Jane Harbison
@janeharbison.bsky.social
Education, Politics, Social Justice, Europe
ex LA Senior Adviser, researcher, waitress, company director, traveller.
ex LA Senior Adviser, researcher, waitress, company director, traveller.
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High value council tax charge on houses worth more than 2 million
Better with Labour. 👍
Better with Labour. 👍
November 26, 2025 at 1:18 PM
High value council tax charge on houses worth more than 2 million
Better with Labour. 👍
Better with Labour. 👍
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What a vile and spiteful speech from Badenoch .
Insult and abuse in place of any genuine comment
A cartoon caricature of ugly spite. What a turnoff.
Insult and abuse in place of any genuine comment
A cartoon caricature of ugly spite. What a turnoff.
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
What a vile and spiteful speech from Badenoch .
Insult and abuse in place of any genuine comment
A cartoon caricature of ugly spite. What a turnoff.
Insult and abuse in place of any genuine comment
A cartoon caricature of ugly spite. What a turnoff.
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"It's amazing what people get so angry about and on that side it's lifting children out of poverty," says Rachel Reeves as Conservative MPs try to shout down her announcement that she is scrapping the two child benefit cap which has pushed hundreds of thousands of children below the poverty line
November 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
"It's amazing what people get so angry about and on that side it's lifting children out of poverty," says Rachel Reeves as Conservative MPs try to shout down her announcement that she is scrapping the two child benefit cap which has pushed hundreds of thousands of children below the poverty line
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On Truss & Kwarteng in ‘22. Allister Heath, Telegraph: “the best budget I have ever heard a British chancellor deliver". Alex Brummer, Mail: “a genuine Tory package elbowing to one side the Treasury's fiscal conservatism".
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
On Truss & Kwarteng in ‘22. Allister Heath, Telegraph: “the best budget I have ever heard a British chancellor deliver". Alex Brummer, Mail: “a genuine Tory package elbowing to one side the Treasury's fiscal conservatism".
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
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Taking credit for other's actions suits the Tories better than it does the Greens - along with the demonising and gimmicky "tax the rich" it's starting to be a real turn-off.
- When another party gets it right, maybe acknowledge it
- "Fair tax for all" can include the rich paying more
Messaging.
- When another party gets it right, maybe acknowledge it
- "Fair tax for all" can include the rich paying more
Messaging.
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Taking credit for other's actions suits the Tories better than it does the Greens - along with the demonising and gimmicky "tax the rich" it's starting to be a real turn-off.
- When another party gets it right, maybe acknowledge it
- "Fair tax for all" can include the rich paying more
Messaging.
- When another party gets it right, maybe acknowledge it
- "Fair tax for all" can include the rich paying more
Messaging.
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At least Zack had a successful career as a fraudulent hypnotist.
November 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
At least Zack had a successful career as a fraudulent hypnotist.
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Initial reaction on the budget:
Maintains investment & public spending as set out in the spending review.
More investment in some areas.
Help for those on lower incomes, with the cost of living and pensioners.
Tax increases on those who can afford it.
Overall: great stuff!
Maintains investment & public spending as set out in the spending review.
More investment in some areas.
Help for those on lower incomes, with the cost of living and pensioners.
Tax increases on those who can afford it.
Overall: great stuff!
November 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Initial reaction on the budget:
Maintains investment & public spending as set out in the spending review.
More investment in some areas.
Help for those on lower incomes, with the cost of living and pensioners.
Tax increases on those who can afford it.
Overall: great stuff!
Maintains investment & public spending as set out in the spending review.
More investment in some areas.
Help for those on lower incomes, with the cost of living and pensioners.
Tax increases on those who can afford it.
Overall: great stuff!
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Cornwall has so much industrial potential, from critical minerals to renewable energy.
It is great that the Government recognises the skills and resources we hold and is investing £30 million in our Cornish industry through the Kernow Industrial Growth Fund.
It is great that the Government recognises the skills and resources we hold and is investing £30 million in our Cornish industry through the Kernow Industrial Growth Fund.
November 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Cornwall has so much industrial potential, from critical minerals to renewable energy.
It is great that the Government recognises the skills and resources we hold and is investing £30 million in our Cornish industry through the Kernow Industrial Growth Fund.
It is great that the Government recognises the skills and resources we hold and is investing £30 million in our Cornish industry through the Kernow Industrial Growth Fund.
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In 2022, Donald Trump sued me and others associated with the Clinton campaign for RICO. We did not cave. We fought. First, we won in a Florida trial court. Today, we won in the 11th Circuit.
To the law firms, media corps and billionaires who bow down: Learn a lesson. Have some dignity and fight.
To the law firms, media corps and billionaires who bow down: Learn a lesson. Have some dignity and fight.
November 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
In 2022, Donald Trump sued me and others associated with the Clinton campaign for RICO. We did not cave. We fought. First, we won in a Florida trial court. Today, we won in the 11th Circuit.
To the law firms, media corps and billionaires who bow down: Learn a lesson. Have some dignity and fight.
To the law firms, media corps and billionaires who bow down: Learn a lesson. Have some dignity and fight.
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Appeals court upholds $1M penalty against Trump in lawsuit against Hillary Clinton
Appeals court upholds $1M penalty against Trump in lawsuit against Hillary Clinton
The judges ruled that the president’s arguments “were indeed frivolous.”
dlvr.it
November 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Appeals court upholds $1M penalty against Trump in lawsuit against Hillary Clinton
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The farmers are not helping their cause driving around in tractors from a company who have their money in an offshore trust in Bermuda to avoid paying taxes. I believe around £500 million the HMRC estimate.
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The farmers are not helping their cause driving around in tractors from a company who have their money in an offshore trust in Bermuda to avoid paying taxes. I believe around £500 million the HMRC estimate.
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Labour is scrapping the two child benefit cap to deliver on our historic moral mission of tackling child poverty.
November 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Labour is scrapping the two child benefit cap to deliver on our historic moral mission of tackling child poverty.
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💼 The Chancellor made a number of bold, important interventions in the Budget today:
- Scrapping the two-child limit in Universal Credit
- Lowering energy bills
- Holding down transport costs
- Increasing the minimum wage
These will all assist families struggling to get by.
- Scrapping the two-child limit in Universal Credit
- Lowering energy bills
- Holding down transport costs
- Increasing the minimum wage
These will all assist families struggling to get by.
November 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
💼 The Chancellor made a number of bold, important interventions in the Budget today:
- Scrapping the two-child limit in Universal Credit
- Lowering energy bills
- Holding down transport costs
- Increasing the minimum wage
These will all assist families struggling to get by.
- Scrapping the two-child limit in Universal Credit
- Lowering energy bills
- Holding down transport costs
- Increasing the minimum wage
These will all assist families struggling to get by.
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Agreed. Her speech, and her party's enthusiastic response to it, was shameful and repulsive. An insult to the British people.
November 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Agreed. Her speech, and her party's enthusiastic response to it, was shameful and repulsive. An insult to the British people.
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Tory front benches equally furious at a tax on mansions and hundreds of thousands of kids being pulled out of poverty. Shameful stuff.
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Tory front benches equally furious at a tax on mansions and hundreds of thousands of kids being pulled out of poverty. Shameful stuff.
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They will cut NHS waiting lists by opening 250 new Neighbourhood Health Centres.
This will mean you can access NHS care closer to home.
This will mean you can access NHS care closer to home.
November 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
They will cut NHS waiting lists by opening 250 new Neighbourhood Health Centres.
This will mean you can access NHS care closer to home.
This will mean you can access NHS care closer to home.
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They are lifting the national minimum wage and national living wage, meaning a £900 boost for hundreds of thousands of workers.
November 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
They are lifting the national minimum wage and national living wage, meaning a £900 boost for hundreds of thousands of workers.
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And honestly I don't give a fuck if it's popular or not. It's going to make a lot of kids' lives better. That's the point of government. Not an opinion poll.
November 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
And honestly I don't give a fuck if it's popular or not. It's going to make a lot of kids' lives better. That's the point of government. Not an opinion poll.
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Today’s budget is about tackling the cost of living, with a higher minimum wage, lower energy bills, and scrapping the 2-child benefit cap.
That last one alone will lift hundreds of thousands of kids out of poverty, and benefit 5,440 right here in Nottingham North and Kimberley.
That last one alone will lift hundreds of thousands of kids out of poverty, and benefit 5,440 right here in Nottingham North and Kimberley.
November 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Today’s budget is about tackling the cost of living, with a higher minimum wage, lower energy bills, and scrapping the 2-child benefit cap.
That last one alone will lift hundreds of thousands of kids out of poverty, and benefit 5,440 right here in Nottingham North and Kimberley.
That last one alone will lift hundreds of thousands of kids out of poverty, and benefit 5,440 right here in Nottingham North and Kimberley.
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FFS, the OBR has published their response to the Budget before the budget is given!
It includes details on the policy announcements the Chancellor will make.
Including the scrapping of the 2-child benefit cap & an increase in welfare spending due to scrapping changes announced earlier this year.
It includes details on the policy announcements the Chancellor will make.
Including the scrapping of the 2-child benefit cap & an increase in welfare spending due to scrapping changes announced earlier this year.
November 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM
FFS, the OBR has published their response to the Budget before the budget is given!
It includes details on the policy announcements the Chancellor will make.
Including the scrapping of the 2-child benefit cap & an increase in welfare spending due to scrapping changes announced earlier this year.
It includes details on the policy announcements the Chancellor will make.
Including the scrapping of the 2-child benefit cap & an increase in welfare spending due to scrapping changes announced earlier this year.
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Press: "What kind of concessions are the Russians going to have to make?"
Trump "Their big concession is they stop fighting and they don't take any more land."
Yeah. That's basically how surrendering works.
Trump "Their big concession is they stop fighting and they don't take any more land."
Yeah. That's basically how surrendering works.
November 26, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Press: "What kind of concessions are the Russians going to have to make?"
Trump "Their big concession is they stop fighting and they don't take any more land."
Yeah. That's basically how surrendering works.
Trump "Their big concession is they stop fighting and they don't take any more land."
Yeah. That's basically how surrendering works.
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Does this ever really surprise anyone? I remember early Farage as much further to the right than he claims to be now. Why aren’t investigative journalists pulling up headlines from his early days (particularly in London newspapers?)
Three more ex-pupils at school with Nigel Farage reject ‘banter’ claims
Exclusive: Dulwich college contemporaries ‘rubbish’ Reform UK leader’s suggestion alleged racist taunts not intended to hurt
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Does this ever really surprise anyone? I remember early Farage as much further to the right than he claims to be now. Why aren’t investigative journalists pulling up headlines from his early days (particularly in London newspapers?)
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Imagine TV News covering this farmer protest - banned, but turned up anyway, grinding capital to a halt - if it were about Palestine or climate change, not inheritance tax. Would they present protesters as heroes? Or showing "I need to get to work" and "me auld mam missed her hip operation" voxpops?
November 26, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Imagine TV News covering this farmer protest - banned, but turned up anyway, grinding capital to a halt - if it were about Palestine or climate change, not inheritance tax. Would they present protesters as heroes? Or showing "I need to get to work" and "me auld mam missed her hip operation" voxpops?
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Neoliberal IFS wants govt to ditch the triple lock on state pension.
Silence on corporate welfare, taxing the rich/corporations.
UK state pension is almost the worst in Europe.
2m retirees live in poverty. 110,000 a year die in fuel poverty.
How many pensioners does the IFS kill?
archive.ph/AaLRa
Silence on corporate welfare, taxing the rich/corporations.
UK state pension is almost the worst in Europe.
2m retirees live in poverty. 110,000 a year die in fuel poverty.
How many pensioners does the IFS kill?
archive.ph/AaLRa
The UK must remove the pension triple lock
With each economic shock, it ratchets up the value of state retirement payments relative to average earnings
www.ft.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Neoliberal IFS wants govt to ditch the triple lock on state pension.
Silence on corporate welfare, taxing the rich/corporations.
UK state pension is almost the worst in Europe.
2m retirees live in poverty. 110,000 a year die in fuel poverty.
How many pensioners does the IFS kill?
archive.ph/AaLRa
Silence on corporate welfare, taxing the rich/corporations.
UK state pension is almost the worst in Europe.
2m retirees live in poverty. 110,000 a year die in fuel poverty.
How many pensioners does the IFS kill?
archive.ph/AaLRa