PhD Researcher. Firm supporter & activist for true Left Wing socialism. Specialist knowledge: molecular medicine, computers/technology/internet, climate change.
Sheffield
Joined February 2012
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.@andyburnham Tax wealth & banks rather than attacking the poor & vulnerable (disabled & elderly) to fund public ownership of public services, etc. We also DON'T need to kowtow to Donald Trump by wasting even more money on "defence" when peaceful diplomacy ends wars in 2026!
Tim Longson🏳️🌈#UniteTheUnion💪 retweeted
AstraZeneca CEO eyes record £28m pay package bonanza, up from £17.7m.
Previously, AstraZeneca CEO threatened to deny drugs to the NHS unless it paid more. Govt capitulated.
Blackmail works, delivers high rewards for shareholders and execs.
thisismoney.co.uk/money/mark…
Tim Longson🏳️🌈#UniteTheUnion💪 retweeted
In 2024-25 584,000 people paid Capital Gains Tax (CGT), less than 1% of adults.
CGT rates are 18% to 24%. Wages taxed at 20% to 45%.
Budget hands another tax perk to the rich. Up to £10m lifetime gains for founders of companies to be taxed at 10%.
leftfootforward.org/2026/10/…
Tim Longson🏳️🌈#UniteTheUnion💪 retweeted
The 50 wealthiest families own more wealth than the poorest 34 *million* people.
The problem is not a pensioner or a young person looking for a job - the problem is wealth inequality.
We need a wealth tax. Now.
Tim Longson🏳️🌈#UniteTheUnion💪 retweeted
Painful' years ahead, as living standards set to fall.
Household disposable income to fall by £1,050 or 3% by 2029.
That is a political choice.
1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
Redistribution is off the political agenda.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6z7…
Tim Longson🏳️🌈#UniteTheUnion💪 retweeted
£1.25bn subsidy for Rolls-Royce to develop a new engine.
RR will keep assets and income streams.
RR had operating profit of £3.5bn in 2024-25, will pay £9bn to shareholders over next 3 years.
UK Govt won't take equity stake, £1.25bn not repayable.
theguardian.com/business/nil…
Tim Longson🏳️🌈#UniteTheUnion💪 retweeted
This is how the UK Chancellor can increase the income tax personal allowance by £3,000.
Must end/curtail subsidies to banks.
Align tax rates on capital gains & dividends with those on wages
Inconvenience to a few, but millions lifted out of hardship.
leftfootforward.org/2026/09/…
Tim Longson🏳️🌈#UniteTheUnion💪 retweeted
Ahead of tomorrow's budget statement.
Here’s how the UK chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millions by addressing tax and fiscal anomalies.
There is no shortage of money. All that is needed is political will.
leftfootforward.org/2026/09/…
Tim Longson🏳️🌈#UniteTheUnion💪 retweeted
“Why was a major government supplier allowed to help shape the rules governing how the department buys its products, with little public scrutiny?”
(The name of the supplier should come as no surprise)
democracyforsale.substack.co…
Tim Longson🏳️🌈#UniteTheUnion💪 retweeted
Socialism is NOT communism, & anyone who tries to claim they are is either a billionaire (or the media they own, like Fox news, etc) who is afraid that common people will figure out Socialism is the solution to end a plutocracy, or common people lacking an education/brainwashed.
Tim Longson🏳️🌈#UniteTheUnion💪 retweeted
The biggest benefits claimant in the UK.
They claim an eye watering £17,500,000,000 a year.
The same as 4.4m people on benefits.
How?
Because they claim ALL their costs, every wage, every oil rig, every tanker.
Completely nationalised, but the profits are Privatised.
Tim Longson🏳️🌈#UniteTheUnion💪 retweeted
What. The. Actual. Fuck…
Praising Vladimir Putin as a humanitarian? What world are you living in? It’s obscene
Tim Longson🏳️🌈#UniteTheUnion💪 retweeted
The UK ‘wealth exodus’ was manufactured by the press. The press complaints body IPSO must investigate or step aside.
The story started with one study which now admits it has no evidence.
Media owned by corporations and the super rich lapped it up.
taxjustice.net/2026/10/19/th…
Tim Longson🏳️🌈#UniteTheUnion💪 retweeted
Will Labour next week in the budget tell us sad stories about "difficult decisions" and how there's "no money left?"
Or will this Labour Government challenge the broken economic thinking that has lead us to this place? And tax the assets of multimillionaires & billionaires?
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Tim Longson🏳️🌈#UniteTheUnion💪 retweeted
UK Chancellor rejects calls to raise Capital Gains Tax.
UK wages taxed at 20%-45% + NIC. CGT 18%-24%.
Subject to ifs and buts:
Denmark 27%-42%
Norway 37.84%
Netherlands 36%
Finland 34%
France 30%-34%
Sweden 30%
Spain 30%
UK showers gifts to the rich.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c50m…
Tim Longson🏳️🌈#UniteTheUnion💪 retweeted
ITV footage shows racist, sexual, violent rhetoric among Reform members.
These lunatics say “King Charles is a f***ing Muslim… " and want him to be beheaded.
They want concentration camps for migrants, violence against minorities.
Return of the Nazis.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…
Tim Longson🏳️🌈#UniteTheUnion💪 retweeted
90% of England’s water industry is foreign owned.
The result has been low investment, high customer bills, raw sewage in rivers, over 1,200 criminal convictions, and harms to nature, health and national security.
Public ownership is needed.
Watch the Minister's reply.
Tim Longson🏳️🌈#UniteTheUnion💪 retweeted
Tax the rich?
Everyone is against it until they find out how it actually works.
Watch and find out how Wealth Taxes actually work.
Tim Longson🏳️🌈#UniteTheUnion💪 retweeted
Rejoining EU could boost growth by 6%, says Goldman Sachs
thetimes.com/business/econom…