James Buffy-Maun

‘Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.’ C. Mackay

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UK economy after Labour fixed the foundations

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@ajcdeane @Heidi_Labour If you cancel all the services well in advance there are no last minute cancellations, no delays and cleaner toilets. Simples!

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@TedUrchin @Keir_Starmer The gas….

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@DPJHodges How did he do as Health Secretary? Would be illuminating to know

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@lara_spirit That’s a knife edge, no wonder Burnham is so edgy

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@wesstreeting @YoungLabourUK @UKLabour @andy4makerfield @LucyMPowell Now that's what I call some first rate toadying

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@KarlTurnerMP @UKLabour @RachelReevesMP She’s made a difference alright

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@KarlTurnerMP @UKLabour @RachelReevesMP Hmmmm

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@DPJHodges Let’s hope the ugliness doesn’t lead your boy Burnham to inadvertently expose himself as a thin-skinned professional politician of no fixed convictions whatsoever beyond an immense and unjustified self-regard

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@DPJHodges Meanwhile back in the real world, has Burnham not just U-turned on his tax pledge? While I'm sure the nation is giving due attention to his cafe spat, his policy offering is looking a little.. amateurish?

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@EllenAMilligan Maybe move on to something more deliverable, like leasing the Isle of Wight back from Brussels for 8 billion a year

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@AndyBurnhamGM @christiancalgie How remiss of the Post Office to deliver this letter to Andy Burnham and not Nigel Farage. Words should be had with the Postmaster General

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@DPJHodges How remiss of the Post Office to deliver this letter to Andy Burnham and not Nigel Farage. Words should be had with the Postmaster General

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@DPJHodges Seems like your boy Burnham has a pretty fragile temper and a dislike of being asked about actual policies. Still, I'm sure it will all go brilliantly once he's PM, just like the current incumbent

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@MatthewTorbitt @oh4atreppenwitz Where do people get these ideas? Imagine Burnham wanting to be PM, the very thought

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@DPJHodges He's spent every waking minute for God-knows how long scheming to become PM. Please do not let another moron with no idea about governing the country other than that he should be the one doing it into office.

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@adamboultonTABB I don't suppose you might engage some vestigial jounalistic discrimination on this one?

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In economic terms, productivity here broadly means:
Output produced per unit of input
For the private sector: usually measured as output per hour worked. For the public sector, ONS uses a more complex measure - outputs: healthcare treatments, lessons taught, policing activity, etc.
inputs: labour, capital, procurement spending
https://t.co/UvyKwWjma0
Incredibly, despite the rise of the internet and computers, the public sector has failed to improve productivity at all in the last 30-odd years. If you want to test this proposition, look around you.

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@AndyBurnhamGM @MarketBlondes @tomhfh Just look at this glorious nationalised productivity

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@SamCoatesSky What about Starmer versus Streeting et al, arguably a more likely outcome?

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@ITVNewsPolitics @DanielHewittITV You'll need some economic growth for that, sunshine