I'm guessing actually that what Anonymous might be referring to are the technicalities (tactical issues) of introducing LVT that look like political suicide" where people get the impression, though I cannot work out from where, that everyone who owns their own home will instantly be bankrupted, plunged into negative equity and evicted by the imposition of LVT.

Which is of course utter nonsense. Of course there will be winners and losers (as we were only too willing to explain with LIT) but there are several ways of getting over transitional "hurdles" depending on how radical we want to be - from imposing a tax that would simply restrain future land value growth to something closer to inflation until all danger of negative equity were out of the way before imposing a higher tax that would begin to actually reduce capital values, to going the whole hog, taxing all land value and doling out free money to those who lose out with which to repay their negatively equitied mortgages.

Bonkers, I know. But there we are. We have a Tax Commission going on with the supposed experts supporting LVT who look as if they are going to be outgunned by the campaigns department and local government team which will create a "face saving" policy rather than the best policy.

That's the point at which I give up with this party I fear. If we cannot as a party move away from focus group policies, we might as well choose our least worst enemy and merge with Labour, the Tories or both."