No one is suggesting it’s a good thing, but trying to make out a correction on the scope of the problem (UK vs a subset) is an attempt to justify it, is an emotional overreaction or an attempt to pick an argument where none exists. Cool your jets son.

There are 8 current dukedoms https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_dukedoms_in_the_United_Kingdom

And about 3 times that many historical dukedoms. So 2 of 8 is a small number 2 of 28 an even smaller number.

By eyeball the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancashire are less than 5% of the land mass of the United Kingdom and maybe 10% of the population tops, so “only” meaning a small portion would be fair.

Having said that, from context I think you’re inferring the wrong meaning of “only” - I would read that as singling out the two impacted areas (regardless of comparative size). In other words "of all the UK specifically (only) these two areas are affected.

I’m not OP so could be wrong of course. Often am.

Although wikipedia has that as the origin several other internet sources suggested a pagan pre christian origin

https://www.readersdigest.com.au/culture/fascinating-origins-of-everyday-hand-gestures

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/55702/why-do-we-cross-our-fingers-good-luck

https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/why-do-we-cross-our-fingers-for-luck/p06j436j

Noting that these are not proper sources although mental floss links to a text that may be reliable

Which one though ? There’s literally 4 forks of infinity called Eternity coming up on obtainium

Jerboa is on Fdroid, but it’s not good I’m afraid. The keyboard bug is maddening.

Yes I did read the thread, and the downvotes you constantly got indicates which of us is missing the point.

So, no, that’s not how it went.

• If a government wants to place a wealth tax they pass a law that says (for example) “everyone owning a house worth more than £2m owes £10000 plus 1% of the value as wealth tax per annum”

• Person A fails to pay tax, govt takes possession of house, sells it to highest bidder person b, they takes taxes payable out of sale proceeds give A whats left and transfer title to B

It’s not complicated, and the best part is you can’t hide a house, and you can’t play shelf company hidden directors jiggery pokery because if the law is written correctly the govt. can say “I don’t care who owns it, if the tax isn’t paid I take possession, end of discussion” pay up or else.

Central revenue gets their money slimey toffs get rinsed, poor people get basic services. Everyone who matters wins.

You really have reading comprehension issues don’t you ?

The post notes that it’s impossible to hide or move real estate overseas thus making it impossible to avoid.

Even if someone tried to avoid the tax by destroying the building you still can’t avoid it because the land is the value not the building.

Ergo you pay the property wealth tax or the government reposses the property.

Unlike cash that can be hidden the asset is visible and hence tax is easily enforced

So to answer your question, the only one who would seek to destroy the building is someone trying to avoid a wealth tax (someone who thinks “I’d rather destroy my asset than pay tax” ie a nutter) in which case the government just seizes the land and the nutter tax avoider gets a banner over his head of “fucking idiot and welcome to jail here’s your blanket dont drop the soap”

Lol. Yes you can. What’s more the absolute best wealth to tax is land/ real estate because it’s really effing hard to hide, and can’t be shifted overseas.

You can destroy its value by physically removing the building but the bulk of the value is always in the land, the building itself depreciates.

OTOH Denmark has a functioning social security system unlike UK

you can’t split ones wealth. The end.

Yes you can, it’s called tax, and it splits off a fraction of your assets when paid.

No idea why OP was focussing on mansions, but a property tax would sort that problem. Stick a £2m threshold on it so it only hits the filthy rich. Before you whine about asset rich cash poor; dont care sell it if you can’t pay. People are dying.

Mary’s fiance was not gathering intelligence on protest groups.

Her siblings say that Avon and Somerset police have consistently put pressure on them not to speak publicly about the relationship, warning of the risk of social unrest if the news got out.

Embedded into a black community and speaking publicly will cause social unrest…

I think we have a racist spy-op instead of an anti-left syp-op this time

Ahh the British police are special some times

Used to be years ago, but law changed some time in the last few years

Not that I have ever seen. Very common in the US though.

Thanks, appreciated.

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I assume you mean 1.35gb of network data per day ? As opposed to per minute / per second etc

I’m saying that if you make it illegal “lie” then they will say very little in case they are accused of lying.

Why the scare quotes around lie ? The word has a straight forward meaning which is already defined in House of Commons rules.i.e knowingly mislead.

It’s not even “negligently mislead” where they say something they should have known was not true, but the much tougher test of proving they knew it wasn’t true.

A ridiculously low bar, and yet you think even that is too high. Is this because you support politicians who have been shown regularly to knowingly mislead ?

The majority of parliament arrive carefully well prepared with facts. It’s only a small number who deliberately lie, our former PM has been proved to be one of those.

would basically stop any politician from saying anything

So you’re saying that it is impossible for a politician to speak without lying ?

I don’t care who you normally vote for, would you mind sitting the next election out ? Preferably all the ones after that too.

What’s the hardware and network demand like ? I’ve been vaguely thinking of doing so myself.

Sure but that’s true of any packaging system. The .deb or .rpm you just downloaded off not-a-scammer-honestly.com could just as easily be malware.

That was in 2018…

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malware-found-in-arch-linux-aur-package-repository/

The AUR has the same risks as adding a ppa to a debian tree install, or downloading an rpm from a website.

If it’s not in the official repository of your repo treat with caution

Definitely happens at some places, but not all, others put last year’s unsold stock on sale. Clears out stock rooms and warehouses for new stock. This is definitely true of one high street retail chain who went on sale today.