God knows how they'd react to a realistic revaluation of CT bands, let alone a better system. The Band F house I used to own in Hackney last sold for £2.25m, with the 'Mansion Tax' the total bill for that house will only be £1250 more than the Band G house (worth <£1m) I now own in sunny Kent.

Many UK holidaymakers haven't grasped that travelling to Schengen destinations (esp by air) is no longer barely more complicated than a coach journey inside the UK with a bit of additional safety briefing before takeoff that can safely be ignored.

The bellyaching about EES is pretty loud already and it's barely begun to be rolled out. Given the number of numpties asking "what's the new rules" on FB apparently meaning EES then ETIAS is going to be a huge shock (at least EES should be bedded in by then).

Yes yes yes PLEASE, mostly from the point of view of a user, but also as someone who has to faff around with cookie compliance plugins in his unpaid job maintaining web sites for charities.

I believe anyone could have done better than Johnson.
Here's a quiz I made to prove it.

Just wait until they hear that non heat pump tumble dryers aren't going to be available anywhere in the UK before long, nobody's going to make them just to serve the UK market.

This cartoon gets more and more relevant with every passing day

Govt might be stuck on X for some reason only known to themselves, but MPs are free to post on more than one social media site.

bsky.app/profile/tony...

I listen to France Musique at home on FM every morning, and on the car radio as far inland as Ashford on a good day. Always struck by the number of British composers and performers they play, and how often they name check long dead artists like Jack Brymer or Dennis Brain on historic recordings.

It would have to be declared on P11D as a taxable benefit.

You're forgetting proposed SPS agreement where UK import checks will be very significant.

UK's problem is high volumes of goods crossing the Channel at short notice, where apart from some intercepts of dodgy meat the checks seem performative. Imports direct from ROW never a problem when UK in EU, I've not seen any reports that they're an issue post 2020.

"Seizing Brexit opportunities to deregulate" was mostly unspecified magic fairy pixie bullshit then, and it's not going to get any more realistic in the hands of a bunch of Reform clowns who don't know how anything works, don't care to learn and disdain anyone that might.

…would drive me insane in a a few weeks at most.

I’m voluntarily staying in a 4* hotel for three nights. It’s OK but I’ll be home on Sunday. The thought of staying for an indefinite period in a 20m2 space with crap food provided (if at all) no cooking or laundry facilities, and no scope to legally do something meaningful for fair reward…

One correspondent on today’s BBC lunchtime news wasn’t wearing a poppy. But she was speaking from that woke hellhole of London rather than the Salford lunchtime news HQ.

PM on Radio 4 framed it as the royal family avoiding getting MPs involved if at all possible, so not asking Parliament to amend the law of succession, which sounds much more likely.