Ioannis Gounaris
@johngounaris
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Libertarian: rationality, individualism, capitalism, natural rights. Views are my own. “From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen”.
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@UKLabour
This is a blatant lie: on £82000 you already pay £19968 in income tax and £5601 in NI per year. And that’s before Jezza announced today 1/3 off rail fares, something about historic injustice to miners pensions etc... He is like a toddler in a sweet shop, spending others’ money
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@jeremycorbyn
How about protesting at the Belarussian embassy? Or is it considered bad form among comrades?
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Or maybe, just maybe, repeal the Act?
Why would any sane government legally commit to something impossible?
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This large study shows an infection fatality rate in school age children that ranges from 0.002% to 0.007%!
For that, we deprived children of 2 years of contact, development and education.
Lockdown proponents and mask enthusiasts have a lot to answer for!
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@BallouxFrancois
Not too surprising. Very high R condenses the duration of the wave. The astonishing fact is that SAGE predict that this will not happen in the UK, leading to absurd predictions such as the 1m cases a day one…
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@GeorgeAylett
And if he tried to do even half of that we would have by now reached the stage of socialism where people eat their pets.
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@ianbremmer
Trump can’t get the virus. He has a BEAUTIFUL immune system, the BEST immune system, a HUGE immune system. And on top Pence is reading bible verses and laying hands on him
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@PoliticsForAlI
@thetimes
A cultural shift where ill people are expected to isolate at home until feeling better is welcome. Widespread testing and confinement of asymptomatic individuals is a route to tyranny
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@ClaudiaWebbe
Honest question: what do you think determines wages? If it really think it’s “hard work”, fruit pickers should be paid more than doctors. Do you advocate for that?
In a free market, the answer is simple: your work is worth precisely what someone else is willing to pay for it.
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@Jaredtnelson
ZeroCovid demamds sacrifices. If every human was considerate enough not to breathe, eat or socialise for a couple of months, the whole Coronavirus genus would be taught that you can’t mess with Hominids.
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@RichardJMurphy
Nobody ever is going to stop you wearing one. It’s your right. What is not your right is insisting everyone else does what you want them to…
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100% right. And the magic of free trade is that it works even if tariff abolition is unilateral.
The UK needs to do exactly that. In her own self-interest abolish all import tariffs, quotas and other restrictions.
How import tariffs weaken the economy and your wallet.
#milei
#argentina
#economy
#tariffs
#imports
#entrepreneurs
#wages
#openeconomy
#freetrade
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@LanceForman
One could infer that the UN branding them “refugees” in perpetuity and offering them “free” services (paid by gullible western governments, naturally) has something to do with these lifestyle choices.
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@bkeithpayne
People that prefer a nice single malt are a different demographic than people that pass out on cheap cider in the park
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@BallouxFrancois
I am for freedom of speech, but I could make an exception and propose a prohibition on using the word “variant” in social media. It’s what viruses have been doing forever. The only difference is that current tech allows us to observe it in real time, like overexcitable toddlers.
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@JTasioulas
I presume Nicola will provide all with a list of acceptable, government-endorsed dinner table talking points.
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@GBNEWS
No. Mandates and legislation need to go. What the past two weeks have shown us, is that people can make sensible decisions on their own and adjust their behaviour to their personal risk appetite.
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@PoliticsForAlI
With a million people being vaccinated per day, this is just money down the drain…
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@GeorgeMonbiot
Different viewpoints and counter arguments are not fascism. Free speech for all is an unalloyed good.
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@jacobin
Do you think that slapping “neoliberal” in front of everything and anything makes you look erudite and philosophical?
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@JamesManuell
Imagine a world without taxation. You would be paying a healthcare insurance premium (if you wished) and be keeping the rest of your earnings to save, invest etc
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@andrew_lilico
If the healthcare system is not fit for purpose, it needs radical overhaul to increase capacity. Recurrent lockdowns to “save the NHS” are akin to mass suicides to preserve a cult leader’s vision…
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@PoliticsForAlI
Delta’s high transmissibility means high narrow peaks. See the pattern in India as well.
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@JamesMelville
The NHS is a public service, here to serve and protect the people. Not the other way round.
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@BethRigby
And it can happen up and down the country, if Labour can see past its delusion of grandeur, stand down candidates everywhere LD are second and put PR as number one commitment in its manifesto.
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@PoliticsForAlI
@MoS_Politics
It’s time we normalise Covid as yet another respiratory virus, controlled with vaccines and antivirals and not worthy of extraordinary state interventions. Time to roll back all emergency legislation too!
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@Lord_Sugar
Vaccine passports is the most irrational of all the measures Boris announced yesterday. Based on what we know about Omicron they will make absolutely no difference
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@RichardBurgon
I know strategy is not your strong point, but you do realise this can only be a one-off looting raid, after which the majority of high-net worth individuals will leave, don’t you?
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@LavrentisBeria4
The rate of decline for CO2 atmospheric concentration is estimated to be ~2.5% per year. In other words, if even if there were 0 CO2emissions in 2020, atmo concentration would only fall 2.5% after 1 year. Temperatures would still rise!
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@jeremycorbyn
It’s only because of capitalism that this world can support 8 biliion people, most of them living in comfort unimaginable to our ancestors.
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@JolyonMaugham
No, the virus didn’t target them. Rather, lockdowns were desigbed to protect the affluent professionals at their expense. And locking down a few days earlier would have made absolutely zero difference.
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@JolyonMaugham
The right to free speech is absolute. It has nothing to do with relative power. When it directly instructs attacks against individuals’ persons or property, then it can be punished as violence against these two supreme natural rights, hence no need for additional restrictions.
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@David__Osland
Ofsted ratings, like those of all bureaucratic quangos, are all about ticking boxes and having processes and SOPs. They tell you very little about the ethos of the school and the actual lived experience they provide. If all are all so outstanding why the need for more resources?
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However, this is how socialists always assume the “rich” will be taxed. From private schools to non-doms and beyond.
If we impose a £100,000 tax on men with beards then we cannot calculate the revenue as (£100,000 x number of men with beards). There would be an obvious taxpayer response (shaving), and the actual revenue would be close to zero.
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@ClimateDad77
The exact opposite: civilisation will only collapse if, instead of turbocharging growth to generate knowledge and wealth to tackle the problem, we end up choosing to regress back to medieval peasantry.
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@bbclaurak
So, 1 lonely friend can visit with no social distancing and sex in house is allowed; 6 more can pass through your house, 2 meters apart, to the back garden but are not allowed to stay inside, unless they want to go to the loo. But an orgy in the outdoor pool is legal 🤭
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Wholeheartedly agree. Personal responsibility and choice are how a liberal society should function.
Johnson announces a return of mandatory face masks in shops and public transport. First question from the ‘Press’: ‘Why aren’t you going in harder?’
The story of the last 18 months. An authoritarian illiberal govt pushed to be even more authoritarian & illiberal by the media.
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@clairebubblepop
You don’t have to be on benefits. But if you accept state subsidies you must also accept the attendant responsibilities.
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@BBCRealityCheck
@StevePeers
Why is everyone obsessed with this number? It was plucked out of thin air because it sounded big and round
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@lewis_goodall
Time to get rid of the Lords, once and for all. We need an elected upper House now
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@guardian
Is this article for real? Essentially it says: I came second in an election, so the system is racist….
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@BallouxFrancois
Exactly right. SARS-CoV-2 has become an endemic virus that will continue to evolve. Our responses should be tailored to preventing deaths, mostly through vaccination, not a whack-a-mole futile chasing of variants with disruptive and authoritarian NPIs.
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@PoliticsForAlI
A lockdown sceptic, someone who thinks about consequences and does not automatically reach for self- destructive last-ditch measures, is a good attribute for government.
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@BernieSpofforth
Who would have thought that creating trillions out of thin air to support the disastrous lockdowns would have consequences?
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@WesPegden
It is a basic tenet of economic life that he who bears the risk, pays the price for mitigation. Locking down the young and destroying their lives to protect vulnerable elderly who lost no income is fundamentally unfair.
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@afneil
The best thing any Govt can do is step back and let the market forces work. Fossil fuels are on the way out, green energy in. Govt intervention should be limited to taxing externalities such as pollution.
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@David__Osland
How do we subsidise private schools? Refraining from looting through excessive taxation is not a subsidy.
If anything, private schools subsidise the public sector as 600,000 pupils worth of funding goes unclaimed.
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@james_e_baldwin
And just to clarify, a strict lockdown should not interfere with the delivery of local über-green organic ethically sourced groceries, coffee and meals to my doorstep. Also the local quirky shops should do that too, not only Amazon. After all I am an ethical progressive!
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@JamesMelville
It never ceases to amaze me how deeply illiberal so many so called progressives are....
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@jon_trickett
We want good healthcare for the eye-watering amounts of tax we pay to fund the NHS. There is nothing magic about a monopoly state provider. Actually it causes complacency, waste and a preoccupation with organisational rather than customer needs.
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@Rachael_Swindon
Corbyn’s failed ideology would have solved nothing. If Corbyn had been elected and implemented what he promised, 2022 for the UK would have been very similar to Sri Lanka’s…
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@johnredwood
The NHS is a bottomless pit. As long as the population perceives it as “free”, there is no control in demanding more healthcare. The only solution is moving from a tax-based system to an insurance-based one, where premiums and copays act as brakes…
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@PoliticsForAlI
@ObserverUK
Making people poorer will not help them. UK priority should be flood mitigation and cheap clean electricity production. It can them be used to heat and power everything. Forcing people to pay over the top for replacing gas boilers with an inferior product helps noone!
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@MattHancock
How did this Govt manage to simultaneously tank the economy and have an extremely high Covid-19 mortality? Most countries got one or the other, not both!
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@biscuitsgod
Because this analogy is misleading. We still have a health service. But in order to prevent fires, we haven’t banned gas supply to homes, all open flames, match possession, smoking inside etc!
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@WesPegden
Give the vulnerable the choice and support to isolate, if they so wish. Let everyone else do their own risk assessment.
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@Ed_Miliband
Only a socialist would describe a 75% tax rate as a “tax break”. The type of socialist that can convert a rich oil-producing nation to Venezuela in a short couple of years.
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@tweedy151
@afneil
The idea that more tax creates a decent society is wrong.
More tax just creates government intervention, cultivates cronyism and stifles individual agency.
In the end, the whole society ends up being poorer.
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@timspector
@drraghibali
Exactly- just stop asymptomatic testing. If there is an index case, test their contacts daily and isolate only those testing positive
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@matthewlesh
@RMTunion
Respectful picket lines should be the norm. Everyone has the right to strike. Noone has the right to intimidate others into striking. And employers should have the right to replace striking workers as they see fit.
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@10DowningStreet
@BorisJohnson
The rules are becoming fiendishly complicated and unenforceable. Just lift the lockdown completely and ask people to take as much risk as they are comfortable with.
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@PoliticsForAlI
Also just 123 hospitalisations and 6 deaths (both stable). My take is that all legal restrictions should still be lifted on 21st June. Individuals are still free to adjust their activities to their level of risk tolerance.
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@RichardBurgon
So your definition of high-net worth individuals that are to be robbed under Labour is now down to anyone making £80k. Sweet.
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@afneil
Its not only about fear and paralysis. It’s just wrong.
There will be costs, winners (lower winter heating costs in the UK for example) and losers and humanity will adapt.
Nothing anywhere near an existential threat.
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@PoliticsForAlI
@thesundaytimes
I hope the info is correct. Given current knowledge about delta transmission, passports are not just an infringement of liberty, they are useless too. Next, pre and post travel testing needs to go!
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@yorksfella59
On the contrary, it’s the socialists who expect the state to organise a commission to produce a white paper to eventually do something at an extortionate price, instead of taking responsibility for their neighborhood.
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And in a few weeks, hopefully, we will consign it to history, forever!
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@TelePolitics
@afneil
The Guardian can never be racist because they are the arbiters of what is racist.
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@afneil
Has largely gone unreported, but since March, there have been >8000 fewer deaths in the UK than expected. The total excess deaths number from Jan 2020 on is ~100k, considerably less than the headline Covid deaths figure…
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@RachelReevesMP
So Labour “fairness” is even more discriminatory. Public servants keep their exorbitant pensions tax-free while the private sector workers who pay their salaries and pensions are taxes even more….
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@ScienceShared
It astounds me that ostensibly clever people extrapolate exponential curves essentially to infinity. According to some of these models soon there will be more Covid cases on Earth than atoms in the observable universe….
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Why we need to privatise everything and cut taxes in one graph.
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@AnnelieseDodds
There is nothing extremist about letting people keep more of their earnings and spend them according to their needs and wants.
What is extremist is believing that the governing party has a right to take from the productive to give to its clients.
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@afneil
More to the point, in a universal insurance scheme, everyone explicitly pays for healthcare access (even if premiums are subsidised for the poorest). In our current system, a large proportion pay nothing (or almost nothing) and yet expect more and more…
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@afneil
Don’t confuse socialism with a social safety net. The need for the latter is accepted even among ardent free marketeers like Hayek or Friedman. Socialism is about state control and direction of the economy which is incompatible with individual freedom and leads to totalitarianism
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@skepticalzebra
@BallouxFrancois
@Marco_Piani
I share all these concerns. That’s how I reached the conclusion that the fundamental human right is freedom of one’s self and property from violence. And there is nothing more violent than government mandates and coercion.
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@SteveBakerHW
We need to seriously rethink the relationship of State and individual. How did we end up in a situation where the State can unilaterally and arbitrarily restrict freedom and destroy the livelihoods of its citizens?
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@BallouxFrancois
@EricPhDing
Nah - i once had a patient with really bad testicular hepatitis; it’s the worse, I tell you
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@tomhfh
The first thing it should do is allow families to pool their tax allowances so if one partner works and the other stays at home looking after the family, they are not penalised when it comes to income tax.
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@PoliticsForAlI
@thetimes
Stop taxing people directly and indirectly and get your spending under control! An individual’s earnings are his to spend, not for the government to confiscate and redistribute!
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@SteveBakerHW
A circuit breaker is worse than useless. It causes economic damage and does not affect the course of the epidemic. It has one attractive attribute only: allows politicians to claim they are doing something…
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