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but it isn't the highest tax regime since WW2, if you read that Wiki history of taxation Mark J posted above it says the basic rate was up around 33% for a while. The government of Margaret Thatcher, who favoured taxation on consumption, reduced personal income tax rates during the 1980s in favour of indirect taxation.[19] In the first budget after her election victory in 1979, the top rate was reduced from 83% to 60% and the basic rate from 33% to 30%.[20] The basic rate was also cut for three successive budgets – to 29% in the 1986 budget, 27% in 1987 and to 25% in 1988; The top rate of income tax was cut to 40%.[21] The investment income surcharge was abolished in 1985. Under the government of John Major the basic rate was reduced in stages to 23% by 1997. 21st century Under Labour chancellor Gordon Brown, the basic rate of income tax was further reduced in stages to 20% by 2007. As the basic rate stood at 35% in 1976, it has been reduced by 43% since then. However, this reduction has been largely offset by increases in other regressive taxes such as National Insurance contributions and Value Added Tax (VAT).

What else would you suggest? How else to fix things? The economic fallout from COVID and Brexit is similar to the shock of a war. You have Farage and Reform wanting to push private healthcare, Wes Streeting who was at Bildeberg and is in bed with Peter Thiel, and by association JD Vance. You can tell Streeting is popular with those who call the shots as he's the only Labour politician who gets positive press. All these people want us to move to an insurance based system of healthcare. That coupled with the advances in AI and surveillance, which also happens to be championed by Thiel, Mandelson et al; to my mind, it is a recipe for disaster. These actors are paid by the big businesses that have everything to lose. If we don't change things ourselves, we have lost. I think.

Ok, I know I know bbbbut Back on the farm and in the Woods I cannot move for fear of violating some ‘elf and safety rule. Most of which are fair but a lot are bleeding’ obvious. Caution on working on slippery surfaces, caution on ladders and working from heights, caution when using teleporters when reversing etc Now staying in London at the second hotel and there is again a faucet on both the sink and shower with no indication whatsoever of which direction to turn it for hot or cold. In the old days of separate taps you would have a red dot on the hot tap and a blue one in the cold. Years before that it would by experiment I discovered one changed the direction from shower to bath but not before I had received a blast of red hot water to my head from the shower. I have like all of you learned that turning the faucet to the left would mean hot and to the right cold. But this faucet was mounted vertically to confuse further and there was no indication of which faucet controlled the shower/bath and which the hot cold.. It seems that there is no standard as each hotel I stay in is different You would have thought that things would improve over time especially where very hot water is concerned. Rrrrrrrrrrrr

Indeed, they paid 98% on investment income until Maggie came to power in 1979. And the thresholds were not exactly high, so it wasn't just the super-rich. So I agree some (on the face of it) good things happened in the period 1946 to 1979, but the country was a basket case. And I would suggest if you are interested looking into the history of wealth taxes. It is rather chequered in terms of their success.

I'm not a fan on unnecessary barbed wire, I've found a dead roe buck that probably died from an infected stomach gash that I think was probably due to barbed wire. In the two pieces of woodland I own I've not had problems with the public. The land around our house does suffer a bit from stray livestock as many farmers down here don't seem to believe in fencing. Personally I find it amusing to have a small heard of horned cattle including a bull, cows and calves in our woodland but not everyone does. It will depend greatly on where the woodland is and what you want to do with it. I tend to like a more natural feel, so blackthorn, hawthorne or gorse along with a mix of bramble would be my choice to keep people out. If you want the woodland to look like a carpark or suburbia go with pyracantha etc.

It goes straight back to those who own the government debt ie: the billionaires we should be taxing. The richest paid 98% tax after WW2, that's how social housing and NHS was possible. Just a moment... WWW.PERPLEXITY.AI History of taxation in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

We might well have been. Glossed over it. Details. For little people. I'm having a big ideas day.

I thought we were talking about a woodland setting. Specifically, a boundary within a woodland, subdividing it into smaller plots. But I may well have got that bit wrong.

Me too, partner

Buffalo has recently been bought by Ben Fogle.. I'm hoping there may be some eagerness to expand into new Industries. So hopefully asking now won't fall on death ears.. Perhaps also send another email of a few of us do they may take it on board

You don't get fuller sun than on a hedge.

They need full sun or at least half. They'd struggle in a woodland setting due to excessive shading I think.

The Council can order works under Highways Act, it qualifies the works for exemption under the Forestry Act 1967. Joined up.

it would be good if barbed wire grew from cuttings

Bad schooling leading to poor aesthetics and lack of appreciation of the natural world I suppose 🙂

I was told by woodland officer last year council order over powers felling licence as long as you have paper chain. Near me there's a lot of 28 day notice being given on trees fell by highways, must have new policies.

The law on this is clear once you know about it. You do not need a felling license for felling trees "in compliance with any obligation imposed by or under an Act of Parliament...". That would include road safety legislation. Get something in writing, anything, from the Council that says the trees have to go, and keep a copy. Then fell them. Do not apply for a license. Do not wait. There are addiitonal exemptions for "the prevention of danger" and for "the felling of any tree of the genus Ulmus which is affected by the disease in elms caused by the fungus Ceratocystis ulmi and commonly known as Dutch elm disease to such an extent that the greater part of the crown of the tree is dead". Again no license is required. All this assumes you are in England and Wales. Different law in Scotland. Very different in Ireland.

I like stuff like this, I though others might too, if so I could always add more.

The makers of this video think that the public sector is suffering because of lack of funding. So where do they imagine the highest tax regime since World War Two actually goes?

As has been said speak to the tree officer at the local authority; as if they are requiring you to feel the trees for public safety it may be that a felling license is not needed. Or indeed if the trees are under a certain size.

Will they be able to do it for less than £200 million though?

If the council have said they are unsafe, they'll be a official letter. So wouldn't it be sensible to speak directly with the tree officer as they would be the one also granting you or even their own tree team permission ?

Is the woodland tpod? Inn4 months you've 2 calender quarters so can you not get it done in that period at 10 cube for the 2 calender quarters? Take pics of the trees and email and or speak to forestry commission persion they may email you back and give you exemption. Thats how id try to do it any how

I have 15 trees on a small woodland along side of an a busy A road and 15 trees have been condemned by the council. I have 4 months to sort them otherwise they will and bill my customer. How easy is it to get a felling license quickly the trees either have Dutch elm or ash dieback. there are others in the woodland that will need taking down at same time due to the same diesease. Obviously just that council man obviously doesnt leave his 4x4 while surveying.