Blue Labour W.Yorks

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[Blue Labour W.Yorks @BlueLabourWYork]

@AyoCaesar Nobody should face collective blame for crimes committed by others. But pretending concerns are only about race misses the point. People are asking whether we still have a shared culture, common standards and mutual obligations.

[Blue Labour W.Yorks @BlueLabourWYork]

@ZackPolanski @Thelma_DWalker Tone deaf to the concerns of citizens in the province

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

First minister Michelle O'Neill: “The debate today ... is about our inclusive society, our welcoming society.”

Tone deaf.

[JnR @CFCJnR]

Just seen this clip of Tuchel with England, he might just win the 2026 World Cup.

Knockout football tournament is his thing, you can see how he is motivating them.

It's why he won trophies at Chelsea.

[Blue Labour W.Yorks @BlueLabourWYork]

@5Pillarsuk This can’t be real can it?

[Blue Labour W.Yorks @BlueLabourWYork]

Policeman brother of Manchester Airport attackers faces racism probe https://t.co/ZXk1GH6kQw

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The Mandy Files — 2. May 2025
Another zinger from Cabinet Minister Pat McFadden to Mandelson:
‘Every meeting I have is “who can we tax in order to pay benefits to others”. They’re asking the wrong questions.’
Wow! Just wow!!

[Blue Labour W.Yorks @BlueLabourWYork]

@siennamarla @DanCardenMP https://t.co/xoAgPpz8ZI

[Blue Labour W.Yorks @BlueLabourWYork]

@Scaramucci Britain’s problems didn’t start with Brexit. Per capita GDP barely moved for nearly two decades after the 2008 crash. Brexit may have imposed costs, but mass migration, low productivity, deindustrialisation and political failure long predate 2016. That’s why voters rejected

[Anglo Futurism Capital LP 🇬🇧🐿️ @RollingHedge]

The room temperature IQ of many members of the current government really is something to behold.

Jeevun Sandher is a “doctor” apparently… According to Wikipedia, this is his background:

“Sandher graduated with a PhD in ‘Political Economy’ from KCL in 2022. Prior to that he was awarded an MSc in Economic Development and Policy Analysis and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Philosophy from the University of Nottingham. He now leads the economics team at the New Economics Foundation. Before undertaking his doctorate, Sandher worked in Somaliland as an economist in the Ministry of Finance. He has also had roles in HM Treasury, and the Department for Work and Pensions, where he advised on budgeting, macroeconomic policy, inequality, poverty and social security. While studying for his PhD, he co-hosted the Politics JaM podcast. He was also an active member of the Young Fabians (natch).”

Highly credentialed, a BA, MSc and a PhD. Surely he’d be very well placed to understand how things work, right? Unless, of course, our universities are increasingly now just a collection of ideologically captured Marxist Ponzi schemes, but I wouldn’t make such a claim, honest guv 👀

His latest “work” is below:
https://t.co/fvRQLXaOo0

Where to start with “this”☝️economically illiterate nonsense…

“Wealth doubled as a share of GDP.” Yes, because house prices did. This is a planning failure, not an undertaxation problem. You cannot extract growth from an asset bubble (QE and supply driven + fiscal drag immigrant demand) that you refuse to deflate. Build more houses. Reform planning laws. Everything else is theatre.

The dividend argument inverts causality with admirable confidence. Capital returned to shareholders gets redeployed into higher-return ventures. That is not extraction. That is the market functioning as designed; trapping cash inside inefficient firms via punitive dividend taxation is not investment, it’s embalming.

The “marginal propensity to consume” point is first-year macro doing the heavy lifting for a cabinet-level policy. Yes, workers spend more per marginal pound. But savings fund investment, and Britain’s disease is chronic underinvestment, not underconsumption. If you tax the savers harder, where exactly does the capex come from? You do not say because you cannot say.

“Half of millionaire wealth sits in London, therefore taxing it helps the regions.” This is the redistributive fallacy at its most seductive. Money taxed in Kensington and spent via Whitehall does not create organic growth in Loughborough, duh. It creates dependency. The regions need functioning capital markets, deregulated planning, and genuine devolution. Not another centrally administered fiscal drip feed.

The claim that someone receiving ten million quid a year pays a lower effective rate than someone on thirty-five thousand is doing enormous emotional work while quietly ignoring corporate double taxation, employer NICs attribution, and the cherry-picking required to generate the result. It is a stat designed to travel on social media, not to survive contact with a tax accountant.

Windfall taxes are cited as though they prove the general principle. They do not. Windfalls are by definition one-offs applied to abnormal externally caused profit surges. The Energy Profits Levy has already materially cratered North Sea investment. The OBR documented this. Again you fail to mention it because it rather spoils your fantasy narrative.

What is entirely absent from the piece is any engagement with capital flight, behavioural elasticity, base erosion, or the UK’s already collapsing competitiveness for mobile capital. “Tax wealth, get growth” is a stupid slogan. It is not a strategy. It is not even an argument. It is a backbencher working backwards from his party’s existing position and calling it economics.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Just puerile nonsense from start to finish.

It’s exhausting being governed by such morons, something has to change and fast.

[Blue Labour W.Yorks @BlueLabourWYork]

@PolitlcsUK @joerichlaw @Telegraph How does discrimination against Trans people entitle them to have tax advice given quicker?

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

🚨 BREAKING: New report by UN Watch reveals UN “experts” accepted millions of dollars from China, Russia, and Qatar before attacking the U.S., Israel, and the West.

🧵 See the report’s most striking findings:

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

My word. This is incredible. A real-life version of that scene from The Life of Brian: "Stan, you haven't got a womb! Where's the foetus going to gestate?! You going to keep it in a box?!"

[Blue Labour W.Yorks @BlueLabourWYork]

@Imran_HussainMP Three West Yorkshire councils have six weeks to demand their areas are fully included in the National Grooming Gang Inquiry before the document that fixes the scope of every local investigation is published. #Bradford https://t.co/tQMMmmFDuS #Kirklees #Calderdale

[Blue Labour W.Yorks @BlueLabourWYork]

@georgeeaton @b_judah @ArguablyMag This is why liberal Remain politics failed. Britain reduced to treaty clauses and GDP charts. No talk of sovereignty, legitimacy, solidarity, labour markets, or nationhood. #BlueLabour knows people need belonging, control and trust not managerialism.

[Blue Labour W.Yorks @BlueLabourWYork]

@JohnWight1 Britain nearly went bankrupt in the 1970s and had to go cap in hand to the IMF. Pretending states can spend endlessly without consequences isn’t economic literacy it’s fantasy. Debt, inflation and decline are real. Trade-offs are real too.

[Trevor Phillips @TrevorPTweets]

Exceptional piece of journalism- I don’t often retweet but this really should be read. Not just insight into AB but truly thoughtful about real politics and the way it works in the world.

[Blue Labour W.Yorks @BlueLabourWYork]

@mehdirhasan Proving his point.

[Laura Kuenssberg @bbclaurak]

Excl - Alan Milburn reveals his report finds govt spends TWENTY FIVE times as much on benefits for young people as helping them find work - tells us it’s ‘shameful’

[Douglas Murray @DouglasKMurray]

Mohammed Hijab declared himself bankrupt in January this year after losing his defamation case against me in the High Court. He filed for bankruptcy under the name ‘Mohamed Nabil Hegab.’ If he were to get any money from you it would have to go straight to his trustee in bankruptcy. @GodLogic_GL