Tonight’s shameful scenes do not represent our culture, our history, or our people. Our great city is built on togetherness and acceptance, and Sunderland will forever be for all. We are stronger as one community. Now. Then. Always. ❤️🤍
🔴 NEW James Orr: Reform UK’s Religious Cambridge Professor’s Politics of Contradictions
By @J_Bloodworth
Nigel Farage’s Head of Policy provides a veneer of respectability to a politics that seeks fewer restraints, fewer mediating institutions, and less liberal democracy
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One-off or annual, what's the pro-"Wealth Tax" response to the logistics of accurate valuations of the (wildly fluctuating & subjective) paper wealth held in 50,000 people's illiquid assets, or to the ease of avoidance for such a tax (by asset transfer to family members, for example), or to the fact of capital mobility? Many wealth tax advocates are pro-EU (inc. the Greens & and many of the more radical side of the Labour soft Left), implying support for the 4 freedoms of the single market (free movement of capital being one).
I think an awful lot of effort is being put into justifying an idea which (even if upper estimates of revenues generated are correct) wouldn't really make a huge dent in our fiscal position. It's bad for any kind of transition to a more social democratic political economy because meanwhile, the fundamentals are left untouched/unexplored: anaemic productivity growth; high-cost energy; low public/private investment; weak industrial strategy; 0 real independent trade policy; insane regional imbalances; poor infrastructure; poor balance of payments; organised labour in terminal decline; high exposure to international trade flows/supply shocks; over-reliance on FDI; foreign ownership of national assets; natural monopolies in the hands of private rentiers; and YES, a tax code that punishes work & productive investment.
But as a solution to all this a "Wealth Tax" is a totally illusory gimmick. It's really pointless & counter-productive tinkering masquerading as a radical egalitarian panacea.
The Daily Telegraph says I’m “obsessed” with scrapping Council Tax.
They’re right.
A Band D home in Hartlepool pays around £1,500 more than a property in Westminster.
I want Hartlepool families better off.
So yeah, obsessed? You’re damn right I am.
Not the result we wanted. But thanks to everyone who came up to speak to me today.
Appreciate all the advice and agree with the main consensus: “Get new running shorts.”
The one bit that sticks most in my mind? “You need to be clearer that Labour left us. We didn’t leave Labour.”
I agree. From here on, I will say it more clearly: mine is a campaign to change Labour back to the party people used to know. A party solidly on the side of working class people. Make no mistake about that.
Despite what happened on the pitch, Everton FC once again excelled off it. It gave me hope that, despite everything, we can re-build more unity in our country. 🙌🏻
#bradleylowery @Bradleysfight
Absolute overhaul in Sunderland, a council that has been Labour since its creation in the Wilson era now has a commanding Reform majority. They are the undisputed party of the Red Wall, bigger question will be how well they’ve done beyond that which needs more results
40 YEARS COUNT FOR NOTHING SAFC. I can't believe the way my family have been treated regarding our season tickets, as season ticket holder for last 20-years and hardly missing a home match the last 40-years I have been refused a new season ticket as I want to move from 76 yards to general admission. 2 years ago we moved into the black cats bar as my dad had mobility issues and struggled getting into his seat, we reluctantly agreed to stay when changing to the 76 yards as we new it would be my dad's last season, with help from family/friends we managed to absorb the astonishing price increase from £850 to around £2300. Unfortunately my dad joined the Heaven Branch in February. As we are/we're season ticket holders we presumed we would just move seat next season. When we informed the club we would like to move back to general admission we were told we would have to join the waiting list which had already Been accepting people for 3 weeks. I reached out further to club liason officers and they agreed I had a special case and would review this week's ago, with no reply from latest emails I was loosing hope and have just received a phone call from ticket office to say they have refused my request. After supporting our club through some of the darkest days especially the last 10 years I have now been brushed to one side as they have enough demand to fill the place without my family. Thank you very much SAFC @CWaters_SAF
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Nigel Farage offered Sunderland Stadium of Light visit by club director
'They'd very much like to see me there for a home game' Farage told ITV News
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