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Which of them is not a property portfolio speculator like Blair? As in 2008, so in 2026: chaos with worse to come UNTIL governments address #RentExtraction by phasing out taxes on wages, trade and capital investment in productive activity in favour of RENT, the UK net income.
Before the last UK election, I wrote to Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves to warn them of what was going to unfold in 2026. I said they were better off losing the election. Otherwise, they would get the blame…They took no notice. Now they are paying the price.
Happy 2026? 🤔
What to expect from UK governance—
a) DESPERATE acts to reward #RentSeeking
b) DENIAL of the imminent #RentSeeking bust
c) DISMISSAL of the #AnnualGroundRent tax reform
d) DISASTER as the policy of enabling private #RentExtraction breaks the economy and society ⏰
#RentSeeking and #RentExtraction... do you happen to know anything about these, Ms Reeves?
You signed up with the neocon-neoliberal club whose members swear by these principles, and live by feeding on wealth produced by others.
Is this really what you intended⁉️
BTW Ms Reeves, wealth taxes are a complete cop-out unless they distinguish between earned and unearned wealth. And if you find that distinction confusing you'll need to check out the nature of #RentExtraction PDQ — or deliver a Budget with near-zero positive effects. 💷
The worldwide depression of 2028 is now locked in [Harrison]. Only World Wars disrupted the cycle in the 20th c. So the question now is how to survive with no government help. Assuming they continue to license #RentExtraction, can we survive as far as the following #Bust2042? 🪖
Q. What does current Westminster failure say about its despatch box slagging matches?
A. Until they start shouting about legalised land and natural resource #RentExtraction, they are exercises in diverting attention from the activities of the #Rentseeking fraternity.
The effects experienced in the US rustbelt are duplicated in the UK for the same reason: governments love to keep approving private #RentExtraction. Electoral hope is excited then dashed as each fails in turn. #AGR has to replace the wage, trade and improvement taxes.
Dear Ms Reeves,
Please remember today's production taxes combined with government-approved private location #RentExtraction produce only a downward spiral of socio-economic stagnation and unrest featuring opposing polarised camps: #TheDispossessed versus #PrivilegedFreeriders 😕
It's not that Reeves is powerless to halt the destruction. The deadweight taxes beloved of UK governments are chosen at every Budget.
Why?
So that private location and natural resource #RentExtraction can continue to enrich its privileged collectors.
@agr_slrg The most heavily taxed form of energy is human energy.
Addressing a packed Glasgow city hall, #HenryGeorge suggested a sheep motif would better reflect Scots' cap-doffing response to 1884 poverty than our famed lion rampant.
In 2025 Holyrood remains silent in the face of private location and natural resource #RentExtraction. 🐑
Labour's first Chancellor of the Exchequer knew what needs to be done. Reeves and Starmer hate this because their prime interest is in facilitating speculative #RentExtraction which they laughably interpret as investment in productivity.
It ain't.
Scots, such as Elgin's own William Ogilvy, long ago unmasked the destruction arising from legalised #RentExtraction, often risking execution at the hands of vested interests. But today Scots still decline to collect the #LocationRent for the community. More fool us!
We've carefully devised a tax system that shunts produced wealth to non-producers.
Thus we have
⚠️much of the UK impoverished
⚠️#superprofits (#RentExtraction)
⚠️social dislocation, homelessness and unrest
⚠️disillusionment as work is punished
⚠️debt portrayed as a prime virtue
What might have been and still can be for Scotland...but only IF we choose to fall out of love with private location and natural resource #RentExtraction ⚠️
🇳🇴 Norway took its oil wealth and built the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund — investing in pensions, healthcare, and the future.
🇬🇧 Britain sold ours off in the 1980s, handed control to private corporations, and spent the revenues on short-term tax cuts.
🔴 Today, Norway has one of the highest standards of living in the world — while the UK is stuck managing decline.
🔵 Thatcher’s Conservative govt was responsible for handing over control of North Sea oil to private corporations, dismantling public ownership, and prioritising free-market policies over long-term public wealth.
Thatcher forfeited long-term public income from oil in favour of short-term privatisation proceeds and tax cuts.
🔴 Norway, by contrast, retained public control and built up the $1.6 trillion Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund from its oil wealth. The UK spent most of its oil revenues on general government spending during the 1980s, with little legacy investment.
Having secured "full powers over all rates and thresholds" in 2016 why did Holyrood simply rubber-stamp Westminster's #StealthFreeze on Income Tax thresholds? MSPs increased both the deadweight effect on people's drive to be productive; and #RentExtraction by society's parasites.
Robin McAlpine says Scotland is turning into a country of corruption after Flamingo Land gets waved through after repeated rejections and opposition from the community.
Can we survive governance by parties which all agree that the policy destroying us will be our salvation?
Legalised private and corporate #RentExtraction.
Is #Rustbelt EU&UK's "coalition of the willing" a last-ditch attempt to sustain the gov't-approved private #RentExtraction model for a few more months?
https://t.co/zAavNblVw5
Territory yields #LocationRent and #NaturalResourceRent.
Putin wants more of both.
Trump wants more of both.
Europe condones private #RentExtraction.
UK condones private #RentExtraction.
The destructive ideology is held in common.
1. #LocationRent and #NaturalResourceRent are OURS.
2. Society's half of gross output.
3. Prosperity will mushroom when we cancel the self-inflicted deadweight losses suffered while taxing work and trade—productivity.
4. Choose that or the attrition of private #RentExtraction.🐈⬛
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