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Harry's avatar

Here in Canada, we’ve learned it’s not a very good idea to make them Prime Minister, either.

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Michael van der Riet's avatar

Let's assume just for a moment that this won't turn into a slush fund distributed to the politically favoured... no I just spat coffee all over my keyboard.

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Chris's avatar

5pc of revenue as a digital services tax ? Good grief - a 2% DST on other services is already creating trade disputes! Politically and economically tone deaf.

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Tim Almond's avatar

"The actual argument being made is that British actors, tax breaks, directors, scriptwriters, lovely Cotswold villages (and in the case of Bridgerton, the street outside my flat) are just such wonderful places to film, film with, that prices are rising. Therefore we’ve got to subsidise all this."

The thing is it's all utter rot. There's the bit of British film making that does the production side. Like assembling sets, makeup, costuming, rigging, VFX. That side is very successful. We're some of the best in the world at it. There's also some people in this country who make films very successfully, like Christopher Nolan, David Heyman and so forth.

The problem is the sort of movie crowd, who not only want to do something "important" that almost no-one wants to see but also want to be well rewarded for it, and also, to not innovate technically to cut the cost.

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Paul Cassidy's avatar

Caroline Dineage. The epitome of what has gone wrong with the Conservative Party in the last 20 years.

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