Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 09/09/2026When you hear someone say "abortion should be illegal" you should hear "I want more women to die". 000
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Westminster fails to maintain infrastructure and services, so why shouid we be surprised when they fail to maintain the citizenry? 000
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Stop giving his bank money, unless it pays it's fair share of UK resources. 010
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Why are most English politicians and journalists peddling false economics? I listened to Jenrick and his words do not gel with Reform headlines. Until welfare is lauded as an essential part of the economy, we are doomed to drift downward into further inequality and poverty. 000
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 17/08/2026OK BBC, is there anyone in #bbcnews who understands economics? Welfare is an essential component in constraining the bad side effects of market economics. Cutting it will diminish economic activity and put more cash into wealthy bank accounts and shareholding - reducing the economy. 000
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Finance has always been a barrier. F1 used to be the preserve of the wealthy and largely it still is. The inequality, that Westminster has increased, limits many lives. Another example of the myth of "the market" solving all problems. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comFormula E: Taylor Barnard on the end-of-season races in LondonTaylor Barnard, 22, says talented young drivers often get shut out because of financial issues. 010
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 16/08/2026So Reform want to remove £15 billion from the UK economy. Money no longer spent on food, rent, clothing etc. No longer going into shop tills. Brilliant economics. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comReform UK plan would overhaul welfare system with £50bn in savingsThe party plans to release a full 50-page plan on Monday outlining their proposed changes were they to come to power. 020
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 07/08/2026It would be better if they had prevented foreign nationals from buying up UK property and land. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comConservatives pledge to ban foreign nationals from social housingThey claim around 230,000 homes would become available under their plan to limit social housing entitlements. 000
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 06/08/2026An essential element in EU purchasing, which UK officials didn't understand or bother with, is local benefit. What tax would derive and where, where supplies would be sourced, what environmental benefits, jobs, training etc. 000
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Time to drive private money out of public services. They currently drain citizens wealth and earnings for their profit. 000
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Until corporate banditry is properly punished, the piracy will continue. 000
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 31/07/2026"Don't need it. AI will do the job better and cheaper " said a Downing Street mouthpiece. 000
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 28/07/2026When a handful of mega corps own everything, how will the majority survive? I'm with these guys. 👇👇👇 000
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Pedant alert... The gov doesn't doesn't taxes. Taxes simply take money out of circulation. Gov spending is done by creating new money. That said, LBD has made a grest video. Do watch it and remind yourself and tell everyone NOT TO VOTE REFORM. (I hope Nigel isn't going to dob this post in) 000
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Farage and other hate filled paid for mouthpieces have so distorted the truth, that it is unsurprising that many people have wildly wrong facts in their heads. Musk, Trump, Le Pen, the Tories have a lot to answer for. But the news is about a T shirt... 👇👇👇 000
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 28/07/2026BBC headline "Drug gangs causing Ecuador's state of emergency." Well, yes. And no. US tried prohibition of alcohol. It failed and caused a huge rise in violent criminal activity. The Republican idiot Nixon, not having learnt the lesson, declared a War on Drugs. That too has failed, so blame Nixon. 000
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Burnham, having announced the failure of Westminster to deliver adequate education, has fallen flat by assuming that the only purpose of school is to get a job. How sad. How lacking in ambition. How about ensuring that every child is fully prepared for adult life, in all it's complexity? 000
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 28/07/202640% of insurance premiums go in admin, marketing and profits. Perhaps a public, not for profit system would be better value. 001
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Burnham has announced the abject failure of Westminster to provide a decent education to millions of children. His fix is late and simplistic. It is more about a headline than about the huge changes needed to ensure children are prepared for life. So far, not impressive. 000
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 27/07/2026The single most damaging act was Thatcher opening up UK property for sale to all comers. The resulting house price inflation has radically undermined the "real" economy. Supply and demand cannot drive the creation of more land, so prices have rocketed. Neoliberal insanity. 011
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Gosh! Labour telling lies! Who'd have thought.... 31710
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 22/07/2026The ecojomic madness continues. Until the groupthink of neoliberalism lies in ashes, the future looks bleak for the majority. 👇👇👇 010
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Sarwar's "promotion" is an insult to Scotland. After Burnham's conversation with our First Minister, the selection of Sarwar flies in the face of democracy. It is typical of Tsarist Labour to ride roughshod over Holyrood. Especially as he appears to be pinching SNP policies in his speeches. 000
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 20/07/2026When a company becomes fail it is declared bankrupt. Shareholders face a liability for the face value of their shares. Lenders lose, but can sue shareholders and management, if they can prove wrongdoing. Guarantors lose too. Did Treasury give guarantees? If not... bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comThames Water lenders preparing legal challenge to potential nationalisationThe BBC understands creditors would would pursue payment in full of the outstanding debts, in the multi-billions of pounds. 000
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 11/07/2026"Global corporations have become a cancer. They have become big enough to bully and buy favourable laws and taxes, at the expense of the vast majority of humanity. Their power is a threat to democracy and the nation state." Do you agree or disagree? 000
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Westminster Treasury behaves like an aging miser, sitting in his vault, guarding his jewels. The growth in UK poverty can be laid firmly at the door. bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comTreasury sees defence as a drain not a driver for growth, says HealeyJohn Healey quit his cabinet role as defence secretary over a long-delayed military spending plan. 000
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Re server farms. They use a lot of water and electricity and generate heat. Where is the joined up thinking? Are planning authorities requiring associated services such as area heating, greenhouses, swimming pools, power generation? Why not? 000
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Starmer acknowledges that defense spending is good for the economy. Can he now say the same about welfare? Because the same logic applies. Both are costs but both increase economic activity, returning the costs to the Treasury. It is easily arguable that - pound for pound - welfare is more valuable. 000
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 29/06/2026The biggest change he could make is to break the lie that state finances are like household finances. The current Treasury rule to only spend using tax take is ridiculous. bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comBurnham to give mayors more power in 10-year plan to transform economyHe will say decision-making needs to be "pushed to regions and local communities", and will promise "good growth in every postcode". 100
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Media that claim they only report rather than influence are liars. 000
Reposted by Alan Arnott Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 25/06/2026The tragedy is that Vance is probably right. The idea that a president would be removed from power for law-breaking - and that the Republican Party would turn against him under those conditions - feels like a different universe. And that's linked to a radical changes in how democracy is understood 1011930
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 16/06/2026We talk about Thatcher/neoliberal economics, as if that is the beginning of UKs problems. The truth is that a failure of investment and a desperate ignorance of economic reality at Westminster and amongst shareholders had starved private industry and public services. Railways are an early example. 300
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Yes. A typically lazy Westminster "solution" to a complex and much wider problem. 👇👇👇 000
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Can you hear that rumbling sound? That people all over the world air-gapping their IT. 000
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 14/06/2026We hear much about wealth inequality. What is less voiced is the massive POWER inequality. Our bulwark used to be government. The US and others have arranged international laws that give companies excessive power over govs. The result is a world economy that is criminal in behaviour. 000
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Elongated Muskovite is dangerous in ways that most people have not yet come close to understanding. The world howled in anger, when Michael Jackson changed his skin, held his baby out of a window etc. Yet EM is lauded for doing terrible things. History will not be kind to those who did nothing. 100
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Freedom of speech and freedom of the press are enshrined in the US Constitution. A president is not entitled to go without challenge. But Trump is a weak man. A weak, weak man, so weak.... 000
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 08/06/2026When will people learn that bias is inevitable, when one is close to or recieve a gift from someone? None of us is immune. 000
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Does Trump know of the existence of the Constitution? If so, he clearly doesn't understand it. He is in breach of it's articles in so many ways and I'm pretty sure that there is no Presidential exclusion from it. . 000
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 08/06/2026"Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" are great aspirations. Human rights moved further and have been established in various ways. Essentials are rights and cannot legally be withheld. Yet we withhold healthcare and water under ransom. I'm sure air would be payable, if someone found a way. 000
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Interesting isn't it? A political party is defrauded and the world fills with people blaming the party. Like blaming a woman for being raped or an old man for being burgled. It's the same thinking that delivers racism. Pathetic. 000
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Big brother is watching you... Trump has no originality. He's a cheap fake of other peoples ideas. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...bbc.comWatch: Trump transforms Washington by adding his face everywhereSarah Smith visits places across the US capital where the president has hung banners, renamed a site or is rebuilding something. 000
Alan Arnott @alanarnott.bsky.social · 12/05/2026The insanity of letting anyone, from anywhere, buy property and land may have been good for a few but the result has been stupidly inflated house prices. Basic economics of supply and demand. There is no new land. Add excess cash and market distortion inevitable. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comWhy a slice of Edinburgh is being bought up by overseas ownersMore than a third of the properties in Quartermile area have been bought by people based outside the UK. 000