Thinking about tax in the UK - there's a lot of criticism for tax raising or cost-cutting measures, whether that be WFA or inheritance tax changes, but there's little alternative offered - generic phrases like "tax the rich" (which effectively is what ybe above is) are all that's offered

First time ever: "Every governing party facing election in a developed country this year lost vote share"
www.ft.com/content/e8ac... by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social, spot on as usual

My greatest frustration is reserved for the purist Left. Just because the current Labour party, for example, is less than perfect, much less leftish than you want, the idea of attacking it more vigorously than you do Tories/Reform, gets my goat. Using the RW mainstream media to do so really gets me.

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Getting real salty with people on the Internet, not fun as it turns out!

In a shameless attempt to grow my following on here, I'm going to be giving away a GE2024 poster to one lucky winner who retweets this post (and is following) in 24 hours time. Best of luck!

nobody will remember:
- your salary
- how “busy you were”
- how many hours you worked

People will remember:
- if you made sure you told everyone you hated Tories.
- that you were sarcastic about Donald Trump.
- that you stated the correct opinion on BlueSkyDotCom.

There's also something about talking to people that annoys them - are these people just posting to get agreement? I will admit to continuing conversations with some people who didn't want to talk to me, but then responding is always voluntary!

Apparently some people really don't like you trying to talk to them without posting your own stuff! Was a long time lurker on X, thought I'd try engaging a bit more when I came here - mixed results!