Overton Door

[Overton Door @overtondoor]

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[GBTT — Great British Think Tank @GreatBritishTT]

For 7 years Labour said an unelected PM had no mandate.

At every Tory leadership change they demanded a general election. "No mandate." "A coronation, not an election." "The people must decide."

Then in June 2026 they installed Andy Burnham with no public vote.

[Overton Door @overtondoor]

@andrew_lilico @Channel4News Yes. Brit-poor mentality twists things and concludes the complete opposite. Classic

[Rory Sutherland @rorysutherland]

First replace everyone in HR, Compliance and Procurement with AI. Then switch it off completely, leaving people free to do their jobs.

[Overton Door @overtondoor]

@trevgoes4th “we all live in and need the state, how can it possibly be too big?”

[Overton Door @overtondoor]

@Mr_NickClarke @Gavin8t If I may come in, I think if you can get a capable SME contractor building 3/4 houses at under £300psf you could probably make a deal in London stack with say a 15% margin. Still wouldn’t do it at volume

[Overton Door @overtondoor]

@iwelsh @PositivFuturist Tax rate before Thatcher was “an astonishing 83%, with investment income taxed even higher at 98%”.

Yeah, so that’s going to lead widespread prosperity how?

[Overton Door @overtondoor]

@xvrmdf DeepMind and specifically Demis does give you hope but this is not going to go far , and it is after all a Google product that could leave the UK overnight- along with the many UK engineers that work there.

[Overton Door @overtondoor]

@iwelsh @PositivFuturist right Ian - a long list of things that they say they will fund yet little on how they will fund it, don’t you think? So how is this even credible?

[Overton Door @overtondoor]

@iwelsh @PositivFuturist how exactly is that “luck”, what do you think they will do? I will accept any answer other than “wealth tax”.

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

This is the tough lesson that a lot of people are learning the hard way

AI might have made building apps a lot easier, but it also set the barrier to entry at zero

Because anyone can do it, there is no moat left

The only edge left in the future will be sales and marketing

[Overton Door @overtondoor]

@mikebutcher

[Overton Door @overtondoor]

@DuxVul @anon_opin detachment from the tragedies of real life, and specially sanitised surroundings (eg you won’t find beggars in airports - atleast on air-side)

[Overton Door @overtondoor]

@peterkyle How?

[Overton Door @overtondoor]

@DuxVul @EspressoLucid Household income needs to be near 250k, split between 2 and if you have kids.

[Overton Door @overtondoor]

@peterrhague Because this project is a paper project, which is unlikely to get anywhere but only after it has leeched millions in fees for its founders.
You can use the same money of a variety of smaller projects, and more likely to succeed.

[Overton Door @overtondoor]

@GrumpyOldM79813 @ZiaYusuf He has pivoted recently

[Damian Pudner @DamianPudner]

It was an absolute pleasure discussing the many obstacles holding the British economy back with @trussliz