{"id":84530,"date":"2025-07-31T07:45:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T06:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=84530"},"modified":"2025-07-31T07:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T06:45:06","slug":"colonial-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/07\/31\/colonial-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Colonial Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Telegraph had an article<\/a> yesterday that suggested this:<\/p>\n

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It turned out that if you wish to retire, the only place to be is in the South East of England:<\/p>\n

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Nowhere else featured in their list. They might have been more affordable, but they just weren't nice enough to live in, apparently.<\/p>\n

I subscribe to The Telegraph so that I might know what the absurd people who write for it produce on behalf of those mad enough to believe what it has to say.<\/p>\n

Amongst their many failings is an absurd lack of faith in the country in which they live, which apparently does not exist outside of the immediate reach of London, and which results in them totally ignoring Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as if they were not in the UK.<\/p>\n

It is very hard to take a paper that publishes such nonsense. If, however, they were to admit that they do genuinely think the UK should be split up as a result, they might actually do something useful. But I can't see that happening. The south-east is very keen to keep its colonies, after all. What else has it left to extract value from?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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