Jack Gordon

[Cllr Anna Railton 🌹 is on 🦋 @rail_guns]

The good news is you can fix this stuff

Merton just did this

[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

@Nigel_Farage Are you getting desperate, lad?

Maybe keep your crypto millions for something else. 😂

[Ben Sixsmith @BDSixsmith]

Tony Blair: Wow, get a load of AI. We should probably cut welfare somewhat. Also, we should be involved in the Iran War for some reason.

Broadsheet columnist: Say what you like about the man, but the sophistication of his analysis is unparalleled.

[Richard Jones @RichardALJones]

But the problem is, it was the "grown-ups" who were in charge when our slow-motion economic crisis had its roots in the 90s and 2000s
it was the "grown-ups" who implemented the response to the unfolding crisis between 2010-2016

[Joshua Garfield @JoshuaGarfield]

How it’s started. How it’s going.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Britain gets lots of hard things right, and lots of easy things wrong.

A country of world leading biotech research while outsourcing companies charge local authorities £120,000 to create a zebra crossing (actually true).

[Kristian Niemietz @K_Niemietz]

Labour could also have used its long spell in opposition to develop an Abundance-themed, centre-left version of supply-side economics. Instead of wasting 5 years by putting Novara Media and the Canary in charge, in order to impress dumb trendy hipster commie kids at Glastonbury.

[Despotic Inroad @DespoticInroad]

"Everything is basically fine" as 19 years of stagnant real wages/productivity growth is about to collide with an inflationary supply shock/major recession in the midst of political chaos overseen by weak, directionless, inept technocrats who promised "CHANGE".

[David Lawrence @dc_lawrence]

100%. What the Westminster media won't tell you is that some of the most unifying policies are also the most pro-growth.

Here are a bunch of pro-growth policies that anyone from any Labour faction can get behind:

🌆 Densify urban areas through street votes/upward extensions/accessory dwelling, reforming national policy framework + reforming building safety
🚉 Allow mayors to approve + fund local transport projects
💷 Replace stamp duty with a proportional property tax
🔋 Implement the Fingleton nuclear recommendations
👪 Remove tax cliff edges to help carers + parents back into work
💡 Speed up grid connections for renewables + industry
🌱 Remove levies on electricity to support decarbonisation + lower bills
🔓 Reformulate the triple lock to save £billions every year
✈️ Expand high skilled migration through expanding existing exceptional talent routes
🚆 Use land value capture to fund new crossrails in London, Manchester + other major cities

I'm sure there's more, but the above would be a pretty good start for any Government looking to unite the party + kickstart growth

[Andy Ryan @ItsAndyRyan]

Publisher: So you've given us a book about a big friendly giant, one about an enormous crocodile, and another where a granny grows as big as a house. What's new?
Roald Dahl: There's this peach...
Publisher: Is it -
Roald Dahl: It's fucking huge

[matthew Ⓥ 🇵🇸 @t0mbstoneblues]

Was going to say "Bob Dylan does" but then realised he doesn't have 5 10/10 albums.

He has 12...

[Despotic Inroad @DespoticInroad]

Here’s what actually happened after the 1945 Labour government:
35yrs of unparalleled improvements in living standards on a social-democratic basis, with mass social housebuilding, full employment, energy independence, consistent real wage growth, and national ownership of core industries.

We can only wish for such an inheritance today. But that Britain has been sold by the pound to satisfy the kind of false economies & financial short-termism inherent in Tom’s market liberal ideology.

If trade unions were the culprit for Britain as the “sick man of Europe”, then we need to explain why Franco-German competitors grew FASTER during the trente glorieuses/German economic miracle with HIGHER union militancy + powerful Communist municipalities/regional gov. in France + deeply embedded labour representation on works councils etc. in W. Germany.

[joe @spinningjoe]

i want to be seeing the words "ed miliband overrules locals" so often that i get sick of hearing them

[Betfred Super League @SuperLeague]

NEVER WRITE OFF THE @Saints1890 👏

#SuperLeague

[Alex Clarkson @Alex_Clarkson1]

Gonna be a few eggs of faces when bill leyland scores in the 78th min to win the game for saints on Friday 👍

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

Unlimited Boomer luxury communism is a universally agreed policy in the UK.

[Robert Largan @robertlargan]

How long will it take for the penny to drop that immigration is not a comms issue? This isn’t fixed by having a ‘better story to tell’. It is a substantive policy failure with real world negative consequences. Until this is grasped, things are doomed to get much much worse.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

The venerable English gentleman trying to talk sense, relaying facts and logic - his furnishings essentially a Laura Ashley show home - while the MAGA imbecile attempts to distract him.

It’s never over.

[Rory Sutherland @rorysutherland]

As another Australian politician said of their Labor Party conference: "You used to get the cream of the working class at these events. Now it's the dregs of the middle class."