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Reform absolutely obsessed with the riots in France!
Why?
Because they want it here, they hate our country with a passion.
Reject.
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“Hello and welcome to Newsnight. Tonight, we’re joined by Faiza Shaheen, director of Tax Justice UK. Faiza is an economist and a Visiting Professor of Practice at the London School of Economics. Faiza’s previous roles include Program Head for the Inequality and Exclusion Grand Challenge of the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University, Director of the Centre for Labour and Social Studies, Head of Inequality and Sustainable Development at Save the Children, and Senior Researcher at the New Economics Foundation. Faiza holds a PhD and MSc from the University of Manchester and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from St John’s College, Oxford University.
She is the author of a range of materials and publications covering the most salient social and economic debates of our times, including inequality, austerity, immigration, and social mobility. Faiza has over 15 years of experience researching the trends and consequences of inequality, as well as designing policies and campaigns to address the causes of inequality and exclusion. Her book, ‘Know your place: How society sets us up to fail and what we can do about it’ was published in July 2023 by Simon & Schuster.
To speak over her, we’ve invited Winston Marshall, a podcaster and former member of Mumford and Sons.
We hope you enjoy the programme.”
"If you want to lift up the poor, you have to create wealth."
"How's that going?"
Podcaster and former Mumford & Sons member Winston Marshall discusses taxes with economist and Green Party supporter Faiza Shaheen.
#Newsnight
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She is speaking shite.
I never once received a lesson teaching me to hate this country.
My mother is a headteacher and hating Britain is certainly NOT on her curriculum.
The people who are running this country down are the so-called patriots who tell you this country is broken while shagging flags.
If it is broken, it’s broken by them.
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Everyone upset about the rumoured triple lock changes, remember, is insisting that the state pension should rise *faster* than the wages of the people who pay for it. That’s the only thing at stake here. Andy is not cutting the pension, or even suggesting it should stop rising.
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Genuine question for the pensioners, if ending triple lock mean you got to pass on the value of your home to your kids without state taking it to pay for care, isn’t that a fair trade off? Or do you want to keep triple lock and sell your house if you need care?
Just discovered the #PoshCast with Sophia Money-Coutts and Cleo Watson. It is hilarious, and has put me in a very good mood on a monday.
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They want to leave the ECHR because it will allow them to abolish the State Pension, the Minimum Wage, and paid holiday and sick leave.
It would make them tens of billions a year.
But of course they say immigration, because they can't tell you the real reason.
#r4today #LBC
Farage: "We are not sovereign until we leave the ECHR."
The only European countries outside the ECHR are Russia and Belarus.
For the UK to quit the ECHR would be to hand a huge victory to Putin in his war against human rights and international law.
Farage continues his treasonous collaboration in Putin's war against democracy, freedom, and human rights. He is a traitor, and that is the biggest issue by far in today's British politics.
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For several days, my timeline has been full of people doing a good impression of the Death Eaters from Harry Potter insisting only purebloods can call themselves English. No time to reply to all of them, but five quick questions for any who care to engage 1/6
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Trump: I demand Greenland!
Denmark: No.
Trump: Ok, how about you agree not to let Russia and China establish military bases there?
Denmark: Well I mean we weren’t going to do…you know what? Deal!
Trump: My enemies fold again.
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In 2014 Nigel Farage went on LBC to complain about hearing foreign languages on trains.
James O'Brien: But your wife and kids speak German.
That was the first and last time they ever spoke.
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It’s all going to end, very soon, enjoy it.
“At your funeral, your friends and family will argue over who gets what.
People will want food to eat.
The topic will shift from your life to their lives.
They’ll drive away thinking about their looming to-do list.
Some people won’t be able to make it because ‘something came up’
And we worry about…a low performing post on social media.
Or what someone “thinks of us”.
Or a bad customer review.
Or whether we’re going to finish our to do list in time.
We die like we go to sleep.
With things unsaid and unfinished.
The only judge who has complete context on our lives, dies with us.
A reminder of the heavy weight we place on things that matter little.”
— @AlexHormozi
It's a reflection on the depressing state of our national discourse right now that the UK Prime Minister is doing The Great North Run to raise money for a homeless charity that helps over 14,000 people a year and his donations sit at just £3,233.
Meanwhile, a multiple convicted hard-right grifter has asked his gullible followers to donate because he used his mum's address to register his company, and those donations, which will go into his back pocket, are currently sitting at £66,902.
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So we’ve now had two donations to Reform for £36m each, totalling £72m.
More money in 24 hours than was spent by Labour and the Tories at the last election COMBINED.
Both donations from crypto billionaires.
This is a straight up assault on our democracy.
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When do they start attacking firefighters for putting out the fires in the wrong houses, or paramedics for helping the wrong sort of people.
This shit with the RNLI is only the beginning unless we stop it.























