Jim Grace

I want a government that protects the 67M citizens who are not billionaires from the 177 citizens who are.

[Jim Grace @mac_puck]

@n0ght @jamesgamble1978 @TheMightyTrexUK I went through all 72 Directives that HMG opposed but still got passed
https://t.co/nC3NuO19d3
and the 89 CJEU judgements against HMG
https://t.co/lHrf2vdl9K
TLDR: I discovered that WE were the bad guys in EVERY SINGLE case.

[Jim Grace @mac_puck]

I recently looked at "all them rules" that the EC imposed on the UK against our will. The Brexiters also like to bewail the tyranny of the ECJ, but usually cannot cite a single judgement. So here are all 89 judgements against HMG over the last 30 years (3 per year😱). Enjoy...

[Nipper Dodds @NIPPERDODDS]

Who in the name of all things holy decided that it’s imperative that we “get the welfare bill down?

The UK welfare bill is projected at £360+ billion (around 10.7% to 11% of GDP), remaining lower as a proportion of national income than it was 15 years ago or during the 1980s.

[Jim Grace @mac_puck]

The BBC owes a similar apology about brexitism and Nigel-lyin'-Farage.

[Alex Taylor @AlexTaylorNews]

This is quite something ! Serbian RTV channel starts yesterday's bulletin by apologizing to viewers👇

"For years, we failed to fulfill our duty. We kept silent, turned a blind eye, reported events one-sidedly and failed to ask necessary questions. We owe our viewers an apology”

[Jim Grace @mac_puck]

@sarahlj16239003 Very few, apparently.

[Jim Grace @mac_puck]

"If Bwexit wuz so bad how comes we is growing faster than Germany, 'n France, 'n all the EU?"

Hmm... let's check shall we?

Oops! Actually our current growth is 20th out of 32.

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[Jim Grace @mac_puck]

@baggins_dil I really hope the Ukrainian drone teams start targetting Russian state-employed trolls in St Petersburg, the way they do Russian grunts in Donetsk: bzzzzzzz..BANG!! I am sure it is possible. Maybe I should start a go fund me?

[Jim Grace @mac_puck]

@mikegalsworthy True, but it only works if the Tory leader is stupid enough to keep pursuing an ever-shrinking, dying Bwexit vote. What are the odds on the Tory leader being as spectacularly low-IQ as that?

Oh.. right.. got ya.

[Jim Grace @mac_puck]

@baggins_dil The ones we brought to the UK were often people who assisted UK forces as interpreters or contractors. Literally risking their lives for us. But I guess, in your mind, this doesn't outweigh how... y'know... braahnn they are?

[Jim Grace @mac_puck]

@AzPetrich Jared "Bonnie Blue" Kushner. Mwahahahaha.

[Jim Grace @mac_puck]

@sarahlj16239003 50 followers?

[Jim Grace @mac_puck]

@Hellequintalks You may well have found the mythical unicorn: an actual Brexit benefit - quick, call James O'Brien! Yes, Brexit looks like it may soon enable us to follow the Poland / Bulgaria model: join from a very low base and benefit from catch-up growth!

[Jim Grace @mac_puck]

@Keyser__Soze___ "Emerging economy"? Like Ireland?

Brexit turned Britain into a submerging economy.

[Jim Grace @mac_puck]

@prwright55 Nope. What appears to have happened is we were doing better than them by a very large margin before brexit and now doing better than them by a very small margin. Have a think.

BTW I really hope Ukraine starts taking out individual Russian state employed trolls. Bzzz bang!

[Jim Grace @mac_puck]

@griffitha Debt to GDP ratio was 80% in 2019. Over the next 5 years the Tories increased it to 100%.

Over the past two years Labour brought it back down to 93%.

It will take years to get it down to below 50%, but at least under labour it is reducing, instead of increasing.

[Jim Grace @mac_puck]

@Sean_A_Stratton @Alex8pkc Nope. We should pick economies with similarities to the UK (large financial sector, strong services sector, small agriculure) NOT Germany, NOT France. Then weight those economies in a model to try to match UK performance prior to brexit.

[Jim Grace @mac_puck]

@prwright55 But we were doing **more** better than they were, prior to Brexit.

If your team changes manager and goes from 3rd in the table to 12th, its no good saying, hey we are better than 15th now and better than 15th before - no change!

[Jim Grace @mac_puck]

@Alex8pkc What's needed for a true counterfactual UK is a synthetic doppleganger made up of a number of countries, weighted to closely match the economic performance of the UK in the years before Brexit. This method, depending on the weightings, indicates a Brexit "hit" of 6-8% of GDP
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[Jim Grace @mac_puck]

@Alex8pkc The idea of comparing the UK to one currently underperforming economy (eg a rapidly aging Germany) or one overperforming economy (Ireland, puffed up on US profit-shifting) or even an average of all 27 EU economies is flawed; none of these produces true UK counterfactual.

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[Jim Grace @mac_puck]

@Rich_Bannister Try reading the next two tweets in my thread? And yes, the "full post brexit picture " is quite different; it is substantially worse. (It is in those 2 tweets that you failed to read)

[Jim Grace @mac_puck]

@Alex8pkc Making a point about leaving the Single Market. See if you can guess what the other 31 countries have in common with each other?

[Jim Grace @mac_puck]

@peterjukes I have been thinking about Russian bots and trolls and hybrid war. I think it is simply war, not "hybrid". And Russian state-employed trolls and troll-farms are legitimate military targets. I would love the Ukraine to strike these targets. And the UK should covertly help.