Tom Powell

God the article's terrible though. Typical Telegraph. Why do you bother?! 😂

"Tax raid on wealthier families"
"Raids on property, investments, pensions and inheritance"
"Costly prejudice"
"No option but to increase taxes substantially"

They hate the idea of the rich paying more.

Says "Otto English"...

Does stamp duty really stop people in £10m houses from moving? Doubt it. The rich don’t stay put because of a one-off tax...they stay put because there’s nowhere they need or want to go.

Dan's always very good at proposing "fairer, smarter systems"...but always seems to stop short at actually saying what that system could be.

Stamp duty is bad; replace it with a smarter tax.

Non-doms are bad; we need a fairer residency system.

Council tax is outdated; we need to modernise it.

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"Debate"....

Yeah, I got that. My bad. I went through the thread after I replied.

I think my reply still stands though. People are spending a lot of time thinking about offending an LLB. We've never had this debate this loudly when it comes to animals.

Printers are the devil of course. But I can't not think of animals rather than inanimate objects when they say "nonhuman". Have you ever seen a trailer of pigs being "offloaded" into an abattoir? The fear is real.

Starmer's about 70% unfavourable. As Labours unpopularity declined this year, the Green Party membership doubled. Corrollation isn't causation, I know. But I do suspect...Most.

It depends if it suits them at any particular time.

r/ukpolitics on reddit would like it's "showerthought" from 10 years a go back.

Didn't know chocolate tahini was a thing! 😆 Sounds delicious. On the hunt.

The modern way. Politics today is soundbites and clickbait. It's debatable what is worse. Where we are can be taced back to Thatcher of course. But we musn't forget that real transformative change for the better is possible. Look back the the creation of the NHS and free education.

Preaching to the choir... 😜

Reminds me of a certain 10 pledges.

Let's criticse closer to home first. The only way for progress in honesty.

YouTube video by Novara Media The Information Apocalypse Has Arrived

OpenAI just unveiled Sora 2, AI that makes hyper-realistic video from text.

Not progress for people, it’s corporate AI deepening mistrust, monetising loneliness, handing power to tech oligarchs.

We need democratic control, not faster deepfakes.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1n9...

Easier to block, eh?

Standard Lib Dem.

Because the Libs Dems don't have an identity...

Easier to move on when there's an apology. I've never heard one.

And I don't think you are the only party to stand up to Labour. You also did that before the colition, and then caved to everything you stood for in the run up.

Why should people trust you now?

The people who the Lib Dems screwed over given a whiff over power do...

Never trust a Lib Dem. Sorry, it's not personal, but...

Well, it's personal. Never trust them.

Of course. And in times like this, I ebrace the immortal words of the philosopher Christopher Nolan. The night is darkest before the dawn....

I think that was written 5,000 years ago. I believe it was unearthed in Egypt.

It's not about running the bins. It's about making sure local people are heard, represting the area. Corbyn won his place last election, the first time since 1930 that Islington North elected a non-Labour MP. He's doing a decent job.

You're conflating consituency politics with national politics. Different things. They're both very popular MPs in their respective localities and do great work. The founding of a new national party has clearly been problematic, and time will tell, but you don't have to vote for either or the party

When was this a new thing?

There was something called the Rwanda scheme. I don't know if you remember it...

Failed. Miserably. Because it was illegal.

Promises and pledges don't mean anything. Starmer has proved that quite substantially.

Do you live in either ones constituency?

If so, don't vote for them.

They don't matter anymore, it's over. Reform and Labour are the biggest immediate threats.

Did you see the response to the government petition, with 2 and a half million signitories?

"We're going to do it and you should be grateful".

What's the point?

Lives spent with noses buried in the Telegraph for one.

My Dads one. Conservative all his life. Clever guy, well read and can fix anything from your toy car to your cars engine.

Politically, brainwashed.

I'm pretty sure he still thinks Labour caused the 2008 financial crisis. Not kidding.

It hurt when I crashed my bike into a pothole – and it taught me the true price of austerity | George Monbiot Fixing that hole could have cost under £100; the cost of not doing so is limitless. My prang highlights the neoliberal folly of false economies, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Keeping people in poverty is an expensive luxury.
My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government's claims, austerity continues under Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

No.

Next question...

They generally do. History shows us migrants adapt and ingegrate well. It takes time and support, not ultimatums saying "learn it or leave". You people behave like this is a new thing, or it's some kind of modern problem. It's not. We've always had migrants and they've always intefrated.