This is very confused. 1. If those views are legitimate, then it's legit for Reform UK to propose them - the views don't magically change because the party does. 2. If it's legit to propose them, why is it unacceptable to oppose them? 3. How is opposing them the same as wanting mass deportation?
Good memory. And I've just gone through the same thought process all over again: shouldn't we get employers to help > but shit employers won't, leaving the good ones to pay > actually it might be fairer for the whole of society to pay instead, through benefits > but people need a purpose so...
NEW: More than 160,000 private renters on low incomes face rent shortfalls worth up to hundreds or even thousands of pounds a year due to Labour’s housing benefit cuts
Greater Manchester and the West Midlands are particularly badly hit
By me, for the Big Issue: www.bigissue.com/news/housing...
I'm sure that's right and your point about path dependency, if I understood it, deals with that doesn't it - ie people on sickness benefits might have been on UB40.
I had a good conversation with Anna Stevenson at Turn2Us last year about how the nature of work had changed to become more physically demanding and more stressful. There's no slack in companies to put someone on "light duties".
It sounds interesting - what I don't get though is that if the problem has been there since the 80s then the OBR can't be the only driver - unless its role as "is this vfm" arbiter was played by someone else before that eg the Treasury? Or the natural tendency to centralise?
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Bespoke, broke, woke
The deputy leader of Reform UK, Richard Tice, owns a property company - Quidnet REIT.
From 2020 to 2022 it paid Tice and his trust £600k in dividends. Quidnet should have paid £120k of tax on those dividends. It didn't.
A 🧵 with evidence from the company's own filings:
On 26 April, I plan to be on the start line of the London Marathon. I’m in my fifties, I’ve only been running for a few years, and this will be my first marathon. I’m doing it to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust (TCT).
Flawless comms all the way to the moon and now they’re back it’s glitchy. Earth world problems.
“Older than Bulletproof” is my new favourite unit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhVr...
More 90s magic:
And whenever I hear a Quindar tone, I think of this: youtu.be/Q-FIPCn6H0Y?...
Basically, I couldn't get this out of my head. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7-m...
I had great fun going through WhoSampled.com looking for tracks I'd missed over the years.
Sure, the pictures the Orion astronauts took of the moon are great, but the thing I'm looking forward to most is someone sampling "copy, moon joy" or some other clip from the Artemis mission. observer.co.uk/culture/musi...
I wish I’d told myself.
Wait, are you me?
I’m more interested in vox popping people and doing a Six Degrees of Twlldun test.
Nostalgia has run out. This is sooo bad.
This would definitely be better as a double act.
Another steam interlude: Paul on a tandem bike with a red squirrel enthusiast.
He’s helped deliver a calf. “Delivering a calf was no picnic. But this is.” Close up of scone.
I’m strangely nostalgic.
Oh now he’s being James Heriot.
He’s just driven a steam train. The soaring music makes me think this is an emotional highpoint. And the conclusion: a cheese sandwich.
Highlight so far is Paul in a signal box reading an old news story about an escaped baboon.
Big Merton fan but…
Race Across The World has already started so we’ve landed on Paul Merton doing a Portillo impression with a show about railways.