Jake Ruggier

Chair of Poole Labour 🐬🌹

Views my own, I should probably say.

[Jake Ruggier @JakeOfPoole]

@1he0pposite It’s actually harder to from in my car at least because it’s so high up and you only come off the roundabout just in front of it. Imagine it would make it harder to clean as well (not that much cleaning happens these days).

[Jake Ruggier @JakeOfPoole]

This is my quibble - replacing nice civic signs with bland, characterless ones for no reason.

[quibble @quibbleUK]

Hello, we are Jonathan and Abigail - unashamed pedants who want to bring this affliction to bear on all things public policy and practice.
We believe that details matter, especially in public administration. This is why today we are founding quibble: a campaign to fix the small stuff.
Think, for example, about the cookie banner that we click on every webpage. Each instance is not a big deal, so we just put up with it. But its cumulative impact adds up - on average we press it 5 times per day. The European Commission estimates that it costs EU citizens 343 million hours per year.
And who is there to represent the impacts of seemingly minor issues like this in a systematic way? We want quibble to be the answer. In the case of the cookie banner, lots of advocacy has rightly focused on privacy, but has this meant that user experience has taken a backseat? We believe there are ways to improve user experience without compromising on privacy. We will share more about this soon.
Consider another example. Did you know that in some government-run car parks you can be fined for a minor keying error, such as accidentally typing a zero instead of an “o”? Again, we will come to the detail of this quibble in the coming weeks, but for now just consider again the question: who? Who is there currently to systematically represent the interests of the parker who is given an unfair ticket?
An inherent feature of consumer interests is that those who have them rarely have enough other things in common to make collective organisation and representation feasible. This is the gap that quibble seeks to fill. Now of course excellent consumer interest groups exist. But understandably quibbles might not be at the top of their lists. Our hope is that quibble will be complementary; picking up the bottom-of-the-list issues faced by various groups - the stuff they are almost too embarrassed to raise because they are too small.
We are not embarrassed about detail. If you’ve ever had a splinter, you know small things can have a big impact. This is what quibble is committed to tackling, and our wider hope is that by doing so we will also incentivise policy makers to be even more careful about detail.
Check out our website here, including our first four campaigns: https://t.co/gZiqqHbhIL

[Jake Ruggier @JakeOfPoole]

@breadandposes The sign in the photo is just off a small roundabout so it’s pretty much impossible to be at high speed there.

The new sign’s no bigger than the old one, and the council didn’t give legibility as an excuse.

[Jake Ruggier @JakeOfPoole]

@GoodwinMJ Portland, Dorset in 2020, apparently.

[Jake Ruggier @JakeOfPoole]

@QuibbleUK I spoke to the local Echo and BBC Solent after they saw a tweet I made about it. The response from the council wasn’t encouraging. https://t.co/CICNcqAOgg

[Jake Ruggier @JakeOfPoole]

@purdyrebelkinch Privatisation is one thing, significant British companies being owned overseas is another and does make us poorer.

US companies like Apple and Google would never be nationalised, but you’d probably never see them sold overseas either.

[Jake Ruggier @JakeOfPoole]

@E1GHTIES @BCPCouncil @pecker2009 Yep. I do think enforcement can go a long way. The trial of increased fines near the beaches seemed to be pretty successful last year, so hopefully that gets approved long-term. There was towing as well which seemed to be missing last weekend.

[Jake Ruggier @JakeOfPoole]

@E1GHTIES @BCPCouncil @pecker2009 Pretty sure it’s been tried and there was very little uptake. People willing to illegally park on a verge near the beach for convenience aren’t going to park miles out and wait for a bus.

[Jake Ruggier @JakeOfPoole]

Not quite the same, but here’s the Sainsbury’s in Poole old town where Charles II and his illegitimate son the Duke of Monmouth, who’d later launch the Monmouth/West Country Rebellion against James II, had dinner once.

[JT @jiratickets]

does anyone have any more examples of this

[Kane Emerson @KaneEmerson]

At what point do we stop calling it the cost of living crisis and just accept that years of anemic economic growth has caught up with our expectations for a decent life.

Forget what life was like before, our great national failures are catching up to us.

[Jake Ruggier @JakeOfPoole]

I strongly believe that one of our core aims as a society should be to reduce the amount of time people need to spend working, and increase the amount of time they have to enjoy life.

This lot just wants you to work yourself to death.

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

🚨Important policy announcement:

Britain was built on the hard graft of people who go the extra mile.

A Reform government will ABOLISH income tax on hours worked beyond 40 hours a week, for incomes below £75,000 a year.

It’s time to REWARD hard work, not punish it! 🇬🇧

[Jake Ruggier @JakeOfPoole]

@carbonchicken21 You could, but even if technically a direct train, it'd still be a really indirect route. What's really needed is a new line/rebuilding of the Somerset & Dorset line. Would reconnect towns like Blandford as well.

Might be far fetched, but it wouldn't be in many other countries

[Jake Ruggier @JakeOfPoole]

@youngwt @AaronBastani Yep, driving through Melbury Abbas is always a good reminder of how neglected the South West is in terms of transport infrastructure.

[Jake Ruggier @JakeOfPoole]

@TomT828 @SteveAkehurst There are far more paid-up members than there are active campaigners.

[Jake Ruggier @JakeOfPoole]

@Gaismair

[Jake Ruggier @JakeOfPoole]

@jmseabs @Lambethgp The BCP Greens haven’t even acknowledged the fact one of their candidates in Bournemouth has been shown on a video claiming that ‘zionists’ killed 20 million Christians before WWII. I asked on their Facebook page if she was still their candidate and they just deleted my comment.

[London Money @LondonMoneyFS]

I don’t recall this headline from the year 2000:

“ 700 FTBs don’t buy a home every day as British landlords buy up “

Spin it all you want, play whatever violins you can lay your hands on, but BTL was a significance destroyer of a once semi functioning housing market

[Jake Ruggier @JakeOfPoole]

Is Mark White still Reform’s candidate for Hamworthy West & Turlin Moor? He seems to have deleted all his social media accounts after someone brought up the @Bournemouthecho record of his time in court.

[Jake Ruggier @JakeOfPoole]

@thetimes I suppose Boudicca did significantly reduce the number of available houses in Londinium and the Home Counties.