People moaning about the echo chamber actually love the echo chamber. What they're really moaning about is that they only want it to echo with their own words.
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Everyman Smith retweeted
If £10billion buys a whole missile defence system…what on earth did you Tories spend on covid for £37 billion!?
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Wages are down, profits are up.
Corporations are getting tax breaks, deregulations, and busting unions, while workers are getting suppressed wages, slashed benefits and higher costs.
Almost everyone of your problems can be traced back to this chart.
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The image is misleading for 2 reasons:
- it commits a “chart crime” by using two different Y-axis.
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- Compensation has shifted from wages to benefits, which is hidden from this chart; workers get ~19% of compensation via benefits now, vs as low as 2% historically.
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Here is how it works.
Thatcher convinced your grandad to buy his council house where he was born. Then he moved upmarket and paid off his mortgage. Then after your grandma died, he had to move in a home run by Joe Enrepreneur. After a short while he was out of savings and needed to sell his house to pay for his care. RJoe Entrepreneur moved to Monaco to avid paying taxes.
That was Tory Britain.
His family business runs hundreds of old people’s care homes - private and charging the councils for residential care
He’s now going to Monaco to avoid paying taxes… whilst your grandma, your parents and eventually you are fleeced for basic needs. Remember, Burnham isn’t changing this.
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So people earn more than 100k because they work harder? Than who? There are people in this country who literally work themselves into an early grave for a pittance, or kill themselves working two or more jobs, as more than a million people do. Enough with this Tory myth.
“We don’t want you to be punished for working harder”
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch defends her new proposal to scrap the "cliff edge" that means parents in England lose out on childcare support when they earn more than £100,000 a year
#BBCLauraK
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Everyman Smith retweeted
Brexit is becoming an election issue again.
Sadiq Khan is making the case for rejoining the EU. James Cleverly says he is ready to defend the Brexit status quo.
Good. Let's have that argument again now that we know how Brexit actually turned out.
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Anyone can make an AI slop Bayeux Tapestry
First glimpse of the 87ft Tory version of the Bayeux Tapestry, being unveiled at their conference this week
(H/t @Steven_Swinford )
Made with AI
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RT @b_judah: On these trade deals.
I worked on these pacts and the messaging to sell them.
I want to be honest. The truth is that under…
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UK growth upgrade for Q2 26 taking QoQ output growth to 0.5%, and an annualised pace of 2.4% during H1.
Very respectable and the fastest in the G7 during H1, and second fastest on a per capita basis.
The big boost compared to the first estimate was the impact of net trade, but also business investment up 5.2% YoY.
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Did Labour learn nothing about what happens when you attack pensioners.
The winter fuel fiasco was the beginning of the end for Starmer. Now you think scrapping the triple lock is a great idea FFS 🤷
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"A superpower is dying by suicide because the Republican congress is too cowardly to stand up to to the mad king. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever."
Heather Cox Richardson.
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"Britain's benefit culture has to change"
They say that charity starts at home. We'd all be better off for Helen Whately's departure from mainstream politics in more ways than one.
Helen Whately is as dumb as a rock and in her role as MP she costs us about £400k per annum. We get no actual positive return whatsoever on this. Just the odd shambolic interview or tv appearance.
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If you paid $1 in federal income taxes last year, you paid more than Citigroup after making $4 billion in profits, charging 32.74% interest on credit cards & slashing 20,000 jobs.
Trump said he'd cap credit card interest rates at 10% & his tax breaks would create jobs. He lied.
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Hells bells. Not the response you want from the guy with a God complex and access to the nuclear football.
Tucker Carlson says Trump brushed off his warning about war with Iran FOUR DAYS before it began.
Trump’s response, according to Carlson: “Yes, you’re right. But in the end, we all die anyway. So it doesn’t matter.”
Carlson says he asked about their children, grandchildren and the country. Trump responded “Ah” and offered no further answer.
He also says he told Trump the war wasn’t about Iran’s nuclear program, but Israel seeking regional dominance, weakening the Gulf states and pushing US bases out.
According to Carlson, Trump agreed with that argument. These are his allegations about a private conversation.
NPR asked the White House about the remark. It pointed to a Trump post insulting Carlson without directly addressing the alleged exchange.
Americans deserve a direct answer on this.
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CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN THIS TO ME LIKE I’M IN KINDERGARTEN
Why did we replace every bulb with LED, bought Energy Star appliances, built massive solar and wind farms, kept the lights off, lowered the thermostat, and yet the electric bill keeps climbing?
We did everything they told us to do, and somehow the only thing getting more efficient is how fast they take our money.
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