Terry Paul

Solves business challenges / Ultra Trail runner/ @GMB_Union Views my own, RT/ likes not always endorsement🇬🇧 🇱🇨🇩🇲

[Sonia Sodha @soniasodha]

The Code isn’t itself secondary legislation. It’s guidance that explains the law. The time for MPs to scrutinise the Eq Act’s single-sex exceptions was when Parliament passed this law back in 2010. If MPs want to change the law they need to change the law, not block guidance.

[Emma Harriet Nicholson @Baroness_Nichol]

A big Trades Union seems ignorant on Employment Law

[Emily Sheffield @emilysheffield]

Really upset to hear about Sir Alex Younger. He was a fantastic person, dad, unbelievable wise head. The only person I ever sat and up listened to when he was on @bbcNewsnight etc. Former head of M16. Best friends with my god mum… he lost his middle son only in 2022 in a horrendous car crash. He’s just 62. This is a terrible tragedy. My deepest sympathies with his wife and remaining children. Cancer is extremely cruel.

[Emma Hilton @FondOfBeetles]

Sex Matters.

Who knew? 🤷‍♀️

[Dr Luke Evans MP @drlukeevans]

Hi @ZiaYusufUK I might be able to help...

Black men are genetically much more likely to get prostate cancer.

Here is a big study showing why:

https://t.co/yzFgdBxYF3

We also have different guidelines on things like blood pressure, because of well, genetics.

You are welcome

[Tim Farron @timfarron]

Are there any doctors who belong to Reform UK who can quietly tell Zia to stop being a wazzock about this stuff?

[Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot]

The biggest disclosure in the Mandelson files is that all the might of the British state could not get a lead time of less than 8-10 weeks for a *briefcase*.

@MarinaHyde here

https://t.co/M4BkyGVb4L

[Callum Anderson MP @_CallumAnderson]

This is not two-tier healthcare. It is evidence-based medicine. Black men have a 1 in 4 risk of developing prostate cancer, twice the risk faced by other men (h/t @ProstateUK). If it were white men, I'd support this. Zia demonstrates he isn't fit to hold public office.

[Terry Paul @Terrympaul]

@ZiaYusufUK ps there are drugs which have better outcomes based on a person's ethnicity..therefore logic would dictate some drugs could be for specific types...perhaps ask YOUR health spokesperson for an explanation on drug treatment regimes

[Terry Paul @Terrympaul]

@ZiaYusufUK @ZiaYusufUK as someone who wants to be in Government dial it down a bit..The medical study published recently stated universal screening who have negative consequences and better to focus on the at risk group. You can do better.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 WATCH: Immigration Minister Mike Tapp points out the hypocrisy if Keir Starmer is ousted as PM

"When the Conservatives did it, I no doubt tweeted that they should [call an election]. I ask all my colleagues to check if they were"

@HenryRiley1

[Ruth Davidson @RuthDavidsonPC]

I know Scotland can get a bit drizzly - but 2 grand on brollies? 🌧️⛈️🌨️

[Times Radio @TimesRadio]

“He has used the religion to mask and hide and defend him in an indefensible crime.”

Sikh Federation adviser Jas Singh says Henry Nowak’s killer Vickrum Digwa has abused Sikh beliefs to justify his actions and the community has condemned the crime “in the strongest terms”.

[Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot]

You cannot seriously think that Labour MPs would make Andy Burnham prime minister if they thought he was going to call a snap general election where hundreds would lose their seats even in the best case scenario. Truly bizarre.

[Mike @michaelhitack]

Indian chess master cheats against little boy. #DeportThemAll

[James Heale @JAHeale]

If anyone can be said to have emerged enhanced from the Mandelson files it is Pat McFdadden

[Joshua Garfield @JoshuaGarfield]

Pat McFadden gets it.

[Old Gassy @OldGassy1984]

Nicola Sturgeon finds herself struggling to log in to a website...

[Josh Hunt @iAmJoshHunt]

The framing of the bond markets we get from politicians is totally mad. And shows how little they understand about the mechanics of how the nation finances its deficits.

They seem to think that the bond markets are essentially a small group of evil billionaires sat in a room scheming to influence public policy.

This is bullshit.

In reality, they’re made up of people and institutions the government are asking to lend them money… pension funds, insurers, your gran’s retirement pot, the Bank of England, overseas central banks holding sterling, and so on. A lot of people are involved in these markets.

When politicians say they’re “in hock” to the bond markets. What they’re referring to is the fact that they borrow money from the market and have to pay bond holders back with interest. The participants in the market will buy bonds when the yield on the bonds adequately covers the perceived risk of holding the bonds, and provides a modest expected return to make it worthwhile.

They’re not scheming, they’re just pricing inflation and interest rate risk. Our debt carries a higher risk premium than other core economies like Germany, because of specific structural problems and a credibility deficit on spending.

And a lot of that demand isn’t even a choice. Pension funds and insurers are required to hold gilts to match their liabilities. So your gran’s retirement pot is quietly propping up the very market these politicians claim to be fighting.

The supposed alternative is to balance the budget so you don’t need to borrow. If you don’t want to be “in hock” to the bond markets, don’t borrow money from them. Except even that wouldn’t free us, because we still have to roll over the existing debt as it matures. Escaping the market entirely would mean running surpluses for decades, which would take spending cuts or growth we haven’t got. So the government borrows.

And here’s the tell... a lot of politicians half admit it. They’ll say, as Polanski does here, the markets “just want to know there’s a plan.” Yeah, absolutely. So the problem was never the market. It’s that our politicians haven’t got a credible plan.

So when you hear politicians complaining about the bond markets, what they’re really complaining about is the fact that they can’t borrow endlessly to fund all the mad shit they want to do.

[Scott Wortley @Scott_Wortley]

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