RT @RoryStewartUK: Hear hear.

RT @Sam_Dumitriu: "This is my two-year old's bedroom and it's 30 degrees.". Britain's got hotter, but only 5% of British households have AC….

RT @GBNEWS: EXCLUSIVE.Rotherham police accused of preparing false document after father arrested while attempting to rescue daughter from g….

RT @KellyLovesBirds: British food is excellent actually.

RT @maxtempers: A HPI check was paid for to confirm this as a Motability car. Hopefully silences all the highly motivated doubters in the….

RT @Birdyword: Big moment . "Compassionate Westerners may feel an urge to help the refugees they see arriving on their shores. But if the j….

RT @WarGit: I know I keep wanging on about this but a particular "we are so f***ing doomed" moment for me was, pre-election, Labour respond….

RT @yuanyi_z: British politicians will literally do anything rather than allow AC (illegal to install) in houses (illegal to build).

This really just replicates the "avoidance" method the very rich use (trusts, which pay every 10 years instead of on death) but at a much lower and more regular rate. It's harder to avoid, easily paid from investment income. Paired with a LVT-style levy it's more efficient.

Inheritance tax is nominally useful, but it's easy for richest to escape, hated by the public, and now threatens farming families. We should scrap it (and stamp duty on shares) and replace it with a cost-neutral annual tax on liquid non-pension assets of about 0.5%.

Something the Left do really well is language control. > Take a widely understood, positively-associated term.> Redefine it to mean something politically contentious.> Anyone who objects now accused of hating the original term, marking them as evil/unfit.

RT @BernoulliDefect: Oh, that’s why it’s so expensive. You’re paying for other people’s care too

Basic staples like milk and eggs are usually sold at a loss, supermarkets make it up on premium branded products. Food here is cheaper than Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland etc even after sharp COVID/Ukraine. It's visible, but it's a secondary problem and hard to fix.

RT @Katie_Lam_MP: An Iraqi asylum seeker has been allowed to stay in the UK as his speech impediment may lead to discrimination in his home….

RT @lara_e_brown: I am completely comfortable with the Bayeux tapestry residing in France despite the fact it is a British creation. The c….

Food is cheap relatively speaking, supermarkets in the UK are extremely competitive. Housing (or property generally, incl shop rents) and energy are the wildly expensive bits, contributing to everything else.

RT @HCH_Hill: Britain will never be again be great until we burn the ration book in our soul.

RT @K_Niemietz: It's annoying when you want to get somewhere, and your path is blocked, right?.

Views like this really just signal a lack of curiosity. Why would you not be curious why it's the most historically prevalent form of govt, independently arising many times and enduring centuries, rich in (frequently similar) ritual, imagery, and serving some purpose.

I think my preference would be to require 5-10 years of full-time-equivalent tax contributions to be eligible for citizenship in the first place (alongside fluency in english), but then allowing full access once naturalised.