Reposted by Rob BaronDan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026We'll have a full analysis of the Conservatives' proposed inheritance tax cuts tomorrow. But, for now, three charts. 1. Who would benefit from the cuts? 1318596
Reposted by Rob BaronDan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 15hThis does in fact seem obvious to everyone apart from the people who came up with the policy. 1131470
Reposted by Rob BaronDan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 16hKemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax. But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT. That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing. A 🧵 on bad tax cuts. 31587247
Reposted by Rob BaronDan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 15hMore here: taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/10/08/c...taxpolicy.org.ukTory IHT cut could cost £11bn - almost twice the advertised priceOur modelling suggests Badenoch’s inheritance tax cut could cost £7.7bn-£10.9bn a year and shift £60bn-£110bn from savings and investments into housing. 25921
Reposted by Rob BaronFreethinkers United For Change @freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 07/10/2026 30355203832
Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 10hFuck me! You mean Trump has missed out again. Have they not seen his Truth Social posts? No one wites better fiction than fatso bone spurs 000
Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 11hThey need to keep Natalie away from it, or she'll slap on a xxxl-diaper 000
Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 13hTrue, the very rich usually find a way to pay minimal IHT. However, the average family pays nothing in IHT. Only 4.7% of deaths (2025/26) involved payment of IHT. 000
Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 13hIndeed! THEY'VE paid tax; the recipient of the legacy hasn't. IHT is completely justifiable if you live in a society in which the government is expected to provide services upon which we all rely. Not a penny is taken out of the accounts of the recipients. 100
Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 13hNo one is suggesting forcing anyone out. Don't be so silly. The point is very simple: Don't give people massive tax incentives that have the result of exacerbating our already dire housing crisis. 000
Reposted by Rob BaronThe London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 19hReform's barrister, who cleared the party and aides of wrongdoing alleged in an undercover investigation into foreign donations, was a UKIP member for years and has a longstanding association with Farage. 49483221
Reposted by Rob BaronThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026DELAWARE: "Nurse Monica Ryadi and her husband couldn’t wait to take their 3yo son to Disneyland... They didn’t get there. The Delco nurse has lived legally in 🇺🇸 since childhood. ICE arrested her as she took her son to Disneyland." #AbolishICE www.instagram.com/p/DeAFDW5jEW0 10418971139
Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 18hThe only rational conclusion to draw is that Braverman is consumed with self-loathing, and feels the only way she can justify her membership of Reform is to "own up" that as a brown-skinned person she accepts she is not entitled to consider herself an equal to white English people. 000
Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 18hHe's not seen his brain either, does he think that's not real?...Oh!... hang on... maybe I need a better counterexample. 060
Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 18hThe message has got round, "Do not enter the stink zone. Only Natalie has the power not to vomit" 000
Reposted by Rob BaronRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19hThe Russians are barbarians and should be treated as such, not as people to negotiate new business deals with to benefit corrupt oligarchs in the US. 44891333098
Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 18hHeadingly '81 is etched on my soul. It pains that Botham is such a dick as a human being. Although I did rather enjoy those Revitive ads where he lumbered about like a very tired walrus who had just discovered he possessed feet. 060
Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 20hIndeed! I seriously doubt they will get close to power, anyway. At the moment they are enjoying the luxury of opposition and making economic promises they couldn't possibly fulfil in government. They are bereft of anything new to show a difference in policy from 14-years of abject austerity failure. 150
Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 20hThis question should be repeated in every interview with a Tory. And the follow up should be, "What is different in your current set of policies from those you pursued for 14-years of austerity that failed so badly?" 000
Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 20hIndeed! Badenoch thinks this inheritance tax plan is a clever way to smuggle in massive tax cuts for the rich. Labour must make sure the public knows that less than 5% of deaths result in inheritance tax payment. Potentially £8bn would disappear from the funding of the NHS, education, etc 290
Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 20hNO president has the power to impeach anybody. That power is only available to the House and Senate. The orange crook doesn't even make it to the level of a half-wit. 010
Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 20hPolicy wise I see nothing significant that suggests the plan isn't simply to take up from where they left off in 2024. A continuation of the completely discredited austerity program marked by incompetence, chaos, and grinding impoverishment (both economically and culturally). 1120
Reposted by Rob BaronThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026“Trump has made more stock trades than every member of Congress combined” 🤯 7019671087
Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 20hSo many horrific things in this. Not the least of which is that shitbag's assumption that the police would automatically do the bidding of a white racist. 030
Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 20hHe needs arresting and charged with harassment and threatening behaviour. 050
Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 20h👍Indeed! My criticism is solely aimed at the Tories proposing this crazy policy that will benefit a tiny few and seriously exacerbate our housing problems. If it ever became law it would actually be madness for wealthy elderly people not to upsize to ensure paying nothing in tax on their legacy. 020
Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 20hWhat's your point? Tax policy is standardly used to encourage publicly beneficial behaviour. 100
Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 21hAlso, that's a really piss-poor crowd for someone who is supposed to be POTUS 010
Reposted by Rob BaronRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/10/2026A heckler screams you’re a pedophile president 👏 38588402265
Reposted by Rob BaronThe Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This is the hell what you do when you see a woman being attacked. These two are heroes. Take notes, Fellas. The world needs more men standing up for women. Don't be a piece of shit rapist, for fuck's sake. 563271653
Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 22hI guess that's what £72m from two crypto-billionaires enable you to do. Produce your version of a Völkischer Beobachter. 010
Reposted by Rob BaronSouth-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026...and another #ReformCriminal 1220898
Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 22hThe point is not to ban people from making such a choice. The point is we have a desperate housing crisis, and it would be reckless for a government significantly to exacerbate the problem by introducing tax policies that would massively incentivize people to do this. 110
Reposted by Rob BaronRuss Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026If you close the loophole that lets people like me avoid tax, I will make good on my threat to avoid tax by moving to Monaco, which I actually did 40 years ago, to avoid tax. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...theguardian.com‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already leftTaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus 601204348
Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It will be crucial for Labour to spell out precisely who it would benefit and what the costs would be to benefit that wealthy few. This could end up costing the Tories very dearly. 110
Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Ah! Silly me. I forgot what monsters the Tories are. 130
Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 07/10/2026And, if I were a property developer under a future Tory government would I seek to build starter homes on my plot, or would I seek to build £million+ homes for wealthy tax avoiders. The more you scrutinize this policy the more stupid it looks 220
Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Just to add: I'd like to know what rural Tories will think when they have to deal with increased demand for the building of family homes in their pastoral idylls because large houses remain occupied by elderly singles and couples. 2171