SarahLou1967

What have the Tories changed? Nothing. Until they realise the problems and start tackling them ( Labour too in its turn) they will be unelectable. This letter could form the basis of a list.

@QuantyJim @tomhfh So no one will buy anything and companies will go bust?

@tomhfh There is no answer, unfortunately. AI is going to take jobs: virtually everyone will be unemployed in 20 years. Governments will not be able to force AI companies to pay tax.

Literally no one has picked up on this, but perhaps the most important thing that happened today at the Reform press conference was one throwaway remark made by Robert Jenrick. Jenrick was speaking about the proportion of the economy that was in services compared to manufacturing things, compared to goods. He said a fundamental truth that will be a larger and larger part of our political discussion as people wake up to what is actually happening in the world. I am talking, of course, about artificial intelligence. I've written before about how Britain in particular is almost uniquely susceptible to automation. We have more ‘email jobs’ than just about any other major economy. We are at the very frontier of the most automatable and at-risk economies from the rapid advance of large language models and generative AI. Jenrick appeared to suggest one solution is more jobs making physical things. I don’t know if that is the answer, but I do know we should be talking a LOT more about this. It’s kind of insane to me how little we talk about how rapidly our entire economy is going to change. How significantly the world we live in will shift. We need to look beyond our noses.

@ColeFusionHQ @RealAdamB1 Afraid she is simply dreadful - although the Unions/Rayner are to blame for additional employment rights.

Employers already absorbed the NI hike. Now they get higher business rates, minimum wage rising faster than inflation and the Employment Rights Act rolling in through 2026.

@steam_simon @truemagic68 It really hasn’t.

@truemagic68 Not an argument a Brexiteer can make. You promised we’d all be better off outside the EU. Food prices lower, greater growth, everyone wealthier. No downsides, etc, etc. None of this came true. We have all the disadvantages but none of what you promised. Brexit has failed.

Brexit’s tragedy: we gambled on free trade just as the world turned protectionist; we dismissed European continental solidarity as the platform for our security just as events made it more important than ever; and we bet the farm on the Special Relationship just as Trump arrived.

@ZeljkoMaric73 @hiltonholloway It does not apply to housing - yet.

Dutch Pass 36% Wealth Tax on Unrealized Gains So a wave of inflation comes and your house has risen in value, they will have some independent appraiser determined the value of your house and you will have to pay 36% in cash on that increased value. How do you pay such a tax if you do not have the cash? You will then be compelled to sell your house to pay the tax? armstrongeconomics.com/uncategorized/…

@MbarkCherguia Yes!

I Actually do not remember this. Does anyone here. 🤔

@toadmeister Sounds too bald . Son has SEN but very high functioning. No extra funding but extra time in exams ( which is now hard to get). Consequently at one of our top universities and coping. It was of significant help to get a better understanding of his spiky profile -mainly to him!

Special needs spending has swallowed up half of all new money for schools since 2015, much of it in affluent areas. The problem, says Dr Max Pemberton, is middle class parents who can't accept their child is average. dailysceptic.org/2026/02/16/spe…

@EmeraldIsle64 @hiltonholloway @SandraBlackCat @that_1 She probably lied about that too. I expect she is somewhere in between say born 79/80.

@SandraBlackCat @that_1 In the March 1997 edition of Seventeen magazine Meghan Markle's age was reported to have been 21. This means that she was born in 1975/76 and she's now 49/50 years old, not her claimed age of 44. Why does she lie about her real age?

@ToliverWrist @fbhutto Bot

@fbhutto The British Museum continues to house looted artifacts from all over the world, including China, India, and even Ireland and Greece, refusing to give them back. Once an imperialist colonialist, always an imperialist colonialist.

Stop visiting the “British” museum, stop buying tickets. Boycott

I have a friend who is one of the best editors in Hollywood. By thirty-five she’d won awards, had the big office, the assistant, the recognition. She also had the creeping realization that the life she actually wanted (a husband, kids, Sunday dinners) was slipping away. She started dating men she didn’t even like, just to try to make it happen. At thirty-nine her two year relationship imploded. She called me in tears. “I put my career first because that’s what we were supposed to do. Now yeah I’m at the top of my game but I’ve lost the only thing I actually wanted.” I have so many stories like this. We need to warn the next generation of women of the risks of delaying family for too long.

@Danjsalt Starmer hired a native - Sud Gray - and thought she would fix it.

"The state itself is failing. This is what I learnt in government. Discovering this in office has been a shock for my generation of Labour advisers and politicians. It’s not just, as the party believed in opposition, that the Tories, mired in impropriety, were failures. Slow, secretive and sclerotic, the government machinery itself is jammed. Our good intentions, in a busted system, are not enough. You need scepticism, a plan and some history. When Labour came to power in 1964 it did so not only with a healthy suspicion of the state but a compelling critique. Such thinking has been sorely lacking this time round. As a result, we have ceded any critique of the civil service and the state to Dominic Cummings and Danny Kruger." I mean he's right but it also underlines how little work and thinking Labour did

@PrfChrisPainter France will vote in RN. Go figure.

Starmer transitioning from 'making Brexit work' to 'we are not the Britain of the Brexit years any more'. The European tectonic plates are moving.

@hearnimator @docsuzy People don’t hate Jews. Certain people over identify with the Palestinians mainly because they are unclear on history. They therefore hate Israel and are too simple minded to deal with complex moral /ethical situations. In addition Islamist extremists pose a violent threat.

@docsuzy Thanks Susan. Great advice x

The weekend in Jew-hate: A prominent Jewish comedian is harassed by someone in the tube demanding he take a purity test. Others go door-to-door on Sheffield for the same purpose, and assault people challenging them. The New York Book Review publishes an article complaining that the US Holocaust Memorial Museum is not ok with minimising the Holocaust. Neo-Nazis in Germany go on an “anti-Israel” march, and invoke the bombing of Dresden Back in Britain, Reform UK figures are accused of antisemitism including someone who said “I wouldn’t touch a Jewish woman”. At the other end of the political spectrum, Green Party activists revive racist Soviet propaganda campaigns against Jews Dr Myriam Francois has a chat with Ash Sarkar, saying that Jews are privileged, rich and steal attention from real victims. Meanwhile two men are sentenced to life for trying to mass murder Jews in Manchester. Muslim former CEO of Oxfam accuses them of antisemitism and being obsessed with demonising Israel A British journalist’s Jewishness is invoked in a report assuming he published a leak they assume is from Russia, even though he is banned from Russia. Government ministers believed it. Israeli hostage describes being sexually assaulted 'almost every single day' during 482 days in Gaza and how she tried to kill herself three times before she was freed And how did the weekend start? With racist placards as Palestine Action won their appeal and a flood of hate online I’ve probably missed a few bits out, but you get the jist. It’s relentless, overwhelming and almost every Jew feels it.

@BucketsOf_Rain It is also unrealistic.

@SLou1967 No, none. Incredible, isn't it? It's so fundamentally nasty. It's powered by resentment & self-interest. Camille Paglia always said that if war comes to the West again, the women will retreat indoors with the children and the men will do the fighting.

The issue of women’s safety has become a matter of paramount political importance to me. I find the stream of stories every week so disturbing and I can’t understand why any country would tolerate this. The historic rape gangs are bad enough, yet govt keeps pouring fuel on fire

@BucketsOf_Rain There is no recognition of strong “male”traits like courage and physical strength, protectiveness, focus etc. Clearly these can be displayed by women too . I am reminded of Ukraine post Russian invasion when women and children invited to leave, and men required to stay and fight.

@SLou1967 They are resentful, stupid harridans. Also incredibly boring.

@RachelThieves @Ricburton My son spent 18th birthday in Covid.

@Ricburton I loved the 90s, I was a teenager at the time and it was brilliant 👏 feel like its gone steadily downhill since this point in time. When I turned 18 I had a expansive nightlife to choose from, when my twin sons turned 18 they were locked down 3 days later 😭

It is impossible to describe how good Britain felt in the 90s & 2000s I loved it This song kind of captures it

A good man.

@cambridge_peter @stuzi_pants ☝️

@stuzi_pants He’s right. Relative poverty exists where there’s a difference between people’s income, no matter whether that difference is millions of pounds or just a penny. Relative poverty is a mathematical formula, not a true indicator of actual poverty. I assume you don’t know this?

Multimillionaire Zia Yusuf talking shite again (you’re shocked right?) trying to claim that poverty is a construct of the left, and that if everyone in Britain had ten times more money then there’d still be people labelled as in poverty Sick of his face

@BucketsOf_Rain I have two delightful sons. I am consistently bewildered by the wrath directed at men/boys by women . As women have ascended the employment ranks this seems to have got worse!

I care about a lot of other things and people too but I am so looking forward, god willing, to seeing the entire hatchet-faced feminist establishment unseated from its throne, politically and culturally

@TheSecretAcct @paultrowntree I do believe this is very simplistic. We may be in a different world in 15 years but presently not.

@paultrowntree Yes absolutely, it’ll just be a fraction of graduates that are taken on that will progress up the ranks. This will have a knock on effect on law school universities and their funding.

A good debate here. Yes it’s currently restricted/flawed but we are the equivalent of being back in 1996 when the Internet was when all you could do was read the New York Times & buy a book from Amazon that took two weeks to be delivered & the postage cost as much as the book.

No matter how hard you try, arguing with a woman is a battle you just cannot win 😂