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“Nobody in the history of the planet has ever complied their way out of totalitarian control."
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The 'money saving expert' endorses £850 billion in debt interest payments 😂
thisismoney.co.uk/money/arti…
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I have read it Bob, and it tells us that @KathrynPorter26 is correct. It says...
"Unfortunately, balancing costs are increasing and are predicted to go up from around £2bn a year now to as much as £8bn by 2030. That’s because over 60% of these costs are what we call ‘thermal constraints’. These typically come about when we need to take action to manage high amounts of wind generation in the north because it's unable to reach demand in the south. Put plainly, the cables don’t exist yet. To prevent the existing cables from overheating and catching fire due to excessive current flowing through them, NESO acts to turn down wind output to avoid a power outage.".
It's an admission that wind energy creates the grid instability, and that the grid was never designed to cope with diffuse intermittent sources of energy, which requires us to spend billions on additional transmission lines and mitigation infrastructure. The more wind turbines we add, the greater the instability and the more we have to spend on short term grid balancing. The costs of mitigating wind generation, and wind subsidies, dwarf what it would cost to build dispatchable energy generation where energy is actually used.
I recommend reading this from @neso_energy about balancing costs instead of swallowing propaganda from @KathrynPorter26: neso.energy/news/energy-expl…
A record of 98 changes in the Budget but they are “piddling” little measures with minimal impact.
This was a nothing Budget.
The economic outlook is extremely poor re growth, debt, debt interest, unemployment, inflation, and standard of living.
There will be a Spring GE.
How much is the government currently borrowing? And what does it all mean?
Sky's @EdConwaySky unpicks the Chancellor's budget ⬇️
Graham Roberts 🎗️ retweeted
The left keeps saying the quiet part out loud — the extreme views they accuse Republicans of secretly holding. They act like people who didn’t vote “correctly” deserve to die. That’s the same dehumanization playbook they claim to oppose. You’ve been programmed to believe disagreement justifies elimination. But the side that keeps accusing Republicans of wanting people dead is the one actually expressing it. We never said that. You did.
This budget is a cynical act of procrastination, delaying any policy decisions that might impact Labour’s core voters.
It gives Labour “breathing space”.
Despite Burnham’s denials, there will be a Spring election.
God help us if the electorate returns Labour to power.
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🇬🇧 The OBR just dropped 200 pages on Healey's first Budget.
I read it so you don't have to.
Tax is at a record 37.9% of GDP by 2027-28, past the old high of 37.2%.
Then it climbs every single year to 38.6%.
Frozen thresholds are doing way too much to workers since they get a pay rise, hand more of it over.
1.8x the national minimum wage now classes you as a higher tax rate payer - what the fuck?
Borrowing @ £133bn this year. In March they said £115bn. Seven months later it's £18bn worse. And it's higher than March in every year of the forecast because neither the OBR nor treasury has a clue what they’re doing.
Debt interest at £39bn in 2019-20.
£109bn last year 😩
£160bn by 2031-32 😩😩£15bn of this year's bill is extra bc inflation's pushing up index linked gilts, and we know the uk has a structural inflation problem, partly due to the relationship between treasury and BoE.
Headroom is £14.5bn, down from £21.7bn at the last Budget.
Keep the fuel duty freeze going and it's £10.2bn.
The OBR gives Healey a 56% chance of hitting his OWN FUCKING rule.
Debt will peak at 97.3% of GDP, still 95.6% in 2031-32. Five years and it barely moves which is completely against his fiscal demands.
How it affects you?
Growth 1% next year with gdp per capita basically the same as it has been since 2019
Inflation 3.4% when March said 2%.
Zero real pay growth in 2027.
Living standards in 2030-31?
Just 2% above pre-pandemic.
But don't worry. You're getting a £100 council tax rebate.
Jesus Christ.
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Tax his land, Tax his bed,
Tax the table, At which he's fed.
Tax his tractor, Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes are the rule.
Tax his work, Tax his pay,
He works for peanuts anyway!
Tax his cow, Tax his goat, Tax his pants, Tax his coat.
Tax his ties, Tax his shirt, Tax his work, Tax his dirt.
Tax his tobacco, Tax his drink, Tax him if he Tries to think.
Tax his cigars, Tax his beers, If he cries Tax his tears.
Tax his car, Tax his gas, Find any way To tax his ass!
Tax him all he has, then let him know
That you won't be done Till he has no dough.
When he screams and when he hollers;
Then tax him more, take all his dollars
Then tax his coffin, Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in Which he's laid...
Put these words Upon his tomb:
‘Taxes drove me to my doom...'
When he's gone, Do not relax,
It's time to apply Inheritance Tax!
#BudgetDay
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No, that is psychopathic deflection, projection, blame shifting and gaslighting.
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Douglas Murray delivers CHILLING warning of Islamist takeover of Europe amid French riots
#danwootton #outspoken #danwoottonoutspoken
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The uncomfortable truth about electric cars…🚙
#RichardHammond
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Well done @trussliz
Morgan thought he had her on the ropes and she came out fighting and he had nothing.
‘Of course the establishment wants to attack my book… Simon Heffer knows nothing about economics!’
Liz Truss responds to her book receiving a 0-star review in The Telegraph.
Watch more 👇
📺 youtu.be/OgN8CHAVbOc
@piersmorgan | @trussliz
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🗣️ 'Are you suggesting that as PM I should go online and do my own research?' - @trussliz
Sky's @WilfredFrost challenges the former prime minister on why she wasn't aware of the risks before announcing her mini-budget.
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Feels like civilisation is falling apart but don’t worry, they’ve knocked a penny off a jar of gherkins!
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‘Of course the establishment wants to attack my book… Simon Heffer knows nothing about economics!’
Liz Truss responds to her book receiving a 0-star review in The Telegraph.
Watch more 👇
📺 youtu.be/OgN8CHAVbOc
@piersmorgan | @trussliz
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🇺🇸Scott Ritter‼️
“Europe🇪🇺is Playing with Fire 🔥”
One mistake could trigger a nuclear war‼️
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A teenager phoned Pan Am and said someone had stolen his pilot's uniform. Pan Am sent him to its tailor and billed the $289 to its own payroll.
His name is Frank Abagnale. He ran away from home at 16 with no job and no money, and says nobody would pay him more than $1.50 an hour.
So he told employers he was 26. Then he began writing personal checks on a bank account with nothing in it. Shops took them.
The uniform needed an ID card. He bought a model Pan Am plane, softened the decals in water and pressed them onto a blank card.
By his own count he flew about 3 million miles and reached 82 countries. Hotels accepted his checks because airlines had agreed to cover crew checks up to $100.
He was convicted in France, then Sweden, then the United States, and he served his time.
In the video below, you see him explain the uniform call and the decal ID himself, on The Tonight Show, as the studio audience laughs and then applauds.
Watch for the line about shopkeepers:
"Most people don't realize how gullible the average storekeeper is."
Banks later paid him to teach tellers how to spot a bad check. Is hiring a man convicted of passing them smart security, or the wrong lesson?