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I regard him as a progenitor of the Big Bang, one of the most devious and scheming of Mrs Thatcher’s ministers, who brought the country to its knees with the monetarist experiment in 1979-82, & who deserves to be denounced as a supporter of those who deny climate change.
Lawson chaired the notorious and toxic Global Warming Foundation. He was a terrible Chancellor, using the Office to pursue extremely damaging ideological policies based on the writings of Hayek. He and Thatcher were well matched in ideological purity, along with the dictator of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Lawson was responsible as Chancellor for the Lawson boom, a second major policy error, in 1988, which was partly the reason why Thatcher herself was defenestrated weeping from No. 10. This was an earlier example of Tory mismanagement of the UK economy.
Clearly the Uk electorate never learn that the Tories can be very ideological and mistaken in their belief in their own probity and competence, as we all have seen in the @Boris 🤡 & @trussliz 😼years of #BrexitBritain . May they rest in peace. Together.🕺🏽👯♂️🧚🏿🕺🏽🤡🕺🏽🤡🕺🏽🤡🕺🏽🙌🧚🏿
#Budget2023 and #NetZero a thread. The UK is lagging behind in its commitment to achieving a drastic reduction in GHG emissions & protecting us against climate change.
#Budget2023 has an industrial strategy. However, it is clear that it will be insufficient to meet the requirements of #NetZero in the right place, in a timely manner in order to reach the target by 2040, not 2050. We are in war-time crises of an unprecedented kind.
Russia has been waging a cyber war against the West for at least 10, if not 15, years. Now due to #Brexit, #COVID19 , & #WarInUkraine, prices, especially energy & food, are spiking, but the Tory govt is either inadequate or absent in response.
I’m watching, on delay, @SuellaBraverman on @bbclaurak this morning. What a liar, what a fake, what nonsense she utters, no end of squealing and misbehaviour. She should be on a boat in the channel, experiencing the wrath of the sea. Ruanda! Deterrent! “Evil people smugglers”!… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
She should be on the cross of public opinion. What drivel, what … This is insupportable. “Cohorts of people”. Who does she think she is? We are not stupid. The ear rings! I could swear they were mine in a previous bad life. I can’t watch any more. #PostTruthSociety She surely… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
These photos come from Paris and reflect my view of our Home Secretary, who is beyond the pale, so right wing as to be a racist, a bigot, a liar and a fraud. Trying to speak for the racists and miserable unwoke of the country. Promising the earth, but telling lies not truth.
Just look at his expression. He’s trying hard to be a serious politico, but he comes across as an angry #Brexiteer This is their language, their fault, their crime against our country, our homes & families. Yes, it’s them vs us as they wanted it, @Boris and his merry band of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Let him live in a tent. Let him enjoy the comforts of the English countryside in Spring under canvas. Let him cook his own meals on a Primus stove in the rain under an awning overlooking the North Sea, maybe in Clacton?
There’s nothing like a bracing wind blowing away your tent to teach MPs such as him a lesson about human frailty in the face of the elements. Vengeance will be sweet; the voters will decide, he can join @BorisJohnson in the dole queue, if he is lucky. Otherwise he could beg, I… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Keynes is right in questioning this inconsistency in govt attitudes to spending in war&peace. Govts make the ideological pursuit of controlling public debt in a sovereign state, their policy aim. This is misconceived.
Government should pursue achievement of a balance between 1) full use of available resources and 2) price inflation in a basket of goods and services serving basic needs, broadly defined.
They should use a mix of regulation, fiscal and monetary policies in packages designed to be equitable, efficient, and most importantly. Effective in achieving #NetZero .
We have arrived in the mountains. After a journey to Cannes, Nice, Toulon, Aix, Nimes, Arles, Lyon, starting in Paris, Gare de Lyon. Over two days & nights. Here at last. TGV staff made multiple errors, cock-ups, mess-ups, mistakes, you name it. We are to be fined for their… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The oddeysey began in UK on a rail strike day. We chose to travel exclusively by rail&foot, successfully in that regard. Random chance, love, laughter, human interaction, sympathy, much humour, dancing, 20 hours on trains acros La France. We were overwhelmed.
By a prolonged sunscape with clouds merging formingly to create rain and wind afar. Speeding by Van Gogh country in a TGV. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…