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AGCS President / “Soft Left Gay for State Terror” / Clerk Assistant / MHFA / #NeverKissedAWhig / Gallienite & Cassandrist
Guernsey
Joined February 2011
The Labour Party is 120 years old today, I thought I’d do a thread of some of its greatest achievements for which we can all be proud
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Seriously who cares? Government should finally get a spine and ride out Westminster noise
🔺 Update: Rachel Reeves falsely told the prime minister and his ethics adviser that she and her husband were unaware they needed a licence to rent out their home, emails show
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Completely missing the point. They’re saying their consumer market is moving away from gaming to consumer alternative media. They games are competing with doomscrolling for your time
This isn’t about console wars. I couldn’t care less about them becoming a 3rd party publisher; I’m just scratching my head as to why they need to compete with TikTok or movies. If this were a Microsoft statement, I might’ve understood it. But this is the Xbox division saying this
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"The last few weeks have been incredibly tough on my family with my personal life so much in the public eye... it is the price we pay for the privilege of service" Angela Rayner gives personal statement after her resignation from government last month https://t.co/kQZ8w5Rr3q
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Andy Haldane is absolutely right. The fiscal straitjacket is restricting growth and crucial investment
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The conservatism of the Office for Budget Responsibility means the current framework is a hindrance to growth
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Our industrial heritage is the story of the ordinary, extraordinary people who built this country in places like Ironbridge Today, @lisanandy announced a £9 million government grant for @nationaltrust to protect museums in the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution
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Mamdani’s sentence below is a small masterpiece of sophistry: a polished, deceptive fragment that takes four times as many words to unravel. To counter it, one must first reject the false claim that Israel has a hierarchical legal system based on race or religion. It does not.
Zohran Mamdani: “I would not recognize any state’s right to exist with a system of hierarchy on the basis of race or religion... And part of that is because I’m an American who believes in the importance of equal rights being enshrined in every single country.”
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Tom campaigned for the party that had this policy in its manifesto
The government banned you from having more than one Coca Cola at Nando’s. The government literally banned you from having more than one Coca Cola at Nando’s. You don’t hate the government enough.
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£3bn of “headroom” appeared overnight. If that can change in weeks what faith can anyone have in the next set of fiscal numbers for 5 yrs' time? These aren’t solid forecasts –they’re moving targets. We should show a range of headroom figures not pretend there’s one precise answer
The Office for National Statistics has been under fire from politicians and the Bank of England because of a series of problems with its economic statistics https://t.co/5PDX0lApmc
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This was a Conservative 2019 manifesto policy but obviously we’ve got to bash civil servants instead
Some civil servants deep in the bowels of Whitehall are beaming with pride right now. Their life's work coming to fruition. Don't steal this moment from them.
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The British public have voted for reduced immigration at every election for 20 years. They will eventually get what they voted for, it can either be delivered by a Labour government or a Reform one
"You can feed the bigoted dragon as much as your like, but you will never appease it and it will eat you in the end." New Statesman's Oli Dugmore gives "a word of warning to Keir Starmer and his Labour government". #Newsnight
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It is okay to just admit you just don't understand Westminster system of government Tom Would probably save a lot of time
In Britain we have 27 (twenty seven) ministers who attend Cabinet - an insane number that highlights our bloated government and makes meetings utterly useless. In Argentina, Javier Milei has reduced the number of federal ministries from 18 (eighteen) to just eight.
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Because that worked out so well over the last 14 years
Stop. Raising. Taxes. Start. Cutting. Spending. This. Isn't. Difficult. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
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But you also don’t have to pass a budget, there’s no requirement to bring money bills
in westminster system countries when you don't pass a budget the government ceases to exist lmao
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Yeah it’s definitely the workers protection and not the fact Europe prevents significant state intervention in the industrial economy that is causing this problem
The Economist published this article that's contentious but probably right: It argues that laws protecting labour in much of Europe make lay-offs so onerous that high-risk moonshot projects become unviable. Making it easier to fire people could, weirdly, benefit everyone.
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Javier Milei next to Thatcher is a strange choice
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The increase in the rate of growth of GDP per capita correlates with the Indian supreme courts ruling on the Right to Food which significantly expanded state intervention
Moving to capitalism leads to large reductions in poverty. Consider the case of India. Before they liberalized their economy, they were poorer than Sub-Saharan Africa. Then, in the early-2000s, capitalism let them get ahead.
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This is simply ahistorical. People born in the late 20s (Routledge was born Feb 29) grew up with mass unemployment, an exhausted State struggling to cope with 'total wars', the Empire on the doorstep (Ireland) had gone, and the US was very obviously the preeminent power
It must have been so strange being born British in the 1920s. You are born into the global hegemon. An industrial juggernaut. The world's reserve currency. The largest empire ever known. The undisputed ruler of the waves. And your entire adult life sees it all drift away.
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Most non Jews don’t know how securitised Jewish spaces now are. Guards (often armed), metal detectors, security doors. I’ve spoken at mosques & churches: No other faith has this, is targeted as frequently, nor is subject to as much/any whataboutism when threatened or scared.
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I am horrified by the antisemitic terrorist attack at a synagogue on the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. The government has stepped up security at synagogues across the whole of the country, and we will do whatever is required to keep our Jewish community safe. To those
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On the holiest day of the year we are attacked at a Manchester synagogue. Our children walk to school behind barbed wire protected by guns. Yet some still answer this atrocity with “what about…” This is my country, the sanctuary my grandfather found after surviving the
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