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There are no solutions, only trade-offs.

[Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson]

Seems like lots of people jumping through the viral pension loophole...

[Emma Revell @emmamrevell]

I'm going to tap the sign...

To keep pace with the cost of the welfare state, the UK will need annual growth of 2.9% per cent over the next fifty years.

Even if Liz Kendall saves £5bn, we are fucked.

[Dr Lawrence Newport @lawrencenewport]

We started @crush_crime just over 3 months ago.

Since then, as a result of our campaigns:
- Shadow Justice Secretary endorsed our stance and demands on longer sentences for Career Criminals
- Government U-turned on their previous refusal to add more court opening days
- Met arrested 230 in a phone theft campaign

NOW - just as we've campaigned for, the government is ensuring police can enter properties to recover stolen phones and tracked items.

There's much more to come, we're just getting started.

[Sam Dumitriu @Sam_Dumitriu]

London's Metropolitan Police have objected to the opening of a new jazz bar in Covent Garden because criminals might target drunk jazz fans leaving at 1am.

Let's sack the person at the Met whose job is to object to planning applications and put the money into tackling theft.

[Looking for Growth @lfg_uk]

The LFG Bill has been ENDORSED BY THE TIMES @thetimes

Decline is a choice. There is an alternative.

And we choose GROWTH

LFG

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

Norway is (very) unhappy that its electricity prices are soaring due to demand from Denmark, UK and Germany via inter-connectors when the wind isn't blowing.

“It’s an absolutely shit situation,” said Norway’s energy minister Terje Aasland.

https://t.co/w0UaNSquOl

[max tempers @maxtempers]

The FT makes a stunning observation that the uptake in incapacity benefits doesn’t seem to actually reflect a general rise in ill-health in the population. Rather, individuals responding to incentives.

Odd considering our bulletproof assessment system has only a 1% fraud rate.

[Neil O'Brien @NeilDotObrien]

The SoS Education managed to find time yesterday to post about her "spotify unwrapped" results - but not to congratulate teachers on TIMSS results showing children in England doing better in Maths and Science than anywhere else in the western world.
Pathetic.

[Nathan Benaich @nathanbenaich]

12 hours and counting - notary reads every single word of Series A docs in Germany out loud in front of founders. In person.

Guys, we have GDP to grow here.

Pure prehistoric madness.

[Squidge Rugby @SquidgeRugby]

Bill Sweeney's Christmas bonus: £358k
RFU funding to each Championship club ('23/24): £150k

[Kane Emerson @KaneEmerson]

The consultation period to create the new town of Milton Keynes took just 6 weeks.

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

People who pay council tax work five days a week or longer.

They deserve 100% of the service, not 80%.

Labour aren’t serious about reforming the public services. They cave to their union paymasters every time.

[ASIG @asig9898]

@Capsandnumbers @EddieMillar @Sam_Dumitriu

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@maxtempers

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@s8mb

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@CFCNoah1 @eccentricks91 @tomscrace @EddieMillar @Sam_Dumitriu

[Sam Bowman @s8mb]

I don't want to single anyone out here, but it's important to realise that a sizeable share of people involved in public policy think you need some kind of formal expertise to judge whether £100m is an appropriate price to pay to protect a colony of bats from a train line.

[Tom Blomfield @t_blom]

I feel like with a small team and 2-3 years, proven tech founders could automate huge chunks of the government.

I would sign up for a tour of duty (in the UK).

It would need a lot of political aircover - I have no desire to fight a massive bureaucracy 🤷‍♂️