Fiona Banks

#STOPHS2!
#NHSnotHS2
#StopHS2EREWASH

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

Larch is a current UK Political Prisoner.

He was sentenced to 3 years in prison on a charge of ‘public nuisance’ after digging and occupying a tunnel near to an essex oil terminal.

Sentenced in the midst of a prisons crisis in the UK, while prisons are at capacity.

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[Stop HS2 @stophs2]

Residents along the cancelled sections of #HS2 are left in limbo due to safeguarding. #StopHS2
https://t.co/MvrtVze6qi

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

HS2 - Needs MORE money from tax payers! After spending £BILLIONS!

Let’s remind ourselves that they didn’t only spend £100 million on a bat cave that doesn’t work but they also destroyed priceless treasures like this one.

▪️When Mozart was 8 years old this tree was over 40.
▪️When first Steam Engine was patented this tree was 50.
▪️When the Wright Brothers flew the first motorized plane this tree was 180.
▪️Now at aged 300 it was felled for a service road for HS2 … Which has now been cancelled.

You have never been asked to vote on this project. Because you would say no! 🚨

[National Farmers' Union @NFUtweets]

This is the truth about Labour's Budget and the Family Farm Tax.

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

Reform MP James McMurdock (won his seat by 98 votes) did NOT disclose his conviction for assaulting his partner before the GE

He went on to describe it as a "teenage indiscretion"

@thetimes now reveals he "kicked his girlfriend" repeatedly

Thoughts?

https://t.co/H0pwAmjOEo

[Dr. Larch Maxey @LarchMaxey]

Prison bags packed, I just bought a 1-way ticket 2 Basildon 4 my sentencing @thetimes Lawyer of the Week @hodgejonesallen solicitor Raj Chada says I may get 2-3 years 4 peaceful protest! Outraged? Then RT & sign the #WholeTruthFive petition https://t.co/DxO3MzGA0H

[MCheshireAgainstHS2 @mcahs2]

Bill and the newspapers used to tell us he was "Independent" to HS2. Hmmm

[Fiona Banks @FeeeBeee67]

@hwinkler4real Heeeyyyyy 😎👌

[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)

[Paul Jennings @PJennings88]

HS2 celebrates completion of first 16km drive for Chilterns tunnel https://t.co/FKZCOI3shv No mention of the aquifer pollution, damage to groundwater migration, sink holes risking public safety, increase in surface flooding. Ideas for repurposing this white elephant please.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Seriously is this some kind of sick joke.

@SouthernWater say they will stop dumping sh*t into village pond by 2030! WHAT?!!!

PS Southern Water, I'd like a copy of the permit you were issued by the @EnvAgency to dump sewage into this village pond.

https://t.co/Iu5ZnMhin3

[Fiona Banks @FeeeBeee67]

@Feargal_Sharkey @GMB_union @Channel4 https://t.co/NXxxBfa6jr

[Steve 🇺🇸 @SteveLovesAmmo]

They arrested Donald Trump 4 times, gave him 91 charges and fined more than $350 million before a single Jeffrey Epstein client was arrested.

Let that sink in.

[OutofTweet123 @Outoftweet123]

@JenWilliams_FT Again something those of us who have campaigned against #hs2 have been telling the media for years yet the media ignored us!

[Fiona Banks @FeeeBeee67]

"Try to break the head teacher"??? WTF!
How is this measuring the standard of the school? #shameonofsted

[Daniel Kebede @DanielKebedeNEU]

Ofsted inspector: "If we don't try to break the head teacher, how do we know you're strong enough to lead a school?"

At @NEUnion we urge our members to reject the legitimacy of Ofsted by removing all banners, posters and references from school.

We urge any leadership members acting as inspectors to stand down from this role.

Ofsted is not fit for purpose.

[Señor Benso @belebenso]

The size of WCML rail passenger flows into Manchester don't indicate a need for a new #hs2 line, or 400 metre platforms

[Fiona Banks @FeeeBeee67]

So true... 😔😡