Barney Lines-Hembrey

Two-Tier Reporting: When Climate Protesters Slow Ambulances They’re Vilified, So Why Are Wealthy Farmers Given a Free Pass? Media outlets rush to condemn climate change campaigners as "middle class" protesters causing "chaos" while ignoring greater disruption by millionaire landowners

“Everyone in positions of influence should ask themselves the question: are you treating those fighting to save the planet more harshly than those fighting for inherited wealth? If so, why?”
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Grassroots music venues are vital and are suffering at the expense of touts like Ticketmaster - they should be made to use their multi-billion pound profits to support the places that create the artists they profit off.

In other news millions of people in the UK are living in poverty, destitution & using food banks

So much misinformation around today on who will be affected by changes to inheritance tax - and lobbyists pretending the data isn't clear to obfuscate. We have detailed data on estates so the truth is in fact very clear if you care to look 🧵

To be clear:

It's £1m untaxed, plus £325k of standard tax free inheritance.

You can double that if the farmer is married.

So farmers can hand down £2.65m tax free, and their kids pay 20% on everything else.

Tax on your job is 40% over £50k

"Land owner" is not a job

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Andy Kim, one of the only handful of Democrats who won a House race which Trump carried in 2020: “If you’re only having comfortable conversations in politics, you’re not talking to all the people you need to be talking to. Politics should inherently be uncomfortable, inherently be difficult.”

So on message from Xi, next week he'll be hammering home the wonders of 'securonomics'