Goodbye EU, Goodbye Scotland
June 24, 2016
I thought I was a lukewarm Remain voter, but today I am gutted. The most sobering image of the day so far is Nigel Farage declaring a new dawn. As I walked to my local café in Hackney, the atmosphere is one of shock: our borough returned the second highest vote for Remain in the UK. Friends in Spain texted me ‘mala noticia’ though one of them is ready to pounce on cheap equities. The FTSE was down 7% at the start of the day, […]
It is nearly a year since the Summer budget when Osborne announced the first raft of punishing tax changes for the UK’s 1.7 million landlords, only to be compounded by yet more in the Autumn statement. After much gloom had descended on the landlord community and many resolve to sell up, it was with so fantastic last week to hear the news that the Court of Appeal ruled that West Bromwich building society was not entitled to arbitrarily hike mortgage interest rates for landlords. The […]