Graham Simpson
Advocate of proportional representation and progressive politics. Humanist. Anti Brexit! Anti Trump! Don’t buy American! @libdems.org.uk
- But this excuse can't be repeated ad infinitum. Just pop an extra 2% tax on anyone earning more than one million quid a year and presto! Sorted.
- “One answer to the question of why cut benefits is that the Tories left a £22bn black hole. But that doesn’t explain why it has to be winter fuel or personal independence payments. The Tory legacy is a cause of budget choices, not a moral compass pointing to the better path” @rafaelbehr.bsky.social
- Income tax is the most equitable way of raising money. The more you earn the more you pay. But the top rate needs to go up.
- “Thames Water bosses poised for 50% bonuses from £3bn emergency loan” - Privatised water in one headline…
- where's that from? is that the FT?
- Yes
- Brilliant
- Someday Trump and MAGA will be gone, but we will always have footage of these people humiliating themselves every day to win his favor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgp0...
- “One answer to the question of why cut benefits is that the Tories left a £22bn black hole. But that doesn’t explain why it has to be winter fuel or personal independence payments. The Tory legacy is a cause of budget choices, not a moral compass pointing to the better path” @rafaelbehr.bsky.social
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- The Guardian view on UK trade: quiet re-engagement is a slow fix for Brexit’s mistakes - The Guardian’s positive spin on the ‘reset’ but it’s all frustratingly slow and still guided by old Brexit era dogmas which are well beyond their sell by date. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- If the 2024 General Election had been held using proportional representation there would almost certainly have been a coalition between Labour, Lib Dems and Greens. No winter fuel cut, no disability cuts, tougher on Trump, tougher on Israel’s war in Gaza, better progress on Europe.
- The end of the two-party system? What the experts are saying about the 2025 local elections electoral-reform.org.uk/the-end-of-t... Electoral Reform Society – ERS
- Why are our mayors winning on less than 30% of the vote? electoral-reform.org.uk/why-are-our-... Electoral Reform Society – ERS
