Alex

@scottishgreens youtu.be/n2YBEJvO8lo

Tax 👏 The 👏 Rich 👏

@PiQSuite It lasted less than 1 day

Does the agreement to reopen Strait of Hormuz hold longer than 14 days?

@Katie_Lam_MP Are ministers qualified to level 4? Do they all hold statements of financial professional standing? Are they authorised by the FCA?

This week, Labour MPs voted to give ministers the power to decide how your pension savings are invested. So ministers get pensions with guaranteed payouts, while they direct your savings towards their pet ideological causes, even if that means you lose money. Disgraceful.

@AutoPap Which gold are your wheels? Aurum?

I cannot tell you how this car has been transformed by fitting Michelin tyres. It feels like my old GT3 if not better! What a car.

@PiQSuite @LairdElmski But conversely are you leveraging your LinkedIn network to generate value?

@LairdElmski Since AI has made scraping LinkedIn / Companies House etc a piece of piss, all business owners are now seeing a huge increase in spam from a whole manner of companies such as VC / marketing firms etc

I run a modest consulting business that generates 5 figures ..woohoo...so why do I get emails once a week from VC firms wanting to invest in my business?

@julianHjessop Surely this would also increasingly motivate outsourcing of low pay/low skill jobs to alternatives? Automation, AI, machinery, offshore etc etc You just sub contact cleaners out until humanoid robots arrive

FYI, the Green Party's call for a maximum pay ratio of 10:1 between the top and lowest-paid person in each company is i) nothing new, ii) nonsense, and iii) unworkable anyway. The twin aims are to end "obscene" payouts for "greedy CEOs" while also pulling up wages for the lowest paid as a means to tackle the cost of living crisis. Neither is sensible. Based on current wages for the lowest paid, a 10-1 ratio would probably cap top pay at around £250,000 a year. That would not be enough to attract and motivate the most senior staff, further undermining the competitiveness of the UK economy. (Just think what this would mean for any major international business, or Premier League football...) Nor is there much more scope to raise the wages of the lowest paid by fiat, instead of by policies that actually improve productivity. In particular, the UK's national minimum wage is already relatively high compared to other countries. A 10-1 ratio could not be achieved simply by redistributing the savings from cutting the wages of the highest paid, because there just aren't enough of them to make the numbers add up. It will not help with the "cost of living" either, because a higher wage bill will inevitably be passed on in higher prices (as well as job losses). The fallout from the recent increases in employers NI provides a real world example. Finally, any such cap would be a nightmare to administer. Firms would try to find ways around it, such as increasing other elements of the renumeration of the highest paid, and contracting out the lowest-paid jobs. This could actually result in lower pay for many workers, and less secure employment. In short, this is yet another example of a Green Party policy that would fall apart on first contact with reality!

@MonkeyBlood44 @ZiaYusufUK I asked Grok, the issue is the cohort of work visas is very small x.com/i/grok/share/c…

@ZiaYusufUK If you actually read a book and didn't get your education of a cereal box you'd know LEGAL immigrants contribute 300 million in tax every year. HAVE NO ACCESS TO PUBLIC FUNDS and pay for their visas. Get your inred mindset and go read a book

We will abolish ILR, and reverse the Boriswave.

@jimkyle90 @BenRamanauskas Read the whole thing before assuming you're not a moron

You got significant tax relief on your mortgage payment through (MIRAS) in the 80s and 90s on a property which was far cheaper than homes today.

@jimkyle90 @BenRamanauskas x.com/i/grok/share/1…

@BenRamanauskas It wasn't "cheaper" though was it? A £20k mortgage in 1980 consumed 65% of net take home pay You could get a £300k mortgage for 65% of nthp today

@jimkyle90 @BenRamanauskas @grok fact check Jim for me, was it cheaper relative to income now or back in the 80s?

@huatp7 @noreasonspec @Larryjamieson_ You keep using US data in a thread about the UK mate

@noreasonspec @Larryjamieson_ Those two things are pretty much unrelated and also besides the point as we can just check the data. Even the latest year is better than 1981

as the interest rate was 15% at the time as the interest rate was 15% at the time as the interest rate was 15% at the time as the interest rate was 15% at the time as the interest rate was 15% at the time as the interest rate was 15% at the time

@Jenny_1884 x.com/i/grok/share/1…

When I married in 1981 we both worked & most of our salary went on paying the mortgage as the interest rate was 15% at the time. Everything we owned was 2nd hand & we never went out for meals as we couldn’t afford to. We rented our TV Went to the launderette every weekend as had no washing machine. Only had new clothes at Xmas & birthdays as presents. We went without until we could save enough to pay for something. It’s always been hard whether you are young or old. So those out there that think we had it easy we didn’t. Our governments are to blame, not the old.

@freddienew @heather11666 @PositivFuturist

@heather11666 @PositivFuturist I did suggest that it would be very hard to work out who was indispensable, but that we could very quickly find out by randomly firing 50% of the Civil Service, tracking to see which services and deliverables were negatively affected, and then re-hiring in those areas.

Got pretty much nothing in return but the knowledge it's been spent by a bunch of retards who hate me.

The FTSE 100 breaking through 10,000 points for the first time is a vote of confidence in Britain’s economy and a strong start to 2026.

Public sector borrowing was £14.3 billion in February 2026, £2.2 billion more than in February 2025 and the second highest February borrowing since monthly records began in 1993, behind that of 2021. Read the article ➡️ ons.gov.uk/economy/govern…

@AutoPap @BowTiedTurismo I am 35 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

@BowTiedTurismo A 35 year old should be able to buy this?

Anyone who's my age will probably look at this and wince. However we're not the demographic BMW are appealing to anymore. Do the younger people on here like it?

This eco activist has been sentenced to 2 years in prison for throwing soup over a $90 million Van Gogh painting. What's your reaction to the sentence?

@MrMBrown youtu.be/dnRW81YUkJk?si…

Obvs not the first to make this point, but how utterly f***ing stupid is it of the UK to be sat on huge oil and gas reserves, yet refuse to pull any of it out of the ground?! 🤦‍♂️

@tomhfh Some people just don't give a shit Tom

Like many Londoners, I live relatively close to a council estate. Now, it's not one of the worst ones in London, far from it. It's relatively quiet and I've never felt threatened nearby. But one thing I consistently notice about it - compared to the surrounding private residential areas - is the amount of rubbish consistently strewn across the ground, often blowing towards my street. Why is there so much litter just wantonly dumped on the roads and pavements in and around the council estate? It's not like that anywhere else in the local area. Tragedy of the commons doesn’t begin to cover it.

@NeilDotObrien Neil you should present the data as equivalent salary, because it's working people who are paying for this...

The Telegraph runs a piece today on my research on the rise of large benefit claims. There's supposed to be a "cap". But since 2002, stripping out the effects of inflation, the number of households getting over £40,000 a year in benefits has grown from 45,000 to 192,000. (1/7)