Odds on a second EU referendum are now 7/5!!

We're actually well down the EU table for tax take as a percentage of national income.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48988052

For a few tax’s measured not on ALL taxation that people pay for instance it misses duties and VAT

I have to agree with this, I think the odds are coming in because there's been a gamble on a referendum being attached to the Withdrawal Bill.

Also the 1/6 odds odds the Conservatives dont win the most seats in the general election.

No, these figures measure all taxes and also take account of the fact that in the US much tax revenue is taken by state and local governments.

Here is the data

https://www.oecd.org/tax/tax-policy/revenue-statistics-highlights-brochure.pdf

So your telling me we pay 33% in tax.... just no, doing the basic maths just says.

The simple maths I am talking about as a high tax country is what an individual pays for.
Their income and consumption tax’s.

I know what you mean, but realistically you have to factor in things like local and regional taxes and also the taxes that business pays, after all, a lot of people are self-employed or work for small businesses with commissions and bonuses that get reduced the more tax the business has to fork out. It's not as clear-cut as just income tax + sales tax, which is why economists talk about taxes as a percentage of national income, or GDP, or similar.

I note that today the odds on a conservative overall majority have shortened to 4/7 and they are now at 1/16 to win most seats, which you can see in post #84 a week ago was at 2/11.
Did something happen?? 🤔

Polling has ticked upwards.

I know 😉, I agree with what you have said about the likely outcome going on polls at the moment, Labour need to close the gap significantly if they are to stand any chance of becoming the leaders of a remain alliance as, realistically, the Tories only need to gain 10 seats to have the working majority required in parliament due to the fact that each and every Tory MP will be on board with regards a deal.

Yeah, i'm going for 327-369 seats at the moment with the highest confidence around the 340 mark. I expect that Con-Lab might gain another 1-2% over the week from the smaller parties before we get to next week which is the start of the manifesto releases and debates (the only real threats to a Tory majority as things stand).

Surely Mr Johnson saw what happened with the last manifesto and the whole inheritance tax debacle and won't make the same mistake.
This is another thing that hopefully will not go Mr Corbyn's way this time and will help ultimately in the delivery of brexit.

Agreed. A lot of the optimistic left forget that his cheering crowds only got him to 35%, it was May who threw him the other 5%. How different would that 47-35 result have been (that's how high we were averaging before the manifesto release).

The stupidest thing the May government did by far was the social care charge debacle, but on the other hand, Labour had no credible policy in the same area. We desperately need cross-party consensus on social care and it, along with the NHS, should be taken out of politics and made national priorities, but they won't be with a right wing press instantly crowing about tax increases. The UK is a low tax country with poor public services and looks like being stuck that way under the Tories going forwards. People think that's what they want until it's their turn to have a relative getting old and infirm, or themselves.

We desperately need cross-party consensus on social care and it, along with the NHS, should be taken out of politics and made national priorities,

Interesting you want to privatise them.