High Speed 2 is a Fraud on the British Taxpayer. I also like Trading, Economics, Animals and cycling.
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This was just posted over on Facebook by @GeorgeTakei . #AdAstra Walter - and Pavel 🖖
My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man. Just last month, on Sept. 14, he turned 90, on the same day Brad and I celebrated our 18th wedding anniversary. I will always treasure that he and I shared that date.
Walter was more than Chekov. He was a writer, a teacher, a thoughtful man, and a loyal friend. To the fans who loved him for so many years, thank you. He loved you too. Rest well, my dear friend. Keep navigating a steady course.
– George
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“Mao and Stalin and Hitler didn’t come to power promoting tyranny. They came to power promising equality.”
— Rand Paul
Welcome to Britain…..a country where 30% of the voting population want to elect people whose ideology is to create more of this 👇
But why are all the rich people leaving?
Substitute “rich” for “intelligent”…..
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If you go out and earn more than £12,570, you get taxed.
But if you receive £12,570 in benefits, they'll lift the tax free allowance so you don't have to pay tax.
It just makes zero sense. Either that's the minimum you need to live, hence it's not taxed, or it isn't.
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This post goes some way to explaining the dire financial straits the UK is in...
"Britain has almost run out of taxpayers, or at the very least, it’s slowly running out of people who pay enough taxes to plausibly finance the state."
"...in 1998, about 43 per cent of British earners paid sufficient tax to cover the Government’s average per-capita spending. During Covid, that figure fell to an absolute low of circa 20 per cent, then by 2025 recovered modestly to 26.6 per cent."
No wonder if fewer than 27% of people are net contributors to the state
It's stats like this that make me want to leave. Big new project in the US in the next few months might be just the springboard I need
@griffitha @LiamHalligan
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Full court press......its the wake up call meeting eg give in on Nuclear Weapons, submit to inspections or Armageddon happens after mid terms eg Trump isnt bluffing this time!
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Wow, this is what Yemen looked like in the 1960s under British rule. That was over half a century ago, but it looked decades more advanced than Yemen does today.
It’s almost unbelievable compared to what the country has become. And it’s a testament to how quickly a country can collapse once Islam reigns supreme.
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Brace yourself, Matthew Parris, you’re about to be smeared on a huge scale ‘ Putin apologist!’ Neville Chamberlain!!’ ‘ Lord Haw Haw’. The yapping chihuahuas of war will be seething round your ankles, snapping and biting. ‘Only diplomacy can end the war in Ukraine’
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If high taxes and a big welfare state worked, France would be a utopia. The citizens would be dancing on the streets… instead they are the civil unrest capital of Europe.
On the flip side, Switzerland with its low tax, small state is peaceful, calm, affluent and secure.
Good Intentions don’t matter. Good outcomes do.
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The most brutal part of Monday morning isn't the work itself
It's watching millions of deeply exhausted adults immediately snap back into a highly-taxed survival loop they spent the entire weekend desperately trying to escape
The machine doesn't care how tired you are
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This is insane. How did we possibly reject this?! It's a fantastic deal.
Ukrainian MP confirms that 2023 peace plan, which was reported by @FT & accepted by Putin but rejected by Zelensky & Biden administration, envisioned:
"- Russia withdraws its troops from most of the four oblasts it had just declared “annexed.”
- The new line of demarcation runs roughly along the line as of February 24, 2022: Crimea and the part of Donbas that Russia controlled before the full-scale invasion.
- Ukraine recognizes Russian control over Crimea. - Ukraine grants Russia an unobstructed land corridor to Crimea.
- The ceasefire regime is guaranteed by NATO countries that provide protection for Ukraine.
- Russia begins negotiations with the US on its own security guarantees.
-Moreover, Russia was ready to give up the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant as well.
-And the 300 billion in frozen assets was to go toward rebuilding all of Ukraine, that is, together with the occupied territories.
-As for Crimea: we were not required to recognize it as Russian, only to recognize Russia’s control over it. In other words, we acknowledge that right now it is under Russian control (which is how it is). We were also required to adopt a law banning the return of Crimea by military means.
-The land corridor to Crimea, a highway and a railway, was to be built at Russia’s expense. The hardest question was how to guard it. That is why the Russians were ready to give up Melitopol, but not Tokmak: they feared we would cut the corridor with artillery.
-Zelensky rejected this proposal at the time."
