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[The search for better politics @majorityCarl]

@PippaCrerar It's happening again: no robust pro-EU arguments put forward. Pro-EU journalists have no interest in talking about countries that make up EU: Spanish HS trains, French nuclear expertise, Danish tunnel engineering

They need to talk less about American personalities in politics

[The search for better politics @majorityCarl]

@TheEconomist 2% will not address the problems or restrain the power of billionaires but it's a wedge to start with

Public needs to share in profits that companies make on the back of public research and investments

[The search for better politics @majorityCarl]

@BenZaranko Historically, companies like BT, EE, Vodafone, and Virgin Media hid a clause in the small print stating bills would rise every April: rate of inflation + 3.9%. During the recent years of high inflation, this caused peoples' bills to skyrocket by 8% to 11% mid-contract

[The search for better politics @majorityCarl]

@DanNeidle Part of the reason: political parties pretended that they'd not raise taxes by ruling out headline taxes

Another part: government services outsourced, raising overall government costs

[The search for better politics @majorityCarl]

@SebMilbank When the government squanders money, where does the money end up?

[The search for better politics @majorityCarl]

@gwynedd8364 @edwinhayward @DanNeidle Fair comment. I should found a citation for that figure.

6% came for a FoI request and is a projection
https://t.co/tblOmKX9qk

[The search for better politics @majorityCarl]

@bbclaurak Interview contained no specifics

[The search for better politics @majorityCarl]

@gwynedd8364 @edwinhayward @DanNeidle About 6% of workforce

[The search for better politics @majorityCarl]

@DanNeidle Good question as an exercise.

Something within the apprenticeship world? Perhaps helping 15 year olds enter?

[The search for better politics @majorityCarl]

@implausibleblog Increase the minimum wage and let retailers apply for benefits if they can't break even. This would reduce benefit claims for millions of citizens to hundreds or thousands of companies, saving a lot in government administration

[The search for better politics @majorityCarl]

@screenrant They've made the CIA look small, unhinged and amoral. A checklist-driven storyline: need a dramatic main character death scene ☑️ but, look!, "it was only a fleshwound" in the epilogue 🚬

[The search for better politics @majorityCarl]

@AlbertaTeeCo I suggest they learn from the UK's vote and insist on detailed plans from both sides of the argument. To exit without a plan is tragic for a country. Alberta would be landlocked... how does it export and at what political cost?

[The search for better politics @majorityCarl]

Britain calls itself a service economy. It's very good at generating profit from services. But what does it charge for foreign projects?

Tunnel Project Total Cost
Total Length
Cost/km

Silvertown Tunnel (London)
£2.0Bn
1.4 km
£1,428m/km

Rogfast (Norway)
£1.9Bn
27km
£70m/km

[The search for better politics @majorityCarl]

@SkyNews @Chesh From Gemini:
Year Net Figure Summary
1996 +55K Historically balanced levels
2006 +230K EU expansion surge
2016 +311K Brexit vote catalyst
2026 +171K Post-Brexit policy normalisation

[The search for better politics @majorityCarl]

@paullewismoney I hadn't realised that RPI excludes the top 4% of earners: their massive spending power would heavily skew the national average, the ONS strips them out, so RPI reflects the "middle and lower" 96% of the population

[The search for better politics @majorityCarl]

@darrenpjones Thanks, @darrenpj - when will the decoupling take effect?

[The search for better politics @majorityCarl]

Hanna Spencer, Green MP raises concerns "[] I think there’s been so many cases recently of questionable and dangerous behaviour allegedly from MPs, with staff, because of this [drinking] culture"
@hugorifkind "Green MPs should have to drink alcohol at work"

[The search for better politics @majorityCarl]

An up vote for doing some work ahead of a potential change.

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

More than 60 Labour MPs call for review of UK voting system https://t.co/eYH1sIijFF

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@KathrynDW59 @PJTheEconomist Tesco only ever talk about their margins on supermarkets sales. They neglect to mention the vast profits for Tesco Holdings Limited who charge rent for the buildings that Tesco own.

[The search for better politics @majorityCarl]

@thomasforth @JP_Biz UK journalists need to educate themselves about EU countries & not look to USA

Eg:
ESB Networks Owns, builds, and maintains the physical national grid infrastructure. Irish Gov 95% & Employees 5%

EirGrid Operates the high-voltage grid and balances supply/demand. Irish Gov 100%

[Dale Vince @DaleVince]

If only Ed Miliband and Rachael Reeves had actually ‘broken the link’ - our energy bills would be lower now - I’ve shown them both how ’the link’ added £43 billion to our energy bills in 2023. We allow the price of gas to set the price of all other electricity in Britain, even made from the wind and sun - and when global gas prices go crazy, so does the price of our own green energy.

Two weeks ago Ed and Rachael announced they were breaking the link, days later when the detail came out we could see they had done no such thing. Offering voluntary contracts to legacy green generation is a joke. Their own forecasts are for a 10% take up by 2030 - a pointless gesture - other than the great headlines they got. But a betrayal of the country and arguably the government, many of whom believed the rhetoric. Not breaking the link allows right wing types to continue to blame green levies for what is a fossil fuel crisis, made worse by a defective market mechanism.

Keir Starmer should take control of this - and actually break the link.