Richard Atkinson

Investor.
Advocate of common sense (yeah, I know).
Pro-market internationalist.
Leeds United ⚽️🤍💛💙

[Richard Atkinson @atkinsor]

@AlanJLSmith @Mark_s_world Oh,@Grok!

[Richard Atkinson @atkinsor]

I didnt think it was possible to tweet anything more stupid than Zarah Sultana today.

And yet here we are:

[John McTernan @Johnmcternan]

We won both world wars by transforming welfare.

A warfare state needs a welfare state.

[Richard Atkinson @atkinsor]

@TheFungi669 @Davida3 @grok Did she really say that?

[Richard Atkinson @atkinsor]

@grok @sentdefender "Connectivity fully removed after the check" makes it sound like connectivity may have been possible beforehand. But "MoD investigation found none transmitted" suggests not. Reading between the lines, was the connectivity always blocked, maybe just reinforced after the check?

[Richard Atkinson @atkinsor]

@grok @sentdefender Oh. So the "heartbeat" messages indicate the device is functioning, but include no actual data being captured by the camera? And, in any case, the signal is blocked from reaching its destination?

[Richard Atkinson @atkinsor]

@DanNeidle That's the only problem?

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@davidyelland I am from the north. Leeds. Whatever Manchesterism is, I don't like it.

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@KayBurley Manchester is not in God's Own Country

[Richard Atkinson @atkinsor]

@davidstavers @Hush64329919 @KirstieMAllsopp @jessicaelgot Ok, I'll bite. They've changed the law so that school fees are subject to VAT. Previously, they were exempt, in common with education services for adults. How is that not taxing (kids) education?

[Richard Atkinson @atkinsor]

Right, that's it. He can fuck right off. #Leeds

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham will create a "No 10 in the North" that will move parts of the Downing Street operation to Manchester

[@FT]

[Richard Atkinson @atkinsor]

@bphillipsonMP You make it sound like there used to be a special VAT exemption for private schools. In fact, ALL education services were exempt. You've enacted a special rule to ADD it for schools only. It remains exempt for adult education. That's not ending a tax break. It's vindictive.

[Richard Atkinson @atkinsor]

We've got the highest tax burden since WW2 and the economy isn't growing. But hey, let's tax and spend even more on... erm, boomers! 🤦‍♂️

[Lucy Fisher @LOS_Fisher]

NEW: Andy Burnham has hinted at a new multibillion-pound spending commitment if he becomes PM, saying that more than 3.5mn women “deserve” compensation over what he regards as a pension scandal

Earlier I attended a Makerfield hustings event hosted by @MENnewsdesk, in which Burnham said: “I stick by campaigners that I support. I stuck by the Hillsborough families, I’ll stick by the Waspi women because they deserve some recompense for the unfairness.”

Stressing he wouldn’t ditch his longterm support for Waspi women, he said he felt “uncomfortable” that some politicians threw their support behind a cause but then went into government and “didn’t do anything”

https://t.co/vQkuikv3aG

[Richard Atkinson @atkinsor]

This is a hopeless election campaign. It contains no lies 🤦‍♂️

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

I’m delighted to present my #Makerfield By-Election campaign flyer. I’ve made mine digital only, to help save your planet. Take that, Zack!

[Richard Atkinson @atkinsor]

I don't believe it. That would imply they have a modicum of common sense.

[GB News @GBNEWS]

State pension scandal as Labour MPs back Tony Blair's call to scrap triple lock

https://t.co/LrrNsra5hk

[Richard Atkinson @atkinsor]

@andrew_lilico @Nigel_Farage @Ed_Miliband This is Twitter/X. So, yes, there'll be people doing all those things 🤷‍♂️

[Richard Atkinson @atkinsor]

@nameHarryPalmer @PolemicTMM Think of the IT guys!

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

We are about to have our seventh prime minister in a decade. Has Britain become the new Italy? What is going on?
The truth is that we are in denial about what we have done to our economy. We have become poorer through excessive taxation, spending, borrowing, regulation and money-printing. But we don’t like to admit it.
A recent survey by @IEALondon found that we think of ourselves as a wealthy country, comparable to Singapore or Switzerland. In fact, Singaporeans and Swiss are roughly twice as rich as us, and we are about to be overtaken by Poland and Slovenia.
How did it happen? There is no mystery. Under Tony Blair, the state was spending one pound in three; now it is closer to one in two.
We say we want growth, but we don’t want it if it means cutting welfare, allowing more private healthcare, reducing taxes for entrepreneurs, liberalising employment law, raising the state pension age, sacking government employees, admitting skilled immigrants, ending the triple lock or allowing new houses near us. In other words, we don’t really want growth at all.
Rather that acknowledging that contradiction, we blame our politicians. But as long as we make it politically impossible to cut spending (see the attached story as just the most recent example, one of a hundred I might have picked), we condemn ourselves to penury.
It will carry on until we have leaders prepared to deliver growth, as opposed to intoning the word. And that will happen only when we accept that we were living beyond our means even before the lockdown, that we have become utterly bloated since and that, like an obese person who wants to become fit, we face some short-term pain.
https://t.co/N8vBRKRQLx

[Bella Wallersteiner 🇺🇦 @BellaWallerstei]

Any aspiring Labour leader would do well to look at Mark Carney - a Liberal PM who scrapped a capital gains tax hike and has backed higher oil production. Governing means making hard choices not clinging to left-wing orthodoxies…..

[Richard Atkinson @atkinsor]

@LoftusSteve I dont want him to go until there's a GE. Before then, any Labour replacement will likely be even worse 😨