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Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 15h

My local beach when I’m in Ireland. Catches the mood, and the weather, very well.

Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 1d

And:

“Landlords also pay capital gains tax on the sale of the property, including on purely inflationary gains.”

It’s an investment asset. Why wouldn’t there be tax on the gain? There would be on shares or a unit trust. Why is protecting small-scale Rachmans so important?

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Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 1d

It’ll take years for the damage he did to the IFS’s reputation to be repaired.

This gem for example:

“Not only do prospective landlords have to pay extra stamp duty,…”

He knows the incidence of SDLT so why write that nonsense?

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Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 1d

Ah well. I don’t vote over there. It’s bad enough voting over here. The longer term crazy thing is that none of this really matters for Big Cow. Solar and wind don’t use up that much grazing land.

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Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 1d

The old fucker pulled the same trick with Give Ireland Back to the Irish. I remember ordering a green vinyl Horslips single at the same shop. Funny little place on a side road that closed down fairly quickly. Then I had to cycle over to Downtown records on Ilford High Road.

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Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 1d

Made me think about the first single I bought for myself. Honestly can’t remember. Probably something by Slade. Then I remembered the first single I bought. Dad sent me to the local record shop to buy a copy of The Men Behind the Wire. I didn’t guess until a lot later why he didn’t go himself.

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Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 1d

Pleasure! Keep up with God’s work.

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Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 1d

Early and often. (I’ve only used one email address so far).

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Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 1d

Done!

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Jason Furman @jasonfurman.bsky.social · 1d

The other day a student asked me about the prevalence of insider trading in prediction markets. I now have an answer.

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Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 1d

87% accept the responsibility to act but only 56% see the economic benefit. That’s a crazy bit of dissonance.

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Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 1d

That was only 6 years after the great TP O’Connor finally let go of the Liverpool Scotland constituency, 7 years after his party had ceased to exist.

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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 1d

If eating scotch eggs in an Austin Allegro had a face.

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Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a lesson for Labour today: even quite right-wing electorates don’t like extreme right ideas. (In the 1935 general election Liverpool returned 9 Conservative MPs and 2 Liberals pretty much aligned with the Conservatives. With only 2 Labour MPs).