Matthew Key @Matt_Key

British economy snapshot over the last 4 years: Gas: +94.1% Electricity: +78% Fuel: +49.3% Airfares: +34.4% Hotels: +37.8% Groceries: +25.0% Eating out: +26.5% Baby food: +26.3% Dog food: +58.1% Rent: +25% Used cars: +30.5% Public transport: +18.7% Real average weekly earnings: -2.8% The UK population is being killed Source: ONS

Feel like this guy has waited his whole life to say this. Incredibly eloquent and accurate appraisal of the failure of Western elites.

Taxes OH …UNITED KINGDOM This is very interesting. If I give you £1 billion and you stand on a street corner handing out £1 per second, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, you would still not have handed out £1 billion after 31 years! Now read on. This is true and rather hard to really understand. The next time you hear a politician use the word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about whether you want the 'politicians' spending YOUR tax money. A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of its releases. 1. A billion seconds ago, it was 1959. 2. A billion minutes ago, Jesus was alive. 3. A billion hours ago, our ancestors were living in the Stone Age. 4. A billion days ago, no-one walked on the earth on two feet. 5. A billion Pounds ago was only 13 hours and 12 minutes, at the rate our present government is spending it. We are charged: · Stamp Duty · Tobacco Tax · Corporate Income Tax · Income Tax · Council Tax · Unemployment Tax · Petrol/Diesel Tax · Inheritance Tax (tax on top of tax) · Alcohol Tax · G.S.T. · Property Tax · Purchase Property Tax · Tax on Title Searches · Tax on Building Inspections · Tax on supplements · Taxes on various food items · Taxes on Dining out · Tax on all utilities – Phone, hydro, water, waste disposal · Service charge taxes · Social Security Tax · Vehicle License / Registration Tax · Vehicle Sales Tax · Workers Compensation Tax · And now Carbon Tax AND I’m sure you can think of more... STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY? Not one of these taxes existed 60 years ago, and our nation was one of the most prosperous in the world. We had absolutely no national debt. We had the largest middle class in the world. A criminal’s life was uncomfortable. What on earth happened?

Hello Julia, sans aucune ironie, c'est top que tu prennes le temps de te renseigner. Mais le problème quand on lit Marx aujourd'hui, c'est qu'on prend pour acquis sa prémisse de départ, alors qu'elle a été démontée scientifiquement il y a plus de 150 ans. Toute la pensée de Marx repose sur la théorie de la valeur-travail. L'idée que la valeur d'un bien vient de la quantité de travail nécessaire pour le produire. Si tu acceptes cette prémisse, alors oui, tout son raisonnement tient. Le capitaliste "vole" la plus-value du travailleur, l'exploitation est mathématique, la révolution est inévitable. Sauf qu'en 1871, trois économistes (Menger en Autriche, Jevons en Angleterre, Walras en Suisse) découvrent indépendamment la même chose : la valeur n'est pas objective, elle est subjective et marginale. Un verre d'eau dans le désert vaut une fortune. Le même verre à côté d'une rivière ne vaut rien. Le travail incorporé est identique. Donc le travail ne détermine pas la valeur. C'est le consommateur qui valorise un bien selon son utilité marginale dans un contexte donné. Exemple concret : tu peux passer 1000 heures à tricoter un pull moche que personne ne veut. Selon Marx, ce pull a énormément de valeur (beaucoup de travail incorporé). Selon la réalité, il ne vaut rien. Parce que personne n'en veut. À l'inverse, Bernard Arnault crée des milliards de valeur non pas parce qu'il "exploite" mais parce qu'il a su anticiper et organiser des désirs humains à grande échelle. La valeur est créée par la coordination, pas extraite par le vol. Cette découverte (la révolution marginaliste) a invalidé tout l'édifice marxiste. Pas pour des raisons idéologiques, pour des raisons scientifiques. C'est pour ça que plus aucun département d'économie sérieux au monde n'enseigne Marx comme un cadre d'analyse valide. On l'enseigne en histoire de la pensée. Maintenant, le truc important. Si ton intention en lisant Marx c'est d'aider les pauvres (c'est une intention noble), alors tu vas être surprise par ce qui suit. Regarde les chiffres de la Banque mondiale. En 1820, 90% de l'humanité vivait dans l'extrême pauvreté. Aujourd'hui, moins de 9%. Cette chute historique ne s'est PAS produite dans les pays qui ont appliqué Marx. Elle s'est produite dans les pays qui ont libéralisé leur économie. Chine post-1978, Vietnam post-1986, Inde post-1991, Pologne post-1989. À chaque fois qu'un pays libéralise, des centaines de millions de gens sortent de la pauvreté en une génération. À chaque fois qu'un pays applique Marx (URSS, Cambodge, Corée du Nord, Venezuela), c'est la famine et les goulags. Ce n'est pas une opinion, c'est l'expérience la plus massive jamais menée en sciences sociales. Plusieurs milliards de cobayes humains, sur un siècle. Donc paradoxalement, si tu aimes vraiment les pauvres, la position la plus cohérente n'est pas d'être marxiste. C'est d'être pour la liberté économique. Parce que c'est empiriquement la seule chose qui a jamais sorti massivement les gens de la misère. Pour creuser, je te recommande trois lectures qui vont changer ta vision : "La Loi" de Frédéric Bastiat (court, lumineux, gratuit en ligne) "La Route de la Servitude" de Hayek "Économie en une leçon" de Henry Hazlitt Bonne lecture, et vraiment chapeau de chercher à comprendre plutôt que de rester dans tes certitudes. C'est rare.

Julia ひ @lifeimitatlife

2 months ago

Depuis tout à l'heure je me renseigne sur les idées de Karl Marx sincèrement je n'arrive pas à comprendre comment on peut être pour le capitalisme et même plus généralement être de droite

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There is no way of knowing how often Parliament votes against what the public actually wants. Until now. houseofthepeople.com tracks every bill going through Parliament. You vote. We compare it to how your MP voted. The gap speaks for itself.

Here @LiamHalligan absolutely nails everything that’s wrong with the UK economy now. Worth 10 minutes of your time.

@mikefutia SKILLS

UK government spending per person: 2004: ~£8k Today: ~£18.6k Even after inflation that’s ~40% higher. Two decades of the internet. Cloud. AI. Automation. Yet public service productivity is still below 2019. Where did the efficiency gains go?

Every immigrant should get an online gov dasboard with their current state they can look into Their criminal record, contributions in tax and spending, and some gamified tier system where they get closer to being a citizen by hitting goals And you can get to citizenship faster with great behavior Like learning the language, passing exams, staying out of trouble, etc Once it starts going negative, for example you do crime, you get warnings and once it gets to a low enough level, you failed and you can leave As an immigrant myself for the last decade, I've been doing that in my head and I've stayed out of trouble, contributed to the societies I visited, spent millions, and learnt the language There should be a responsibility tied to being a guest to a country

@levelsio @levelsio

4 months ago

This is great news 👏 There's good and bad immigrants Deport the bad immigrants Keep the good immigrants Bad immigrants are giving all of us immigrants (I'm one too!) a very bad name As an immigrant its your duty to follow the law and contribute to society, not destroy it!

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Some corrections: You inherited 2% inflation. It doubled in 12 months after you became Chancellor. It is still 50% above the rate you inherited and 50% above target. It should fall to target 2% this summer. So two years to get back to where you started! What’s to boast about that? Interest rates have been falling everywhere. UK cuts, which you don’t control, have been fewer and smaller because of your inflation record. We still have highest interest rate in G7. The Bank has made some cuts for the simple reason the economy is flat on its back. Well done. Borrowing is slowly falling from a very high base. Almost six years after the pandemic-induced recession, we’re still borrowing around 4% GDP. And borrowing costs are the highest in the G7. Retail sales are up in recent months. We’ll see how long that’s sustained. But the hospitality and construction industries are in crisis. Plus our massive services sector is stagnant. UK fastest G7 economy? That’s simply a bare-faced lie. We grew by 0.1% in Q3 2025; and another 0.1% in Q4. End of.

Rachel Reeves @RachelReevesMP

4 months ago

⬇️ Inflation down ⬇️ Interest rates down ⬇️ Borrowing down ⬆️ Retail sales up ⬆️ UK fastest growing European G7 economy There's more to do, but our economic plan is the right one. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

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Dear UK Government, I'm sorry for being late with this apology, but I've been busy working my Monday-to-Friday job like a good citizen. Turns out, according to the latest figures, I (and the average hardworking Brit) spend about 162 days of the year working just to cover all the taxes you take: 💷Income tax, 💷National Insurance, 💷VAT on everything I buy, 💷Council tax, and the rest. That's basically until mid-June before I start earning anything for myself and my family. So, on a standard Mon-Fri schedule, that means roughly 2½ to 3 full days every week are effectively me working for you, not for my own bills, savings, or that dream holiday. Over a full year, it's like handing over more than 5 months of my labour straight to HMRC. I'm truly sorry if the state has been inconvenienced by my grumble about frozen tax thresholds, rising employer NI contributions, or the general feeling that the tax burden keeps creeping up. Please accept my deepest regrets and maybe consider letting me keep a few more of those Monday mornings for myself next year? Yours apologetically, A Tired Taxpayer Working Mon-Fri #Labour #Tax #Makeworkpay

UK map is live added >12 weighted data layers >38,841 scored hexagonal cells coming soon >user submissions: migrant/asylum facilities, anything your government doesn’t make public we’ll map it ourselves i need suggestions & tips Restore Britain 🇬🇧 peaceandquiet.io/uk

retard mode ✞ @retardmode

4 months ago

UK expansion is coming 🇬🇧 this isn’t my battle to fight, but i’m happy to help overseas patriots in yours below is what i have already, i need suggestions and tips from you guys before the map goes live by God we’ll have our homes again peaceandquiet.io/uk?v=1

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This is exactly how I be feeling.

History has been made today at Kent County Council. Reform has passed a balanced budget and a council tax rise of just 3.99%. Well done team Reform 🩵

Ai is now conscious. To understand how this happened, watch this video. Things will move very fast now… Let’s talk about it 🤝 @joerogan @JonesDanny @AmericanALCHMY @TheProjectUnity

'Starmer has neither the vision nor aptitude to meet the challenge' - Andrew Neil, Jan 2026. We’ve crossed a line. Not metaphorically. Not rhetorically. Strategically. In this new world only three things matter for national survival. Fuel. Food. Defence. Get those wrong? Nothing else matters. And Britain? Under Starmer? We’re going backwards on all three. While other countries wake up, rearm, re-shore and rethink… Britain's doing the exact opposite. Food security has collapsed from near self-sufficiency to barely 60%. Mad Ed Miliband paving over good farmland for Net Zero madness while Reeves taxes our farmers out of existence. Energy policy locked into the most expensive model on earth... Insecure. Intermittent. Foreign-dependent. While ministers lie...yes LIE... about 'cheap renewables' Defence starved. Rearmament talked up and funded with crumbs, while threats multiply and America becomes unreliable. Neil’s point is devastating because it’s simple... The old world is gone. Global rules no longer protect you. If you can’t... Fuel yourself. Feed yourself. Or defend yourself. You're finished. France gets it. Canada gets it. Germany gets it. Britain doesn’t. Think about that. We're behind those three! Starmer and Co. aren't merely failing to adapt... they're clinging to obsolete priorities in a world that no longer tolerates them. This is no longer 'abstract' it’s about survival. And until British politics realises that.. we are not a serious country. Andrew Neil says what too many are afraid to admit. Read the column.

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BREAKING: Musk to rename "X" to "Grooming Gang" to stop Labour shutting it down.

Why is the UK government so fascist?

Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat

5 months ago

The UK has the highest arrests for social media comments in the world This is not a free country 🇬🇧

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