[Tubby Isaacs]

Actually, the amount from the £2m house tax is not as high as I thought. But that and gambling taxes will bring in about £1.5bn a year. I'm ok with that.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Hopefully this means that the government won't need to make any more changes (the ones made to new claims were pretty drastic already). Looks like Reeves/Kendall/Starmer may have been panicked by unnecessarily pessimistic forecasts. Hopefully now the Timms review can take place in a calmer atmosphere.

[The Weeping Angel]

Although the notability reforms are causing ructions.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Nice to see Antonia back on Bluesky.

https://bsky.app/profile/antoniabance.b ... jy7ycuuk2j

[Killer Whale]

Although the notability reforms are causing ructions.

Autocorrect has sabotaged you there, mate.

[mattomac]

Gambling is an interesting one, because what can they do? Reduce free bets, lower odds so the profit is simply not there.

I suppose ramping up on those things it can control such as games and virtual betting, then again its probably where they pull the money in anyhow.

[Tubby Isaacs]

An aside from the Budget, but I really don't like this stuff, and I frequently said so when I used to post on The Guardian even though defending Priti Patel wasn't a popular position.

All these politicians have just as much right to their views on migration as on anything else.

[Tubby Isaacs]

This sounds as though it could have definitely been a lot worse.