Jack

civil engineer frustrated by the UK’s inability to build anything cheaply and on time.

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

The Bank of England openly tracks private sector pay as the key gauge of domestically‑generated inflation pressure.

So what does it tell you when private pay growth drops to its lowest rate in years while public sector pay continues to outpace it?
It tells you the productive side of the economy is being choked while the protected side is still on a guaranteed escalator.

Businesses are cutting back, households are tightening belts, but the state has insulated itself from the very conditions it helped create through higher taxes, higher regulation and relentless cost‑pushing.

This is not “fairness”; it is a transfer from risk‑takers to risk‑free employees, enforced by HMRC and dressed up as social justice.

[Jack @jacktheYIMBY]

This is fucking class 😂

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Ukrainian defense manufacturer Fire Point’s booth at the Eurosatory defense tradeshow today, playing footage of their drones hitting the Moscow Oil Refinery just hours prior.

[Sam Dumitriu @Sam_Dumitriu]

🚨NEW: Britain spends a third more on transport infrastructure than its peers, but because of high construction costs ends up with a 5th less.

Britain has a 65% cost premium compared to peers like France, Germany, and Spain. In other words, the UK needs to spend £1.65 to get what a £1 buys elsewhere.

If Britain’s cost-premium over European peers was eliminated, our £21bn of annual investment (average 2015-2023) in transport infrastructure would secure 65% more infrastructure per pound spent.

Over the course of a Parliament, Britain would, in effect, have £41.5bn more of actual transport infrastructure for the amount it already spends.

Here’s an idea of what £41.5bn could fund:

- 🚋Trams for Leeds, Bristol, Cardiff, Leicester, Coventry, Plymouth + a Southampton–Portsmouth line (plus 20 miles worth of extensions to existing systems): £13.1bn at £87m/ mile

- 🚟 190 miles of rail electrification per year: £5bn

- 🚅Major rail bottlenecks fixed in Manchester (Castlefield Corridor) and the South East (Croydon Area Remodelling Scheme): £12.9

- 🚘Major road schemes revived include dualling the A1, A120 Braintree–A12, A303, A358, Arundel Bypass, Acle Straight dualling and a Third Menai Crossing (£10.5bn)

What do you think we should fund if we eliminated the cost premium and had an extra £41.5bn to spend?

Read the full @BritainRemade /@BritishProgress paper: https://t.co/cUn63iTfTO

[Balthazar Grimm @BalthazarGrimm]

Well the French wouldn’t have such a spasticated system whereby the bodies charged with maintaining the roads aren’t obliged to spend 85% of their budgets on social care first.

[Paul Johnson @PJTheEconomist]

From under 2 million in 2019 to 4 million today.

[The Sales Bull 🎯 Follow if you sell B2C or B2B @TheSalesBull1]

You’ll NEVER guess the surname of the guy who’s company was awarded £100m in taxi contracts by this very council!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

UK is a police state

[Alex Armstrong @Alexarmstrong]

I cannot express how extremely severe for the UK this is. Even more severe for the EU.

AI is the most powerful tool humans have ever created. Because European governments have regulated us all to death, we are now heading to a doom loop.

That means businesses left behind unable to compete, always losing out. It’s means Governments at the mercy of superpowers.

You can once again thank our utterly useless leaders for this. Their shortsightedness and hunger for power means we will all be vastly poorer in so many ways.

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

The next war won't be won by armies, navies or air forces alone.

It'll be won by the country whose 19 year olds can code, whose factories can build drones in weeks not years, and whose grid stays on when someone tries to switch it off.

Industry. Society. Economy. That's the fight now.

We're not ready. And we're not being honest about what getting ready will cost.

[Jack @jacktheYIMBY]

This! This on repeat please!

[Shiv Malik @shivmalik]

The hard left say give out more benefits (like winter fuel payments) or nationalise (leading to no more capital stock). The right says drill for oil and gas (terrible long-term way to generate electricity).

We need to triple our output so which political party is outright advocating for more solar, nuclear, battery and more pylons and substations as the way to make electricity cheaper again? Who is treating this like it’s war time and we’ve got five years to fix this?

[The Random Recruiter @randomrecruiter]

When the HR Ladies hear you prefer a cash bonus instead of a pizza party

[James Clark 📈📉¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @mr_james_c]

It's hard to escape the idea that the primary function of European politics at this point is to suppress speech and platforms that enable speech because European politicians have fucked everything up so badly over the last 20 years and they don't want people talking about it.

[Adam Moczar @AdamMoczar]

⚡🇬🇧 Rupert Lowe: “We must ban foreigners from claiming benefits and immediately deport migrants who cannot financially support themselves.”

“Those billions saved? Slash taxes for the British workers and families who actually keep this country running.”

Restore Britain

[Theo Bertram @theobertram]

A defence secretary has never resigned in this way. Fox, Heseltine, Profumo - all resigned over scandals. To resign because the PM would not pay enough to keep the country secure - unprecedented.

[Jardine Matheson Internationalist @emergenteffects]

The Japanese Ground Self Defence Forces have double the regular personnel as Britain.

Their navy has 36 destroyers to our six.

Their air force has 75 more aircraft than ours.

This is a country constitutionally forbidden from having a real military.

This is a joke!

[JRF @JRFBoy]

Alright, fine, deport the immigrants. Just don’t complain when you need a security guard to stand near the entrance of a supermarket FaceTiming their uncle in Chittagong for 8 hours and there’s no one left to do it.

[Templarpilled @Templarpilled]

"We can't pay boomers their pensions without immigrants."

I already oppose immigration, you don't have to sell it to me.

[Skipster @FarRightSkip]

Did that Sudanese lad not watch Adolescence ffs

[Jack @jacktheYIMBY]

Pete hitting the nail on the head as usual!

[Pete North @FUDdaily]

I don't condone any of what I've seen in Belfast. I mean, I'd go to prison if I did, but all the same, it's not my preferred way of doing things. But then my preferred way of doing things (voting and public debate) hasn't made the slightest impact on the decision-making of the state. As such, there was a certain inevitability about this.

Moreover, it's not really my place to judge. I am an extremely fortunate individual who happens to live in a 99% white area, miles from any "diversity" and thanks to my self-employed status, I don't have to self-censor or live a double life at work. I don't have to bottle up my opinions. I actually make a modest income by expressing them.

Most low income working class people, meanwhile, have to live in close proximity to diversity and the squalor that goes with it. Their votes are even more worthless as mine, and they can't speak their minds freely because there'll be some HR ghoul in the mix who will fire them. Ordinary people bear the burden of potentially losing everything for having the wrong opinions.

Meanwhile, they can work hard to carve out a little corner of peace for themselves, just for the local authority to turn next door into a migrant HMO with illegal Deliveroo drivers coming and going at all hours. It's their communities being turned into alien, hostile and violent slums. To then say there is no justification for riots is to tell them they simply have to suck it up - even when they run the risk of an African savage beheading them. What are they supposed to do? Write to their MP? Everyone has a breaking point.

While politicians call for calm, they can only expect to be heeded if they actually do something, but remaining calm when the politicians continue to sit on their hands as people are butchered in the street is absolutely bovine. Ultimately these riots are a consequence of the wilful deafness of politicians, and the blame for what we've seen tonight lies squarely in their shop.