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Tom Randall
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Political comms officer in the UK | Escaped teacher | Former pro Econ memer | Hampshire & Cornwall | #Politics #Science #EconSky | Not the former MP for Gedling.

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British elections until 2029:
Only Plaid can stop Reform here,
Only the Lib Dems can stop Your party here,
Only the Greens can stop Labour here,
Only the Tories can...
Spidermen pointing at each other meme. There are 7 of them.
October 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Manufacturers of inflatable frog costumes operating in the Portland area.
October 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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The three largest parties are so scared of being Liz Trussed if they even mention the BoE, it leaves room for the smaller parties to claim policy space.
FT article - Green leader calls for BoE to end interest payments to commercial banks. News article headline: Reform UK clashes with Bank of England over interest payments to lenders.
October 3, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Farage out there just ruining half good ideas by surrounding them with insanity.
Nigel Farage has escalated his calls for the Bank of England to halt its bond-selling programme, in his first formal meeting with its governor. The pair also appealed directly to the Bank to relax its approach to cryptocurrencies, accusing it of holding back innovation.
September 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Once launched into orbit, there will be nothing the far-right can do against the might of the Woke Liberal Space Laser.
Liberal Democrats Conference graphic. Shows a satellite orbiting the Earth with its orientation appearing to face the planet. Text reads "Motion passed! A New Hope for the Space Industry"
September 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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People laughed at the time, but I for one am grateful the Eastern Orthodox Church founded the Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team 562 years ago and placed Olga into cryo-sleep, only to be woken when the time came.
Olga Girina, head of the Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team (KVERT), said that the volcano’s last “lava effusion” happened around 1463, with no eruptions since.
August 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Probably a good sign you should not leave Bolsonaro alone.
Reuters headline: "Trump to Brasil: 'Leave Bolsonaro alone" Picture of Bolsonaro in profile on a black background.
July 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Virgin Southampton vs chad Coventry.
Portswood Bus Gate: Cars return as trial is suspended Coventry City Council rakes in around £2m in bus gate fines
May 15, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Cornwall coming in with a very Israeli-snap-election ass result.
Cornwall Council election results showing no clear viable majority coalition.
May 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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An edit of an amii.illustrates cartoon. Britain says "we should use renewables and achieve net-zero". Tony Blair says "phasing out fossil fuels is doomed". Britain turns to Tony to say "fuck off".
April 30, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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If you have "run-the-government-like-a-business" people run the government like a business, this is the kind of stupid shit you get. They would see an exchange where you get $20tn worth of things you want in exchange for a $20tn credit note as losing $20tn of wealth.

www.ft.com/content/f313...
Quote from Peter Navarro in the FT: "The US cumulative trade deficits in goods from 1976 — the year chronic deficits began — to 2024 have transferred over $20tn of American wealth into foreign hands. That’s more than 60 per cent of US GDP in 2024. Foreign interests have taken over vast swaths of US farmland, housing, tech companies, and even parts of our food supply."
April 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Since Trump continues to believe that the trade "deficit" with another country is their tariff rate against the US, could we fix this by having every country just quickly set their actual tariff rate to what he thinks it is, then announce huge tariff reductions.
April 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Debt bad.
Quote from article: For Perry, a high school teacher who voted for Mr Trump, the tariffs made sense: He felt they were an effective way to raise revenue for a nation in debt. "We could have universal health care, we could have free, universal education after high school, we could feed the poor, but we just don't have the money right now," he said.
April 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Problem solved.
Edited chart showing a plan where you just don't arbitrarily decide to move the fiscal position into "surplus" within 5 years and just maintain current deficit level instead because why the actual fuck not?
March 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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This whole Sky News fiscal 'headroom' segment was completely deranged. Which respectable economists even advocate for this? How are our politicians and media more wrong than even the most wrong economists?
Sky News report on the 2025 Spring Statement. A chart showing Rachel Reeves fiscal rule requiring her to achieve a budget surplus by 2029-30. Presenter points at the chart where it has forecasted 'headroom' achievable by the year 2029-30.
March 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Isn't this what he wants? Or is it only the #BoE allowed to deliberately induce unemployment and wage cuts as a policy measure?
Andrew Bailey of the BoE warning how NI rise could see companies shed workers. "Something I watch very carefully"
March 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Your average mortgage holder has a debt/income ratio of like 500% and people only live for like 80 years. Why are we worried about a nation with only a 100% ratio when nations can live for thousands of years?
Graph showing UK debt (as & of GDP). It shows that current debt level is just under 100%.
March 22, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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31% chose the option "I know it should be legal but I really REALLY REALLY wish it wasn't"
Poll: "Do you support or oppose the ability of Americans to protest against what they see as unjust?" Support: 80% Oppose: 7% Poll: "Should it be legal or illegal to protest Israeli actions in Gaza?" Legal: 57% Illegal: 12% Unsure: 31%
March 20, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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"This time in a good way!"
Headline reading "Germany is back - Merz secures Greens' support for defence spend boost"
March 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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$TESLA stock dropping very quickly. Yes... HA HA HA... YES.
March 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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"Taxing the rich could help cover increased French defence spending"
www.euronews.com/business/202...
"In France, super-rich people could be forced to pay more taxes as the country seeks to boost its military spending. The current cabinet is looking at ways of dusting off plans from the previously failed government to tax the super-rich, according to the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry - Éric Lombard." French sickos: "oui...hon hon hon... OUI!" - Pervers.
March 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Been thinking about this today for some reason.
Image of the book - How to Pay for the War - A Radical Plan For The Chancellor of the Exchequer - by John Meynard Keynes
February 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Ban batteries to own the libs.
The Reform party's list of stupid policies to own the libs. Amazingly a real graphic, not fake or hacked account. "Ban batteries" is their actual policy. To make it illegal to use batteries to store energy for the grid.
February 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Not that I'm a fan of defending the chancellor but you really can't win with interest rates news. It's a "fresh blow" if they hold because 'inflation' and it's a "fresh blow" if they're lowered because 'recession'.
Headline in The Standard: "Interest rates 'to be cut within weeks' as weak GDP figures deal new blow to Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves" - The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Comittee is expected to cut interest rates in early February.
February 2, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Poor Land Rover Discovery owners of Reading preyed upon by the Mafia Council charging them an extra £3.
Table of information showing Reading Council will charge small vehicle like a Ford Focus just over £3 to park, whereas a large polluting vehicle like a Land Rover would be charged £6. Followed by quotes: Brian MacDowell, director of the Alliance of British Drivers pressure group, labelled the proposals “absolutely outrageous”. He said: “It’s an underhanded tax on people’s travel. It smacks of Mafia-like tactics, preying on those whose incomes are limited and unfairly penalising them for choosing a form of motive power. “Parking rates should be a blanket charge. There should be no difference between vehicles.
January 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM