Kakababu's Exile in England 🇵🇸🍁

Bengali PhD scholar in the United Kingdom. The British taxpayer pays me. Contrary to popular belief, I'm not Muslim or Brit or Marxist. Unapologetic RadLib.

[Kakababu's Exile in England 🇵🇸🍁 @ShinMarginalScr]

@brdmoedr literally zero consistency btw. the only thing that's been consistent is the xenophobia. went from Labour to flirting with Yorp to the Greens and back to Labour when Burnham became PM.

[Kakababu's Exile in England 🇵🇸🍁 @ShinMarginalScr]

This glup shitto Red Wall racism isn't gonna play there:

1. Scotland has a higher share of international student revenue as part of exports

2. It has more incentive re: HE being free for Scots & subsidised by this

3. Population is disproportionately in the Central Belt

[Kakababu's Exile in England 🇵🇸🍁 @ShinMarginalScr]

@brdmoedr They K Rowling and Theydolf Hitler in one package.

[Kakababu's Exile in England 🇵🇸🍁 @ShinMarginalScr]

@lukerobertblack I agree but you had 14 years to fix this utter mess. Why didn't you and why couldn't you discipline the backbencher revolt?

[Kakababu's Exile in England 🇵🇸🍁 @ShinMarginalScr]

Yeah totally, Labour should run on a platform of explicitly trying to destroy the Scottish HE system when there's already anger there over Westminster causing a crisis in multiple Scottish universities.

This will totally not backfire on them...

[Kakababu's Exile in England 🇵🇸🍁 @ShinMarginalScr]

@vinismus Yeah meant that, see the second tweet in the thread. Like it's been a massive shock to me how ill-read and closed-off a lot of wannabe leftist intellectuals in the West are.

[Kakababu's Exile in England 🇵🇸🍁 @ShinMarginalScr]

I'm genuinely thankful these days that my socialisation into leftist politics happened in West Bengal under the influence of the Turbo Revisionist CPI(M) where party apparatchiks didn't think mainstream economics and statistics were fake & gay & would encourage you to study it.

[Kakababu's Exile in England 🇵🇸🍁 @ShinMarginalScr]

@vinismus @Obseyxx The entire PhD thesis is available for free online if you can't get through the paywall

https://t.co/msAjb8t9nA

[Kakababu's Exile in England 🇵🇸🍁 @ShinMarginalScr]

We do have rent control in practice precisely because rents cannot be raised without facing a complicated legal challenge that may not go the way of the landlord since Labour passed the Renter’s Right Act.

It’s fine if you’re an incumbent, but bad if you’re looking for a place.

[Ben Smoke @bencsmoke]

we do not have rent controls in england…

[Kakababu's Exile in England 🇵🇸🍁 @ShinMarginalScr]

@ProgDirectorate Hilarious tbqh thinking that glup shitto red wall racism is gonna play in a place where the vast majority of the population lives in a cosmopolitan urban belt.

[The Force Majeure Groyper 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ProgDirectorate]

who the fuck do you think is paying for the free degrees of scottish students lol

[The Force Majeure Groyper 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ProgDirectorate]

yeah man I'm sure pivoting to anti-indian racism will work for them this time after their last 20 gimmicks failed

[Kakababu's Exile in England 🇵🇸🍁 @ShinMarginalScr]

@cynicoidAlt No I mean I had friends in the CPI(M) who were studying economics and the departments they studied in were run by apparatchiks and they'd encourage you to read proper textbooks etc.

[Kakababu's Exile in England 🇵🇸🍁 @ShinMarginalScr]

British Left circles on the other hand (similar to other Western Left circles), are actual intellectual backwaters.

[Kakababu's Exile in England 🇵🇸🍁 @ShinMarginalScr]

@Obseyxx See the issue with rent control advocates is that whenever you point to it having pretty bad effects on the housing market wherever it was implemented; the answer is ‘well they didn’t do it exactly how I wanted’ without pointing out what would not have said effects and why.

[Kakababu's Exile in England 🇵🇸🍁 @ShinMarginalScr]

@TheUsefulldiots I might be talking to an idiot. My apologies.

[Ben Ramanauskas @BenRamanauskas]

The economic case for hosting big events like the Olympics is a weak one. There is a risk that taxpayers' money will be splurged and we'll be left with a load of white elephants.

[Kakababu's Exile in England 🇵🇸🍁 @ShinMarginalScr]

You had 14 years to repeal the Town and Country Planning Act like you said you would.

[Katie Lam @Katie_Lam_MP]

We haven't built a reservoir in this country since 1992.

So, increasingly, people are being left without running water, for days at a time.

It can't go on like this. We have to take on the blockers who veto every project, and get Britain building.

[Kakababu's Exile in England 🇵🇸🍁 @ShinMarginalScr]

@LeftieStats @Tom_Gann I caveated it with ‘I can’t speak to Britain’.

But I also do think if you cannot find workarounds to this, one should genuinely just give up at that point.

[Kakababu's Exile in England 🇵🇸🍁 @ShinMarginalScr]

@Nassreddin2002 It’s from 2021. There wasn’t any real ‘Russophobia’ in Germany back then and the jobs etc. were better in the West.

[Kakababu's Exile in England 🇵🇸🍁 @ShinMarginalScr]

@Jackbmeyer UK centric opinion of mine: but the cuts here have been across the board with multiple universities on the brink of collapse and anyone trying to clown on some other department is also owning themselves.