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Used to be an anarchist, but given I've joined Corbyn's Labour Party, I'll go with Libertarian Socialist. Climate chaos is a bigger issue than Brexit. UBI
Mar 20, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Short thread:

Prediction: we will see over 100,000 total #ukcoronavirus deaths within a month

I make this prediction in my role as one of the much derided 'twitter pandemic experts' ie someone who understands maths (Further Maths A level) especially exponential/logistic growth The daily growth of deaths is more than 4/3, ie each day on average the total UK deaths increases by more than a third. You can see this from the above graph. Our line is steeper than the dotted line

This translates to a weekly growth rate of 7.5 We presently have 144 deaths...
Dec 12, 2019 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
My voting history. First #GeneralElection I was eligible for was 1992. That was just after the poll tax & I think I wasn't on the register. In 1997 I voted for @Lisa_Lovebucket of the Rainbow Referendum Dream Ticket Connection Party (I had to Google that to get it right)... ... & put a Reclaim The Streets "Never mind the ballots" sticker up in the polling booth. Thru the rest of the New Labour years I spoiled my vote as referenced in the @cartoonkate 'Blame me, I voted Lib Dem" cartoon cartoonkate.co.uk/this-is-actual… In 2015 I looked at how UKIP had...
Dec 11, 2019 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
The thing that gets to me re #punchgate and @bbclaurak & @Peston's role in it is how they've reacted afterwards

Compare with @afneil & Johnson's no-show. I was pissed off with the BBC & Neil until he did that piece to camera. That was fair enough, he can't force him to show... ... but Neil showed he understood how out of order it was

But Laura K & Peston have acted like it's no big deal that "senior Tories" lied to them to manipulate the media narrative. Indeed I was quite disgusted listening to Election Cast where they downplayed it & made out it...
Apr 29, 2018 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Short Thread about the @AmberRuddHR memo. #Windrush
This is a quote from the memo, "This will move us along the path towards the 10% increased performance on enforced returns, which we promised the home secretary earlier this year."

So regardless of whether she... 1/x ...actually read the memo, she was aware the Immigration Enforcement Agency was attempting to increase enforced returns by 10%. How did she think that was going to happen? Put in some policies & hope for the best? Anyone who has worked in any sort of modern large... 2/x