Question TIme Ian Hislop slates Labour on inheritance tax

[Donald6899]

Bad video - I will give you lessons.

[savagedragon]

@UnkleFessta Yes, he is truly one of the great ventriloquist, Paul Merton is his doll.

[ettikwete]

poorly dubbed

[CowLunch]

Intelligent comedians are best suited to run the country. They are streets ahead of most politicians academically, and by their comedic nature they have far greater empathy which is severely lacking in politics. It worries me when I see politicians with no sense of humour (some do) because that is a sure indicator of a lack of humility and empathy.

[mrjams242]

@CowLunch word on the street is the great eddie izzard plans to enter politics in the next 5 or so years

[djadudeguy]

Thanks for putting up an out of sync video which only has half of the debate...

[houdini2233]

@djadudeguy Don't suppose you know what episode or when this was aired do you?

[carlstss]

Ian Hilsop will demolish any politician he is just to quick and for inheritance tax that just fucking greedy.

[2490debrick]

Stupid woman Labour for 13 years spent spent spent and what do we have to show for it FECK ALL! Lets do away with inheritance tax altogether END OF!

[Hereticalable]

I'm a finance professional and can IHT is evil incarnate....bloody communism in another form.

[GoVir4l]

piss of Labour -

[dezboss]

I would love to thump Yvette cooper.

[bobviolent13]

hold on guys buffering

[vehiclesburning]

Champagne socialist tax paying scrounging leech. The ferrit faced cow is married to the biggest idiot in Politics, Edward Balls. Need we say more? She spent years working in the treasury with balls creating the economic mess we are in today whilst fleecing the tax payer left right and centre. They both now sit on the opposition benches trying to beall sweet and innocent shouting down the coalition while providing no answers to the absolutely shocking state of our finances she caused. Odious cow.

[Thatcheriteme]

@vehiclesburning ...bang on.

[Dendiol]

@vehiclesburning Spot on.

[UrbanKhoja]

..sadly pass away and leave the fruits of your hardwork to your family, they pay tax on that. They spend some, tax on that. Put some in the bank to earn interest, tax on that. So the some money has been taxed multiple times. What's disgusting is that no one seems to have an issue with it, if you've worked hard all your life the least you deserve is to leave it to your loved ones.

[UrbanKhoja]

We reside within a part of Hertfordshire, when my Mother lost her Dad a few years back, we were stung with a hideous amount of inheritance tax. It was an average size property for the area, but by no means a country estate. What baffled me most, is that not only is it a time of immense grief; but tax has already been paid and perhaps more than once. You earn your salary, you pay tax on that, you put it in a savings account, tax on that too, on what's left you pay a host of other taxes, you sadl

[skeletorphd]

The problem is Labour are so easily exposed on almost every policy they've ever had by anyone with a brain.

Sadly something clearly lacking by the majority of the British public. If it wasn't making, Labour wouldn't even be in opposition, they'd be a fringe party.

[YouCantKillLove]

@skeletorphd Labour did a lot to to help people on low incomes, maybe it shows you that the majority aren't stuck up, money grabbing arseholes wanting more and more money.

[ihavekankles]

@YouCantKillLove

They take money from those who worked for it and give it to those who didn't. Fuck labour.

[danr239]

@ihavekankles Its fucking theft, you pay tax, buy a house, then they tax you to live in it via council tax, then when you die, they want more, fuck off!

[MrCommunismftw]

@ihavekankles Inheritance is not worked for. 

[ihavekankles]

@MrCommunismftw

But if you earn the money, you should decide where it goes when you die. It's not worked for, it's a gift from someone when they die. The government shouldn't be taking money away in such a situation.

[MrCommunismftw]

@ihavekankles I can understand your argument. But money can be put in a bank account anyway and easily regain the money taken by taxes through interest.

[SMuJ17]

@MrCommunismftw What about people struggling financially? This money may be seen as a Godsend (figure of speech, I don't believe in a deity, lets not spark a different debate) to those not as well off. What happens to these people? They continue to be screwed over.

Also, why should we have to put it into a bank? Just because we could do something doesn't mean we should then have to. If this money s a gift leave it be, without cocking around with trying to regain what was yours anyway.

[MrCommunismftw]

@SMuJ17 I only mean inheritance taxes for rich families. By no means should people struggling financially be inheritance taxed. But don't you think the rich should just accept that they should pay more to benefit the state after all they are the luckiest, especially if they have not worked for it.

[SMuJ17]

@MrCommunismftw The last bit is bang on, they should be taxed more, but Inheritance should have nothing to do with that... After all, people winning the lottery are very, VERY, lucky, but the same kind of taxes don't apply. It's just a little flawed, and does feel a little like daylight robbery, if you want a couple of cliches.

Anyways, I stopped caring a couple of days ago. Know any good Margaret Thatcher jokes?

[MrCommunismftw]

@SMuJ17 Haha only this one. Plans have begun for Margaret Thatcher's state funeral.

It'll be the first time ever the 21 gun salute is fired into the coffin.

[SMuJ17]

@MrCommunismftw Can't go wrong with a Bit 'o Frankie ;)

[gamesbok]

@MrCommunismftw But Margret Thatcher is still alive, or, more correctly, undead.

[spudthrasher]

He's an absolute fraud. Blasting Labour for something the Tories are worse on. He's a glorified Tory spin doctor.

[nakedmambo]

@spudthrasher Precisely. He pretends to criticise equally from a neutral standpoint, but we know he's a tory boy; whether that's official toryism or the Tory Blair kind.

[sillyjobug]

@spudthrasher Just because the Tories are worse doesn't mean than Labour is correct. Truthfully, I'm American and don't know all the ins and outs of UK inheritance tax laws and debates, and only watched this video because it was recommended, but I definitely believe it's possible that both parties are doing something shitty, and that the Tories are in some way worse about it. But that doesn't mean that Labour should be let off the hook, just because they're not the worst.

[Tears0faShadow]

Ian Hislop for Prime Minister!

[GiantSandles]

the desync in this is horrible

[Jravening]

Sound's way out of sync. :|

[MrScottishJamie]

looks like this what the tories and labour r fraud vote snp

[StephenFiorentini]

Government is supposed to be the servant, now it's the master.

[RupertWaldron]

yvette cooper never smiles. ever. how can ed balls live with such a cantancarous, authoriatarian, liberty hating cow?

[kfu8yt]

I remember this time well. Every question and criticism put to a Labour MP at the time, regardless of relevance, was answered with a comment on the Tories and Inheritance tax, a bit excessive even for party politics even if they got some traction with it. But most hilarious in this episode was when Yvette Cooper hesistated slightly to an audience member's question later on, and he piped up with: 'maybe its time to mention the inheritance tax again?' to a big laugh.

[thedogsballs1]

@pacmandem

I totally agree with ya!

Buzzington is a twat

[kkwillsaveus]

'That's not true Ian'

'No I think it probably is'

Burnage

[grumbler1]

gosh..Hislop indeed is smart as fuck. Love the guy. So straightforward and to the point. Doesn't give a shit who's he up against, he rips them to pieces if they are in the wrong.

[grumbler1]

@whiskasalpha sure. sorry, Mr Miliband..

[whiskasalpha]

@grumbler1

Well .. What sort of rabid right winger comes out with rubbish such as " Inheritence tax is nothing less than theft".

I thought this sort of right wing rhetoric was confined to the red necks over the pond?

[theredraven]

@whiskasalpha Why should you have to pay the government for what you leave to your relatives after you die?

[whiskasalpha]

@theredraven Why shouldnt you?

Whats so great about your family that they get something for nothing anyway.... its all about the family against the world with the conservatives.. Bluh!

[theredraven]

@whiskasalpha What's so great about central government it should profit from my demise?

[whiskasalpha]

@theredraven Why shouldnt it.. You have had your usage out of it!

Put it back in to the economy.. Why should your screaming whelps profit for nothing..

[theredraven]

@whiskasalpha My usage paid for by income tax, road tax, NI contributions, VAT, fuel duty, stamp duty etc.

Why should incompetent politicians profit for nothing?

[whiskasalpha]

@theredraven ..

Lol... When you are dead your estate should go back to the state... you have no more use for it and the idea that you can just hand it on is pure piffle...Your family can get along quite nicely on their own...

:-)

[theredraven]

@whiskasalpha I assume you believe we should also have our organs forcibly removed once we're dead as well even if we don't wish to?

I think the state can get along quite nicely on it's own without taking more of what we own thanks.

[Bazzington]

Ian Hislop is a twat.

And people here don't seem to understand inheritance tax at all.

[Bazzington]

Ian Hislop is a twat.

And people here don't seem to understand inheritance tax at all.

[pacmandem]

@Bazzington you are a twat in seeming unable to post your comment just once.

[jesoby]

How can Brown keep stating that raising the Inheritance Tax threshold from 325K to 1M would only benefit the top 3000 families? The richest might gain the most but whatever you think of the policy its clear hundreds of thousands would be taken out of inheritance tax and yet Cameron didn't even bother arguing the point - is he just trusting viewers to draw their own conclusion about Brown.

[jimmehrhinox]

hislop for speaker!

[JustAnotherGuy186]

Prity cool. Inheritence tax is nothing less than theft.

[whiskasalpha]

@JustAnotherGuy186

No its not. If you havnt worked for it YOU dont deserve it... Simples.

[giantgremlinboy]

Ian hislop is far too quick for most politicians today. Makes his points so well.

[CowLunch]

@giantgremlinboy He's too quick for the audio too lol

[liveingalway]

Sound, Jesus

[djrem]

Sort the sound out?