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[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

Abolishing this nonsense will have so many cascading good effects, for every generation.

Allowing for much more desired relocation and reallocation. Older people downsizing without the penalty. More young couples getting their first home.

Then the huge multiplier effects in fitting out those new homes, great for local businesses and trades large and small. If there ever were a single tax to abolish above all others, it’s this one.

Instead we’re killing the economy with this tax and many others like it, only to piss away all they collect on a ballooning benefits bill.

[Kosher @koshercockney]

Well, well, well.

There’s always a tweet.

[Tarka B-Bruce 🗽 @tarkabbruce]

@tolad_ Absolutely tragic. Many years in prison and it must come with 2 lifetime bans

[Tarka B-Bruce 🗽 @tarkabbruce]

If I had to guess, I’d have said there are more types of tax!

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

The UK now has 90 taxes (more than any time since 1843).

Germany raises more tax than the UK, but with only 60 taxes.

France raises a bit more than that, but has 348.

What's going on? And what can we learn?

[Tarka B-Bruce 🗽 @tarkabbruce]

@JackBMontgomery Using farmland for houses is definitely better than using it for solar farms though!

[Tarka B-Bruce 🗽 @tarkabbruce]

This couldn't be a clearer example of how inefficiently the state handles money

[Financial Times @FT]

Providers charge the state an average of £384,020 per child per year, a huge rise from a decade ago. That is multiple times the cost of the country’s most prestigious boarding schools such as Eton College and of its young offenders institutions. https://t.co/jkHA8lXB9t

[Ian Leslie @mrianleslie]

One of the most well established effects in housing economics yet governing class almost completely ignorant of it https://t.co/7KjzcVSfRS

[NeoTraditional Architecture Memes @VicctorianChad]

Britain really needs to ban those dreaded PVC Windows

[Tarka B-Bruce 🗽 @tarkabbruce]

@OS_Architects Very nice. I think it needs a bit more detail around the windows ideally

[Robert Kwolek @RobertKwolek]

The image on the left is a real place. One of the most pernicious things repeated in some quarters is that what buildings look like doesn't matter, only urbanism. Here's the same urbanism. One is dystopian and soul crushingly ugly. The other would be a nice place to live.

[Dominic Cummings @Dominic2306]

Hey @Morrisons I will never buy ONE thing from you ever again unless this guy, trying to stop shoplifting, is reinstated.
RETWEET IF YOU AGREE

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

Why does none of the new housing development outer Cambridge has seen in the last twenty years look anything like this?

This is how you do it.

[Tarka B-Bruce 🗽 @tarkabbruce]

@DanNeidle @Heccles94 Please could you do it for us Dan?

[Robert Kwolek @RobertKwolek]

There's a pavement near me which the tree roots have seriously raised up. One has to step over it. Many councils would consider chopping the tree down.
Instead, why not fill the area with bountiful planting and create a pavement bypass. More function and more beauty.

[Merryn Somerset Webb @MerrynSW]

So very modern Britain. £180m spent. Result: absolutely nothing at all.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

He wants to deploy UK forces we don’t have to keep oil and gas flowing 3,000 miles away but forbids any new investment in our sector of the North Sea. Bonkers.

[Looking for Growth @lfg_uk]

France: PLEASE USE MORE ENERGY – WE HAVE TOO MUCH.

UK: If you reduce your boiler temperature, you can save £100 a year.

[JOHN NICOLSON 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @MrJohnNicolson]

“Beyond repair.” “Can��t be done.” “Ready to collapse.”

#Glasgow

Burlington Arcade London. 1945 & 2025

[Tarka B-Bruce 🗽 @tarkabbruce]

@VadimYuryev I think this is a genius way over time to push all prices up

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

I don’t think the average Brit realises that this year we are spending the equivalent of the entire NASA budget on benefits uplifts alone…