@cornwall70001@NeilForPoole I really can’t believe the low IQ of labour MPs. Why stop at £15? why not make the minimum wage £20 or £200? the real minimum wage is zero. I am not going to hire someone economically unviable - but as a taxpayer, I’m gonna end up paying for their unemployment!
@Novarcharesk3@2dgamemania@thecoastguy Too transparent. Monero is better as it doesn’t allow people to see your entire balance - or what you spent your cash on.
@DavidDavisMP Really stupid idea! They are either qualified to drive or they’re not. I learned more by having experienced drivers beside me because it stopped me getting into bad driving habits by being inexperienced and alone! Pathetic example of Uni-party over regulation yet again!
So I tried to build a tech company from Norway and here’s what happened:
1. Two years of building without almost any money/funding, better part of a year without salary
2. Raise VC and become one of Norway’s first unicorns
3. Face unrealized gains wealth tax bill of many x my annual net salary. ofc the company is loss making and all the investors have preference shares so I can’t take out any money.
4. Call out publicly that this does not make sense. Independent of level, taxation needs to happen when you actually make money.
5. I move to Switzerland because no politician cares/listens.
6. I still don’t get any tangible and sensible answers to my criticism of unrealized gains tax, BUT I do get put up on the “wall of shame” at the socialist parties offices…
I’m Norwegian and I love Norway but the socialist politicians are taking the country down a dark path. It’s a real life Atlas Shrugged.
If the Tories are sticking to the 2030 ICE ban then the economy is on a permanent downslide. The average commuter can't afford an electric car, especially if they lack range - and especially if mortgage rates are going up along with everything else. EVs aren't going to get cheaper either. Many will find that their jobs are no longer viable without affordable personal mobility. This essentially amounts to a climate lockdown and the slow death of cities. They won't even need to install fifteen minute neighbourhoods because people simply won't be able to travel affordably.
But even if EVs were affordable, there isn't enough juice available to charge them all and insufficient charging infrastructure. Home charging for at least a quarter of the country is a non-option. Roadside charging isn't practical or safe.
The general theme of Net Zero is government mandating technologie that either don't exist or don't work, assuming private capital will fill in the blanks, but without taking into account that even high earning households are having to penny-pinch now to stay afloat. The public simply cannot bear the load of the Net Zero delusion.
Politicians are assuming we're a bottomless pit, as though we can all afford to pop out and buy and EV and install a heat pump while also paying more in our energy bills to transition to intermittent energy. No part of Net Zero can work and there's no aspect of it that will improve the lives of Brits.
The government believes that setting draconian targets will spur investment in green technologies, but the private sector simply cannot deliver. The wind industry is in a death spiral, there's no money for new transmission lines, gigafactories will struggle to compete ironically because of energy costs, and there simply isn't an upswell of demand for heat pumps. Meanwhile, private sales of EVs are flatlining. So-called free market Tories are ignoring all the market signals and ignoring the voice of ordinary voters.
Churchill famously said, we contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. That applies in spades to Net Zero. You cannot stimulate the economy by making energy more expensive. You do not create jobs by turning energy production into a makework job creation scheme. You can't tax people to oblivion and expect private capital to transform the economy.
We are told this amounts to "global leadership" but you do have to ask what planet our politicians are on. There is no nation on earth with a functioning sense of self-preservation that will follow us down this path to economic oblivion. We must simply to conclude that our rulers have gone utterly mad. If we want to survive as a country we must rid ourselves of them - quite urgently.
I don’t mind paying to use Twitter, but a paid subscription should mean no more ads. I’d rather pay, than use a free site that has advertisers dictating the rules.