Tom McPhail
@PensionsMonkey
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Making sense of pensions, PR and financial services policy. Trying not to mess things up. Pension Scheme trustee. Podcasting as the Pensions Monkey podcast
Cumbria, UK
Joined June 2009
RT @griffitha: Politicians always say they will cut red tape. I’m building a plan to actually make it happen. I’m hiring a Red Tape Resear….
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Customers interests, council tax payers interests should come first. How about using driverless trains?.
“We want a reduced working week without any loss of pay.”. London Underground workers are set to strike, calling for action to address “fatigue and long-term health impacts”, says RMT’s Jared Wood, after the union rejected a 3.4% pay offer. @ChloeTilley | #TimesRadio | @CalumAM
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RT @JamesMelville: “So here’s our GB Energy plan: Let’s ban new oil and gas licences in the North Sea and make thousands of oil and gas wor….
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RT @7Kiwi: Wind output falling inexorably down to Sweet FA tomorrow afternoon. How long is it going to take for the penny to drop that we c….
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RT @EdConwaySky: Remember how successive govts promised to clamp down on unskilled immigration and ramp up skilled migration?.Latest figs s….
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Unexpected podcast comedy highlight of the week was even the uber-woke @bbc #bbcantisocial having to fade out @ZoeJardiniere's hysterical Antifa tirade.
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…with this government, they’d tax razors too.
Tax beards.
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Alternatively, scrap stamp duty (or at least radically reduce it) and watch in amazement as the economy springs slowly, magically back to life. same with CGT, same with IHT. Big reveal (😉): Lower tax rates on discretionary transactions can bring in higher tax revenues.
Exclusive:. Rachel Reeves is considering hitting the owners of high-value properties with capital gains tax when they sell their homes. The chancellor is considering using the Autumn Budget to end the current exemption from capital gains tax that people enjoy when they sell their.
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Good, it’s ridiculous that Westminster has been able to force this problem on local authorities around the country; maybe it’ll even force the government to you know, stop the boats or something.
BREAKING: A High Court judge has ruled that the Home Office cannot intervene in Epping Forest District Council’s bid for a temporary injunction blocking asylum seekers from being housed at the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex.
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Forget income tax, a broad base levy on spending would be fairer and simpler in the long run, argues the economist Tom Clougherty
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It would be absurd to have a report on the future sustainability of the pension system without addressing this most fundamental of questions
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RT @David_J_Robbins: A good call for evidence from the independent reviewer, not least underlining how dramatically life expectancy project….
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The retirees on £36k state pensions – triple the full amount
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Complexities in the old system create large disparities in retirement incomes
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RT @sunchartist: The UK 30-Year Gilt yield increased by 14 basis points over the week, reaching its highest closing level in over 27 years.….
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RT @LoftusSteve: 🇨🇳 𝗧𝗵𝗲 "𝗪𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮" 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 🇨🇳. Recently Chris Stark said that the UK must copy China, and I agree with hi….
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Chris Stark calls for UK to embrace ‘cold, hard economics’ of going green
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With you James, I grew up in Shropshire, he was a local hero who helped make Britain a great country.
Robert Clive, my 6x great grandfather, helped make Britain a global power. We shouldn’t apologise for our history. We should learn from it and be proud of what Britain has achieved. @ThangamDebb was wrong to call for the removal of the statue.
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WTAF? Does Surrey really have so little actual crime that teams of police officers can afford to spend time policing non-crimes? This is utterly insane. It's like a shit version of Minority Report.
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I mean, I know she's got a book to flog and she was a 'first minister' but why the slavish media indulgence of her PR machine? She's barely been out of office a couple of years and her legacy has already largely fallen apart.
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