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The only way I can describe what Burnham's dong atm is; Political spitballing. He's seeing what sticks after the nation has been lied to over and over and over again ad nauseam to the point where we're all in total distrust of anyone who has the job role of "Professional lia-" I mean... "Politician"

Andy Burnham has made a big fuss about how he wants to devolve more power to local governments. But the proposals he is considering to introduce an annual property or land value tax would require the precise opposite. Replacing council tax with a nationally fixed annual property tax would represent a significant centralisation of local government finance. Councils currently set and collect council tax for their areas. A uniform national property-tax rate would remove that local fiscal discretion and, because property values vary so greatly across the country, would almost certainly require receipts to be pooled and redistributed by central government. The reform would effectively turn Britain’s principal local tax into a national Treasury tax, leaving councils increasingly dependent on centrally determined grants. Local councils would become much less accountable to their voters. Is that what he means by devolution?

@BenGrahamUK They haven't the first crumb of a thought about the country itself. They just know they're in charge of the finances, but they forgot the bit where when they bankrupt the nation, it will bankrupt them as well without some seriously corrupt dealings worthy of an uprising...

This is genuinely sad to see. The Government can find the money to increase foreign aid from 0.2% to 0.7%, while we already send Pakistan £133 million a year. Yet we can't find a few million to keep Britain's largest space telescope open. It helped support the Apollo missions, tracked Soviet rockets during the Cold War, and inspired generations of scientists. Our priorities are completely backwards.

@blanknam3d not a huge loss then :) Just gotta watch the rest of the SUV market (hopefully) follow suit DOWNSIZE THE CAR MARKET!! XDD

now what car are broccoli-haired dudes with planet-sized egos and spoiled white women who can’t look at the road instead of their phone gonna drive

The more we legally stop HMRC raiding us, the better. If they want active and willful contribution to taxation then they can FUCKING SHOW US WHERE EVERY SINGLE PENNY THOSE THIEVING, CHEATING BASTARDS TWOC FROM OUR INCOMES GOES!!! WE EXPECT SERVICES TO PROVIDE RECEIPTS OF SERVICE. GOVERNMENT IS APPARENTLY A SERVICE. GIVE US THE MOTHERFUCKING RECEIPTS!!!

Any sane person would buy a weeks annual leave, put more money in their pension or drop down to 4 days a week of close to retirement Hopefully next year more people do and this creates a £50m hole

@DeepStarts Probably 3M Novec Which is discontinued now as it had an obscene PFAS content...

This liquid is saving billion-dollar Al servers from overheating

If Gary Lineker and the like are such tax-cucks that they will gladly spaff off their earnings to a government that will simply waste them on meaningless BULLSHIT we never asked for... Why not isntead start donating huge amounts to charities like Shelter ir the salvation army? At least the money would get used for SOMETHING that isn't Afghan pepper pig!!

@FrenlyOfficer More like everyone moving back to Sheffield manufactured 308 stainless from Chinese pot iron lol

Is pre-covid code going to be like pre ww2 steel

That was just the darwin award winners. Besides, the most dangerous voltage in a CRT, believe it or not, is the mains input. The CRT drive voltage may be between 10 and 30kV delending on size, but it's supplied by a flyback circuit at insanely high frequency and low current. The skin effect coupled with low current means that the HT line on a CRT would more likely burn than kill you. Kinda like when you stick tin foil on a plasma globe and the capacitive coupling allows an up to 10kV charge to build up on the foil, but this just causes tiny burns on your finger if you touch the foil. The argument on capacitance of the CRT is absolutely valid though. Mess with a CRT that's just been on without discharging it and it can give you a decent wallop... This will hurt like a motherfucker but not kill unkess you have a heart problem. The mains power though? Yeah, that's death.

@VinciLostSignal No. We stopped making them because of a lot of reasons. They're really quite large; not flat. They also require all sorts of crazy voltages. Lots of people electrocuted themselves trying to work on / tinker with them even when they were unplugged.

So bascially CRTs do everything better than any modern OLED, but we stopped making them because we actually literally forgot how to make them?

@Roxana_max @namelessus34625 @VinciLostSignal Try solo lifting a 32" Sony Trinitron and say that one again ;)

@namelessus34625 @VinciLostSignal Weak?

@namelessus34625 @VinciLostSignal The TV was the reason burglars came in twos back in the day... Even a 32" TV set could be as much as 100-130kg not even accounting for its stand if it came with one lmao

@Max_JPGaming @teddymanyeah @VinciLostSignal It absolutely does But the radiation if a phone is not ionizing radiation, and therefore doesn't destroy DNA. It's also at such low power that you have a 0% risk of microwaving your brain with a 2.4GHz WiFi signal lol

@teddymanyeah @VinciLostSignal Your 5G smartphone probably has more radiation than a CRT made in the 90's

Actually, they do. It's just that later CRTs are generally fine tuned by the factory to minimize X ray production. You will still get a small amount of them from a running TV set, but nothing that contributes to a meaningful radiological dose if you're the type that likes to watch TV constantly in your spare time.

@teddymanyeah @VinciLostSignal Maybe in the 50's, but modern CRT displays do not emit radiation whatsoever. You can prove this to yourself with a geiger counter.

@teddymanyeah @VinciLostSignal At the same time, the amount of X rays produced is impressively minimal given CRTs and X ray machines share a common mode of operation... That being both fire electrons at a target with a high potential energy to produce their desired effect.

@VinciLostSignal CRT tvs are the reason why we have that old advice to kids not to sit too close to the tv. They create ionizing radiation at harmful doses when exposed so closely for long periods.

It's also nearly impossible to make a 65" CRT because the glass has to be so ridiculously thick that producing one gets very expensive very quickly. Largest common size for a CRT was 40". Most common size ranges were 14-24" due to lower weight and cost. The largest CRT ever produced for the markets was the now exceedingly rare SONY PVM-4300 (aka KX-45ED1). The 4300 had a 45" CRT with a 43" usable display area and weighed in at 200KG.

The combined income tax rate for someone in the additional rate works out to 60% If you want someone to pay more tax that has that kind of cashola, counter-intuitively, you lower that tax rate. This will incentivise them to hold onto more of their money instead of immediately sacrificing it to pension, shares, bonds and other low or no tax holdings. Per capita taxation relies on more people paying a lower rate of tax, not a small portion paying a gargantuan rate. It's also a very fine balancing act that you can't refine by immediately assuming that people won't find ways to legally pay less tax on their incomes.

I am begging people to understand the reason you pay so much tax is because the richest pay so little. The combined tax dodged by the richest 1% is more than the tax contribution of the bottom 70%. If they paid their tax, you wouldn't have to pay any.

Actually, blairite politics are what brought us here You might hate what Thatcher did to the miners for example because she did royally fuck them over. But she also left the givernment with a budget surplus, which Blair quickly turned onto a deficit, and not one single government ever fixed. They all swept it under the rig and pretended like borrowing more and more off the banks wouldn't destroy our economy.

Yup. Fuck Thatcher.

To all you altruistic millionaires like Gary Lineker, Dale Vince et al . If you truly believe that the government can do more good with your money than you can. Why not give ALL your earnings to the government and ask it for a little bit back now and again, as and when it agrees that you need it?

Pls spread word. Three digits can help protect you from scams: 159. If you're suspicious of a 'call from your bank', politely hang up and dial 159. It connects you to a switchboard that puts you through to your bank's real number. Watch the video for why its extra protection

Those are too big for him and weren't on the job description. his original job description is to rid the parliamental grounds of small avian and rodent vermin. The pidgeon he once went after was outside the scope somewhat, as parliament anticipated he would target fledglings over adult birds, however, he did recieve a raise for his efforts from 1 Dreamy per deterred vermin to 2.

@calvinrobinson @GBPolitcs I dunno, there are some pretty big rats in the cabinet office.

🚨BREAKING: Larry the Cat will remain in his position as Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office

@calvinrobinson @GBPolitcs We'll see. If Larry can last as long as my old torbie did, he will be 24 And we will likely have gone through as many prime ministers in that time lmfao

@GBPolitcs No doubt he will outlive another PM’s short term.