davidchild.bsky.social
In a perpetual search for a beach house.
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It’s all just so piddling, isn’t it. Put up income tax you cowards.
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Yep. Altho mostly livid that Tiktok served me his vid, and then I sent it to friends and now I am discussing it here. And his was pretty race-/immigrant-/youth-focused content that just makes me so disappointed with it all.
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Indeed. And yet Robert Jenrick isn’t, as I understand, proposing any of them.
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There seems to me just a lot more obvious poverty than there was a while ago and it’s not just arrogant teenagers anymore but people whose lives depend on never paying for the transport they use.
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And so how do we fix it? I saw it today coming out of my local station: a man, probably not sober, or of a fixed abode chose the small lady next to me to walk behind. And it’s fixable how? He pays with his bag of crack? Or we penalise him by refusing him a place to live? Genuinely?
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It’s partly now cos am older and more aware but like okay fine she just about affords a one-bed in “lesser” UES but now buys a, what, $20m Gramercy townhouse? There’s a knowing extravagance to Deborah Vance that feels more “real” than theirs.
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It’s less that and more the massive and very “unworried” wealth of it. It kind of always was but the clothing is now a parody of itself.
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When compare to say Hacks it’s so lame and feels mega-outdated. But will watch nonetheless.
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I think it’s not uncommon if you use tomato puree as well. I do it sometimes but my palette is that refined to tell the difference.
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I know it’s different but if the video had shown him doing that to her the conversation would be very different now. That didn’t look like a friendly push.
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Oh 100%! Too fun! Drinking all the water today.
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Emptying the freezer so having sausage pasta here. The sauce has been in the oven for the past two hours. No booze as *heavy* weekend.
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I’ll leave that specific challenge for you to ponder.
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Yeah, you’re right, that’ll definitely work.
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Everyone is taxed currently. If they earn through PAYE or dividends or live here. Happy to raise the rates for any of those but taxing say 1,000 hyper-mobile people more isn’t going to make a tiny bit of difference to the many challenges we face. Taxing 40+ million people a bit more would tho.
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If you think we have enough billionaires happy to hand over a huge chunk of their wealth to us to make a tiny bit of difference to government revenues then I don’t know how to help you.
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Describe “genuinely rich”.
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That, some mash. And a pint pls.
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Undoubtedly for many it’s a struggle. But the narrative does seem baked in that “everything’s gone up”. BBC went to a food bank on the day of inflation announcement to ask people about how they felt about price rises, eg.
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The days I see the Tally Ho bus are good days.
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Oh I might have to go back in just to have a good cry. The speech she gives her before she goes onstage also.
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I think a recurring theme is people have a skewed few of their own wealth relative to others and if we genuinely taxed “wealth” (mostly people’s homes) there’d be poll tax level revolts among retired folk. Also, London + SE would even more fund the entire country.
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Yep, seems to me there are zero quick wins. Depressingly, so.
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I mean, I would be fine, say, adding a couple of pence on to basic rate coupled with adding 5p to additional rate (maybe even soften it by giving everyone a tax free allowance / removing the £100k child tax credit thing). But the idea that serious cash is raised from the uber wealthy is nonsense.
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I am okay if it’s just for headlines and it’s maybe 10-15% of those at the lower income scale that get it. But if it returns in full it’s a total nonsense.
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Yeah, I always say I’d love to run a wine bar / food place only when I didn’t need it to make money. Just a really great moneypit of a place that I adored being in (on the rare occasions I weren’t on a yacht / pj / beach somewhere.
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Yep. And I have sometimes say in theatres told a queue of women if the men’s toilets were empty if they wanted to go in and use them. Loads of clubs now just have urinals in one and cubicles elsewhere with shared sinks. Ally McBeal was way ahead of things.
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Yep, it’s a *mess*. Also, only nightclubs or posh hotels “police” loos, and no organisation is going to thank the government for forcing them to suddenly clarify gender once a successful legal case has been won where a company “failed” to provide their stated single sex space.
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The government is going to *have* to legislate to resolve it. Organisations are not going to be able to enact it and then there will be legal cases and it will be totally unworkable. Clarified, my eye.
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Yes. A sort of Hearstopper but for college kids. And not as radical. But fun and decent amount of nudity / sexiness.
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See also Over Compensating.
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Any sauce?