Benjamin Nathan

[Benjamin Nathan @foxbenbath]

This disused toilet block in Greville Smyth Park would make a great micropub & cafe, paying for toilets to be reinstated & open to all. I’d love to do this. This park badly needs toilet facilities (as most parks in Bristol do). Who’s the cabinet member for parks @bristolgreen ?

[Benjamin Nathan @foxbenbath]

@Dan4Barnet @thomasforth Well pay for a tram system for Bristol then. ‘We’ve got to..’ YOU’RE THE GOVERNMENT

[Benjamin Nathan @foxbenbath]

Hello @BristolCouncil

[Ben Hopkinson @Ben_A_Hopkinson]

Excellent news! Metro mayors should be able to fund and approve their own trams, light rail, and metros.

This could be a big pro-growth measure that will spark a transport building boom. I’m happy to have played a part in pushing the idea along.

[Benjamin Nathan @foxbenbath]

@J_Elliott94 And what happens when they reach retirement age and can’t afford private rent? Ticking timebomb.

[Benjamin Nathan @foxbenbath]

@LabourGrowth But… you never mention that to pay for this you need pension reform and social care reform. So this is just well written words. When you advocate scrapping the triple lock, and stop obliging councils to pay for care costs but use people’s assets instead then get back to me.

[Henry Hill @HCH_Hill]

My latest paper, for @the_tpa, on how local government is being bankrupted by Westminster's increasingly Enron-like efforts to keep parts of the welfare state off the books, was published this weekend. https://t.co/lugfmVf4M5

[george @StokeyyG2]

This was the moment Exeter City’s backup KEEPER scored a 96th minute equaliser to get a point against 5th place Stockport County…

Absolute SCENES 👏🤣🤣🤣

[Ian L Richardson @ianrich15813274]

Increasingly, the claim 'we voted for Brexit' is misleading, at best. Take my son & elder daughter, 27 & 24, they didn't get a vote in the 2016 Referendum. Their gran & grandad did, but as is the way with these things, they are both dead. How many more years to be asked again?

[Debbie @Dunibear]

Forced to carry on with a broken back…. Whipped over the line for the win… welcome to the chav fest that is the Grand fucking National. RIP Gold Dancer

[Benjamin Nathan @foxbenbath]

@TheRealJamieKay Yes but it’s not to pay for roads etc is it? It’s to pay the monstrous cost of an ageing populations triple lock pensions and NHS. They are piling taxes on everything-business, workers, sales taxes-just to fill this ever gaping hole-because we won’t pay via wealth/inheritace tax.

[Benjamin Nathan @foxbenbath]

@Landeur I really do think that scrapping National Insurance and rolling it into income tax would be a good start too. Stops the ‘paid in’ illusion of a pot. Then give people multiple employment contribution options. Make work the answer.

[Tom McPhail @PensionsMonkey]

Left unchecked, the Triple Lock will consume the entire known universe, it is an unsustainable transfer of wealth from people in work to the retired. It has to stop.

https://t.co/BBjdOjicJs

[Benjamin Nathan @foxbenbath]

@LabourTogether @Helen_Barnard Until you tell everyone what % tax of property value you propose (and how you will calculate property value) then this is just well meaning words. Is it 0.1% or 4% etc ?

[Benjamin Nathan @foxbenbath]

@123db_GEEK @Bikery1966 As as easily as you carry 3…

[Andrew Kersley @AndrewKersley]

I spent last few weeks speaking to breweries on the Bermondsey Beer Mile for @_TheLondoner about the chaos each Saturday when they're descended on by hordes of coked up Home Counties lads.

Expect insane tales of vomit, pelted cakes and tampon artworks.

https://t.co/z41TJP9EnI

[Benjamin Nathan @foxbenbath]

@PNH_Hotelier @StAustellBrew @Keir_Starmer @RachelReevesMP @UKLabour Have you seen the St Austell leased & tenanted price list? I’d dare any St Austell BDM to publish one publicly…

[Benjamin Nathan @foxbenbath]

@LaraInCornwall It’s hugely frustrating. But it’s also the consequences bill arriving for the triple lock, social care, and Covid. They should tax wealth, but they promised not to tax work, so they are taxing businesses and lifestyles.

[Sapporo 🇬🇧 🐘🌲 @landofangle]

Supermarket beers are in full crisis mode. ABVs are through the floor for tax purposes, glucose syrup, flavourings, and fermentation agents are being added everywhere. Nearly all foreign beers are now brewed in the UK. Completely different stuff to five years ago.

[Horace Goodwill, tonicke purveyor 🇵🇸 @eff_hey]

it really is Pure Starmer to have a by all accounts quite successful visit to China and then immediately find yourself stepping on the Mandelson Rake that your in-house Wormtongue already had you step on last year

[WSTA @wstauk]

UK paying highest wine taxes in Europe thanks to alcohol duty rise.

But no-one is benefitting Treasury coffers are down and businesses are struggling.

No more tax hikes 🛑

https://t.co/LKfqJ2lq9k