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@BenedictSpence So virtue signaling *is* a thing after all

Nobody has been charged over terrorism offences in this. But Starmer, Burnham and the rest couldn’t wait to tweet about it before the police had anything concrete…

@TaxJusticeUK @andyburnham Do you support bringing back the death penalty?

Be audacious @andyburnham! REMEMBER: 75% of the UK public back a Wealth Tax (& 75% of UK millionaires do too!) The howlers might be loud (because they own newspapers and social media platforms), but in reality they are a tiny, greedy minority protecting their stash.

Look at the human body as a weapon. It is embarrassing. No claws. Fingernails that lose a fight with cardboard. No fangs. Flat little teeth that struggle with a tough steak. No armour. Skin a bramble can open. No fur. Cold kills us in a night. No speed. A squirrel outruns us. A toddler loses to a goose. No strength. A chimp half our weight could take us apart. No venom. No shell. No horns. No wings. Pound for pound, we are the softest large animal in the field. And we hunted every one of them to the edge. Because everything went into one organ instead. The human brain. Twenty percent of your energy, run by a body that skipped every other upgrade. And it is built from fat and animal food. DHA from fish and meat. B12 found in no plant alive. Cholesterol, the scaffolding of every brain cell you own. The ape that started eating meat grew the brain. The brain built the spear. The spear ended the argument with every animal that had the claws and the fangs and the speed. A soft, slow, clawless creature became the apex predator of the entire planet, on the strength of one organ made of the exact food we are now told to cut out for our health. We ate our way to the top of the food chain. Now they want us to eat our way back down.

@joethomlinson He’s not a great defender 🤷🏾‍♂️

So if Saka is fit enough to play 97 minutes, score a hattrick and play like this… why didn’t he play at all vs Argentina?

@Blake_MidBeds We need to bring back shame

Presumably “unashamedly Labour” means government spending taxpayers’ money like there’s no tomorrow and increasing taxes on hard working people. So, more of the same. No thanks, Andy.

@GiaMMacool I wouldn’t buy a car without taking it out for a spin first.

Men will spend days, weeks, even months researching the right… Car Tool Knife Handgun Computer …before buying, but will jump in bed with a women he barley knows and just met a few hours ago. Make it make sense.

@KirstieMAllsopp Very important to allow markets to fall (and rise) organically, and not trap buyers into purchases before they’ve had the opportunity to check all necessary aspects of the property.

News outlets are talking about a rise in “gazundering, the lesser known cousin of gazumping”. 🙄Gazundering is what happens in a falling market, buyers now hold the cards & they are playing them, yes it’s sh*t, and it happens when your purchase/sale systems are broken.

Eat a mouthful of grass and you get nothing. It goes in green and comes out green. Eat straw and you get nothing. Your gut cannot touch cellulose. Eat acorns and you get tannins, and a very bad afternoon. Eat bracken and you get a carcinogen. Eat nettles, thistles, brambles, rushes and moorland heather and you get a mouth full of blood and no calories. Eat the beet pulp, the oat husks and the spent brewer's grain and you get the waste the factory couldn't sell. Now feed the lot of it to a cow. She turns every one of them into steak, butter, cream, milk and a hide, on land that will never grow a vegetable, using four stomachs and a fermentation vat you do not have. The grass she eats grew on rain and sunlight, for free, on a hillside nobody can plough. She is the only creature on earth that can take a field of inedible fibre and hand you back the most nutrient-dense food there is. The cow is not competing with you for food. She eats the ninety percent you cannot. Best plant-based diet ever invented. It just has a cow in the middle doing the hard part.

@shriverist Now compare pensions

How much tax someone earning £12,570 ($16,898) pays in different countries: 🇬🇧 $0 🇦🇺 $968 🇨🇭 $1,079 🇺🇸 $1,408 (median tax state) 🇨🇦 $2,238 (ON) 🇸🇬 $2,554 🇳🇿 $3,609 🇩🇰 $3,615 🇫🇷 $3,774 🇩🇪 $4,530 🇸🇪 $6,245 🇵🇱 $6,315 The Personal Allowance is an abomination.

@tirorinn12 @investygirl @grumpypleb No, she claimed she’d need to earn 120k pre-tax to be able to afford the same lifestyle as the insta woman from post tax disposable income. That’s very different from claiming the insta woman gets anywhere near 120k.

@Rrrrooster @investygirl @grumpypleb OP said they'd need to earn 120k pre-tax to afford these trips. so that'd mean she'd need to be getting roughly that amount.

If somebody is on benefits their lifestyle should be audited at the end of the year. Went on holiday with your whole family? That’s £2000 less next year. You’ve got a full sky tv package? That’s £1200 less next year. Bought a brand new iPhone £1000 less next year. If you’re on

@TaxJusticeUK @gabriel_zucman Not really surprising since most of those bottom 50% hold zero or negative wealth. 🙄

Yes, you heard that right... Put another way, the top 50 richest families in the UK, now hold more wealth than the bottom 50% (≈35MILLION people) combined. @gabriel_zucman is spot on. Extreme wealth inequality is breaking our country. That's why we need a #WealthTax.

@GreenAttackDog Trust tax is higher than income tax.

Billionaire's don't pay income tax, as they don't draw income. They don't pay capital gains tax, as they never sell. They don't pay inheritance tax, as their money (in Trusts) never dies. We're bidding against them on everything we buy. #TaxWealthNotWork

@BladeoftheS You’re talking about Workers. Not Working Class.

Lets just clear this up. You are Working Class if you have to work a regular job or did. If you are a millionaire or a Landlord or are a TV presenter or anyone else who is rich enough to not actually need to work any more. You are not Working Class.

@english_rad @SeanKearney007 They both used to be affectionate nicknames. Then some different people decided one couldn’t possibly be, because they assumed everyone was as racist as they secretly are.

@SeanKearney007 one is intended as a racial slur, the other an affectionate nickname. if you can't see the differnece between the two, then I don't know what to say to you

Can someone explain this to me please.. What’s the difference between the term “Paki” and “Aussie”? One seems to be bad and the other not, but why? Both are just shortened versions of the name but why is one racist and not both?

@NotMyDing @BucketsOf_Rain You were right. You’re describing a “kill the goose that laid the golden egg” strategy

@Rrrrooster @BucketsOf_Rain I said it would be unpopular… You need 2-3x as many ‘modern facility beauty spots’ and dare I use the term ‘activity hubs’ for new countryside enjoyers to use. Double and treble the capacity of it all.

It is. It’s an amazing country. However, for a summer break: too many people; travelling expensive, unpleasant and unreliable without a car; hotels often poor value for money. Sadly also, really pains me to say this, but enshittification is a real thing and it’s spreading.

@Darren_Mulds @jessgill03 How? Turkeys aren’t going to vote for Christmas.

@jessgill03 My old school used to be about 50% white when i was there. Every day i see them leave on my way back from work and it’s got to be about 5% white now. Just walking through the town centre you rarely see a white face. It must be reversed.

I genuinely don’t understand how anyone can go outside in the UK and not see that mass immigration has taken over and destroyed our country. Even the remaining nice parts are starting to have their problems.

@DisabledRebel @grumpypleb Good for you. In general I don’t think people on benefits should have enough cash to buy brand new iPhones. Plenty of working people don’t.

@Rrrrooster @grumpypleb I’m just saying my phone is 5 years old

@simonhancock_uk @karlrgibson1 @DanielJHannan Because as OP said, it’s my right to do so. It’s my right to determine whether I think this is a one-off aberration, or by assembling multiple information points, whether I think there’s something rotten in the sector.

@Rrrrooster @karlrgibson1 @DanielJHannan Why? If the university had defended that person, I could understand that point of view, but they haven't done that.

This is a real test for free speech advocates. When disgusting things are said by people you don’t like, will you step up and defend them? Or will you take the weaselly option of claiming that something or other makes this case special?

@DisabledRebel @grumpypleb What is? OP said “Bought a brand new iPhone”. An iPhone is a luxury item. Way cheaper phones still do all the same stuff.

@Rrrrooster @grumpypleb It’s 5 years old

@NotMyDing @BucketsOf_Rain If you think there aren’t already hotels, transport, and “things to do” in our easily accessible National Parks, I’d question whether you’ve ever even been to the Peak District. Domes? Wtf?

@Rrrrooster @BucketsOf_Rain That’s exactly why it needs to be done otherwise there will be no national parks as they just get over-run by unsympathetic types.