J Morgan 🐉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Doing nothing is always an option Here for the song and dance Nemo me impune lacessit

[J Morgan 🐉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @morgan_jamz]

Do You Even Grind

Nihil Sine Labore

When e’er to soapboxes and megaphones you are inclined or politics runs in your mind think you may cost yourselves and everyone else o’er dear and get on and do something useful

[J Morgan 🐉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @morgan_jamz]

Funny how everyone thinks private ownership beats renting every time but somehow the Govt owning social housing in preference to paying private Landlords is crazy

[J Morgan 🐉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @morgan_jamz]

@JohnHundeslit all the same - took me years to work out SBXH was "soon to be" and not "stupid bastard" ex husband in Mumsnet speak and I still think same difference

[J Morgan 🐉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @morgan_jamz]

@angelos42195 @notayesmansecon All of that and more can be said about the current housing element within UC and the distortions between private and public rented in pricing eligibility and supply and even cross subsidy of “affordable” housing within new build pricing
- abundant social housing is à mkt floor

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

@afneil I generally find that accusing an opponent of being "ignorant on economics" is just another way of saying you disagree with that person's economic stance.

[Michael Pettis @michaelxpettis]

I figured this would eventually happen, but not as quickly as it seems to be happening and, for this, Paul Krugman should get credit. For years mainstream economists were unable to understand how trade and globalization work because they were locked into trade models that implicitly assumed that trade was balanced (except, occasionally, over short time periods) and that capital flowed towards its most productive use. That is why their understanding of trade had no relevance to the actual world of trade that emerged in the 1970s and 1980s.

But this couldn't last. As the problem of unbalanced trade became more obvious , and as policymakers were increasingly forced to ignore the advice of their economists and respond to real problems, mainstream economists would eventually begin to recognize how, in an unevenly globalized world, countries that aggressively intervene in their domestic economies and externalize the costs through trade surpluses are also effectively intervening in the domestic economies of countries that supposedly remain committed to "free trade".

Most economists still don't understand trade. But with Krugman now acknowledging that tariffs and other forms of trade intervention can be expansionary under some conditions and contractionary under others (as Ragnar Nurkse explained as long ago as in his 1944 book), I suspect that younger economists will develop a completely different understanding of trade, and one that is perhaps a little more realistic.

[J Morgan 🐉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @morgan_jamz]

@Annemarieward @andyburnham Could say the same about AF Neil

[Moving Home with Charlie @moving_charlie]

Please can everyone making the lazy, unfair and plain incorrect assumption that homelessness is mostly the result of poor life choices look at the official statistics of the causes of homelessness, because you're all wrong.

You're making yourselves look stupid, under-informed and worst-of-all judgmental of people whose lives you know nothing about.

Read the f***ing data, and shut up blaming innocent people for their housing predicament.

That attitude is mostly just from people who want to give themselves an excuse not to care.

SPOILER ALERT:

1. NO-FAULT EVICTIONS of employed tenants without arrears or social problems are the number one cause of new homelessness 'prevention' duty, at 68%.

2. DOMESTIC ABUSE is the top cause of loss of last settled home for people owed a 'relief' duty, and most of these also include children at 25.6%

So, please, whenever you hear someone judging the homeless, show them this data and tell them how stupid their assumptions make them look.

Yes, of course, there are many homeless people whose lives have been affected by addiction and other problems. But they are not the majority, and in any case, do not deserve anyone's contempt.

Think of the people you know suffering from addiction issues, think of the reasons they're in that predicament, then imagine dipshit total strangers making snap judgements about them and saying it's all their own fault.

What would you say to those people?

https://t.co/oT5ibEeLMU

[David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxf]

https://t.co/HRq1s64rTm “It is these signs, in children’s faces, voices, and gestures, in their movements and ways of working, that tell me plainly that most children in school are scared most of the time, many of them very scared. Like good soldiers, they control their fears, live with them, and adjust themselves to them.” John Holt, How Children Fail 1964.

[J Morgan 🐉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @morgan_jamz]

@DalgetySusan @grumpymendicant @andyburnham @on_lothianbuses And therein lies the problem - if Edinburgh can do it why is it so difficult to reinstate SPT

[J Morgan 🐉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @morgan_jamz]

@Sewn_apart Would indeed be peak Scotland to play that badly and get through for the first time ever - also looks like plausible analysis tbf

[J Morgan 🐉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @morgan_jamz]

@docsuzy Beautiful - currently got grass taller than my fledgling trees

[J Morgan 🐉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @morgan_jamz]

Been running right through consumer policy ever since direct debit discounts and then onto private windmill grants etc etc

[Latimer Alder @latimeralder]

The consequences of oversupply in electricity

The poor pay for the rich to heat their swimming pools and charge their EVs.

'To Save the Climate'

Madness

https://t.co/MwvnPrtF8P

[Orkney Library @OrkneyLibrary]

More than 2000 years ago the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero wrote in a letter to a friend, 'Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, deerit nihil' which means:

'If you have a garden in your library, everything will be complete.'

[J Morgan 🐉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @morgan_jamz]

@metoffice It’s not an outbreak it’s continuous in W Scotland but ta for noticing

[Paul Johnson @PJTheEconomist]

Well this is embarrassing. For the BBC. Claimed working age welfare spending increased a lot recently. It hasn’t. They forgot to count tax credits and, when they were replaced by universal credit, that showed up as a big spending increase rather than a cost neutral change.

[Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs]

Scotland being the last place the Tories can win and them doing so on a saving industrial jobs pledge is quite the turn up for the books.

[J Morgan 🐉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @morgan_jamz]

@LucyGoBag AN Other Female says it all about HH and her lipgloss “feminism” AR is right there!!!

[J Morgan 🐉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @morgan_jamz]

Has Govt properly looked at YouTube browsing as a Guest - it is already very heavily content moderated and there is no scope to interact with it as social media - also the YouTube Kids option is aimed at under 12s - policy for toddlers at the expense of teens again