Joe Shalam

[Cut My Tax @CutMyTaxUK]

The new Danish government is cutting the corporation tax rate from 22% to 19% over three years, and eliminating income tax bands for the highest earners.

“It is crucial that Denmark remains competitive,” Prime Minister Frederiksen said.

It's sad that the British government does not have a similar attitude.

[The Centre for Social Justice @csjthinktank]

The North East has the highest NEETs rate of anywhere in the country🇬🇧

If we give young people hope here, we can do it across Britain.

Yesterday, with @StephLunch and @Dallaglio8, we talked to over 60 employers taking on this crisis💬

All in partnership with @FenwickStores - one of the region’s biggest local employers🟢

[Joe Shalam @JoeShalam]

The BBC and Channel4 doing investigations into vape shops and mini marts is basically level 4.

[Joe Shalam @JoeShalam]

Good grief.

[GB News @GBNEWS]

'His murderer was afforded decency. He was believed'

Henry Nowak's father says the 'contrast' in the police's treatment of his son and his murderer is 'unbearable' in a statement after Nowak's killer was sentenced to 21 years in prison.

[Claire Fox @Fox_Claire]

Gap between union grass-roots & lanyard wearing TU bureaucrats, has never been so existentally gaping. With rare exceptions most leaders are obsessed with eg diversity / inclusion EDI dogma or pro-Pal activism etc. Members look on bemused/in horror.

[GB News @GBNEWS]

‘Is it time to bring to an end this obsession with university? I think it is.’

Policy Director at the Centre for Social Justice Joe Shalam discusses factors that are impacting the UK’s youth unemployment levels.

[Dr Sanjoy Kumar @drsanjoykumar]

I lost my beloved daughter Grace O’Malley-Kumar in the Nottingham attacks. She was a 19 year old medical student. She fought a marauding man almost twice her age armed with a dagger. She tried to protect a friend and paid the ultimate price. She placed,
‘friendship before fear’
#graceomalleykumarfoundation #graceomalleykumarcup

[Joe Shalam @JoeShalam]

Young Brits on payrolls increased by 0.3% since 2020, while young non-EU migrants rose by 355%.

That’s just one additional Brit for every 27 non-EU migrants.

Welfare, education and costs on employers all playing a role in the NEETs crisis too. British youngsters deserve better.

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https://t.co/CzhPWvytu8 @csjthinktank

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

Lee Kuan Yew abolished trial by jury in Singapore after determining that it was too easy for defence lawyers to appeal to racial and religious biases of juries in multicultural Singapore.

He writes in his memoirs how as a young lawyer he was able to get three clients acquitted who he was sure did commit murder. LKY writes that he "worked on the weaknesses of the jury -- their biases, their prejudices, their reluctance really to find four Muslims guilty of killing in cold blood or in a heat of great passion, religious passion, an RAF officer, his wife and child."

He writes "The judge was thoroughly disgusted. I went home feeling quite sick because I knew I'd discharged my duty as required of me, but I knew I had done wrong.”

Study after study shows that in multi ethnic societies, there is significant in-group bias on juries.

[The Centre for Social Justice @csjthinktank]

One million young people are NEET.

Today, we reveal a factor that has been long overlooked: uncontrolled immigration.

New CSJ research reveals that since 2020, for every young Brit hired, 27 young non-EU migrants were employed.

Any credible response must address this issue👇

[Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound]

Further to Blair. Literally every honest sensible person in all the main parties privately agrees with all these propositions:

- welfare spending is too high and is throwing good people on the scrapheap
- defence spending is too low
- the triple lock is unsustainable
- without cheap energy we cannot exploit the AI revolution
- we should be investing in EVERY form of energy: renewables, nuclear and the North Sea
- migration needs to be controlled to boost social cohesion and because the boats look like a huge failure of the state
- any new relationship with the EU will be imposed on us until we are stronger and cannot involve the closeness some desire without freedom of movement
- we are deeply embedded with America in ways which the public does not understand and cannot be told and however joyous it makes us feel to hate Trump, disengagement at the deep state level is not only wholly unrealistic but also undesirable
- Whitehall needs a total overhaul so specific project expertise and political appointees can be brought in quickly

Blair basically says all that.

The one thing he doesn’t say and which the same group of people agree on is this and it’s something Blair left behind:

- judges and quangos have too much power, are unaccountable and without redressing the balance in favour of parliament it is very difficult to do anything big fast
- the bare minimum that needs to change in this regard is to reform judicial review and planning law so we can put building and economic growth ahead of newts and NIMBYs

None of that above really ought to be up for discussion. It is all common sense but not one of our politicians will publicly say all of it

Whatever you think of Blair, engage with what he’s saying not how he makes you feel. The bare minimum we should expect from any leader is that they have an analysis of the current situation and a plan to deal with it which is as coherent and realistic as his intervention. Pretty well every critique I’ve read so far has failed to meet this requirement.

Over to Andy and Keir and Kemi and Nigel and Zack and all the others

[The Centre for Social Justice @csjthinktank]

Britain in 2026: Locking up chocolate instead of shoplifters.

The government must crack down on prolific high street theft, which is now fuelling an underworld of organised crime.

More👇
@MatthewTorbitt

[Paul Johnson @PJTheEconomist]

"You can’t keep responding to supply shocks by subsidising prices. That way lies ruin. The reason that people are feeling a cost of living crisis is that the economy and their living standards have failed to grow for so long".

https://t.co/dcHULR6gwU

[Scarlett Maguire @Scarlett__Mag]

On Restore: Facebook overlooked relative to X by most in terms of its reach with ordinary voters.

I now regularly hear people organically bring up Lowe's fb content in groups.

Lowe has *1.3mn followers* on fb. To put that into perspective, Starmer has 650k, Burnham has 65k...

[Joe Shalam @JoeShalam]

The most ignored stat in this discussion.

Over the last five years, the number of non-EU migrants aged under 25 on payrolls increased by over 250,000 (up 315%).

Over the same period, the number of young people not in work or training rose by ~200,000.

[Laura Kuenssberg @bbclaurak]

Excl - Alan Milburn reveals his report finds govt spends TWENTY FIVE times as much on benefits for young people as helping them find work - tells us it’s ‘shameful’

[Brandon Luu, MD @BrandonLuuMD]

In a study of people with generalized anxiety disorder, only 8.6% of recorded worries actually happened.

The most common outcome: 0%. Not a single worry came true.

[The Centre for Social Justice @csjthinktank]

On the money👍

CSJ analysis revealed that a young male NEET is 10x likelier to remain economically inactive 20 years later.

The Government cannot *afford* to keep kicking the welfare reform can down the road👇

[Joe Shalam @JoeShalam]

Must read paper👇

[Danny Kruger @danny__kruger]

ANNOUNCEMENT!
Musical chairs in Downing Street don't matter when the real power sits next door at 70 Whitehall. Reform UK will scrap the Cabinet Office and the Cabinet Secretary and restore power to No 10, to ministers and to Parliament. Full policy document here: https://t.co/nKbWGhVOHL

[Joe Shalam @JoeShalam]

This is great from @patmcfaddenmp.

A genuine reform that, once fully rolled out, will change thousands of lives.

Ignore the critics content with the broken status quo and accelerate!

[Pat McFadden @patmcfaddenmp]

Listen to Alison's story.

She didn't want to just be signed off and written off. She wanted real help to recover.

With fit note reform we are working with GPs, physios, occupational therapists, social prescribers and others to make that happen.

[Joe Shalam @JoeShalam]

Social breakdown accelerating…

[London & UK Street News @CrimeLdn]

Happened in Ilford town centre