Dave Lowry

Cinema geek since '99, Political Statler since '02, Rocket Launcher Marine since '97, Grandmaster Dice Whisperer since '89, Salt & Light since '93. Chocoholic!

[Dave Lowry @LowryRLM]

@itvpeston @MartinSLewis I wish we'd call it something more accurate, as "price cap" makes people think of a "bill cap"

[Dave Lowry @LowryRLM]

@QuibbleUK A data privacy suggestion.

I've had marketing calls. When I ask them where they got my details I'm told it was a list they purchased, but won't tell me from whom. The law should change so they are obliged to tell me so I can trace the source and invoke my right to erasure.

[Dave Lowry @LowryRLM]

@QuibbleUK New idea: You know the chevrons on roads that show the safe distance to the car in front?

Why not replicate this across all roads, but instead of adding, take the broken white line and just remove every Xth section to mimic the gap required.

Fixes the tailgaters!

[Dave Lowry @LowryRLM]

@SBarrettBar Sounds like the Gordon Brown playbook ... a regular user of the bottle bank if I recall correctly ;)

[Dave Lowry @LowryRLM]

@QuibbleUK The amount of printed paper "vouchers" I get from supermarkets bugs me. Seems like a bigger waste than carrier bags.

Also, loyalty points should never expire if you're an active customer! I think https://t.co/K5AyRKJf1N is trying to push this.

[Ellie Sparrow @elliesparrowart]

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[Dave Lowry @LowryRLM]

@RobChapmanMusic I've been saving up for a new guitar, and was really tempted by an Ultra II Tele .. but with so many videos saying Fender's QA is in the bin I'm thinking my next purchase will be a Strandberg.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Neil’s narrator adds:
Since the Brexit referendum the UK economy has grown faster than Germany, France and Italy, which are all still in the EU. So much for the Brexit drag.
The higher inflation, higher interest rates and poor fiscal position are overwhelmingly the result of the economic policies of previous Tory governments, exacerbated by the current Labour one, which continued to borrow too much, tax too much, spend too much. Hence the UK’s high gilt yields. Brexit didn’t even have a walk on role.

[Dave Lowry @LowryRLM]

@icstats @BBCr4today I foresee some familiar arguments:

The referendum was advisory!
A people's vote to confirm it!
A soft/hard rejoin!
What sort of Rejoin did you vote for?

Or even the inverse of Emily Thornberry's view: "I'd negotiate a deal... but campaign against it"

[Dave Lowry @LowryRLM]

@DanNeidle That's a lot of word salad in his reply...

[James Holland @James7Holland]

Superb from @michaelgove.

The silence in the room is telling.

When eloquently delivered facts hit an audience, with many perhaps quietly grasping for the first time that the pro-EU lobby in Britain have been peddling nonsense for a decade.

[Alex Armstrong @Alexarmstrong]

Important we give these Green councillor resignations as much spotlight as the BBC and Sky give Reform and Tory resignations.

Share away.

[Dave Lowry @LowryRLM]

@OldRoberts953 That last look of utter disdain...

[Paul Mason @paulmasonnews]

In the name of public service, and as ex-economics editor of BBC Newsnight, I offer to do a zoom call, tonight, with any Labour MP who wants to understand why bond markets do not "fall into line" with governments. 1/

[Dave Lowry @LowryRLM]

Dan needs a medal.

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

When I reported on Zahawi I got a handful of abusive messages. When he apologised & it turned out I was right, they all stopped.

But Polanski? Wild levels of abuse, which just ramped up when Polanski apologised & it turned out I was right.

Does the Green Party have a problem?

[Dave Lowry @LowryRLM]

@Pirat_Nation I'd be really happy if they can improve the shut down process that takes ages because I have *folders open* and task manager is waiting to end that task...

[Make Sense of it Marie @MakeSenseMarie]

This man says, “let me get this straight.

When White people move into an area, it’s called “colonizing” or “gentrification”,

which is bad.

But if people of a high melanin count move into an area, that’s “cultural enrichment” and “diversity is our strength”,

which is good.

But then if those same White people don’t want any more “cultural enrichment” or are tired of “diversity” being their strength, that’s called “White Flight”,

which is bad.

So they don’t want White people to come or to go.

It’s almost as if they don’t want them (whites) to exist at all.”

He’s figuring it out.

[Fang Chen @FangChenAI]

@carloswatson @JohnKiriakou Full episode:
https://t.co/SkXSExWUpJ
This is one moment from a wider conversation between @carloswatson and @johnkiriakou—where the Epstein question isn’t avoided.

⚙️ Powered by Fang Chen

[Dave Lowry @LowryRLM]

@LBC Full costings are a waste of time. No one believes each other, or say things don't add up.

I'd much rather have something like "This is the direction we want to go, here are our aspirations, and we'll tune the details as practicalities allow."

[Gully Foyle #UKTrade @TerraOrBust]

In 1967 the French President of the time, Charles de Gaulle, blocked the UK application to join the EEC (the infant version of the now EU) for the second time.

He wrote in 1963 about the reasons for his objections - and these reasons stand true today.

Membership was never good.