Secret Oxford Professor
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Secret Oxford Professor
@SecretOxProf
Venting Atmosphere after a long day amongst dweebs Tactical Whisky Purge - targeting happy zone IQ
Oxford Katılım Şubat 2026
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If you work 9-6:30 every single day Reform will promise you an extra £1000. Is that it?
What a waste of life for £1k.
Go spend time with your family, do some gardening, go to the pub, enjoy your life. The extra £1k to run yourself into the ground is not worth it.
Robert Jenrick@RobertJenrick
If you work at the Heinz factory near Wigan, do an hour and a half overtime every day, you’ll be *£1,000* a year better off. Reform will make work pay again.
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@johnbestwest Yes that’s by design
The economy needs low income workers to do more hours
We also need more people being content with staying at this level - infinite progression traps are murder for the workforce
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@BasilTheGreat They’ll just restrict it to understaffed public sector jobs
Police NHS etc
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Reform's new tax cut on overtime is stupid beyond belief
Every small business, every self employed person, as many as possible will simply lower their salary to minimum wage and pay as much as possible in "OVERTIME"
Who is going to check the overtime was actually done? HMRC?
What are they going to do, march down to the office and make sure you're at your desk after 5pm? 🤣
The whole thing is just wide open to corruption
Cllr Rob Kenyon@RobKenyonReform
Reform will reward hard graft with fair pay. This policy to remove tax from overtime would have been a godsend for me a few years ago. It will help loads of people in Makerfield and Wigan.
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@_oatc_ @BBCBreakfast Yer that’s a fair point
And what happens if someone’s mid poop ?
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@SecretOxProf @BBCBreakfast No it doesn't. Only the service provider 's toilet police can do that, and risk harassment charges.
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Single-sex spaces - such as changing rooms and toilets - must be used on the basis of biological sex, new guidance from the equalities watchdog has confirmed.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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@louisvarge Before WW1 … the French could send you back for literally any reason
That ability is a wonderful moderator of behaviour
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i don’t understand why immigration of any sort is universally unpopular. almost every country on earth heavily restricts it
this is a recent thing too! before world war 1, you could just take a steamship from Brazil to Paris for $20 and decide you lived in France now
what changed? are people bad now? is that the reason more people are even more bad?
back then income wasn’t taxed in most jurisdictions either. now we tax our own people’s income & we don’t allow others to immigrate and earn income.
i ask again, are people bad? is working bad? where did this zero sum attitude come from?
what if we could also start deporting our own citizens, to have as few people as possible. would that be even better? is 0 the best amount of people? what is the point of all this?
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@DobbyClub06 @KiddsL47940 Oh so I assume you don’t lock your front door
It’s just an invisible border really
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@KiddsL47940 Do you really think Jesus would want you to spend your worthless existence telling fellow children of god which invisible borders they’re allowed to cross or not
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Reform voters when they realise less immigration doesn’t in fact improve their lives
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 BREAKING: Net migration to the UK fell to 171,000 from 331,000 in the year to December 2025 - the lowest point since 2012
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@Blue_Collar_Dog @_sorrengailll Anyone can do that
But you will have to move to Somalia (or equivalent)
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@_sorrengailll I dont care about pay. Any job that requires an adult should pay enough so that person can buy a house and raise a family on one income.
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@DanielaGabor Apparently - if you label something an “opinion” piece
It has no obligation to be factually accurate or remotely logical
Daniela has thus presented the equivalent of a child’s incoherent crayon scribbles as evidence
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@JerryJ2069 @Heccles94 If I remember correctly
These were times of unprecedented peace and prosperity
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@MasterMaliq Yer why you losers freaking out about 20mil head chopping psychopaths
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@DalbyMonica @neilorpen @jwsal So you want an interest free loan with no deposit ?
And this sounded non retarded in your head did it ?
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@neilorpen @jwsal Many people are paying rent that's higher than a mortgage payment would be. If the government redirected that money into loaning a lump sum so that people could buy their own homes, the housing benefit would come down dramatically.
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Private landlords are costing the UK £40 billion in housing benefit every year. They are a drain on the economy and do no work, providing no productivity or growth.
Kirstie Allsopp@KirstieMAllsopp
Surprise, surprise @wesstreeting is on @BBCr4today bashing landlords. I’ve got news for you mate, we can’t have a “productive nation” without people having homes, so if you want to tax Landlords to hell, I’d build some alternative accommodation first ‘cos you’re going to need it.
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@jwsal That’s so true - the government should buy the properties and rent them out at affordable rates
Assuming a current 5% yield
That comes to a paltry £800 billion
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Guardiola 100% knows the outcome of the FA charges
He made a simple calculation
Turns out it’s less awkward being deducted 200 points if you have already left
Jeremy Corbyn@jeremycorbyn
Pep Guardiola is much more than just an unbelievable manager. He spoke up for the people of Palestine, Sudan and Congo while others looked away. Pep used his platform to defend our shared humanity. That will never be forgotten. Thank you, Pep.
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@MasterMaliq I dunno dude
People who refer to “our prophet” are rarely chill
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Muslims are not dangerous. We are human beings like everyone else, with families, love, care, and ordinary lives. Our faith teaches compassion, not hatred. Our Prophet taught respect and mercy.
Yes, there are a few extremists who distort our religion and bring shame to it, but they do not represent the vast majority of Muslims.
So why is it that many still get profiled and treated as suspects? Is it fear, or hate?
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@JeevunSandher It’s economically unviable to build anything anymore
Either cut taxes, interest rates or regulation
Or please …. Respectfully …. Sit down and shut up
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Build more homes. Build more clean energy.
Both raise growth. Both reduce inflation in the long run. That gets the debt burden down.
Fiscal responsibility in action.
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@bencsmoke Talk me through your plan Ben
Let’s say all landlords sell
Who’s gonna buy ?
Will they rent it out at a loss ?
Can you afford to buy even at a discount ?
With all that wealth loss - who’s gonna pay your nans pension ?
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being a landlord is morally repugnant. remains a great social failure that we allow landlords to extort profit from working people for the luxury of 'having shelter'. they must be taxed into oblivion, releasing housing stock, bringing down prices + making living affordable.
Kirstie Allsopp@KirstieMAllsopp
Surprise, surprise @wesstreeting is on @BBCr4today bashing landlords. I’ve got news for you mate, we can’t have a “productive nation” without people having homes, so if you want to tax Landlords to hell, I’d build some alternative accommodation first ‘cos you’re going to need it.
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@ReasonRiffs @SYS_04_ @owenjonesjourno @ZackPolanski Well …. Compare the number of Russian soldiers in Ukraine
Vs inward migration to the UK
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@SYS_04_ @owenjonesjourno @ZackPolanski If you want to see what a real invasion looks like check out eastern Ukraine.
We clearly need to have a debate on immigration, and free to share our views, but do you really think of immigration to the UK as an invasion? Do you not think that's a bit hyperbolic?
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Labour is introducing one of the harshest asylum systems in Europe.
Andy Burnham has signed up to it.
Pippa Crerar@PippaCrerar
EXCL: Andy Burnham is backing Shabana Mahmood’s controversial changes to the immigration system, his allies have said, in a blow to those in Labour who hope to soften them. The Greater Manchester mayor is understood to be keen to reframe the changes - but is supportive of home secretary’s attempts to limit legal and illegal migration. Burnham faces tough fight to return to Westminster against Reform UK, which has already called him “open-borders Andy”. But those close to his campaign say he will not seek to dilute the government’s curbs on migration - which have been criticised by some senior Labour MPs as un-British and mimicking Trump. Big story from @jessicaelgot & @kiranstacey theguardian.com/politics/2026/…
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@Steven_Swinford If my investments lose money
Can I have a discount on my income tax
No … oh ok ..
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Wes Streeting has this morning set out his tax plans - specifically bringing capital gains tax into line with income tax
He says that the current system is unfair because it penalises work
Higher or additional rate taxpayers will pay 24% on gains in the current financial year. Streeting said that the rates should mirror income tax bands - so 40% for higher rate taxpayers and 45% for additional rate taxpayers
He says that the approach could raise £12billion a year
Streeting said: “A member of my family is a cleaner in Lancashire. She pays a higher tax rate on her salary than her landlord pays for the growing value of the home she lives in. She slogs her guts out, he puts in far less effort, yet the state rewards him more than her. And we wonder why people are angry.
“The system is penalising work. It’s not fair and it’s bad for our economy. We need a wealth tax that works. A pound made from simply owning assets should not be taxed less than a pound made from a hard day's work. We can do it in a way that is pro-growth, pro-entrepreneur and pro-work.”
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