David
@thatdlh.bsky.social
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I don't care if you think you're middle class or whatever. Your house is worth £2m? Lucky you. Shut up and pay up.
November 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I don't care if you think you're middle class or whatever. Your house is worth £2m? Lucky you. Shut up and pay up.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
If you're going to pull stunts like this you need to be actually funny.
Otherwise, you just come across as an arsehole.
Otherwise, you just come across as an arsehole.
Utterly juvenile and unparliamentary antics from Kemi Badenoch during her response to the budget.
Desperate, undignified and ineffective.
Desperate, undignified and ineffective.
November 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
If you're going to pull stunts like this you need to be actually funny.
Otherwise, you just come across as an arsehole.
Otherwise, you just come across as an arsehole.
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The abolition of the two-child benefit cap, which punishes children for their parents' circumstances, is the best part of the budget, potentially lifting almost half a million children out of poverty.
It may also be the part that comes under fiercest attack. So it needs celebrating and defending.
It may also be the part that comes under fiercest attack. So it needs celebrating and defending.
And the two child benefit limit is abolished. An enormous victory for those who have campaigned tirelessly for eight long years through successive governments. This will lift at least 450,000 children out of poverty. Fewer kids will be hungry. No more women forced to disclose their rape.
November 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The abolition of the two-child benefit cap, which punishes children for their parents' circumstances, is the best part of the budget, potentially lifting almost half a million children out of poverty.
It may also be the part that comes under fiercest attack. So it needs celebrating and defending.
It may also be the part that comes under fiercest attack. So it needs celebrating and defending.
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Whatever else this government do (and there's plenty of issues with this budget) ministers will always be able to point to this as an incredible important contribution to the country's future. Almost half a million kids taken out of poverty.
Scrapping the two-child limit in full is a monumental decision. Well done to all involved in the Child Poverty Strategy, and everyone who has made the case against the policy.
OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty
OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty
November 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Whatever else this government do (and there's plenty of issues with this budget) ministers will always be able to point to this as an incredible important contribution to the country's future. Almost half a million kids taken out of poverty.
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And honestly I don't give a fuck if it's popular or not. It's going to make a lot of kids' lives better. That's the point of government. Not an opinion poll.
November 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
And honestly I don't give a fuck if it's popular or not. It's going to make a lot of kids' lives better. That's the point of government. Not an opinion poll.
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Bond markets spooked as the Chancellor appears to disappear behind raised hands; gilts stage rally as she reveals she was actually there the whole time
October 30, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Bond markets spooked as the Chancellor appears to disappear behind raised hands; gilts stage rally as she reveals she was actually there the whole time
Are you going to put wages up at your company? No? Then shut the fuck up.
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
www.independent.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Are you going to put wages up at your company? No? Then shut the fuck up.
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
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"Much of the left appears to have convinced itself that wealth tax is all that is needed. This is incorrect — and an incessant focus on wealth taxation is obscuring the need for broader tax increases." Clear and interesting piece by @jomichell.bsky.social:
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
Wealth tax and looser fiscal rules won’t save the Budget | British Politics and Policy at LSE
The narrative on the left that a wealth tax and looser fiscal rules would solve the Chancellor's 2025 Budget headaches has got out of hand.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Much of the left appears to have convinced itself that wealth tax is all that is needed. This is incorrect — and an incessant focus on wealth taxation is obscuring the need for broader tax increases." Clear and interesting piece by @jomichell.bsky.social:
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
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Why the two-child limit has to go, in a chart.
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Why the two-child limit has to go, in a chart.
Next up on this weeks episode. Russia rejects the plan again!
ABC News reports Ukraine has agreed to the terms of the US peace proposal, with "minor details still outstanding".
US official says Ukrainian delegation has agreed with US on terms of potential peace deal
The U.S. has held secret talks in Abu Dhabi with a Russian delegation to discuss a Ukraine peace proposal.
abcnews.go.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Next up on this weeks episode. Russia rejects the plan again!
Maybe do 2p as a treat.
Just do 1p on the basic rate of Income Tax. No one would notice after six months. I beg.
are you fucking serious
November 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Maybe do 2p as a treat.
Just blows my mind that this isn't being shouted loudly every day by SOMEONE.
I'm sick of all the "stop fighting the last war" arguments. Brexit is shit and there's nothing stopping us saying so and trying to scrap it.
I'm sick of all the "stop fighting the last war" arguments. Brexit is shit and there's nothing stopping us saying so and trying to scrap it.
The UK is losing up to £250m a day in lost tax revenue due to the economic impact of Brexit, House of Commons Library analysis for the Lib Dems suggests.
Brexit has blown a "black hole of [up to] £90 billion a year in the public finances" the party says. Even under lower estimates the hit is ~£65bn
Brexit has blown a "black hole of [up to] £90 billion a year in the public finances" the party says. Even under lower estimates the hit is ~£65bn
November 25, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Just blows my mind that this isn't being shouted loudly every day by SOMEONE.
I'm sick of all the "stop fighting the last war" arguments. Brexit is shit and there's nothing stopping us saying so and trying to scrap it.
I'm sick of all the "stop fighting the last war" arguments. Brexit is shit and there's nothing stopping us saying so and trying to scrap it.
Sack Chris Mason.
Robbie Gibb describes the BBC's Political Editor Chris Mason as the "unsung hero of covering politics" and "absolutely first rate"
November 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Sack Chris Mason.
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One fascinating and yet expected thing is that none of the big foreign accounts pretending to be American are left of center, or even anti-Trump. Not a single one. Says something about the economics and geopolitics of political grifting
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
One fascinating and yet expected thing is that none of the big foreign accounts pretending to be American are left of center, or even anti-Trump. Not a single one. Says something about the economics and geopolitics of political grifting
I just absolutely love these guys.
Can’t wait for the inevitable Sultana/Corbyn papal schism and the forming of a two separate Your Parties.
Can’t wait for the inevitable Sultana/Corbyn papal schism and the forming of a two separate Your Parties.
So that's a second Your Party MP gone in a week, and now the Welsh Your Party organisers have registered their own party in Wales
Oh and rebel leader Zarah Sultana has a pre-conference rally next Friday. Should be...interesting (I'll be reporting from there)
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/your...
Oh and rebel leader Zarah Sultana has a pre-conference rally next Friday. Should be...interesting (I'll be reporting from there)
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/your...
Your Party organisers in Wales register new party to fight next year's Senedd elections
YOUR PARTY organisers in Wales announced today that they had registered a new party to fight in next May’s Senedd elections.In a statement a week before Your Party’s founding conference, Beth Winter a...
morningstaronline.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I just absolutely love these guys.
Can’t wait for the inevitable Sultana/Corbyn papal schism and the forming of a two separate Your Parties.
Can’t wait for the inevitable Sultana/Corbyn papal schism and the forming of a two separate Your Parties.
I will never not be angry at the vandal who did this and I will never stop wanting it reversed.
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist
Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist.
bloom.bg
November 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I will never not be angry at the vandal who did this and I will never stop wanting it reversed.
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This (from: www.ft.com/content/75ce...) is something you can *feel* if you are in the UK, especially if you've experienced living abroad. But infuriatingly successive governments and our entire media are somehow absolutely committed to suggesting anyone who wants to change this is the devil...
November 21, 2025 at 7:38 AM
This (from: www.ft.com/content/75ce...) is something you can *feel* if you are in the UK, especially if you've experienced living abroad. But infuriatingly successive governments and our entire media are somehow absolutely committed to suggesting anyone who wants to change this is the devil...
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Ricky Gervais is a warning about what happens to you when you become absolutely certain you figured literally everything out in your 20s.
November 21, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Ricky Gervais is a warning about what happens to you when you become absolutely certain you figured literally everything out in your 20s.
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With every single insane post Trump makes, he becomes less powerful. Less believable. Less authoritarian.
He’s a weak man.
He’s a weak man.
November 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
With every single insane post Trump makes, he becomes less powerful. Less believable. Less authoritarian.
He’s a weak man.
He’s a weak man.
Can’t help but feel this is a command to some loonball in Bumfuck Alabama.
November 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Can’t help but feel this is a command to some loonball in Bumfuck Alabama.
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There are 4 types of guys online. No exceptions:
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
There are 4 types of guys online. No exceptions: