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Ex operations director of global energy utility. If you can’t frame a problem correctly, you’ll never solve it.

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@danny__kruger George Floyd couldn’t breathe because a policeman was kneeling on his neck

Henry Nowak couldn’t breathe because the police tragically failed to recognise he had been stabbed

Reform knows the difference but still uses it to incite “rage”

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@MartinSLewis Reflect on that 40 year term for a moment

When plan 5 graduates become parents, their children may be heading off to university from the 2050s

As well as financially supporting their kids, they’ll still have a decade of their own loans to pay off

A lifetime of additional tax

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@itvpeston @MartinSLewis Increasing student loan repayments from 30 to 40 years more than halved the government’s contribution to students

Martin’s simple table shows it reduced from 44p to 19p per £

It’s why middle earners now pay nearly double the cost

Very few people understood this

Treasury did

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@ShippersUnbound Never forget how Boris Johnson avoided handing over his WhatsApp messages to the Covid inquiry

Here is Darren Jones doing the same thing. How did he avoid handing over these messages that clearly exist?

No wonder that public trust in all politicians has collapsed

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@AEHALL1983 Ed Miliband delivered the UK’s Climate Change Act back in Nov 2008

This required a largely decarbonized power sector by the 2030s

Theresa May only tightened the economy wide target from 80 to 100% by 2050

Amazing what the words “Net Zero” did in publicising or enraging people

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@mike_gain @BBCNews The table considers the size of an annuity that the pension pot could purchase

So they are the pension pots required for someone retiring today

Surely the size of the pot you need should be the key issue to communicate?

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@BBCNews In headlines terms, a couple who wish to retire on a moderate lifestyle

1) need a total cash income of around £45,400

2) this requires both to receive the full state pension @£12.5k

3) and both to have pension pots of around £200k to either buy an annuity or take withdrawals

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@BBCNews This is the link to last years report , where is this years?

https://t.co/iEdmBkV4e1

And this is the key information which is buried in the report

It’s post tax figures being quoted

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@christopherhope @GBNEWS Other broadcasters “embarrassed” because it covers “the agenda of the majority”.

If GBNews did reflect the agenda of the majority, its viewing figures would reflect that & it wouldn’t require a hedge fund owner to cover its losses

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@watt_direction UK customers have funded the industry’s early, expensive development phase

It’s allowed offshore wind to become cheaper through learning and scale

Those are sensible proposals to remove the early costs from bills and onto taxation

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@MartinSLewis If these pictures are true, there is an oligopoly operating in the UK but not in the EU

The price structure isn't the issue

Firms will come up with different ways to profit maximise

It's why RPI pricing switched to £s and made little difference

There are too few competitors

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@londonfox2030 @GavinBarwell @griffitha Not that you should judge everyone on A levels but it’s a good place to start

Kemi Badenoch achieved

B in Biology, B in Chemistry, and D in Maths & didn’t get in to Warwick

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@londonfox2030 @GavinBarwell @griffitha You’ve fallen for the usual media nonsense

Rachel Reeves achieved 4 As at A level including further maths - the hardest A level

Then PPE at Oxford had a masters from LSE

Like Starmer, she struggles to communicate but “Rachel from accounts” is a pathetic insult

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@londonfox2030 @GavinBarwell @griffitha Disagree - you need high IQ/EQ & a strategic brain.

The problem is not many MPs do

Opening up to direct appointments gets you Pete Hegseth as your Secretary of State🙈

A PM as per Trump could appoint totally useless sycophants

It is possible now via appointing first to HoL

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@afneil The Tories created the problem over the last 14 years

But @afneil is right, why didn’t Labour arrive with a plan to solve it?

This doesn’t mean a protest vote for Reform will be any better

In reality, it’s likely to make it worse

But you can see why voters may want to try

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@GavinBarwell @griffitha Does her Z-list parliament include her own back benches?

Many MPs born into money have absolutely no idea of how the other half live

One of the reasons that led to Brexit

How ironic that the Pied Piper is a Dulwich college educated ex city trader who accepts £5m bungs

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@LoftusSteve This is the first time it’s not been shown for free

BT Sport/TNT always used to

Even though it’s not a legally protected “listed events” (unlike the FIFA World Cup final & FA Cup final)

The answer is to include it

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@DavidGauke Yusuf is playing the provocative role so Farage can appear more conciliatory

It’s a deliberate “good cop, bad cop” political strategy

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@GavinBarwell Good to see there’s still some honest conservatives around