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Seb Verity
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Fan of Chelsea and Real Estate Data 🤓
Beigetreten Ağustos 2022
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Cities should, once again, raise most of their own income.
Dan Tomlinson MP@Dan4Barnet
Great chart here from @CentreforCities. Britain is too geographically unequal. And we hoard tax revenues in the centre. We've got to change both of these things. This is precisely why the Chancellor went big on tax devolution in her Mais lecture earlier in the year. And why we are working inside HMT to publish a summer update on our plans in the coming weeks, ahead of publishing a roadmap for fiscal devolution at the Budget.
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This tells you everything you need to know about Burnham’s plans.
Rachel Reeves has already increased planned borrowing by a quarter of a TRILLION - but given half a chance Burnham will borrow even more.
We will never fix our economy when the country is being run by people who think borrowing, spending and taxing is the answer to every problem. Labour have a serious debt addiction.
Sam Coates Sky@SamCoatesSky
EXC Burnham advisor says government should borrow more Jim O’Neill tells me as part of Manchesterism film: “I've tried to encourage this government to be bolder about. I think the second part of the fiscal rule on borrowing to invest I think that could be explored a lot more, and not in a way that freaks out the financial markets. “I don't think you'd necessarily have to rip up the fiscal rules. I think you just need to be bolder about borrowing to invest. A lot of people right now, given Britain's history for 30 years or more, think any kind of borrowing just means wasted money. But if you borrow for things that have really positive multiplier effects.”
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Only an idiot would borrow to invest at the current rates of lending.
Sam Coates Sky@SamCoatesSky
EXC Burnham advisor says government should borrow more Jim O’Neill tells me as part of Manchesterism film: “I've tried to encourage this government to be bolder about. I think the second part of the fiscal rule on borrowing to invest I think that could be explored a lot more, and not in a way that freaks out the financial markets. “I don't think you'd necessarily have to rip up the fiscal rules. I think you just need to be bolder about borrowing to invest. A lot of people right now, given Britain's history for 30 years or more, think any kind of borrowing just means wasted money. But if you borrow for things that have really positive multiplier effects.”
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Really good thread. The Ethiopian famine of 1985 was not an act of god. It was an act of Marx.
Students For Liberty@sfliberty
In July 1985, over a billion people watched Live Aid. Months earlier, Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie had written "We Are the World." All of it was a response to a famine in Ethiopia. Almost nobody remembers who actually caused the famine. 🧵
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Certainly explains why his economics appear to be drawn from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Sam Bowman@s8mb
A quote for the ages
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@robprogressive More than that at 110-125k due to the perverse disincentives embedded in the tax code 😒
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Does this decision in any way benefit the British people
whose interest should be the first concern of the British government
Liza Rosen@LizaRosen0000
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BREAKING: Keir Starmer to announce that he has lost confidence in the British people and that we will be replaced.
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Abolishing this nonsense will have so many cascading good effects, for every generation.
Allowing for much more desired relocation and reallocation. Older people downsizing without the penalty. More young couples getting their first home.
Then the huge multiplier effects in fitting out those new homes, great for local businesses and trades large and small. If there ever were a single tax to abolish above all others, it’s this one.
Instead we’re killing the economy with this tax and many others like it, only to piss away all they collect on a ballooning benefits bill.
HeWantsWealth 📈📊🏡💰@hewantswealth
I honestly cannot begin to tell you how much I despise the UK. Small small £600k house you have to pay £50k stamp duty. That’s £110k minimum to move in including house deposit. 🏡
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@Danjsalt A performance worthy of the Two Minutes Hate. If only she'd had a Newspeak dictionary to throw... 🙄
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Performative outrage
She is a pathetic human being and it is shameful that she was ever appointed to the Lords
Madeline Grant@Madz_Grant
Incredible
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Just to remind these same folk:
You’ve not lifted 1/2m kids out of poverty. You’ve just moved them over a bureaucratic line on a Whitehall spreadsheet.
Your ‘workers rights’ are destroying entry-level jobs, hitting young people disproportionately, where unemployment is now over 16%.
You have not transformed the NHS. It’s still the same old wheezing leviathan, just with a lot more dosh and still dismal productivity.
And you’ve nationalised steel and rail before. It was not the prelude to an economic or industrial miracle. Plus you will now have to include their demands for capital/subsidies among all the other priorities already crowding in on the public purse.
Other than that your reminder was useful. Thank you.
Anna Turley MP@annaturley
Just to remind some folk that is nothing ‘timid’ about a Labour government lifting half a million kids out of poverty, the biggest uplift of workers rights in a generation, giving millions of people a pay rise, transforming the NHS, nationalising the steel industry & our railways
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NEW: Starmer to "force British people to consume BBC content while they browse their phones"
Govt plans "range of measures to force social media companies to ‘give prominence’ to public service content"
@Keir_Starmer you need to go before you can do any more damage
order-order.com/2026/06/19/exc…
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‘We’ve got to get beyond this thing of being in hock to the bond market’ says Andy Burnham…
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EXCL: “Narrative change” groups receive millions to build support for migration by influencing the public through the media
There is now evidence that a campaigner works within the BBC... and writes storylines for EastEnders
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/1…
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One of many reasons why Lord Nash's proposed VPN ban is an act of idiocy - I'm currently in the gym, and between sets I gave my agent this command "Please could you code me a VPN app in .apk format that I can then install on my android phone? It should route internet traffic through off shore locations but also have one UK exit node.
Please set out the relevant code and commands in human readable format.
Thanks!"
Three minutes later the work was done.
WARNING - do not follow these steps or use the app as I have obviously not tested yet (still got one final set of shoulders to finish).
But this demonstrates that these people have not the faintest idea what they are dealing with
Freddie New@freddienew
This is the new wording. Legislation drafted and proposed by someone who probably doesn't know how to turn on a tap, let alone a computer. And has no idea how the internet or a VPN works. I'd love to see their answer to the question "what's an .apk?"
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The £2.25bn, 13,000 employee Environment Agency has no resource available to act when illegal landfill sites are reported to it, but does have time to threaten volunteers who act to clean up its mess...
theguardian.com/environment/20…
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To reduce European dependence on American technology firms, the European Parliament has replaced Google with a French search engine, Qwant.
Qwant generates its search results by querying the Microsoft Bing API.
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