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@MrCladding TBF, it's 22% of next to fuck all. It'll cost more in admin than they'll ever collect.

I'm not clear how this is legal. Many people keep dry powder as cash. This proposal would fall into market manipulation territory, as investors would be left with only the choice to invest to avoid this tax, which helps Labour declare the markets are booming. This is concerning.

@LeftwaffenWatch Aberdeen, a standard haddock and chips from a decent chippy £12.95. Jumbo, £1.50 dearer.

Is this the going rate for fish and chips everywhere now?

@simonmaechling Unfortunately the only scientists who make it to the media's attention are the ones with the whackiest, most controversial takes on any given subject

We trust pilots to fly us. We trust taxi drivers to drive us. We trust influencers selling detox recipes. But when scientists speak about vaccines, chemistry or pesticides, suddenly people reject expertise and think their internet search is equivalent to 20 years of research.

@SaulStaniforth Not to mention the millions of will cost businesses to upgrade systems. They don't matter though

#trevorphillips: the total cost for a family of 4 going to a theme park would be c.£200 & the savings the govt is offering are £1.64 Jones says these savings are small helpful contributions & many families currently cant afford these trips. But they can when its £1.64 cheaper?

@DemosKratosCA For every 3 people "working" you'll need a supervisor, for every 3 supervisors, you'll need a manager, for every 3 managers you'll need an area manager, for every area you'll need an h&s officer, an HR officer, an admin or two, an equipped office, etc. Still a good idea?

People on welfare should have to work at least 20 hours a week doing community service in order to receive benefits. Even "unfit for work" people can still contribute. They can answer phones, do computer work... Mentally challenged? No problem. You can still sweep walkways or rake parks.

@james_rands I can't remember but I didn't have another pizza for a very long time

@aberdeenpool Oh was it one of those mini crumpet sized things?

For the bizarre "We didn't have takeaways in the seventies and eighties because we couldn't afford them. Chippy tea was a luxury" crowd. Fish and chips were much more affordable in the 70s, 80s and 90s than today.

@james_rands Trust me, it very much wasn't a "pizza place"... Think BHS cafe

@aberdeenpool Well you had a pizza about a decade before we got a pizza place then

@elbiemit In my much younger days when electric tokens were a new thing, I lost count of the number of neighbours, family and friends who borrowed my card to get a token despite me explaining that the money would be going towards my account - they just wanted their TV on

Someone just asked if they can scan my clubcard as they don't have one. I get their points, they get money off their shopping. Is this communism?

@CharlesSteadman @rawespresso I was a bricklayer in my younger days. A majority of the guys I worked with would get the wages on a Thursday, go straight to the rent office, buy a weekly food shop and then straight to the pub/bookies until they spent whatever was left. Nobody had money on a Monday, ever!

@aberdeenpool @rawespresso Sometimes it’s self-inflicted. I knew a great tiler (through builder mates). He did an excellent job for me and I paid him, about a thousand. He went to the pub and stayed there till it was spent, then went looking for the next job. Apparently he always did this…

Two in five UK adults have less than £1,000 saved. If you're one of them, you're one car repair, one boiler failure, one redundancy away from real trouble. The same pattern shows up at every income level. Households earning £50K, £80K, even £100K are running the same paycheck-to-paycheck routine, because nobody ever taught them how to manage money properly. The basics aren't complicated: spend less than you earn, build a 3-6 month emergency fund, invest the difference, and stay out of consumer debt. Most people in the UK have never sat down and learned that explicitly. They learn it the hard way when something breaks, or they don't learn it at all and stay broke through their entire working life. You can fix this. It takes about a year of paying attention and a bit of discipline. Most people won't, because the alternative — keeping their head down and hoping nothing goes wrong — is psychologically cheaper.

@david_lindsay77 Without a single statistic to back it up, I'd hazard that the overwhelming majority of working UC claimants are part-time workers. There's very little financial incentive for them to do more hours, but it helps the unemployment figures I guess

#bbcaq: How many of the #supermarkets' employees are paid in-work #benefits to be able to buy the products that they handled? Two out of five #UniversalCredit claimants are in work, even though there should be no such thing as in-work #poverty, the mere existence of which proves that the economic system needs to be replaced. At the very least, no one with a full-time job should be poor. How can that be a controversial thing to say? davidaslindsay.blogspot.com/2026/05/summer…

@Snooker_Chat Feel like I've grown up with her, and not once have I heard her fumble her words or be stuck for something to say. True pro

Should BBC TV sports presenter Hazel Irvine be listed in snooker's Hall of Fame? What do you think? The official Hall of Fame list has made headlines in recent weeks. #snooker Picture: WST

@implausibleblog You can't fuck with a free market. Look what minimum wage has done

Fiona Bruce, "SNP, you want a compulsory cap on food?" Stephen Flynn, "Absolutely we should do this" "I have spent the last six and a half years in politics outraged at the fact that there are people in our communities who can't get back" "So many of them rely on food banks, and they can only do so much work" "It's incumbent upon politicians of all colours that people's basic needs, the ability to feed themselves can be met" "We're seeking to bring forward legislation to cap the price on some specific items that we all find in our shops and that people need for a godo healthy balanced diet" "I'm at a loss as to why an individual who sits in the House of Lords would seek to disagree with that - maybe because he's completely out of touch"

@TheDevilof51361 Have you had pay rises in the said "years"? If so, I suspect the staff at Virgin have had some too

Virgin media~ bills have been £89 a month for a full package, paying this or thereabouts for years, just had the bill for £120.85, on the phone for an hour, couldn’t get the price down at all. What for loyalty🤷🏻‍♂️, retention of customer🤷🏻‍♂️… it’s on the fcuking lawn to collect🤬

@Dmdav1 I'm knocking on for 60 and it's never been any different in my lifetime, albeit a sick note in my day. Why the sudden outrage?

Without a fit note you can’t take time off if you are sick Without a fit note you can’t get sick pay So if you are off ill your employer can say it’s not sanctioned time off . You won’t be paid . You will probably be sacked. Who is this for ? Not the workers .

@indyrc1 @AngusBMacNeil We're all fucked now, but we'd be incredibly fucked as a fledgling independent nation.

@AngusBMacNeil Some ppl on here absolutely despise the thought of scotland prospering. Its like wishing and hoping your kids get nothing and dont dare prosper on their own without your control

Had Scotland been independent & nurtured its natural resources like Norway, it would now have a fund (based on extraction rates) of at least $1.44 trillion (dollars) Or £216,000 per person living in Scotland. Instead Higher Fuel poverty & child poverty with the UK. #choices

@AngusBMacNeil Interesting that I seem to recall the first cries for independence came right around the time oil was discovered in the North Sea. The cynical amongst us would be forgiven for thinking the two were linked

@80IQConviction @OnlyBitcoiner @_CryptoChaos1 @ZynxBTC Good luck! Screen record it if you can, even for your own benefit

@aberdeenpool @OnlyBitcoiner @_CryptoChaos1 @ZynxBTC I’m gonna try it guys. If I pass this will be awkward

Smarter Web preferreds are on the way and it's far easier to do than initially thought. I'll talk you through the process. Imagine a company issues new shares through an ATM. The nominal or par value of each share is 1p, but investors are willing to pay 40p per share because the market values the business much higher. If the company issues 100 million new shares, investors would pay £40 million in total. Under UK accounting rules, only £1 million of that counts as share capital because only the 1p par value is treated as capital. The remaining £39 million becomes "share premium", which is the extra amount investors voluntarily paid above the nominal value. The company can then use the full £40 million to buy Bitcoin or expand the balance sheet. The problem is that under UK company law, the £39 million share premium is not normally distributable, meaning it cannot legally be used for dividends. So the company performs a capital reduction, which is a balance sheet restructuring process that converts the locked share premium into distributable reserves. Once that happens, the £39 million can potentially support preferred share dividends, buybacks, and other capital allocation strategies. In simple terms, the company is converting market premium into legally distributable capital through balance sheet engineering.

@janeydarling1 My wife told me today that "most" of her younger colleagues have opted out of the company pension scheme. Absolute madness

Here's a crazy idea: maybe they're not being paid enough to aquire savings