To Hard core Labour/Tory voters....

[R1Geezer]

Is there anything that your opposing party could promise(assuming they keep it) that would make you change your vote to them?

[joggerjayne]

Abolish Inheritance Tax

[jake-the-peg]

That'll save the country won't it Jayne

[Sandy-Wroe]

Didn't someone once say that Inheritance Tax was only paid by people who like their families less than the Revenue?
Nothing the Conservatives could say would make me change my vote.

[joggerjayne]

That wasn't the question !

[milliezoe]

After years of tory voting I now intend to campaign for UKIP and teach that shower down there a lesson they are nothing more than thieves and do not care about the electorate and just milk the system for all its worth IE my bloody taxes !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[joggerjayne]

In any case ...

Do we really vote on the basis of what we think will "save the country" ?

[rov1200]

Amalgamate with UKIP and adopt their policy of non immigration for 5 years. As UKIP are really an offshoot of the Tory party this would ensure Cameron would get voted in without a hung majority.

[jake-the-peg]

I'd vote LibDem strategically and I'll even be voting Tory this time because there isn't a Libdem or Labour candidate standing.

But I can't imagine voting Tory given a chance because I don't like their core values and I don't trust them.

They are about conserving wealth power and priviledge in the hands of those who already have them.

See the above comment about inheritance tax - the country needs money because the wealthy powerful banking industry screwed everyone over - what's the best thing to do - abolish tax on those who are about to inherit hundreds of thousands of pounds of unearned income.

[joggerjayne]

But jake ...

IHT is charged on money that has already been taxed.

People who have worked hard, saved hard, and paid their taxes, get stuffed by IHT.

The really wealthy do not pay it ... unless they are stupid. Their money is tied up neatly in trusts, transferred by way of PTE's etc.

Millionaire bankers' estates will not pay IHT.

Pensioners who have lived in the same house for 60 years, and it has gone up in value ... their families will pay.

[milliezoe]

And what about Philip Green non dom but his wealth comes from his stores over here And of course Lord Ashcroft we could build hospitals with the tax they avoid we need a level playing field but with that shower down there nothing will change unless we force them out of office that will make them change !!!!! GRRRRRRRRRRR

[R1Geezer]

JJ are you now Tory and would switch or tother way round?

[joggerjayne]

Precisely my point, Millie ...

The very wealthy will never pay Inheritance Tax.

It is a purely cosmetic tax.

The Govt say "We will tax the wealthy"

Everyone goes "Yaayyy"

But, in reality ... the wealthy don't pay IHT.

It should be abolished, and replaced with a tax which actually works.

[R1Geezer]

OK well, I'd rather not get us into a debate on each issue, more interested in what issues arise out of this as being so vital to the poster that they'd cross the floor of the house so to speak. I have one thing but I guess you all know what that is!

[Sandy-Wroe]

Do you think that the laws regulating entry into this country are too strict?

[jake-the-peg]

IHT works to the tune of £2 billion -It's only paid on estates worth well over a third of a million pounds.

I guess Jayne could raise that by cracking down on single parents and grannies

[joggerjayne]

jake ... a "third of a million" ?

Around here, a small bungalow with 1 bathroom cost £550,000.

An OAP who had owned it since the war, had no savings, and lived on a basic pension ... would pay over £80,000 in IHT.

Lord Ashcroft would probably pay nothing.

Is that a fair tax?

[Oneeyedvic]

JJ ///An OAP who had owned it since the war, had no savings, and lived on a basic pension ... would pay over £80,000 in IHT. ///

No she wouldn't. She would not pay a penny. The reason? She's dead. The only people paying are the relatives. So what you are really saying is that if a person gets 'free' money (ie they haven't earned it) that money shouldn't be taxed

[R1Geezer]

OK yellow card, start a new thread if you want to talk about IHT OK!

[Oneeyedvic]

Oh JJ, and if your fictitious OAP had any sense, she would have taken out a home equity release loan to enjoy her retirement, top up her pension and enjoyed life.

That is one of the problems at the moment - all these OAPs clinging on to their assets so that their greedy children can inherit it, instead of enjoying themselves.

Here's to the SKIN (Spending Kids Inheritance Now) brigade

[Oneeyedvic]

sorry ref, didn't see the yellow card before last post.

I vote conservative, have never voted labour. There is very little that they could do to entice me to vote for them (as I don't believe that they are capable of running the country effectively)