Paul Clarke

It'll boil down to capital gains and inheritance tax, same as Labour are already doing.

Not many other ways to easily tax people when they don't need to get out of bed each day to earn money in that duvet day than normal working people do in a year.

Their one and only economic policy is "wealth taxes". As usual, they overestimate the amount that will bring in, don't adequately account for how talented the wealthy are at tax avoidance/evasion, assume it'll bring in eleventy squillion pounds, and all the UK's problems will be solved.

Polanski's nonsense is worse than Farage's. I hate everything about Reform, but you know what they're about - punishing immigrants and making the rich richer.

Vote Green and.....what? Wealth taxes that the wealthy will evade, because they always have? Public services funded by hope and vibes?

I'm usually ok with a lot of what this government is doing, but not this immigration policy. Not being a knee jerk person, I've tried to get my head around it but can't. Needs to change.

Exactly where I am with it.

Spain denies White House claim it agreed to cooperate with US military

Spain denies White House claim it agreed to cooperate with US military https://aje.news/r9sg0p

Ministry of Defence L @DefenceHQ X.com Update on UK operations in the Middle East: 04 March 2026 Ministry of Defence 04 MARCH 2026 • Overnight, RAF Typhoon and F-35B jets continued defensive air operations across the Middle East with support from Voyager air-to-air refuelling in defence of British interests and allies. • The Ministry of Defence can confirm that a Shahed-like drone which targeted RAF Akrotiri at midnight on 2nd March was not launched from Iran. • In the last 24 hours, the UK has resupplied air defence systems to British and allied bases across the region - including UK-built air defence missiles. • Royal Navy Wildcat helicopters - armed with Martlet missiles capable of taking out aerial threats - will arrive in Cyprus in the coming days.

UK Ministry of Defence can confirm that a Shahed-like drone which targeted RAF Akrotiri at midnight on 2nd March was not launched from Iran.

White House: We have eliminated Iran's nuclear program.....for a second time.....honest guv.

A little out of date potentially and not specific to the topic at hand, but the main voting demographic trends will remain the same and point to all the usual suspects in terms of who would support this policy.

bsky.app/profile/did:...

The number of commentators/journalists salivating at blaming Starmer for ruining the “special relationship” is genuinely pathetic

If anyone ruined it- if it even really exists- here’s a reminder of who did it.

A screenshot of the Polymarket website showing a prediction market titled "Nuclear weapon detonation by...?" under the Geopolitics and Ukraine categories. The market displays three betting options with their current probabilities and "Buy Yes" or "Buy No" prices: "March 31" at 5%, "June 30" at 12%, and "Before 2027" at 22%. The total trading volume shown is over $843,000.

Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.

Starmer in the Commons when challenged by Tory MP Gareth Bacon about UK actions over Iran: "Hanging on to President Trump's latest words is not the special relationship."

Keir Starmer tells MPs not to judge the UK/US relationship by whatever Donald Trump has just said.

"Hanging on to President Trump's latest words is not the special relationship" in action, PM says.

I've never observed a wider gap between self-confidence and lack of any actual understanding than in Badenoch. On other topics it can be comical, but when it extends to undermining gov't on matters of national security, in breach of established conventions, it is profoundly dangerous. #PMQs

It was, once again, a performance that could only be delivered by someone who is terminally online on X.

That's Badenoch's only view of the world and I suspect her PMQ "performances" are increasingly aimed at the purpose of clipping content for engagement on X.

Useful #PMQs thread from @peterwalker99.bsky.social . Many thanks.

BREAKING: “We need to act with clarity, with purpose and with a cool head.. what I was not prepared to do on Saturday was for the UK to join a war unless I was satisfied there was a lawful basis and a viable thought through plan. That remains my position
Keir Starmer
#PMQs

Three weeks of mass exposure to Matthew Goodwin’s worldview have not done the Reform brand much good

With the quantity of chorizo I consume, I'm already essentially insulating the Spanish economy from even the very worst of economic impacts Trump could inflict! 😂

I’m struck by how every day the admin is like “whoever could have foreseen these consequences?!” when the consequences thus far — evacuations, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, rise in gas prices, etc. — are all the literal most obvious consequences.

President Macron is sending the Charles de Gaulle Carrier Strike Group to the Mediterranean to protect French shipping in the Suez Canal and the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf.
France has also defense agreements with some of the Gulf States they need to honor.

Europe is drawn into this War.

If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.

It's not Roosevelt we're dealing with. Hell, it's not even Nixon.

I saw this thread, didn't reply to him, blocked him, and he added me to those lists too.

Absolute loser.

“For all we know, we could be in the middle of Keir Starmer’s finest hour”.

Starmer’s critics say he is imperiling the UK’s special relationship with the US...

But is it Donald Trump who's doing the damage?

Getting "Kyiv will fall in 3 days" vibes from this! 👇

I see him regularly complaining he's had to shut off replies due to people "scolding" him, or grumbling that people are engaging in a manner not to his liking. When looking through the replies there's usually nothing to get uppity about. He's very sensitive.

My wife would call him a "drama llama".

Who'd have thought calm and collected minds might prevail when it comes to chaotic and unpredictable events, huh? 😂

Many others have a long way down off their high horses on the Iran issue, but it seems unlikely they'll find their way.

'Do anything Trump wants', you sure about that lad...

It was, and I was thinking about this earlier - it's no longer just the papers. When Harry Cole thinks he's gotcha-ed Starmer by getting Trump to express disappointment that we aren't bombing the fuck out of Iran, I don't think that's because it's what his readers want - I think it's Twitter-brain.