Matthew Dicks CIHCM

Arguing daily that adequate housing should be a universal human right in law! @CardiffCityFC. Proud Dad. Views my own. Over on @mattydicks.bsky.social

[Matthew Dicks CIHCM @Mattydicks]

I'm off to a place where rational objective fact is still the basis of discussion and debate!

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

Almost 10,000 likes for straight-up lies by Annunziata Rees-Mogg, quote:

"Asylum seekers make up 0.08% of Dorset's population and 44% of alleged sex offences. So unbelievable I had to check. It's true."

It's not true, it's utter garbage.

I'll go through facts and figures. /1

[Matthew Dicks CIHCM @Mattydicks]

@GoodwinMJ Based on Thursday's result, 25% of British People are with Reform, 18% with the Greens, 17% each with Tories & Labour, and 16% with LDs. Then in Wales Plaid had 35% of vote. SNP won In Scotland. So, British people are utterly, hopelessly and deeply divided!

[Matthew Dicks CIHCM @Mattydicks]

@GWRHelp 10.18 from Cardiff to Paddington. Now delayed until 10.52 but keeps going up a minute every time it flashes on screen. You're going to cancel and put us all on the 11.18, aren't you. So why don't you just tell us that from the outset! Honesty, a good virtue in public realtions!

[Matthew Dicks CIHCM @Mattydicks]

Another day travelling with @GWRHelp.........another day of delays.....another day of absolutely no information....another day of absolute rubbish!

[Matthew Dicks CIHCM @Mattydicks]

Well looks like @MoonpigUK has the worst customer servcie I think I have ever experienced......in thet they have none. Seems there isn't a way of contacting them about an order that hasn't turned up. None of the options on their "contact customer servcie" page work!

[Will Hayward @WillHayCardiff]

A reminder.

Only 6.9% of people in Wales were born overseas.

Just 2.9% of people in Caerphilly were born overseas.

Whereas 38% of medical consultants in Wales were born overseas.

Immigrants are not holding our NHS back, they are propping it up.

[WHQ @WHQMag]

White Paper stops short of right to adequate housing https://t.co/JsC2XzApVx

[Will Hayward @WillHayCardiff]

Reform UK are pushing immigration hard as an issue in the Caerphilly by-election.

Just for context, Caerphilly has the THE LOWEST, immigration rate of all Wales' 22 councils.

97.1% of people there were born in the UK.

Only Cardiff and Newport have move that 10% born overseas and even those figures are low.

[Matthew Dicks CIHCM @Mattydicks]

https://t.co/9zjW9YmvyL

[Matthew Dicks CIHCM @Mattydicks]

@RupertLowe10

[Matthew Dicks CIHCM @Mattydicks]

@Reform_West @RupertLowe10

[Simon Forrest @SimonForrest11]

It feels timely & appropriate to post this magnificent beast ... the ultimate vox pop!
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[Matthew Dicks CIHCM @Mattydicks]

@kelvmackenzie Yeh,but thay haven't explained how they're going to fund it?

[Matthew Dicks CIHCM @Mattydicks]

@GoodwinMJ Protesters dressed in pink blocking roads outside hotels housing assylum seekers, or farmers blocking roads 'cos they don't want to pay inheritance tax like the rest of us, "legitimate protest"

Climate protesters blocking roads, "lock 'em up"

Two-tier Britain.

[Matthew Dicks CIHCM @Mattydicks]

@RobertJenrick Violent Crime statistics since 1990s (Source: Crime Survey for England & Wales (CSEW))

Peak: mid-1990s, with around 4.5–5 million violent incidents a year.

Now: down by 70–75% compared to that peak.

Victimisation rate fell from 5% of adults in 1995 to under 2% today.

[Matthew Dicks CIHCM @Mattydicks]

@darrengrimes This decline has been steady since the late 90s, with only small year-to-year fluctuations.

[Matthew Dicks CIHCM @Mattydicks]

@darrengrimes Violent Crime statistics since 1990s (Source: Crime Survey for England & Wales (CSEW))

Peak: mid-1990s, with around 4.5–5 million violent incidents a year.

Now: down by 70–75% compared to that peak.

Victimisation rate fell from about 5% of adults in 1995 to under 2% today.

[Matthew Dicks CIHCM @Mattydicks]

@crawfax @NoJusticeMTG No his claim was that he wasn't in the top 5% of earners even though he earned over £80,000. Only 5% of eraners in this country earn over £80,000 (at that time - might be slightly higher/slightly less now). So it's a mathamatical fact that he is in the top 5% of eraners

[Matthew Dicks CIHCM @Mattydicks]

@JamesMelville Biggest cause of high energy prices is global spike in gas prices, especially following:
1. Ukraine
2. High reliance on gas - 40% of UK’s electricity generated by gas.

Cost of green levies are small (typically less than 10% of a bill). Renewables are now cheaper than gas.