@AlanJLSmith I have no problem this with
Tax the dead not the living.
Increase inheritance tax, make every person pay it on every single pound.
Lower income tax for everyone.
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Steven Valentine
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Steven Valentine
@StevenV37819818
Listens to both sides of the argument. Facts over hyperbole! Don’t be a one sided extremist. Hates littering. Calling out BS one reply at a time
Katılım Ağustos 2022
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From next year, if your kids inherit your pension fund, they could pay 74% tax on the amount received through double tax (inheritance tax and income tax on the same fund).
In, fact it could be as high as 84%.
Madness!
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@HugoPap2 So you are not a fan of freedom of movement, did you vote for Brexit too?
Basically forcing people to live where they are born.
Want to take a job more than 50 miles away from your home, no, Hugo says you can’t rent so stay where you are!
🤡
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@koshercockney @MarinaPurkiss She hates Trump but is trying to mimic his colour… 🤔
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Sickening from @MarinaPurkiss
It’s clear from her exchange with Jonathan and her constant shouting over him, that Jews should stay quiet and not have an opinion on what is being done to them. In fact, let’s blame them for it shall we?
She makes me feel sick and quite frankly - it’s kinda terrifying as a British Jew to know this is the kind of reaction from certain people when we get stabbed in broad daylight and our synagogues firebombed.
You don’t see this abhorrent kind of thing with any other ethnicity.
I commented on her post. She blocked me immediately. So yeah, clearly it’s only the “all-knowlegable Marina Purkiss” that’s should be allowed to talk over actual British Jews that have skin in the game.
Well done @jonsac
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@BareLeft If armed officers would have been on the scene first, I am assuming they would have just used lethal force.
Strangely that would have been accepted more easily by those worrying about the wellbeing of a terrorist
There is no such thing as excessive force on a terrorist!
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Having watched this back a few times today now the initial shock is over, it's clear the Met are extremely sensitive to even the suggestion of excessive force being used, because they know how bad this footage is going to look when properly scrutinised.
Osita Mba@DrOsitaMba
We must stand with @ZackPolanski at this critical moment. The Establishment and their minions are telling us to reject the evidence of our eyes and ears.
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@calmerperson @jvgraz He’s American, unless it’s 20 kids getting shot in a school it’s not really news worthy.
Even school shootings under 5 deaths struggle to make the news..
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@jvgraz Have you much experience of being stabbed?
One of them is still in hospital.
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OMG - they held a fucking VIGIL for two dudes who got poked with a nail file.
The UK is becoming a parody of itself.
Alan D Miller@alanvibe
Jacob Rees Mogg delivers an historic & impassioned speech at the vigil for the two Jewish people stabbed yesterday outside 10 Downing Street A brilliant speech @Jacob_Rees_Mogg
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@owenjonesjourno Policing is by consent, I bet overwhelmingly the public’s consent to this level of force in such a situation.
It’s as simple as that.
Don’t want a kick in the head, don’t stab people..
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Hold on - what?
If police officers think someone might be carrying explosives, protocol is to kick them in the head repeatedly like this?
Is that actual police protocol?
If so, how is it a wise police protocol?
Can someone explain the reasoning?
Sky News@SkyNews
.@KamaliMelbourne: 'The video of the Golders Green terror attack arrest shows the officers kicking this individual in the head. Is that appropriate force to use?' Met Police Commissioner: "In most situations it wouldn't be reasonable, but in that situation it was reasonable."
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@owenjonesjourno @Captain_JRM I think the normal protocol would be to shoot them, but they weren’t armed officers so they had to do anything they could.
Why can’t you praise people who put themselves in danger trying to protect others.
Why is the first thought always of the perpetrator….
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@Captain_JRM Let me get this straight.
If police see someone they think might be carrying explosives, then protocol is to kick them in the head repeatedly to stop them detonating the explosives?
Please tell me from a position of knowledge - is that actually protocol?
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@PhilipProudfoot Apparently some have the opinion that kicking a suspect in the head is reasonable!
I would be interested to know what part of police training contains instruction on kicks to the head to subdue!
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Mark Rowley doing media rounds, during purdah, attacking Zack Polanski for retweeting a very reasonable questioning of the excessive use of force.
This is only going to magnify the damages The Met will need to pay out for this; I suspect quite an astronomic amount of money.
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@PhilipProudfoot Do you think it could influence the way people vote?
What are you scared off, people realising what a nut job Zack is?
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This will not stand up legally.
Zack retweeted — did not issue a statement — a questioning of the seemingly excessive use of force.
The head of the Met, during purdah, wrote a two page attack as if Zack had said it.
It is clear involvement in politics.
Beth Rigby@BethRigby
Mark Rowley on @SkyNews re his open letter to @ZackPolanski. “I'm not getting involved in politics. I'm dealing with operations. I need my officers to have confidence to tackle the most difficult and dangerous individuals. Of course, there's always going to be sort of, sort of eccentricity and nonsense online. “But if an eminent person steps into operational policing and, sort of criticises officers in a way that can undermine their confidence to act, I need to support that…. He has stepped into operational policing with his criticism & inaccuracies & I need to put that straight”
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Is that a standard rule of engagement in this circumstance?
I think it's perfectly fine to have that explained calmly and rationally, speaking as someone who has clearly not apprehended someone with a knife.
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The Metropolitan Police denouncing a party leader a week before elections - over a retweet.
This is outrageous.
Forget what you think about the retweet.
If you accept this sort of police interference in our democracy, you legitimise a deeply disturbing precedent.
Metropolitan Police@metpoliceuk
“Apprehending violent and dangerous criminals is a full contact and messy task which may appear shocking to observers with little experience of policing in the real world.” Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley writes to Zack Polanski.
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TheBBC are preparing for May7th like it is a General Election because they wish it was.
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the great thing about the uk is you can sit in the sun with a bacon sandwich and a cup of tea and it's easy to forget that fuel is £2 a litre, mortgage rates are 5%, it's cheaper to fly to tenerife than get a train to london, you've got £50k in student loans for a degree you never used and your food shop has doubled in 5 years
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The next question, then, is who is training our police to kick offenders in the head repeatedly once they’re on the ground?
Metropolitan Police@metpoliceuk
Our brave officers confronted a man they believed to be a terrorist, who refused to show his hands, who was violent, and who continued to pose a clear threat. Using only their training, courage and tasers, they detained him while he continued to try to attack and stab them. This took true courage.
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@areyoflight I am not sure if he does if it’s based on discrimination.
The video doesn’t show the reason but, if was based on who they supported politically (whether that be right, middle or extreme left green, then the lad is absolute clown, as that has absolutely nothing to do with him.
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He has the right to refuse service to anyone. Worked in bar for years, myself.
Brunte 🏴🇬🇧@Brunte84
🚨Wetherspoons in Braintree just refused to serve Reform supporters Bar manager on camera: “I’m deciding that.” Politics at the pump? In a pub? Pathetic. Serve the customers, not your feelings. Tim Martin — sort it. 👎🏼🍻
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@BMM1882 The guy was causing just a much a nuisance by listening to that awful music at full blast, with the window down…
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Clearly a Gypsy horse and cart. I’ve seen them going down the A406 and even on the M25. Imagine that. A horse and cart on the dual carriageway - or motorway.
Sky’s recent puff piece neglected to mention this and other gifts from the “Traveller community”.
Sky News@SkyNews
Often described as the most vilified community in Britain, Travellers say they're facing a fight for survival – struggling to find places to stay while keeping their culture alive. @LisaatSky gains rare access inside a community often sceptical of outsiders
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@callmeralph65 @MACrimeJustice @DavidPoulden The lad on the video is clearly a prat!
He is making a decision he shouldn’t be making, with a very warped sense of power.
But nobody should ever be making that decision based on your political beliefs left or right.
Should he fired, no, should he be reprimanded, absolutely
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@MACrimeJustice @StevenV37819818 @DavidPoulden I don’t know that im saying if that was the only reason then it’s wrong. If it was because they were pissed and being abusive then fair enough.
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This is blatant political discrimination. Refusing service simply for supporting Reform UK. Wetherspoon must sack this manager immediately. Pubs are for paying customers, not political gatekeepers.
#FarLeftExtremist
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@cilgwri14186 @DavidPoulden Wetherspoons is owned by shareholders, mainly institutions, they absolutely have the casting vote.
Trying to say one type of political discrimination is ok based on your position, but an other is wrong just makes you look dumb.
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@StevenV37819818 @DavidPoulden False equivalence - the question being begged here is whether the owner of the Chain has a policy for political preference, in the pub in question (with Starmer) the guy was a landlord in a technical sense - he has the casting vote. Wetherspoons is owned and he employs managers.
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@callmeralph65 @DavidPoulden You are saying the co owner of The Raven, had the right to discriminate against someone because of their political views, because he owned the place….
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@StevenV37819818 @DavidPoulden We agree in principle that political discrimination is wrong. My point is that in that Starmer case it was the man’s own business and he has the right to turn business away for whatever reason he likes. This guy however is just an employee and should not be turning business away.
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@callmeralph65 @DavidPoulden Tim Martin doesn’t own it. Wetherspoons is a publicly traded company, which means it’s owned my shareholders.
Like I said, political discrimination is wrong, the guy shouldn’t have done it, but it seems you think it is acceptable, depending on your position in the company.
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@StevenV37819818 @DavidPoulden I’m saying when you own somewhere it’s up to you who you let in or don’t you don’t even need a reason. When you’re just a barman who works in a big chain pub it’s not your call who you ban he’d have been wrong to ban some Green Party voters in the same way.
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