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[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Mick Lynch wants a progressive wealth tax with the richest paying the same as everyone else on PAYE, 47%.

That would bring in hundred of billions, it is time for the richest to pay what everyone else has been paying their whole lives.

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Andrew Tate announces he wants to 'run' for British PM...

And misspells Britain

Good morning everyone!

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Jeff Bezos has forced The Washington Post - the newspaper he owns - to not publish a political cartoon critical of Donald Trump because he's worried about his government contracts.

RETWEET if you think @JeffBezos is a disgrace to democracy!

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

This is Ann Telnaes, a longtime political cartoonist for the Washington Post. She resigned yesterday after owner Jeff Bezos blocked her cartoon critical of billionaires for bowing down to Donald Trump.

RETWEET if you stand with @AnnTelnaes against Jeff Bezos!

[Sophy Ridge @SophyRidgeSky]

For me there’s only one contender for Person of the Year.
Gisele Pelicot.
The woman who has recalibrated how we think about rape by refusing to feel shame.
“It’s time we change the way we look at rape”, she said outside the court today.
And…more than anyone I can think of… she’s done that.
“Shame must change sides”, she said, and perhaps – perhaps – that is a little more true today than it’s ever been.
But there’s something else that I want to talk about. Something that’s much more difficult to confront than the inspiration and dignity of Gisele Pelicot.
51 men.
51 men who are not all men… but who are also quite a lot of men. 51 of them in fact.
And if you read about them… their backgrounds… their jobs… their families or lack of family… they’re all quite different.
A firefighter…a nurse… an unemployed alcoholic.
Some were abused as children. Some had comfortable upbringings with kids of their own.
Six had domestic violence convictions. 45 didn’t.
One was 27. Another was 74.
There’s no pattern here. Nothing we can point to. Other than the fact there is no profile of a rapist. Which is perhaps the most frightening thing of all.

[AlexandruC4 @AlexandruC4]

Sharon Stone says Trump won because Americans ‘don’t travel & are uneducated.’
“Keep them away from your daughters, your wives, & your girlfriends.”

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

The irony is that Trump’s 34 felony convictions would prevent him from getting a job at McDonald’s.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

England university tuition fees could rise 13.5% to £10,500.

Student debt £240bn. Interest rate 7.3%, would double debt every 10 years.

Young people financially disabled.

Most European Countries do not charge Uni fees.

Abolish Uni fees, write-off debt.
https://t.co/ZfS9xvUW9q

[Bewildered 🇪🇺 @bewildermoo]

@Martin_Abrams @Keir_Starmer @UKLabour what the hell are you doing ? Sort your shit out now for working families & young people so they can have the opportunity to go to university. I did not vote for this !!

[Sharon Graham @UniteSharon]

The 50 richest families in Britain worth £500billion. That's the same amount of money that half of Britain is worth. A 1% tax on the top 1% in society could raise around £25billion a year. #WealthTax | Andy Green: Chair @unitetheunion Executive Council ⤵️

[Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal]

I recently paid my painter £30 per hour.

He did a good job - better than I could have.

It then dawned on me that he earns more than the vast majority of healthcare and education staff.

Quite something, how little we value those that look after our lives and our kids’ futures?

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Susanna Reid, "Labour are adamant the winter fuel policy is the right thing to do.. They were forced into it"

Carol Vorderman, "I don't think they are forced into it, they absolutely aren't forced into it"

"I'm shocked quite frankly that a Labour government has suggested this.. I think this could be their Poll Tax moment and very on"

Ed Balls, "Your book reads like a diary, with a ten point manifesto"

Carol Vorderman, "As a for instance. Private Equity managers in the tax year 2020/21 they earned £2.7 billion.. 255 of them.. Over £10m on average each.. But they don't pay 45% tax like somebody earning over £100,000.. They pay just 28% tax... In one year, that could be £600-700 million extra into the coffers of the treasury.. So why hasn't Rachel Reeves started on that?"

"Capital Gains.. We saw Rishi Sunak put his tax return forward.. He paid on average 22-23% because it was largely capital gains.. If you are an income earner it would have been 45%"

[Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal]

Just a thought, but if Energy was nationalised (or just a bit less greedy) there would be no need for pensioners to receive a winter allowance!

[Jo Whitehead 🕷 @Jo_WhiteheadUK]

Imagine if the energy companies were made to give £200-£300 credit to pensioners instead... it would cost them £2bln - it wouldn't even make a dent in their collective £61 billion profit 🤔

[Amnesty UK @AmnestyUK]

🚨BREAKING: 179 health workers gathered outside St Thomas’ Hospital to demand the release of the 179 Palestinian health workers held in secret detention by Israeli forces.

These brave health workers were taken by Israeli forces while risking their lives to provide medical care.

[LBC @LBC]

'150,000 pensioners could keep their winter fuel allowance if King Charles did not have a 50% pay rise.'

'What a nation of obedient serfs we are, just sucking this up.'

'A 50% pay rise - for 15% less work.'

＠Matthew_Wright reacts to the King receiving another £45m.

[Alethea Bernard @Tush27J]

Morning all
I am going to repeat this again. MPs claimed nearly £200 million in expenses over the last 3 years. Why is it their electricity, gas, council tax, and contents insurance for second homes is paid for by us, the taxpayers?
#GMB #BBCBreakfast

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Ofcom have 12 different investigations running on GB News, but have admitted that they can't or won't actually do anything.

What is the point in paying CEO Dame Melanie Dawes £315,000 a year to do nothing?

Do something, or get rid of Ofcom.

[Claire 💙 @clairebubblepop]

Oh fuck off, Starmer is not the worst PM of the modern age. Are you joking? It’s a been a matter of weeks and you are blaming him for what 14yrs of Tory rule decimated. Look I don’t agree with everything Labour does but for REAL, the state of country is not Labours fault… the 14yrs of Tory govt has rinsed the country dry. Get a fucking grip.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Twitter has marked this video of Feargal Sharkey attacking the Water Companies as 'sensitive'.

You know what to do.