Reposted by Mike GreenDuncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026“If the wife is fit, you must acquit” 9452129
Reposted by Mike GreenAshwin Kumar @ashwin-kumar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The numbers need playing with – I haven’t yet done the modelling to get exactly where the thresholds should sit to be revenue neutral – but this is such an obvious reform that the Treasury should have done it and the policy should be under consideration at every budget. /7 🧵 2201
Reposted by Mike GreenAshwin Kumar @ashwin-kumar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026One way of doing this is to start with swapping the rates around: e.g. abolish the Personal Allowance removal and the Tax-Free childcare cliff-edge, set the £100k rate to 45% and the top rate to 50%, then bring either/or threshold (£100k/£125k) down until the whole thing is revenue neutral. /6 🧵 1111
Reposted by Mike GreenStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026One reason why I am a nut for devolution is this: central government ministers shouldn't spend their working hours thinking about the correct design of bus stops. 3831441
Mike Green @mikeboy7564.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I think people overstate the difficulty of the caveats UK membership would realistically need. 110
Mike Green @mikeboy7564.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Woke 1 isn't truly over until they bring back the Churchill and Lloyd George one. 000
Mike Green @mikeboy7564.bsky.social · 19/09/2026If only we had some kind of national broadcaster with a hypothecated funding source and a duty to provide balanced coverage in the public interest so it wasn't bound by the same commercial incentives. Alas. 230
Reposted by Mike GreenMike Green @mikeboy7564.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I'd just like to take this opportunity to note my all-consuming hatred of CrossCountry. 011
Mike Green @mikeboy7564.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I'd just like to take this opportunity to note my all-consuming hatred of CrossCountry. 011
Mike Green @mikeboy7564.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Don't believe the DfT spin, this is an awful choice for the north. They're spending tons of money on TRU extending platforms to 200m, and then buying 121m trains. Too short to take advantage, but too long to even (inefficiently) double up! www.modernrailways.com/article/alst...modernrailways.comAlstom to build 29 battery-electric units for TPEAlstom wins a £1 billion contract to build and maintain 29x5-car battery-electric units for TransPennine Express with the trains being delivered from 2032. 120
Mike Green @mikeboy7564.bsky.social · 05/09/2026At the brave frontiers of ideological innovation we have the Anarcho-Kōdōha. 000
Mike Green @mikeboy7564.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Among other charges throw s.1 of the Public Order Act 1936 at them. 000
Mike Green @mikeboy7564.bsky.social · 02/09/202612mgs of tar, that's not enough! We demand more tar! More tar! 010
Reposted by Mike GreenJohn Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Another data point for 'France, Germany, Italy and the UK have problems they most solve domestically, the rest of Europe is OK'. 1216
Mike Green @mikeboy7564.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Location sharing by default among family doesn't raise my hairs quite as much as among couples, but I do still hate it. 100
Mike Green @mikeboy7564.bsky.social · 02/09/2026If you have so little confidence in your metaphor that you feel the need to explain it like this simply do not use it. 010
Reposted by Mike GreenWill @willbert94.bsky.social · 23/08/2026£80,000 for something that doesn’t even work if it’s too warm at night meaning you have to use AC anyway. Amazing. 032
Mike Green @mikeboy7564.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Prime NIMBYism to claim this development "adds no value" when the reason they've managed to achieve a pointless procedural delay is the inclusion of 660 homes for social rent. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...manchestereveningnews.co.ukDrama as Greater Manchester's tallest tower thrown out after major issue foundThe plans for the Regent Retail Park site in Salford will have to be reconsidered by a planning committee 000
Mike Green @mikeboy7564.bsky.social · 04/08/2026State of UK academia: friend's work laptop still has a VGA port. 000
Mike Green @mikeboy7564.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Sorry FT but the proliferation of half a dozen ever more niche subvariants, like calorie adjusted, would in fact demonstrate that it is a true economic index. 010
Mike Green @mikeboy7564.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Had to laugh at this bit, which rather exposes the lie that they care. Preferential creditor status, given charges tend to eat up any assets, tends to be pretty worthless. 200
Mike Green @mikeboy7564.bsky.social · 23/07/2026"When did you become so interested in voting professor?" "Oh the very moment I turned old." 000
Reposted by Mike GreenJo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Good thread. I remain of the view that national caps are a good stop-gap measure, but a true devolutionist will aspire to this sort of funding being handed over to strategic authorities with no more ring-fencing than 'design a scheme to keep bus fares down, as targeted or universal as you like'. 6255
Mike Green @mikeboy7564.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Oh it's quite simple really; we just need to turn jet engines into a consumer product everyone buys a couple of per year and then we expand Rolls Royce to employ several million people. 030
Mike Green @mikeboy7564.bsky.social · 16/07/2026German fascists simply unable to resist the urge to pointlessly die on the eastern front. 010
Mike Green @mikeboy7564.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Just saying "3.6" as my answer for anything that's not great, not terrible. 010
Mike Green @mikeboy7564.bsky.social · 11/07/2026*Daily Mail Voice:* New front opens in Keir Starmer's War on the Motorist 010
Reposted by Mike GreenMike Green @mikeboy7564.bsky.social · 09/06/2026The reason this was always going to be worse than Qatar is that they at least know they're a shitty little authoritarian slave state and the point of sportswashing is to not portray this. The US is sufficiently arrogant that it won't excercise any self-restraint to protect its reputation. 011
Mike Green @mikeboy7564.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Think Zack must have just not watched the news this month given he seems to have missed the Secretary of State for Defence resigning because they hadn't found enough money. 171
Mike Green @mikeboy7564.bsky.social · 25/06/2026You give the second largest rail project in the country to relatively small cities because they have the only two universities in the country the govt. is willing to spend money on and those universities will still go and object to it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukCambridge University objects to East-West Rail near observatoryResearch at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory has been recognised with two Nobel Prizes. 020
Mike Green @mikeboy7564.bsky.social · 23/06/2026I'd misremembered the bill introduction of votes at 16 as the commencement of votes at 16 and frankly I blame the government for that because how on earth can it take almost two years just to introduce the bill. 100
Mike Green @mikeboy7564.bsky.social · 22/06/2026I do think it's a problem that no politician ever even attempted to make a zero-sum argument. Cutting pensioner benefits has a heavy bias against, and those affected are obviously always going to be unhappy, but this wasn't even slightly countered by getting the working age beneficiaries on side. 120
Reposted by Mike GreenHenry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 18/06/2026The consequence is that the majority of people affected by the 2k salary sacrifice limit will pay 2% tax on sacrifice over 2k; but plan 2 will pay 11%; and plan 2 + PG (and I would imagine postgrads are more likely to have higher earnings + able to salary sacrifice into a pension) will pay 17%! 1175
Reposted by Mike GreenDylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 14/06/2026"labour is a socially liberal party" factoid actualy just statistical error. average labour cabinet minister is 0% liberal. bisexual roy, who does not live in a cave & wants people to have over 10,000 civil liberties, is an outlier adn should not have been counted 628968
Mike Green @mikeboy7564.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Makerfield is just a named suburb and it is very reasonable if most MPs couldn't find it on a map. I would not be offended if non-York residents couldn't find Heslington or Acomb on a map. 140
Reposted by Mike GreenTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 13/06/2026"That's about it," he said slowly. "Extraordinary man." He paused, reflecting. "There's only one thing..." M. tapped the stem of his pipe against his teeth. "What's that, sir?" asked Bond. M. seemed to make up his mind. He looked mildly across at Bond. "Elon Musk cheats at Path of Exile 2." 24910
Reposted by Mike GreenPeter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Over 50% of the welfare budget is spent on the state pension. As the biggest item, it should be the first place to look for savings. The sooner a bit of honesty enters the debate, the better. 3010822
Reposted by Mike GreenDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Healey: We don’t want 0.08 and we won’t wait. 211915
Reposted by Mike GreenJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 10/06/2026If you're gonna pick a group to compensate for their treatment by government why not pick one that did acrually face financial disadvantage without notice, like Plan 2 graduates? As opposed to "some people who had many years' notice but didn't open some letters" 1840742
Reposted by Mike GreenTreblig 🇺🇦 @camtreblig.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Exclusive footage of the Prime Minister making this decision: 15712
Mike Green @mikeboy7564.bsky.social · 09/06/2026The reason this was always going to be worse than Qatar is that they at least know they're a shitty little authoritarian slave state and the point of sportswashing is to not portray this. The US is sufficiently arrogant that it won't excercise any self-restraint to protect its reputation. 011
Reposted by Mike GreenGareth @gawuffy.co.uk · 05/06/2026I'm sorry what? As part of its 1987 rebrand British Rail's sectorised freight business Railfreight had its own branded After Eight mints and called them AFTER FREIGHT!? 18578146
Mike Green @mikeboy7564.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Well at least the goat sacrificers aren't the worst people in that office. 000
Mike Green @mikeboy7564.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Private school VAT a prime example of how when you're in government some political headwinds can be defeated by just doing the thing and getting to the other side of the storm. Normally common, in this govt. it stands out how rare it is because it's so u-turn prone. 010
Reposted by Mike GreenJason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 30/05/2026Swiss trains are just on a whole other level. This ordinary IR38 service between St. Moritz and Chur has a “photo compartment with lowerable windows for outdoor shots” and boy does it ever. 401458267
Mike Green @mikeboy7564.bsky.social · 29/05/2026I had quite a bit of detailed criticism of 007 First Light. But they included a remix of the OHMSS theme so 10/10 GOTY. 000
Mike Green @mikeboy7564.bsky.social · 29/05/2026The format of Question Time should make it inherently kinda impossible for it to jump the shark. And yet. 000
Mike Green @mikeboy7564.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Obviously there are good moral and punishment reasons not to commit fraud. But also because anti-fraud checks on property are now pretty strong if you embezzle £400k now you just end up buying shite like this. 000
