@grahamdavid.bsky.socialTax Wealth not Income!
If rates for Capital Gains are raised HMRC's own modelling suggest they will take LESS money!
For Labour, ideology is more important than practical measures.
#GrahamDavid #Satire #Comment #CapitalGainsTax #UKBudget #UKTax
@grahamdavid.bsky.socialDoes Andrew Burnham genuinely believe the people of the UK want him?
@grahamdavid.bsky.socialDoes Britain need a Ministry of Truth?
Our (unelected) PM just announced a new agency to manage "disinformation" ...
...this should worry anyone who can think for themselves.
#GrahamDavid #Satire #Comment #AndyBurnham #UKPolitics #FreeSpeech
@grahamdavid.bsky.social"Dark blizzard of disinformation."
Sadiq Khan's words.
But what's the actual difference between disinformation and just... disagreeing with him?
#GrahamDavid #Satire #Comment #SadiqKhan #FreeSpeech #UKPolitics
@grahamdavid.bsky.socialONS says wages are up 3.5%.
After inflation it's 0.6%.
Here's what's actually eating the rest, and why it's freezing hiring.
#GrahamDavid #SatireAndComment #WageGrowth #NationalInsurance #UKEconomy #SmallBusiness #CostOfLiving #PersonalFinance
@grahamdavid.bsky.socialLot's of Extra cash borrowed.
Lot's of Extra cash confiscated in tax.
And what have we got for that money?
Now they're briefing us that they might need to raise taxes AGAIN.
What if instead we ...spend less?
@grahamdavid.bsky.socialTaxpayers get threats described as "contribution".
Benefit recipients get to wonder what's in the stocking this year.
Cannot wait for Budget Day...
#GrahamDavid #Satire #Comment #UKBudget #MansionTax #JohnHealey
@grahamdavid.bsky.socialDigital ID, filmed casually in a bar, sold to us as "just something to make life easier."
Here's how a policy nobody voted for keeps creeping forward anyway.
#GrahamDavid #Satire #Comment #DigitalID #AndyBurnham #UKPolitics
@grahamdavid.bsky.social"We had no idea the accounts were this bad."
Heard that one before?
Burnham and Healey are running the exact same script Starmer and Reeves did, two years on.
#GrahamDavid #Satire #Comment #UKBudget #AndyBurnham #JohnHealey
@grahamdavid.bsky.social"Labour is the party of working people."
Except when it's taxing the people who run 99.9% of British businesses, and calling it something else.
#GrahamDavid #Satire #Comment #EmployerNI #UKTax #SmallBusiness
@grahamdavid.bsky.socialEver won a windfall and suddenly your old savings looked tiny?
That's exactly what happens to people who've never earned their own money before they're handed a government budget.
#GrahamDavid #Satire #Comment #UKPolitics #GovernmentSpending #PublicSector
@grahamdavid.bsky.socialWhatever you want out of life, more money, more time, better health, it takes relentless effort and most people won't ever notice.
Stop tearing down people who put in that effort. Go put in your own.
@grahamdavid.bsky.socialThe Lefties are furious that a rival party got a big donation.
Turns out "where's the money coming from" is only a question they ask about the other side.
#GrahamDavid #Satire #Comment #AngelaRayner #UKPolitics #NigelFarage
@grahamdavid.bsky.socialSame donations, different outrage.
Here's what the £72 million story is actually about.
#GrahamDavid #SatireAndComment #UKPolitics #ReformUK #PartyFunding #Labour #Conservatives #PoliticalHypocrisy
@grahamdavid.bsky.socialMeet the Lanyard Wankers.
The people whose entire job exists because you built something, and now they get to slow it down, tax it, and tell you no.
#GrahamDavid #Satire #Comment #PublicSector #Bureaucracy #UKPolitics
@grahamdavid.bsky.socialLabour has a new proposal...
... they will tax you based on how often you're getting it.
#GrahamDavid #Satire #Comment #UKTax #UKPolitics #MakingTaxDigital
@grahamdavid.bsky.socialLabour's new tourist tax.
No cap! Councils set it wherever they want.
Guess how long before "just 3%" becomes "just 10%."
#GrahamDavid #Satire #Comment #TouristTax #UKPolitics #UKTax
@grahamdavid.bsky.socialJohn Healey brushed off a serious question about Britain's third highest taxpayer leaving for Greece.
£330 million a year, walking out the door, and rubbishing a serious question was the best he had.
#GrahamDavid #Satire #Comment #JohnHealey #UKTax #UKPolitics
@grahamdavid.bsky.socialEveryone says the Labour front bench is bad.
Nobody's actually thought through what that means for the other 400 or so MPs behind them!
#GrahamDavid #Satire #Comment #UKPolitics #LabourParty #Westminster
@grahamdavid.bsky.socialLabour Chancellor John Healy claims the UK is "Turning a Corner".
How well does that claim match your reality?
#GrahamDavid #Satire #Comment #JohnHealey #UKEconomy #UKPolitics