Small State UK

Advocating for a smaller state and more individual freedom and responsibility.
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[Small State UK @smallStateUK]

I've now set up a form for anyone interested in joining the group chat on Signal: https://t.co/LUsCY3QsD0

[Small State UK @smallStateUK]

I'm thinking about building a small group chat on Signal with like-minded small-state conservatives and libertarians. If you're interested, please DM me. It would be a place for people to share news, exchange opinions, recommendations, etc.

[Small State UK @smallStateUK]

@Conservatives And in the time it took you to read this post, our public debt increased by £15,744

[Reem Ibrahim @ReemAmirIbrahim]

California voters have REJECTED a billionaire wealth tax.

❌ 52.8%
✅ 47.2%

Higher taxes don't improve people's lives; free markets do!

[Small State UK @smallStateUK]

The point is that it satisfies people's envy.

[Matthew Lynn @mattlynnwriter]

With reports that HMRC will start photographing people's homes to assess Mansion Tax liability one point is surely clear. A huge amount of money is going to be spent on a tax that will raise almost nothing. What's the point?

[Small State UK @smallStateUK]

Sadly these tricks always work.

[Anthony Boutall @anthonyboutall]

“The state is the great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.”

https://t.co/AUOPq0SBCu

[Small State UK @smallStateUK]

@12thPara @CilComLFC It does not look real. The website is empty. Someone registered the domain and dumped some very messy description on the home page and left every other page empty. https://t.co/yE5kIMOsMw

[Small State UK @smallStateUK]

The housing crisis is manufactured by the British state.

[Ben Hopkinson @Ben_A_Hopkinson]

Government imposed policy costs make up 57% of the clearing price of a new flat in London and 42% of a new home in the Home Counties.

Despite a big housing shortage and positive planning reforms, new home starts in England are declining from 182,000 in 2022 to under 125,000 last year.

While the macroeconomic context has worsened with build cost inflation and high interest rates, the Government is imposing more burdens on new homes, not fewer.

Taxes, levies, planning, and mandates add over £440,000 to the cost of delivering a home in London and nearly £225,000 nearby, with several of these imposed recently like the Second Staircase, Future Homes Standard, Building Safety Levy, Biodiversity Net Gain and Residential Property Developer Tax.

Individually these may be justified, but together they are making new homes unviable.

As a result, large developers are buying less land and small builders are going out of business; nearly 4,000 construction firms went bust just last year.

If we want to build more homes, we should be easing the burdens on them, not adding more.

Making housebuilding viable again is the most important issue in housing policy and my co-author, Edward Donovan, has completed excellent modelling showing how big the challenge is.

Read the full report: https://t.co/NWS58oqbTx

And simulate what changing the policies does with Edward's modelling here: https://t.co/IVrLBax2pz

[POLITICOEurope @POLITICOEurope]

British PM Andy Burnham has been warned by Norway’s leader not to seek to emulate his country’s EU relationship ahead of a summit with European leaders.
https://t.co/i3bh6SWW4Q

[Small State UK @smallStateUK]

@TerraOrBust This lack of democratic accountability is alarming

[Small State UK @smallStateUK]

@GBPolitcs @Telegraph Coming up next: Chinese refugees who sent £22 to Taiwan

[Antonello Guerrera @antoguerrera]

Brexit latest. Via Politico Playbook

[Small State UK @smallStateUK]

This whole article is gold and well worth a read.
https://t.co/XUMIfw0A7t

[Small State UK @smallStateUK]

"The challenge for environmental policy is not to “do more”, but to find ways of making these trade-offs less unpleasant by finding more cost-effective ways of getting carbon out of our production processes. To that effort, the current eco-movement contributes precisely nothing. They simply deny the existence of trade-offs, and instead, catastrophise, hystericise and hyper-moralise the issue." 👏🏻

[Kristian Niemietz @K_Niemietz]

Hence my defence of political apathy:
https://t.co/SReOKehhPT

[Prof on the Right @HigherEdSpeak]

What did communist countries use before candles?

Electricity.

[Small State UK @smallStateUK]

But this doesn't matter. Because facts don't matter to @andyburnham. He made the decision to undo Brexit before he looked at any data. It's an ideological decision - he dreams of a European superstate with authority over everything. It doesn't matter whether that's good for our economy, our freedom, or our future.

[John Redwood @johnredwood]

UK exports to the EU are up 22% since 2019, with exports to non EU up 29%. We export more to non EU than EU, we export more services than goods. UK goods exports to EU are under 6% of our GDP, not the key to UK growth.

[Small State UK @smallStateUK]

Because the rich pay the overwhelming majority of the tax needed to run the bloated state we have. And if they leave, tax revenue actually goes down.

[Riqs @riqsz5]

Why is "the rich will just leave" treated as a good argument against higher taxes?

[Small State UK @smallStateUK]

It's almost like anyone could've predicted this

[GB Politics @GBPolitcs]

🚨 NEW: Labour MPs have summoned c2c rail bosses to explain the worsening train delays following nationalisation

Since being nationalised, the proportion of trains arriving on time has plummeted from 94% to just 71.5%

[@thetimes]

[Small State UK @smallStateUK]

The most relatable one is the gun control one for me. I fully understand the argument for gun ownership, but looking at the US and the amount of shootings they have, it's hard not to argue for better regulation. And considering the government can send a drone to my address to blow me up if they wanted to, or send tanks to my street, the argument of using guns for self-defence from the government doesn't make too much sense these days. I wouldn't want guns banned, just heavily regulated.

[Small State UK @smallStateUK]

@the_tpa Taxpayers shouldn't be funding any charities at all. The government should cut funding for charities, and pass on the savings to the taxpayers in the form of lower taxes. Taxpayers can then CHOOSE the charities they want to support with their money.

[Small State UK @smallStateUK]

@griffitha She's coming back as tea maker so she can finally put her experience at the BoE to use.

[Small State UK @smallStateUK]

If you can vote your way out of it, it's not fascism.