denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Sign of the times, UK politics and democracy in general is much diminished. Even in comparison with leaders from the 70s, 80s and 90s the last decade has produced absolute dross. 000 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Would love to Cal break away and slap an export tariff on all its goods and services with the MAGA states. 000 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Good, let them suffer in perpetuity for what they have done in Ukraine. 000 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Could argue that the UK economy was in a good place pre-Brexit. Growing gdp 2-3% between 2013-15. We’d carved out a niche as a free market style economy within the EU, strong FDI figures and the City benefited from passporting of services. Brexit has been an act of monumental self harm. 000 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Is it a coincidence that TB’s appearance is beginning to resemble Gollum from LOTR? 000 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 07/07/2025The Lloyd’s boss comments in the long tradition of the London Stock Exchange having little interest in supporting UK industry and preferring to deploy UK capital overseas. Goes back to the 19thC and the disdain City financiers had for grubby industrialists. 000 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Its a suggestion to create a new tax on the assets of the super rich. Not v bright are you. 000 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Tax is collected by central govt, not local authorities. 100 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Property is the most obvious area where a wealth tax can be levied with no impact on ordinary people. Intro a new tax levied on property value only for property over £2m. For owners of £10m, £20m homes increase it and double again for non-UK residents. Ie the oligarchs. 120 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Difficulty faced by so many UK Chancellors over the years; coming clean about the UK’s huge fiscal problems doesn’t win any sympathy. 000 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Are the pitches being prepared as flat tracks for maximise TV game time? Not great test cricket when there is little for the bowlers. Want to see a contest between bat and ball. 001 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Come on he is what 79? Morbidly obese and has lived on cheeseburgers for decades. He’s going punch out sooner rather than later. 000 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Pretty nasty, sexist piece. If a male prominent frontline politician had a very public display of emotion at PMQ (for unspecified reasons) they wouldn’t get this treatment, including the mocking, distasteful image. Poor from the FT. 000 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 03/07/2025There is nothing the average American can do about it, they already put Putin’s puppet in power. They may get a chance to vote him out in 3 years, but by then US democracy could be over. It’s up to other NATO countries to step up or Ukraine will fall. 000 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Fine, but more importantly Trump just shut off supplies of military equipment to Ukraine. What is Rutte doing about that? 161 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 03/07/2025New property tax on all homes valued over £2m in addition to Council Tax. Paid to central govt. Tiered rates that go higher for the super rich; eg over £10m value, £20m etc If home is owned by non-UK residents, Trusts or Corporations, double it. High end property massively under taxed in the UK. 010 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Labour has an unrivalled ability to blow itself up in government. One caveat: not sure how much cut through this has with the public outside the Westminster bubble. 000 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Could not disagree more, levels of indebtedness have always played a huge role in history, from the ancient world to the present day. If you want an example from recent times see Liz Truss. Blow a hole in public finances, leads to currency collapse, leads to no more Liz Truss as PM. 100 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 02/07/2025I don’t think it’s a US only issue. The market is saturated with existing debt. Central banks cannot shift long dated gilts, switching to short. Particular issue for UK, Fr, It. where debt to gdp already v high. Germany is the only country in a position to fund rearming. 110 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Analysis should take account of govt finances. For UK and France debt is already high and Bond markets have no appetite for new debt. It’s hard to see where the money comes from to rearm. Both governments try to cut welfare/ pensions but get stopped in their tracks by rebellions in parliament. 100 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 02/07/2025We are approaching a point where we cannot raise anymore debt, the Bond markets are saturated already. It’s either raise more taxes or cut welfare. At some point we have to face the fact that we cannot afford the current health and welfare levels of spend, it’s half of all government expenditure. 000 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 02/07/2025How about the East Coast blue states to join with Canada and the UK in a new democratic commonwealth? Drop the MAGA mugs in the South and Mid-West, leave them to stew in their own mess. 2132 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 01/07/2025He is about to get the Jack Ma treatment. 000 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 01/07/2025I’m no fan of hers, but why should she? Its not a core duty of the leader of the opposition to comment on rascist clickbait posted by a failed academic from a minor league polytechnic. 010 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Emperor Constantine levels of Manspreading, well played! 000 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 01/07/2025He’s going round the houses, expect him to be funding Bernie by the end of the year! 000 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Not sure why it’s seen as a problem, it’s all grist to the mill of the culture wars circus. The artist gets maximum publicity, the reactionaries in the RW media get something else to drone on about, everyone’s a winner. 030 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 30/06/2025That is more a US approach to Free Speech, eg advocating violence is acceptable if no imminent threat. The purpose of UK hate speech laws are to prevent harassment and distress, much lower bar to an offence than US. Hence, some legal jeopardy for the performer, but probably still borderline. 100 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 30/06/2025There are people in the UK who hold all Jews responsible for the crimes of Israel and its army. 200 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 30/06/2025One wonders if this will be a tipping point. The US is evolving from an ultra-capitalist state into an authoritarian oligarchy with few checks and balances on the power of the wealthy. Hope springs eternal that MAGA will see the light and realise they have been conned on a grand scale. 000 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 30/06/2025The case is religion agnostic, regardless of what was being burned, if you noisily burn religious texts in public place you are doing it to cause disorder and guilty of incitement. Both convictions seem fair. 000 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 30/06/2025At least they can do something right! 000 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 30/06/2025So shameful what is happening in the USA right now. It is such a betrayal of the founding principles of the Republic, to create a new system of government that protected citizens rights. 000 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 30/06/2025It’s borderline, but will turn on whether it’s considered incitement to commit violence against Jewish people in the UK. 100 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 28/06/2025Exactly the same for Labour’s extreme Left, pseudo-religious faith over reason. 000 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 28/06/2025Let’s see more like him. A big shift is coming, ordinary working people are sick of being ignored by political elites in traditional political parties and the penny will drop for many Trump supporters as they pay more tax and lose their health care. 000 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Surprised he didn’t say “bigly” , Trump’s kind of guy, an abject brown noser. 000 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Should have been on this in 2022. UK, France and Germany should have set up new artillery shell plants to supply Ukraine. 120 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 23/06/2025This is the point of the First Amendment 110 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Surely not “amazing” or even surprising. Trump is a performer 24/7, he just cares about the ratings. 010 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 22/06/2025All power is concentrated in the hands of MAGA now, those Republicans who don’t go along with the ideology are easily bought or scared off. If the Dems look like winning back the House in the midterms expect large scale election fraud. 010 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 18/06/2025100% agree, having so many low IQ individuals in key positions in military and national security in the US is starting to tell (the lowest being in the Oval Office). Look at how easily Netanyahu has manipulated Trump to the brink of sending US forces into action vs Iran. 020 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Disagree with Stuart’s characterization of Israel having moral superiority over Iran. The old view of an embattled liberal democracy among a sea of autocratic theocracies. All that is fine, but if the result is a state that deliberately seeks to starve 2m people, it’s surely morally bankrupt. 130 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Indeed, the UK is the most secular Western nation in the world, for good or ill, depending on your view point. 110 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 17/06/2025She is just awful, so politically tone deaf on every level. 0180 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 17/06/2025It’s not a political issue in the UK at all, the women’s right to choice has mass support across all main political parties. We have plenty of political baggage but this isn’t one of them. 210 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Indeed, not like Israel needs any help. Trump has his orange nose out of joint as Netanyahu is ignoring him, so expect a futile gesture from US forces to make the man baby feel better. 100 0
denethor2nd.bsky.social @denethor2nd.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Willing to bet they aren’t going to support brave Ukraine. 190 0
