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[B @ERBeaumont]

@Ditha_Cool Maybe One Step Away. It’s like she’s telling you seize your happiness and freedom and block out the dark BS. You’re so close to joy if you just try, one step away

[B @ERBeaumont]

@Andysuspirium I LOVE it. I love Good for the Soul too. I just love how the first 4 tracks all blend and build. She’s just amazing.

[Andy is Confessing @Andysuspirium]

“One Step Away” is a career highlight for Madonna, one of her greatest songs ever tbh. The lyrics and the production are absolutely immaculate.

[B @ERBeaumont]

@TonyLapidus @piersmorgan Oh my god this is a work of art!!

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

Gary Stevenson clearly cares deeply about inequality, and passionately wants a wealth tax. But he is uninterested in the detail of either the problem or his solution.

He exaggerates his expertise, and his research is sloppy.

Given the size of his audience, that's a shame.

[B @ERBeaumont]

@samuel_leeds @DanNeidle Omg this is just so embarrassing. I can’t believe they even aired this.

[B @ERBeaumont]

@PositivFuturist He claims he was the best trader in the world, but actual big names from the time have never heard of him

[B @ERBeaumont]

@Rod__Mason It will further drive up the cost of childcare too

[Invert @WatchInvert]

"It's become effectively illegal to better yourself in Britain."

Think the future of the UK is just about arguing over tax rates? The truth is much worse. We’ve stopped building, we’ve buried growth in millions of pounds of paperwork, and we’ve flatlined productivity since 2008.

Gary Stevenson and the media want to referee a knife fight over a shrinking pie. Take every yacht because it changes nothing. The average person is missing out on thousands of pounds a year because the state won't let anyone create wealth anymore.

We are on a fast track to extreme poverty if everything has to be a gift from the state. It’s time to stop fighting over crumbs and start making things again.

[Dominic McGregor @DominicMcGregor]

This is ridiculous, if both parents work they qualify for free child care.

So they can get free childcare by getting off benefits and getting a job.

Or they can look after their kids themselves.

Labours entire strategy is to increase state dependency.

The only political strategy they can think of is trying to buy votes with more benefits.

There isn’t a single policy targeting growth or to help the working person.

[Rob Moore @robprogressive]

The govt tried to help renters (tenants) with ‘Renters Reform’

Here’s the mess they actually created (as a Landlord)

They passed the Renters' Rights Act in 2025. No fault evictions gone. Tenants ‘get more protection’
Then the landlords looked at the reality:

Can't get someone out. Can't put the rent up properly (despite everything else costing more).

Courts are backed up for a year & a half. One bad tenant & you can be down up to £40k

So 31% of Landlords sold up. That means 42% FEWER places to rent now

When you get more tenants & properties to rent, rents rise. And so unsurprisingly rents went through the roof

They wanted to make it cheaper to rent. They ACTUALLY made it way more expensive

This is what happens when politicians try to control a market they don't understand

They wanted to punish Landlords, but they ended up punishing the very tenants they claimed they were trying to protect

You can’t fix a housing shortage by punishing the people (Landlords) who are fixing the housing shortage

[B @ERBeaumont]

@TrannaWintour Well they are missing out! We love her!

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

To the degree “Britain is finished” it’s because we have become one of the most anti-wealth, anti-success, anti-growth nanny states in the developed world.

The nation that birthed the Industrial Revolution, invented modern capitalism, governed 25% of the world’s population and invented swaths of technologies that the world relies on today… is suddenly afraid of a little inequality.

The truth is however that we don’t have rampant inequality at all.

By all measures we are a normal economy…
- Wealth of the top 1% has been stable for 40+ years. There’s no data that says it’s “out of control”
- Wealth at the bottom 50% is in line with the rest of the world’s major economies.
- Our Gini-coefficient is middle of the pack for the G20 nations.

So… Where are we going wrong?

- Our economic freedom index rating is falling. It shows that economic freedom is down significantly because we are over-taxed and over-regulated.

- The ratio of government spending to GDP is sky high (45% of GDP). We’re losing our free market system because almost half the economy is government spending NOT market driven spending.

- Taxation is at an all time high point. It’s wildly progressive relative to our past and our peers. The top rate of tax kicks in at 3x the average while the USA has a lower top rate that kicks in at 7x the average. Minimum wage is pegged at 60% of the median - one of the highest in the world. All of this is to say that we’re so safeguarded from danger that we can’t actually get ahead!

- Wage suppression through taxation cliffs is holding back productivity.

- We have socialist ideologues in senior roles across government who LOVE the idea of the nanny state. They think economic growth is government growth. They think it’s dangerous for wealth to be in the hands of individuals. They think “wealthy people” are people who “have savings”.

- we have a government that is painfully unaware that new technology erodes the value of jobs at the bottom and increased competition through open-door migration suppresses wages too.

We’re trying to tax the country into growth. It doesn’t work.

Gary wants to create equality by making the country poorer and it doesn’t benefit anyone.

Instead of worrying about inequality we should be focused on making the country richer and raising living standards.

[B @ERBeaumont]

@linmeitalks It’s so difficult to get this even when you meet the criteria. There’s all kinds of hurdles that mean you miss out until the next term etc etc. you need to reconfirm every 3 months! How will it be accessible to that lot in practice unless it’s more accessible for everyone?

[Fink | Markets Talk, We Translate @Fink_Money]

David here.

Since deleting my personal account and having absolutely zero comment or knowledge on anything to do with the UK anymore…

I have a few words for people on X.

You do not need to feed into the negativity of the UK news cycle.

Looking back, I was destroying myself daily because of how angry everything made me.

Probably completely valid, but to what effect?

I felt I had almost a responsibility eventually to add comment, to give my big old bold controversial opinion on things going on.

But all I did was leave myself angry all the time - to what end?

I am back in the UK this week, and I see all the same problems…

So what was I actually trying to change?

I’ve noticed that I have seen said problems but I don’t need to be upset about them because I decided to not have to face them by leaving the country.

Instead, I now spend most days on the beach - here’s Sunday watching the sunset.

Life genuinely is too short to be angry all the time and I was simply feeding my own ego by pushing against the uncontrollable element of an entire society and economy doing silly things.

I now click ‘not interested’ on anything to do with the UK because ignorance truly is bliss and not in a bad way.

[B @ERBeaumont]

@fayeabenaa Southampton Way is not a desirable place to live

[B @ERBeaumont]

@MrHreviews They need someone to watch their kids while they go to their nail apts

[B @ERBeaumont]

@Channel4News This guy is not only completely incorrect, he’s also dangerous. Shame on you for giving this idiot a platform

[Alexander @alexanderrX_]

we don’t need a wealth tax. we have four. income, capital gains, stamp duty, inheritance. at some point the answer to a deficit has to be growth, not inventing a new way to tax the same pound.

[Andy 🗽 @oaedoel]

@PeterMcCormack @garyseconomics Time to wheel out the picture because that was too many words for them to understand.