@DuncanStott @LabBeyondCities That's the frustrating thing tho they could have paused the triple lock for one year for about the same amount of backlash.
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@LabBeyondCities An extra £31bn will be going to triple-lock state pensions by the end of the parliament. They aren't going to freeze.
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Whoever was behind the winter fuel cuts in the form they took needs to be fired.
We are odds on to be a one term government, after 14 years wait, because the typical wonk that infests politics couldn't understand the public don't vote Labour to see pensioners freezing.
Luke Tryl@LukeTryl
Winter Fuel comes up in almost every focus group on this Government; so much that I think you could call it this Government’s original sin. Why? Four big themes reasons 1. Trust 2. Concern for vulnerable 3. Contribution 4. Encourages zero sum thinking
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@AriDrennen @mattyglesias I get that, but you sound like you would never vote Republican, so it seems better to pander to a new audience of voters, no?
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@PaulfrYorkshire @MrsNickyClark What is the good faith reading of the situation? It feels like no political party actually wants to look at this issue, as it’s our Chernobyl—where so many layers of the government failed to act due to misogyny towards white working-class children and fear of being labeled racist
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@MrsNickyClark Absolutely. I’m aghast.
A junior, female member of the UK government with a proud record of supporting women who have been abused is called a “rape genocide apologist” by the world’s richest man.
And folk think that’s ok. Or even laudable
I hope people see sense soon.
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I think my time on here is coming to an end. Seeing Jess Phillips thrown under the bus by feminists, whilst they fan girl Kemi Badenoch (who also refused an inquiry) is truly the lowest point.
What has happened to them?
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@DPJHodges As someone who has only just found out about this horrific crime and just read your article on the issue, what can we do to get justice for the victims and make sure this never happens again?
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Elon Musk again showing he knows nothing (and cares even less) about the issues he posts about. The problem with the grooming gangs wasn't prosecutions being blocked by Starmer or anyone else at the CPS. It was they weren't even investigated. The police were too scared.
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@durhamoldtown @ReemAmirIbrahim @GBNEWS On the other side of the scale why should anyone on minimum wage pay for the pension of a millionaire when they can’t afford a house?
Having a house worth millions sounds like a great problem to have.
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@x3notrope The original borat is but borat 2 is clearly there to make fun of republicans and does a pretty good job imo
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The Borat film was a case study in the almost bottomless civility and good humour of ordinary Americans.
Matt Walsh@MattWalshBlog
Many on the Left are criticizing the tactics we used to make our film. Notice how they made no such criticisms about Borat. The difference is that Borat was meant to embarrass normal working class Americans. Our film embarrasses DEI grifters, academics, and upper class liberals.
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Ash Sarkar breaks down the real reason British culture is crumbling. Hint: it’s got nothing to do with immigration.
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@democracywars @PeteinSQ @LeoMars75 the greens are everything wrong with labour and th tories in one party tho :/
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@pinkopog @metricalfoot If protesters have low public support why would you ever give into there demands in a democracy?
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I am pro protest in general, but I do think a lot of the logic here is based on Boomer self mythologizing of the Vietnam protest movement that hasn’t really engaged with the reality that said movement did not work and instead drove people toward the right
Jake Anbinder@JakeAnbinder
The replies to this are even wilder than I could possibly have hoped but the most insane category has to be the ones that are like "the goal isn't to persuade anyone, it's to inconvenience the public until they have no choice but to help us."
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@OliverJia1014 While AI doesn’t seem good enough at translating currently I can’t see how this isn’t the future of translations as it will hopefully sidestep the issue and be significantly cheaper.
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Jesus Christ are you people thick.
The solution to bad localizations is petitioning companies to do better and create enough of a response when their work is bad.
You can boycott games, commission fan translations, or even learn Japanese. AI isn’t going to solve anything.
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@mossadgov @mattyduchak @robrousseau She wasn’t a settler she was German
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
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@mattyduchak @robrousseau A settler isn’t a “civilian” they’ve violently displaced someone from their home and taken it as their own, you can’t commit a violent act and be surprised when the victim fights back
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@Max_Ben_Levy @tomhfh Where are all of these empty houses tho? I highly doubt they are in desirable areas like London / Cambridge ect
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Still trying to comprehend saving 125k. And that's the *average*. The average *first time buyer*.
Imagine saving six grand a year - that's twenty one years of saving before you can buy your first house, if you want an average one that is.
Tom Harwood@tomhfh
Average first time buyer deposit. £125,000. Obscenity. Our planning system is beyond broken. And vested interests in all parties line up to defend it. Infuriating.
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"We had to take away many of the regulations; controls on prices, controls on incomes, controls on dividends, controls on foreign exchange. All of this and the top rate of tax went within the first six weeks... I knew it was right to do it in one fell swoop"
AEI World Forum 1998
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I really enjoyed this piece, and wanted to articulate something of what a pro-growth electoral coalition could look like. And so, a thread on coalition-building. /1
Sam Bowman@s8mb
I’ve written on the new divide in British economic thinking: Boosters, who think better policy can make us a lot richer pretty quickly, and Doomsters, who think demographics are dooming us to malaise and mediocrity no matter what we do. sambowman.substack.com/p/boosters-and…
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9 mins on the untruths and distortions that Russia is spreading about 'Nazis' in Ukraine - including about the role of the Azov regiment of Ukraine’s National Guard. Produced by Mary Fuller, Michael Cox, Priyanka Deladia bbc.co.uk/news/world-605…
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@Drysk @VfourVegeta @theserfstv Also what do you mean by personal property cos things like houses are personal property and we should be taxing them waaaay more than we currently do
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@Nonyatsu @Drysk @VfourVegeta @theserfstv Should people be able to claim back the tax they paid if the value of said stock goes down to less than they paid for it in the first place?
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@Drysk @s0mnipathy @VfourVegeta @theserfstv Doesn’t matter,a stock going up in value is the same concept.If you haven’t sold for profit then it’s not a real gain it’s unrealized.If you got taxed on that the markets would even be able to function properly.
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@Drysk @Hipstertastic @VfourVegeta @theserfstv That’s why people tend to think taxing unrealised gains is silly as if the value of that asset goes down your paying tax on something you lost money on
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