Barney Lines-Hembrey
@barneylh.bsky.social
Labour staffer and activist from Dorset, going between Liverpool and Chester, I play some music too.
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“Everyone in positions of influence should ask themselves the question: are you treating those fighting to save the planet more harshly than those fighting for inherited wealth? If so, why?”
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Two-Tier Reporting: When Climate Protesters Slow Ambulances They’re Vilified, So Why Are Wealthy Farmers Given a Free Pass?
Media outlets rush to condemn climate change campaigners as "middle class" protesters causing "chaos" while ignoring greater disruption by millionaire landowners
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December 13, 2024 at 8:19 AM
“Everyone in positions of influence should ask themselves the question: are you treating those fighting to save the planet more harshly than those fighting for inherited wealth? If so, why?”
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Grassroots music venues are vital and are suffering at the expense of touts like Ticketmaster - they should be made to use their multi-billion pound profits to support the places that create the artists they profit off.
British music is booming at the top - but we’re losing the pathway so many rely on to get there.
Community assets are safest in community hands. We must safeguard our incredible cultural export by bringing more grassroots venues into community ownership.
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Community assets are safest in community hands. We must safeguard our incredible cultural export by bringing more grassroots venues into community ownership.
https://buff.ly/3OqvPk1
UK music contributes record £7.6billion to the economy – while the grassroots remain under threat
UK music contributes record £7.6billion to the economy – while the grassroots remain under threat with 125 venues closing in 2023.
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November 21, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Grassroots music venues are vital and are suffering at the expense of touts like Ticketmaster - they should be made to use their multi-billion pound profits to support the places that create the artists they profit off.
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In other news millions of people in the UK are living in poverty, destitution & using food banks
November 20, 2024 at 12:52 PM
In other news millions of people in the UK are living in poverty, destitution & using food banks
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So much misinformation around today on who will be affected by changes to inheritance tax - and lobbyists pretending the data isn't clear to obfuscate. We have detailed data on estates so the truth is in fact very clear if you care to look 🧵
November 19, 2024 at 12:38 PM
So much misinformation around today on who will be affected by changes to inheritance tax - and lobbyists pretending the data isn't clear to obfuscate. We have detailed data on estates so the truth is in fact very clear if you care to look 🧵
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To be clear:
It's £1m untaxed, plus £325k of standard tax free inheritance.
You can double that if the farmer is married.
So farmers can hand down £2.65m tax free, and their kids pay 20% on everything else.
Tax on your job is 40% over £50k
"Land owner" is not a job
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It's £1m untaxed, plus £325k of standard tax free inheritance.
You can double that if the farmer is married.
So farmers can hand down £2.65m tax free, and their kids pay 20% on everything else.
Tax on your job is 40% over £50k
"Land owner" is not a job
🧵
This will affect fewer than 500 farms, and the IFS says farms are "still more generously treated than they used to be in decades past"
It's just closing a loophole that's been used to avoid inheritance tax, and which pushes up farm rents and makes it harder for 76% if farmers to make a profit.
It's just closing a loophole that's been used to avoid inheritance tax, and which pushes up farm rents and makes it harder for 76% if farmers to make a profit.
November 17, 2024 at 7:48 PM
To be clear:
It's £1m untaxed, plus £325k of standard tax free inheritance.
You can double that if the farmer is married.
So farmers can hand down £2.65m tax free, and their kids pay 20% on everything else.
Tax on your job is 40% over £50k
"Land owner" is not a job
🧵
It's £1m untaxed, plus £325k of standard tax free inheritance.
You can double that if the farmer is married.
So farmers can hand down £2.65m tax free, and their kids pay 20% on everything else.
Tax on your job is 40% over £50k
"Land owner" is not a job
🧵
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Andy Kim, one of the only handful of Democrats who won a House race which Trump carried in 2020: “If you’re only having comfortable conversations in politics, you’re not talking to all the people you need to be talking to. Politics should inherently be uncomfortable, inherently be difficult.”
November 18, 2024 at 4:27 PM
Andy Kim, one of the only handful of Democrats who won a House race which Trump carried in 2020: “If you’re only having comfortable conversations in politics, you’re not talking to all the people you need to be talking to. Politics should inherently be uncomfortable, inherently be difficult.”