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Rob Baron

@rob-baron.bsky.social
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Retired philosophy lecturer committed to living an eco-low-impact lifestyle. Only cycles. PhD. Big fan of the Enlightenment.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We'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?
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 15h
This does in fact seem obvious to everyone apart from the people who came up with the policy.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 16h
Kemi 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.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 15h
More here: taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/10/08/c...
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Tory IHT cut could cost £11bn - almost twice the advertised price
Our 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.
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Freethinkers United For Change @freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 10h
Fuck 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
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 11h
They need to keep Natalie away from it, or she'll slap on a xxxl-diaper
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 15h
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 13h
True, 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.
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 13h
Indeed! 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.
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 13h
No 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.
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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 19h
Reform'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.
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 18h
Liz is here? Gun please
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
DELAWARE: "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
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 18h
The 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.
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 18h
He's not seen his brain either, does he think that's not real?...Oh!... hang on... maybe I need a better counterexample.
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 18h
The message has got round, "Do not enter the stink zone. Only Natalie has the power not to vomit"
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19h
The 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.
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 18h
Headingly '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.
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 19h
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 20h
Indeed! 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.
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 20h
This 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?"
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 20h
Indeed! 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
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 20h
NO 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.
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 20h
Policy 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).
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Trump has made more stock trades than every member of Congress combined” 🤯
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 20h
Sorry! You're going to have to tell me which one is which
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 20h
So 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.
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 20h
He needs arresting and charged with harassment and threatening behaviour.
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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.
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 20h
What's your point? Tax policy is standardly used to encourage publicly beneficial behaviour.
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 21h
Also, that's a really piss-poor crowd for someone who is supposed to be POTUS
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 21h
Bravo!
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A heckler screams you’re a pedophile president 👏
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Boom bitch 💥
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 21h
24-hour diaper duty. So very brave
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This 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.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 22h
I guess that's what £72m from two crypto-billionaires enable you to do. Produce your version of a Völkischer Beobachter.
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
...and another #ReformCriminal
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 22h
The 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.
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Exactly!
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yep! Pounds and pence explanations.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If 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...
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‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It 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.
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ah! Silly me. I forgot what monsters the Tories are.
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And, 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
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just 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.
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