Rowan smith

@shadothecat @TheMaliaMarks @SenWarren I repeat my original point: 120 million Vs 7 billion. 120 million is nothing.

@Rowansm16268989 @TheMaliaMarks @SenWarren Us govtNot rich guy you just want to take money from. 120 million follars could run a social program or pay for any number of tax programs

Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.

@shadothecat @TheMaliaMarks @SenWarren The US govt spent 7 trillion last year. 120 million is nothing - it does not go a long way at all.

@Rowansm16268989 @TheMaliaMarks @SenWarren 120 million each year goes along way. Him and other billionaires create millions of jobs. More then our own government

@TheMaliaMarks @SenWarren 120 million Vs 7 billion... Big difference

Never thought I could be baited into defending Bezos, but this is exactly why he didn’t move to MA when he left WA. It’s not like he doesn’t spend on charity. In 2023 alone, he spent $120 million to combat homelessness. Your problem, Liz, is that he doesn’t want YOU to personally manage his contributions to the common good. All you want is power.

@Smt66S @sophielouisecc You didn't pay for state pension. You paid into NI. The state pension is paid through general taxation. Therefore, you didn't pay for it. Post war prosperity, cheap money w/ low interest rates and then close the door to opportunities to the young. And still play the victim😂

@Rowansm16268989 @sophielouisecc Paid into state pension all my life. Try telling them who go out and get pregnant and expect everybody else to pay. Find daddy love.

Young people Pensioners getting a pension they can live off of after working their whole damn lives - is not an attack on us It is the hotel dwellers and those that can’t be arsed to work - that we have to pay for that are the problem That is the actual unfairness here

@Smt66S @sophielouisecc Because state pension is meant for basics only. Not young people's fault youre financially illiterate and couldnt plan ahead. Now the young must pay more for your (inflation busting!!) lifestyle.

@Rowansm16268989 @sophielouisecc We paid in love. Why should pay into second pension. Have asked those what don't work. Bet haven't.

@SusanCrayfourd @sophielouisecc Noone gives a fuck how many children you have - they have an objectively harder time financially as a result of your generations prosperity and (continued) greed

@sophielouisecc Thank you. I'm sick of being blamed by young people. My husband and myself worked all our lives and brought up 3 children who all go to work and pay tax and are respectful of others.

@Smt66S @sophielouisecc State pension and workplace pension are different. If you'd actually paid then you'd have a workplace pension and be fine and dandy. Pensioners are a drain on society.

@sophielouisecc You pay into pot for years. You can then take out the pot. Any young person who thinks this is not right. Why? You have not paid for my pension. I have paid for my own pension Start earning your own pension. Try working.

@TheAdroDynamic @Ledmagpie @JeffDGlazerite 135 hahah - when was the last time you checked house prices? 1998?

@Ledmagpie @JeffDGlazerite No chance that's a quarter-mil. Around the £135k mark I'd guess - obviously depends on the area, which is information I don't need to know lol

@Sumynakqx @bttwss @KILLTOPARTY What I ridiculous comment

@bttwss @KILLTOPARTY If men didn’t set a precedent of constantly cheating on their pregnant wives, believe me no woman would feel anxious about this

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@Adiensos @Heccles94 Maybe I wasn't clear. I'm saying that JCB, or any other company, will give £ to a political party because they think that party will help other businesses. It doesn't make sense from a business standpoint and therefore it's logical to think there's some ulterior motive

@Rowansm16268989 @Heccles94 Donates then, fund was the wrong choice of word but my point still stands.

JCB has an annual turnover of £6,500,000,000 pounds and the owners (the Bamford Family) have a net worth of £9,450,000,000. Thanks for clarifying what you mean by small business Nigel. (NB - the owner is being investigated and could owe HMRC £500,000,000) (NB2 - the firm defied sanctions on Russia and continue trading - no wonder Nigel likes them).

@Adiensos @Heccles94 Big business doesn't fund political parties so policymakers can help other companies. The sole goal for business is to increase profit.

I don't understand. A big business funds a political party because they believe the party backs small businesses as does JCB. So is this another narrative taken out of context by saying that he thinks JCB is the small business? If that's correct this will also make people question the legitimacy of the facts that have been stated. To me this is just another thing to fuel anger and get clicks. Too many are doing this and it needs to stop.

@Women_Stand_Up @shysteee2018 @antmiddleton @IsabelOakeshott Immigrants make up 88%-91% of the population you stupid idiot

@shysteee2018 @antmiddleton @IsabelOakeshott Am Islamic country that would never allow the 3rd world degenerates that arrive on our shores by the thousands. I wonder why??

No but @antmiddleton and @IsabelOakeshott tweeting about feeling unsafe in the UK when they live in an ISLAMIC country is hilarious

@BBCPolitics So they've made a law that requires ID verification to watch porn, supposedly stopping children from accessing. Now they're introducing this to prevent what adults can view in private? Zero benefit virtue signalling which can be circumvented as easily as the Online Safety Act.

Online porn showing choking to be made illegal, government says bbc.in/4hJuH95

@Paulshrews33 @Rod__Mason @jessicaelgot You're an idiot begging for politicians to become even more out of touch than they already are.

Exc - Activists could be jailed for six months for protesting outside MPs’ homes. Amendment laid tonight by government to beef up policing bill to stop activists targeting at private homes- but likely to draw further criticism on attacks on protest rights

@Rod__Mason @jessicaelgot Youre suggesting that protest must involve people taking to the streets but only in pre-sanctioned agreed times and locations? How ineffective. Politicians must not be able to hide from the electorate behind their children's feelings.

@Rowansm16268989 @jessicaelgot The point of protest is to try and effect change, by demonstrating how many people are prepared physically to take to the streets, to show their opposition to a current situation or policy, That doesn’t mean frightening MPs’ kids, outside their family homes.

@Rod__Mason @jessicaelgot Tell me Rod, what's the point of protest?

@jessicaelgot There’s no need to protest outside an MPs’ home, and it’s certainly not fair on their spouse and kids (and neighbours.)

@grok @WilliamKin65977 @ohyha72 @jvgraz @grok Did marx think the dictatorsgip of the proletariat was inevitable or only unavoidable under the historical conditions created by mature crisis prone capitalism? And therefore not inevitable at all

Yes, Marx believed the dictatorship of the proletariat was inevitable as the transitional stage following the proletarian revolution, which historical materialism deemed unavoidable due to capitalism's internal contradictions. In works like his 1875 "Critique of the Gotha Program" and analyses of the Paris Commune, he portrayed it as the mechanism for the working class to wield state power, dismantle bourgeois structures, and advance toward classless society. This phase, he argued, suppresses counter-revolution before withering away.

She did the meme!

@WilliamKin65977 @ohyha72 @jvgraz Oversimplified. Marx didn't believe dictatorship of the proletariat was inevitable. Says capitalism undermines itself and would ultimately lead to communism due to the disappearance of the middle class. Didn't prophesize this either, said material conditions dictate the outcome.

@ohyha72 @jvgraz I guess I'll explain it to you like I would a child... Marx rejected incremental change. He said the inevitable path forward was a dictatorship of the proletariat, completely doing away with the current economic & political systems. Then, he prophesied, communism would happen.

@astro_chilli_ @stefharvv @mattwoor @PolitlcsUK @Telegraph Deliberately misinterpreting my post shows how weak your argument is lmao

🚨 NEW: Rachel Reeves is considering a 2p rise in Income Tax but a 2p cut in National Insurance in the Budget Around 30 million workers who pay both taxes would pay the same amount, but pensioners and landlords - who don’t pay NI - would be hit [@Telegraph]