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Tories are out, miss being in the EU, ex forces, academic, support our public services.
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Tory members looking at the Truss experiment and going "no, not weird enough, we need someone even weirder"

Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵

This whole farmers IHT thing is Thatcherism coming home to roost, just like privatising the water companies and deregulating the City. She removed IHT on agricultural land precisely so the mega rich could get richer. Read this jonathancoewriter.com/book/what-a-...

for some reason I’ve remembered what Jeremy Clarkson, who said he bought land to avoid inheritance tax, said on live TV about striking public sector workers (extra marks for use of ‘us’)

UK farmers are campaigning against inheritance tax on over £1m - which also has get outs - so it’s probably £3m for a couple. UK govt say 500 mainly affected - which will include:

On the issue whether scientists have a duty to stay on X and fight “On X, we are being asked to fight with one hand tied behind our backs. Our posts are given less and less prominence – throttled in favour of post from users more sympathetic to Elon Musk’s world-view.”

Hypocritical comedienne of the worst kind.

Agree

Bye George 👋 #blocked