Thuggery, intimidation and violent threat looks like a group norm among the protestors in this film. It looks very much like a sense of entitlement to harass, threaten and violence when they get angry at the police at the very end for impeding their harassment.

Word of the day is ‘catch-fart’ (17th century: an obsequious individual who will always follow the political wind.

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Ballpark flat tax numbers: a fiscally neutral income tax flat tax would be about 25% - i.e. 5% increase in basic rate, 15% cut in higher rate. So the average earner would pay about £1,200 more tax/year. Someone on £100k would pay £5k less. Someone on £200k, £30k less.

I'm going to do some coverage on here of the assisted dying debate. If you're not interested please mute this thread now. It'll probably go on a while.

Tim Stanley, in what now appears to be a weekly slot on one or other BBC flagship politics programme, reels off a huge amount of absolute, provable nonsense about immigration.

And he does so completely unchallenged. Enough now. ~AA

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