Nick JPThrough1

I use AI (not Grok) - it's a lot more intelligent than most here.
Off-topic replies = likely block. Ditto inane responses.
@FullFact fan.
Politically homeless.

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@GlobeEyeNews As a human race, we don't really get on very well, do we.

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@KernowQ Misleading. Debt was already accelerating under the previous Labour government. The Coalition slowed the rate and Conservatives stabilised it before COVID struck.

https://t.co/MoJw1M4dpR

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@WolofBomberg @Fudds13 @KernowQ UK debt as % of GDP was already accelerating under Labour, two and a half yrs before the Coalition, who managed to slow the rate. Conservatives actually stabilised debt, post 2015 general election, before COVID struck.
https://t.co/tfytIRWpxF

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@WolofBomberg @Fudds13 @KernowQ UK debt as % of GDP was already accelerating under Labour, two and a half yrs before the Coalition, who managed to slow the rate. Conservatives actually stabilised debt, post 2015 general election, before COVID struck.
https://t.co/tfytIRWpxF

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@terrychristian @jfranklynh It won't. Previous opt-outs are no longer available. That ship has sailed I'm afraid.
https://t.co/NFzzO9ZSWE

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@PeterStefanovi2 Support for rejoining if it meant sacrificing former opt-outs (Art 49), specifically adopting the Euro & joining Schengen, falls sharply to 36%, with opposition rising to 45%. Even among traditionally pro-EU or progressive voters it drops to 30%.
YouGov

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@PeterStefanovi2 Support for rejoining if it meant sacrificing former opt-outs (Art 49), specifically adopting the Euro & joining Schengen, falls sharply to 36%, with opposition rising to 45%. Even among traditionally pro-EU or progressive voters it drops to 30%.
YouGov

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@moving_charlie @1ohreally Not moving, but great to watch regardless 👍. And, BTW, fully concur with your negative but wholly realistic take on where we are economically. This government's policies and sense of denial make me so angry. Our business has declined drastically since they got in.

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@Heccles94 On an average supermarket basket value of £37.50 Tesco makes around 90p. Their profits are the result of sheer volume, serving millions of customers every week, NOT high markups.

So what is your problem exactly?

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@LabourBerry @GuyEmma68700 The DfE asserts it has added 4,654 additional secondary, special, and further education (FE) teachers since the 2023-24 baseline. However, the National Education Union (NEU) states that the overall full-time equivalent teacher workforce has actually shrunk by 1,900.

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@JohnSlinger Misleading claim.
The cash amount is not dramatically different from recent years. The £450m figure is broadly in line with what Conservative governments were allocating through the CIF in 2023 and 2024.
Source: Gov UK

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@montie @KemiBadenoch Reform Party supporter.
Figures.

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@Bitmap_PLC @paullewismoney @johnmfitzp Official projected figures from OBR: Working-age health and disability spending is forecast to grow by about 4.9% a year nominally.
This is faster than pensioner spending growth (3.8% a year).

Where are yours, Aintnofollabackho, who blocks so you can't respond 🤷🏻‍♂️

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@Bitmap_PLC @paullewismoney @johnmfitzp Most official forecasts expect working-age welfare spending (excluding pensions) to continue growing faster than inflation and faster than GDP for several years. GDP is effectively turnover and not necessarily indicative of available funds, same as business.

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@Bitmap_PLC @paullewismoney @johnmfitzp Replies with nonsense and then blocks me from responding. T w a t.

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@Bitmap_PLC @paullewismoney @johnmfitzp So what if it was. Making a bad situation worse is not smart.

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@Bitmap_PLC @paullewismoney @johnmfitzp This government is creating policies causing businesses to lay off staff & scale back recruitment & then pumping money in (Youth Guarantee & subsidised work placements), in an attempt to address what they've caused. It's utter madness.

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@Bitmap_PLC @paullewismoney @johnmfitzp The welfare budget is forecast to rise from an estimated £310bn to £370bn in coming yrs. Whilst largely driven by pensions & rising health/disability claims, soaring youth unemployment & economic inactivity (a result largely of gov policy) are also pressuring the system.

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@RachelReevesMP @DeborahMeaden "Opposed" is not quite true.
While in government, the Conservatives preferred a targeted approach over a universal one. They supported the National School Breakfast Programme, which provided funding to over 2,000 schools specifically located in disadvantaged and low-income areas.

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@SeemaMalhotra1 @Keir_Starmer Workers rights upgrade = unemployment increase.

Renters’ Rights Act = less rental properties.

Record NHS funding - not after inflation.

Fastest growing G7 economy - actually near bottom per capita.

Lifting half a million children out of poverty - aspiration, not fact.

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@wesstreeting @serenelyjoyful Well said.

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@Sarcoph09595816 @NicholasTyrone Can you not see that one refers to the polarising movements of BLM and WLM, and the other to human life?

Nothing hypocritical whatsoever.

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@RobertJenrick Kemi Badenoch was referring to the movement 'White Lives Matter', NOT white lives.

Good god, what is wrong with you.