James Harvey
Liberal. Gay. Green. Countryman. Living in Ebernoe, Sussex and Kennington, London. he/him
- The thing about Rachel Reeves I really don’t understand is a seeming total lack of interest in system-wide tax reform. UK tax system is riddled with cruft, Labour needs money, UK needs growth.
- This is a brilliant and fun column by @chrisgiles.ft.com that uses EV subsidies and salary sacrifice to explain a big flaw in our tax system.
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- Exactly this “I promised not to put up NI or Income Tax, but I’m abolishing both and replacing them with my new Employment Tax and it’s just *very hard* to compare them…”
- One bar of coverage. I am in Covent Garden FFS
- <accountant.cassandra: mode= on> Stephen, PLEASE team up with @danneidle.bsky.social and explore this. The opportunity is huge - not only to raise money and growth, but also to dodge red lines. <a.c.mode=off>
- It's the global financial crisis, and the Internet, in no particular order.
- I think there’s also the nature of the political system which tends to entrench political parties whose “natural” coalitions no longer exist, making it stable, except when it needs to flex to a new reality. Then you get a once-in-a-century convulsion…
- Save this picture onto your phone. Keep similar pictures in a folder/album. And just put them out there "on the socials" once in a while...
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- A profoundly depressing thread that has the horrible ring of truth
- Yvette Cooper repeatedly refused to give a straight answer just now on Today to straight Q “Will councils get more money to pay care workers more?” She repeatedly committed to higher carer pay but wouldn’t commit to money so councils can fund it. Think that speaks volumes about the mess we are in.
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- Oh agreed - along with craziness like personal allowance and child benefit clawback, which actively incentivises higher earners to be less productive and pay less tax…
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- Their commitments to not raise major taxes means that the taxes they do raise are highly regressive and growth-destroying (e’ers NICs the perfect example)
- D'y'know, when I first came out - this is relevant; stay with me - I overshot by A LOT for a year. Like, I had to be the gayest supergay gay. Which is totally fine - no judgment. It just wasn't me. After a while, I found my authentic self. Seeing Starmer cosplay bigotry today, I thought about that.
- Quite a lot to unpack there. I mean, though you didn’t end up as Dame Edna, you *were* still gay. So, although Starmer may not be Farage, he’s still…
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- Can we just tow Reform, Labour and the Tories out to Rockall and sink them with naval gunfire please?
