Yes, income is income, whether it is dressed as dividends or capital gains and it should be taxed as income. It would make the tax system simpler too.
08.10.2025 08:06 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@scouseprofessor.bsky.social
Socialist, Labour party member, Europhile, #Rejoin EU, scientist, atheist, retired professor, Evertonian, digital audiophile, single-figure golfer, content creator
Yes, income is income, whether it is dressed as dividends or capital gains and it should be taxed as income. It would make the tax system simpler too.
08.10.2025 08:06 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0โI would gently point out to Nigel Farage that before we left the EU we had a returns agreement with every country in the EU. He told the country it would make no difference if we left. He was wrong about that. These are Farage boats in many senses coming across the channelโ ๐
PM Keir Starmer
The BBC is our national broadcaster, people expect and deserve balanced news coverage.
It's clear to everyone the BBC is giving Nigel Farage and Reform far too much coverage.
#LibDems ๐ถ
Petition ๐๐ฝ
www.libdems.org.uk/bbc
BBC Political Editor Chris Mason
Whilst trying to persuade the viewers on BBC news yesterday that the BBC is not Reform biased.
Spent half of his interview with Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey talking about Farage.
Yes BBC you are now biased towards the Far-Right.
Mick Lynch "Nigel Farage is a racist."
RT if Mick is right.
Ed Davey, "Nigel Farage helped cause the small boat problems, because before Brexit we had 27 return agreements with the EU"
- maybe call them Brexit boats?
Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place"
"Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people"
-Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats
The Angles and the Saxons.
22.09.2025 15:47 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0The UK government has formally recognised a Palestinian state. For this reason, our Government Tracker is now rating Labourโs related manifesto pledge as โachievedโ.
Full details here ๐
Nigel Farage is blaming the failures of post-Brexit immigration policy on a "Boris Wave"...
REFORM UK ARE LYING TO YOU!
NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before.
Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.
Definitely worth a repost.
17.09.2025 08:09 โ ๐ 25 ๐ 16 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Michael Gove accused of U-turn over cheap food - Farmers Weekly share.google/9NpWGGiLOLAJ...
17.09.2025 11:39 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Reform UK were elected on promises of unicorns and pots of gold at the end of rainbows. Now Leicestershire is seeing the consequencesโฆ
Reform UK presses Government for more Leicestershire cash amid โmission impossibleโ claims
www.harboroughmail.co.uk/news/politic...
Some honesty for once, Nigelโฆ
Itโs time for Nigel Farage to admit heโd scrap the pension triple lock
๐จ History made. The Hillsborough Law marks a turning point - putting victims and families at the heart of justice. #JusticeFor97 #JusticeForGrenfell
16.09.2025 19:30 โ ๐ 18 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0And can you stop shouting please.
16.09.2025 15:35 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I've just listened to your latest podcast. You said the government needs to be doing things to improve people's lives. Well they are: renter's bill; employment rights; minimum wage; nationalisation of the railways; economy stable; growth; GB Energy. You're choosing to ignore of all that.
16.09.2025 15:35 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Reform UK Councillor Gaynor Jean-Louis has resigned.
Awaiting further details.
It could be related to her 0 attendance record:
worcestershire.moderngov.co.uk/mgAttendance...
Here's our expose of her back in May 2025:
x.com/reformexpose...
Ed Milliband on Elon Musk on LBC, "Just because you're a billionaire doesn't give you the right to tell us how to run our country"
"This guy is a publicity seeking narcissist, who is inciting violence on our streets"
"As the Americans would say: butt out of our politics"
The Defence Secretary today announced that the UK's largest drone production facility will open in Swindon next year, creating 1000 highly skilled jobs and strengthening British manufacturing.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
More than ยฃ1.1 billion is to be invested in the UK's coastal towns and cities.
Consisting of ยฃ448m from the government and ยฃ700m private funding it will help businesses and academia develop real-life technology that reduces carbon emissions from shipping, which also supports coastal communities.
First FagAsh came for asylum seekers, then...
15.09.2025 11:31 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Yesterday, the largest far-right protest in UK history marched through London, led by racist Tommy Robinson.
Today, we say: They donโt speak for us โ and they wonโt have the last word.
This Wednesday we come together against Trump and for a better future. Do everything to be there.
Why does the BBC insist on calling Tommy Robinson a โfar right activistโ rather than โStephen Yaxley Lennon, convicted criminalโ?
13.09.2025 19:12 โ ๐ 17 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0A man at Tommy Robinsonโs Unite the Kingdom rally in London threatened Keir Starmer, saying he should be โassassinated.โ
HOPE not hate said speeches were โextraordinarily extremeโ as violence broke out and police faced projectiles.
#London