@DonaldPond6 @Dan4Barnet Why?
Envy from people who think they are owed a certain standard of living.
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@Dan4Barnet Why is it not fair? People are taxed on their income. If someone chooses to spend their after-tax income on a bigger house rather than say an annual holiday abroad, why should they pay more tax? Genuinely curious.
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Right now some £10m homes are paying less council tax than a normal family home.
It's not right and it's not fair.
So this government is changing it.
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@BlokeOnWheels Simple. The rising cost of welfare is increasingly paid by business taxes. Now much more expensive to employ people in the UK - esp. younger people - as employers NI, Corporation Tax & CGT have risen
It's the main reason we moved our company - and 10 jobs - to NZ 2 years ago
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Can someone explain to me how cutting benefits creates jobs? I can understand how it would increase the likelihood of somebody taking an already existing job, but I fail to see how it actually stimulates job creation.
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@afneil I always just ask them to define "neoliberalism"
Works a treat
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So bored with know-nothings who think it smart to throw out the word ‘neo-liberalism’ as if it settles the argument when, in fact, it contributes nothing to public discourse.
Sandra Hope@spanishblueye
@afneil But the national direction has ruined the UK in many ways in areas like that one. Neoliberalism is it's title, still being practiced now to great lengths. The media avoids the conversation as the media is run by corporate interests & capitalism, biased reporting on a daily basis.
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@Hughesy53 @MikeHolden42 @TeresaC123 It's disgusting. Their 2024 coverage was called ELECTION 2024 not GENERAL ELECTION 2024.
I blame Brexit
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@MikeHolden42 @TeresaC123 Note how the BBC coverage was titled ELECTION 2026 not LOCAL ELECTIONS 2026. Disingenuous
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Labour's opponents don't want Starmer out. They want an immediate General Election and getting Starmer out is the first step to that - they will NEVER stop demanding one if he leaves.
Starmer's opponents within Labour should bear that in mind.
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@SophiesNewWorld @DafTrucker4 @MikeHolden42 Or the voters have rumbled Labour as being even worse than the Tories - but with higher taxes and worse public services
Come to think of it, they already have.
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@DafTrucker4 @MikeHolden42 No. I’m saying that the dirty tricks of the populist grifters will keep working.
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@SophiesNewWorld @MikeHolden42 More likely a Reform/Conservative coalition.
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@MikeHolden42 I can’t help wondering if an *immediate* GE might perversely be the best thing for the country.
Outcome, with a sensible cooperative strategy is likely to be a Labour/LD/maybe Green coalition.
Whereas in 2 years time it might be much worse.
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@MikeHolden42 Labour repeatedly demanded a GE when the Tories changed Prime Minister.
So I don't understand your problem
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@TedUrchin Well Ted. I guess Reform voters aren't as smart as you think you are
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Reform are a joke.
If you voted for them and their criminally minded and grifter-in-chief leader, Nigel Farage, then so are you.
Some might say thick bastards.
I know I would.
dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠@dave43law
Reform control collapsing in Worcestershire Minority administration and it is disappearing
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Why are the media so uninterested in Ben Habib allegation that Farage and Johnson were each handed £1m by Christopher Harborne to fix an election.
It at least merits further investigation and scrutiny
Imagine the resources they'd invest if it was a pair of glasses for Starmer
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@smales_paul @Neets21 I agree. But the Left want more regulation to counter what they see as anti-Labour, anti-Starmer bias.
It's another gift to Reform from the Left - who can't complain as it's what they wanted
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@fred_mooney @Neets21 1984 here we come in earnest. There has to be a balance, but this doesn't appear to be it?
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I don’t feel let down by Keir Starmer. However, I do feel massively let down by our media.
There seem to be very few journalists who are reporting without fear or favour or in the best interests of the public. They are a braying toxic mob intent on destruction
Why?
#Starmer
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@TedUrchin @UKLabour Voters who abandon Labour are essentially xenophobic and often racist, you say?
Great way to win votes - and you call the Labour left nutters?
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You do realise, don’t you, that when the lunatic left of @UKLabour say that the local election results say that Starmer isn’t ‘connecting’ with the people, many of those very people who voted Reform are essentially xenophobic and often racist?
I’m quite happy not to connect with that mindset.
The Tories lurched to the right to try to appeal to them. That didn’t work well, did it?
No.
Stick with Starmer.
#StandWithStarmer
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@bluesbreaker2 @premnsikka They're not.
If @premnsikka understood the tax system, he'd know Capital gains and Dividends are taxed in addition to Corporation Tax
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@premnsikka "Capital gains, dividends are taxed at lower marginal rates than wages"
Excellent point, not widely appreciated.
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88% of UK millionaires proud to live in Britain.
75% willing to pay more tax to fund public assets.
Yet right-wing constantly peddles project fear ... They would leave, etc.
Capital gains, dividends are taxed at lower marginal rates than wages.
theguardian.com/news/2026/may/…
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@premnsikka If they want to pay more tax, they can simply write out a cheque to HMRC.
Pure virtue seeking.
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@Hepworthclare I read Reform are looking at strong press regulation after the next election.
Maybe planning to license journalists with a government office to vet articles before publication, crack down on fake news and ensure the Government's position is reported accurately
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PM Starmer has made mistakes.
But the media has to accept some responsibility for what is claimed to be the public's extreme dislike towards him.
From the very start the media hounded him.
All coverage was negative.
The media is a powerful influencer.
Sometimes irresponsibly so.
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@jasminedotiwala @Keir_Starmer Oh don't be silly.
Inflation, unemployment, homelessness and child poverty are all higher after 2 years of the shambolic Starmer government
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@fred_mooney @Keir_Starmer Two years is not long enough to reverse 14 years of economic and public service pressures
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Exactly
The only reason everyone hates @Keir_Starmer is because they've been told to.
He was handed 14 years of chaotic toxic slop to clean up... And he and his team have slowly been doing that.
Politics In The U.K.@politixintheuk
Times columnist Fraser Nelson pointed out over the weekend that new Home Office statistics paint a striking picture: net migration has fallen dramatically since Labour entered government, now sitting around 80 per cent below the record highs reached under the Conservatives. And it is not just the headline figure shifting. Remove international students from the equation and long-term immigration levels are now “probably at a multi-year low”, Nelson wrote on his Substack — a remarkable turnaround after years of Tory chaos, broken promises and soaring numbers. The asylum backlog is also being rapidly reduced under Labour. After ballooning in the aftermath of Covid while successive Conservative ministers appeared paralysed and unwilling to grip the crisis, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has begun making serious progress in clearing the system. Away from the Westminster psychodrama and endless Reform stunts, an uncomfortable reality is emerging for Labour’s opponents: the Government may quietly be delivering results where the Tories failed for years. Source: The London Economic
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@johnandi @AlanFarrimond Starmer refusing to answer questions would be a godsend...the less of his insincere waffle the better
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@AlanFarrimond I'd love to hear Starmer refuse questions from certain media organisations, even the BBC, on the basis that they are hostile agents who are committed to the destruction of the Labour Government at the behest of billionaire interests. That is the truth. Time to say it out loud.
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This is actually a tremendous opportunity for Starmer to face down these fools, charlatans and silly little infants. He can take them head on, and free himself for the rest of this Parliament untouchable and totally secure. More power to him.
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@johnandi Take them head-on?
If Starmer has the balls to take them had-on, resign and offer himself up for re-election as Labour leader, he'd have done it by now.
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@GeorgeFoulkes Said the man who called for a GE every time the Tories changed leader.
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Labour MPs please note!
This is their Agenda and some of you are falling into the trap!
GB News@GBNEWS
POLL OF THE DAY: If the PM resigns - do we need an emergency general election? VOTE NOW gbnews.com/membership/pol…
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@nw_nicholas God almighty..... stop embarrassing yourself and learn the basic difference between a company and a political party
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This should completely blow apart Farage's claim that he didn't need to declare a £5m bribe.
Mr Ethical 🚩@nw_nicholas
Following the Harborne bribery, and before his announcement of standing for parliament Farage became Person of Significant Control of Reform UK & major shareholder. i.e.owner
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