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Medway Liberal Democrats are appalled

Medway Liberal Democrats are appalled over the news that Lewes UKIP Councillor and MEP candidate for the South East, Donna Edmonds was reported on the 5th March as saying that businesses should have the power to turn away women and gay people. It conjures for many the image of the other side of the coin of Jewish businesses in Nazi Germany being banned and then destroyed. And before there is any suggestion that I might be implying that UKIP would wish to put women and gays to death, let me make it absolutely clear, I am not. I am merely trying to point out the appalling bigotry that is so often displayed by UKIP and which cannot be ignored.

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Why Land Value Tax is pro-Business

Business rates in the UK are not fit for purpose, and MPs are calling for its reform, reports the Telegraph. Predictably, their remedy is to load all taxes onto profits and productivity; the Telegraph treasures a vision of a Britain that is a paradise for land speculators and hoarders who should have to pay nothing to maintain their huge land banks of unused land.

DC
6 Mar 2014
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