This really does seem like propaganda! Not much revealed here either. Says 60 people, earning at least 50m in 21/22, paid over 3bn in tax a year. It says at least 50m but if we take 50m x 60, that’s 3bn. They are obviously not paying 100% tax and are therefore earning way way more than 50m a year on average between them. What would be “revealing” is saying exactly how much they earnt and how much tax they paid so we can see the %. I bet it’s a significantly lower % than the UK average, which is why this story doesn’t “reveal” it.

Everyone talks about her but I think about the complete fucking losers working for her, following her around. The people walking with her in the picture, begging to be snapped with her. What a bunch of sorry individuals

I love how Hendy’s (the UK rail minister) wiki page has already been updated. He now has two controversial incidents…

"In 2013, Peter Hendy, who was then the Commissioner of Transport for London, was accused of engaging in a nine-month extramarital affair with a call girl. She alleged that Hendy provided her with several Oyster cards loaded with £10 as gifts.[18]

In 2024, Hendy faced significant criticism after a letter, released under a Freedom of Information request, revealed he pressured SYSTRA to dismiss an employee, rail engineer Gareth Dennis, for publicly voicing safety concerns regarding overcrowding at London’s Euston station"

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Not sure how they would manage this.

A landlord with a BTL interest only mortgage may be on a rate of ~2% today which in 18 months comes to term and they will need to remortgage on a rate of e.g ~4%. Their repayment will essentially double (that’s a simplification but fine for the example). They will also likely be required to show that the income of the property meets a certain % threshold of the repayment. They will therefore need to increase the rent. The tenent won’t be able to afford it, and it’s likely others won’t either. If you can’t afford to buy a house, you’re not going to be able to go from £1500 a month to £3k.

The landlord won’t be able to remortgage so they will have to sell. When this hits the BTL market, we will have an increase in properties needing to be sold which will reduce prices and for some, a loss for the landlord or lender.

The government needs to do something that will help first time buyers (owner occupiers) get a mortgage reducing the current dependancy on landlords, and banks need to do more to avoid the scenario I lay out here (reduce IO, reduce the number of properties someone can own via BTL etc).

Stamp duty is an obvious one. I’ve paid tax on my income, why should I pay tax to buy my first home. Or even my 2nd home (I don’t mean having a 2nd home I mean the 2nd house I move to and live in as my sole property). Also, with property prices always rising (I realise that prices decrease as well but over time they will always be higher) stamp duty increases. In fact, I think the current plan is to reduce the thresholds in 2025 so this will make things even worse.

Get rid of stamp duty below properties of e.g £5m.

The article focuses on 70+ year olds who have lived in another country for over 50% of their lives. If you have not lived in the UK for 40 or 50 years, and you intend to continue not living in the UK, then please get back in your box. 🙏

I could be wrong but it looks more like they are having a conversation. He’s not immediately taking advantage of the situation to call out and blame the tories for high energy prices, he’s having a conversation and mentioning how his 15 year old son is really tall and would need a big onesie. He’s talking wth her not at her. .

Before getting into politics he spent most of his professional career as a human rights lawyer. This is a small snippet from his Wikipedia page - He was a member of Doughty Street Chambers from 1990, primarily working on human rights issues. He has been called to the bar in several Caribbean countries, where he has defended convicts sentenced to the death penalty.

Not sure how many white people there are in the Caribbean sentenced to death.

I’m sure every single one of them would have benefited more than the sum of their donations. The rich very rarely give their money away for nothing in return.

Of the £44.5m in cash received by the Conservatives last year, more than £20m came from two sources: John Sainsbury and Frank Hester, an IT entrepreneur from Leeds who has given £5m personally and another £5m through his firm, The Phoenix Partnership. Hester’s firm has profited from public sector contracts and his ties with the party are under heightened scrutiny following the publication of an investigation by the Guardian that revealed he had said former Labour MP Diane Abbott made him “want to hate all black women” and should be shot.

A further £11.3m came from five individuals:

Mohamed Mansour, Egyptian-born billionaire who controls the behemoth conglomerate Mansour Group, which has interests in real estate, finance, retail and tech: £5m
Graham Edwards, co-founder of one of the largest private companies in the UK, Telereal Trillium, which owns thousands of properties and approximately 60 million square feet of land: £2m
Amit Lohia, son of billionaire petrochemical and fertiliser tycoon Sri Prakash Lohia, chair of Indorama: £2m
Christopher Barry Wood, founder of biotech firm Medannex: £1.3m
Alan Howard, hedge fund manager who co-founded Jersey-based Brevan Howard and has significant interests in crypto-currency: £1m

He was a barrister who spent most of his legal career working on human rights issues. My hope is that everything Kier says or does, that may suggest any similarity or alignment to Tory policy, is to minimise focus of right wing media and the last 20% of people who still support the current Tory establishment. Fingers crossed anyway.

I have a first gen ipad air and we use it as “the music ipad” for my kids. If you can’t get Spotify running, then you could fill it with mp3s and use it that way. If you don’t have kids, you could have it hooked to a bluetooth speaker in the kitchen where it could double up as a e-cookbook or notepad for shopping lists which could then easily be emailed to yourself for when you go out to do a shop

Sorry about that. I’d intented it to be a list. Added commas now. Thanks

Some of my favourite rewatchables are:

Margin Call, The Big Short, The Wolf of Wallstreet, Nobody, Moneyball, The gentlemen, Layercake, Heat, The Running Man, Roadhouse.

BTW, if you’ve not heard of it, The Rewatchables is a great podcast where a group of guys talk about and critic movies they consider rewatchables. If you’re interested, listen to episode 1. The list of shows would be a pretty good answer to your question but this list is off the top of my head.