Dr. Benjamin Bird

@mgshanks It’s all well and good cherry picking a nice looking graph when it’s super windy. Now show me it normalised over a year, show the cost per GWh, including stand down fees. Such a scam.

Wind is currently generating almost half the country's electricity.

@BladeoftheS No, you wouldn’t. Unrealised asset value is just that. If you liquidate a large portion of it, the markets will react and Itl be worth pennies on the pound.

If you taxed every Billionaire in the UK so they only had £1bn you would get £1.1tn, an entire year’s worth of tax revenue. It would affect only 173 People. Tax the Rich, they’ve stolen all the money and dodged tax for decades. It‘s time for payback.

@MothinAli The reader added context is hilarious.

For those at the back of the room - there's no link between grooming gangs, any particular race, religion or culture! To pretend that being called out for echoing Reform is somehow being attacked is a very shallow way of trying to avoid scrutiny. Apologies needed for this racist dog-whistle

@Lifeinvestmoney No savings account is paying 8%, and you’d be paying tax on that amount of interest.

You could literally: - deposit $500,000 into a savings account paying 8% - earn $9,000/month - live off the interest Whys stopping you?

@David__Osland I beg of you, please change your profile picture to something that doesnt look at home in the dictionary under “wet wipe”

@ZackPolanski For breaking into a military base and doing millions in damages to two aircraft / breaking into a defence contractor and doing significant damage*** fixed it for you 🙂

Solidarity with the hunger strikers. It is an egregious violation for them to be held on remand - without trial or conviction. All for protesting against a genocide. Shameful.

@BladeoftheS Your maths isn’t mathing…. Again.

The rich do not pay tax in the UK People on the average of £36,920 pay 33%. People working on PAYE earning £250,000 pay 47%. People with income of £2,000,000 pay only 19%. Billionaires pay only 11%. The rich need to be taxed MORE than everyone else, not 1/4 as much.

@clairebubblepop He lost the Tory leadership because of that, and had to pay it all back?

When Zahawi evaded tax, it was news for a day. Over £3m by the way. He was Chancellor and we were even paying to keep his freaking horses stables warm. Paid his mortgage, energy bills etc. We paid for Sunak’s personal swimming pool. Johnson had his flat redecorated. Sunak legit gave his FIL govt contracts but here you all go ripping Rayner to bits. I wouldn’t give AF if you all treated them as equally bad but you don’t. Rayner’s life is being scrutinised while everyone else gets to be forgotten and moved on.

@STranswidows @LEGS223 @RupertLowe10 You try and take a buck with a .22, and then a rabbit with a 6.5 creedmoor. See how you get on. Multi calibre weapons aren’t multi calibre, they’re a massively oversized receiver with multiple barrels. They have poor accuracy and are very expensive.

@LEGS223 @RupertLowe10 Do you really need a different gun for each species? Why has no gun maker made a versatile, multi-purpose gun?

Positive news. After having my guns confiscated in an armed police raid late on a Friday night in mid-March thanks to false allegations from Reform's Lee Anderson and Zia Yusuf, I have finally had my guns returned. I am pleased they're back, but furious they were ever taken.

@1_ValleysKing_1 @NatRothschild1 @jeremycorbyn I don’t think you understand what “financed” means.

@NatRothschild1 @jeremycorbyn Oppenheimer, the financier of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, did it. History books won't record it. The Oppenheimer family owes Japan an apology.

80 years ago, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. We remember the thousands who were killed in a crime against humanity, as well as the survivors who carried the pain of the past. Today, let us honour them by vowing to rid our world of nuclear weapons once and for all.

@SurelyAutomata @rauli_x @castleDD It’s heavily subsidised. A cheaper car means less money required in terms of subsidy. I’m not sure why that’s such a complex concept for people to grasp.

@rauli_x @castleDD What difference does it make? In this case motability uses new cars because it can easily resell them in a few years - this works out the cheapest for them. However, if they found a way to reduce the lease costs, it's not like it would result in taxpayers paying less.

Motability cars are NOT free. How do I know? I cannot afford the upfront costs for the vehicle I need and it would completely wipe out my PIP to get one, which I can't afford to live without. I don’t drive, so stop the lies. Motability cars are NOT free.

@castleDD Genuinely not trying to antagonise you, but if you’re paying for it with PIP, it’s free. It’s also heavily subsidised.

@SophieP25397 @Mav268279960543 The number of people that could and should pay taxes, is far lower than the number of people claiming benefits. Both in number and tax revenue.

@Mav268279960543 A lot of people could and should pay taxes but don't. Still if your lot get in power and you have an illness or accident it will be shit. But you voted for it.

The UK spends 10.8% of GDP on welfare while France spends 23.8% and Finland spends 25.7% Just remember that when you see #GBNews, the #Mail and #Sun and the likes of #Harwood, #Tominey and #Pearson demanding benefit cuts.

@mouldyscone @tomhfh @DOTR94 I wouldn’t wish that death on my worst enemy. Had she not deteriorated so fast, dignitas would have been her preferred choice. I know that, because I had the pleasure of a brutal 1 way conversation with her 2 month before she died. So maybe, morphine isn’t the be all and end all?

@mouldyscone @tomhfh @DOTR94 Yeah. I know. I begged multiple nurses to do so. It has to be increased gradually. The drugs did absolutely nothing for her in the weeks before her death when her whole existence was the upstairs of the house I grew up in, staring at the bag of drugs that were waiting for her.

If you've been given six months left to live and passionately want to end your own life before you experience the most debilitating pain, embarrassing delirium, and unedifying decay - why should the state forbid you from doing so?

@mouldyscone @tomhfh @DOTR94 Yup. They did. And after 3 days of upping it gradually she eventually passed away. All that pain and suffering, for absolutely nothing. It was barbaric, and it was pointless.

@DrBenjaminBird1 @tomhfh @DOTR94 And they didn’t up her dosages? When she was screaming in pain?

@mouldyscone @tomhfh @DOTR94 She was.

@DrBenjaminBird1 @tomhfh @DOTR94 And she was on a driver?

@mouldyscone @tomhfh @DOTR94 My mum died in my arms 18 months ago, after a life long battle with Von Hippel-Lindau. It was by quite a significant margin the most brutal and painful thing I’ve ever witnessed. I will forever be haunted by her screams of agony, that I couldn’t do anything about. That count?

@DrBenjaminBird1 @tomhfh @DOTR94 Ok Dr in robotics…. How many have you seen on this device?

@FranChats @tomhfh @DOTR94 They’re not typically terminally ill. Stupidity analogy.

@tomhfh @DOTR94 Older people who get urinary tract infections can also become delirious. Small children can become delirious if they have a high temperature. Should these people all be bumped off because of embarrassment? I feel you lack experience of life and death, and common sense.

@mouldyscone @tomhfh @DOTR94 This argument is wishful thinking.

@tomhfh @DOTR94 Tom. They are usually out for the count on morphine. Usually by a syringe driver. wtf you chatting about.