partyringdan

Baked goods, hand driers, country music, dogs and terrible gambling.

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

This is it. The freeze disproportionately hits the highest earning 20%. Doesn’t really touch the top 1%.

We’ve accidentally created a unique kind of progressive taxation aimed at those earning about £50k to 150k

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

NEW - we've data showing huge numbers of people reducing their income to avoid high marginal income tax rates. Not just at the £100k point (as previously reported). But at the £50k point:

[Christopher Snowdon @cjsnowdon]

I like Wes Streeting when he’s angry.

[The Secret Accountant @TheSecretAcct]

This is ridiculous @RachelReevesMP

Imagine you were earn £99,000 and you are given a £2000 pay rise. Depending on your circumstances, it could cost you £27,000.

@ajbell

https://t.co/kW7v8buqMc

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

I'm being sued for £8m, in what I believe is one of the largest English libel claims ever made.

In the interests of transparency, I'm publishing all the documents here: https://t.co/y4vhem3IgD

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

Millions of UK citizens express deep concern over a major change to their basic rights … the government responds with pure contempt and arrogance.

[Dystopian Times @DystopianTimes_]

What digitial IDs can’t do:

- stop illegal immigration
- stop crime
- help the poor
- save money
- make your life easier

What digitial IDs can do:

- make billions for the people who operate them
- jeopardise your personal data, leaving you exposed to identity theft and blackmail
- stop working due to hacks, system crashes and technical glitches
- end your right to privacy
- enable the government to spy on you, recording your movements, shopping habits, social media contacts, social media posts, DMs, phone calls, text messages, emails, personal photos and videos, and even access your camera and microphone
- pave the way for authoritarian measures through constant surveillance, punishing wrong think and pre-crime
- switch off your access to anything that in future requires them, which could include anything from internet access to driving your car to using your bank account

Literally nobody voted for this…

[Christopher Snowdon @cjsnowdon]

Interesting community note!

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

3. ⁠this is not the moment for an incredibly expensive increase in state surveillance infrastructure to be run for profit by private tech firms just before Labour ushers in an (even more) authoritarian right wing government.

FIX THE GODDAMN COST OF LIVING INSTEAD YOU FREAKS.

[Suzanne Evans @SuzanneEvans1]

Labour lied.

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

The Government's plan for mandatory digital ID must be stopped in its tracks.

In the PM's own book, he discusses Article 8 of the ECHR: The right to respect for private and family life, home and correspondence.

See here. 👇

[Christopher Snowdon @cjsnowdon]

1,228,727 signatures and rising fast 👍 https://t.co/AllVAU5DnG

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

You can fuck right off. I certainly do not remember voting for this:
https://t.co/Wx4qlx0iTo

[Samson @awildsamson]

@GBPolitcs For anyone interested:

https://t.co/4y3oRNqVqN

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

A worrying amount of people in the UK forget this:

[James Esses @JamesEsses]

The British police are forever telling us that they don’t have sufficient resources to investigate serious crimes, ranging from burglaries to fraud to knife crime.

Yet, they can send 5 armed officers to arrest Graham Linehan for posting something on social media.

Dark times.

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

It doesn't matter what you think of Graham Linehan's views, this is an insane level of overreach and a complete waste of police time.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

It is one of the great scandals of our time.
Drax, which generates electricity by burning trees imported as pellets from North America, is more expensive than gas, more polluting than coal and more dependent on imports than oil.
Yet it is, incredibly, designated as ‘sustainable biomass’, pocketed £870m in subsidies last year and will likely trouser another 2 billion subsidies over the next four years – all to allow Ed ‘The Zealot’ Miliband to include Drax in his net zero calculations.
Not just a scandal but an expensive scandal for the taxpayer.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

Is Ricky Jones's acquittal for urging people to slit the throats of anti-immigrant protestors an example of 'two tier' justice, given Lucy Connolly got 31 months for a single tweet she deleted within hours and then apologised for?

The two cases aren't directly comparable since they were charged with different offences and he pleaded not guilty whereas she pleaded guilty.

However, Ricky Jones was granted bail and Lucy Connolly wasn't. Had she been, she would have been more likely to plead not guilty and might well have been acquitted, just as Jamie Michael was when charged with a similar offence which he pleaded not guilty to.

The fact that the jury in Ricky Jones's case acquitted him is good news. Juries, it seems, are reluctant to convict people for speech offences, even when they use violent, inflammatory language. The Crown Prosecution Service should take note.

[James Schneider @schneiderhome]

Obvious case where a minister should immediately resign 👇