Gavin Rice
@gavinantonyrice
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Fighting for Growth + Borders @UKOnward | Words @Spectator @Telegraph | Editor, The Conservative Reader | Policy Fellow @ConsYIMBY
London, England
Joined January 2015
Fantastic to be on @PeterMcCormack's great podcast this week 👇 Why are British people getting poorer? Why are houses so expensive? Why is net zero a disaster? Will AI destroy most jobs? Full episode below!
NEW EPISODE DROPPED... Political strategist @gavinantonyrice joins me to explain why Britain’s economy is stagnating - from broken housing to demographic collapse, welfare traps, and the coming AI revolution. Watch – https://t.co/zqB9jc5HFr Links to full episode in 🧵
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🚨 A major new report is out today from Onward Corner - Permission to Learn ‼️The UK risks becoming a consumer of AI innovation developed abroad: its data used elsewhere, its companies and researchers relocating, and its economy missing out on billions https://t.co/XxCej9limk
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“Last year the entire budget for courts & legal aid was £5.5bn, almost the exact same amount of money, £5.4bn, that we spent on illegal migrants. He defends their rights under the ECHR but not ours rights under Magna Carta” @RobertJenrick tears into Lammy scrapping jury trials🔥
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I know you’re not great with economics, @ZackPolanski. So here’s a quick lesson from @SenSanders on how right-wing your open borders policy really is. 👇
Labour are toast. And they're doing it to themselves. https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp
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His favourite 3 economists are, A PPE and African studies grad who's not an economist An accountant from Norfolk who's not an economist And a former forex trader who's not an economist Explains a lot
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IF this is correct: West Mids police fudged evidence to frame Maccabi Tel Aviv fans as a threat to local residents. But the threat was actually from local, predominantly Muslim disorder *against the Israeli fans*. They have dishonestly bowed to Islamist political pressure.
It was quite an extraordinary series of evidence hearings at the @CommonsHomeAffs today: - West Midlands Police chiefs accused Dutch police of altering their evidence that led to the decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from the game v Aston Villa last month. - The Assistant
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What do you mean, "had"?
The Habsburgs had style 🎨Painting of Archduke Maximilian III by Martino Rota, c. 1580
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He’s right, you know
This Government found more money for benefits and illegal migrants. But not to get our courts sitting round the clock. So, today, David Lammy is scrapping jury trials for the vast majority of cases.
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Zahra Sultana opposes Heathrow expansion because of the "climate emergency". 👇 But she is lobbying for an airport in Mirpur. Do emissions in Kashmir not contribute to climate change?
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Labour: can we increase welfare spending on foreign nationals even further? Minister: yes we can.
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📽️ Did the Prime Minister and Chancellor mislead the public over the Budget? Some charts that might help you make up your own mind👇
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In short: the reason the Chancellor raised taxes in the Budget wasn't due to an OBR downgrade. It was because of CHOICES. A choice to raise welfare spending. A choice to leave more headroom vs its fiscal rule. To imply this was down to the OBR is misleading, plain and simple.
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Yes: the OBR downgraded the fiscal numbers by £16bn (actually £15.6bn) due to weaker productivity (red bar below). But it also simultaneously UPGRADED them by a whopping £32bn (blue bars). This chart from @TheIFS shows it pretty clearly👇
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🚨 Today the Chief Constable and the Police and Crime Commissioner of the West Midlands Police will be giving evidence at a Home Affairs Committee meeting to explain why they lied in order to justify a ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans in November. West Midlands Police not only
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I'm hoping to unite Left and Right - they'll all hate my piece in today's Sunday Times, saying that successive Budgets have overtaxed the highest-earning 20%, and under-taxed both the median earner and the richest 0.1%. https://t.co/2UBeLykUdo
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Slightly more encouragingly, the S&P Global UK Manufacturing PMI was confirmed at a 14-month high of 50.2 in November (the same as the flash estimate), up from 49.7. But activity is still subdued, especially among SMEs, and job losses are continuing 👇 https://t.co/lQLsK2p70k
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Birth rate is BIG problem for UK. Needs more attention. But why are we surprised? I can vouch (two kids U5 and third on way) - IMPOSSIBLE to have kids + save for home. I’m MP, got a PhD etc For many, kids + £ insecurity = 20s/30s/40s, frankly, shit. https://t.co/8AeKTjOpna
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RIP the legendary Tom Stoppard. Among his more famous achievements, he radically rewrote Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (under the pen-name Barry Watson), adding most of the thrilling beats and hilarious gags. One of my favourites: the cut to Brody, after being hyped up as
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The only charts that matter in the Budget. Chart 1 - The UK is going to be shipping nearly £300bn extra to the rest of the world by the end of the Parliament, more than double the levels that we were previously.
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Contributions from: @CitySamuel on abandoning growth @AllisterHeath on the death of Thatcherism @yuanyi_z on the financial pressures to end jury trials @martinwolf_ on a 'safety first' Budget @jameskirkup on the future of work @HCH_Hill on migration and brain drain AND MORE!
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