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Daithí Ó Garmaile retweeted
A small business owner explains, in the simplest terms possible, why socialism doesn’t work. Ever. Great watch.
Daithí Ó Garmaile retweeted
Euros do this thing where they attack you if you make a type of bread or ham a fraction of a millimeter wrong, but they'll let guys with facial scarification who were boiling their enemies in a Bugs Bunny pot last week call themselves 100% authentic Europeans.
Daithí Ó Garmaile retweeted
Genuinely, we need to stop with these stupid “debate me” exercises. It’s not 2015. Challenging people in public about gender or abortion isn’t interesting. It serves no purpose. The left wants to kill you. Nobody cares about your career as an “influencer.”
Daithí Ó Garmaile retweeted
Taxes on banks
Are paid
By the banks
And tobacco duty
Is paid
By the tobacco.
Daithí Ó Garmaile retweeted
These people inhabit a really intense, self-reinforcing universe. Jason Arday has been 'cleared.' You can literally access the papers with the plagiarized and fabricated material. It's right there! It's a matter of objective reality! Not to them. We're cooked.
Daithí Ó Garmaile retweeted
this is not a small group of people on the left anymore, but a large, dominant faction without whom democrats can’t win elections. and there is no debating them, because they aren’t interested in changing your mind. they just earnestly want you to die.
Daithí Ó Garmaile retweeted
You want to know how Dubai created one of the most vibrant economies in the world … in a desert???
They applied English law … with low taxes.
At any time in the future the UK can change policy and the country will boom. It’s a policy choice - smaller government and lower taxes will lead to a prosperous nation. Eventually the penny will drop.
Daithí Ó Garmaile retweeted
This is excellent. We need more of this. Telling the truth about the anti-white rhetoric of the cluster B feminized Left. It is toxic & degrading. It must be publicly called out.
Daithí Ó Garmaile retweeted
Push for reparations and then moan about racism. Such tedious showboating, and we’re all bored of it. It’s been done to death.
You’re a British MP. Act like it.
I've received waves of racism & abuse since my #BHM speech.
A Shadow Minister referred to my "mates overseas" and told me I should "do one"
Who exactly are my mates overseas? 🤔
Today I called out his racially-charged comment. Grateful for Speaker's response 👇🏾
Daithí Ó Garmaile retweeted
I earn £100 grand a year.
I have a detached house. 2 cars and my wife is a full time home maker.
I can just about afford this. I probably couldn’t afford the house I own if I was buying for the first time today.
My salary puts me in the top 5% of earners in the UK.
Top 5% to have a similar standard of living to Homer Simpson.
That is a disgrace.
We have a flatter salary distribution than Soviet Russia and the highest taxes and borrowing costs we’ve seen in generations.
Success is almost impossible because our tax system means hard work makes you a stressed out tax cow, not wealthy and certainly not free.
We need something radical.
Less state.
More family.
Less handouts.
More reward for risk.
Instead. Tomorrow, Labour will offer another batch of policies which will send one message to aspirational Brits: why bother.
I read a piece in the FT this week about the price of being middle class in Britain now and it said a couple earning £436,000 combined take home £216,000. That’s a crazy amount of tax, and it doesn't include VAT on purchases, council tax, stamp duty or other taxes (I think does include pension contributions). I can’t stop thinking about it.
Daithí Ó Garmaile retweeted
what an incredible exchange.
i have my issues with Yglesias but he comes across as an incredibly informed, nuanced thinker compared to Hasan's almost complete lack of familiarity with US history. Hasan sounds like he watched maybe one far left podcast on the subject and figures he's now an expert.
(and, hilariously, at the end he jumps to say "this reminds me of gaza!" of course it does, Mehdi. of course it does. what doesn't? you unfathomably provincial foreigner.)
“The Matthew Yglesias of 1963 would have been telling [JFK and LBJ] don’t touch this civil rights bill. It’s unpopular.”
I thought this was one of the more fascinating and important exchanges with @mattyglesias, where I challenged him on how far politicians should defer to polls on huge moral issues, and he pushed back on my analogy.
Full interview: zeteo.com/p/matt-yglesias-me…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Mehdi conflates bill approval with protest approval. "This civil rights bill" was popular in '63. It had +16 approval (54-38) by Aug. '63 & +30 (61-31) in Jan. '64 before its June passage. Desegregation was generally popular w/ >+30 support for SCOTUS anti-segregation rulings
news.gallup.com/poll/3427/most…
Daithí Ó Garmaile retweeted
Time to post my biannual “how artificially compressed are British wages”.
Rising minimum wage and a 50k+ p/a tax bracket that runs to 40% of earnings, and hasn’t adjusted for inflation. This form of artificial wage compression has turned everyone in Britain into low productivity tax cattle - you have zero incentive to become anything other here.
This is also a form of ambition and productivity compression.
Source, ONS, Fig 5: ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabo…
Daithí Ó Garmaile retweeted
An increase to £13.20p/h equates to a minimum wage of £27,456, based on a 40 hour week.
Once you factor in employers NI and basic pension contributions, the MINIMUM cost to hire a 21 year old for a company would be £31,461.
This is before you factor in any overarching business costs like office space, laptops, phone, software, training, support staff, vehicles etc.
This is going to be devastating to SME's who cant put together a simple 12 month budget without the goalposts being moved & their margins squeezed.
It'll also be catastrophic to youngsters opportunities because businesses will simply not be able to afford to hire them.
What's also incredible is that anything above £50,270 is seen as 'high earnings' in the UK and is taxed at 40%!
We are governed by financially and economically illiterate morons.
This will not end well.
Daithí Ó Garmaile retweeted
What I find so nauseating about this clip is how seriously Watson takes herself.
The members of the progressive woke supremacist cult seriously believe they are disciples of righteousness; that it’s impossible they could be wrong.
And so, with astonishing narcissism, Watson - a mediocre actress not overburdened with insight - portrays herself as bearing an overflowing heart, and carrying terrible burdens of conflicting emotions.
Let’s remember what this is about.
@jk_rowling has been fighting for sex-based rights that have underpinned safeguarding for decades to be maintained and protected.
Watson, meanwhile, has placed the demands of trans-identifying men ahead of her own biological sex, and utterly betrayed Rowling, who has been subjected to horrific abuse and death threats for daring to speak up for women.
Yet Watson portrays herself here as a saintly figure who somehow, within her unimpeachable soul, may be able to find it in herself to acknowledge some of the debt she owes to a mentor without whom she’d be nothing.
It’s a shame she was ever cast in the Harry Potter movies. Had she been passed over, we wouldn’t now have to endure this painful, self-regarding garbage.
Daithí Ó Garmaile retweeted
When the British sought to end the slave-trade in the 19th century, African rulers resisted.
The Asante Kingdom, in what is now Ghana, was a major participant in the West African slave trade, including the transatlantic trade.
The ancestors of the President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, who is LEADING the campaign for reparations from Britain, were probably slave-owners. I am not saying this facetiously; it is what the history suggests (thank you @NigelBiggar)