Ben Walker

Policy Wonk & Comms bod. Head of External Affairs. Fmr political staffer & think-tanker @csjthinktank. Tweets on politics, housing, education, social mobility.

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@Simmons__ Basically a stupidity tax of 22%. They’ve not mentioned anything regarding the withdrawal of returns which remains tax free?

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@Frencheconomics I’ve long since thought Bez has been involved in Avanti West Coast

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@MichaelLCrick Or Chief of Staff in Downing St.

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@DonTrumpTracker @grok is this really true?

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@JAHeale ‘Solicitor-led investigation’

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@DavidGauke @_PaulMonaghan @Prosper_UK_ 100%. Not sure why this myth exists that NI contributions sit in a separate govt account and are then drawn down. Revenue collected from NI contributions today pay for the pensions today. People retiring in the future hope future taxes will fund their state pension.

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@Frencheconomics 100% and we’ve overseen a huge increase in the cost of welfare to people of working age. Getting back to even pre-Covid levels would address this ask and some.

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@JAHeale @steve_hawkes I’m not sure the train service between Manchester and London could provide such a triumphalist return for the Mayor of Manchester.

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@CrewkerneGaz @louismosley you might enjoy this 🤣🤣

[Have I Got News For You @haveigotnews]

Kanye West has been banned from entering the UK to play Wireless Festival, as it would have been terrible to have a prominent public figure going round Finsbury Park condoning antisemitism

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I can’t wait to claim I never saw this in 40 years time then demand thousands of pounds in compensation

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@AdamClery They were sold out in various sizes on Monday lunchtime during the pre-release for members.

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@christiancalgie Increase to personal allowances…

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@DanNeidle And from memory isn’t one of the biggest components of this VAT and small business?

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@NUFC Death. Taxes and bloody Danny Wellbeck scoring against us for Brighton 🙄🙄

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@BritainRemade Really positive that more attention is being focused on this. It would be a disastrous move. The Times picked this up in the summer and the figures in that article highlight the scale of the problem.

https://t.co/GFwcNbgFAC

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@jk_rowling Good to know that if identify as a zebra, ‘put in the work’ and paint myself black and white and feel like a zebra I can become one!

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@SavMondo @SkySportsF1 Savage 🤣

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“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” - Evelyn Beatrice Hall

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@SCP_Hughes It’s frightening … this article in The Times covered this a few weeks ago and highlighted that this a 30 fold increase in costs.

@Ben_A_Hopkinson

Housebuilders and steelmakers sound alarm over £1bn landfill tax raid

https://t.co/24iqkB846a