@DanNeidle @wethinkpolling Thought on a 'luxury' rate of VAT? Are you generally in favour? What rate? Which products should be included? (Cars over Β£60k? Jewellery? Ferrero Rocher? iPhones? Percy pigs!?)
When Jeff Brown calls time on his 21-year stint with the BBC tonight there wonβt be a dry eye in the house. @SimonTheQT caught up with the popular Wearsider ahead of his final @BBCNEandCumbria appearance. FREE TO READ: https://t.co/DMCiu7jxgu
@DanielCochlin I just love that you start tweets with "We in the North". We've got you. Your kids will come in from school and ask what's for tea rather than dinner. And maybe get scurvy.
π§΅RISING INTEREST RATES ARE A BIGGER DEAL THAN YOU MIGHT THINKπ§΅
This is important (hence the caps).
Iβm a bit worried people are being WAY too complacent about rising interest rates.
They assume that because theyβre so low now vs the 1990s, thisβll be a walk in the park.
NO.
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The inconvenient truth about climate change is that solving it will involve digging, blasting & leaching more minerals from the skin of this planet than ever before.
No one much likes to talk abt this.
But talk about it we must.
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NEW HELP TO BUY DATA INCOMING: Homes England has published its annual accounts. Not the most thrilling news? Think again. It's the only chance we get to see how Help to Buy Equity Loan redemptions are going. A thread on how the Government's loan book is performing...
Derby County begin life in the third tier with the visit of Oxford United at Pride Park π π
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@MMcminty@JulieHa74449986@Peston@RishiSunak Yep, as Toby Ziegler said of social security: "when the baby boomers retire there'll only be 2 people working
for every retiree, down from 42 workers per retiree when the system started"
You'd think @bbcquestiontime audiences would reflect the local views, not the national position from the last election. That wasn't the Newcastle I live in, where you're more likely to find a dancing teapot than a Tory MP #bbcqt
I was in the #bbcqt audience tonight thankfully hidden away at the end of an aisle! We were told beforehand the audience was proportionately Conservative because of the Tory majority government. It was cringe π¬ hard to explain. @annakerr_ however was brilliant π check her out