@Frencheconomics @thegreatnev Can we not just build more houses and tax less?
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Tom 🇺🇦
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Tom 🇺🇦
@TomRugbyFan
Energy, telecom and insurance expert, strategy amateur, (ex) Rugby God!!!! There's no i in team but there are 5 in individual brilliance
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@thegreatnev Yes. Rather than a transaction deterring levy that discourages rightsizing and labour mobility.
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A land value tax as a replacement to stamp duty and council tax would be one of the more growth-enhancing things any government could introduce. Done badly it would be a disaster. #deliveryispolicy
Daily Mail@DailyMail
MILLIONS of families could face soaring bills as Andy Burnham vows to overhaul council tax in Labour lurch to Left trib.al/GEkqern
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Just like in Switzerland, I guess.
Fred de Fossard@defossardf
Shortages, black markets, poverty, disorder. The recipe:
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@Sam_Dumitriu This was only 12% affordable housing.
The average price for the market sale homes would have been £710k. In a borough where the average household income is £44k.
Those homes would have done nothing to meet local needs.
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Labour were elected on a pledge to get Britain building again, but their councillors (Planning Chair btw) block 850+ homes on Brownfield land in the most expensive city in the country.
Labour are unlikely to outbuild the last Govt, let alone build 1.5m homes.
Richard Livingstone@Livingstone_RJ
I'm delighted that the planning inspectorate has backed @lb_southwark in turning down Berkeley Homes' Aylesham shopping centre application - which both reduced retail space & provided just 12% social housing. Well done to the local councillors & residents who made the case.
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A Liberal Democrat source tells me:
“West Surrey is set to go Lib Dem gold. Even in Jeremy Hunt’s backyard people are fed up with Kemi chasing Reform’s tail. Despite their best Ken Baker impression the Conservative Party is simply having a dreadful day.”
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@dandouglas I’ve been there a few times wanting to love it, but the space is objectively poorly utilised.
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what they’ve done with Battersea Power Station irl is somehow even worse than in Children of Men
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@heatpolicyrich People on LPG or oil typically have pretty poor insulation, no double glazing etc or small / sporadic radiators
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UK government to increase heat pump grants to £9000 for those with oil and LPG heating. Generous for sure but fully closes the risk of a cost gap and may even provide a small excess for those with small homes (typically the least well off). (1/2)
Ed Miliband@Ed_Miliband
We’re facing the second fossil fuel shock in less than 5 years. Events far away are once again impacting families and businesses here at home. We can’t go on leaving our country so exposed. The solution lies in clean homegrown power we control. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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@AvantiWestCoast Is the 7.30 to Glasgow from Euston ok? Google says no, your website says yes.
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⚠️Until the end of Tuesday 17 March, Glasgow Central’s high level platforms (where Avanti West Coast trains run) are closed, with no trains able to run due to the impact of the nearby fire. Avanti West Coast trains will start and end at Motherwell, which you can reach using ScotRail services from Glasgow Central low level station (now reopened) or nearby stations.
ℹ️From Wednesday 18 March, the high level platforms will partially reopen with one Avanti West Coast train per hour running to and from Glasgow Central. Station facilities including the Ticket Office, First Class Lounge and shops will remain closed. Please follow the temporary signage and barriers to find your way to and from trains. We'll also continue running trains to and from Motherwell and Edinburgh, where connections to Glasgow are available with ScotRail.
🎟️Avanti West Coast tickets dated 8-19 March can be used at no extra cost on any Avanti West Coast train on the same route until the end of Thursday 19 March.
If your train is cancelled, your existing ticket will be accepted on one of the two Avanti West Coast services either side, including our hourly services to and from Glasgow Central from Wednesday 18 March onwards.
As well as an hourly Glasgow service from Wednesday, our trains will continue to run to and from Motherwell and Edinburgh, where you can then use your existing ticket at no extra cost with ScotRail to get to Glasgow Central low level, or the neighbouring stations of Anderston and Argyle Street.
Please allow extra time for your journey and check before you travel 👇avantiwestcoast.co.uk/travel-informa…
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@JoshuaDalzelle Hey Joshua. What type of functionality are you looking for? We can take a look at what issues may be happening as well if you want to send us a DM with some more details about whats happening.
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So is @sonos a dead duck now? No real effort to return aesthetic or functionality. Still a lot of expensive gear that barely works. Is there an alternative 3rd party software that gets it back to what it was a decade ago?
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@waitbutwhy It’s crazy it’s like they don’t want to capture the premium end of the market or graphic designers, architects, artists etc
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I might be the only person who cares about this but I can't believe Apple no longer sells a 32" monitor. Their new high-end monitors are all 27" and you can no longer buy a 32" monitor from them. I can never go back to 27" so I guess I'll be buying non-Apple monitors from now on.
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@DaleVince @TiceRichard Hi dale. Just throwing it out there, wouldn’t we get a load of extra tax revenue on it though? So unless we copied the US model (which we could) we perhaps wouldn’t directly “save” but we could reinvest that tax to subsidise retail gas costs
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Real muppet alert, US shale gas is so cheap because the US controls the price and restricts export.
The UK does neither, we pay global prices for our own gas. Doesn't matter how much more we make, it can save us a penny.
@TiceRichard
Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧@TiceRichard
Muppet alert No brains @EdwardJDavey forgets we have loads of our own gas that Westminster fools have declined to extract Gas in US is 1/3rd price in UK….because they use their own shale gas
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@stephenjones9 Some of the businessmen who have reaped the benefits of free markets and capitalism end up being oligarchs and socialists when it comes to completion in sports.
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great manoeuvre by RFU and Prem Rugby. Years ago they started strangling Champ clubs by always switching regs on promotion and relegation, slashed the grants to the Champ to pitiful levels - now they have abandoned promotion and relegation because none of the Champ clubs are good enough. Wonder why!! Despicable. Another nail in coffin of rugby's supposed fairness and togetherness
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80’’+ Penalty from Sam goes over!! Albion 26 Club 34….properly tense here
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80’’ Club penalty for Albion going in at the side. Sam asks for the tee…..
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HT: @RotherhamRugby 24 @MoseleyRugbyFC 0. Commanding first 40 from the Titans, complete with four tries, at a soggy Clifton Lane. Visitors have hardly grazed the home 22.
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Reform incapable of taking the respectable L.
29% in a random inner-city Manchester seat is really quite good for them.
Are they going to blame "dangerous Muslim sectarianism" for every seat they fail to win at the general election?
Matt Goodwin@GoodwinMJ
Statement: “We are losing our country. A dangerous Muslim sectarianism has emerged. We have only one general election left to save Britain. Vote Reform every chance you get. I will continue the fight. I will always fight for you. I will stand at the next general election. Matt.”
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@NWestbyYPSport @DoncasterKnight @Champrugby The drawbridge has been up for 2 decades. Thank you for speaking against it.
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🏉 The Prem cartel have been threatening to do it for over a decade. Tomorrow it looks like they finally will in a decisive blow for @DoncasterKnight and their @Champrugby brethren ⬇️
yorkshirepost.co.uk/sport/other-sp…
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A British farmer detained two men who he caught trespassing and stealing on his land.
He tied them to his quad bike and took them to the nearest police station.
He has been arrested by the police and is getting charged with assault
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@TheStudyofWar @PhillipsPOBrien This map looks exactly the same as it did in 2023, I think you’re over analysing it
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Recent Ukrainian tactical counterattacks have reportedly liberated multiple small settlements along the Yanchur and Haichur rivers in the Oleksandrivka and Hulyaipole directions.
These Ukrainian counterattacks are likely leveraging the recent block on Russian forces’ access to Starlink, which Russian milbloggers have claimed is causing communications and command and control (C2) issues on the battlefield.
Recent tactical Ukrainian counterattacks in the Oleksandrivka and Hulyaipole directions have likely further hindered Russian forces’ ability to properly prepare for a summer offensive toward Orikhiv and Zaporizhzhia City from the east.
Institute for the Study of War@TheStudyofWar
NEW: The Kremlin continues to discuss future elections in Ukraine to advance its false claim that the current Ukrainian government is illegitimate and insists on means of controlling Ukraine’s politics. More Key Takeaways: The Kremlin continues to signal that it will reject any election result that does not produce such a pro-Russia government in Ukraine. Long-term, meaningful US security guarantees for Ukraine must precede a war termination agreement to prevent the Kremlin from following through on its stated intent to reject such guarantees after Ukraine has committed to ceding territory. General Staff Army General Valery Gerasimov continues to aggrandize Russian seizures of small villages and fields to influence ongoing negotiations and push the West and Ukraine to give in to Russian territorial demands. Russian gains continue to move at a footpace and do not portend the collapse of the Ukrainian lines. Recent Ukrainian tactical counterattacks have reportedly liberated multiple small settlements along the Yanchur and Haichur rivers in the Oleksandrivka and Hulyaipole directions. Russia is reportedly testing a stratospheric communications system as an alternative to Starlink, which some Russian milbloggers have already dismissed as an inadequate replacement. Ukrainian forces recently advanced in northern Kharkiv Oblast and in the Oleksandrivka and Hulyaipole directions. (1/2)
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