David Foster

Economics. And practicing my Italian by trolling fascist Italian politicians.

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@DrBeauBeaumont 😵‍💫

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@DrBeauBeaumont Someone else had parked in her usual parking space on the street outside

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@jembloomfield Festive or ‘electrical fault, call the fire brigade’

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@lewis_goodall That is a weird chart! Upside down y-axis. Surely Euro per £ is better??

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@createstreets So much, SO MUCH, is possible if we just give ourselves permission to have it. Green beautiful urban spaces with convenient transport.

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@DrBeauBeaumont Fair warning given

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@MrRBourne Given how much money the Russians have been trucking in over the border to buy no votes, I would say this looks like a pretty conclusive result 😂

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@redhistorian No, it is utterly cretinous junk economics. Housing in the UK is scarce and getting scarcer, the quality of the housing stock is deteriorating and we have been getting richer. Simple.

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@EalingCouncil I would like you spend less of taxpayers money on this. Boston Manor Road is fine for cycling.

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@JaneyGodley A fabulous funny icon x

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@MrRBourne Perhaps make a new plan every five years?

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@Aiannucci Glad to see the window of Greggs operating with significantly more integrity than the meat pies trying their flaccid attempt at a riot

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@barry_halverson

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@BBCWomansHour @LorraineELLE @itsanitarani What would these speakers propose instead? Parents enter a lottery each summer to see whether they win access to one of the states price capped holidays to the Algarve?

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@BBCWomansHour @LorraineELLE @itsanitarani Several times in that piece speakers were allowed to assume unchallenged that the problem here is unregulated price increases from holiday companies that shouldn’t be allowed. This is simple supply and demand. Of course holidays are cheaper when fewer people want them.

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@DominicLeslie94 Terrible moderating

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@CutMyTaxUK @DanNeidle 🤦‍♂️

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@CutMyTaxUK @DanNeidle Greenspan wasn’t necessarily wrong. But the profits made on primary residences are the purest of pure windfall gains. Literally no-one deserves that cash, and it is trillions. To conflate that with return on invested capital in enterprises is silly.

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@DanNeidle I would dispute (1) - it’s a paper profit until you sell, with a modest rate I can’t see this being material. I do agree on some complexity- although this is hardly a barrier elsewhere in the tax system. Plus this is the ONE transaction in life that is always assisted by a lawyer