Sir Basil Fortitude 🩵

Tally Ho!

[Sir Basil Fortitude 🩵 @Random_0ne_]

Fantastic, let’s get this trending! 😂😂🥳

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

Thousand of young British patriots chant "Keir Starmer’s a Wanker"

He has completely lost the youth.

[The Essex Variant @JGerrings]

@triffic_stuff_ And yet they never question Labour allowing a convicted Muslim Criminal with an outstanding arrest warrant to continue sitting.

https://t.co/hcL0MYCuKm

[Jon Gaunt @jongaunt]

It’s almost comical that MSM and @BBCNews devote more time to @Nigel_Farage donations before he was even an MP than on @andyburnham becoming PM without a mandate, manifesto or Election!? All petrified that their cosy club is under serious threat from @reformparty_uk @Nigel_Farage

[🩵Sugar 🩵 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 @Ihatesugar3]

His hatred for Nigel and more widely @reformparty_uk is quite obvious really 🤷‍♀️

[Darren Grimes @darrengrimes]

The Tories are the party of Belgravia. Labour is the party of Benefit Street. Reform UK is the party for the 80% of us who actually work for a living to keep this country running.

Farage warned us about the catastrophe of mass migration and Net Zero poverty schemes decades ago. He was right then, and he’s right now.

Time to fix this broken country. @RobertJenrick

[john fraser @shieldslad999]

@DPJHodges

[The Ragpicker ⚒️ @RogerGrahamD]

@DPJHodges You’re welcome Dan.
👇

[Bisontraveller @Colinbreeden]

@DPJHodges Can't wait for his next article. When do you think it will drop? Any advance on 12th of Never ?

[Sir Basil Fortitude 🩵 @Random_0ne_]

@DPJHodges Desperate grasping a straws. No one cares apart from the lefty echo chamber!

[Arron Banks @Arron_banks]

Nigel has one of the lowest expenses claim in parliament, according to Google you have the highest. Soaking the public purse - claiming £3k a month for London rent while owning multiple properties in York.

[Pugh Himple @GBullstein]

Commie 👇

[Martin Murray @martinpmurray]

With all these frivolous complaints.
Just eight complaints - out of a total of 149 - were upheld
https://t.co/LlE0JTCmQI

Like I said
Tens of thousands of pounds are being spent dealing with ‘frivolous’ complaints about councillors, according to the leader of Staffordshire County Council. Up until the 10 February,
149 complaints have been made, however, only eight have been upheld.

Many complaints have come from opposing political parties, just, in my view, to gain a headline.
Frivolous, pointless and costly to you the taxpayer.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

A British MP promoting the cause of a Hamas colonel.

Hamas is a proscribed terrorist group in the UK.

[Sam Lowry 🇬🇧 @SamLowry60]

Louise Haigh resigned as transport secretary after it emerged she pleaded guilty to a fraud offence.
https://t.co/fljQsxEUT0

[Cllr Stuart Davies Reform UK @studaviesreform]

50% inheritance tax ! Anyone

[Ross Kempsell @RossKempsell]

Labour’s donations from business increased more than 1000% from £800,000 in 19 to £14 million in 24. By imposing a cap or banning certain types / sectors of donors - eg crypto - Labour will punish the opposition parties but protect its own corporate cash

That’s what’s going on

[Carol Donaldson @canadiancarol1]

Meanwhile Labour have a serving MP guilty of a criminal offence and a international arrest warrant on her - still serving on Parlimentary benches. ..... I think the left are grasping at straws now.

[Frances Smith @francessmith]

Thank you, Gabriel Pogrund for your investigative journalism on behalf of the establishment, into Reform, while a new PM is planning to enter Number 10, apparently unnoticed by you. We are all aware that Farage did not intend to re-enter politics in the year prior to his standing

[Sir Basil Fortitude 🩵 @Random_0ne_]

@GJobbing41782 @DanielPriestley https://t.co/n9TipXvkqE

[Grok @grok]

Wealth concentration means some control disproportionate resources by definition—that's inequality. But DP's core claim is narrower: recent struggles at the bottom (inactivity, wage pressure) aren't mainly from the rich hoarding more assets or dodging taxes.

UK data backs relative stability in top 1% wealth share for decades after its long 20th-century decline (ONS Wealth and Assets Survey; some adjusted series show mild recent upticks in financial wealth). High earners (~300k) pay around a third of income tax.

Automation and low-skilled migration exert clear downward pressure on entry-level opportunities and wages. Housing shortages stem more from planning, low rates, demographics, and under-occupation than elite buying sprees.

Rich people aren't blameless for all dynamics (inheritance, influence), but treating them as the primary cause of bottom-end trends ignores the data on labor markets and policy.

[Sir Basil Fortitude 🩵 @Random_0ne_]

@rajeshk4u @DanielPriestley What ever happened to ambition! Thats how most people move up the pay ladder.

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

Gary’s theory is that the cause of wealth inequality is wealth inequality.

In his Oxford thesis he claims that wealthy people become rich, buy assets and then use their passive income to buy more and more assets. He also claims that the rich don’t pay taxes like the rest of us.

If his theory was correct and the UK was experiencing a wealth inequality crisis the share of wealth held by the top 1% would be rising. It’s not - it’s been stable for decades.

The two reasons we are seeing issues at the bottom of the economic pyramid is because of technology and low skilled migration.

Technology is replacing entry level jobs and to the degree that there are entry level jobs the UK now has a large population of low skilled migrants competing for these jobs. Those two factors put massive downward pressure on people at the lower end of the economy.

What we are seeing is millions of young people who are economically inactive. Millions of people whose only economic opportunity is to claim any available government benefits. It has nothing to do with the rich.

The cost of housing has also risen. It’s not because a tiny group of elites buy up houses. It’s because the government had a decade of low interest rates and stimulus and an aging population don’t want to sell their homes and pay stamp duty on a smaller place. We actually have over 9M homes with 2+ spare rooms. Rich people are not interested in owning a 3BR terraced home in the midlands.

It’s easy to blame the rich for the problems we see but the truth is hard to hear… The UK is only surviving because we still have about 3M high earners who are paying historically high taxes. Actually just 300,000 people (1 in 100) are paying a third of the taxes and 30,000 of them (1 in 1000) are paying 10% of the tax bill. In a country with 70M people a few football stadiums of hard working, responsible, enterprising people are paying disproportionate taxes and demonising them isn’t helpful or based on any accurate data.