@ItsTaz1989 The irony of all this will be the inequality in the liberty that dual nationals will have in comparison with those with single nationality who will have to do as they are told.
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Arthur Paneal
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Arthur Paneal
@Arthur_Paneal
Interests: education, public policy, urbanism, BCFC
Shropshire Katılım Şubat 2011
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Yet another example…
“German males under 45 may need military approval for long stays abroad” bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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Modern European democracy has become vampiric. I don’t know how else to describe it. The entire model is draining the wealth and opportunities of younger generations through myriad mechanisms to maintain a standard of living based on a model they relentlessly strip mined.
Yuan Yi Zhu@yuanyi_z
Canada's boomercrats are openly talking about stopping the best and brightest from leaving for places with better opportunities instead of fixing the damn country. Going to become a thing in Europe too I think.
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@dontdelay It also makes no political sense. If there is one thing that worries voters it's that the state pension becomes a mean tested benefit. In the eyes of many this will be seen as the first step towards this and I imagine many will wrongly believe the proposal is to do this.
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Means testing a mechanism to increase the amount paid?
What a mess that would create.
At least with the 'new' state pension, most people were finally receiving a similar amount of state pension.
And younger people could plan ahead expecting the same.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: Tory leader Kemi Badenoch says she is going to look at 'means testing' the triple lock [@LBC]
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@dontdelay Id also add, the rather generous personal allowance, incentives people to retire and take pension income before receiving the state pension when it would be taxed.
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This is such an important take.
If we incentivise our highest earners not to build lifestyles that require them to maintain higher incomes, they can then afford to retire at a younger age.
Less tax now. Less tax later.
Charles Archer@that_stocks_guy
'Just put £60k into your pension every year to avoid the tax trap above £100k - hang on, why are our most productive taxpayers taking early retirement in their 50s??!!?!?!'
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@rcolvile It is such a shame. They could have been the party that finally offered radical adult social care reform instead and used the savings from triple lock to help pay for it.
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@bswud @maxtempers They are missing an opportunity to offer a quid pro quo: removing the triple lock in exchange for meaningful adult social care reform
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I agree that supporting the triple lock is the correct strategy for Reform in 2029 but I disagree with the other bit. No one is going to pass a big reform of welfare entitlements without being perceived to have legitimacy to do so, probably by putting it in their manifesto.
What’s more, I worry that it’s harmful to trust and thus state effectiveness to have the public believe that a party is always going to give a bland manifesto and then try and pull off a much wider programme.
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Not sure why people are acting so surprised by this. No party that ever wins an election will campaign on abolishing the triple lock — including the one that ultimately will.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage is set to announce Reform UK will keep the state pension triple lock [@thetimes]
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@delves1 Its almost irrelevant how much parkland the city has in total, what matters is where they are. Agree it didn't require a central park in the past, but city centres are now leisure destinations and all the new flat dwellers don't have gardens.
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It’s 2026 and people are still surprised cities that grew up moulding the industrial revolution didn’t put parks in the center of their cities 🤦🏻♂️
I can’t speak for Liverpool or Manchester but Birmingham have never needed a Central Park because the majority of the surrounding suburbs have massive parks I.e edgbaston, Manor Park, pype Hayes, ley hill, woodgate valley
You can go a tiny bit further than the suburbs and you have Sutton park, Lickey hills, Sandwell valley
Safe to say brum is sorted on the parks and green space front
John Dory@johndory1914
I find it particularly surprising that Birmingham (just like Liverpool or Manchester) doesn’t even have a proper Central Park. London, on the other hand, is on a world-class level with Hyde Park and St. James’s Park. You simply aren‘t a first-rate city without a Central Park.
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@bswud Another improvement is we can use AI to make the CGI images developers use look more like how they will appear in real life.
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Now that we have AI imagination, it is impossible that we will lose. harrysanders.substack.com/p/fixing-even-…
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@MrBrum43 Hard to name a single player that Davies has made better - on top of the 25 still there, that includes the 15 or so we have already got rid of. (Klarer might be the exception)
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@dontdelay I'd like to see us tax property on death separately from other assets - lets say 40% on properties over £400,000. This would encourage downsizing and the move out of London/SE in retirement, where labour can be the most productive.
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@dontdelay I'm not convinced encouraging gifting should be that important as a policy objective. Most of the gifting ultimately just gives some children an advantage to buy property over those without help from family. Ultimately it just props up the housing market
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I understand the desire to abolish inheritance tax
And as someone who manages a lot of investments for a lot pensioners if they’re no longer worried about inheritance tax, we’re likely to manage more money for more time
But be careful what you wish for
If the flow of money from parents and grandparents to their children and grandchildren stops, a lot of property purchases wouldn’t go ahead. A lot of spending would no longer happen.
Restore Britain@RestoreBritain_
A Restore Britain Government would abolish inheritance tax in all its malignant forms. Read our policy paper below... assets.nationbuilder.com/restorebritain…
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@wspencer93 @chris_skudder Davies has to take a lot of blame second half. We looked disjointed after the substitutions and seemed to only be playing with Gray on left side when Osman and laird went off, which made him less effective.
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@chris_skudder Agreed. It’s clearly all Gardner and I’ve heard they don’t get on. Vicente is not the type of player to fit a Davies system. Roberts clearly far better and Davies wants to play him, and clearly under pressure to play Vicente, hence keeps rotating
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Missed opportunity doesn’t come close against ten men for well over an hour. Home draws (and away form) just don’t cut it. Last chance of playoffs likely gone with Saints winning at Cov. What now, folks? 🤔#KRO
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@Jacko1875bcfc You are possibly right. He did look poor, the jury is out on how much that is down to tactics or him having an off day. I thought Vicente was equally bad on the other wing too. Not a great 2nd half!
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@Arthur_Paneal No that shot wasn’t awful those shots were awful but absolutely having no one there to overlap or do a fullbacks role killed us but there’s no defence for not playing 5yard through balls to priske or switching the ball every now and again but feel like he came on with a attitude
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@Jacko1875bcfc That shot was awful but it's so easy to defend crosses when they are coming in that square from a right footed player. Appreciate Wagners out, but we had no shape after substitutions. Either keep Osman or laird on and play them as lb or get Roberts or OS to do a job there.
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@Arthur_Paneal No one’s making him smash one into the Tilton lower btw , we’ve got a 6ft odd striker in the box after the 2nd time he cut it and failed miserably might’ve have been a decent idea to try swing one into priske but that would make to much sense wouldn’t it ?
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@Dixie_Dean_ That's on the manager. Where is his full back to overlap? He was forced to try to cut inside each time which is really predictable and doesn't give a good crossing position. No wonder he was hesitant to play a pointless cross into the box each time he got it
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@EtherealEngland That's on the manager. Where is his full back to overlap? He was forced to try to cut inside each time which is really predictable and doesn't give a good crossing position. No wonder he was hesitant to play a pointless cross into the box each time he got it
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@ShabanaMahmood Why are we paying over £158k to house failed asylum seekers? - support should be withdrawn.
Why does it cost 48k to forcibly remove someone? - change the legal processes
The rationale for this idea is based on accepting the absurd notion that the status quo can not be changed
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Our pilot of new incentives to remove failed asylum seeking families will save taxpayers up to £20 million.
Here's why 👇
1. It costs 158k to put up a family of 3 in an asylum hotel for 1 year. It costs 48k more to forcibly remove someone. A 10k per person incentive, up to a max of 40k per family, will save money.
2. If someone refuses an incentive, we will move to a forced removal. If you have no right to be in this country, you should not be allowed to stay.
3. There is nothing new about incentive payments. The Tories did it. Even Reform say they will do it.
4. Higher incentives have worked in Denmark. 95% of returns there are voluntary.
5. These incentives are not a pull factor. Asylum claims in Denmark are at a 40-year low. And asylum seekers spend tens of thousands of pounds getting to this country, that's more than any incentive payment.
6. This is a pilot of 150 families. We will see if it works and scale it if it does. That's taking a smart approach, that saves taxpayers' money, to restoring order at our borders. I make no apology for doing that.
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@timleunig I assume private car ownership will end (or parking will become prohibitely expensive) and we will rely on self driving taxis. This will transform our urban landscape liberating our urban areas from the space parked cars occupy and allowing much higher densities in the suburbs.
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Self-driving cars will revolutionise transport for younger people, since the cost of learning to drive is high (and it is hard), and the cost of insurance is high. It will also help the oldest, who are no longer confident drivers.
Tom Forth@thomasforth
I think self driving cars and robot/drone delivery will be common by 2030 and dominate by 2035 if we let them. Which I guess we will. And with them huge employment will be gone. Taxi drivers, delivery drivers, soon enough truck and lorry drivers. And then much else.
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@John_Stepek Seen in isolation, I agree. More interesting, though, is how slowly the UK state has adapted to a more mobile, globalised world—often leaving costs and liabilities with UK taxpayers. Until the last Budget, for example, former taxpayers were still allowed to buy NI stamps
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This is giving me a bad case of Schrodinger brain this morning. I cannot believe that this has become a talking point, while simultaneously realising that it was depressingly inevitable. Talk about fiddling while Rome burns.
Saul Staniforth@SaulStaniforth
Susanna Reid: "Brits have moved to places like Dubai, potentially.. to avoid paying tax.. if they need rescuing.. should they pay for their own evacuation, because if they're avoiding paying tax then they're avoiding paying into public services, like the govt coming to get you"
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@SteveDavies365 Three main parties still behave like the battle is grabbing floating voters in the centre. Perhaps in the new alignment there is only space for one centrist party. The old parties will need to decide whether they are it or whether they consolidate their wing (lab under Corbyn)
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What does the median voter want? Unfortunately it's a sharp turn to the left on economics plus nationalism (strict immigration controls and expelling most of the 'Boriswave'). Socialism with nationalist characteristics or nationalism with socialist characteristics if you will.END
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🧵A way to understand the current state of UK politics.
1. As I explain in my recently published book, politics has realigned around a new fundamental issue. It is no longer economics (and class politics) but nationalism vs cosmopolitanism and identity. NB I do not welcome this.
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