spraindsquirrel
@spraindsquirrel.bsky.social
Fist in the air in the land of hypocrisy... and what-have-you
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Hi I’m a tax dodging charlatan who spends half his time in Dubai and the other half begging America to buy Britain.
Today I’ll be telling you why the budget was unpatriotic.
Today I’ll be telling you why the budget was unpatriotic.
November 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Hi I’m a tax dodging charlatan who spends half his time in Dubai and the other half begging America to buy Britain.
Today I’ll be telling you why the budget was unpatriotic.
Today I’ll be telling you why the budget was unpatriotic.
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A petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics and democracy has reached over 60,000 signatures with the percentage of people signing it highest in Wales.
Russian influence enquiry petition has higher concentration of signatures in Wales
Emily Price A petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics and democracy has reached over 60,000 signatures with the percentage of people signing it highest in Wales. T...
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November 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
A petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics and democracy has reached over 60,000 signatures with the percentage of people signing it highest in Wales.
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Plus sides to today: Two-child benefit scrapped. Largely progressive tax implications. Good market reaction. No big spending cuts. Nightmare prospect of cutting funding to net zero etc avoided. It's a left-wing budget. Those who say there's no difference between Labour and Tories are bananas.
November 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Plus sides to today: Two-child benefit scrapped. Largely progressive tax implications. Good market reaction. No big spending cuts. Nightmare prospect of cutting funding to net zero etc avoided. It's a left-wing budget. Those who say there's no difference between Labour and Tories are bananas.
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1/2 Today’s Budget has some welcome steps, including ending the two-child limit and the start of council tax reform.
But it’s tactical, not strategic.
Britain needs a plan that taxes wealth fairly, devolves real power, and brings essential utilities back under public control.
But it’s tactical, not strategic.
Britain needs a plan that taxes wealth fairly, devolves real power, and brings essential utilities back under public control.
November 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
1/2 Today’s Budget has some welcome steps, including ending the two-child limit and the start of council tax reform.
But it’s tactical, not strategic.
Britain needs a plan that taxes wealth fairly, devolves real power, and brings essential utilities back under public control.
But it’s tactical, not strategic.
Britain needs a plan that taxes wealth fairly, devolves real power, and brings essential utilities back under public control.
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Lib Dem leader Edward Davey calls for a national investigation into Russian political interference in British politics:
"Given Reform won't, he must. So will he know launch a national investigation into Russian infiltration into our politics?"
Starmer: "Reform is riddled with pro-Putin propaganda"
"Given Reform won't, he must. So will he know launch a national investigation into Russian infiltration into our politics?"
Starmer: "Reform is riddled with pro-Putin propaganda"
November 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Lib Dem leader Edward Davey calls for a national investigation into Russian political interference in British politics:
"Given Reform won't, he must. So will he know launch a national investigation into Russian infiltration into our politics?"
Starmer: "Reform is riddled with pro-Putin propaganda"
"Given Reform won't, he must. So will he know launch a national investigation into Russian infiltration into our politics?"
Starmer: "Reform is riddled with pro-Putin propaganda"
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Totally unnecessary. In fact @zackpolanski.bsky.social probably had an influence on some of these budget announcements
Reform has pushed Labour to the right. The growing threat from the Greens will undoubtedly make them think of the voters abandoning them and do the opposite.
Reform has pushed Labour to the right. The growing threat from the Greens will undoubtedly make them think of the voters abandoning them and do the opposite.
Watch as Rachel Reeves brands Greens leader Zack Polanski a 'keen hypnotherapist'
🗣️ 'The only things getting bigger under his approach would be the deficit and the rise of inflation'
🗣️ 'The only things getting bigger under his approach would be the deficit and the rise of inflation'
November 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Totally unnecessary. In fact @zackpolanski.bsky.social probably had an influence on some of these budget announcements
Reform has pushed Labour to the right. The growing threat from the Greens will undoubtedly make them think of the voters abandoning them and do the opposite.
Reform has pushed Labour to the right. The growing threat from the Greens will undoubtedly make them think of the voters abandoning them and do the opposite.
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Labour's internal polling must be showing a flood of their voters going Green.
The normal thing to do (according to so-called political wisdom) would be to barely acknowledge the party exists while taking and neutering enough of their policies to peel away support.
They're absolutely freaking out.
The normal thing to do (according to so-called political wisdom) would be to barely acknowledge the party exists while taking and neutering enough of their policies to peel away support.
They're absolutely freaking out.
Watch as Rachel Reeves brands Greens leader Zack Polanski a 'keen hypnotherapist'
🗣️ 'The only things getting bigger under his approach would be the deficit and the rise of inflation'
🗣️ 'The only things getting bigger under his approach would be the deficit and the rise of inflation'
November 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Labour's internal polling must be showing a flood of their voters going Green.
The normal thing to do (according to so-called political wisdom) would be to barely acknowledge the party exists while taking and neutering enough of their policies to peel away support.
They're absolutely freaking out.
The normal thing to do (according to so-called political wisdom) would be to barely acknowledge the party exists while taking and neutering enough of their policies to peel away support.
They're absolutely freaking out.
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Setting the political agenda ...
November 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Setting the political agenda ...
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Labour were already stuffed before the Budget.
They're doubly stuffed now.
Nothing they are doing will do anything to dissipate the economic gloom overshadowing the UK.
Hadly surprising given that the clouds have "Brexit" stamped all the way through them like the motto in a stick of seaside rock.
They're doubly stuffed now.
Nothing they are doing will do anything to dissipate the economic gloom overshadowing the UK.
Hadly surprising given that the clouds have "Brexit" stamped all the way through them like the motto in a stick of seaside rock.
Two graphs that explain the Government's problems more than anything else.
Another half decade of flatlined living standards
Another half decade of flatlined living standards
November 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Labour were already stuffed before the Budget.
They're doubly stuffed now.
Nothing they are doing will do anything to dissipate the economic gloom overshadowing the UK.
Hadly surprising given that the clouds have "Brexit" stamped all the way through them like the motto in a stick of seaside rock.
They're doubly stuffed now.
Nothing they are doing will do anything to dissipate the economic gloom overshadowing the UK.
Hadly surprising given that the clouds have "Brexit" stamped all the way through them like the motto in a stick of seaside rock.
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Rachel Reeves: “We are freezing Russian assets and let me be clear I don’t actually mean the honorable member for Clacton.”
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Rachel Reeves: “We are freezing Russian assets and let me be clear I don’t actually mean the honorable member for Clacton.”
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🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer
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November 26, 2025 at 6:49 AM
🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
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I'm really curious who leaked that audio. And why.
November 26, 2025 at 4:52 AM
I'm really curious who leaked that audio. And why.
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Cue rich people moaning about how they can no longer afford to live in their castles.... God it's all so horribly predictable
🚨 BREXIT BUDGET🚨
"From 2028, I am introducing a high value council tax surcharge in England. An annual £2,500 charge for properties worth more than £2 million, rising to £7,500 for properties worth more than £5 million."
"From 2028, I am introducing a high value council tax surcharge in England. An annual £2,500 charge for properties worth more than £2 million, rising to £7,500 for properties worth more than £5 million."
November 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Cue rich people moaning about how they can no longer afford to live in their castles.... God it's all so horribly predictable
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The Prime Minister just told me any party leader should want to get to the bottom of this Russian bribery scandal with Reform.
He is the Prime Minister and a party leader. Why isn't he launching a national investigation himself?
He is the Prime Minister and a party leader. Why isn't he launching a national investigation himself?
November 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The Prime Minister just told me any party leader should want to get to the bottom of this Russian bribery scandal with Reform.
He is the Prime Minister and a party leader. Why isn't he launching a national investigation himself?
He is the Prime Minister and a party leader. Why isn't he launching a national investigation himself?
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Side point, but it can’t be said often enough that so much of today’s political debate is taken up with migration, when it is *plunging* 📉 (from OBR docs):
November 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Side point, but it can’t be said often enough that so much of today’s political debate is taken up with migration, when it is *plunging* 📉 (from OBR docs):
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Reeves says the government is “freezing Russian assets”.
But she does not mean Nigel Farage, she says.
But she does not mean Nigel Farage, she says.
November 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Reeves says the government is “freezing Russian assets”.
But she does not mean Nigel Farage, she says.
But she does not mean Nigel Farage, she says.
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Interviewed Zack Polanski on a Green Budget:
- Wealth tax of 1% on £10m+ and 2% on £1bn+.
- Open to broad-based tax rises once inequality has been reduced.
- His MMT-style fiscal rule: “Inflation doesn’t go higher than the skills and resources that we have”. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
- Wealth tax of 1% on £10m+ and 2% on £1bn+.
- Open to broad-based tax rises once inequality has been reduced.
- His MMT-style fiscal rule: “Inflation doesn’t go higher than the skills and resources that we have”. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
What would Zack Polanski do?
The Green Party leader on wealth taxes, the Nordic model and fiscal rules
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November 25, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Interviewed Zack Polanski on a Green Budget:
- Wealth tax of 1% on £10m+ and 2% on £1bn+.
- Open to broad-based tax rises once inequality has been reduced.
- His MMT-style fiscal rule: “Inflation doesn’t go higher than the skills and resources that we have”. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
- Wealth tax of 1% on £10m+ and 2% on £1bn+.
- Open to broad-based tax rises once inequality has been reduced.
- His MMT-style fiscal rule: “Inflation doesn’t go higher than the skills and resources that we have”. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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tbh Polanski seems to have avoided most of the big MMT heffalump traps (allowing that "inflation doesn't go higher" was a misspeak), I'm relatively impressed at whoever's advising him.
November 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM
tbh Polanski seems to have avoided most of the big MMT heffalump traps (allowing that "inflation doesn't go higher" was a misspeak), I'm relatively impressed at whoever's advising him.
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Steve Witkoff helped Russia derail Ukraine’s access to Tomahawk missiles. He tipped off the Kremlin about Zelensky’s U.S. visit, giving Moscow time to arrange a call that convinced Trump to block the deal. Witkoff actively works against Ukraine’s defense, in coordination with Putin’s regime.
November 26, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Steve Witkoff helped Russia derail Ukraine’s access to Tomahawk missiles. He tipped off the Kremlin about Zelensky’s U.S. visit, giving Moscow time to arrange a call that convinced Trump to block the deal. Witkoff actively works against Ukraine’s defense, in coordination with Putin’s regime.
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In 2016 it was calculated that Brexit would cost everyone £2000 a year. Leave voters said they were happy to pay to get their sovereignty back. I said fine, Leave voters should be required to deposit £2000 before being allowed to vote to leave. In reality of course it's costing us all £4000 a year.
November 26, 2025 at 10:42 AM
In 2016 it was calculated that Brexit would cost everyone £2000 a year. Leave voters said they were happy to pay to get their sovereignty back. I said fine, Leave voters should be required to deposit £2000 before being allowed to vote to leave. In reality of course it's costing us all £4000 a year.
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There is no good reason for Trump to be involved in Ukraine negotiations.
Europe pays everything; Trump pays nothing.
Epstein emails and new leaks also prove Trump is compromised and under Russian blackmail, while Witkoff clearly backs Moscow over the US and Ukraine.
Trump out!
Europe pays everything; Trump pays nothing.
Epstein emails and new leaks also prove Trump is compromised and under Russian blackmail, while Witkoff clearly backs Moscow over the US and Ukraine.
Trump out!
November 26, 2025 at 9:26 AM
There is no good reason for Trump to be involved in Ukraine negotiations.
Europe pays everything; Trump pays nothing.
Epstein emails and new leaks also prove Trump is compromised and under Russian blackmail, while Witkoff clearly backs Moscow over the US and Ukraine.
Trump out!
Europe pays everything; Trump pays nothing.
Epstein emails and new leaks also prove Trump is compromised and under Russian blackmail, while Witkoff clearly backs Moscow over the US and Ukraine.
Trump out!
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Trump envoy Steve Witkoff has been outed as a Russian asset. This is traitorous stuff.
Steve Witkoff helped Russia derail Ukraine’s access to Tomahawk missiles. He tipped off the Kremlin about Zelensky’s U.S. visit, giving Moscow time to arrange a call that convinced Trump to block the deal. Witkoff actively works against Ukraine’s defense, in coordination with Putin’s regime.
November 26, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Trump envoy Steve Witkoff has been outed as a Russian asset. This is traitorous stuff.
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Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered Jair Bolsonaro, former president, to begin serving his 27 year sentence at the Federal Police headquarters—
I find myself simultaneously envious & hopeful the #Trump regime will find a similar moment of accountability
I find myself simultaneously envious & hopeful the #Trump regime will find a similar moment of accountability
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered Jair Bolsonaro, former president, to begin serving his 27 year sentence at the Federal Police headquarters—
I find myself simultaneously envious & hopeful the #Trump regime will find a similar moment of accountability
I find myself simultaneously envious & hopeful the #Trump regime will find a similar moment of accountability
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4/5 Epstein emails show Russia has leverage over Trump, and Bloomberg leaks prove Witkoff is helping Moscow influence him.
When the leaks broke, Trump backed Witkoff, the man he chose.
This is a compromised administration
When the leaks broke, Trump backed Witkoff, the man he chose.
This is a compromised administration
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 AM
4/5 Epstein emails show Russia has leverage over Trump, and Bloomberg leaks prove Witkoff is helping Moscow influence him.
When the leaks broke, Trump backed Witkoff, the man he chose.
This is a compromised administration
When the leaks broke, Trump backed Witkoff, the man he chose.
This is a compromised administration
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The beautiful thing about TWENTY of his classmates saying Farage was a huge racist at school, means that he'll lose any libel case he tries.
Civil cases are won on "balance of probability".
i.e. You just have to prove that it's more likely than not.
And it's already 20 to 1!
Civil cases are won on "balance of probability".
i.e. You just have to prove that it's more likely than not.
And it's already 20 to 1!
November 26, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The beautiful thing about TWENTY of his classmates saying Farage was a huge racist at school, means that he'll lose any libel case he tries.
Civil cases are won on "balance of probability".
i.e. You just have to prove that it's more likely than not.
And it's already 20 to 1!
Civil cases are won on "balance of probability".
i.e. You just have to prove that it's more likely than not.
And it's already 20 to 1!