Ian Oates 🦋

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No reporter seems to have yet found an 80-year-old farmer who still owns their own land and has children to pass it on to. Maybe that's because most family farmers pass it on in their 60s, and die after any IHT is due? It's a tax only paid by people who don't trust their children. All this 'I want to pass it on', clearly you don't.

Labour is hiking taxes on billionaires. Don’t be distracted by the farmers protesting in Westminster. Inheritance tax on farmland means the super rich will pay their fair share. Here’s who’s most affected:

@POTUS This is the man who said that no-one in Gaza was innocent… …one of the first signals that vast collective punishment and potentially war crimes and genocide was incoming on a population where half of them are children.

Someone… Please Explain to me & the rest of us who are losing our last shreds of faith in humanity How TF can it be… That a massacre of 70% women and children With those children mostly between 5 & 9 …can still be labelled as self-defence. This world disgusts me.

43 years ago Dead Kennedys have released their most important and still very relevant single “Nazi Punks Fuck Off” The Ritz, Austin, Texas, August 7, 1982 #punkrockhistory

Still got the blue bird here.

If you're a plumber and a mate asks you to fix their dripping tap you have no shame in charging them £20 for the half hour you were there. If you work in IT and someone has a computer problem apparently you're supposed to fix that for fucking free even if it takes you 3 hours.

Mohammad is a consultant NHS surgeon. His elderly parents are in Jabalia refugee camp, unable to evacuate. Everything there is being shot by drones and there are bodies strewn in the streets. The sick, the elderly, and those caring for them are not legitimate targets of war.

Humanitarian law prohibits starvation as a weapon of warfare. It is unacceptable that no food has entered Northern Gaza since 1st Oct. I called on the UK Govt to take firm action against Israel’s illegal use of starvation as a weapon of war.

Today in the chamber, I questioned the Minister about the UN’s findings that Israel deliberately attacked Gaza’s healthcare system, committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. More is needed to be done to urgently and immediately end the loss of life and these violent breaches of human rights.

Powerful argument by @mehdirhasan on why it's a perfect time to kick Israel out of the UN, or at least the General Assembly: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Israeli Attacks Kill 55 in Gaza democracynow.org/2024/10/15/hea…

After 375 days of Israel’s non-stop slaughter using US weapons, the Biden Administration waited until 21 days before Election Day to consider holding Israel accountable. Gaza can’t wait another day. Stop the bombs now.

Israel has killed a classroom full of children every single day for a whole year. Sam Rose from UNRWA.

Israel is a rogue nation. It should be removed from the United Nations: One rogue nation cannot declare war on the UN itself and continue to get away with it | Mehdi Hasan theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Oh, look... there's a gaping £100 billion hole in Britain's finances. Anyone want to try fitting the £100 billion cost of Brexit into it? Anyone at all?