Politics 2024/25 General Election Voting Intention (2022)

[Scouse]

Plaid Cymru doimg what welsh nationalists do.

Woman ran a bnb for years, wants to retire so converted the top two floors of her home to self-contained flats with kitchens for self-catering lets.

Council has assessed her home and counts it as three different properties and now, alongside the council tax she pays on her house, she also has to pay two lots of 300% council tax for the rest of her house.

Criccieth woman calls second home tax 'nightmare' but others say rules vital

Sally Howdle does not understand how she has ended up owning two second homes which attract a hefty bill.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Gwadien]

Plaid Cymru doimg what welsh nationalists do.

Woman ran a bnb for years, wants to retire so converted the top two floors of her home to self-contained flats with kitchens for self-catering lets.

Council has assessed her home and counts it as three different properties and now, alongside the council tax she pays on her house, she also has to pay two lots of 300% council tax for the rest of her house.

Criccieth woman calls second home tax 'nightmare' but others say rules vital

Sally Howdle does not understand how she has ended up owning two second homes which attract a hefty bill.

www.bbc.co.uk

Pretty good for the Welsh though.

Pretty easy to see why they're doing it, their main competition is saying stfu you're British, it's easy to see why they'll continue down this route.

We'll probably see the SNP do something similar.

 

[Raven]

Plaid Cymru doimg what welsh nationalists do.

Woman ran a bnb for years, wants to retire so converted the top two floors of her home to self-contained flats with kitchens for self-catering lets.

Council has assessed her home and counts it as three different properties and now, alongside the council tax she pays on her house, she also has to pay two lots of 300% council tax for the rest of her house.

Criccieth woman calls second home tax 'nightmare' but others say rules vital

Sally Howdle does not understand how she has ended up owning two second homes which attract a hefty bill.

www.bbc.co.uk

Woman forced to pay appropriate rates on revenue stream.

 

[Scouse]

Pretty good for the Welsh though.

Really not.

For a start, lots of Welsh people are in this position. It's not moving the needle enough on house prices - in the worst affected areas (say Barmouth, that was beginning to prosper but is now going backwards) - they've dropped 20% - which means fuck all to the locals who need massive house price drops - like way more than half.

Meanwhile, any local that wants to leave is in negative equity. Businesses are going down the pan. Desparately needed external money is staying clear as people aren't buying - and locals still can't buy because they simply can't afford some of the cheapest housing in the country (of which there's fucking loads, empty, available).

Any kids that have half a brain are leaving because there's no well-paying jobs.

The whole thing is lose-lose. It's impoverishing whole towns.

The fact is - huge swathes of rural & coastal Wales are so remote that their primary income (if not farming) is tourism. Another source of wealth is retirees buying houses that have fallen into delapidated states (because the locals can't afford to maintain them) - and they spend their lifelong savings on keeping the local trades in business.

 

[Scouse]

Woman forced to pay appropriate rates on revenue stream.

That would be income tax.

She converted bits of her home so she didn't have to serve breakfast to holidaymakers into her 80's - and her council tax will have gone from £3000/pa to £21,000p/a. (Because hers, plus two lots of triple - for the same house).

AND income tax.

That's theft. She'll be struggling to put food on her own table at that rate - for converting her home from BnB to self-catering.

This isn't millionaires we're talking about. It's average joes.