Harry Rushworth
@Hrushworth
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Tech, transport, politics, and planning | Delivering transfomation programmes by day, looking for growth by night | Own views
London
Joined March 2011
RT @BenRamanauskas: New blog post!. Leeds has the potential to be a financial services hub. To achieve its potential it needs better public….
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RT @tomhfh: This is Canary Wharf, before and after development. First derelict and unproductive. Then transformed into a bustling centre o….
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Reservoirs at all time lows, and the government is talking about surge pricing using smart meters, and again, worth remembering that 40% of households do not have a meter today.
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A reminder that 40% of English and Welsh households do not have a water meter and thus have near zero incentive to manage their water usage.
Hosepipe ban begins in Yorkshire as summer’s third heatwave grips country
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RT @Birdyword: Amazing how popular these talking points are, and how divorced from reality. Musgrave Group, which owns SuperValu, Ireland'….
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RT @TypeForVictory: Food is cheap relatively speaking, supermarkets in the UK are extremely competitive. Housing (or property generally, i….
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RT @AnyaM8_: Little tidbit from James Dyson's autobiography "Invention", about being asked by one government body to build a new college, a….
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RT @ArchieHall: “Markets or subsidies” is a telling litmus test. If reports on this are right, not one the government has passed today.
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RT @NoelDolphin: MML electrification: on time and budget. Hence, it was cancelled, so it didn't reflect poorly on other projects.
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RT @BenRamanauskas: Triple Lock needs to be replaced with a single lock indexing the State Pension to average earnings growth. It will be f….
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Absolutely insane policy move if true.
If reports are true this will lock *everyone* - not just Scotland - into higher bills for years as we will spend billions switching off wind farms when it’s windy (rather than allowing them to sell power dirt cheap locally). A mistake.
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RT @s8mb: This is a mistake. If you care about decarbonisation, you should above all care about cheap electricity. Even if the electricity….
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RT @sjarichards: If reports are true this will lock *everyone* - not just Scotland - into higher bills for years as we will spend billions….
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Requiring this much paperwork is bad, but we’re now in a world where AI can generate thousands of pages of applications to comply with thousands of pages of generated regulation which could be summarised and assessed by an AI agent. Massive simplification is now a necessity.
In 1937, London built 80,000 homes. Last year, it built less than half that. To find out why, I looked at two different planning applications for a four-storey block of flats from now and back then. 1937: 3 pages long. 2025: 1,250 pages long.
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The UK and France might both be struggling for global relevance (and also with public finances) but the silver lining for Brits is that if the UK closes its productivity gap with France (~20%), almost all of its problems would go away.
Franco-British relations are cordial once again. But both countries are struggling for global relevance. @Valen10Francois 👇
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RT @MrRBourne: Shameful that so few opposed politicising our national game w/ a state-backed regulator. We will deeply regret this within a….
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RT @christianbrits: This is really funny. The neighbors, NIMBY, sue over new, more YIMBY zoning code. The city, incompetent, misses filin….
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One more rule will fix it.
"By the regulator’s own admission, the new guidance and rules being introduced to counter non-financial misconduct will cost the sector around £170 million to implement, and then around £95 million in ongoing compliance costs.".
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Government fiscal rules always utilise an elusive fiscal target that will always be x years away. Absolutely no drive to turn things around within a set time frame. It’s like managing a flood with a new daily target that the waters will be receding in three days time.
🤓Possibly my favourite ever @OBR_UK chart👇.The green line is what the Government tells us is going to happen to the national debt at each Budget (up a bit then down). The yellow line is what actually happens (up, up, up)
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Every serious political party should have making productivity and GDP per capita growth their prime objective. It’s what pays for everything else.
The OBR forecasts debt to soar to 270% of GDP. BUT they say this projection is based off productivity growth forecasts that are "more optimistic than most external forecasters". What if productivity growth remains as low as it has been in recent years? Debt at *647%* of GDP.
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