Jeremy Bentham's Ghost 🌐

Utilitarian. Philosophical Radical. The good of any one individual is of no more importance, from the point of view of the Universe, than the good of any other.

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Bentham is right, of course.

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@profavi_ @mahri_mac Tories are also opposed to planning reform (they tried to wreck Labour’s Planning Act along with the Greens and Lib Dems) and infrastructure investment (which Blair praised, along with the macroeconomic gains seen under Reeves).

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@WinstonLBrown1 @ONS There's no exodus. Emigration of British nationals was stable.

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@takeitbackUK @ShabanaMahmood How do you know they are productive? They could be people retiring in Spain. The figure was broadly stable compared to previous years.

The drop was overwhelmingly driven by lower immigration.

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@SYS_04_ @ShabanaMahmood Most of that emigration is of non-EU and EU nationals, and it was broadly stable in 2025 compared to the previous year.

The drop was overwhelmingly driven by lower immigration.

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@SYS_04_ @PolitlcsUK This is wrong. Emigration, including of British nationals, was stable.

The drop was overwhelmingly driven by lower immigration.

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@BasilTheGreat This is wrong. Emigration, including of British nationals, was stable compared to 2024.

It was overwhelmingly driven by lower immigration.

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@bigfanofmykids @PolitlcsUK No, it's because Labour introduced visa restrictions.

There are hundreds of thousands of vacancies.

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@blow_left @PolitlcsUK There are hundreds of thousands of vacancies.

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@Lion_MFC22 @PolitlcsUK It was literally released just now. Check the ONS website.

You're obviously a foreign bot.

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@Lion_MFC22 @PolitlcsUK This is the year ending December 2025, and it was 171,000.

The drop was overwhelmingly driven by lower immigration. Emigration, including of British nationals, was stable.

And it's mostly non-EU nationals who are leaving.

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@liuu_fggbbb @PolitlcsUK Wrong. The drop was overwhelmingly driven by lower immigration.

Emigration, including of British nationals, was stable.

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@LBCNews The lowest level outside the pandemic since 2012, and overwhelmingly driven by lower immigration.

Emigration of British nationals was stable.

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@phantom_khalid I took them to task for supporting Truss three days before the mini-Budget. But to be fair to @s8mb, he's specifically talking about the the by-election, not endorsing Reform in a general election. And their concerns about Burnham are legitimate.

https://t.co/VUQ27HJ1lU

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@MrRBourne I’m enjoying seeing people like you, Bowman, @iainmartin1, and @tomhfh, who all endorsed austerity at a time of record low rates, now endorsing the irresponsible borrowing plans of Liz Truss at a time of rising rates and a weak currency.

Spokesmen for a failed political party.

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@jwblackwell @NicholasTyrone @N4Y__47 Not at all clear that Rayner would beat Starmer, though, according to the latest membership polling.

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@NicholasTyrone @N4Y__47 They're not going to bring on a general election by voting for Reform.

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@FennellJW That's per capita growth, too.

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@si_rubinstein @britpopforali And to the extent that it's true, it's because the alternative is Farage, who called Truss's mini-Budget the best since 1986, was responsible for taking us of the world's largest trading bloc, and parades people who incite violence and spread anti-vaccine bunk at his conference.

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@MurikanzGowhoop @philipaball @darioperkins He was certainly a victim of COVID-19, yes!

I can probably give a better defence of the Conservative record in government than they can.

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@MurikanzGowhoop @philipaball @darioperkins Once again, it's called the Global Financial Crisis.