Alex

Believer in freedom and civil liberties.

[Alex @Admalez]

For good reason and it is not a solution.

[🧡Lulu🌾; @ItsLulu_7]

Liberals don't like socialism

[Alex @Admalez]

@UnderSneege Maybe Americans are right about indoor cats.

[Howard Cox @HowardCCox]

I’m quoted in the Daily Mail on 20mph limits being extended.

Yes, hitting a pedestrian at 20 mph is far less lethal than at 30 mph, but if the limit doesn't meaningfully lower average speeds, and DfT data shows it mostly doesn't, there is no safety cost-saving dividend. There has been no statistically significant drop in costly collisions or casualties in residential areas, as shown in the government’s own figures. Compliance is patchy, and enforcement is expensive and selective. 20 mph zones are costly, leading to stop-start driving as drivers' eyes are off the road and on the speedometer. Emissions increase when driving in high gear, and that isn't what most "20's Plenty" campaigns deliver. Safety only improves through better road design, enforcement of real offences, and targeting actual risk factors. Lower speed can help, but only when it actually happens. 20 mph limits are simply a dishonest and easy way to grab cash from one of the world’s already highest-taxed drivers.

https://t.co/8G9eVkxEQg

[Alex @Admalez]

@CityAM Cut taxes and repeal the generation tobacco ban.

[James Price @jamespriceglos]

🛠️ Britain’s communist government considers Soviet food controls
⛴️ But also has a minister promoting food exports
💸 Ignore that this is the amazing work of market capitalism
🤦‍♂️ Condescendingly express shock that a foreign supermarket has nice things

Truly a useless government.

[Joana Cotar @JoanaCotar]

Dann verboten:

- Ketchup, Mayonnaise, Senf in Portionsbeuteln
- Soßen, Gewürze in Einwegverpackungen
- einzeln verpackter Zucker
- Kaffeesahne in kleinen Kunststoff-Portionen

Was würden wir nur ohne die EU machen?
Sie rettet uns immer vor uns selbst und die Welt gleich mit.

[Alex @Admalez]

A Mars bar was 62g in 2000, compared to 51g now. An 11-gram difference isn't enough to warrant eating it in two sittings.

[Vinnie Sullivan @VinnieSull1van]

Behold, the lost view of the 1990s corner shop. When a chocolate bar wasn't only dirt cheap, but big enough to eat in two sittings. ⏳️

[Alex @Admalez]

They claim to support them and then don't abide by them.

[GB News @GBNEWS]

Britons support rollout of nationwide 20mph limits and driving licence restrictions to cut road deaths

https://t.co/Kemtf9fG2G

[Alex @Admalez]

@DailyMail No

[Alex @Admalez]

@cjsnowdon Good about time. These meddling control freaks need to feel it at the ballot box.

[Peter Reynolds @TweeterReynolds]

Very sensible 'Early Day Motion' in the House of Commons calls on government "to repeal and replace the Misuse of Drugs Act as a matter of urgency with legislation that will ensure future #drugspolicy protects human rights, promotes public health and ensures social justice." https://t.co/tvt2sy0vpt

[Ash Blackwell 🌸 @AshBinAus]

A few years back it was becoming incredibly rare to see young people smoking. They had almost all switched to vaping.

Then the public health wowsers flipped out, convinced them and governments that vaping was worse than smoking, increased the price of vapes by 3-4 times and now I see more young people smoking than vaping.

It's over of the dumbest things I've ever seen in public policy.

[spiked @spikedonline]

Hundreds of thousands of young people across Britain will be weighing up whether to emigrate. And who can blame them? Ambitious Brits are overtaxed, underpaid and unappreciated. This must change, says Maxi Gorynski
https://t.co/3Zq8XASyer

[Templarpilled @Templarpilled]

You will go to jail for owning a miniscule video game sword replica in the UK.

But if you're a foreigner, you will be exempt from the law entirely.

[Alex @Admalez]

@BobHRoss This guy keeps on appearing in my reconmended feed.

[Alex @Admalez]

@Dinkeldash @Rothmus Greenland is seal, whale and reindeer.

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

45% of All Cigarettes Smoked in Britain Last Year Were Illicit https://t.co/6Kbn0JdXUK

[Tom Playford @TomPlayford3]

Probably the single worst policy failure of modern times - they tripled the excise on cigarettes in just ten years and (surprise!) the illegal industry is now 80% of the market. Our government is full of idiots, they won't even acknowledge their own goal: https://t.co/5yE6duX2f7

[Maxwell Marlow 🇺🇦 @maxwell_marlow]

Illegal tobacco is costing HMRC £4.5bn a year, according to a new report by @KPMG. That means that around one in three cigarettes in Britain today is illicit, fake, or smuggled.

The £4.5bn is funnelled into human smuggling, drug trafficking, crime gangs, and terrorism. This is entirely the government's fault, and they have been happy to carry on taxing and regulating despite the effects on the market.

The black market trade in tobacco doesn't just fuel crime though. What makes up black market cigarettes kills much more quickly and painfully than regulated tobacco - we're talking about rat droppings, heavy metals, pesticides, you name it.

Government has under-resourced trading standards and ignored calls from retail, economists, and the industry, to cut tobacco duty and fund trading standards properly. But, it doesn't seem that the government cares enough, so we will see more gang violence, fewer jobs in retail, and more health problems from illicit consumption.

[Christopher Snowdon @cjsnowdon]

This is what happens when you allow "public health" fanatics to dictate policy.