Ben Crowden

Escape Room Game Designer. Trying to age gracefully. All views my own.

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@DPJHodges Could Lib Dem’s and Labour make a pre election pact to secure a majority to fix social care and stand down in certain seats?

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@Daniel_Sugarman So now the position is that Green Party people do in fact apologise for mistakes/oversights. We had Polanski on newsnight refusing such a thing

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@Madz_Grant A very late congratulations!

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@HoraceSpellman9 @93vintagejones Mini’s harsh, it’s probably average sized.

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@FuturistPartyGB If he can get Lib Dem’s to do local pacts based on a social care service in the next parliament, he could smash reform/tories

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@v_j_freeman If Burnham could make a pact with them ahead of a snap election? That would basically end reform

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@residentadviser He could do some pacts with Lib Dem’s regarding getting a National Care Service through… A united soft-left/centre vs a divided right? Idk

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@v_j_freeman I was listening to Dom Cummings on a podcast where he said how instead of trying to hack into a high security comms site outside London, China had simply bought the building that housed it.

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@TomHCalver Perhaps something about energy prices?

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@v_j_freeman The best strategy imo is to front load the economic pain at the start of the term (like the coalition years), hold your nerve and then splash the goodies at the end (long term economic plan etc etc). These days they just dole out cash and kick the can down the road

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@v_j_freeman Fundamental issue is that it’s a loveless mandate based on ‘not being the Tories’, and has seen U-turn after U-turn based on the slightest pressure from backbenchers because there was no defining agenda. Better to have a majority of 1 in lock step than whatever this is.

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@tomhfh Feels like he’s front loading the goodies in preparation for the pain when he has 5 years to do it in

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@v_j_freeman Is he just gonna do what everyone else has done, which is front load the goodies and then kick the can down the road? We’ll never get to do difficult bit of the 10-year plan because we never do…

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@v_j_freeman Heard on a pod that if immigration was 0 and nobody had any kids we’d still be 4-7 million houses short 🙃

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@antoguerrera Might as well have gone out in that hot dog costume

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@v_j_freeman Oh for sure, add them to the list! Jeremy Hunt was on a podcast talking about copying the French arrondissements and allowing them to keep locally raised taxes. He mentioned a whole area getting free broadband because they allowed a data centre to be built in their region etc.

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@v_j_freeman I’ve been increasingly radicalised that we need a decade long dictatorship where we sod everything else and just do Nuclear power stations, roads, railways, housing etc. until we lower the cost of doing things we’re never gonna break the vicious cycle of low growth.

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@v_j_freeman Fixing social care? Ending infighting? Brining a new kind of politics? Omg why hasn’t anybody thought of that?

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@Mike_Fabricant @BorisJohnson Might disagree on policy but she’s right to do this. Better to have a majority of 1 in lock step than the current loveless paper tiger majority Labour has.