Charlie Cole
@CharliePCole98
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Interested in UK politics.
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Joined March 2025
I'm launching my own Substack This will serve as a central location for all the charts & visualisations I've done and any I do in future, with: — Interactive Datawrapper charts — Descriptions for each chart & links to sources — High-quality images for social media sharing 🔗👇
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Fair enough, but if he’s willing to make interjections on political decisions, why isn’t he more vocal on the policies that have led to structurally higher energy prices, something that the Bank of England with a mandate to manage inflation should be concerned with.
Oh mate... 🤦♂️ *BAILEY: BREXIT HAS HAD A NEGATIVE IMPACT ON THE ECONOMY *BOE GOVERNOR ANDREW BAILEY SAYS IN PREPARED REMARKS
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The Blob must be crushed!
This is how the Blob always wins. Ofsted would give schools a bad score if they didn’t follow government “guidance” on birthday cakes, and that means trouble for the Head. So it becomes a de facto ban.
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I think it's the politicians who need to step-up and invest more in UK equities, their own pension fund is shunning UK equities, not the funds & ETFs that distribute evenly based on global market cap.
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The Vanguard FTSE Global All Cap Index Fund & Vanguard FTSE All-World UCITS ETF; two extremely popular choices for Stocks & Shares ISAs, both hold around 3.3% in UK equities.
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A more recent article from The Times says that just 1% of the parliamentary retirement fund is invested in UK equities. https://t.co/GDv7R4xg4K
thetimes.com
Only 1% of parliamentary retirement fund is invested in UK equities, despite politicians talking up the case for investing in Britain
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While the Treasury moots mandating that Stocks & Shares ISAs hold a minimum amount of UK equities, it's worth remembering the pension fund for MPs has no such restriction and it actively shuns UK equities.
As for mandating ISAs hold a certain amount of UK equities, we'd have to see what the final details & allocation is, but I don't like the sound of this, at least the Brit ISA was an additional £5k allowance. The UK is dogged by structural & tax problems, which this won't solve.
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If they want 25-50% UK allocation, then the ISA is dead and this will simply push more wealthy and aspirational people to leave the UK, who are already leaving in droves.
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As for mandating ISAs hold a certain amount of UK equities, we'd have to see what the final details & allocation is, but I don't like the sound of this, at least the Brit ISA was an additional £5k allowance. The UK is dogged by structural & tax problems, which this won't solve.
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No sensible country should be imposing a tax like this. We are quite literally encouraging investors to invest elsewhere and for companies to list in more favourable markets with more liquidity, with America being the main winner.
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"Financial institutions have met the Treasury to discuss removing stamp duty tax at 0.5 per cent from London-listed stocks that are held within Isas" Just remove this stupid tax altogether, we have a higher transaction tax than France, Spain & Italy. https://t.co/csXXTZWCBz
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Evolution of abandoned Conservative ‘Brit Isa’ plan also includes stamp duty tax break
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Very interesting, I did not know NI numbers were linked to nationality.
Squeezing the rich isn't working for anyone. My column on how Rachel Reeves' class war is a smokescreen to disguise attention from serious failure... https://t.co/M0o8nGfi8i
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This alone is reason to deny China's embassy in London.
BREAKING: China warns Keir Starmer he faces “consequences” if he doesn’t approve its embassy in London Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian launches a broadside against the UK as Starmer’s thaw with Beijing threatens to break down. Olly Robbins’ meetings in Beijing do not appear
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Completely disingenuous, the Government was still paying people not to work up until the 30th September 2021 and many of the provisions in the Coronavirus Act 2020 weren't expired until we were well into 2022. This was a self-imposed problem.
We can all agree that the Boriswave was catastrophic. But people have blocked out the memory of WHY it happened. In 2021, no one was coming back to work. Factories, food processing plants, pubs - all were crying out for staff. Yet another consequence of Long Lockdown.
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@AcademicAgent_X Babybel, pizza cheese, the cheese they have in lunchables and… I’m stuck
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I suspect one of the reasons the police dropped investigations into Allison Pearson was because she made such a fuss about it. This is not a criticism of her, if I was the editor of a major newspaper and the police investigated me, I would put up a massive fuss as well.
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The user has provided an update, the interview didn't go ahead. I wonder how many of these arrests never see the light of day because people refuse to talk to the media, even though if they did, it would rally more to the cause about these ridiculous laws.
The police arrest around 30 people a day in the UK for speech offences, often on social media platforms like X, Facebook and Instagram. Only a fraction make media headlines. A future Government must end this, it's embarrassing for this country.
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To my surprise there is actually a Wikipedia page for the demographics of Bradford. There's nothing on religious locality, but there is for ethnicity. Here's White & Asian ethnic locality, based on the 2011 census; also very segregated.
@CharliePCole98 Now do Bradford.same story.
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Birmingham is already heavily segregated, not just in terms of ethnic locality, but also religion. The demographics of the area make conflict and sectarianism like this inevitable.
Across Birmingham tonight, there will be lots of ordinary people who do working-class jobs and are dealing with the stresses and strains of everyday life, and who will be thinking, “Why the hell is my city the new battleground in an argument about Middle East politics?” And
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As of the 16th October 2025 — 187,503 illegal migrants have arrived via small boat. Over the last 7 days, 862 illegal migrants have arrived.
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