Terry

@telltel.bsky.social

💙💚 Pro-EU, critical, Economics, stats, IT, HE, cat breeder extraordinaire, probationer here but caught in the web of SM, yearning 2B citizen EU

🚨1000 authoritarian actions. 7 months🚨 I've been tracking Trump's authoritarian actions. From dismantling democratic institutions to militarising immigration enforcement, Trump is reshaping America. In my new post I highlight key authoriarian attacks christinapagel.substack.com/p/grand-desi... 1/2

Grand Designs: the loss of American freedom

Exactly seven months into Trump's second term, we have reached 1000 authoritarian actions. Here I lay out the enormity of what has happened.

christinapagel.substack.com

Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".

The UK will not escape its doom loop until politicians acknowledge two linked facts: Brexit is a perpetual drag on growth, output + tax revenues, and an ageing population requires immigration. So, until we rejoin the EU single market and labour markets operate freely again, stagnation will continue.

Edwin Hayward@edwinhayward.com · last yr.

Brexit shrank the economy by about £100 billion. So every year, the government is forced to forego the tax revenue (£35-£40 billion) it would have collected from that £100 billion in economic output. So after 10 years, the economy is still down £100 billion but the government is down £350 billion.

If the UK economy were larger, Labour would automatically be able to collect more tax without having to raise taxes. If Labour were able to collect more tax, they could do more. If they were able to do more, we'd all be better off. Brexit shrank the economy. Let's undo Brexit.

Margaret Thatcher didn't do anything except sell stuff she didn't own to her billionaire mates so they could rip you off forever. She should be universally hated and she should have spent the rest of her life in jail.