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This is amazing! I have my own struggles but what a fanastic way to view an often cruel world #depression #mentalhealth twitter.com/hayley_barlow/…

@WildGCTweets @oflynnsocial @benhabib6 That’s the best idea I’ve seen yet!

@HawkwellJames @oflynnsocial @benhabib6 Every child should grant an additional tax free amount to their household. This would encourage higher earning families to have children, and encourage families with children to work harder.

Inheritance tax is iniquitous but it is NOT the first tax to be cutting. The PRIORITY tax to cut is income tax on the working/ middle class. The next priority after that is cutting tax on business. Cutting IHT does nothing for the cost of living/ growing the economy

@NewTownNewbie @s8mb @CeeMacBee N.E England is a better bet. Unless Labour follow Scotlands failure

@HawkwellJames @s8mb @CeeMacBee Yeah. I'm considering Scotland for BtL but just can't bring myself to do it. Stamp duty is about 2 years worth of rent. Rent control. Inability to evict. General hostile tone/environment towards landlords. Feel insane even thinking about it.

Share your favourite charts of 2023. Here are a few of mine. First: Novo Nordisk, makers of semaglutide (aka Wegovy / Ozempic), becomes the largest company in Europe, overtaking the likes of LVMH, Nestle, L'Oreal, ASML, and Hermes.

@BritishAlba @RicHolden @Keir_Starmer @UKLabour Or regulatory burden Or the highest taxes Or growth Or energy security

@RicHolden @Keir_Starmer @UKLabour who gives a damn. Whats the conservative govt doing about mass immigration and illegal immigration?

Sir @Keir_Starmer’s plan to spend £28 billion EXTRA every year is the equivalent of raising the basic rate of income tax from 20% to 25% for everyone in the U.K. Rather than calling this FACT “garbage” - @UKLabour should have the backbone to fully outline the details of where they want to raise taxes for their £28 billion annual extra spending on green things Labour’s £28 billion annual extra spending would also put jobs and the economy at risk of rising inflation again - just when @RishiSunak & @Jeremy_Hunt have started to get inflation falling after the global shocks of the pandemic and Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine We should never forget that EVERY majority Labour Government has left unemployment HIGHER than when they came to office - and their £28 billion tax attack would do it all over again 👇 👇 👇 dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

@BarristersHorse @wesstreeting NHS - More money but doing less than ever

@wesstreeting Since when do MPs have to approve each patient's discharge from hospital?

10,000 patients spent Christmas Day stuck in hospital, despite being well enough to leave. The Tories are the Grinches who literally stole Christmas from these poor patients and their families inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

@BarristersHorse Same! I’m reporting every single one, hopefully sorted quickly

@s8mb @CeeMacBee London and Scotland, total no go areas for new landlords and existing landlords are planning their escape. Hopefully Labour don’t bring the whole of England into that nightmare

Buy-to-let landlords are fleeing the London market. Probably some combination of higher interest rates and the new laws making it harder to get rid of tenants after their contracts expire.

@markcojuangco @RollsRoyceUK Don’t read it as “beyond our control” but more as a long held frustration with our regulatory cost and inept self sabotaging authorities

The Rolls-Royce SMR will be the UK’s first domestic nuclear technology in over 20 years, delivering emissions-free energy to millions of homes both in the UK and overseas helping us achieve net zero and strengthen our global proposition. ow.ly/U8La50QmibS #SMR #nuclear

@GBNEWS Increasingly not the case, fortunately. My aunt was in her own home until the last moment thanks to NHS local services. We know 3 other families in the same position. Inheritance Tax will sack the money from grieving families

@GBNEWS The replies to this 😣 Inheritance Tax isn’t paid by the rich, they use legal schemes/processes to avoid paying it. This is an almost exclusively working class tax

'SCRAP inheritance tax to drive Britain into next century' urges Rees Mogg gbnews.com/politics/scrap…

@pisorgpl_EN If he were right wing and imposing this on a left/liberal press then the world media (MSN) would be crying out. But no, only seeing this on Twitter

News: Donald Tusk puts Polish state media into insolvency "Tusk has been seeking to bypass media laws and a regulator created by the former government to make changes he says will reduce rightwing bias in state media." ft.com/content/186116…

@visegrad24 Well, they’ll enjoy seasonal energy then

BREAKING: The new Spanish left-wing government has decided to follow Germany down into the abyss by dismantling all its nuclear power plants. According to the new coalition government, all 7 nuclear reactors are to be dismantled and replaced by renewable energy. 🇪🇸

@DannyDutch @GBNEWS It doesn’t affect millionaires! They all use legal schemes/processes to avoid it. It’s nearly exclusively a working class tax

@GBNEWS What could it be about inheritance tax that makes millionaire's such as Phileas Fogg so uneasy?

@oflynnsocial @benhabib6 We need more children being born. All restrictions on the child benefit and “free” childcare should be removed

@benhabib6 Fully agree. The tax trap between £50k and £60k (40 per cent tax + 2 per cent NI surcharge + 9 per cent graduate loan repayment + child benefit clawback of 20 per cent or more) is the thing most in need to attention.

@JamesCleverly I love community notes

There were no small boat arrivals over Christmas for the first time since they started in 2018. Last night, our Border Force officers and their French partners worked together to stop a boat launching on the beaches. They've played a crucial role in cutting crossings by 35%.

This will be a paradoxical election in the UK. The people will vote out a government they despise, in order to put in place a government that will double down on the most despised policies.

@BritishAlba @benrileysmith Don’t disagree but the rich don’t pay Inheritance Tax. That burden falls on the working class who have spent their lives paying off their mortgage

@benrileysmith An absolutely stupid idea that would make it even harder for the conservative party to win the next election. A massive tax cut for the richest estates in the country at the time of a cost of living crisis? just how dumb can someone be to think that would be a good idea?

NEW: Downing Street is considering axing inheritance tax in three months’ time in a pre-election giveaway to boost Rishi Sunak’s chances of victory. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/…

@ladbible “Emotional”?

King Charles pays emotional tribute to 'selfless' workers in Christmas day speech ladbible.com/news/uk-news/k…

@BritishAlba @KEdge23 Who’s your preferred party right now? (Obviously subject to change)

@KEdge23 Im no longer convinced the conservative party isnt the enemy too. I do not trust Sunak. There is now a clear pattern of behaviour. Theres no evidence they will actually deliver on any of their key promises I use to agree on the bigger picture, im afraid that may now be changing

I fear some people would rather cut their nose off to spite their face in regards to voting. People need to see the bigger picture and that better things are coming under the Conservatives next year, including tax cuts, starting with the NI cut in Jan. Labour are the enemy.