Mark Harding

@tslaproxy @handre On the contrary, in the UK we have a rationed healthcare (hard to access and slow path to diagnosis and treatment unless via A&E) and limited treatments (only some treatments available from all possible) all paid for by a lot of tax. It’s a dreadful service and in no way free.

@handre I am no socialist but in UK we have universal free healthcare and we spend 10% of gdp on health compared to 18% in US and we have universal coverage and good outcomes. It’s not perfect but it is a good system so not all government services are poor.

Mises obliterated the entire socialist project in 1920 with one devastating insight: "Where there is no free market, there is no pricing mechanism; without a pricing mechanism, there is no economic calculation." The socialists spent the next century pretending this problem didn't exist while their economies collapsed around them. And yet here we are, watching politicians promise they can "fix" healthcare, housing, and energy markets through central planning. They can't even calculate the cost of their own programs correctly — how exactly are they going to allocate resources across an entire economy? Every Venezuelan breadline, every Soviet grain shortage, every Chinese famine was just Mises being proven right in the most brutal way possible. But sure, let's try democratic socialism this time. What could go wrong?

@dshensmith What’s the legal term here? “Credible witness”? Don’t think she qualifies.

This is the problem that we have here. Even investigative journalists are miss-labelling criticism of religion as racism which, of course, it is not. Either very poor or deliberately misleading

Angela says its time to really listen. Angela has turned off replies.

@InWicc @wideawake_media Would you be qualified to understand them?

@wideawake_media Matt Ridley, who, btw, did his PhD on the mating habits of the common pheasant, is in no way qualified to pontificate on the reality or not of anthropogenic climate changed. I'd like to see his peer-reviewed scientific sources that back up his claim.

Matt Ridley, former science editor at The Economist, thoroughly dismantles the "climate crisis" narrative: "We know that in the medieval period, it was warmer than today... So we're not in a period of unprecedented warmth." "We're not in a period of unprecedentedly fast warmth. We're not in a period of increasing extreme weather, floods, droughts, storms." "The carbon dioxide we're putting in the air is having a very measurable effect that's beneficial... And that is global greening."

@CatharineHoey Doesn’t cast the people of Gorton and Denton in a very good light… What is it about them that would cause them to descend into hostility if Reform won?

What a shocking comment from the Prime Minister and an insult to all Reform voters

@Finumus1 @AlanJLSmith Please explain.

@AlanJLSmith LOL. "Worst financial decision" - this is about 3 months of the ongoing costs of Brexit. 🤦

Between 1999–2002, Gordon Brown sold 395 tonnes of our gold at around $275/oz - about half of our reserves. Today that same gold is worth £47B+. One of the worst financial decisions made by a modern government.

@DanielJHannan @CeeMacBee Are there any differences between both agreements that might account for this divergence ?

The EU asked Canada for a €10 million participation fee. It asked Britain for €6 billion. Eurocrats really do detest us.

@timonburney @Houseofyogi That’s called timing the market. If it were that easy you could make a fortune applying it to stock market. Doesn’t work in real life.

@Houseofyogi Buy for $50, sell for $500, pay $100 tax, buy card back for $50 next month, you just made $300 profit...

Unrealized gains tax for Gen-Z: You buy a Pokémon card for $50. Someone offers you $500 for it. You say no. You love that card. You're keeping it. The government says: "Cool, but that card is worth $500 now. You owe us $100 in taxes." You: "…I didn't sell it." Government: "Don't care. Pay up." You don't have $100 lying around. So you're forced to sell the card you love just to pay a tax on money you never received. Next month? That card drops back to $50. Your card is gone. Your money is gone. And the government shrugs. That's a wealth tax on unrealized gains. They don't pay you back the tax... Now picture this. Your mom calls you crying. She has to sell the house she raised you in. Not because she can't afford it. She's lived there 30 years. It's paid off. But some website says it's worth more now and the government says she owes $15,000 she doesn't have. So she sells your childhood home. The kitchen where she made you breakfast. The doorframe where she marked your height every birthday. Gone. To pay a tax on money that was never real. Now picture the opposite. Your dad put everything into his small business. For 20 years he built it from nothing. One year the business is "valued" at $2 million on paper. He owes a massive tax bill. He empties his savings. Sells his truck. Borrows money. Pays it. Next year the market crashes. His business is worth $200,000. He lost everything to pay a tax on a number that doesn't exist anymore. Does the government give him his money back? No. Does the government give him his truck back? No. Does the government care? No. They sold this idea as "taxing billionaires." But billionaires have armies of lawyers, offshore accounts, and trusts. They'll be fine. You know who won't be fine? Your mom. Your dad. Your neighbor with a small business. The farmer down the road who's had the same land for four generations and now has to sell it because dirt got expensive. You're not taxing wealth. You're taxing people for owning things. It's like getting a parking ticket for a car you might drive somewhere someday. They want you to own nothing and be happy. To fund the fraud, waste and abuse of the welfare state they created. There is enough money. More tax isn't needed. It's all a lie. But you've been gaslit into believing this is a rich vs poor debate. I hope you understand what's at stake.

@dshensmith Just don’t set it in the first place. Market forces will take care of it.

Like I said, it’s all well and good setting a minimum wage we think is fair, but when businesses are hammered with taxes, they can’t afford to do it and they don’t get the job at all. #Notrocketscience

@RupertLowe10 This is just going to fracture the vote on the right. Dumb move.

I am today launching Restore Britain as a national political party. Join us. restorebritain.org.uk/join_us

@penelopepriest Why is it grossly unfair? It’s the parent’s money - they can do what they like with it…

If you're wealthy, you (your parents) just pay the lot up front, therefore you don't pay a penny in interest. Grossly unfair.

@GoodwinMJ Matt, please be better than ad hominems. Respond to his arguments, if he has any. Or ignore him. We will decide.

I’m being attacked by Keir Starmer — a man who appointed someone with a known friendship with a paedophile to represent Britain, and who wanted Britain to elect Jeremy Corbyn, a self-described “friend” of Islamist terrorists, as prime minister. Spare me the lectures.

@MeadowsLloyd @pbw15204825 @julianHjessop A landlord who raises his rents unreasonably would find he has no tenants? Market forces. Supply and demand.

@pbw15204825 @julianHjessop They can protect tenants from unreasonable rent increases. Is an unlimited increase fair?

"Rent controls are coming to the UK - but they're not a guaranteed win for tenants" Well balanced piece featuring people who think rent controls are a 'good thing', based on vibes, and those who know they are not, based on evidence... 🤓 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@dshensmith @helen_spirit1 It occurred to me a while back that somebody should set up a Petition.org thing where we demand that politicians answer the questions they are asked. No waffle, no digression, no avoidance, no straw man attacks on opposition and definitely no spin. Just answer the Q.

@helen_spirit1 It would be far more interesting if he was required to actually answer questions.

Tomorrow’s PMQ’s should be an absolute hoot 🍿

@sobchaksecurit6 @afneil “Keep democracy strong” 😳

@afneil Andrew we need to rejoin the European union , for long term sensible economic reasons and also to keep democracy strong ! With Putin and trump anti democracy , we need a strong union of democracies in Europe ! It's imperative , the right , center and left in a democracy together

In a Sunday Times analysis of the predictions of 26 major economic forecasters of the UK, the Office for Budget Responsibility came joint last with a rating of 1 out of 10. That’s right. Joint last. Yet it’s on OBR forecasts that UK Budgets are constructed. And Chancellor Reeves has given it even more power. Britain quickly needs to find a better way of doing Budgets. The current process is ludicrous.

@RobertJenrick We should move the cables…

What is the point of Sir Keir Starmer? We are told by his supporters that for all his domestic failures - and there are too many to list - he is knocking it out of the park on the world stage. Yesterday that completely unravelled. Kowtow Keir’s decision to approve the Chinese embassy is a spineless decision that will compromise our security for decades. For years the security agencies have warned about Beijing’s espionage, yet Starmer still gave the green light to a spy-hub that sits over some of the most sensitive data cables in London. It’s a giant, metaphorical fortune cookie for President Xi and his band of fifth columnists. It comes on the back of Starmer’s surrender of the strategically important Chagos Islands. Yesterday Trump slammed it as an act of “great stupidity” and “total weakness”. It gives me no pleasure seeing Britain mocked on the world stage, but on this Trump is completely right. The Chagos surrender stinks. It began after a non-binding ruling by foreign judges, some of whom are from Russia and China, claimed we should give up the territory. Any Prime Minister with a backbone would refuse. But Starmer didn’t come at this with our security interests at heart. Starmer’s close lawyer friend and donor, Philippe Sands, has been helping the Mauritian Government. Starmer has once again placed his standing amongst a clique of activist lawyers above the security of our country. Again, the Chinese are the beneficiaries, who are already eyeing up the territory. There'll be Tsingtao beers all round in Beijing tonight. Yesterday politicians in Westminster panned the Prime Minister’s decisions - and they were right to. But what’s the truth about how we ended up with this stupidity? The unarguable fact is that the Chinese Embassy debacle and the Chagos surrender are the product of Labour and Tory failure. Yes, Keir Starmer signed off on the spy-hub, but it was the Tories who sold the Chinese the massive plot of land for their new embassy. That was during the supposed ‘golden era’ of UK-Chinese relations when successive Tory Prime Ministers naively thought the Chinese Government could be a friend to Britain. Yes, it was David Lammy who as Foreign Secretary concluded the deal to hand over the Chagos Islands. But the negotiations started under in November 2022 and went on for round after round under the Tories. But the Tories still won’t be honest with you. The shadow Foreign Secretary, Priti Patel, claimed the Tories have “opposed it from day one”. That’s simply not true. Some resisted behind the scenes - including myself and Suella Braverman. And it should be noted that David Cameron stopped the negotiations. But the facts don’t lie: the Conservative Party started the chain of events that led to this. The problem is that the Conservative Party is too compromised by its failures in Government to hold this appalling Labour Government to account. And instead of apologising for their mistakes, learning their lessons and changing, the Tories are in denial and lashing out at anyone who speaks the truth. For decades Britain’s political class has failed in their duty to put the security of the British people first. They hollowed out our armed forces to spend more on welfare. Turned a blind eye to Islamist extremism. And left our borders wide open for dangerous people to waltz in. It’s high time the UK was led by someone with the conviction to stand up for the British people. That will only happen if the failing old parties are swept away, and a Reform Government led by Nigel Farage restores some much-need common sense.

@ichimikichiki @sonsofeuropa @ArthurMacwaters As a full time trader, what percentage of total investors move millions every few days in the way you describe?

@sonsofeuropa @ArthurMacwaters Investing in the stock market is literally hoarding wealth... If I buy $1million of stocks in Amazon on Monday. And sell those stocks on Wednesday. How did that make the economy more productive? Please be specific. Because you're talking to a full time trader.

California's wealth tax will follow the same pattern as every other tax: 1. target "just the rich" 2. set a precedent 3. expand to everyone else Except this tax is even more corrupt because it allows the state to seize *assets* not just income In 1913, only the 1% paid income tax, now everyone does. This will destroy California's innovation, and backfire on the people voting for it. True Bolshevik move

@Nickeleven @reformparty_uk There are no Conservatives that share Reform’s vision for the UK?

@reformparty_uk Having so many ex Conservative MP's is literally going to be your downfall - people want change, not Conservatives just with a different name

Welcome to Reform UK, Robert Jenrick! 🇬🇧

@elonmusk Noun: Enshittification

Tesla will stop selling FSD after Feb 14. FSD will only be available as a monthly subscription thereafter.

@dshensmith @benonwine Why do you feel Brexit has been a disaster?

@benonwine It’s genuinely a tough one. I voted remain because I believed Brexit would’ve been a disaster. It seems I was right. However, going back now is likely to be 10 times worse.

Is Britain Better Off Out Of The EU?