vox rationis

@ChrisMartzWX Gases know no favour 🤣🤣🤣

Why is carbon dioxide bigoted towards Europeans?

@James7Holland @ricwe123 There are so many contradictions in this policy, it’s hard to know where to start…the sheer brazenness of it.

Wait a second… So the EU just gave Zelenskyy €90 billion, two-thirds of which will go to subsidising his arms industry, and now those same companies are going to sell weapons back to the EU for a profit? I’m in the wrong damned business.

@KingBobIIV It’s the Ruskies wot did it. This government thinks the people that pay its exorbitant salaries are still of the 1700s witch trial mindset. 🤣

I don't believe that for a second.

@tomhfh “It’s not the country I want to live in” is a thought on many’s mind. I’m paying out six figure tax bills on capital assets that, in inflation adjusted terms, haven’t appreciated at all. Britain will soon be bled dry.

I will never understand this sneering resentment towards people who have made something of themselves. It's not the Britain I've known. It's not the country I want to live in. If your attitude is to sneer at rather than celebrate success, you're living a miserable little life.

The insanity - we need to tax you until you cannot afford luxuries, because if you can, we clearly haven’t taxed you enough. Once everyone is taxed to the point that luxuries are unaffordable, working hard and taking risk becomes pointlessness - what then happens to tax receipts? 🤡🤡🤡

I repeat. Scotland's problem. A toxic combo of disdain for wealth creation and a side dish of envy. It isn't getting us anywhere.

@cristo_radio @ClaudiaWebbe The whole thing is a lie. The average landlord much include corporate landlords and probably commercial lets. It also conflates turnover with income. No wonder these clowns can’t balance the books.

This ‘average landlord’ figure is an outright lie from @ClaudiaWebbe

@CutMyTaxUK It’s gets better. Invest in a building to improve it, guess what…. You get an increased rates bill. You couldn’t make it up.

A central problem with business rates is that Labour is using the system to extract much more money from business. While revenue from the tax in England in the last 3 years has been arounf £25bn, under Labour it's going up to £34bn this year & £38bn next year. Uncertainty is another key feature with rates & reliefs changing frequently in an unpredictable fashion. It's not surprising that a survey of CBI members has found that 76% of CBI members say higher business rates bills suppress investment, while 53% say uncertainty around their future bills undermines their ability to commit to long-term investment. 30% of businesses surveyed said they would put between 90 and 100% of business rates savings into new investment. As the CBI says, business rates are a "growth killer."

@LNallalingham Unlike corporations who cut staff when costs are out of control, government cuts services. Even accepting such nonsense, doesn’t cutting services need less staff to oversee them.🤔

🚨 96% of councils are spending more money than they have. That’s 303 out of 317 councils in England forecast to blow their budgets. Only 14 councils in the entire country are living within their means. Fourteen. And these are the same councils telling you: “There’s no money left” “Services have to be cut” “Your council tax needs to go up” But the reality, as I continue to show, day after day: They don’t have a funding problem. They have a spending problem.

@HungaryBased Translation. In order to do what we want without pesky nations stopping us spending their money, we will no longer seek democracy. Should end well. 🤡

🇪🇺 HUGE! Ursula set to change Unanimity LAW of the European Union. "To act faster, the EU is forced to abandon the principle of unanimity." The founding principles of the European Union have ended.

This doesn’t even begin to show the disparity. Benefit claimants have little need to save - their benefits arrive month on month guaranteed by the taxpayer. The employed, on the other hand, have to save - for they can lose their jobs at anytime - along with all the stresses and indignity that causes. How is that fair?

Just throwing this one out there as I was asked this question earlier today. A couple both working with a combined income of £50,000 would pay £11,500 a year in income tax and national insurance, Another couple receiving £50,000 in benefits including Universal Credit, Personal Independent Payment, Housing Benefit, Income Support and Child Benefit would pay no income tax or national insurance, keeping the full £50,000. Should the non-working couple on £50,000 a year pay the same amount of income tax and national insurance as the working couple? Please leave a comment below.

Don’t look away because it’s inconvenient. Ukrainians are not one united voice. We haven’t been for a long time, and it’s time the West accepted that reality. From everything I’ve seen and everyone I know, the much larger part of Ukrainian society — almost everyone I talk to — believes Ukraine must make compromises and end this war as quickly as possible. They want the killing to stop. They want people to stop fleeing the country. They want the missiles and drones to stop flying over their heads. They want borders opened, they want the street abductions for the front lines to end, and they at least want the military corruption to stop. That is the quiet, exhausted reality. But that’s not what you see in the news. In the news, you see a different story: a heroic, united, patriotic Ukraine led by Volodymyr Zelensky, ready to fight for “dignity” for years, with the goalposts constantly moving. A nation so proud it is apparently willing to die for this ever-changing idea of dignity. Yesterday, something important happened in Ukraine. It was a story that ordinary Ukrainians have been trying to get through to Western audiences — especially to those who think that simply calling for peace is somehow “Russian propaganda.” Here it is: only about 10% of Ukrainian citizens even participate in the public opinion polls. Why? Because when the opinion differs from the official line, people are afraid to be sent to the front, thrown in jail, they are afraid of criminal cases opened for truth. That’s why the polls always show sky-high support for Zelensky, unbreakable will to fight, and total rejection of any compromise. Those numbers aren’t reflecting the country — they’re reflecting who’s still allowed to speak. As one political analyst put it: the future of Ukraine will be decided by the silent majority, not by the loud, brave voices on television pushing the government’s nationalist propaganda. Zelensky is not the first convenient dictator the West has decided to prop up. But in the age of the internet, it’s getting harder and harder to hide the truth. More and more Ukrainians are going to tell you what’s really happening. Don’t look away because it’s inconvenient. Because at the end of the day, we will all have to answer — before God — for what we supported, what we ignored, and what we lied to ourselves about. The silent majority in Ukraine is tired of dying for other people’s scripts. Maybe it’s time the West listened to them.

@BenGrahamUK To be fair, 100% of the privately working, tax paying class also knew that. Shame it’s only 30% of the population.

Rishi Sunak warned us exactly what would happen. People laughed it off, and voted for Labour. Now his prediction looks spot on. Call it what it is, he was right.

@rustyrockets If the borders are open to all, what’s there to fight for?

They’ve been robbed of the Britain that was worth fighting for.

@MerrynSW 🤣

She'd know.

@JamesMelville If we are going to destroy the last vestiges of this nations productivity, let’s do it faster by slowing the pace of movement. 🤡

“Thousands of Brits have backed a call to halve the national speed limit from 60mph to 30mph on single carriageway roads.” This is absolutely ridiculous for so many different reasons.

@CutMyTaxUK You have to laugh at the stupidity of it. High spend authorities don’t what the easiest form of tax receipts - spending by tourists. 🤡 🤡🤡doesn’t even begin to describe them.

The Welsh Government's taxes are forcing a holiday let owner into bankruptcy, reports the BBC. Paul Martin said he faces paying 5 sets of council tax this year, two at a premium of 75%, adding that his business was "unsellable" as a result. His holiday cottages are too close to his home to be sellable as separate residential homes. "I do not have four second homes in my garden," he said. He feels his only option is to "dismantle the cottages & render them unhabitable" by removing the kitchens & bathrooms.

@LoftusSteve Amen to that.

The problem with Governments (and MPs) is they feel they always have to be seen to be doing something when the best thing they can do is often nothing.

@clim8resistance @Ed_Miliband 🤣🤣🤣. Nothing like letting markets learn the hard way but Ed Milliwatt would have us believe he’s protecting us from ourselves. 🤡

Lift the ban on fracking then, moron. @Ed_Miliband

@MerrynSW @LoftusSteve I suspect it has more to do with being rumbled than a genuine realisation of physics. Ideologies only ever give way to narratives…

John Swinney reverses view on North Sea drilling. Notes that real test for emissions should be whether it is better than importing the same full. Finally..platitudes have properly met physics.

@julianHjessop 🤣🤣🤣

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