Alistair Thomson retweeted
I’m sorry to read that Richard Tice’s commute to Parliament from Dubai is proving so difficult.
British Airways is an embarrassing disgrace of an airline @British_Airways
Routinely selling many more tickets than seats, putting lots of passengers on standby who bought tickets months ago, a woeful customer attitude of ‘shrug shrug, not my job’ 🤷♂️
Then not sending the luggage of standby passengers: one case may arrive on next flight an hour later, 1 case shrug shrug wait until tomorrow afternoon when it may or may not arrive 🤷♂️
Britain is Broken
Alistair Thomson retweeted
If a white person born in Australia can be Australian without Aboriginal ancestry, and a white person born in America can be American without Native American ancestry, why can't a Black person born in England be English without Anglo-Saxon ancestry?
Alistair Thomson retweeted
When I used to live in the Netherlands, I used to cycle in a hail storm and no one was surprised.
Now I am going on my e-scooter for 10 minutes to the gym in a perfect weather and it’s sensational.
So no, it’s not the weather. It’s the infrastructure and culture.
Alistair Thomson retweeted
Did we ever get to the bottom of this?
The whole thing seems to have disappeared without a trace.
Alistair Thomson retweeted
I keep reading that 'nobody should be forced to pay for the BBC'. Meanwhile, I'm forced to pay for the royal family, nuclear weapons, religiously-affiliated schools and the House of Lords.
Alistair Thomson retweeted
Reform UK are apparently going to send out an 8 page flyer to £15 million homes. Not that I'm suggesting that you send them back, so they have to pay for the return postage. But if you are, you might find this useful.
Alistair Thomson retweeted
If £10billion buys a whole missile defence system…what on earth did you Tories spend on covid for £37 billion!?
Alistair Thomson retweeted
When I was at university we had to write an essay about Starbucks and their tax avoidance.
This was in 2012.
Essentially they pay a ‘Royalty and Licence fee’ to a non UK company each year.
This strips out their profits and enables them to avoid almost all corporation tax.
I thought I would check whether things have changed since I wrote the essay back in 2012.
This is the Corporation Tax paid each financial year:
2021: £5.4m
2022: £4.5m
2023: £7.2m
2024: £0m
2025 -£13.7m
Total: £3.4m
Royalty and License Fees:
2021: £26.5m
2022: £34.4m
2023: £40.4m
2024: £40.4m
2025: £43.2m
Total: £184.9m
Assuming a 25% corporation tax rate would be £46.22m in taxes brought in.
If these loopholes were closed off, maybe our personal taxes would be reasonable.
Alistair Thomson retweeted
Grenfell - 72 died from the fire, at least five died by suicide, 11,000 have PTSD, concerns about long term effects of toxicity on residents, 11 firefighters with terminal cancer - plus £1bn spent and rising.
That's 'nothing' right?
Alistair Thomson retweeted
If I were prime minister of country where 440,000 children sleep on the floor because they do not have a bed of their own, abolition of inheritance tax would not be my flagship policy
Alistair Thomson retweeted
So Kemi Badenoch wants to pay for new prison cells by cutting £1bn from culture, media and sport?
That means youth clubs, leisure centres, sports pitches, arts projects and music venues, places that give young people somewhere to go and learn teamwork and self discipline, all of that: gone.
That’s not tough on crime, that’s building a pipeline into the very prisons you're promising! And this from a party that added fewer than 500 prison places in a decade, and left communities like mine fighting to keep leisure centres open in the first place.
Disgraceful.
Alistair Thomson retweeted
"The Finnish capital has not experienced a single pedestrian fatality in the past 12 months, thanks to Vision Zero.
Given these successes, to quit Vision Zero and succumb to failure is a death sentence for thousands — especially children."
planetizen.com/features/1358…
Alistair Thomson retweeted
It’s a fair question. How much money is the tax payer paying to subsidise the companies that won’t pay a decent wage. Those companies are stealing our money.
Alistair Thomson retweeted
Tory Laura now asking why Lib Dems are doing badly in the polls.
Perhaps if their 71 MPs got a proportional amount of BBC coverage as the 4 Deform MPs they might be doing a bit better.
#bbclaurak @Ofcom
If you’re struggling Reform will tax you ahead of people with super yachts. we’re all happy with that aren’t we… facebook.com/share/v/1LUq3vY…
