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Economist. YIMBY. Trade Unionist. Tweets mostly policy, F1, shitposts, cool data & Mushroom the cat. He/him 💖💜💙
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Did they… did they add three decimal places to make £5k look like £5.2 million?
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What if, and hear me out here, we invented some sort of token that I could use to exchange for my carrots and then any other food I wanted, so I wasn’t limited to swapping just with people who want carrots
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Harry Hill’s TV Burp was 10/10 entertainment. Basically half an hour of memes we all collectively watched each week
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Americans don’t realise just how big North Yorkshire is
people in England don’t realize their shitty little country is only as big as just minnesotta
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This ordinary suburban London 3 bed house in Zone 4 metroland was built in the 1930s for ordinary middle class families. Today it costs almost a million pounds and you’d need to be in the top 0.5% of earners to be able to buy it on a mortgage
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Very nice of the snow to respect the boundaries of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire
Europe hasn't seen a snow cover like this since 2010—60% is blanketed in white! ❄️
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We should legalise building these in the UK. I’d much sooner have rented this than a single room in a HMO split between five people and if I were renting this instead, the HMO could have been used as a family home as it was built for
Would you stay in an apartment in Japan like this for $300/mo?
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Number of accidents caused by jewellery: zero
Number of accidents caused by Ralf Schumacher: more than zero
Ralf Schumacher criticises 'childish' Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel's protests
"...it's actually a ridiculous thing that such experienced people who have seen so many accidents make fun of it in that way."
#F1
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If only we had a state of the art high speed line that runs up the west coast of Britain
BREAKING: Chaos has erupted at London Euston station after all trains have been cancelled due to a fault on the line
Our thoughts go out to anyone trying to get home for Christmas
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This is like the RAF bombing the M4 because Ainsley Harriot is marching on London with an army of mercenaries battle-hardened in Northern Ireland. Utterly surreal stuff
🚨 Russian aviation is conducting strikes on Wagner PMC columns moving toward Moscow on the M4 highway.
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I get that it’s good to have parliamentarians with life experience but seeing our legislature debating stripping basic rights from people who’ve been adults for *seven years* really shows why we need more MPs in their 20s and 30s
@kimleadbeater
's Graduate Driving License bill will have its second reading on May 17th.
I fully support this bill and
@owe65332
with her petition to push for Graduate Driving Licenses.
You can find the petition below:
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“Nine is too young to know your sexuality” say all the Facebook mums who upload photos of their 4 year old daughters playing with a boy and are like “awwwwww looks like our Sally has er first boyfriend xxxx” 🤨
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In case anybody still thinks these scumbags care about memorials...
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Nigel Farage tells
@bbclaurak
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The replies to this are fucking insane
Timothee Chalamet leaving a Wonka promo event in London, England.
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Inflation was still single digits when I made this meme
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The pub garden angle of this policy is getting the most attention but imo the biggest consequence would be making shisha lounges functionally illegal. For a lot of South Asian young adults who don’t drink, they fill the same niche as pubs. Forcing them to close is bad
I’m not a smoker but this leaked government plans of places to ban smoking is ludicrous.
We need to do everything to save our pubs and restaurants and this certainly won’t help.
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My boyfriend’s parents (Hong Kong Chinese Mum and Macau Chinese Dad) used to run one of the best Italian restaurants in Galway. The locals loved it, and loved them. Stop policing who can cook what food!
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The existence of King Chas implies the existence of King Dave
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You can have your state of the art, high speed rail line… or you can trade it for this mystery box!
NEW: SUNAK CANCELS NORTHERN HS2 LEG
says he will reinvest “every single penny-£36bn in transport projects n the north and midlands.”
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Early data from Israel showing the vaccine reduces infections (not just symptoms) by a significant amount. Means those who at vaccinated won’t just be protected themselves but will also stop the spread. Fantastic news!
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£100k is a ridiculously high individual salary, even for a high flying young professional. And this is besides the point: you wouldn’t have needed to be high earning to buy this house when it was built, a teacher could have afforded it
@SimpGanassi
@gsoh31
Not true. Two people earning £100k each could do it. £100k is standard in London for people in their early 30s.
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Reading Torsten Bell’s new book. Scarcely 30 pages in you’re hit with this absolutely staggering statistic
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I think we should build small homes for young professionals *and* more social housing
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In case we needed further proof that remembrance is losing its original “never again” sentiment
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As a resident of London, the thing I find insane is that it’s considered normal to work in downtown Manhattan and commute by *car*
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People in the replies pointing out Starmer’s family home is now worth £500k are missing the point: pebble-dash semis built for working class families *shouldn’t* be so expensive and it’s only very recently that they have become so
Growing up, our pebble-dash semi was everything to my family – it gave us stability and I believe every family deserves the same.
That’s why Labour will get Britain building again, so working people’s aspiration to own their home can be a reality.
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Heathrow has been open since 1946, all but the oldest residents of the surrounding area moved there knowing full well they’d be living near an airport
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Britain: you’re an adult at 18
Also Britain: no full minimum wage until you’re 21, no tax credits or passengers in your car until you’re 25 and no cigs ever, sorry kid I don’t make the rules
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Is there any other country in Western Europe with a greater demographic “what if” than Ireland? Without the Great Famine and resultant emigration its population could be ~30 million today which would radically alter European politics
The vast majority of Ireland is smaller than it was in 1841. The total population in 1841 was 8.2 million, now it's 7.2 million, and much more concentrated.
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I get London, the M4 corridor and eastern Scotland (more likely oil and whisky than Edinburgh as OP thinks) but what does that bit of Lancashire/Cheshire have that makes its productivity so high?
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You’re over four times as likely to be murdered in the US than in Britain
The more I read about Britain the more I think it is genuinely a dangerous place to visit
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We found a peaceful solution, the matter is closed
The Malvinas question is an special colonial situation that must come to an end.
The Res. takes note of the existence of a sovereignty dispute between Argentina and UK.
It invites both governments to engage in negotiations in order to find a peaceful solution to the dispute.
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Correcting myself before I get community noted: this house is in South East London, I was unaware ‘metroland’ refers exclusively to areas in North London. But it was built as part of the 1930s housing boom, rest of the tweet still stands
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POV: it’s 1976 and you just moved into your new three-bed semi in Milton Keynes and you’ve been invited to your neighbour’s house for a party
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What goes on here?
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Considerable number of reply guys explaining it’s not about the ramps but the staff - which is a fair point but the account isn’t called “employee burrito”, it’s about the tech
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500 square foot one bed flats in this building go for £160,000. The US housing market has its faults but where it works well, it delivers outcomes we could only dream of at present in the UK
1000 people live in this building in Chicago. it has a theater, gym, swimming pool, ice rink, bowling alley, stores, restaurants, and a marina. The 15 minute gulag in a single building
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This is what happens when you give anti-vaxxers air time. The costs to society will go far beyond COVID
MMR vaccine uptake among 5-year-olds in England is currently at just 85.5%, well below the 95% target that is recommended to stop an outbreak of measles.
85.5% coverage is the lowest rate in a decade.
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Suggests private school fees are extremely inelastic (demand for the good doesn’t change much in response to prices) which isn’t surprising as they’ve risen far above inflation over the past decade
🚨 NEW: Eton College says it will pass the entire 20% VAT on fees to parents when Labour introduces it in January
Parents will now have to pay an annual payment of £63,000, up from £53,000
[
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Boomers are such a huge cohort they can pretty much always get what they want through sheer numbers in democracies. In the 80s when they were working age they voted for low taxes, now they’re retiring they’ve become rent seekers, blocking everything to protect their own assets
I don’t even have the words.
‘Furious mob of pensioners besiege town hall council meeting in protest against 60-bed care home and new church they fear will bring noise and pollution to their quiet village’
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Counterpoint: a modest family home costing almost £1 million is a very recent (and unwelcome) phenomenon and says more about our current housing crisis than it does about the wealth of its occupants 50 years ago
This myth that
@Keir_Starmer
had a meagre upbringing needs to dispelled once and for all...
He was brought up in a spacious, semi-detached home in rural Surrey.
A neighbouring property on the same row of houses (12 doors away) is currently on the market for £950,000.
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It’s incredible how quickly expectations have fallen in regards to housing that a three bed newbuild is now considered to be “executive” rather than just, the norm
@Matt_Severn
@8pauly
There is no evidence of need for 3 and 4 bed exec houses with starting prices heading towards £300k, no. The need locally is for smaller properties and affordable housing. Also, 3000 non affordable houses already have planning permission.
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This is creepily sickening. From the literal use of the word “undesirable” to the little Gandalf figure they’re using to make light of this blatant discrimination. Let nobody tell you racism isn’t alive and well in 21st century Britain
@cahalmilmo
@theipaper
@EHRC
Here is the blacklist of Irish surnames produced by Pontins and uploaded to its intranet
It was headed "UNDESIRABLE GUESTS"
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Not if we built enough of them
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I don't get this American take that a dog breed ban is something local governments should handle. Imagine if Ealing council outlawed the Bullies but Hounslow didn't, how could you enforce it besides having dog checkpoints all across West London?
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Thanks to children’s books I thought crocodiles would be a much larger problem in life than they’ve ended up being
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This isn’t a rallying cry to cut inheritance tax, it’s a rallying cry to fix the housing market. Ordinary terrace houses built for working class families shouldn’t cost a million pounds
Here's why you will very likely be paying the death tax (IHT).
The high tax junkies claim that only the really rich will pay IHT, but that's rubbish due to inflation & the increase in house prices.
Own this £1.25m palace in Streatham & you pay the death tax.
Picture thread:
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Knowing somebody somewhere thinks this crazy journey is a good idea makes me even more pro-ULEZ
STOP EVERYTHING! Children can't have clean air and healthy lungs because an imaginary Linda living in Epsom would like to drive to her mother's, in Hammersmith and pick up her friend from Charing Cross to go to...a concert in East London. 🙄
Sound of straws being grasped ensues.
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Utterly moronic article. House prices were much lower in the 70s, so mortgages were lower too, meaning higher rates results in lower payments. A 5% interest rate now is equivalent to 13% in 1980
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Also the idea that somebody in their 30s is a “student politician” is precisely the sort of infantilising rubbish that’s giving us legislation like this
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If I was a Labour MP I would simply not say things that could appear unedited on a Turning Point poster
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@HaasF1Team
Brilliant. Why don’t we just skip the 2021 season and give Mazepin his trophy now? Specifically this one
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The irony of France, who’ve clung on to far-flung colonial possessions so successfully their longest land border is technically with Brazil, supporting Argentine sovereignty in the Falklands is off the charts
The UK suffered a diplomatic defeat recently when the EU referred to the Falkland Islands as Islas Malvinas
So whose sovereignty do Europeans support?
🇪🇸 52% Argentina / 14% UK
🇮🇹 32% / 21%
🇩🇪 30% / 24%
🇫🇷 27% / 23%
🇸🇪 23% / 28%
🇩🇰 23% / 31%
also
🇺🇸 24% / 35%
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Strong disagree this is one of the best views in London
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@Dannyboultz
We definitely should and our overall step free access is rather poor on the underground - but these mitigating measures aren’t just a Japan thing
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£2.50 per dish seems pretty good value to me?
Just got this Chinese share box for 20 quid. Absolutely outrageous
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400,000 homes is nothing. You could build 400,000 homes at the lowest possible density on London golf courses and you’d still only cover about half of them
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A Christmas Carol isn’t an anti-capitalist story, it’s an anti-miseryguts story. The character portrayed as the man Scrooge should have become, Mr. Fezziwig, is the literal embodiment of jolly, whiggish 18th century capitalism
Why does no one talk about the fact that our arts/ culture is dominated by leftists, and this has now resulted in GCSE students effectively being taught that it is the only way to view social and political problems?
This is a problem. The English Literature GCSE syllabus
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My one and only Deano take: this man is materially far more comfortable than anyone who knows what this meme is, and largely because of stuff within our control. If we’d stayed in our hometowns and got a sales job you’d be materially better off than renting in London
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@BenRamanauskas
I’m off to represent the entire North Riding at the buffet. You lasses enjoy yersens
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@JackTindale
Youth centres in urban areas too I’d say. I had a long chat on NYE about the disbenefits of closing boxing gyms in London
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Whoever decided to call the area south of Surrey “East and West Sussex and Brighton” instead of “Sussex” should be sectioned immediately
The Local Government Chronicle has published its latest devolution map:
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Maybe a hot take idk but politicians should call spades spades more often. There’s too much allowance given to morons, bad faith actors and general nasty pieces of work these days and we should call out their bollocks
Keir Starmer says “some silly sod”
@JohnnyMercerUK
will “soon be history” following his criticism of
@Mather_Keir
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A Magnum is not fucking ice lolly. That’s like saying a Mars Bar is a biscuit. If you asked your mum for an ice lolly and she gave you a magnum you wouldn’t believe your luck
With the UK sweltering this week, it's time for your annual reminder that Britain's favourite ice lollies are...
Magnum - 28%
Fab - 8%
Solero - 8%
Twister - 7%
Feast - 6%
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Last I looked dangerous driving was already a crime
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Sir Alec earned 2.25% of the royalties from the first Star Wars movie, but he was one of the few British celebrities in the 70s who wasn’t a tax exile and the top rate of income tax at the time was 75%, so he ended up losing most of his Obi Wan Kenobi money to the exchequer
Sir Alec Guinness passed away on this day 23 years ago. May the Force be with him, always.
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If this was in the UK the cafe would get its licence to trade revoked by South Tiddingford District Council after a resident in the flat above (who moved in approximately six months ago and knew perfectly well the cafe was there) complained about the noise
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A small caucus of younger MPs wouldn’t “run the country” it’s highly unlikely any of them would be PM or cabinet ministers. They would however ensure those being legislated against in bills like this have a voice during readings and committees
@SimpGanassi
I absolutely do not want a country run by student politicians who graduate and go immediately into parliament
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