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The Cost of Lizzing Crisis [1] – politicalbetting.com
The Cost of Lizzing Crisis [1] – politicalbetting.com
Remember key workers. We clapped for them a couple of years ago for a while. We were brutally reminded that it is not, in fact, the high and mighty, the wealthy and self-important, those with the most or those with the loudest voices, who make every day ordinary society work.
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"Truss = Doctor Goebbels for the last 24 hours there was a Reichsfuhrer."
Hitler was the only Reichsfuhrer. Admittedly, I was wrong about Doenitz being Fuhrer, but Goebbels was NEVER styled "Fuhrer" either.
Never a truer word
But tomorrow is the first day of ROCKTOBER, so-called because the world will be rocked to its core by disaster and catastrophe! So cheer up
(And incidentally the only Reichsfuehrer was Himmler. Hitler was simply the Fuehrer).
I fear a ban-hammer for tedium beyond torture after 17 glorious years of unblemished service here and on a new thread too (although Mike once did send an admonitory email). So we really must leave it there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Unionist_Party_(1986)
The substantive policy, 'investment zones' are another variant of a familiar theme, 'enterprise zones', which came about in the 80's (with some success) then again in the 10's ('enterprise zones') and 20's (freeports), the latter being vague shadows of real meaningful things that happened in the past. The latest version has been invented in about 5 minutes, involving tax breaks (ok but then what happens to the tax reciepts?) and vague ideas about tearing up planning rules which in turns out aren't really being torn up, because she has confirmed that government planning policies will still apply, as is always the case.
There is nothing substantive in any of this. It is all a load of bullsh*t. I normally vote conservative in the hope that politicians will deliver a kind of benign incompetence, like we got from Theresa May and to a lesser extent, Boris Johnson. But Liz Truss comes across to me as mad and dangerous. The danger with Truss is greater even than with the Labour party, particularly with Starmer leading it. This is born out by the real "evidence", the recent polling results, which show a massive switch to labour.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Threads-Blu-ray-BBC-Mick-Jackson/dp/B07JZVP6KX
Don't watch. Seriously. Don't.
I hope you don’t have a loaded revolver to hand. Or a full bath and a toaster. Or a coiled rope and a sturdy beam. It’s bleak.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsführer-SS
Memories of those years. Watching FB-111 low overhead. Going to Greenham Common for an airshow and seeing the bunkers.
It’s not entirely SFW, but it’s Friday night in the UK, so fill your boots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLLQFLXz6VE
Reece Dinsdale is a massive pussy in the film generally.
So, let's say Stodge Towers is worth £500k - I would therefore pay £10k per year in property tax. That's well in front of Council Tax. What would you do with commercial property - apply a similar figure?
What about Land Value Taxation ( a good old LD policy) rather than a property tax? Tax the land your property is on rather than the property so for a block of flats the freeholder gets to pay for the land while the leaseholders are taxed on their property.
Reduce the tax to 1%, include land and think about commercial property.
We already know what Freeports are, and they're going in to place. Enterprise zones seem to me to be a welcome addition to that, surrounding the hinterland of freeports with areas subject to easier taxes, lower regulations, and looser planning restrictions, or at least an expedited process. I have seen nothing to suggest that Liz will underdeliver - she has been 100% consistent thus far.
When the markets did what they did, I believe it was the right approach not to comment (and to use the convention of the Labour party conference to avoid doing so), as to do so could have made the situation worse, see Tony idiot Blair in his hazmat suit during foot and mouth. She still kept her scheduled interviews and was grilled remorselessly and held up well.
As for the sort of 'benign' incompetence - the managerial approach we've seen from Major onwards, that has actually been a process of fairly consistent economical decline, and more and more dependence on borrowing. We can't afford that any more. Starmer can't put a plaster and make the arterial bleeding go away - we need a radical return to growth, and a realistic energy policy, and his energy policy has been revealed as the same dangerous virtue signalling claptrap that got us here in the first place.
After the lunatic abrasiveness of Grant Schapps, Anne-Marie Trevelyan has made a far more positive start as Transport Minister acknowledging the right of unions to fight for the best deal for their members and encouraging all sides to negotiate. It's drawn favourable comment from the RMT and Sadiq Khan.
Perhaps if they can get out from the shadow of the numbskulls at No.10 and No.11, there may actually be the odd brighter spark in this new Cabinet.
THREADS is like a genial soap opera but its actually got a slightly more serious side, that maybe a lot of people don't see
Yes, all property treated equally.
Yes, you would pay £10k. Tough.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059894/
Leon of this parish played woman who pisses herself in Threads.
That puts a horrifyingly stark spin on their idiocy, in my view.
Do not cancel your TV license - This will be needed to instruct you on how to removed dead bodies and to tell you which remaining government (who just fked up your life ) will have control over you
It’s like BartyBobbins, William Glen and BigG, channeled by Dura Ace.
Don’t say I didn’t want you.
On the pipe explosion:
Dan Nexon
@dhnexon
Nord Stream 🧵
Two questions keep on showing up in my TL: "Who sabotaged the pipeline?" and "If Putin ordered it, why would he do that?" I'm going to address the second one. https://cnn.com/2022/09/28/politics/nord-stream-pipeline-leak-russian-navy-ships
First of all, the answer is less important than people sometimes assume.
https://twitter.com/dhnexon/status/1575861640322764800
But I take your point.
Apart from Labour winning a General Election that is. Ha. Ha.