Paul McNamara
@mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social
Sovereign Debt “veteran” (retd.) apparently. Finance stuff, opinions and Set Piece FC.
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Paul McNamara
@mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Big flow of new followers. Lmk if we were mutuals in the other place, decent starter pack from @tobyn.bsky.social here bsky.app/starter-pack...
Perfect dissection of the latest bullshit about the mansion tax.
Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
November 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Perfect dissection of the latest bullshit about the mansion tax.
Maybe he should eat less avocado toast?
November 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Maybe he should eat less avocado toast?
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Some odd double standards on antisemitism going on from the Jewish Chronicle’s Stephen Pollard…
www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...
The man who took down Corbyn over antisemitism gives Farage a free pass
Former Jewish Chronicle editor Stephen Pollard seems to have changed his tune despite revelations about Reform’s leader
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Some odd double standards on antisemitism going on from the Jewish Chronicle’s Stephen Pollard…
www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...
I remember this particular bellend. Throw away the key.
Congratulations to Graham Phillips for achieving this first - Pro-Russia former civil servant becomes first Brit to face Ukraine 'war crime' charges over clip of pigs eating dead soldiers
www.lbc.co.uk/article/firs...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/firs...
Pro-Russia former civil servant becomes first Brit to face Ukraine 'war crime' charges over clip of pigs eating dead soldiers | LBC
A former civil servant who has publicly voiced his support for Vladimir Putin has reportedly become the first Brit to face charges of war crimes over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
www.lbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I remember this particular bellend. Throw away the key.
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Problem: you have two left wing parties in British politics.
Solution: start a new left wing party to unify the movement
Problem: you now have four left wing parties in British politics
Solution: start a new left wing party to unify the movement
Problem: you now have four left wing parties in British politics
November 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Problem: you have two left wing parties in British politics.
Solution: start a new left wing party to unify the movement
Problem: you now have four left wing parties in British politics
Solution: start a new left wing party to unify the movement
Problem: you now have four left wing parties in British politics
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One third of ALL council housing building started in London this year has been by Lib Dem Sutton council.
A great achievement from the Lib Dem team - but also a reflection that Labour have failed on housing - contributing to our terrible levels of homelessness.
A great achievement from the Lib Dem team - but also a reflection that Labour have failed on housing - contributing to our terrible levels of homelessness.
November 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
One third of ALL council housing building started in London this year has been by Lib Dem Sutton council.
A great achievement from the Lib Dem team - but also a reflection that Labour have failed on housing - contributing to our terrible levels of homelessness.
A great achievement from the Lib Dem team - but also a reflection that Labour have failed on housing - contributing to our terrible levels of homelessness.
The unfailing pettiness of Corbyn remains a source of wonder.
In a grim world, this story is a necessary source of joy and laughter.
news.sky.com/story/jeremy...
news.sky.com/story/jeremy...
Jeremy Corbyn declines to call Zarah Sultana a friend as Your Party holds first conference
Ms Sultana had previously claimed she was being "sidelined" by a "sexist boys' club" within the fledgling party.
news.sky.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The unfailing pettiness of Corbyn remains a source of wonder.
If he’s targeting a specific sum, surely he has more motivation?
Josh Hall, 20, is 'worried' about how the cash ISA allowance cut announced in Wednesday’s Budget will affect his long-term savings plans
➡#Read More: trib.al/UPCzygg
➡#Read More: trib.al/UPCzygg
November 29, 2025 at 10:04 AM
If he’s targeting a specific sum, surely he has more motivation?
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Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Can’t one of the other people who live in her 6-bed house chip in?
November 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Can’t one of the other people who live in her 6-bed house chip in?
About once a week Badenoch says something that makes you wonder if she has some exotic form of Tourette’s that makes her compulsively spout complete bollocks.
November 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
About once a week Badenoch says something that makes you wonder if she has some exotic form of Tourette’s that makes her compulsively spout complete bollocks.
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I swear if I read or see one more suggestion that owning a £2million house doesn’t make you rich I will not be responsible for my actions.
November 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I swear if I read or see one more suggestion that owning a £2million house doesn’t make you rich I will not be responsible for my actions.
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As political scandals go, a grubby backroom deal to, errrr, lift 450,000 children out of poverty is at least a novel one.
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
As political scandals go, a grubby backroom deal to, errrr, lift 450,000 children out of poverty is at least a novel one.
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It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
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- A 100,000 drop in net migration costs us £7bn
- Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn
What gets more attention?
James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.
- Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn
What gets more attention?
James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 AM
- A 100,000 drop in net migration costs us £7bn
- Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn
What gets more attention?
James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.
- Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn
What gets more attention?
James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.
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You’ll never walk alone*
*Terms and conditions apply
*Terms and conditions apply
November 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
You’ll never walk alone*
*Terms and conditions apply
*Terms and conditions apply
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Apparently the number of houses a person can have before admitting that they're not actually hard-done by is n+1: buried near the end of this piece, we discover our fearful 1930s house-owner owns *another* house as well from which they receive a rental income.
November 27, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Apparently the number of houses a person can have before admitting that they're not actually hard-done by is n+1: buried near the end of this piece, we discover our fearful 1930s house-owner owns *another* house as well from which they receive a rental income.
Incredible: starts off as a grimly familiar tale of abuse of legal process but then gets very weird very fast.
A solicitor, Andrew Milne has been bullying leaseholders across Sheffield into paying him extraordinary sums, with no legal basis.
Why hasn't the SRA stopped him? Because he's conducted an extraordinary campaign against the SRA. 180 complaints. Two judicial reviews.
More here: buff.ly/LmLVegM
Why hasn't the SRA stopped him? Because he's conducted an extraordinary campaign against the SRA. 180 complaints. Two judicial reviews.
More here: buff.ly/LmLVegM
SRA urged to take action as we reveal solicitor has ‘purposely frustrated’ investigation
Solicitor Andrew Jonathan Milne delayed an official investigation into his alleged professional misconduct by overwhelming the regulator with complaints and threatening them with two injunctions se…
buff.ly
November 27, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Incredible: starts off as a grimly familiar tale of abuse of legal process but then gets very weird very fast.
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Fundamentally every one of these posts about someone’s parents brings to mind Machiavelli’s observation that men will more easily forgive the execution of their father than the deprivation of their patrimony
November 27, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Fundamentally every one of these posts about someone’s parents brings to mind Machiavelli’s observation that men will more easily forgive the execution of their father than the deprivation of their patrimony
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Starmer and Reeves run probably the most economically left-wing government of past five decades and yet bleeding support to its left thanks to dumb strategy www.economist.com/britain/2025...
November 27, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Starmer and Reeves run probably the most economically left-wing government of past five decades and yet bleeding support to its left thanks to dumb strategy www.economist.com/britain/2025...
You’ll never walk alone*
*Terms and conditions apply
*Terms and conditions apply
November 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
You’ll never walk alone*
*Terms and conditions apply
*Terms and conditions apply
It is in fact just as simple as “if you live in a fuck-off expensive house you can afford to pay a bit more tax”
November 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
It is in fact just as simple as “if you live in a fuck-off expensive house you can afford to pay a bit more tax”
This is why I love football. Huge statement win, but there’s still time for pettiness.
November 26, 2025 at 10:22 PM
This is why I love football. Huge statement win, but there’s still time for pettiness.
Won’t somebody think of the ordinary people affected here?
November 26, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Won’t somebody think of the ordinary people affected here?