Sam

Means well.

[Sam @sameggnchips]

Well, folks in the sensible centre - this is the alternative to redistributing wealth. Either we raise taxes on the rich, or we go down the well trodden, bloody path of pretending ‘foreigners’ have taken all the money. This shyster’s guessed which way it’ll go. What will you do?

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

It’s not hard to figure out why Reform is now surging in the polls.

Millions of hardworking, tax-paying, law-abiding people in this country are utterly frustrated & fed-up with the elite consensus that has been imposed on them from above for the last 30 years.

An elite consensus that’s defined by a deliberate and extreme policy of mass, uncontrolled immigration which is making us poorer not richer, is driving crime and ushering in millions of people from culturally inferior and incompatible nations.

An elite consensus that’s given us broken borders which make a mockery of our claim to be a self-governing, sovereign nation, are allowing an assortment of murderers, rapists and criminals onto our streets, and which our so-called “leaders” refuse to fix because they’re more interested in helping strangers than protecting their own citizens and children.

An elite consensus that’s ripped open our economy to a rampant and relentless globalisation that benefits an alliance of urban elites, global corporations and immigrant workers but which is smashing the working class apart and hollowing out our national economy.

And an elite consensus that would rather see Britain waste billions of £££ overseas each year on foreign aid and trying to maintain our failing asylum system than redirect all this money from British taxpayers into fixing Britain and helping British families before reaching out to the wider world.

For much of the last thirty years this broken consensus has been imposed on the Forgotten Majority in this country by both Left and Right, by both Labour and the Tories —by the Uniparty.

They are the architects of the disaster that you see around you today, of the managed decline of a once great and proud nation that you used to know and love but today no longer recognise.

And so just as you’d never invite back an architect who took the home that had been loved for generations and destroyed it the people out there are now starting to reject the architects of what they see around them today —endless, unavoidable, embarrassing, never-ending national decline.

They might not think Nigel Farage has all the answers. They might not think Reform is the perfect vessel. But what unites them is a feeling that is far more powerful than any one leader or party can convey.

“We want our country back”.

This is why we are now starting to see wholesale and historic change in the national polls and, soon, the country. Because what I think we might be about to witness in British politics is not just a revolt against an out-of-touch elite minority but a full scale revolution against the Uniparty and all that it stands for.

-MG

[Sam @sameggnchips]

@annaroseridgway Not the point of the post, but quant researcher is surely a prime job to be replaced by AI.

[Sam @sameggnchips]

@LukeTryl Anyone going to explain why it is so economically illiterate?

[Sam @sameggnchips]

These guys have had their way far too long.

[Tom McPhail @PensionsMonkey]

How is it 65% of our population are so economically illiterate?

[Sam @sameggnchips]

Lol!

[Tom Watson @tom_watson]

He is many things but Keir Starmer is not a liar.

[Sam @sameggnchips]

Counterpoint: it’s beautiful

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

This smarmy Marxist doesn't see taxes primarily as a way to provide necessary public services. He sees them as revenge. He celebrates the confiscation of wealth he did nothing to earn. This is pure class envy, and it's hideous.

[Sam @sameggnchips]

Looks like Starmer’s support network has fully collapsed.

[Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot]

Extraordinary that we apparently live in a world where the prime minister just isn't told that his pick for US ambassador had failed security vetting

[Morten N. Støstad @MortenStostad]

The Norwegian example is illustrative. In the last few years, our wealth tax received massive media attention, described by media outlets as leading to an "exodus" of the wealthy.

But only ~1.7% of the ultra-wealthy actually left. Tax revenue boomed

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

If one of the scariest things you’ve ever seen is a tax on a second home that you don’t live in that’s worth over $5 million, then you’ve lived a very privileged life.

[Seth Bannon @sethbannon]

The far left youth are anti-israel but the least anti-semitic.

The far right youth is anti-israel and the most anti-semitic.

[Sam @sameggnchips]

Fuck yeah! This is how it’s done.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

[Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah]

Is anyone else struck by the way in which Israel's nuclear weapons, which we all know to exist, are implictly deemed not to be capable of deterring Iran, should Iran obtain nuclear weapons of its own? So, er.......

[Buddy Wells @BuddyWells1]

If it looks like a madman, talks like a madman, acts like a madman, then it’s a madman.
If you don’t think this guy looks absolutely nuts, sounds nuts and acts nuts, then you’re being dishonest with yourself.

[Adam Carlson @admcrlsn]

🎯 from Ezra Klein

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

@haveigotnews This is disgraceful, baseless and irresponsible. You should delete this immediately.

[James Foster @JamesEFoster]

@haveigotnews One for your lawyers, @JeremyCorbyn

[Sam @sameggnchips]

Fraser here highlighting the gross modern levels of income inequality

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

When income tax rates were 83%, the best-paid 1% contributed just 14% of all income tax.

Now, the top 1% pay 29% of all income tax.

If you care about outcome rather than signalling (or just bleeding the rich)
today’s lower rate leads to more revenue; better results.

[Yam Peleg @Yampeleg]

The dumbest person you know is being told 'you are absolutely right' by some LLM right now.

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

BBC has now changed this quote without an editor's note or correction. That is egregious journalistic malpractice that needs an explanation.

[Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert]

What will the tech bros do when the AGI tells them that the only rational way to solve the world's problems is communism?

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

Let me translate: the long term plan was always to destroy the Palestinians, their towns and villages, and expand Israel’s border to take land from neighbouring countries and populate it with fascist settlers. The end.