
Paul Stevens 🥀
@paul_d_stevens
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Eeyorish curmudgeon. Ex-journalist. Ex-radio presenter. Ex-Labour. Lecturer. Academic. Bristolian. #MMT
New Forest, UK
Joined February 2009
“Governments don’t borrow in the way households or companies do. When a government with its own central bank spends, it creates money. So-called ‘borrowing’ isn’t a necessity, it’s a policy choice. Government never needs to issue bonds to fund spending”. https://t.co/j1D0xropMg
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James Carville, adviser to Bill Clinton, once said that if there were reincarnation, he would like to come back as the bond market, because then he could “intimidate everybody”. The Financial Times...
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One of worst things about capitalism - beside pushing the masses into poverty, endless wars, no healthcare and climate apocalypse; Capitalism won't leave socialist or communist countries alone to thrive & prosper. Capitalism attacks and destroys any remotely egalitarian society
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“How long can governments live beyond their means?” asks @TheEconomist. The answer is simple: a govt that issues its own currency can’t “live beyond its means”. It creates the means. The real limits are our resources, not the Treasury’s spreadsheet. This old household analogy,
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The BBC’s departure from a commitment to political balance, continually leaning to the right, is a growing concern. Last night’s Question Time. Tonight’s panel on Newsnight. Kuennsberg and Mason. Progressive voices treated as idiosyncratic oddities. We all pay the licence fee.
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The UK is projected to be short of 11,000 medical consultants by 2048 It’s no coincidence that there are THOUSANDS of unemployed doctors, ready to train to be the consultants of tomorrow This is not poor work-force planning, it’s by design - to create a two tier health service
More than 7 million patients are stuck on waiting lists, yet medical students and doctors are facing unemployment. A recent @TheLancet study predicts the UK will be short of 11,000 consultant physicians by 2048. The government must act now to fix this crisis.
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The creep starts to a full takeover of your life. The first digital ID is now live. This is for veterans. Company directors are being forced to comply. The next is driving and passports. After that, banking and tracking your purchases. In other words, zero privacy.
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On @bbcquestiontime @AyoCaesar correctly points out that billionaire wealth does not arise from investing in business in the UK but from hoarding wealth and generating passive income. A wealth tax would incentivise billionaires to invest their surplus wealth into the UK.
Privatisation has failed, & asset managers & equity funds have no place in public services. The RAF leases planes, children’s nurseries are owned by private equity. Billions, every year, are being stolen from the taxpayer. The great con! #bbcqt
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What Michael Gove selfishly did to our education system alone should be enough for him to be in the political wilderness forever. I was a Chair of Governors when we had to pull our offer of practical qualifications because he wanted a baccalaureate, our funding went. Our building
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500 employers fined £10m for failing to pay the national minimum wage. 42,000 workers repaid more than £6m. Roll of exploitation includes Holland & Barrett, Centrica, Adecco, Avis, Euro Garages, Genting Casinos, Go Outdoors. None forgot to pay execs. https://t.co/oUZ0MWMF9f
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Nearly 500 employers fined over £10 million for failing to pay the National Minimum Wage
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Instead of increasing the Retirement Age why don't we lower the wealth limit? To say £100m. This would affect only 4,200 people. But would raise nearly £1.5tn
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Centrica is among the 491 employers fined for failing the minimum wage. Britain's privatised gas monopoly made £1.6bn in profits last year.
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The look on Heidi Alexander's face at the beginning of this clip is a distillation of the disdain with which Labour view the people of this country. We are units of production. If we are not producing wealth for their corporate sponsors, we are useless to them.
“Everything is too expensive and nothing works” Political commentator Ash Sarkar says privatisation is a “failed experiment” that has “cost this country dearly” and “our money has been paid out to shareholders” #bbcqt
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Hi @MelJStride, I’m really interested in evidence that “expensive cars for people who don’t need them” are being provided by Motability. Feel free to spam me till the end of time with evidence that this is happening.
LAST WEEK: Conservatives announce plans to reform Motability and stop subsidising expensive cars for people who don’t need them. TODAY: Labour looking into Motability. Why did it take an announcement by the Opposition for Rachel Reeves to finally wake up to this issue?
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1989: Margaret Thatcher, "Privatised water is a better deal than nationalised water. It will go very successfully indeed. Let's wait and see so we can pontificate in light of the facts" 2025: Ask Sarkar outlines the facts, "Everything is too expensive, nothing works; that's the
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Privatisation has failed, & asset managers & equity funds have no place in public services. The RAF leases planes, children’s nurseries are owned by private equity. Billions, every year, are being stolen from the taxpayer. The great con! #bbcqt
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Privatisation is a failed experiment
“Everything is too expensive and nothing works” Political commentator Ash Sarkar says privatisation is a “failed experiment” that has “cost this country dearly” and “our money has been paid out to shareholders” #bbcqt
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Some sandwiches now have "Carbon Scores." Digital ID is already proposed for pubs to buy alcohol- the next activity on the agenda will be for shopping. What happens when you exceed your "carbon allowance"? No more meat or fizzy drinks? The aim of Digital ID is clear- control.
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It's not some miraculous "coincidence" that digital ID is suddenly being pushed in country after country—in complete lockstep—across the entire world. That's how you know these policies are being dictated to your so-called "democratically elected leaders" by unelected
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“Everything is too expensive and nothing works” Political commentator Ash Sarkar says privatisation is a “failed experiment” that has “cost this country dearly” and “our money has been paid out to shareholders” #bbcqt
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Mandatory digital ID undermines our civil rights. It’s divisive, expensive, and a distraction from the real issues: a cost of living crisis and soaring inequality. So why is the government steamrolling ahead? Has it learnt nothing from winter fuel and disability benefit cuts?
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Age verification is being used to condition young people to the routine use of digital IDs, which will gradually be deployed to control access to more and more activities. It's clearly no coincidence that the firms pushing this agenda have deep links to the transnational "elite".
🚨Odeon Cinemas now pushing Digital ID to watch films. The mission creep is real. We must reject it at all costs. We’ve just purchased a billboard outside Odeon Leicester Square. https://t.co/qJ4PBS0bzR
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