Tory haters: shouldn't you start reining this in?

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Because the golden geese who have to pay for what you believe are entitlements and who you despise so much, are flying away:

"Almost half of all Britons who emigrate each year are professionals and company managers, potentially threatening the country?s supply of highly skilled workers, research for the Home Office found.
The attractions of a better lifestyle and climate, as well as career opportunities, meant a ?large and increasing? number of executives, scientists, academics and doctors have chosen to leave Britain in the last 20 years, the report said.
Business leaders blamed high rates of income tax for the ?disturbing? rises in the number of professionals leaving Britain for countries such as Australia, American and Canada. Around 149,000 British citizens emigrated last year, and 4.7 million now live overseas."

What do you think? Has the class resentment poison gone just a bit too far, and isn't it just a bit outdated? And was Labour right to stoke this narrative up?

Another Cuntservative with their 'research blinkers' on....sigh...

"Cuntservative"?

How old are you?

I lurk a fair bit on these threads, they usually go the same way:

Tory: taxes are high/bad/not spent wisely

Counter-argument: no they're not

Different Tory: THIS IS HYSTERICAL BASHING FROM THE MUMSNET MARXISTS!

What are you talking about

You know when you read something so astonishingly stupid that you think it must have been written by an agent provocateur? Well that.

Besides, there's an argument to be made that the top echelons are blocking the way for newer, more dynamic talent. So even if what you're saying is true, every cloud and all that.

Do we really want to keep these people who are so greedy, selfish and unpatriotic that they would rather leave the country than pay their fair share of tax?

Brycie I don't like the name calling either but please do note that the OP used the name McMoron .
It's not really surprising that the vast majority of emigrants are professionals is it? If you have no skills other countries don't want you. My brother and his wife, my sister in law and one of my good friends have all emigrated in the past 20 years. DH and I considered it but taxation was not one of the reasons for any of us.

Brycie

Old enough to remember several Cuntservative governments thank you very much.

Who is "McMoron" anyway?

I worked abroad for a while in my profession, for the experience, to learn a little of a new language, and to travel.

It had nothing to do with taxes.

I was very happy when I returned to Britain. Actually I felt like kissing the tarmac at Heathrow.

I live abroad - in a country where the 50% rate starts at about 36000 euros and 40% at much less than that. Strangely there are much better public services.

Brown I think

Not McMillan then?

Ah, thanks RichMan.

Almost half of all Britons who emigrate each year are professionals and company managers

Who else would the Canadians-Australians-Singaporese let in? They are hardly going to jump up & down to take the least educated, poorest and most anti-social, are they?

Guess what? Most of the Sri Lankans-Indians-Indonesians-Nigerians that Britain lets in are also professionals and elite of their own societies. Funny that.

'Not sure what class resentment has to do with being a Tory hater.'

Quite. Working class people vote tory - who you vote for has nothing to do with your social class, necessarily.

Well a lot of folk are leaving the UK.
Pretending otherwise is just daft.

But I don't think it is just a case of tax issues. There are many factors at play. One is definitely opportunity. There is little in the UK at the moment.

We only stay because my Mum is old now...

Aw bless. With memory gaps where the Labour wankers fucked it up (hopefully this is the sort of language that suits your understanding best?)

And yes McMoron is also a stupid thing to say - especially since it's not even clear who you're on about.

Belgium has dreadful, terrible pockets of deprivation. Healthcare is largely privatised/mutualised.

We also need to bear in mind that a sizable minority of top tax payers in the UK are not from the UK.

Keeping them, and their money, here is not easy...

"Working class people vote tory"

Try telling that to the liberal elite.

This again? Idiot exp has been trotting out this Tory rhetoric for year - oooh we must tax the rich too much in case they leave the uk..... But it's fine to disproportionately tax the poor-is that in the hope they will leave?

I do lowbrow and highbrow language- all inclusive, me..... Know it hurts being called a Cuntservative. But the name seems to fit.

The rich pay proportionately more tax Amarylis, as well as literally more.

Actually scrub that - not rich. Higher earners?