mike phelps

Retired ex-academic and civil servant. Economics

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

France blames Dover traffic chaos on UK’s post-Brexit planning
🤣🤣🤣This is going to go down well
#ToriesOut274 #SunakOut165 #GeneralElectionN0W
https://t.co/566Ng5nMg6

[IlkleyCleanRiver @CleanIlkley]

"England is the only country in the world with a fully-privatized water and sewage system, run since the late 1980s by large — and wildly unpopular — regional monopolies." https://t.co/4iTQUonrk1

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

8 April 1937 | A French Jewish girl, Nelly Stopnicki, was born in #Nancy.

She arrived at #Auschwitz on 2 September 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from #Drancy. She was murdered in a gas chamber.

[Mujtaba Rahman @Mij_Europe]

Horrible. Global Britain. Just terrible

“Two rejections said the children had failed to prove they had “parental consent” for the trip, despite travelling to visa interviews with their parents and signing an online parental consent form with the school.” https://t.co/c5fOKMrW1K

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

7 April 1908 | A Pole, Wiktor Poborczyk, was born in Warsaw. A paramedic.

In #Auschwit from 4 September 1941.
No. 20401
He was transferred to KL Neuengamme. He survived the war.

[David (son of a toolmaker) Higham @oldtrotter]

I can only assume that Sunak's strategy is to leave Labour with a toxic legacy of burnt out public services. There is no way that he's going to reduce NHS waiting lists with his current approach.

[Irish Literary Times @IrishLitTimes]

This chap comes to every one of my readings and sits up front.

[David (son of a toolmaker) Higham @oldtrotter]

The short answer is John Smith’s proposal to remove the UEL on NICs in 1992. Labour isn’t going to get very far in government unless it raises taxes and needs to shift debate onto the most efficient and fairest way to do that. https://t.co/LWK0YPxtvY

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

A Dutch auction on which of Britain’s two main parties can produce the most effective appeal to racist sentiment is an appalling prospect | My take on *that* Labour attack ad, for .@LabourHub

https://t.co/Ki3xwTZBAU

[Andrew—#IAmTheResistance @AmoneyResists]

Congratulations, @GOP, you just made Justin Jones and Justin Pearson national heroes who the entire nation will rally around in support of democracy and against your flagrant authoritarian abuse of power.

[sue#NHSLove💙💙💙#FBNHS suesuezep.bsky.social @SueSuezep]

Suella Braverman to Address Radical 'National Conservatism' Event With Ties to US Right – Byline Times https://t.co/KVq2NcdowE

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

Truss, like virtually every Tory politician since 1931, is incapable of criticising Jonathan Harmsworth's Mail, Frederick Barclay's Telegraph or Spectator, or Rupert Murdoch's Sun or Times, as she is entirely dependent upon them to act as vehicles for anti-opposition #propaganda.

[David (son of a toolmaker) Higham @oldtrotter]

Wait until Lee discovers that it was Barbara Castle and her 1968 Transport Act that kick-started the use of canals for leisure purposes. Socialism in action 👍

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

These truth twisting chancers have conned the public on post Brexit trade deals long. It’s time the public knew the truth. If you agree RT this far & wide. If UK news shows won’t report it let’s do it ourselves

[David (son of a toolmaker) Higham @oldtrotter]

@Bob__Hudson Part of the answer lies in “the biggest getaway since Brexit”. The pandemic disguised many of the most obvious consequences of becoming a “third country”.

[David (son of a toolmaker) Higham @oldtrotter]

@Redpeter99 Wonder what went wrong with the housing market?

[Tom Murtha. Retired. @tomemurtha]

When I started my housing career in urban renewal I visited many homes that looked like this. In 1970s we knew they were unacceptable and worked hard to eradicate them. They are even more unacceptable today. That people are allowed to live in such conditions in 2023 shames us all

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

A backlog of over 60,000 criminal cases in the Crown Court, & a backlog of 160,000 asylum claims. It's almost like the @Conservatives don't actually give a fuck about 'law & order', nor crime, nor about the cost of housing asylum seekers awaiting the processing of their claims.

[Muhammad Smiry 🇵🇸 @MuhammadSmiry]

This old woman was the last one I’ve visited today. Her first question was:

“Are we getting bombed tonight?” 🥹

After some chat with her I found out that 17 of her neighbors were killed in an airstrike years ago! #Gaza

[John McCafferty @jdmccafferty]

6 Apr 1399: Richard II orders the Abbot of #Westminster to detain Thomas Prestbury Abbot of #Shrewsbury #otd as the latter had allegedly been preaching against the king's 'excesses', according to Adam of Usk