@LabBeyondCities What are you talking about ? It’s renters voting for Greens in London, not homeowners. Your recent NS piece was full of complete garbage like this as well.
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Joe McGinn
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@LabBeyondCities Are Labour looking the major problems (spiralling pension and health spending, low productivity, poor house building) in the eye? I’d day this is an improvement on Labour’s messaging as at least it’s countering the scapegoating that Labour are allowing.
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@K_Niemietz The general public aren’t ‘worse’ - they just respond to effective narratives. Look how they bought the myth of austerity - DC & GO communicated extremely effectively. If Labour had made ‘need’ the pillar of WFA reductions rather than ‘saving money’ they would have faired better.
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Says a lot that they're hated for the one thing they actually got right (for 5 minutes).
The political class is useless, but the general public are worse.
Jake 🌹🏴@ToryWipeout
The only thing making Labour unpopular is WFA, joke country 😂
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I have often defended the idea (not always the practice) of the UN — but failure to act now — via General Assembly options, including Uniting For Peace, discredit the world organisation and prove its critics right.
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A UN-flagged joint military force should be sailing across the Mediterranean right now to break Israel’s starvation siege.
This is what the UN system was supposed to do — it is what it was designed to do.
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@cafreiman The landlord doesn’t create any good or services. The landlord buys goods and restricts access to them. They are a net drain on every economy and should be taxed out of existence.
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Correct—your employer gives you money in exchange for your work, which you in turn exchange for goods and services such as housing
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@NeilDotObrien Dead people can’t pay tax Neil. In reality it’s ‘paid’ by whoever’s inheritance is reduced. And those people have done nothing to earn it. It’s a fairer tax than any tax on work.
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Just wrong. Inheritance tax is paid by the estate of the deceased - and based on the size of the estate not the income of the recipients. And yes, the dead person paid tax in their life.
Lewis Goodall@lewis_goodall
As ever, endless nonsense spoken about this. Your money has not already been taxed. Inheritance tax isn’t a tax on your wealth. It’s a tax on the windfall of the person receiving it, which they have not earned. We tax earned income too much and unearned income too little.
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@JoshuaGarfield The triple lock. It’s right there. Not support for disabled people.
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The rebels have a lot to answer for.
We promised no tax rises for working people; that means we have to cut somewhere.
If not the overinflated welfare bill, then what?
The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes
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@AaronBastani Wish you’d let silence hang after the question. You sort of save him a bit here I think Aaron.
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Israel is foreign aid, but for Conservatives.
“We should put this country first, not other places…”
“Like Israel? Because that’s all I’ve heard about for days….”
70% of Tory MPs were members of Conservative Friends of Israel before 2024.
Be friends of your constituents!
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@BotFinderUK A-Level results day and comparison to their school days/harder exams prob my bet.
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Where does the gammon seasonal outrage calender go next, after Glastonbury?
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@FranckMagennis @KNEECAPCEOL Not sure three volunteer magistrates and an underpaid legal adviser are really ‘the empire’.
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Absolutely iconic that @KNEECAPCEOL are insisting the Brits run and fetch an Irish language interpreter. The British Empire being totally outclassed by some working class lads from Belfast and Derry.
Allison Morris@AllisonMorris1
The case has been postponed until August 20 to allow time for legal arguments regarding the timeframe in which charges were issued, an Irish interpreter is to be sourced for the next hearing
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@bugsandfishes Hard to pick a favourite part, but ‘to survive’ JUST edges it.
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Already getting my money's worth from that Times subscription 👌
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and if the saudi burger bus crashes into us
Olga Nesterova@onestpress
Saudi Royal Court now has a mobile McDonald’s serving Trump during his stay
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@mike_pen8 @lokiscottishrap Nothing he said was incorrect no, but easy for someone to interpret from the clip that sentencing doesn’t matter for reducing crime. It does, but the important thing is that it actually happens, rather than it’s severe.
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@joemcginn1 @lokiscottishrap So he didn't make a miss a key thing on sentencing 🧐
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@Europe_MMA @lokiscottishrap Yeah good q. From memory the argument was that it changes behaviour and the risk/reward calculation of committing a crime. Best thing I’ve read on this is Tom Gash’s Criminal, but that came out in 2016 so there’s likely more up to date stuff now.
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@lokiscottishrap It’s a subtle difference but an important one. Any politician promising tougher sentences is selling snake oil in terms of reducing crime. But improving conviction rates, regardless of sentence length, is evidenced to reduce crime.
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@lokiscottishrap He’s great but misses a key thing on sentencing though. Correct little correlation between sentence severity and reduction of crime, but there is correlation between perceived likelihood of getting caught and crime.
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@0nemorecomma @alexfmac It’s also only easier to set up SOME types of business, largely knowledge economy based. Starting a bar, restaurant, pub, coffee shop or most things that require a commercial space is harder than ever because of exploitative commercial rent.
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@0nemorecomma @alexfmac They were both right and wrong. It’s easier to start a business than ever if that’s your skill set and you have some existing security to take a risk with. But the risk/reward calculation of starting a business wouldn’t be worth it for a lot of people.
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If you’re a young person watching this clip you could be fooled into thinking Gary is wise.
He’s both rich and a socialist - how is that possible?
Well let me explain what ails him.
He made his money playing a zero-sum game (trading).
Someone had to lose in order for him to win.
Most people in a capitalist society, like Daniel, create real value for everyone by playing positive sum games.
That’s how most entrepreneurs get rich.
Gary, despite all his gold stars on his maths tests at school, still doesn’t understand positive-games.
Don’t be Gary.
Gary Stevenson@garyseconomics
Can you become a millionaire?
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