๐ชง 500,000 workers are on strike today
๐ We shouldnโt be surprised โ strikes, decaying public services and stagnant living standards are the product of our political choices
๐ฅพโฐ The economic fix is simple, but the political challenge is immense
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Rebooting 100 days in (lol)
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BREAKING:
Rishi Sunak to announce mini-reshuffle tomorrow and is considering up major changes to Whitehall departments
He's replacing Nadhim Zahawi as Tory chair but some in govt think it's much more far-reaching
He's looking at refocusing Whitehall to reflect his priorities
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I guess GBNews and the usual radio blowhards think this is โwokeโ and has destroyed Dรผsseldorf. I think it just looks like a city with the right priorities.
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โMy constituentsโ choice to drive into London is more important than your kidsโ lung and brain development.โ
What ever happened to Conservatives who believe in taking personal responsibility for your actions?
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@SadiqKhan should stop Londonโs #ULEZExpansion - working people in #Wycombe canโt absorb the costs
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Liberalism can be used as a means for conservative ends
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Always stunning to hear conservatives say we need to be unashamed of our conservative beliefs, before proceeding to describe liberalism.
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Weirdly they never advocate this
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Replying to @ACuriousHorse
So youโll be knocking down your own house then?
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Astonishing that these discriminatory barriers are still proudly installed by councillors.
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Delighted to see that following months of dangerous, noisy drifting on @ThamesPathNT by golf range, @Royal_Greenwich has installed a barrier to stop motor+quad bikes+cars on Tunnel Ave path entrance @Will_nicholas @dscottmcdonald @mtpennycook
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One more thought for this - markets are not entirely facts and maths. Itโs not inherently wrong to criticise an orthodoxy that has led us to a two decade growth dead end. Markets are people and politics as much as they are about maths.
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It seems to me that Truss correctly described the syndrome (low growth).
But she is yet to diagnose the disease (a restrictive housing and planning vetocracy).
She then administered the wrong treatment (sugar rush tax cuts before the bitter green vegetables of planning reform).
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Another plug for my diagnosis:
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500,000 workers are on strike today
We shouldnโt be surprised โ strikes, decaying public services and stagnant living standards are the product of our political choices
The economic fix is simple, but the political challenge is immense
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Yet planning reform is unlikely to be achieved by fighting everyone head on, given the existing stakeholders, so unless sheโs aware and not letting on, everything seems a missed opportunity to put forward an argument for growth.
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It seems to me that Truss correctly described the syndrome (low growth).
But she is yet to diagnose the disease (a restrictive housing and planning vetocracy).
She then administered the wrong treatment (sugar rush tax cuts before the bitter green vegetables of planning reform).
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Substack? More like stacked
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Would be really interesting to read anything resembling a reasonable refutation to this.
Because weirdly thereโs no sense that any of the big parties have a large caucus of MPs or high level activists vocally making this argument.
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500,000 workers are on strike today
We shouldnโt be surprised โ strikes, decaying public services and stagnant living standards are the product of our political choices
The economic fix is simple, but the political challenge is immense
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The ULEZ and LTNs should just be the beginning of making our cities more human and liveable ๐
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Looking for a Saturday long read? Make it this, on the root cause of the strikes and the general sense thatโฆ nothing is working right now.
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500,000 workers are on strike today
We shouldnโt be surprised โ strikes, decaying public services and stagnant living standards are the product of our political choices
The economic fix is simple, but the political challenge is immense
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Unbelievable quite how grim are. Perma-stagnation as we keep the productivity disaster of the 2010s without the offsetting growth in the workforce. The result? "Normal" growth:
- 2.7% pre-financial crisis to
- 1.7% in 2010s
- 0.7% in 2020s
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Of course, this driver is not collectively responsible for all motor vehicleists. So why are bike riders responsible for all other bike riders?
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Pathetic sentence for a violent thug. Should never be able to command 3 tonnes of steel if thatโs his response to a small bump that he caused.
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Motor vehicle culture ๐ฅฐ
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A van driver has been sentenced after he assaulted a motorist and held plastic cutlery to his throat after he crashed into him in the capital. *Video Contains Swearing and Violence* #Edinburgh swd.media/videos/driver-
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Maybe if there were fewer Russian dick suckers like you energy prices wouldnโt have spiked to enable this profit, but thatโs not a conversation youโre willing to have ๐คก
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Shell just recorded ยฃ32 billion in profit.
3,000 people in the UK die every year because they can't afford to heat their homes.
Thereโs nothing pragmatic about letting greed run rampant while the poorest freeze to death.
Energy is a public good. It should be in public hands.
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Sure, Pennywise
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China says alleged spy balloon spotted over US is "civilian airship" used mainly for weather monitoring, which went off-course bbc.in/3Ykk9ST
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It wonโt be long until AI is able to rewrite your favourite songs in your favourite genre. Someone had to make this tropical house remix of Murder on the Dancefloor. Tomorrow? Itโll be done in minutes.
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With rent seeking on housing, welfare and pensions complete, all they have left is rent seeking our environment and health
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Replying to @Gaylussite
It's literally all the Tories have got now - grasping at any and every reactionary populist policy available. It's pathetic.
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Possibly the most deranged poster on Twitter.
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When you signal with your arm to take the third reich ๐ด
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10. Bike fascist. Self-explanatory. Loves bikes and fascism.
11. The bleeding heart. Cries about unhoused people every day! Supports candidates who brutally police them! Change doesnโt happen overnight!
12. The hopeless yimby. Knows better, but Bernie lost man. Fml.
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This is what you stand for? The disgusting, grey hellscape at the top? And you actively reject the human paradise below?
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The LTNs target the vulnerable, trades people & hard working motorists. All to raise revenue for the council & to benefit cycling campaigners.
We will rip out all Haringey LTNs. Vote Conservative in the TH by-election #fightingfortottenham #haringeyltns
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You know what this beautiful street needs? More cars ๐ฅฐ - your local councillor
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sometimes the FT's comment section is better than the FT itself. e.g. ft.com/content/5c4826
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Honk if youโre horny for the ULEZ !
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(This is how the central London parties of all colours literally operate at a local level.)
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You know what this street really needs? Cars roaring past and parked on the pavement. Noise and pollution and zero pedestrian safety ๐ฅฐ๐ฅฐ
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When the recession is only moderate
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UK economy will enter recession this year but it will be shorter and milder than previously thought, Bank of England says bbc.in/40yWkJc
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