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Alan Arnott retweeted
Britain: we have to understand wtf we’ve done. We’ve allowed one of Trump’s closest allies have access to our entire NHS data systems. This is the CEO of Palantir telling shareholders that ‘when it’s necessary to scare enemies & on occasion kill them’
Alan Arnott retweeted
Are you listening @Keir_Starmer ? We want you to use the 1.55m empty and derelict properties before you concrete green fields and productive farmland..stop listening to developers and Yimbys and do what you were voted in for, protect #nature and us.
30/4/24 Negotiator: Public wants UK’s 1.55m derelict & empty homes revived. In 2023, Census & Local Authority data showed £532bn of homes were empty & abandoned in England & Wales (not 2nd homes etc). Westminster has 36k, Cornwall 28k & Birmingham 26k.
thenegotiator.co.uk/news/uk-…
Alan Arnott retweeted
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Alan Arnott retweeted
Chief executives in the UK and the US are now paid hundreds of times more than the people who actually create value in their companies. This is not innovation or entrepreneurship – it is extraction.
In this video, I explain why extreme executive pay is a driver of inequality, weak productivity, falling morale, and political corruption. I also show how tax can be used not to raise revenue, but to change behaviour – by making excessive pay expensive.
Drawing on proposals I developed for the TUC and current legislation proposed in the United States, I explain how fair pay ratios could be enforced through the tax system, why shareholders – not society – should bear the cost of excess, and why democracy itself is at risk if we do nothing.
Tax exists to shape outcomes. This is one outcome that it must shape.
youtu.be/X5jvx5ytcuE?si=2sKY…
Alan Arnott retweeted
As a Norwegian i have a question for everyone in America.. how does it feel to know that Trump and the Republican party now supports Russia and sees Americas real allies as enemies 🤔 i just have to point out that if our leaders suddenly did this here in Europe we would call it treason 🤷
Alan Arnott retweeted
Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.
Alan Arnott retweeted
We smoked them out. Every last one of them.
The moment the EU went after the Russian oligarch playbook hiding behind Musk’s platforms, the whole network lit up at once. And that’s the gift: now we know exactly who they are. Europe actually did a solid job the same pressure that cornered Russian oligarchs is now flushing out the people who’ve been laundering their narratives in plain sight. Transparency hurts only those who depended on the dark.
Alan Arnott retweeted
Greatest peace project the world has ever known - Musk and the tech oligarchs see it as a threat to their power. Putin & Trump too. If you want peace in Europe, you must support it. If you don’t support it, then you are siding with Putin, Trump & Musk. Simple.
Alan Arnott retweeted
It’s time to voice an ugly truth:
I’ve been talking recently {privately} with ecologists, with very senior figures in the environmental NGOs, with activists and lawyers. What they say - privately - is stark:
>This Govt is even worse on nature than the Sunak & Johnson Govts<.
The best comparator is with the Truss regime, with its #attackonnature.
But Truss lasted less long than a lettuce. We are stuck with this lot til 2029.
Whether it’s Aarhus, habitats, planning, Starmer’s proposed bonfire of regulations, and on and on and on, both the rhetoric and the reality of Labour on nature are simply dire.
Why? Because, just like Truss, they will sacrifice anything for a smidgeon of potential ‘growth’. And because there is no care at all for nature in their dna. They will throw anything under the bus for some possible short-term human material benefit.
Never mind that humans NEED nature too! They don’t seem aware of that.
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Alan Arnott retweeted
Rubio is completely twisting the facts.
The EU fine has nothing to do with “censoring Americans” or going after U.S. citizens. The penalty was issued because X broke basic transparency and consumer-protection rules: selling misleading blue checkmarks, hiding required advertising data, and blocking researcher access.
This is about a platform refusing to follow the same laws that Google, Meta, TikTok, Amazon, and every other major service must comply with in Europe.
Turning a regulatory violation into an attack on “American people” is pure political shitshow, not reality.
Alan Arnott retweeted
I spent twenty years growing vegetables commercially for the good people of this country.
The weather got exponentially worse, e.g., 7 weeks of rain everyday; 12 weeks with no rain, and so on. I know what is going to happen - not because of these particularly bad years, but because of the speed at which things are getting worse now.
The reason is obvious - we are standing by and letting the elites put carbon into the air between 8 and 30 times faster than at any time in the last four billion years of this planet's history.
So what is going to happen to the good people of this country? If you are still asking that question you just haven't yet understood what is going on here.
"the UK summer of 2025 was the hottest in more than a century of records and....made 70 times more probable because of the climate crisis"
3 worst ever harvests since 2020
A years worth of bread lost in 5 years......rationing beckons
theguardian.com/environment/…
Alan Arnott retweeted
Have to say @EuropeanPowell does he's homework on these Bastards, make no mistake, if these Fascist's are able to complete their plans?
They have already made massive inroads into our infrastructure, for future CONTROL.
People have to be aware of what's going on 🤔 or............
Alan Arnott retweeted
Why is the left still terrified of the state’s power to create money?
In this video, I set out a straightforward truth, which is that modern governments create money every single day. That is the foundation of public authority in the UK and every other country with its own currency. The government spends money into existence — and then uses taxation, not to fund that spending, but to manage inflation, redistribute wealth, and steer the economy. And yet much of the political left denies this reality.
From Labour’s fiscal rules to tax justice organisations and NGOs obsessed with “fully funded” pledges, left-leaning politicians cling to the false belief that the state must:
- Tax before it spends
- Borrow from the markets to “afford” investment
- Balance budgets like a household
These ideas are myths — inherited from neoliberal economics and reinforced by the power of the City of London. And they severely restrict what democratic politics can achieve. When the left refuses to use the state’s power to create money, the consequences are enormous. It means:
- Unemployment becomes a choice
- Austerity becomes a choice
- Poverty becomes a choice
- Failing public services become a choice
- Climate breakdown by inaction becomes a choice
Because the truth is: money isn’t scarce. Political courage is. In that case, what this video explains is why the left fears being held responsible for the results of power, and why that fear must end. If democracy already has the tools to transform society, why aren’t we using them?
youtu.be/7O_3wR87yvo?si=8-8S…
Alan Arnott retweeted
Here is Laura Kuenssberg making false claims about UK Govt spend on the Clyde. The BBC has admitted it was false but refused to issue a correction because Kuenssberg summarised the issue accurately later.
This still breaches BBC guidelines. Mistakes must be acknowledged and corrected. At no point did Kuenssberg acknowledge her error and correct it.
Alan Arnott retweeted
Questions to ask a critic of MMT taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025…
