David Cameron on C4 News tonight: “People come to my surgery and say, ‘Look, this is my salary, these are the house prices, I can’t afford it’. So, cutting stamp duty will…”
How do you think Mr Macaroon continued this sentence?
(a) …help that.
(b) …win the approval of the King of the Potato People.
(c) …make absolutely no sodding difference whatsoever because people on a salary of £25k in a market where a shoe box costs £170,000 are not in the luxurious position of being able to worry about stamp duty. But it played well when Labour talked about it, so that’s what we’re going to do.
October 1, 2007 at 8:35 pm
Entries like this? Proof you’re a born blogger. I’ll stop chuckling later.
October 1, 2007 at 9:04 pm
Hoorah, ta! NB, I am not ignoring your email. I am just still trying to understand it.
October 3, 2007 at 10:04 am
He probably does think that this will solve the housing crisis. But call-me-Dave genuinely believes that giving tax breaks to married couples with children will really make those couples stay together (and wouldn’t it be *great* to be brought up by a couple only together because of the tax break). Perhaps he and boy-George also think that lifting “98% people out of inheritance tax”* is a grand idea.
*So that’s an extra 7% of people will no longer apply to, given that 92% of people are unaffected by it currently . . .