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@maxtempers
Apr 10 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Seems remarkable but it's true: in terms of P90/P10 ratio, wage compression in the UK is similar to the USSR at its most compressed.

Soviet min wage also peaked at ~60% median income, while we've just hit 66%.

Social democracy has achieved greater egalitarianism than communism. Image
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I think as long as the super rich (billionaires) merely exist, many on the left seem unable to really grasp the fruits of their endeavours.

The UK has been an incredible social democratic success and the 'wins' need to be properly documented. Image
The way all these engines of compression work is actually an awe-inspiring display of state capacity if you consider the powerful countervailing forces (among them mass low-skilled migration).
Want to keep the top decile where they are and give a real income boost of 60% to the lowest earners? Social Democratic Britain delivered!

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Jun 23
There is this idea that the Boriswave was some Neoliberal Plot concocted by the top-hat-wearing Monopoly Men class, when in reality almost all of it was tied to some element of the public sector. The absolute worst horrors were in health-related and student visas.

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People look around them, see everything's suddenly changed — the make-up of their high street, the attendees in supermarkets, the delivery drivers whizzing everywhere etc — but don't understand the mechanism, so feebly attribute it to Big Corps wanting to import cheap labour.
But your supermarkets that have transformed over the past 5 years were not stamping off hundreds of thousands of visas. Neither was Deliveroo. They were simply hiring people that were already *in* the country. So why were they in the country then?
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Jun 4
What is the comprehensive Theresa May charge sheet? Give me everything that you have
Net Zero smuggled through after a 90 minute debate
'Deport No People' Modern Slavery Act that hampers all law and immigration enforcement
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May 2
In 2025, New Zealand faced a comparable situation to our own. Equal pay claims were rampaging through the courts on similarly spurious "equal value" grounds, and taxpayers and companies were on the hook for payouts worth billions of dollars.

What did they do? 🧵 Image
In 2014, a seminal Supreme Court decision found that (mostly female) care workers could bring pay equity claims even when male and female care workers were paid the same. Instead, their wages could be assessed against "equivalent" male-dominated comparator roles, in occupations such as gardeners and prison officers.Image
This opened the floodgates to a flurry of equal pay claims using increasingly absurd workforce comparators to determine discrimination. (Female) social workers were compared to (male) detectives and air traffic controllers. (Female) admin staff to (male) mechanical engineers! Image
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May 1
The largest supermarket in Britain, that operates on razor-thin margins, is about to be crushed for the crime of paying different jobs different salaries, while our legislature shrugs.

How dare they suggest that “so-called market rates” can exist in Soviet Britain. Image
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Every mechanism in this country exists to flatten differentials and crush incentives.

Reminder that there is no barrier stopping lower-paid shop floor workers from working in the understaffed warehouse instead is no legal defence in these equal pay suits. Image
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Not a single MP who opines about growth or speaks gormlessly at any of the hundreds of summits and conferences held each week on the subject should be taken seriously unless they’ve gone on record opposing the equal pay madness unfolding in our courts. This is all just the start.
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Apr 13
Reminds me that Tapp was getting bullied last week in parliament for defending the ILR reforms on the apparently ignoble grounds that it would save the government money. Image
Was full of some quite bizarre exchanges. Image
‘What SPECIFIC data do you possess that shows that people in poverty will claim benefits, Mr Tapp?’

‘Don’t be so alarmist! We MUST wait for the data. I am very smart.’ Image
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Apr 7
Are the Greens actually extreme? Have people just been lying about them? Do they REALLY want totally open borders?

Let's have a look at their updated migration policy.

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MG301 - *Anybody* in the entire world can enter Britain. You do not need to apply for a visa before travelling, therefore no pre-screening will be undertaken. Image
MG400 - Again *anybody* can come from anywhere. They can decide when they're here what visa they want (if any!). Image
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