UK Government internet policy is now “if there is somewhere where people can talk to each other, they need to show their ID” 🫠
It’s not a serious policy to keep children safe - it’s just creating an authoritarian checkpoint internet. We can’t allow it.
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Imagine investing £68 million of pension money in a company planning to build wind farms.
Years later, no wind farms have been completed.
Yet the company has now distributed £60 million in dividends.
Marcus Aurelius understood the fleeting nature of human existence when he said, “You will be forgotten either way. So live in such a manner that, while you remain, you belong to yourself.” Stop sacrificing your authenticity for the approval of people who are equally temporary. Their opinions will fade, and so will their memories of you. The real tragedy isn’t being forgotten after death, it’s living a life that was never truly yours.
If you asked anyone at HMRC what Adam Smith's four canons of taxation are, I doubt they would know.
In any case, they are that taxes should be:
1. equal and proportionate.
2. convenient.
3. certain.
4. economic.
On 4, the point is that the cost of raising the tax should be minimal, so that what actually reaches the treasury closely matches what was taken in the first place.
Meanwhile at HMRC
This Story Will Make Your Blood Boil. 😡
Duncan called into Jeremy Vine to talk about benefits. He’s 56, paid into the system since he was 18, and recently had to take six months off work after being diagnosed with cancer and needed help. He was refused. He got nothing. No help at all. He’s now back at work while still fighting cancer, and he wants to know why. He says what’s the point of the system if it isn’t there when you actually need it?
Jeremy actually asked a decent question for once: if he’s paid tax all his life, why isn’t he at the front of the queue to reclaim his own money when he runs into trouble? Why does the system seem to prefer people who have never paid any tax at all?
Good question. Somebody should be made to answer it. The welfare bill is bigger than ever, anyone and everyone seems to be claiming. Strangers turn up in boats and get given everything for free, yet a man who has worked all his life, paid into the system, and is genuinely ill gets turned down when he needs help. How is that fair? It’s not. It’s a disgrace!
@MandelDuck@Jcastweet Funnily enough we were watching Terminator (which is 42yrs old 😳) last night.
I paused it when they are looking up Sarah Connor’s name in the phone book to explain exactly that to my daughter. ☺️
Crazy times.