ManFromTorcal

[ManFromTorcal @Imber_Man]

@9MonoNoAware @buctootim @alysdenby @JamesKanag US full-time median wage: US$62.6k
UK equivalent: US$52.4k (20% less)

Before considering:

Higher out-of-pocket healthcare spending in the US.
Differences in paid holiday, parental leave, and pension systems.
Cost of living - which varies enormously in both countries.

[ManFromTorcal @Imber_Man]

@SnapMediaCo @implausibleblog A widely reported quote from Bates was:

"I think blaming Ed Davey is a bit off beam."

[ManFromTorcal @Imber_Man]

@DanNeidle And here in Spain...no ISAs, £4k tax free annual allowance, no tax free lump sum for pensioners. UK sometimes doesn't know how good a tax deal the average person has.

[ManFromTorcal @Imber_Man]

@labour_history There was also this though.....

[ManFromTorcal @Imber_Man]

@anon_opin Some of us were there at Jollees.

[ManFromTorcal @Imber_Man]

@afneil The number of asylum applications in 2024 was roughly 4 times higher (if comparing main-applicant 26,350 in 2017 vs 84,200 in 2024).

[ManFromTorcal @Imber_Man]

@CraigTribe2 @lewis_goodall Every manifesto gets breached. Yes Labour was stupid to make commitments on tax. I didn't vote for them partly for that reason.

[ManFromTorcal @Imber_Man]

@Peston Small “c” pragmatic conservative economics would include rejoining the Single Market (which Thatcher did much to promote), scrap triple lock pensions whilst reviewing benefits - the Conservatives now want to simply fight on Reform turf. And will lose.

[ManFromTorcal @Imber_Man]

@Sonny496 @JohnRentoul Bit like Robert Jenrick living in a manor house in Herefordshire with his constituency in Newark. Can't see him piling in on this. Lots of other examples too if you care to look.

[ManFromTorcal @Imber_Man]

@NickLovesSpain "Me la refanfinfla" - I'm not really bothered/have no opinion. First heard it back in the 90s.

[ManFromTorcal @Imber_Man]

@Parody_PM From today's Times https://t.co/t1bZfaUrlV

[ManFromTorcal @Imber_Man]

@FarmersWeekly @JeremyClarkson @ClarksonsFarm1 And yet in Spain I can still get a 3 course lunch for 10 euros or £8.50 including wine. And no chlorine either.

[ManFromTorcal @Imber_Man]

@NickLovesSpain Sometimes it also snows in Málaga province (this is Antequera)

[ManFromTorcal @Imber_Man]

@RedLipRiots @LibDems @EdwardJDavey

[ManFromTorcal @Imber_Man]

@afneil I suspect BoJo the Clown never recovered from you asking about GATT Paragraph 5C when all he'd leant verbatim for his TV studio tours was Paragraph 5B - a TV classic! You'd never get to interview him again.

[ManFromTorcal @Imber_Man]

@itsme_urstruly Electric blanket.

[ManFromTorcal @Imber_Man]

@NickLovesSpain Madrid 2025 v Madrid 2017. More pedestrianisation, more cafes, cleaner, less petty crime and more confidence. It now competes with London, Paris and Rome as a destination - not just Barcelona.

[ManFromTorcal @Imber_Man]

@NapierHolland @workingmum2014 @implausibleblog Retards like English teachers, tour guides, ski instructors, musicians, marketing professionals? As a Brit, you now have to prove you can do a job that cannot be filled by any other EU citizen and get a visa sponsor. You live in Portugal, surely you get that?

[ManFromTorcal @Imber_Man]

@leighwright45 @afneil No - it was Boris Johnson who surprisingly was pro Turkey. “I am very pro-Turkish” could be a reference to the fact that years before the EU referendum, Mr Johnson had in fact publicly supported EU membership for Turkey.