Fighting rent extraction in our economic crisis. Rigorous liberal: Georgist🔰, bank & political reform, free trade/speech. Pronouns: thou /thee
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Personally, I'm enthused by EFTA. We can now imagine a world without 15%+ VAT, CAP & other untouchable policies & still live like Europeans
Housing starts are lower because prices are falling.
Of course housing policy is a mess, but these costs are borne by the price of land.
They’re far more likely to depress construction at the margin, where land prices are low, than in London or Chelmsford.
Government imposed policy costs make up 57% of the clearing price of a new flat in London and 42% of a new home in the Home Counties.
Despite a big housing shortage and positive planning reforms, new home starts in England are declining from 182,000 in 2022 to under 125,000 last year.
While the macroeconomic context has worsened with build cost inflation and high interest rates, the Government is imposing more burdens on new homes, not fewer.
Taxes, levies, planning, and mandates add over £440,000 to the cost of delivering a home in London and nearly £225,000 nearby, with several of these imposed recently like the Second Staircase, Future Homes Standard, Building Safety Levy, Biodiversity Net Gain and Residential Property Developer Tax.
Individually these may be justified, but together they are making new homes unviable.
As a result, large developers are buying less land and small builders are going out of business; nearly 4,000 construction firms went bust just last year.
If we want to build more homes, we should be easing the burdens on them, not adding more.
Making housebuilding viable again is the most important issue in housing policy and my co-author, Edward Donovan, has completed excellent modelling showing how big the challenge is.
Read the full report: cps.org.uk/wp-content/upload…
And simulate what changing the policies does with Edward's modelling here: easing-the-burdens.cps.org.u…
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Geoliberal🔰 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 🇬🇧 retweeted
The Islamoleftist Alliance thinks of India similarly to the way it thinks of Israel. If you're Hindu, you're under automatic suspicion of Hindutva, just as Jews are under automatic suspicion of Zionism. Both clouds of suspicion can only be expiated by vigorous leftist activism.
Geoliberal🔰 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 🇬🇧 retweeted
He did it.
Community Notes doxxed the house of a Haitian gang leader and Bukele blew it up, then posted an edit on X.
Absolutely incredible.
If El Salvador colonises Haiti they can probably fix the country in less than 5 years.
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Just to add, The Green Party think this is an acceptable response to one of their elected officials doing this.
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This is apalling. The Green Party is a total disgrace.
Exclusive: Green councillor said Muslims who condemn October 7 attack ‘bear shame of supporting Jews’
thejc.com/news/politics/excl…
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Remember when I told you that the Islamic Republic is waging war against the West, whether the West realizes it or not? This is only the beginning.
France accuses Iran of being behind massive cyberattack on supermarket fridges trib.al/qShHS01
Geoliberal🔰 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 🇬🇧 retweeted
They are simply showing they don't follow Jesus.
Matthew 6:5 “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward."
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This incredible documentary by @rehoov tells the story too few ever want to mention and discuss. It’s the story of the widespread ethnic cleansing of the Jewish people from all the Arab and Muslim lands since 1948. Nearly a million came to Israel, the rest to the US and some Europe.
These Jewish communities lived in those lands for centuries before Islam even existed. Over 1400 years their numbers were decimated. They’d never lived in Europe. Never came from Europe. And they make up more than half the Jewish population of Israel.
This was the real Nakba. But unlike Arabs and the UN who intentionally kept their own people in camps and cages for 78 years, Israel absorbed all of these Jews within a few years. Each one.
Geoliberal🔰 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 🇬🇧 retweeted
He’s a genuinely rabid sectarian trying desperately to pretend otherwise. He was always this bad, but it’s far more noticeable now he doesn’t have a mainstream editor he is trying to moderate his opinions for.
Geoliberal🔰 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 🇬🇧 retweeted
The actual Saint Nick. Insane. Sickening destruction
BONES attributed to Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, kept since 1098 in Saint-Nicolas-de-Port, in Meurthe-et-Moselle, were STOLEN from their reliquary inside the basilica, then DESTROYED.
The suspect, arrested at his home, admitted to SMASHING the display case protecting the reliquary, then stealing its contents, BURNING the bones and CRUSHING them out of a “desire to destroy.”
(Source: L'Est Républicain)
Geoliberal🔰 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 🇬🇧 retweeted
450,000 Russian KIA leaked from Russia’s own government agency with all the receipts to verify it online for everyone to see. It’s worse for them than many even estimated , that’s incomprehensible, that’s more than 4X the ENTIRE Vietnam and Korean War US deaths combined
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Did you condemn Wajahat Ali calling a Hindu woman "haramzadi"? No because you support the demonization of non-Muslims
If you call someone "bigoted" there is a good chance they are a civilized person that doesnt buy your Islamist hucksterism.
Geoliberal🔰 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 🇬🇧 retweeted
Mehdi Hasan gets RATIOED by Sayyid Mukhtalif Jaadugar Al-Quraishi
Wajihad Ali too busy helping his parents with their scams
It's their own policy failure. The same tax system that kills the margins benefits the centre. This is just the fiscal transfer that keeps the show on the road.
Good map. Good discussions to have. One thing we can think through is how the fiscal deficits of most of Britain changed as welfare spending was cut in the 2010s.
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Geoliberal🔰 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 🇬🇧 retweeted
Which one of these is a major sin in Islam?
A) Marrying a six-year-old girl
B) Owning slaves
C) Killing apostates
D) Eating bacon
Help me out, I'm in the exam hall.
Kindly retweet, don't let me fail my exam. 🙏🏼
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Incredible
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This was an image shared by a company supplying hijabs to John Lewis. See the paraglider and bulldozer used by Hamas to invade Israel. As my husband @adammaanit said this is a “stab to the heart”. We bought our daughter’s buggy and baby clothes from John Lewis. Betrayal.
