Paul Clarke

Just been through that account you posted about, blocking anyone they'd retweeted and all the followers.

It's the usual selection of anonymous and sockpuppet accounts for the most part. Looks like all the US Gov departments joined BSky yesterday, so that was supported by mass account creation.

Betfred says all its shops may close if Reeves hikes gambling tax The company's co-founder says it would be forced to close all its sites, putting 7,500 jobs at risk, if gambling taxes go up.

Betfred says it will close all UK betting shops if gambling taxes go up. In other news, pigs have been seen flying over England.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Not often you get to hear of a plan with no drawbacks, but here we are!

It's always been that way.

Keep the buildings/estates and open them up to tourists, keep the ceremonies and parades, get rid of the monarchy.

I'll never understand why we publicly fund one family living in extraordinary luxury, while they pay little/no tax, and hoard property, land and wealth.

Credit where due, ZP has a level of cut through the Lib Dems can only dream of. He's also calculated Green voters + Corbynites won't deliver needed results, so he's trying to broaden appeal.

Whether he can do this without losing core support, or getting caught out on lack of detail, I don't know.

There's a critical differenciation between ranting and speaking passionately.

I'd firmly say you're on the safe side of speaking with passion when you go against your intention of "calm nuance". It's important to do this and it's what makes you one of my favourite political commentators.

I agree. I think many issues also stem from Starmer's lawyer style. While it's highly effective in certain scenarios, that style doesn't cater for times where a PM needs to come out swinging. It also doesn't drive a style of comms that can adequately cope with the styles of say Polanski and Farage.

That's fair, Polanski's inexperience shows at times. He should have pushed back on Scandinavian countries as examples of why wealth taxes don't work, adding the context of them having smaller economies/populations.

However, his ability to articulate relatable issues/solutions is very effective.

If this Labour government had even the scintilla of any political nous it would now be showing pictures of some of those the Conservatives and Reform claim they'll deport. From the famous sports players to the people who keep public services running.

Cool, I look forward to Witkoff pressing his boss to hand over the predominantly English-speaking region of Georgia to the UK.

I'm a Labour member, so my expectations are potentially different, but one of Zack's talents is his ability to talk about issues without needing political punch at all times.

It's refreshing to see someone addressing issues at least some of the time and taking a break from political point scoring.

Victoria Derbyshire, "You want to spend a lot of public services and welfare, is the wealth tax a panacea?

Zack Polanski, "I don't present it as a panacea. It's not close to a panacea, it's just the start of the things we need to do"

"We need to bring Capital Gains Tax in line with Income Tax"

This gets to the core issue. Many mistakenly think "taxing the rich" means people on 6-figure salaries paying more tax, when it's actually about adequately taxing non-salary based wealth people accrue from assets.

That's what wealth tax actually means and it's why the rich s**t themselves about it.

Farage is doing a big media push to deny he has any links with Putin and Russia.

It’s obviously starting to hurt.

a man with a mustache is wearing a white shirt and a blue sweater . ALT: a man with a mustache is wearing a white shirt and a blue sweater .

The problem for Farage when attempting to deny links to Russia/Putin, is that he has so many demonstrable and undeniable links to Russia/Putin, he just ends up drawing more attention to his links to Russia/Putin.

Still, worked for Trump I suppose, so it all hinges on how thick British voters are...

Woah there! It's a war zone! How dare you cover the brutal horrors of war like this!!!! 🤣

"If people weren't getting together, and [showing up] at this moment, we would be in big trouble."

Looks like people showed up in DC

For the record
#Asheville turns out
#NoKings

No Kings
Times Square, New York City look

Amazing video from Chicago today.

No Kings

This is Idaho 💙

Imagine all Americans had constitutional rights to bear arms against a government that was out of control and acting in a non-constitutional way against them!

Also imagine those "rights" had been used to justify the killing of innocent children.

Just imagine what those people could achieve...

MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:

Wow!
Look at this!
Well done America!

Denver’s No Kings was a larger crowd than the last one. At least a mile of people for democracy.

#NoKings

Endless lines of protestors in Downtown Los Angeles

Here's Greenville, SC

Minneapolis is showing up and showing out. #NoKings