Journalists: if National Insurance is rising from 12% to 13.25% it is NOT rising by 1.25%. It is rising by 1.25 percentage points. if you want to describe its rise in percentage terms, it is rising by just over 10%. It is a 10% tax hike.
Robert Rea
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Robert Rea
@robertrea
Journalist, formerly BBC News for many years, now writer/producer for hire. Chelsea fan, reluctant runner (see blog below), celebrity queue-er. Went viral once
- I’m sick of all this shit. My generation gets blamed for a lot of things but one thing we did do was mobilise against the racist fascist cunts of the NF and the BNP to drive them out of our culture - out of our music, out of our sport, out of our football grounds (after a..
- So that was a night of my life I won’t get back. I never really intended to queue up for so long, but hey, you do the first hour and it’s all quite fun, and the second isn’t so bad, because you’re chatting to all the people around you and stuffing your face with sweets. And then
- We bought our house 18 years ago, and a lot of the garden was overgrown with ivy. Last summer I cleared a whole load of it away, and found a very mature clematis underneath. This spring it’s flowered for what must be the first time in over 20 years, maybe 25. And it’s amazing!
- Replying to @robertrea..their friends a call. “We can’t” they said “We don’t know their numbers. We only met them in the queue”
- So let get me this straight - Willian has now signed for THREE London clubs but STILL not for the one that paid his flight?
- BREAKING: Russian banks removed from Swift (statement by Ursula von der Leyen)
- So my son Joe has tested negative for Covid. Big deal, you say? Well, it means he’s ok to fly from Philadelphia to London tomorrow and I’ll get to see him for the first time since the start of this wretched pandemic. So yeah, it’s a fairly big deal for me, anyway
- So Chelsea can’t sell any more tickets or replica shirts. Right, well that should stop the Russian military in its tracks
- Replying to @robertreaWHEN WE ALREADY DID THAT ONCE! DID WE LEARN NOTHING IN THE INTERIM? DID WE WASTE ALL THAT TIME AND EFFORT?? FUCKING HELL. But it has to be done. We can’t go back to the days when these racist scum thought they could inflict their shit on us with impunity. Fuck them
- Just found out that 20% of the residents in my mother-in-law’s residential care home have died of suspected coronavirus. 17 residents. SEVENTEEN. And a member of staff. Bloody hell.
- Replying to @robertreaAnd that was a GOOD THING. We were a better, happier society as a result. We didn’t eliminate violent racism obviously, but we made it hide its head, and skulk in the gutter where it belongs. And now these cunts - these utter fucking moronic cunts - are back and unashamed. They..
- Replying to @robertrea..huge and lengthy struggle, not always completely successful), off our TV, out of our mainstream. True, we couldn’t end racist violence and bigotry but we made it something unacceptable, something society stopped turning a blind eye to, something to be unequivocally..
- Replying to @robertrea..condemned. When I entered my teenage years, you still heard people casually using terms like the P word, the N word and other similar terms. By the time I was 20, those insults were no longer acceptable, they were solely the vocabulary of brain-dead filth…