ceri

history, sport, science & politics! green side but more about outcomes than party rosettes. works policy+pub affairs. Also podcasting, theatre & ancient glass!

[ceri @ceritheviking]

Lots on my feed about the wales bill. Need to realise to make wales better it's not laws or power, but how we live, learn and act. Up to us

[ceri @ceritheviking]

The average person in the Uk currently will earn 1.3milion over a lifetime of earning.

Amazing the people on here who want to argue the toss with me about those who earn hundreds of millions a year being hard done by.

Absolutely bizarre take on life

[ceri @ceritheviking]

@kpasamd No. But that’s life. But if you are pocketing 400 million a year , I’m not sure you have as many worries as the person struggling just to get by?
If you want to go and just live like that. Grand.
I hope and tbh know a lot stay and want ri make a difference

[ceri @ceritheviking]

Chatting to a chap bemoaning rich people leaving the Uk.
Put this to him. - bad attitude by me apparently - but I don’t get it. Someone earns 700m, pockets 400m a yaar, - pays 300m tax but it’s not enough so they have to leave the Uk.
I can’t get my head around what they want?

[ceri @ceritheviking]

@love_caravans @DominicFrisby If you’re paying 300m tax in the Uk you are taking home gross near 700m assuming it’s a standard pay packet (it won’t be so far more to it)
If in one year you earn 400m in the Uk after tax and it’s not enough I’m not sure what to say. The Uk average LIFETIME earnings is 1.3m

[ceri @ceritheviking]

@love_caravans @DominicFrisby Ok. Happy to disagree and if you read the latest report the mass exodus stuff has been proven to be false.
Think we come at ir from different Angles to be honest. Not one to lose sleep over

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

UK crime was four times higher when Oasis first played Knebworth than at last year’s reunion gigs.

The collapse of crime and safer streets is one of the biggest stories of our time.

But one almost never told - or believed.

My take on today’s figures: https://t.co/Qgzowy6IDL

[ceri @ceritheviking]

It was coming down with huge money being thrown at it. Lots of extra shifts and clinics.

Without that cash it’a only going one way really.
Understand health budgets are shot to bits and others need cuts.
Plaid inherited it and will be intreating budget ahead to deal with it

[Will Hayward @WillHayCardiff]

Latest Welsh NHS waiting list data is out.

The total number of waits has gone up 30k since May and is the highest it has been since January.

The very longest waits have also increased.

This data runs to August.

Health Minister Mabon ap Gwynfor, said: “I expect to see progress soon. I have made it clear to health boards they are responsible for delivering these plans to reset how planned care is delivered in Wales."

Full analysis coming in news letter.

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

The collapse in violent crime over three decades has been one of the most striking developments of my lifetime.

News is about what’s going wrong, and rightly so. But the bigger picture also matters

From today’s figures:-

[ceri @ceritheviking]

@love_caravans @DominicFrisby Your example Waa someone who paid 300m in tax last year I think. That’s my ballpark I suppose

[ceri @ceritheviking]

@terrymac51 One of my best mates - weakly mates - currnetky out there. Taken his kids with him. Wealth matters out there

[ceri @ceritheviking]

@ifanmj If you get an open day either friends of friendless churches. It’s well worth a visit. Historical presentation and interpretation massive.
Genuinely Changed the way I view all churches.

[ceri @ceritheviking]

When you realise many churches were thatched rather than tiled / slated originally it changes so much about them.

Still irked Monmouthshire council wouldn’t let friendless churches fantastic restoration of st James near pandy be thatched.

[Kate North @katenorth123]

The extremely pretty little thatched Church of St. Mary, Barton Bendish, Norfolk 💕

[ceri @ceritheviking]

@kpasamd Tbh. All things considered and knowing what I do - and genuinely thinking about it - yes. Do I want more and better, yes. Do I try to achieve that, also yes. Do I want more, yes.
Do I think people worth vast wealth jumping ship a but shit. - oh yes.

[ceri @ceritheviking]

@DrStefan33 Ah well. Hard audience.
Your well out of it

[ceri @ceritheviking]

Education, transport, health, environment, economy ………..most in wales need a lot of work and scrutiny.

But hey let’s spend time and energy on what people wear in an area not devolved. 🤔

[David Deans @DeansOfCardiff]

Angry scenes and protests as Reform call for ban on Muslim face coverings in Senedd

[ceri @ceritheviking]

@love_caravans @DominicFrisby You have just widened it out far more than the mega rich.
That’s what I don’t get. I agree with you. But you have gone from people with inter generational fantastic wealth to 50k workers.
Like I said here it elsehere. Far more concerned at the doctors etc who move away

[ceri @ceritheviking]

@Outoftweet123 If they want to go they go.
One for a proper chat but tied up for a few week so nudge me then.

Interested in other countries experience if you have similar case studies.

[Faisal Islam @faisalislam]

NEW

Britain’s missing sovereign wealth fund… Treasury officials have modelled that had the UK done what Norway did with North Sea revenues, there would be a £1 trillion fund…

As Chancellor sets up Energy Wealth Fund, a look at the long historical argument about where the oil windfall went, including from interviews with those who have run Norways $2.4 trillion fund, now the biggest in the world, filled from the proceeds of the same North Sea.

https://t.co/VcuA0DDWT1

[ceri @ceritheviking]

@Skewen62 Sorry to have upset you paul

[ceri @ceritheviking]

St Helens contractors appointed Menai bridge builders.
Expected finished by Easter.

[Simon Thomas Rugby @simonrug]

“It’s been like four weeks of DIY SOS here! What has been achieved is nothing short of spectacular.”
The inside story of the work that has gone into getting St Helen’s ready for the Ospreys’ first @URCOfficial game there this Saturday.
https://t.co/kr3e6HQPdS

[ceri @ceritheviking]

@finstumpf Ha yes. Read that yesterday too

[ceri @ceritheviking]

@Skewen62 Far enough.

Mine was more a light hearted joke

[ceri @ceritheviking]

@JoeSmitherene Am sure lots to it.
But really. 400m in one yaar in the bank and it’a not enough? If your values are “I’ll fck off now then”
Tbh let em go. I’m big on society and community and if that’s not something someone wants to try and improve and have generational wealth already?

[ceri @ceritheviking]

@DrStefan33 What you after in 200 days ?

[ceri @ceritheviking]

@Outoftweet123 Fair enough. Off they go. Shame that’s the values they have. But hey ho.
Tbh I miss the doctors and surgeons tht leave far more than the multimillionaires.
I know it’s about tax etc but if you have hundreds of millions and you feel you need to leave. Frankly no time for you