fuck me i should be paying barely anything in tax i never realised the personal allowance should be that high

(happy early birthday, of course)

happy birthday Jamison Ologies

how so?

"It's been a long week"

to quote a headline from the onion, It Only Tuesday

what a way to attempt to win back bristol central, lol

i wish that things would happen in the news and we think "yep. that's exactly what we thought would happen"

should we be using different terms than "borrowing" or "debt" when referring to government budgets? to the layperson (and anyone trying to understand MMT for the first time) these terms seem to reinforce the household budget myth.

though i suppose i can't ignore it, and i shouldn't regardless

ngl part of my apprehension about studying politics and/or philosophy is having to focus on news like this

this is not good for the structural integrity of our house

i too am vibrating

i visited the hosue of commons during a school trip organised with my MP for our a level politics class. i was genuinely stunned by how tiny the room is

i remember learning about that tory government. immediately crashes the economy, caused a general strike, then fiddled about while letting macdonald rehabilitate the labour party