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London 'cost of rent day' That's almost half a year's wages to a landlord who's done little at best. Torygraph celebrating by slagging off Ed and standing up for the landlords - quelle surprise! www.cityam.com/happy-cost-o...

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Blueskyers are smart people, but I suspect that some in US are going to be confused (cue amusing trump post). The monarch (or governor usually) reads the goverments plans for the term - he doesn't actually set the plans for govt. But lovely words to make one smile.... www.ctvnews.ca/canada/royal...

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I think Mar a Lago should be renamed Scamalot!!!!

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Ignorant swindler needs to google history of EU. Also someone needs to explain VAT cf US sales tax (which is of course charged at state/municipal level as well as fed!)

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When fighting housing is (political) "priority number one" I hope you don't have influence on committee that makes decisions "We want to sit down and come up with a plan ... led by members and not by officers" - good luck with PINS, babe. www.essexlive.news/news/essex-n...

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I still don't understand why the #winterfuel payment isn't just limited to people in Band A-D properties. Gentle nudge retired people in overly large properties and excludes those well off over 67s living in top end larger properties. Easy to implement (DWP plus VOA records - simples)

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Wouldn't it be great if all world leaders from now on said "nah, not gonna go into that corrupt tart's boudoir" simply to create a nonsense propo

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Councils banning overly large "cars" from car parks⬇️ Among the top 100 models in 2023, 52% of vehicles sold were too wide for the minimum specified on-street parking space (180cm) in major cities, including London, Paris and Rome. www.rac.co.uk/drive/news/m...

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You'll never guess... Another Torygraph article for those owners of multiple homes. Srsly. And yes we know the wealthy always on lookout for more ways to avoid paying their share

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Least surprising news of the day.

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Still fighting the corner of those who own multiple homes...

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🧵 Ever since London's councils starting installing cycle journey counters on major cycle routes there's been a batshit conspiracy by London's cabbies and anti-LTN Onesies that cycling campaign groups organise pelotons of cyclists to cycle up-and-down to inflate the counts. Don your tin-foil hat 1/n

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I missed this earlier - useful reference for some www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Jeez - who platformed that nut job Gorka on #WATO? Not with my licence fee, thanks.

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No austerity there.

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Moneybox is BBCs weekly tax avoidance advice. Newspapers too have regular advice on how to cut tax. Esp as labour overturned the Tory IHT pension dodge. This is not allright and not in the public interest - it all about wealth preservation for the wealthy.

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More Brexit benefits ->

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Every day in the telegraph Get over it!

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This might prove much harder in practice, not least due to the Equalities Act. • Eg part of Durham's inclusivity programme is helping people with disabilities into work. Do they want to scrap that? • Ending wfh basically means people with caring responsibilities have to go. Again, are they sure?

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And in today's least surprising county election news... I see several palces that previously voted in "independents" (resident objector campaigners) have now shown their colours as Reform

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1/4 of Seats in now, though still only 1 council fully declared...

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Just got warned that the new "Voice Isolation" feature in Teams, if turned on and trained on a male voice, will filter out all the women in the room, while still allowing the men in the room to be heard online. clears throat IF YOU USE A BIASED TRAINING SET, YOUR TECHNOLOGY WILL BE BIASED.

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Yup, telegraph still not reading the room. Putting some of those second homes into the useful housing market is popular and will bring multiple benefits

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What @carolinevoadenmp.bsky.social doesn't mention in this is that this ramped up on new housing estates because Tories defended local gov such that they couldn't afford to adopt and maintain eg play spaces, drainage, dog bins. This didn't start www.politics.co.uk/mp-comment/2...

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End of the stamp duty holiday: seasonally adjusted residential transactions in March were around double the normal level.

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100 days in office 24 of them spent golfing Terrifying to think what might have been if he'd spent more time in DC trumpgolftrack.com

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Exploiting. This clause was John Gummers "modern manor houses" and the Toryest of Tory policies - huge houses for the rich exemption. Meanwhile one of the first things the Tory coalition did in 2010 was removed policy support for garden infill - a policy to encourage gentle density etc.

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Memo to the press: I’m hearing there is new Greenland task force at the State Department. Here’s what I have heard:

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The Loan Programs Office (LPO) is one of the most quietly effective tools the federal government has. It is the center of our industrial policy providing loans that banks won't give for energy innovation. It funds real projects. Battery factories. Nuclear reactors. Geothermal energy. Car factories.

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I recommend everyone read book Neuro Tribes Includes discussion of WW2 diff between Allies who harnessed the special skills of blessed nerds as radio operators & code breakers vs the Nazi approach which was extermination of anyone who didn't conform fully to their 'norms' This is scary stuff⬇️

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