Martina wrote:unsurprising to see that Hammond has done jack shit for the housing crisis - time to go
'Local authorities will be able to charge a 100 per cent premium on council tax on empty properties' announced for starters.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/03/number-empty-homes-hits-highest-rate-20-years-calling-question/
The funniest bit of the budget was seeing Jeremy getting all shouty. Perhaps he's on some new tablets?
We had a teacher like him at school. Next thing was he didn't turn up for weeks. Then we found he'd taken 'early retirement'. All a bit sad really.
Then John McDonnell had a car crash interview on BBC! How he ended up Shadow Chancellor of Exchequer God knows. I remember on the GLC, Livingstone sacked him for financial incompetence, when he proposed a budget described by Ken as the"biggest f***ing lie since Goebbels"
