@CanningtonCaz @GlorifiedDonkey ebay.co.uk/itm/2872584364… back in the day people used these to be able to hit a golf ball on the Sabbath
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Jonathan F
@Funactuary2
Rugby Union 🦈, Golf, Crossfit 🏋️,
Manchester, England Katılım Mayıs 2021
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@GlorifiedDonkey I’d ruin it and sneak my gap wedge on my walk and play a few approach shots into the road hole for sure.
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The Old Course at St Andrews is closed on a Sunday!
It becomes a large green park for locals and holiday makers to take a walk!
Thoughts?
#homeofgolf #standrews
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@Therichardralph There used to be a rule about the max cash you can hold in an S&S ISA but think that’s now gone, simply reintroduce the limit - problem solved
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Call me mad.
But I think Rachel reeves plan to tax cash held in S&S ISA is a good idea.
The benefit to the UK of the S&S ISA is that money flows into business pushing up the value of the UK economy.
Especially if as expected the majority of risk adverse Brits will go for FTSE ETFs.
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@CurtisDaly_ If you want to impact Bezos then encourage people not to use Amazon and companies from using AWS…..but that won’t happen
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The American tax system will only be progressive once it taxes billionaires out of existence.
Jeff Bezos@JeffBezos
Yes, the United States has the most progressive tax system in the world. The top 1% pay 40% of taxes, the bottom 50% pay 3% of taxes. We can make it even more progressive by zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. It’s a small amount of the total tax revenue but very meaningful to people in this group.
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@owenjonesjourno The problem you face though is that the city centre isn’t equipped to cope with the numbers. The number of Drs surgeries hasn’t increased, infrastructure out of Manchester remains poor, the money spent on Regent Road/Chester roundabout has made zero positive impact
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That’s exactly what has happened.
Lots of luxury flats have been built in central Manchester.
So there are more richer people living there.
Meanwhile poorer people have been forced to outer areas.
Taj Ali@Taj_Ali1
I went through this report. Overall deprivation in Greater Manchester remains unchanged. To what extent has the decline in inner-city deprivation been a result of poor people being pushed out of the inner-city as the wealthy move in?
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@JeremyArnold31 @owenjonesjourno Some yes but not all. Places like Hulme and Ordsall have seen people moved on
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@owenjonesjourno Total nonsense. Which is obvious to anyone who knows Manchester. These new build flats were all on empty land where no one was living. Loads of young professionals haven't moved into Collyhurst and kicked out the residents. Putting your london lens onto Manchester. Lazy.
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@sbichenko @owenjonesjourno bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… if you have time watch this - it might help explain what happened. Locals in social housing are being moved out to make way for flats, and lots of them
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@owenjonesjourno Wait, how did were they forced out? Were there blackshirts?
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@Heccles94 looking forward to seeing you lose your shit if musk becomes a trillionaire once SpaceX goes public 🤣
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@itvpeston @MrLeeCain @CharlesbyeStrat He’d have probably said the same think about Thatcher when she first got elected as leader - that turned out ok.
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“Kemi Badenoch is doing a bad job and is taking the party backwards”
Founding Partner @CharlesbyeStrat @MrLeeCain says ‘gloomy’ polling for the Conservatives suggests that the party is being permanently abandoned for Reform
#Peston
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@broseph_stalin How would you propose those areas that rely on tourism and people owning 2nd houses as holiday lets? Some areas rely on tourism to exist, take this away and these areas die
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@Funactuary2 @PolitlcsUK The Uniparty have absolutely destroyed our country. It’s beyond repair in many inner city areas unfortunately.
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🚨 WATCH: Kemi Badenoch mocks Wes Streeting's leadership ambitions
"Why don't you just do your job? There's no point him giving me dirty looks - we all know what he's been up to"
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@RamblesOfRonnie @PolitlcsUK Labour have had the same time to come up with credible policies and a coherent strategy - they have failed to deliver as Kier keeps u turning
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@PolitlcsUK Kemi telling someone to get on and do there job is a stretch after what the Tories did for 14 years and Labour elected with a huge majority to clean up the mess only for Starmer and Reeves to make it worse. Streeting is one of the few getting on with his brief unlike some.
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@Bcfc1875123 @PolitlcsUK Whilst they had 14 years, Labour had the same time in opposition to come up with credible policies for when they got into Government - I have no idea what these now are as there have been so many u turns it’s not true
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@PolitlcsUK She is a great leader of the opposition- but and here comes the but! They had 14 years… our population has increased by over 13m over the last 20 years and not 1 single person has ever voted for this!
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The Times is owned by Rupert Murdoch who has likely avoided between £2,000,000,000 and £5,000,000,000 in UK taxes
Times Politics@timespolitics
Zack Polanski staying at £2m house after saying he may owe council tax #Echobox=1778591663" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
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@williamnhutton @paulmasonnews I liken it to King Canute trying to stop the tide coming in - be very funny to watch this approach in practice but rather damaging
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As a fellow ex-economics editor of BBC Newsnight happy to join Paul on the call explaining why bond markets ‘ do not fall into line’. This is deep and dangerous economic illiteracy.
Paul Mason@paulmasonnews
In the name of public service, and as ex-economics editor of BBC Newsnight, I offer to do a zoom call, tonight, with any Labour MP who wants to understand why bond markets do not "fall into line" with governments. 1/
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@Heccles94 …. Zack lived on the boat with a permanent mooring…. Wouldn’t a normal person ask the question about council tax as a consequence?
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BREAKING 🚨
The tax expert who broke the Polanski Boat Tax Story admits he wasn’t even aware of the situation surrounding Marina boat tax until he started exploring it.
It turns out only one resident in 35 years have ever paid council tax on the Marina!
Pretty quick to blame Zack though wasn’t he…
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@paulmasonnews There is also the technical point that for mature DB pensions or this that have bought out, there is an incentive to own ‘private assets’ over gilts as there are Solvency II benefits on how they are accounted
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In the name of public service, and as ex-economics editor of BBC Newsnight, I offer to do a zoom call, tonight, with any Labour MP who wants to understand why bond markets do not "fall into line" with governments. 1/
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@Trout737 @paulmasonnews So you’d be happy for sterling to fall pushing up prices of anything that is imported? As for the FTSE, anyone with a workplace pension would suffer if it fell and remained low for a sustained period of time. Having said that pension schemes only allocate about 4% to U.K. equity
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@paulmasonnews There are more important things in our society than bond markets or the ftse. This is a kind fetishism which harms our society. IMHO of course.
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@The_TUC What would happen if these banks such as HSBC changed their domicile? What would happen to the tax take?
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NEW🚨| The big four banks made £13.8 billion in first quarter of 2026.
In 2023 the Conservatives cut the bank surcharge tax from 8% to 3%.
Restoring it to 8% would raise £9bn over four years. A 35% surcharge would raise £60bn.
It's time for the banks to pay their share.
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@HJMKent @TC_Survivalist @The_TUC They do own shares in them through their pension schemes.
Do the uk high street banks own Visa and Master card? Not sure they do
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@TC_Survivalist @The_TUC Perhaps if they didn't "steal the money" first from customers with their extortionate interest charges you might have a case! Bank rate 3.5% - Credit Card interest 24.5% - £13bn profits! Greedy Capitalist SCUM? Perspective? 😉
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@The_TUC Out of interest how much of that was generated in the U.K. and how much was through retail lending?
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