2066Country

#2066Country is #MoreGenerousMoreSharing; envisioned by #StLeonardsSharingConsortium. Drafting #GovernmentPolicyOnSharing,once requested by the MP. #NVCish too!

[2066Country @2066Country]

As I,@paulcrosland,AKA #PaulEdwardCrosland am asked by @bbcsoutheast for 50words on the #PaulCroslandIndependentCandidate #GeneralElection2024:

#50percentToElectAnMP
#TTIPWDMTGTOVH
#GeneralElection2024Soundtrack

&💡choose #LeastFitCandidate for #HastingsAndRyeByElection soon?

[Recovering #MindCreative @paulcrosland]

#PaulCroslandJobSeeker, would prefer #Bexhill but has put this application in on
#IndeedJobs to gain more #TikTokExperience. #FingersCrossed, but also that the next job is as a #JobShareMP promoting #50percentToElectAnMP.

If votes are fairly evenly split in #HastingsAndRyeConstituency the winner might be #ElectedToParliamentOn13percent; to then forgo most of my #MPsSalary in order to build a coalition with sufficient other candidates to account for over 50% of the votes then becomes my commitment to #Hastings & #Rye, #GeneralElection2024.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Huge.

And I meet more and more over 50s too who will be voting for the Green Party as well!

https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp

[2066Country @2066Country]

Discuss?

[Woke War Room @WokeWarRoom]

According to Harvard's "Pyramid of White Supremacy," you’re a covert white supremacist if you support deportations, oppose Colin Kaepernick, or celebrate Columbus Day.

The Harvard Graduate School of Education pushes this on future teachers, claiming these are "day-to-day racist norms"—branding everyday views as white supremacy.

Why again are taxpayers funding Harvard's divisive DEI indoctrination?

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

This is insane... no rule of law no protections, no economy, no society. this is just a bunch of self interested babies who don't like it when they can't get their own way.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: The White House completely loses it over Amazon announcing that they will put a “tariff price” next to every item they sell, depicting how much of the price of that good is the result of Trump’s tariffs.

Karoline Leavitt says “This is a hostile and political act by Amazon. Why did Amazon do this… It’s not a surprise because Amazon has partnered with a Chinese propaganda arm.”

Americans have a right to know. It's not political. It's logical!

[The General @GeneralMCNews]

BREAKING: Major blackouts reported across Europe, with Spain, Portugal, France, and Belgium experiencing widespread disruptions to electricity, internet, and mobile services.

[2066Country @2066Country]

An exaggeration?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Yeah, fake news

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

I hope everyone understands this isn't a drill. He is serious and his people will try to make it happen, even if they say otherwise right now.

[Mark Steel @mrmarksteel]

We could save so much money in this country if we accepted the dead have been mis-diagnosed by woke doctors. They should have their graves taken away if they refuse to get back to work.

[Robert Peston @Peston]

Arguably there is a looming economic event of far greater long-term consequence than next week’s Spring Statement by the chancellor and the public spending cuts she is set to announce (see https://t.co/s1VZDKBzhY).

It is the revealed assessment on 2 April by Donald Trump of the discriminatory tariffs he believes the UK and other countries are respectively levying on the US, and his imposition of new retaliatory tariffs.

The reason this is so important is that Trump’s calculation of - for example - what he sees as the UK’s implicit tariff rate is predicated on one of his more extraordinary ideas, namely that general sales taxes like our VAT somehow unfairly harm US exporters and are the equivalent of tariffs.

To put it kindly, this is nuts.

The whole point about a general sales tax like VAT is that it is general: it applies equally on imports and on domestically made goods and services. It is definitionally NOT a tariff. It is not discriminatory, least of all on the basis of country of origin.

Now you would assume that no British government would ever engage in trade negotiations with another country on the basis that a material factor in the negotiations would be the UK’s discretion to set general taxes like VAT.

And you would think that would be quadruply so after Brexit, given that so much of the argument of the Brexiters during the campaign leading up to the referendum was that Brussels should be stripped of influence over the Treasury’s ability to set taxes.

So here is the jaw-dropping thing: the UK is engaged in trade talks with the US in the knowledge that for Trump and his negotiating team VAT is a material factor in its determination of what it believes to be the implied average tariff being imposed by the UK on US exporters.

This doesn’t mean the UK will cut the VAT rate to suit Trump, or abolish it. That won’t happen.

But it does mean the UK negotiating team, led by the business secretary Jonathan Reynolds, are taking seriously the Trump assertion that the trade concessions he wants from the UK must take account of the perceived harm he sees from VAT. For example, officials in the talks are netting off the sales taxes of individual US states to arrive at some spurious assessment for UK VAT harm to America.

If you think about the Treasury’s zealous protection over centuries of British tax sovereignty, I am astonished the UK government engaged even for a second in these talks.

Yet Reynolds flew to Washington a few days ago for face-to-face talks with his counterpart Howard Lutnick.

And I am told UK trade negotiators are working flat out to try and broker some tawdry deal by 2 April to prevent the US imposing too penal a tariff on all British exports.

In the words of one: “a complex deal that would normally take months or years to be negotiated is being done in days”.

According to officials engaged in the talks, another British tax that the Americans regard as discriminatory is the digital sales tax, which is a levy on the UK turnover of internet and social media companies.

It was introduced by the last government to level the playing field modestly with traditional retail and media companies that operate in the same space and pay all manner of property taxes and charges. But this again is not a tax that discriminates on the basis of nationality. However Trump hates it, on nationalistic grounds, because in practice most of the digital giants are American (Doh!).

Here is another extraordinary thing. Washington is expecting the UK to capitulate on the digital sales tax and abolish it or cut it.

Again, I am struggling to believe that Reynolds and co are even having these conversations.

Is it just that they see Trump and the US as too powerful to resist?

If so, there is a solution: coordination on tariffs and trade with the other rich democracies that are also in Trump’s sights. 1/2

[2066Country @2066Country]

@nw_nicholas Worth listening to IMHO @elonmusk & @jordanbpeterson:

https://t.co/hai84CSsyh

#TommyRobinson
(@TRobinsonNewEra)
#StephenYakleyLennon
#AndrewTateSupporter

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

I wouldn’t go there Liz..

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

BREAKING: In a stunning moment in the Oval Office, Trump completely loses it saying "you're not supposed to ask that" when a reporter asks him about an angry conflict between Marco Rubio and Elon Musk. Americans deserve to know what really happened.

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

I genuinely can't think of another reason to behave the way he is....

[alllivesmatterexceptdemocrats @conserv55021]

@RoryStewartUK Christ does not command duty to others over family. You’re twisting Christianity into a form of communism.

[Billy @BJWilliams1987]

@RoryStewartUK So god says to hate my wife and kids but love illegal aliens? Got it.

[Rory Stewart @RoryStewartUK]

I too am very selfish. We are often a deeply selfish and tribal species. But the last person we should be invoking to justify our selfishness is Christ.

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

A man who lost his mum during the pandemic as Tory MPs partied, asks Sunak how he can trust the Conservative Party after that.

Sunak, with zero empathy and all the self awareness of a lost ghost, uses his answer to try and promote his own achievements.

What a fucking prick.

[2066Country @2066Country]

#UnkindPolitics:

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

30p Lee Anderson calls Mick Lynch a despicable man.

But we all know who the despicable man is don't we?

30p Lee and his Reform scumbags.

[2066Country @2066Country]

#UnkindPolitics:

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

30p Lee blaming, what appears to be a disabled man, for climate change because he uses a car, when he raised legitimate concerns about fossil fuels.

I wish I could laugh in his face when he inevitably loses his seat. He’s an overpromoted, thick, talentless, arrogant shithouse.