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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.bsky.social · 5h

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.bsky.social · 5h

W…what?

Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.bsky.social · 7h

Dress them in a hat, glasses, and trench coat … what couldn’t wrong?

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.bsky.social · 8h

Subbing out the other for your preferred option doesn’t change the fact that you’re replicating Brexiteer arguments vis-à-vis independence while at the same time opposing Brexit.

Which one is it, is political and economic disintegration a good thing or not? It can’t be both.

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.bsky.social · 8h

Sorry, how is that the case?

It’s deeply ironic that you use that to criticise Brexit … while equally using it to support independence. Seems a bit hypocritical.

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.bsky.social · 9h

Those advocating independence as *the* solution are exactly the same as Farage and co who blamed the EU for all of the UK‘s ills. Similarly, their economic arguments (wherever they’re made) are indistinguishable from Brexiteers‘ arguments.

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.bsky.social · 9h

No, I’m not happy with the status quo at all.

I’d say stop falling for the same simplistic nonsense that led to Brexit. The idea that Brexit is bad and secession is virtuous is nonsense because they’re predicated on the same scapegoating a political other.

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.bsky.social · 10h

You certainly don’t appear to have learned anything from Brexit, especially if you support a localised version thereof whose negative effects will be orders of magnitude greater.

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.bsky.social · 11h

Has Brexit taught you nothing at all?

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.bsky.social · 11h

To those who aren’t high on proceduralist cope, this looks stupid, petty, and quite frankly pathetic.

Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.bsky.social · 11h

The point of creating the regulatory border in the Irish Sea was to protect the single market as the previous Tory ministry opted against regulatory alignment. The current ministry has, clearly, chosen alignment. It makes no sense to demand the former‘s checks be ramped up before they’re moot.

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.bsky.social · 12h

„You want to dynamically-align SPS standards to remove checks on food etc? Great! Start by implementing the checks for a year or so while we negotiate away the reason for their very existence … yes we are the adults in the room“.

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.bsky.social · 12h

There’s something unserious and illogical about demanding checks be ramped up before negotiating an agreement that renders them moot.

David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 12h

Over-optimistic UK briefings on how quickly an SPS deal can be agreed meet the reality of a very cautious EU that think existing arrangements show a lot more work is needed before they can trust food and drink coming from Great Britain. www.ft.com/content/7238...

EU warns UK must improve NI border checks before veterinary deal is signed

Officials say London must comply before it can start serious talks on a sweeping agrifood agreement

www.ft.com

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 12h

feels quite Guardian that this piece doesn't present the move as good news or even neutral news but instead spends about two thirds of its copy running through every single possible reason why a maybe fun thing will be TERRIBLE and AWFUL www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Pubs to stay open until early hours in push for UK growth

Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help the ailing hospitality sector but have attracted criticism from health experts

www.theguardian.com

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.bsky.social · 12h

My favourite edition of fuck around and find out.

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.bsky.social · 13h

Frankly, the economic affects is second-order.

Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.bsky.social · 13h

It’s like clean streets, fewer potholes, and working street lights - it won’t transform the economy, but it’ll counter the feeling of decline and that nothing works anymore. It‘ll help people feel better about where they live.

Middle-class moralising is so fucking tiresome.

Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.bsky.social · 13h

Has it dawned on you that the same voters also like to go to third places? Young voters aren’t looking at closing pubs and clubs thinking „fantastic“. It’s seen as a symptom of a broken society weighted firmly towards the middle-aged/ older voters complaining about noise in central London!

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.bsky.social · 13h

This middle-class paternalism and moralising is so tiresome.

Will this radically change the economy? No. Like cleaner streets and fewer potholes, it will challenge the sense of decline that many feel.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 22h

Why are the vibes so off with this government. The whole culture at the moment is about moderation and harm reduction, especially among the young and middle aged voters that Labour needs to cling on to if it's going to retain a coalition of support.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Pubs to stay open until early hours in push for UK growth

Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help the ailing hospitality sector but have attracted criticism from health experts

www.theguardian.com

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.bsky.social · 13h

It’s like clean streets, fewer potholes, and working street lights - it won’t transform the economy, but it’ll counter the feeling of decline and that nothing works anymore. It‘ll help people feel better about where they live.

Middle-class moralising is so fucking tiresome.

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.bsky.social · 14h

The moralising from some on this just takes the cake.

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.bsky.social · 1d

Their wealth is easily mobile. The idea that a 10% annual tax on assets over a certain amount will work perfectly fine is nonsense.

Wealth tax advocates are wasting an opportunity to push for meaningful tax reform, eg on land value, IGT, CGT, and dividends.

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.bsky.social · 1d

No, it won’t work. Take stocks (eg pension portfolios). Selling stocks to pay the tax will … depreciate the value of the stock.

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.bsky.social · 1d

Reeves‘ election tax pledges continue to look utterly daft by the day.

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.bsky.social · 1d

Lol, that’s not going to work.

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.bsky.social · 1d

Ahh but they‘ll either demand high tax-free wages or young people do it on minimum wage.

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