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David Timoney
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"Lowe’s meteoric rise owes far more to X’s owner, Elon Musk, championing him after falling out with Farage than it does to a British rightwing press still mostly focused on Reform". Again, to emphasise: you're writing a column about Restore and JD Vance, Gaby.
"What we have is more of the same, with added vibes".
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This is just another stupid attempt to convince people to push their retirement age further back, dressed up as a form of social entitlement when it is clearly just another form of debt bondage.
David Timoney
Giving people a £12k "citizens' advance" after 10 years NICs in return for deferring their pension by a year is a terrible idea. It even looks paltry compared to the "national fund" promoted by Thomas Paine over two hundred years ago, let alone a UBI.
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David Edgerton & Karel Williams make good points, notably that radical change to our political economy must start with tax reform, but I feel their focus on "the four market essentials – housing, utilities, energy and transport" misses that one of those is an 800-pound gorilla.
For graduates, the money will mainly go to help pay down student loans, but this will make little difference when debts are around £50k. For non-graduates, it will amount to an extra £300 a year over a working lifetime, when the graduate premium is around £10k per annum.
"Meta’s former head of global affairs says executives pivoted right in some cases for ‘rather more self-interested’ reasons".
I doubt Nick Clegg abandoned politics to become a highly-paid flack for Mark Zuckerberg for entirely selfless reasons.
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Our economy has proven highly vulnerable to fluctuations in energy prices, which impact most essentials, but this is because housing takes up so much income: there's no slack. Our limited real resources must be focused on social housing and rents must be pushed down.
If social media were so influential, I'm pretty sure Your Party would currently be garenering acres of commentary rather than crickets or, at best, sneering pity. Musk has helped promote Lowe & Reform, but it is the mainstream media who have boosted the signal by reporting on it.
"The startling speed at which a tiny splinter party such as Restore has gained name recognition in Britain is an alarming illustration of how political influence is shifting now that half of British adults look to social media for their news." Bollix.
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