Replying to @andyburnham
@andyburnham @UKLabour How about some proper public messaging rather than making the public shit scared at tea time?
#severalert
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JUST IN: 🇺🇦🇨🇳 Ukrainian President Zelenskyy says China plans to give Russia a Starlink alternative that could allow it to dominate Ukrainian skies.
Apparently Russian servers have been hit by a Ukrainian strike and immediately massive online hard right chatter has collapsed.
This particular chatter was in support of Germany’s AFD, their equivalent to Reform, but similar patterns are being seen in hard right movements everywhere, including the UK.
If anyone needed anymore evidence that Russia are driving a massive wave of hard right propaganda in Europe, this is it.
So, all you “patriots” - you’ve been duped by Russia, and you are about as far from patriotic as anyone can be. You are easily brainwashed though. This is how propaganda works.
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Hoteliers unconvinced despite concessions over seafront roadworks due to start Monday ift.tt/u9d0agF
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Ten million people have watched an MIT professor accidentally destroy the executive coaching industry.
He filmed the lecture once in January 2018 and died eighteen months later.
Executive coaches charge fifteen thousand dollars a session to teach a third of what he covered in one hour for free.
His name was Patrick Winston. He ran the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1972 to 1997 and wrote the AI textbook every computer science major in the world read for thirty years.
Every January for four decades, he gave a lecture called "How to Speak."
His entire framework fits on a napkin.
Do not read. Be in the image. Keep images simple. Eliminate clutter. Start with an empathetic connection. End with a punch line the audience can repeat over dinner. Never open with a joke. Never end with "thank you."
That last rule alone has probably cost the executive coaching industry a hundred million dollars.
"Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas. In that order."
That is the actual opening line of the lecture. Winston believed it strongly enough to spend fifty years teaching computer scientists how to talk.
Founders spend $80,000 on an MBA and then hire a communications coach to teach them the same material Winston filmed once for free. Engineers write brilliant code and lose promotions to teammates who watched this lecture on the train.
The lecture is free on MIT OpenCourseWare. The textbook is free on his page.
Winston died in 2019. Almost none of the ten million viewers have actually implemented the four rules on the napkin.
The napkin is free. The willingness to actually use it in your next meeting is the entire edge.
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🇬🇧🇪🇺 The UK is coming back.
It will rejoin the EU within the next decade.
🔸 Labour leads in the polls and is preparing for Rejoin.
🔸 Rejoining would win Labour millions of votes.
🔸 Rejoining would boost trade, investment and productivity.
🔸 Europe has changed since 2016 and is uniting economically and militarily.
Labour must put a roadmap to Rejoin in its next election manifesto and start preparing now.
Britain’s biggest mistake of the century is nearing its end.
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Stop paying for Codex/Claude or Cursor .
Try using McDonalds ai with Unlimited credits 😭
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
McDonald's has no AI customer support chatbot that writes code. The screenshot and claims are from a viral hoax with fabricated images.
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Wales is about to pass a law allowing them to fire Politicians who lie.
They will be the first country in the world where Politicians aren't allowed to lie.
It's 2026, it's incredible it has taken so long.
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In the 24 months since Labour came to power, we've seen;
• Employer National Insurance increased from 13.8% to 15%.
• The employer NI threshold cut from £9,100 to £5,000.
• Income Tax and National Insurance thresholds frozen until 2031.
• Capital Gains Tax increased from 10% and 20% to 18% and 24%.
• Business Asset Disposal Relief increased from 10% to 14%, then 18%.
• Investors’ Relief increased and its lifetime allowance cut from £10 million to £1 million.
• Carried interest taxation increased and moved towards the Income Tax regime.
• Dividend tax rates increased by two percentage points.
• Savings-income tax rates increased by two percentage points.
• Property-income tax rates increased by two percentage points.
• Most unused pension funds brought into the Inheritance Tax net.
• Agricultural Property Relief restricted.
• Business Property Relief restricted.
• Inheritance Tax thresholds frozen for longer.
• The non-dom regime replaced with a more extensive residence-based system.
• VAT imposed on private school fees.
• Business-rates relief removed from private schools.
• Stamp Duty increased on second homes and buy-to-let properties.
• The Furnished Holiday Lettings tax regime abolished.
• Pension salary-sacrifice benefits capped at £2,000 before National Insurance applies.
• The Cash ISA allowance cut to £12,000 for most under-65s.
• A 22% charge introduced on interest from cash held inside non-cash ISAs.
• Restrictions introduced on transfers and cash-like holdings within ISAs.
• The Energy Profits Levy increased and extended.
• Investment allowances for oil and gas producers reduced.
• A new Vaping Products Duty introduced.
• Tobacco duties increased above inflation.
• Vehicle Excise Duty increased for many new cars.
• Electric vehicles brought into the Vehicle Excise Duty system.
• A new mileage tax announced for electric and plug-in hybrid cars.
• Air Passenger Duty increased.
• Climate Change Levy rates increased.
• Plastic Packaging Tax increased.
• A new Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism introduced.
• Making Tax Digital extended to more landlords and self-employed people.
Together they represent one of the biggest transfers of wealth from households and businesses to the Treasury in decades - with no noticeable improvement in public services.
Whether you're a business owner employing staff, a parent paying school fees, a farmer planning succession, an entrepreneur building wealth or simply someone trying to save for retirement...
You keep less of what you earn.
You keep less of what you invest.
You leave less to your family.
Death by a thousand cuts is becoming tax policy.
The government are now claiming the fire service requested last night's emergency alert on wildfires.
This concerns me more than when I thought the government was abusing the emergency alert system. If @andyburnham is going to bend to the whims of any department and public opinion without thorough thought and consultation, then this incarnation of @UKLabour will be worse than the last.
#severalert
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When the Severe Alert system was established in 2024 it was made clear that:
“There will be a very high threshold for its use based on strict criteria centred on an immediate risk to life.”
Tonight’s use at a national level clearly doesn’t hit that threshold and opens the door to future misuse of the system.
Labour needs to publish who signed off the decision to use the alert and the criteria that they were using.
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Replying to @andyburnham
Great work in abusing the alerts. I’ve now removed the alerts from my phone so great job. For anyone else who wants to stop them
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🚨 NEW: Greggs has renamed its Sausage, Bean & Cheese Melt after Andy Burnham called it a "thing"
"Sales have gone through the roof, cheers Andy"
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Elon Musk just gave the clearest AI timeline we’ve heard so far.
In under 10 minutes he lays out:
1) AI surpasses all human intelligence in ~5 years
2) Humans most likely lose control within 10 years
3) Most probable outcome: an age of amazing abundance
4) “Even if there was a stop button — we probably shouldn’t press it”
This is denser and more direct than most hour-long podcasts on the topic.
If you still think AI is “just another tool”, this 10-minute segment will recalibrate you.
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An American interviewer asked Count Binface where he stands on the British political spectrum. 👇
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Dear Andy Burnham
Now you’ve had a few weeks please fix the road I was already taxed to fix, to avoid damage to my car that I was already taxed to drive, which I bought with money I was already taxed to have.
Please get me into the Doctors I was already taxed to see, so I don’t have to pay for private healthcare with money I was already taxed to have.
If you could sort these two things out real quick I’d be very grateful.
Yours, the tax payer.
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There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
What the hell. This is insane. How can such a mass migration event happen without any prior knowledge?
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At what point is the UK just a laughing stock? Our country can't provide running water; it’s pathetic.
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