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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https://twitter.com/AylmerTH/status/2069148442916516199

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.

What is the comprehensive Theresa May charge sheet? Give me everything that you have Net Zero smuggled through after a 90 minute debate

https://x.com/maxtempers/status/1884726318157193488

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? 🧵 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.

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.

https://twitter.com/ft/status/2050255024832278692

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.

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.

https://twitter.com/telegraph/status/2043464280188538916

Was full of some quite bizarre exchanges.

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.

https://twitter.com/ZynxBTC/status/2042141546481340448

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.

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.

🧵 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.

Over the past decade, Britain has raised its minimum wage to one of the highest in the world. In a zero-productivity-growth environment, this has meant that wages at the bottom have risen far faster than those in the middle. What have the consequences been?

🧵 The goal of successive govts has been to increase the NMW as a % of median income. The Low Pay Commission this year, in its report to the govt, dedicated a large chunk of their report on its consequences: pay differentials collapsing.

Amazing going through IPPR reports. They produce in-depth, meticulous reports - more detailed than your average rw publication - of migration stats and how many migrants, especially ‘skilled’ ones, are in poverty (low earners), only to conclude with “we should pay more benefits”.

https://twitter.com/maxtempers/status/2038205354920546342

"Migrants [make] up around a third of children in destitution"

The IPRR blames "disadvantages" they face such as no recourse to public funds.

Really hard to overstate the damage the IMGwave has caused to the NHS. Have heard from, and been sent, a lot of messages like this from doctors around the country.

Foreign-trained doctors, often with poor English, are having to be handheld by junior British doctors. GPST (General Practice Specialty Training) schemes in particular have been a popular route that allow foreign doctors to get a foothold in the country as barriers to entry are relatively low. As they’re often much older than their UK counterparts, that tends to cause issues too.

Why would a Somali-run children's day care centre in Leicester employ four people when they have zero children enrolled? Behind on the accounts too. Oddly can't seem to ring them up to enrol a child either. None of the contact details work.

Interesting new LSE study on the 'ethnic wealth gap' in the UK, and changes between waves since 2012.

The report found that amongst 'the [UK-born] black African, black Caribbean, and Bangladeshi ethnic groups [...] median wealth [remained] at or near zero in all waves.' Since 2012, UK-born black Caribbean, Bangladeshi, and Pakistani ethnic groups have seen no rise in median wealth, in fact 'wealth among individuals from the Pakistani ethnic group dropped sharply'.

The story is essentially one of a constant ratcheting-up of asylum criteria, driven by NGO lobbying, court decisions, and weak politicians acquiescing.

Take, for example, asylum claims based on sexuality. Under New Labour, 98% of such claims were rejected. What happened next?

https://twitter.com/TomHCalver/status/1992713170000232531

Claimants were rejected if it was thought they could reasonably conceal their sexuality in their home country. Stonewall and other charities got v upset and put pressure on the gov't.

Theresa May 'vowed' to change this - and, with the help of a Supreme Court decision, she did.

'A row of 12 social houses has just been built opposite me. I'm feeling disheartened by how much higher their quality of lives are compared to mine. Can I get a reality check?' S106 agreements are evil. Work hard your whole life to buy that £500k new build? Enjoy having someone randomly placed beside you in an equivalent property who didn't have to pay a thing.

Non-UK trained IMG doctors in some hospitals are capturing departments, funnelling all hiring through foreign pools, while British doctors feel ostracised.

'If you're a UK grad, you're seen as an outsider ... [you're seen] as an imposter and they want nothing to do with you' Reddit mods have chosen to keep up the thread and there’s a lot of corroboration by other doctors of this going on across the country.

Average intelligence has been declining in developed countries over the past 20 years. ‘There has been a marked rise in reports of cognitive challenges’ amongst US teens

🚨 NEW: The Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, worked as a ‘complaints support manager’ and not as an economist in a bank according to a former colleague.

She resigned after being exposed ‘doing Labour council business’ under the guise of frequent doctor’s and dental appointments. Credit: @67keving

🚨NEW: Conservative front-runner Kemi Badenoch is being referred to as 'LATEnoch' by senior Tory politicians for her consistent lack of timeliness. She is often seen dishevelled, arriving well past the start time to meetings.

A 🧵on over a decade of tardiness: the LATEnoch tale Kemi's unpunctuality was first noted by Andrew Gibson, in Ashcroft's biography Blue Ambition, from his dealings with her in the late noughties.

Kemi Badenoch would regularly turn up to meetings 45 minutes late and spitefully glare at colleagues that asked her why.

A study conducted on attitudes within the UK Pakistani community towards consanguinity and the high prevalence of genetic malformations found that the majority of participants attributed 'the will of God', 'black magic' and bizarre factors to the plight.

heeoe.hee.nhs.uk/sites/default/… "[White people] just fantasise over mixed marriages"