Ollie B

Arsenal fan & dad of 2. Decent...

#BeKind

[Ollie B @obazeley1979]

Worth 5 mins of everyone's time.

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

How do people like Trump, and, for that matter, Johnson get elected? They divide people up. Bernie Sanders could see this 20 years ago.

[Paul Mason @paulmasonnews]

Trump's apparent victory has 5 big implications for the UK: 🧵

1️⃣ It can happen here. He will back Farage, the Musk propaganda machine will crank up against Labour; the Tories will remould themselves into Trump-lite Islamophobes ...

[Ollie B @obazeley1979]

@KhaledBeydoun @owenjonesjourno The irony that Gaza's future is even more bleak with Trump in the White House is not lost on anyone.

[Ollie B @obazeley1979]

@christopherhope @GBNEWS "We are a news channel!"

Or just an irrelevant propaganda tool. 🤷

[Ollie B @obazeley1979]

@arsenaloFka Agree. The words flow nice. Makes it official!

[Ollie B @obazeley1979]

@BinnBoris58587 @PollyRendall @NHSMillion @C4Dispatches @thetimes Don't know what that means. But ok, clearly you don't like facts to get in the way of your opinions.

[Ollie B @obazeley1979]

@BinnBoris58587 @PollyRendall @NHSMillion @C4Dispatches @thetimes And 'hard working'?

Do me a favour.

https://t.co/bIpgLqg8us

[LBC @LBC]

'They consider it work to sit in the Royal Box at Wimbledon - no one else on earth would.'
'Why do we fall for it? Why do we suck it up?'

Jonathan in Croxdale and ＠mrjamesob discuss the Royal Family, as it's revealed they take millions in rent from the NHS and armed forces.

[Ollie B @obazeley1979]

@BinnBoris58587 @PollyRendall @NHSMillion @C4Dispatches @thetimes https://t.co/AtpxRTf2Kc

[Ollie B @obazeley1979]

@fergustp @PollyRendall @NHSMillion @C4Dispatches @thetimes Do they though? It would be interesting to see their tax returns. Oh, they don't disclose them. Funny that.

Look, it's OK to say 'I'm happy they don't play by the same rules because they are Royal', but let's not pretend it is anything else.

[Ollie B @obazeley1979]

@BinnBoris58587 @PollyRendall @NHSMillion @C4Dispatches @thetimes It's a good thing that their tax returns are open for public scrutiny.

Oh.

[Ollie B @obazeley1979]

@BinnBoris58587 @PollyRendall @NHSMillion @C4Dispatches @thetimes Do they pay tax on this private income?

[Tom Baldwin @TomBaldwin66]

The Times splashes on the views of James Dyson who thinks the Budget is really unfair to people like him. That’s a billionaire who backed Brexit then moved his firm to Singapore - and owns more than 30k acres of UK farmland. But you wouldn’t know any of that from this article.

[Chris Giles @ChrisGiles_]

What a bizarre article

Public sector pensions disappear on death and cannot be bequests to kids, so the effective tax rate (if you insist on doing like this)…

…is 100%

[Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole]

The ‘typical 500-acre farm’ that’s referred to in this article is larger than 90% of all farms in England, going by the annual June Survey of Agriculture.

#ClarksonTax

https://t.co/ndkLuHrNsv

[Ollie B @obazeley1979]

@AmeliaRocket1 So true. The whole idea of Royalty is undone by the fable of the Emperor's new clothes.

[Ollie B @obazeley1979]

@fergustp @PollyRendall @NHSMillion @C4Dispatches @thetimes Do they though? It would be interesting to see their tax returns. Oh, they don't disclose them. Funny that.

Look, it's OK to say 'I'm happy they don't play by the same rules because they are Royal', but let's not pretend it is anything else.

[Ollie B @obazeley1979]

@fergustp @PollyRendall @NHSMillion @C4Dispatches @thetimes Funny how the justification on one hand tells us they're landlords / businesses like any other, but then we're told 'no they're not'.

That's gaslighting folks.

https://t.co/bjBLCQzXlj

[Jeremy White @jeremyiwhite]

@NHSMillion I dislike everything the royal family stands for but I don’t see why they should be different to any other landlord - to get a reasonable return for the use of their land

[Ollie B @obazeley1979]

@PollyRendall @NHSMillion @C4Dispatches @thetimes For the record, and for the person who wrote an essay in reply, my question is in response to those suggesting these are 'businesses run like any other'.

Clearly, they are not. And to include the part about the monarch voluntarily paying tax is laughable.

[Ollie B @obazeley1979]

@PollyRendall @NHSMillion @C4Dispatches @thetimes If it's a business, why should they be exempt from corporation tax?

[Ollie B @obazeley1979]

@PollyRendall @NHSMillion @C4Dispatches @thetimes 😂

I'm sure we'd all like this 'voluntary taxation'.

[Ollie B @obazeley1979]

@jeremyiwhite @NHSMillion They don't pay capital gains tax or corporation tax. Don't hide behind the excuse "it's only a business" when they don't play by the rules everyone else has to.