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A thread 🧵of various YouTube bits and bobs that I've found interesting, hopefully to be added to indefinitely (if no doubt erratically).
Lord WarGit of Superlative Value retweeted
Appalling. It appears that you can be let off lightly in our courts both for being “bright” *and* for being of low intelligence, as happened with the Fordingbridge rapists.
Such a "bright lad" will realise that stalking and almost killing a girl in bright daylight = slap on the wrist.
And what about the bright girl who almost died? All the other bright girls who are stalked and attacked? What conclusions will they draw?
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Lord WarGit of Superlative Value retweeted
Thesis. We vote for goodies and ignore second-order consequences. We want a high minimum wage and complain about few jobs for young people. We love freebies and don't think about their cost. We imagine that taxes fall on others. We have just had exactly the budget we deserve.
Lord WarGit of Superlative Value retweeted
Disgraceful decision.
Such a "bright lad" will realise that stalking and almost killing a girl in bright daylight = slap on the wrist.
And what about the bright girl who almost died? All the other bright girls who are stalked and attacked? What conclusions will they draw?
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Lord WarGit of Superlative Value retweeted
Kosovan criminal who stole from disabled people can't be deported as she is 'culturally and socially integrated' in Britain, judge rules trib.al/Ed7fyXd
Lord WarGit of Superlative Value retweeted
Local LARPer finds out "restoring Christendom" is more boring than he thought
Among the list of grievances - the flag is too gaudy.
Hahahhahahahahahah fucken hell
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Lord WarGit of Superlative Value retweeted
Hahahhahahahahahah fucken hell
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The external threats are real, but right now my most conspiracy-theory-adjacent view is that a fair bit of the household resilience stuff is being driven by a fear that we're one bit of bad luck away from the grid conking out, more than the possibility of the balloon going up.
Lord WarGit of Superlative Value retweeted
This "Be Ready" omission in the budget is genuinely bemusing. It creates the inescapable assumption that rebuilding societal resilience (at a time when the Defence Secretary says the UK needs to be ready for the possibility of war by 2030) is not a priority for the Andy Burnham government
There is not a single mention in the Budget of the government's new three-year "Be Ready" campaign to strengthen national resilience in the face of mounting threats (from severe weather to war).
This feels like an oversight⬇️
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Lord WarGit of Superlative Value retweeted
Uh oh… after John Healey clearly promised on @BBCr4today that the benefits bill will be cut before the next election, @ChrisMasonBBC tells listeners the Treasury have since been on the phone disputing he said this and that he wasn’t putting a timeline on welfare reductions.
Lord WarGit of Superlative Value retweeted
Today I am musing, as I have regularly since 1995, about how ITV got away with this.
Lord WarGit of Superlative Value retweeted
The absence of any kind of radical
Burnhamite programme in the budget is only surprising if you believed he had one. As I wrote months ago, that’s not who Burnham is. He’s a connection politician not a conviction politician. By their budgets shall ye know them and now we know.
I think the argument over staffing care is not nothing, but I think it's interesting to dwell on what the tipping point is at which the argument basically becomes "we need an imported low-pay servant class" and how weird it is that it's a *progressive* talking point.
You have the revealed preference first sentence, then the stated preference in the second sentence. Progressive will describe it as ‘horrifyingly cruel’ to reduce immigration and/or to not provide a straightforward path to permanent settlement for foreign workers in the country, because, "I don’t know about you but I don’t particularly want to wipe someone’s bum".
Lord WarGit of Superlative Value retweeted
Wow - just listening to Jonathan Haskel, chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility on Radio 4
He says UK GDP spent on welfare is rising to 11% of GDP from 10.5% of GDP following the budget. "That's a big increase."
Yet Chancellor John Healey can't even say how he's going to inch up defence spending to 3% of GDP by 2030 even as his government says the military needs to be ready for war by then.
Lord WarGit of Superlative Value retweeted
I think the “Jerry Seinfeld was a hack elevated by the genius of Larry David” is a trite and reductive opinion, but then something like this drops and it’s like… idk man
Jerry Seinfeld reveals his biggest regret from Seinfeld, a joke he begged Larry David to include, but Larry refused.
Jerry Seinfeld: “This is what my greatest regret of the entire series is.”
“We had this bit on the show where, if you wanted someone to keep a secret, you would say to them, ‘Will you put it in the vault?’ And they would go, ‘It’s in the vault.’”
“There was an opportunity for a character to say, ‘But it’s in the vault,’ and the other character would go, ‘Oy, the vault.’”
“I said, ‘Larry, we’re never going to get a chance to make this joke ever again in our lives. To go, “Oy, the vault.”’ Do you remember this conversation?”
Larry David: “Yeah.”
Jerry Seinfeld: “And I begged him, and he didn’t want to do it.”
Lord WarGit of Superlative Value retweeted
No - nice try - very clearly says the debate over Brexit was miserable in Parliament - it was and Labour had a huge part to play in that because they really didn’t want to accept the referendum result - woeful spinning from the Labour team
Lord WarGit of Superlative Value retweeted
Being self-employed, this and Making Tax Digital make me want to emigrate. Ever more bureaucratic inconvenience for such a paltry, negligible gain to the public purse!
The hidden tax measure in the Budget is huge for people paying tax under self-assessment - sole traders, partners, landlords, retired investors.
For 6th April 2028-29, you currently pay 50% of your income tax late in the tax year in question (in January 2029), 50% just after the year end (in July 2029) with any make-up payment in January 2030.
Under the new proposals you will pay your tax perhaps monthly or quarterly (TBC) from April 2029 onwards. A rough analysis suggests the impact is to draw about 50% of your tax bill forward, a huge cashflow boost to HMRC and a significant funding issue for the self-employed.
The Treasury recognises this, and expects to raise £1.3bn of additional tax in 29/30 as a result of this change.
The cashflow impact of the accelerated charge will send some businesses to the wall.