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Tim Worstall retweeted
If a government can just take Elons' private property, it can take hers too.
How many hungry can selling her $1,000 IPhone feed, how about her car?
Tim Worstall retweeted
Step one: nationalize SpaceX
Step two: found SpaceXX, with infinite money pile and engineers who are utterly uninterested in nationalized SpaceX
Step three: profit?????
Tim Worstall retweeted
Hamas dug the world's most impressive tunnel network in Gaza for terror & pioneered the use of plumbing pipes to create tens of thousands of rockets, but it somehow can't dig trenches and basic public drainage to manage rainwater & push floods away from displacement tent zones?
Tim Worstall retweeted
For those curious:
Black World - their original homeland in Siberia
Blue World - they traveled by sea to the Pacific Northwest and fought Amerindians already there
Yellow World - through the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains or the Great Basin
Golden World - the Navajo Nation
Tim Worstall retweeted
Jenrick's desire to meddle in Poundland is managed decline mentality. A strong economy doesn't worry about a mediocre discount store going under because workers have the protection of rapid alternative employment.
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I may have accidentally met Russell Brand once or seventeen times where I inadvertently referred to Brand as a political colossus & mankind's preeminent thinker as he guest edited my magazine, but this sycophantic praise was my way of expressing how much I utterly detested him .
Tim Worstall retweeted
⏱️Before nationalisation, 94% of c2c trains arrived on time. Now, it is just 71.5%.
Is anyone surprised? 🚆
thetimes.com/uk/transport/ar…
Tim Worstall retweeted
British race grifters are only demanding slavery reparations because their American counterparts did the same. It's like watching parliamentary interns yearning to be members of The West Wing cast.
Tim Worstall retweeted
The worst-performing Democrats in competitive Senate races were the candidates Bernie endorsed. (link in next tweet, no paywall)
Tim Worstall retweeted
Some myths that refuse to die:
1) The poor are getting poorer
2) Unions have been the primary driver of the reduction in work hours
3) Social spending is decreasing
4) Government officials could massively increase revenue by raising taxes on billionaires
Tim Worstall retweeted
@UKLabour claims that we have to follow EU food standards and SPS rules because our food exports to the EU have dropped.
But take a good look at the chart below: the main drop in fruit exports to the EU is in citrus fruit, pineapples, avocados, mangoes, and Bananas.
These were always re-exports from Commonwealth countries that the EU miscounted as UK exports. Now that we are outside the EU, these goods are correctly counted as non-UK exports.
The #EUReset won't change this.
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Just dealt with the most retarded Yookay moment
>want to rent countryside cottage
>I make 30x the monthly rental price salary wise
>I have flawless credit, countless references from landlords and 7x the full years rent just sitting in my bank account
>they want my tax returns. I don’t Legally don’t pay tax as I’m a non UK tax resident. Explain my great income though.
That doesn’t suffice
“uhh sir that’s not good enough for us, we want proof of income
>offer them notarized bank statements from an accountant
“Uhh no we need tax returns”
Losing my shit. I offer to simply pay the full years rent upfront.
“uhh under new UK law we can’t let you pay a full years rent upfront. Only 1 months rent deposit maximum”
Fucking retarded. You want to minimize risk but I am giving you a full year upfront
>I ask how foreigners get a place if they’re freshly here
“You need a guarantor who pays UK tax, has a normal wagie job and makes £30k/year”
>I can’t find a single British friend who hasn’t left the UK because they got rich, isnt self employed, or isn’t broke / jobless.
>Discover companies can guarantee your rent for you for like £1k, whatever.
“sir it has to be an individual from a good standing position in the community as well, no companies allowed”
The property has been on the market for 1.5 months with numerous spelling errors like “decebmer” and “evitoment”
The UK is retarded. I could buy the cottage for cash if it was for sale. I hate this place.