@johnredwood I guess that when you told us to privatise water you thought it'd turn out differently?
A bit like when you told us that Brexit would be great for everyone and especially the fish?
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Mike Taulty
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Mike Taulty
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"As through this world I've wandered, I've seen lots of funny men. Some will rob you with a six-gun, and some with a fountain pen". (Woody, 1940)
Rainchester UK Katılım Şubat 2009
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Net zero advocates say we are running short of water because of changing weather. The main reason is of course the failure to put in new reservoirs to cater for the large increase in population through migration this century. We had plenty of rain last winter.
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@ZiaYusufUK Everyone suddenly finds that they need an 80 hour week where, strangely, the first 40 hours are showing very low productivity.
Good luck taking this to HMRC.
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🚨Important policy announcement:
Britain was built on the hard graft of people who go the extra mile.
A Reform government will ABOLISH income tax on hours worked beyond 40 hours a week, for incomes below £75,000 a year.
It’s time to REWARD hard work, not punish it! 🇬🇧
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Could someone please send Wes Streeting last weekend's Sunday Tines Rich List? Entrepreneurs, investors and employers are leaving Britain in droves. There'll be no economy left by the end of this Labour sh*tshow.
The Telegraph@Telegraph
🔴 Wes Streeting has pledged to introduce a wealth tax if he is elected Labour leader in a fresh challenge to Sir Keir Starmer Read the latest on our coverage of the Labour leadership contest at the link below ⤵️ telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/2…
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@tnewtondunn Tom goes to work and makes £1 extra. Pays national insurance and income tax.
Tom makes £1 selling Bitcoin. Pays capital gains tax.
Bitcoin certainly makes Tom a risk taker but does it make him a job creator or entrepreneur?
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So the Labour leadership contest is moving into an arms race to tax the country’s entrepreneurs, risk takers and job creators ever higher. Just what low growth Britain needs right now.
Steven Swinford@Steven_Swinford
Wes Streeting has this morning set out his tax plans - specifically bringing capital gains tax into line with income tax He says that the current system is unfair because it penalises work Higher or additional rate taxpayers will pay 24% on gains in the current financial year. Streeting said that the rates should mirror income tax bands - so 40% for higher rate taxpayers and 45% for additional rate taxpayers He says that the approach could raise £12billion a year Streeting said: “A member of my family is a cleaner in Lancashire. She pays a higher tax rate on her salary than her landlord pays for the growing value of the home she lives in. She slogs her guts out, he puts in far less effort, yet the state rewards him more than her. And we wonder why people are angry. “The system is penalising work. It’s not fair and it’s bad for our economy. We need a wealth tax that works. A pound made from simply owning assets should not be taxed less than a pound made from a hard day's work. We can do it in a way that is pro-growth, pro-entrepreneur and pro-work.”
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@EstherMcVey1 It seems a bit late after 50 years of taking the opposite approach to Norway with regard to fossil fuels that the Conservatives now think Norway had it right all along.
Have you been watching Lykkeland or what? 🤣
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One way out of the UK’s financial problems is to drill in the North Sea, to release the black gold under our noses and get money going into the exchequer. This isn’t a far flung fantasy, it is precisely what Norway is doing with its oil deposits in the North Sea which is making their country very wealthy and energy self-sufficient.
So typically, instead of doing just that, Miliband and Starmer are doing the exact opposite. As part of Labour’s Energy Independence Bill they are banning all new oil exploration and drilling licenses in the North Sea ‘to take control of our energy security’ and to be a ‘clean energy super power’ by 2030! Deluded.
These idiots are utterly deluded. When Starmer finally goes, is it too much to hope that Miliband is forced out too!
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@kevinhollinrake @wesstreeting To try and take an extreme example...
£1 extra at work : income tax.
£1 extra rise in Bitcoin's value : capital gains.
The former seems a bit more productive in terms of business, jobs, etc. than the latter?
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What you don’t understand, @wesstreeting - is that your cleaner’s landlord is taking a risk with their money. Just like every entrepreneur, business person and investor does.
If you increase taxes on risk takers there’ll be fewer entrepreneurs, fewer risks taken, fewer jobs created, lower growth, less tax collected from wealth creators, which will then shift the tax burden back onto your cleaner.
It’s naive 6th form political nonsense, which just goes to show that it’s not just Starmer that’s the problem, it’s the whole Labour movement that really doesn’t have a clue how the system actually works.
Steven Swinford@Steven_Swinford
Wes Streeting has this morning set out his tax plans - specifically bringing capital gains tax into line with income tax He says that the current system is unfair because it penalises work Higher or additional rate taxpayers will pay 24% on gains in the current financial year. Streeting said that the rates should mirror income tax bands - so 40% for higher rate taxpayers and 45% for additional rate taxpayers He says that the approach could raise £12billion a year Streeting said: “A member of my family is a cleaner in Lancashire. She pays a higher tax rate on her salary than her landlord pays for the growing value of the home she lives in. She slogs her guts out, he puts in far less effort, yet the state rewards him more than her. And we wonder why people are angry. “The system is penalising work. It’s not fair and it’s bad for our economy. We need a wealth tax that works. A pound made from simply owning assets should not be taxed less than a pound made from a hard day's work. We can do it in a way that is pro-growth, pro-entrepreneur and pro-work.”
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@BenGrahamUK Except this isn't about tax (you know that already).
It's about why an overseas billionaire with an interest in Crypto currency would hand over 10s of millions of pounds to Reform and another £5m to Farage personally and the impact this has on democracy.
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All the rumours.
All the slurs.
All the hysterical accusations aimed at Nigel Farage.
And now it turns out he likely doesn’t owe any tax at all.
Another failed attempt at character assassination from people desperate to destroy him politically.
This has backfired spectacularly.
Dan Neidle@DanNeidle
I promised our analysis of the £5m gift to Nigel Farage would annoy everybody. The verdict? He probably doesn't owe any tax. Why? Because "campaigning for Brexit" isn't a taxable trade, and genuine gifts aren't income. But there are risks for him. Thread:
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@Nigel_Farage Dig deep into that Harborne provided pocket and you could probably buy him around 1,000,000 pints.
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I’d like to buy this man a pint.
Does anyone know how I can find him?
Sun Politics@SunPolitics
"I LOVE OUR COUNTRY...AND ONE OF THE THINGS I LOVE IS GOOD MANNERS" Chancellor Rachel Reeves confronts an angry heckler moments ago in a petrol station in Leeds
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@TiceRichard If in doubt, forget about the country's very real problems and go for some divisive culture war nonsense.
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Why Makerfield women can never trust Andy Burnham
He is happy for men to dress up as women and go into female single sex toilets
He should lose the by election on this alone
Not to mention his love for mass immigration and the EU newspaper.mailplus.co.uk/data/7821/read…
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@g__j The switch to EVs seems baked in at this point - there's work to be done around the public charging network in terms of locations and pricing but beyond that...
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Fatih Birol, boss of International Energy Agency:
“Electric cars are now - worldwide - 30% of new car sales. Five years ago, it was 5%”
It’s why fossil fuel lobbyists are so relentless right now. EVs are increasingly cheaper to buy, cheaper to fuel, cheaper to service and better to drive.
“15 years ago solar was a romantic story. Now it is everywhere… wind and nuclear will make a big contribution as well”
If you look outside the UK, these changes are everywhere and huge
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@ZiaYusufUK But that headline looks a whole lot like this one below in both tone and form...
( I'd have gone with "Farage Struggling to Explain £5m Donation from Chakrit Sakunkrit, Are He and Reform Owned by Thai Crypto Billionaire?" )
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@RobertJenrick Hilarious - you've pivoted your complaint from being about the numbers arriving to the numbers leaving.
Funny thing is - I hear a lot of people talking about leaving if Farage reaches power.
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246,000 Brits left last year.
Net, 136,000 went. A city the size of Watford.
Many are entrepreneurs, investors, small businesspeople.
It’s the Starmer Exodus.
Reform will Bring Brits Back.
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Vance lectures the Pope about religion, Ukrainians about their weapons, and Poland about their security needs--all with arrogance and belligerence. Either he's a rare genius or a complete buffoon, you can choose.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
JD Vance tells a Polish reporter he's "overreacting" to news that Trump is scrapping a planned deployment to his country and tells him to "look in the mirror"
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@FT Nothing to see here - it's just The Emperor driving his gilded chariot through the tatters of the US Constitution.
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US tax authorities will be barred from pursuing claims against the president, his eldest sons and the Trump Organization under a deal to halt a $10bn lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service. ft.trib.al/vE3tyLt
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I am looking to hire a chief economic advisor.
As Reform prepare for government we are looking to expand our growing team of policy advisors.
I’m after an exceptionally talented individual with a strong grounding in macro economics.
If you’re passionate about getting growth again in the economy, and have ideas to shake up our stale economic debate, this role is for you.
We have a once in a generation opportunity to build a new economic model that transforms this country for the better. If you have the energy and determination to do that with us, this role is for you.
The job will involve:
-policy development
-modelling
-in-depth research
No experience in Westminster is required. Business experience is preferable.
The pay is highly competitive, but variable depending on the candidate.
Please email your CV and a cover letter to jenrickr@parliament.uk
Applications close on the 29th May but will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
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Trump and sons to be ‘forever’ exempt from tax audits ft.trib.al/ca4OS8P
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@Nigel_Farage The mustard cords, green tweed jacket and salmon pink tie to mark you out as "visiting country gent" eh? 🤣
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@Nigel_Farage He seems to be taking pot shots at "career politicians who go to private schools".
Sound familiar to you?
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Robert Kenyon is our by-election candidate.
This is The Plucky Plumber taking on Open Borders Burnham.
Only Reform UK can beat Labour.
Reform UK@reformparty_uk
Makerfield was Andy Burnham’s back up plan. For Robert Kenyon, it’s his home. This battle will be David Vs Goliath.
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@AndyBurnhamGM @afneil London? I thought he lived in France? Or is it Manhattan in a Trump Tower? Wikipedia's not quite clear.
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@afneil You need to get out of London, Andrew. You’ve clearly got no idea how much people here are struggling. And, yes, a lot of it can be traced back to Margaret Thatcher.
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Except that it purports to claim that the area (Makerfield) has been a victim of 40 years of Thatcherism (that’s what Burnham seems to be running against, which means he’s also running against the Blair-Brown government, of which he was a part). Yet the backdrop to his wandering shows rows of neat, well-kept, substantial semi-detached homes, with plenty new cars in the driveways and a vibrant high street, despite all the road works improving it. Oh yes and a state school so good he sent his kids to it. Put simply — the pictures clash with his words of victimhood and deprivation.
Lewis Goodall@lewis_goodall
One of the most effective bits of political communication on the left I’ve seen in a long time. A message and a powerful messenger.
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