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₿ullion ₿reakersyard 🏴🇬🇧 retweeted
This would make airport security lines 20% more efficient overnight
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So it turns out you can be banned from here for six weeks or so for suggesting that Green Belt is a stifling statist policy. Which it is.
And that Dan Neidle has dumb takes on property tax.
Probably best I don’t say what I think of Help to Sell Mk II then in my return post 🤣
₿ullion ₿reakersyard 🏴🇬🇧 retweeted
reduce the price of energy
deregulate the economy
reindustrialise
₿ullion ₿reakersyard 🏴🇬🇧 retweeted
Since you mentioned the 1980s, @andyburnham, here’s a reminder of what was achieved:
• Top rate of income tax: 83% → 40%
• Savings income taxed at up to 98% in 1979 — surcharge abolished
• Basic rate: 33% → 25%
• Inflation: 21.9% peak (1980) → 2.4% (1986)
• Days lost to strikes: 29.5 million (1979) → 1.9 million (1990)
• Real take-home pay for the average earner: up by a third
• Right to Buy: over a million council tenants became homeowners
• Home ownership: 55% → 67%
• Individual shareholders: 3 million → 11 million — one in four adults
• Foreign holidays: roughly doubled
• Homes with a telephone: two-thirds → nearly nine in ten
• Pensioners’ average incomes: up around 30% in real terms
• Infant mortality: down almost 40%
• Real GDP: up by almost a third
• GDP per head outgrew France, Germany and Italy in the 1980s
• Manufacturing productivity: slowest growth in the G7 in the 1970s → fastest in the 1980s
• Self-employed: 1.9 million → 3.5 million
• Nissan to Sunderland, Toyota to Derby, Honda to Swindon
• Britain became a net oil exporter
• London restored as the world’s financial capital in 1986
• Budget surpluses three years running — Britain repaid debt, 1987–90
• National debt: 47% of GDP → 28%
• State spending: ~45% of GDP → ~39%
• The civil service: 732,000 → 565,000
• Corporation tax: 52% → 35%; the small firms’ rate: 42% → 25%
• Personal tax allowances: up more than 25% in real terms
• Higher rates of income tax: nine → one
• Death duties: fourteen rates → one
• Exchange controls scrapped after 40 years
• 40+ nationalised businesses privatised — 600,000 employees moved to the private sector
• The 33 big state industries: took ~£500m from taxpayers in 1980 → paid £8.4bn to the Exchequer by 1987
• British Steel: world-record loss-maker (1980/81) → £733m profit (1989/90)
• BT, 1984: the largest share offer the world had ever seen
• “Tell Sid” broke the record again in 1986
• British Airways: nationalised loss-maker → profitable, private, “the world’s favourite airline”
• The Channel Tunnel launched and entirely privately financed
Over to you.
Max Tax Dan living up to his nickname.
And fundamentally missing the point on LVT. When he can’t understand, and would rather block me, then there’s little hope for politicians understanding it either.
Dumb.
Dan not having the best of weeks here. Calling his version of a property tax a land value tax: now this
No train company knows what train you took. That’s the point. And if you think the ticket machine has liked your card or cash to that ticket, then I’ve got news there as well
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₿ullion ₿reakersyard 🏴🇬🇧 retweeted
"Number 10 North" is just a silly political stunt. It's just a new layer of bureaucracy. That's all devolution ever is.
Westminster didn't get smaller when the UK Gov devolved power to Scotland, NI and Wales; the blob never shrinks.
Ditto allowing councils to set unlimited CTax
Professor Jonathan Hardy @jon1hardy said most people would not want "the kind of corporate sky advertising we see depicted in the Blade Runner films"
Maybe, just maybe the Professor is a little out of touch.
It’s the Goodyear Blimp.
It’s a classic.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqx1…
“Tax this.
Tax that.
Tax this.
Tax that.
That is under-taxed.
That tax needs more tax to make it a better tax. A fairer tax.
Tax that.
Add more duty to that.
Add more NI (tax) for that employer.”
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Maybe, just maybe, it’s time to slash some spending.
₿ullion ₿reakersyard 🏴🇬🇧 retweeted
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₿ullion ₿reakersyard 🏴🇬🇧 retweeted
Multiple chargers at two sites have all had the cables cut and stolen this week.
Decline.
₿ullion ₿reakersyard 🏴🇬🇧 retweeted
For about sixty years, the town of Banbury has smelled of coffee. The roasters at the edge of town have scented the place each morning - one of those small, specific facts that tell a child where home is. This year they will fall quiet. Jacobs Douwe Egberts is closing the factory, and around 160 people will lose their jobs.
I don't know the exact sum that decided it; firms close plants for many reasons. But I know the climate every manufacturer in this country is now made to work in. Britain has, by a wide margin, the dearest industrial electricity in the developed world - several times what a competitor pays in the United States, in France, across much of Asia. Lay on top of that a tax system that drove up the cost of employing people exactly when employers were already gasping, and you have a country in which the steady, unglamorous business of making something - roasting a bean, baking a loaf, casting a part - gets a little less viable here every year, and a little more viable almost anywhere else.
This is how a manufacturing base leaves a country: one roasting plant, one bakery, one foundry at a time, each closure too small to lead the news, the running total catastrophic.
Among the non-negotiables in Progress economics is what might have saved Banbury. We mean to give Britain the cheapest energy in the developed world, because a country that cannot afford to power a factory cannot keep one, and every other ambition - good wages, real industry, towns that make things again - runs through that single socket. You do not rebuild an industrial nation on the most expensive electricity in the West. You cannot. We have spent twenty years proving it.
Banbury will adjust, the way these towns are always made to adjust. The job ads will talk about "resilience." Someone will commission a report. And one more morning smell that meant something to one more English town will be gone, traded away for a kilowatt-hour we were too proud, or too lazy, or too captured, to make cheaply ourselves.
₿ullion ₿reakersyard 🏴🇬🇧 retweeted
> I wake up
> There is a new Prime Minister
> There are more tax rises
> I go and vote against tax rises
> There is a new Prime Minister
> There are more tax rises
> I become disillusioned with the political system
> There are more tax rises
₿ullion ₿reakersyard 🏴🇬🇧 retweeted
we need new economic hubs, and cities designed for the climate of the next 100 years. not the last 100 years. AND we need to buttress existing economic centres with low-cost, grid friendly cooling infrastructure.
ROMULLUS is building both.
our team is betting that this is just the beginning, global temps are on track to increase by 2.5-3 degrees on average and up to 6 degrees in cities (due to the urban heat island effect).
we will do what we can to make cooling abundant and affordable in existing cities but we also think that there is an arbitrage opportunity for places at higher latitudes and / or specifically engineered to be climate resistant. these places will attract people and businesses from major economic centres who can’t take the heat anymore.
