Most of the country is a net taker, and almost nobody in Westminster will say it out loud.
A single person stops being a net cost to the British state at around £43.5k.
A couple, £65k.
A family of four, £105k (likely higher).
The median household only earns £35k.
Everything I've written since the autumn back to back, is really all one argument — culminating in this: Britain spends more every year to stand still, on a base that can pay less every year, and borrows the gap from a market now billing by the week.
£9 trillion of housing wealth that is really forty years of cheap credit, repricing so quietly nobody feels poorer.
A migration bill of £40 billion a year, every year, to import labour for the jobs the machines take first.
A few thousand people who staff the state, the boardroom, the regulator AND the pension fund, and bill you three times over.
An AI dividend that lands in California while the redundancies land in Surrey.
A bond market that no longer gives you decades.
None of it new. A book from 1973 named it the fiscal crisis of the state: two bills no government can put down, keep the economy profitable and keep the people quiet, on revenue that was never going to cover both.
“Gradually, then suddenly.”
The whole thing, seventeen pieces joined up: https://t.co/6LhJ3HCXdg
@Enjala_007@EduardoHagn True but the prem is too physical for him to stay healthy. He would do better in Spain regarding his health. If they will pay 50-60 I say let him go.
@Zero_logic_0@AFC__Alex__@EduardoHagn It hasn’t been great in the prem. In the Spanish league he would do much better on fitness- with that said when he’s fit he’s been amazing going forward. I’ve wanted to see him at Cb more to see his passing from inside but in the outside he’s been amazing
@HandofArsenal Tell ya this the paramount announcers couldn’t be more anti arsenal- with that said I couldn’t be more proud of this TEAM. ONE big moment and we are built for this. Looks like Eze is coming on. Love it
Six weeks.
SIX FLIPPING WEEKS.
Lucy has not heard our voices. She hasn't slept on her rug. She hasn't gone for a ride in the truck. She hasn't been snuggled by her family, played with Lex, or run free in her own field.
SIX WEEKS.
She's been locked in a tiny cell, sleeping on concrete, likely wondering why we abandoned her.
SIX WEEKS.
She's eleven years old. She doesn't have endless time ahead of her. She could get sick. Her health could fail. Every day matters.
And while everyone moves at a snail's pace, without a care in the world, time keeps slipping away from MY DOG—the dog who was taken because a petty neighbor decided to call the authorities when she slipped out of her collar in our OWN YARD!
This wasn't some outrageous act! This wasn't a purposeful violation of anything and didn’t cause incident. This wasn't the terrifying incident the neighbors or government would like people to believe it was.
It was a normal, everyday occurrence that happened on our private property!
We could have lied. We could have denied it happened. No one had proof otherwise:
But that's not who we are.
So for six weeks, my Lucy—my eleven-year-old dog who stood watch over our family through deployment after deployment, who kept me company during the lonely nights when I watched the news and wondered if my husband would make it home alive—has sat in prison.
This is a sick abuse of the law, and an innocent animal is paying the price.
Not for biting someone.
Not for attacking someone.
Not for leaving and roaming the neighborhood.
For being in her own yard.
Let that sink in.
And because malicious neighbors refused to mind their own business, and because officials with the power to do the right thing have refused to exercise any bit of common sense, she remains there.
They make me sick.
The abuse of power makes me sick.
The character assassination makes me sick.
The lies make me sick.
The fact that people who have never met us, never spoken to us, and don't know the first thing about our family have spent years trying to destroy our peace makes me sick.
Enough is enough!
Let Lucy come home already! Is this really the hill anyone wants to die on? It’s a single dog. It’s an average family. Send her back and leave us alone. That’s all we want.
And for those who have participated in this injustice—whether through malice, cowardice, pride, or indifference, know this:
God sees every bit of it.
He knows the truth.
And one day, every one of us will answer to Him.
Until our Lucy is home and beyond. We will not stop fighting.
#savelucy