Christiana Brockbank

Writer/Performer, @annepcrowther Impersonator. BAFTA Rocliffe New Comedy Writing winner. Chorts! Winner and Funny Women Content Creator Award nominee.

[Christiana Brockbank @XmasBrickbat]

What a month @AnnePCrowther has had on #instagram, she’s gone from 200 followers to 8.5k and has just hit 2 million views on one of her videos 🤯🤯🤯

If you’re on insta, please have a look and maybe give her a little follow: https://t.co/sf61TQLB68 #comedyreels

[Christiana Brockbank @XmasBrickbat]

It’s been a very hard six months and I still have a lifetime of grieving to get through but writing this, along with cooking and comedy is helping get me through:

https://t.co/sAKvxC8WvZ

[Christiana Brockbank @XmasBrickbat]

@GarryVaux Wait sorry isn’t that what you’re supposed to do anyway so the bin lorry drivers can see the numbers in their rear view mirrors?

[Christiana Brockbank @XmasBrickbat]

I bought sticky numbers to put on my wheelie bins yesterday. And that’s the moment I realised my clubbing days are over

[Anne Crowther @AnnePCrowther]

V - O - T - E #generalection2024

[Sam Freedman @Samfr]

Love the election morning traditional of intensely politically engaged people telling each other to vote on social media.

[Anne Crowther @AnnePCrowther]

Now I’m no political expert but surely Rishi should have thought of this? #generalelection #ukpolitics

[Christiana Brockbank @XmasBrickbat]

Predicting what the UK jury vote will be like this year #Eurovision #joannalumley

[Christiana Brockbank @XmasBrickbat]

LUMLEY.

#joannalumley #impersonation

[Christiana Brockbank @XmasBrickbat]

@Cassiesmyth @ReelBrum @flatpack @BrennanReece @WaistHighView Oh I am so excited to see this!

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

I was interested to see some on here asking "why should a rich person pay more for the same services than a poorer person?" on the back of council tax/poll tax discussions. Now of course no one likes tax, but we need to understand it, so I wanted to bash out my quick, unpolished thoughts on tax in general.

Of course tax should be minimised, spent wisely, efficiently and productively. I'm opposed to punitive taxation ie just for the sake of punishing those with more - even though it doesn't help or raise more revenue.

Yet for me, tax is the cost of living in a legitimate civil society. It should pay for society's law and order, defence, hospitals, education, rubbish collection, legal aid, social care for our elderly, state pensions, special ed needs, disability protection, medical care and help for those who can't help themselves and more.

So it's the cost of being part of both broad national and narrow local communities - hopefully for the collective betterment of all.

If you were simply to say "you only pay for what you use" that isn't tax, that's service provision. Never mind the tricky questions of how you assign the cost of things like defence or policing (some may say that view'd mean if your house burnt down the fire brigade should bill you after).

As for why a rich person pays a more. Well because if you take £500/mth poll tax off someone who earns £1,000/mth it's crippling, off someone who earns £100,000/mth it's hardly noticed, and they still have far more disposable income.

And so if you tax everyone an equal amount, when it has a disproportionate and more damaging effect on those with less, then you start to move people into desperate situations, which risks higher crime, less safe streets, social unrest and eventually societal breakdown.

So I am generally in favour of progressive taxation, which means those say with more income , pay a reasonable higher proportion of tax, because they can afford to.

After all those who are more affluent, have broader shoulders, and have likely made money from society as a whole - and a well functioning society is needed for wealth creation.

PS I've been deliberately unspecific here, this isn't about supporting one structure of tax, just being about tax as a concept.

And equally I think tax planning is fine (ie working within the rules to minimise tax - often because you're doing something the state is trying to encourage you to do - like save in an ISA or invest or put money aside for your future)

[Christiana Brockbank @XmasBrickbat]

@jonaird Pipes!

[Christiana Brockbank @XmasBrickbat]

@lornlornlors Ahhh this is so exciting! Can’t wait to hear it! X

[Lou Taylor @LouTaylorTrash]

Teenagers dating

[Mark O'Sullivan @immarkosullivan]

I don't often offer advice on writing/creating stuff for TV, as my imposter syndrome regularly claims Squatters Rights in my brain. But nice people have been asking me (fools!) so fuck it. Here's a little list I might add to occasionally... #WritingforTV

[Christiana Brockbank @XmasBrickbat]

Always brings a tear to my eye 😢 #parenting #mums #toddlerlife

[Cassie @Cassiesmyth]

I'm not sure about these #RishiSunak

[Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman]

Surely if the mainstream media wanted to silence any voices in particular it would be Martin Lewis the Money Saving Expert

[Christiana Brockbank @XmasBrickbat]

Someone on Reddit called this “Boomer comedy” 😭

[Anne Crowther @AnnePCrowther]

Half off cardis at Primark… but at what cost??

#Shrinkflation strikes again 😤

[Christiana Brockbank @XmasBrickbat]

@Cassiesmyth I keep getting these too. I am thinking about asking to speak to the manager.

[Christiana Brockbank @XmasBrickbat]

Going to get a bloody nosebleed up here #emergencychairs #peterkay #betterlatethannever