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Dec 15 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
This behaviour is the very essence of the #Boris persona. He gives himself #LookatMe points both at the half-cooked but expensive speech, & also at this media publicity. It’s a feeding ⭕️ with the audience getting what it wants. that he has nothing to lose.
Johnson’s reputation is so tarnished by his lying, that he loses nothing by continuing. Furthermore he embellishes his clown credentials. Best ignore the screaming toddler.
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My guess is that this is the case. The system is so corrupt that all those involved are covering their collective backs. The situation is like that of the building industry, collectively responsible for the London Towering Inferno that was #Grenville.
The judge-led #Grenville enquiry concluded that those responsible at each point of the planning process were also responsible for the whole institutional failure. We expect that these findings will lead to major agreed reforms to the building codes and their enforcement.
It is imperative that those at the top at the time 1) the planners, public & private, 2) the chain of govt command, 3) the company directors & their regulators, and 4) industry-wide bodies, ALL these people & institutions must be punished for their role in #Grenville
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#PostTruthEconomics has been exposed as an empty vessel, an old rotten barge dressed up as a buccaneering pirate ship taking on the financial markets, then collapsing into a few choice fragments: the reduction in stamp duties & the reversal of the NI rise.
Or in the #USA a crypto scam, powered by greed and lax laws in a crisis, leading to huge numbers of punters losing their shirts. #cryptocurrency fraud.
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Dec 13
I don’t necessarily agree.
What if all these nurses live on one side of the hospital where they work, or they have problems of mobility, as I do. And they use their car to drive to work on the other side of the hospital.
They could use a wheelchair or a buggy, but they haven’t got round to it, because it’s free. Of course they should pay!
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Dec 13
Indeed. There would be a huge sigh of relief in the general population and a sense of gratitude in the elderly and infirm. These people are public servants just as much as the civil servants are public servants and they should be treated the same.
However in this happy world, are civil servants also to be paid the extra 20%? Surely it’s only fair. And MPs etc?
Your supposition appears to omit considerations of equity. Aren’t MPs paid enough already? Head teachers? Vice Chancellors? School Governors? Teachers in posh schools? Doctors in high office? Surgeons? Your supposition is far too general.
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Nov 15
There’s a problem with the labour market term “economically inactive”. Those working at home are definitely not inactive. They are typically either caring for themselves or for other people.
In the #NationalStatistics those deemed to be “economically inactive”should be termed “Working at home” in contrast to those “ Working from home”. The change in terminology will emphasize that carers and household managers do work.
@CSOSue please note.
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Nov 12
Remarkably good economics from @BBCNewsnight Ben Chu. My view is that on the revenue side, the policies should include 1) freezing personal allowances, 2) raising the 45% tax rate to 50% and reduce the level at which it is paid from £150K to £100K,
3) merging income & capital gains tax to income tax allowances and rates, 4) removing #NonDom status, 5) promising immediate action to identify beneficial ownership of UK assets, 6) setup Committees to consider the benefits of #UBI & #WealthTax ,and
7) announce that @hmtreasury will support more transparency & coordination in UK policymaking.
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