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[Aaron tweeting to the void @AaronKeyMarket1]

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[Aaron tweeting to the void @AaronKeyMarket1]

@DietmarPichler1 What's a tankie? Old person asking to keep my vocab up to date

[Aaron tweeting to the void @AaronKeyMarket1]

On the bright side I remember the food for the trip: french sticks and pate and sparkling water. And also shopping in a hypermarket in Caen or Cherbourg. Perhaps the tapestry was just not that overwhelming.🤔

[Aaron tweeting to the void @AaronKeyMarket1]

I will not be joining the mad dash to see the Bayeaux tapestry in London. My vague memory that I saw it when I was 16 on a school trip to the Normandy beaches has been proved by Google maps. It is very geographically close.
I am concerned that my memory has degraded that badly.

[Aaron tweeting to the void @AaronKeyMarket1]

I will not be joining the mad dash to see the Bayeaux tapestry in London. My vague memory that I saw it when I was 16 on a school trip to the Normandy beaches has been proved by Google maps. It is very geographically close.
I am concerned that my memory has degraded that badly.

[Louisa Guise Author @whatiwrote_]

@MartinSLewis It's in breach of Railway Bylaw 7 to annoy others with your noise on a train. She has no right to do that & should be issued a fine. Unfortunately the rail operators are not enforcing this. As someone with a platform, most of us would be grateful if you could make this known

[LeftSideOfHistory @leftsidehist]

Vote Reform, get 10 nurseries closed down

Another win for the party of working people

[Albert35 @moonfire445]

They want to leave the ECHR because it will allow them to abolish the State Pension, the Minimum Wage, and paid holiday and sick leave.

It would make them tens of billions a year.

But of course they say immigration, because they can't tell you the real reason.
#r4today #LBC

[Pete Sanford @PeteSanford]

BROKEN BRITAIN?

LET ME EXPLAIN WHO IS BREAKING US

People keep asking why the UK feels broken — why public services collapse, why councils go bankrupt, why families drown in rent, the NHS is on its knees.

Here’s the truth nobody in Westminster will say out loud: Britain isn’t Poor.

It’s Being Drained.

Drained by a tax system designed to protect wealth, punish workers, and let global investors treat our country like a vending machine.

The UK’s £3 trillion debt isn’t an accident — it’s a transfer of wealth.

Every year, over £100 billion goes straight to bondholders in interest payments, money that should be fixing GP appointments, repairing schools, supporting disabled people, building social housing, funding mental health care, keeping youth services alive, and stopping councils from collapsing. Instead, it’s siphoned upward to pension funds, banks, sovereign wealth funds, and global investors.

The poor pay tax, the government pays interest, the wealthy collect the money — that’s the pipeline.

And here’s the kicker: the poor can’t escape it.

They can’t move, can’t hide income, can’t shift profits to Luxembourg, can’t hire accountants to “optimise” tax, can’t buy property through offshore trusts.

They pay PAYE, NI, VAT, council tax — every unavoidable tax that hits the bottom hardest.

Meanwhile the wealthy live in a world where tax is optional, debt is profitable, and the system bends around them.

If everyone paid fair tax, the UK would transform every single year.

HMRC’s own numbers show £30–40 billion is lost annually through avoidance, evasion, loopholes, and “creative accounting”.

If that money actually arrived, NHS waiting lists would fall, councils would stop collapsing, social care would stabilise, schools wouldn’t be begging parents for glue sticks, homelessness programmes would get funded, public transport would improve, debt would stop spiralling, and interest payments would shrink.

Every year gets better -- Every family feels the difference.

Every public service breathes again.

But it doesn’t happen, because the people who benefit from the gaps are the ones with access to power.

The system is biased because capital is mobile and people are not.

If you tax workers, they stay.

If you tax wealth, it can leave.

So governments squeeze the immobile group — ordinary people — and tiptoe around the mobile group — global capital.

No threats, no conspiracies, just structural leverage.

And nowhere is this clearer than London property.

London isn’t a housing market anymore — it’s a global asset class.

Investment giants like BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield and Sovereign Wealth Funds buy entire blocks, entire developments, entire neighbourhoods, often through offshore companies, trusts, shell entities, and complex ownership chains.

And here’s the part that should make people furious: many of these structures legally minimise UK tax to almost nothing.

Global investors avoid UK tax in ways that are all legal and all outrageous: buying the company that owns the building instead of the building itself to avoid stamp duty; holding property through Jersey, Luxembourg or Cayman entities to shift profits offshore; loading UK subsidiaries with “internal debt” so profits vanish as interest payments; using REIT structures so rental income becomes tax‑free; exploiting double‑tax treaties so gains are taxed at ultra‑low rates abroad; using nominee directors to hide beneficial ownership.

The average person pays tax on their wages. These guys buy a skyscraper and pay less tax than a nurse.

And politicians won’t touch it — ever. Because the same investment firms fund political events, hire ex‑ministers, lobby aggressively, threaten “capital flight”, own media influence, promise “growth”, offer “partnerships”, and bankroll think tanks.

No MP wants to be the one who “scared off investment”. So the loopholes stay open, the tax system stays soft, and public services stay starved.

Meanwhile ordinary families pay the price: rising rents, collapsing councils, NHS delays, school shortages, social care crises, unaffordable housing, stagnant wages, higher taxes, shrinking services.

Not because Britain is poor, but because Britain is bled dry by a system designed to protect wealth at the expense of everyone else.

The injustice is simple: the people who benefit most from Britain contribute least to Britain, and the people who rely on Britain the most are punished the hardest.

This isn’t left or right. It’s structural. It’s systemic. It’s deliberate. The UK tax system was built for a world where capital moved slowly, companies stayed put, landlords were local, wealth was visible, and ownership was simple. None of that is true anymore, but the rules never changed.

If people understood this, they’d be furious — not at each other, not at the poor, not at the working class, but at the architecture that funnels wealth upward, protects global investors, and leaves public services to rot.

Britain isn’t broken. It’s being broken.

And until people see the system for what it is, nothing will change — because no politician will ever go against the donors, lobbyists, and financial interests who benefit from keeping things exactly as they are.

[Aaron tweeting to the void @AaronKeyMarket1]

We are doomed!

[Peace Maker @princezar]

£36 million from a single donor is an extraordinary amount of money in British politics.

Regardless of which party benefits, donations on this scale inevitably raise questions about political influence and whether there should be a ceiling on individual contributions.

Britain may be heading toward a much more American-style era of big-money politics. 🇬🇧💷

[Rabble Cat @TheGraveside]

@PippaCrerar @andyburnham
What the fuck!?!
Do something to stop this, UK democracy should not be for sale to Farage and his crypto crooks 😡
#r4today #bbclaurak #bbcpolitics #bbcbreakfast

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

If reform win, these thugs will be patrolling the streets, checking your ID, your sexuality, your gender, your ethnic background all to decide if you’re entitled to be here or not.

We are on a precipice and we need to act.

[Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE @nickreeves9876]

Farage and Reform UK are in deep trouble. However, after 3 days, @Verbatim_Media's 37 minute video of their extraordinary year-long undercover investigation into Reform UK's illegal foreign donations has only got 161k views. It should have several million.

So please repost this and then share the video.
https://t.co/aUHQimmSm6

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🚨 Ten years after Brexit referendum, the House of Commons Library has assessed the evidence in advance of a Westminster Hall debate on Wednesday 2 September led by @PeteWishart

Its conclusion?

There is a broad consensus among economists that Brexit has made the UK economy smaller than it otherwise would have been.

Estimates of the GDP loss: 2–8%.

OBR long-term assumption: 4%.

Expected hit to UK trade: 15%.

Meanwhile EU net migration fell below zero but non-EU migration surged, peaking above 1 million.

We sacrificed freedom of movement, erected barriers with our largest market and made ourselves poorer.

And overall migration went UP.

Ten years of evidence.

How much more evidence do we need before Britain changes course?

[Lady Mary One of tofu-eating wokerati 💙🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @Iloveautumn2]

Keep American lack of standards out of the UK! We need to be back in the EU .

[Claire BearW @ClaireBearWebst]

👇Dear @CLACTON & @reformparty_uk supporters
REFORM don't care about the WORKING CLASS!
Neither do @RestoreBritain or @Conservatives!
ALL RIGHT WING PARTIES work 4 the SUPER RICH & BILLIONAIRES OUT 2 EXPLOIT US!
#ReformRTORIES
#RestoreRTORIES
#LabourRTORIES
#BillionaireABUSE

[Aaron tweeting to the void @AaronKeyMarket1]

Interesting

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

How many Reform UK voters know that Robert Jenrick once worked in Moscow as a corporate lawyer for firms handling oligarch clients?

This Private Eye item from 2020 reads somewhat differently now. At the time it was a minor scandal: 'Honest Bob' Jenrick, a Moscow-trained corporate lawyer turned MP, accepted £5,000 from Alexander Knaster, the former CEO of Alfa Bank, in the run-up to the 2015 election, the only time Knaster had ever donated to an individual MP's office despite being a long-standing Tory donor.

Jenrick's wife, Michal Berkner, had been a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, acting for the Alfa Group at one point, before later moves to Cooley, McDermott Will & Emery, and now Baker McKenzie.

The piece's closing line, about "a certain suppressed report on Russian influence in British politics," was a pointed reference to the still-unpublished Russia Report.

What has happened since gives the story more weight than Private Eye could have known.

After the 2022 invasion, the US and UK sanctioned Alfa Group's principals, including Mikhail Fridman, the bank's co-founder, who was arrested by the National Crime Agency at his London home that December. He left the UK for good in 2023 and now lives in Moscow.

Knaster's own firm, Pamplona Capital, was drawn directly into the fallout: Goldman Sachs and Kirkland & Ellis both cut ties once it emerged that roughly 80% of Pamplona's funds traced back to Fridman's LetterOne vehicle, and Pamplona has since moved to wind down and buy out those stakes.

Knaster himself was never sanctioned. But the wider network his 2015 donation sat within has since been treated by Western governments and banks as exactly the kind of Russian-adjacent capital the original piece was needling at.

It's also worth noting the company Jenrick now keeps.

As Reform UK's Treasury spokesperson, he sits in a party whose former leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, was jailed for ten and a half years in November 2025 for taking bribes from a pro-Russian Ukrainian politician to make pro-Kremlin statements in the European Parliament, a case serious enough to trigger a government review into foreign interference in UK politics.

There is no suggestion that Gill and Jenrick's paths crossed on this. But a party built partly on hard sovereignty rhetoric now has, in its recent history, both a convicted case of Russian-linked corruption and a senior figure whose early career was boosted by Kremlin-adjacent money.

That pattern, not any direct link, is the point worth making.

[Sam @SamCKx]

Nigel Farage has only attended around 30% of Parliamentary votes since becoming MP & hasn’t run a single surgery for his constituents in Clacton.

For that he is paid £98,000 a year of taxpayers’ money, whilst making £millions on the side.

The average PIP recipient gets £6000 a year.

The first person who needs their taxpayer funded benefits taken away is Nigel Farage.

[Sam @SamCKx]

Rather than repeat myself again, I am going to write a single post as to why Reform's policy announcement today is utterly absurb and will cost Britain £3 billion a year.

Foreign nationals pay in approximately £24 billion in National Insurance each year, and cost the UK around £21 billion in related benefits.

If you want to stop them accessing the benefits National Insurance pays for, as proposed by Reform today, it would be an Article 14 Human Rights contravention to make them pay National Insurance, so they would need to be exempted.

So the UK would make a £3 billion net loss if it were to ever introduce Reform's ridiculous new policy.

[Aaron tweeting to the void @AaronKeyMarket1]

@Author_lift1 Brilliant!

[Aaron tweeting to the void @AaronKeyMarket1]

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[Oliver @OWS1892]

A working class hero is something to be.