jdsibley.bsky.social
Public affairs in trade association land. Politics, cycling, gardening, and cats. #ITFC and Essex CCC fan.
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I'd say damage limitation is about the best we can hope for with Trump!
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Critical Mass is an unofficial mass ride organised the last Friday of every month. They usually do different routes around central London so I’d imagine the Silvertown ride was a one off/protest kind of thing
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Infrastructure for walking, cycling and/or wheeling. E.g. Bike paths, footpaths etc. You can only drive or get the bus through the Silvertown Tunnel. They’ve put on a free “bike bus” that I can guarantee won’t really be used
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£2bn road tunnel that will create more traffic and pollution in Greenwich and Newham and has laughable active travel provision: 👍
£600mn walking and cycling bridge: 🙅♂️
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She was elected to lead, not to read
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He’s done it again!
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Smashing that get offer button
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Telling the country that maintains your nuclear deterrent to essentially fuck off would be a bold choice
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Gets even worse once childcare benefits are factored in. There are people out there for whom salary sacrificing up to 50k to get under 100k would make sense. Money that isn’t being spent or taxed full whack today.
www.ft.com/content/8fc5...
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Agree Labour should just raise tax, particularly by undoing the NICs cuts
But the UK actually taxes high earners at a rate in line with other European countries (~50%). It’s for median earners that the average tax rate is lower (~30% v ~45%). Hard to raise much in a way that isn’t deeply unpopular
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It’s what we voted for
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🎉🍾🎊🪟
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I’m amazed at the extent they’ve gone after the military and intelligence agencies. Like starting your coup by docking the pay of the Praetorian guard
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Guys, it’s possible to reform the state and just allow it to be boring! It usually is boring! You don’t need all this cosplay nonsense
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I drive around in a Volvo with my wife
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Lockdown three was the absolute pits
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He's been stockpiling cash for about a year... right again
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I don’t disagree on spending but Argentina ranks a lot, lot lower on the corruption and ease of doing business indexes. I can see some justification for focusing on deregulation, if not the fruit loop application.
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And like… no fan of Milei, but the situation in Argentina was/is a bit more extreme than in the UK, as many problems as we face
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I agree! But the idea that Labour hasn’t raised taxes on wealth is false
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I mean the IHT threshold being frozen at 325k until 2030. With pension pots brought in + the closing of the farmland dodge it amounts to a lot more wealth being taxed
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This is such a fantastic reply
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Labour literally brought pensions into IHT and extended the threshold freeze. Now is that not taxing wealth?
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Did he shit in the woods?
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If they manage to end the dollar’s reserve currency status, trigger a bond market tantrum, divert FDI away from the US, and turn the EU into a heavily armed strategic rival, then I’d say that’s a job well done!