Welsh Londoner. Screenwriter. Post-socialist. Post-feminist. MMT. Atheist. “Scourge of the unthinking, regardless of their political orientation.”
London. Yay.
Joined August 2019
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@TheGreenParty, for the sake of our futures can you stop saying ‘raise taxes to pay for…’
Tax removes money from the economy - it doesn’t ‘fill government coffers’.
Multiple crises have arrived because our political parties do not understand this. For all our sakes, be better.
Wol retweeted
Trump lost the 2020 election. Putin invaded Ukraine. Europe is not about to fall. January 6th happened. Trump is incredibly corrupt and incompetent.
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In which the General Secretary of the TUC no less, immediately accepts the Tory household framing fallacy, skips into Thatcher’s trap, closes the door on any hope of change and hands the Tory the key.
China drags 100s of millions out of poverty while the British left roll over.
“Next year he actually has to find the money that doesn’t exist.”
“There are things the Government can do that aren’t just about tax.”
Rachel Wolf, who co-wrote the 2019 Conservative manifesto and Paul Nowak, TUC General Secretary, discuss the challenge facing Andy Burnham’s government, ahead of next week’s Budget
#Newsnight
There’s a type of person who:
A. Rails against benefits
B. Insists everyone pays their way
C. Applauds billionaires who abandon the country that made them rich in order to stop paying their way
D. Will take any handout themselves
We call these people, cunts.
@chloroquinecake
Wol retweeted
A Welshman walks into a ‘Spoons.
Tells the barman he's got a great joke about Reform voters.
The barman tells him that he's a Reform voter, so are the 3 big guys at the end of the bar and the 2 woman sat next to him.
'So do you still want to tell it', the barman says.
The man says. 'No. Not if I'm going to have to explain it 6 times"... 😆
Don’t you mean ‘damn hard’?
That’s the term.
Being venal is venal.
Not understanding the nature of work is tragic.
‘Trading extra hours…”
There speaks a man who has never enjoyed his work; never strived for something more than money. Doesn’t even understand the concept.
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Elon Musk claims that Ukraine allegedly violated Starlink's terms of use and used the system on combat drones.
As someone who was inside the process at the Ministry of Defense, I can say with certainty that this is not true.
In February of this year, whitelists were introduced. Stationary terminals could be registered by both military personnel and civilians.
But for any satellite terminal to work while on the move, it had to be added to a special list and connected to the military Starshield system. Otherwise, no satellite communication terminals in Ukraine would work.
In other words, using civilian Starlink for drone missions was technically impossible. All drone missions that required satellite communication could only be carried out using Starshield.
We are very grateful to the United States and SpaceX for access to critically important satellite communications. Ukraine did not violate the terms of use.
If you are rich, you did it using all the daily provisions of the state: the legal framework, security, trade guarantees, transportation network etc.
You used the state, now time to put something back so others may prosper.
Wol retweeted
Government are rightly targeting failure to pay Tax but they are only aiming at 4% the small tax payers
What about the £55bn of additional Tax avoidance by companies, criminals, the rich
This is known Tax, what about the people who avoid it altogether
gov.uk/government/statistics…
HMRC to deduct money directly from bank accounts of tax evaders
John Healey is expected to announce changes at the budget, targeting lower-value tax-evaders who owe a total of £4bn
thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…
Wol retweeted
Loanable funds theory treats credit as a redistribution of prior savings. Capitalist banks create deposits when they lend.
There's a delicious irony in some of capitalism's most fervent apologists failing to understand the very institutions that make it possible.
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We use 20% less electricity that we did.
Light bulbs, today 3w - 8w, 20 yrs ago 60w - 100w
Washing machines used to fill with hot water from a cylinder, today, we heat cold water to 40 degree.
Storage heaters, the most expensive form of heating, today, mainly gas but changing to efficient electric heating.
