure the normal residents of the Bahamas would agree....
@h4890
Err... the UK has a wide range of firms domiciled in the UK & providing gambling of all sorts - on income tax; yes there are some marginal rates that high but the overall tax take (excluding consumption taxes) is not the lowest but neither the highest among comparator countries.... you are gift that non-domiciled taxation was changed recently, but this is a relatively minor issue despite the hoo-ha in the financial press.