QT and pinning this. Think the circus is only just getting started @SteveBakerFRSA.

Public spending priorities in this country are insane.

Here’s the problem. The liberal political class wants us to treat atrocities like Belfast as single, random, isolated incidents. “Yes, it’s horrific, but don’t overreact,” they say. “Let the police do their job. Justice will be delivered. Let’s remain united,” and so on. But the public can see that such incidents *aren’t* random or isolated. They are, in fact, all the consequence of massive state failure in the area of asylum and immigration. All roads lead back there. That’s why people are angry.. They are sick of the platitudes that get trotted out after each fresh incident. They don’t want to hear them anymore. They know that the decisions of establishment politicians have brought us to this current pass, and they don’t trust those same politicians to fix things, especially when some of them refuse to even recognise that the public’s anger is justified. There has been a huge vibe shift in recent years. Imagine - God forbid - there were another 7/7. Does anyone think the public response would be anything like as restrained as it was then? We are in really dangerous territory. The public don’t want flowers and candles and “Don’t let them divide us.” They want someone who says, “I recognise that the state has failed abjectly. We have allowed far too many people to settle in the country without knowing who they truly are. It has disrupted your communities. Your anger is justified. And I will do everything in my power to put things right.” Any politician unwilling to articulate that message, fully and sincerely, is effectively sanctioning more years of growing social disharmony and discord. Things cannot heal until those in power recognise the extent of the problem and what it will take to fix it. And, on both counts, most of them don’t. That’s why the next few years are going to be very, very turbulent.

David Lammy’s proposals to restrict the right to jury trial have been examined by the Justice Committee of the House of Commons. And. Well. Um. It’s *quite* the report. I think it’s actually worse than politely scathing. It’s embarrassing 👇🏼🪡🧵

- MMT needs to come up with something useful - the problem with rich people is there aren't enough of them - there will have to be cuts or tax rises that affect ordinary people Gteat thread Dan.

Actions: Increasing employer's national insurance, the minimum wage, and employment rights. Words:

Re the cost of government crisis. We all need to do our bit and tell the government to stop strangling growth and increasing the cost of living via all the retarded stuff it does.

Fun fact: Tesco generates twice as much in tax (direct and indirect) as it makes in operating profit, and this doesn't include supply chain tax take. If you're looking for profiteering, start at No 11 Downing Street.

Quick ChatGPT session: Rayner being a council care worker is the only real job in the combined CVs of Streeting, Miliband, and Burnham. Lol.

bbc.co.uk/news/live/cjrzp08w… There would be an infected rodent on board, it doesn't spread person to person. Still, let's have a live BBC page.

Now do tax

UK 10-year gilt yields today surged no less than 0.4 percentage points - or 40 basis points - due to fears that Britain is almost uniquely vulnerable among the world's big economies to spiralling fuel food and fuel prices. The UK is the most inflation-prone economy in the G7. That weakness hasn't been caused, but has been more starkly exposed, by this US/Iran conflict. So the huge global investors that lend governments money are charging Britain far more than any other G7 nations - more than Spain, Greece and Morocco (!) - to borrow, as compensation for higher expected UK inflation. A 40bps point move in a single day, on a large-nation sovereign bond market, is a huge and deeply alarming shift. The UK government's 10-year borrowing cost is now 5.15pc - its highest level since June 2008, just ahead of the global financial crisis. This is a situation that warrants immediate and determined attention and yet our entire political and media class remains fixated with the ultimate Westminster-centric story – a deeply indulgent row about who knew what, when with regards to the appointment of Peter Mandelson as US Ambassador. History will not be kind to us ... My latest @Telegraph "Economic Agenda" column 🧵1/6 telegraph.co.uk/business/202…

Freedom can also be lost little by little, by what the Fabians call the doctrine of gradualness. A little more taxation here, a little more government expenditure there, year after year until the people are no longer the masters of the state but its servants. There are always, it seems, good reasons advanced for the state to have more power. But rarely for the state to divest itself of power. Each new problem becomes an excuse for more government intervention and less individual responsibility.

Just one more tax rise to utopia. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c705…

theguardian.com/world/2026/a… New way to bypass actual critical engagement dropped. Limbic fluency response.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c75e… "The UK economy unexpectedly failed to grow in January, with eating out in restaurants suffering in particular." 🚨🚨🚨 "unexpectedly" 🚨🚨🚨

The scale of tax rises over the course of this Parliament is staggering The combination of the rise in employers' NI & the freezing of income tax thresholds will see taxes rise to 38% This is the culmination of huge tax rises under both the Tories and Labour The OBR now asking the big questions about what impact this will have on the economy. It is concerned it will disincentivise people from earning more money

Keep getting resurprised by how dull and tedious Starmer is.

dx and dy are both 0 because they starved to death