William Fleming

rugby player, husband & dad. Opinions are my own. PGP key:

[Jon Sopel @jonsopel]

Sorry. Maybe I have false memory syndrome, but I don’t remember the Brexit campaigners during referendum warning companies that cost of doing business was going to rise steeply and become ever more bureaucratic. Maybe I wasn’t paying attention

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

This is the UK's marginal tax rate on someone with three kids. You can earn £50k and pay a marginal rate of 68%. It's disgrace.

But it's made even worse by the way a large chunk of this tax is collected - the "high income child benefit charge" (HICBC).

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[William Fleming @Will_123]

@uartlach @NHS_Lothian Can’t even join a queue and get on with your work/commitments. Just get an engaged dial tone and hung up on. fucking joke.

@uartlach @NHS_Lothian

[William Fleming @Will_123]

@uartlach @NHS_Lothian Does Riverside Medical Practice in Musselburgh actually offer appointments? Permanently “lines are busy” response via phone then auto hang ups. Can’t walk to the GP because it’s not open, can’t get them on the phone. omnishambles.

[William Fleming @Will_123]

@uartlach @NHS_Lothian 3 years on nothing has changed and this practice is still a complete disaster. Post code lottery for the poor folks who can never access medical care.

[William Fleming @Will_123]

@MusselburghRFC animal

[Jon Sopel @jonsopel]

‘Boost our transport’ says man pictured on private jet.
Who thought the optics of this were good?
Extraordinary

[Sam Coates Sky @SamCoatesSky]

👀 on HS2 from The Times letters page

https://t.co/RgWVBZG3I9

[Have I Got News For You @haveigotnews]

First awkward moment of the Conservative Party conference occurs before it’s even started after hotel staff ask Grant Shapps what name his reservation is under.

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

If I was a Tory Chancellor, I wouldn’t abolish inheritance tax. I’d fix the ridiculous marginal rates that can exceed 70%

[Alex Cole-Hamilton🔶🇺🇦 @agcolehamilton]

On BBC Debate Night, @StephenFlynnSNP was asked a question he didn't like. He turned on the audience member, outing them as a conservative activist, inviting online harassment of the young man in question by nationalist keyboard warriors.

Enough of these bullyboy tactics. 👇

[Jon Sopel @jonsopel]

Christmas 2020. What were you doing? Not this I’m guessing.
It just goes on and on

[Kevin Schofield @KevinASchofield]

Quite a striking cover on the latest Private Eye.

[@mikko @mikko]

GPT jailbreak live on stage

[Jon Sopel @jonsopel]

Don’t want to go over the top, but this is absolutely jaw-dropping. Someone who was in the cabinet when legislation on voter ID was agreed and went through parliament acknowledges it WAS an attempt to gerrymander the elections https://t.co/onD8iPUsJO

[Robert Peston @Peston]

PM will not make up his mind today whether or not to sack Dominic Raab, in spite of knowing that at least 24 civil servants have supported 8 separate complaints of bullying against the deputy PM. Is this due process or political weakness in the face of a senior colleague who...

[Robert Peston @Peston]

Labour: “The BBC’s cowardly decision to take Gary Lineker off air is an assault on free speech in the face of political pressure. Tory politicians lobbying to get people sacked for disagreeing with Government policies should be laughed at, not pandered to. BBC should rethink.”

[William Fleming @Will_123]

@tebeka k6 has treated me well