Max Mosley
@_maxmosley
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Senior Economist at @NEF and Councillor for Brentford East
Joined July 2014
🚨 NEW: ahead of today's debate on the changes to disability benefits, we've been digging into the claim that the rise in claims is disproportionate to the level of need. Here’s what @tompollard and I found 👇.
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RT @holliewright_: I wrote for @NewStatesman about tax wars, the scaremongering of fleeing millionaires, and non-doms. If you think the deb….
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It’s so frustrating so see people with big profiles push this myth that you can just say you have ADHD and get given PIP . A 10 second google shows the system scores based on need. Our welfare state *IS* literally built to assess who with ADHD needs support and who doesn’t.
Every single person in Britain could be diagnosed with *something* if you tried hard enough. Our welfare system isn’t built for this.
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RT @johnstratford: Interesting how those on the right/Conservatives are normally incredibly keen on people working hard and making their fo….
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RT @tanjil_rashid_: 7/7 was twenty years ago today. In my column for the @NewStatesman, I reflect on how the London bombings reshaped Brit….
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RT @NEF: The latest fiasco over cuts to benefits reveals the deeply ingrained influence of the Truss premiership on this government. They'r….
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This is helpful context, but not the full picture 👇. Important to a) account for the fact many of these countries use social insurance (funded by salary contributions) and b) remember that much (but not all) of this variation is explained by different pension systems
The UK spends 10.8% of GDP on welfare while France spends 23.8% and Finland spends 25.7%.Just remember that when you see #GBNews, the #Mail and #Sun and the likes of #Harwood, #Tominey and #Pearson demanding benefit cuts.
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RT @maxwell_marlow: Great piece from my (all but politics and economics) doppelgänger and fellow MM wonk, Mr Mosley. Fiscal rules were rea….
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RT @theguardianfeed: Liz Truss is long gone – but her fiscal meltdown still dictates every step Labour makes | Max Mosley .
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Really grateful to have my first opinion piece published in the guardian: . “Fiscal rules weren’t created by Truss, but their new totemic status in British politics was forged in the fire she left behind”.
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RT @PollardTom: "returns from well-targeted public spending – on infrastructure, childcare, health, skills – are often far higher than our….
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📽️ What happened last night was not just a rebellion against the reforms to disability benefits, it was a rejection of the wider economic framework that produced them 👇
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Maybe we shouldn't let ourselves be governed by financial markets who appear to care more about vibes than actual policy?.
🚨 NEW: UK Government bonds have spiked following images of Rachel Reeves crying. The Pound has also lost value against the Euro and US Dollar
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RT @NEF: Today is sad indictment of how we make policy in this country. Our view on the disability benefits cut vote. .
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🚨📹 Some thoughts on the disability benefit cuts vote tomorrow. We should be deciding who’s eligible for support based on need, not because of short-term GDP fluctuations 👇
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RT @PippaCrerar: NEW: London mayor @SadiqKhan tells @LBC that he's not yet won over by the government's welfare concessions. “I welcome….
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As we found here:.
🚨 NEW: ahead of today's debate on the changes to disability benefits, we've been digging into the claim that the rise in claims is disproportionate to the level of need. Here’s what @tompollard and I found 👇.
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Because not all disabled people claim benefits. An increase in claims likely reflects an increase in take-up given the increase in financial hardship
Why does the massive surge in incapacity benefits bear no relation to the surveyed level of actual health issues in the country?
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As @stellacreasy points out, a new model would involve working with the same private companies that 'savaged' our public services before under PFI
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Any new model should 1) make sure all new PFI spending is ON balance sheet and 2) avoid the use of any reworked model to build social infrastructure given the risk of what happens when we get this wrong.
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