Phillip Fayers

[Sebastian Salek @sebastiansalek]

There’s a VERY good reason asylum seekers get circus tickets and Amazon parcels.

But the Mail on Sunday was never going to tell you that.

Here’s the crucial detail they left out: 🧵

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Yesterday, "We have listened to welfare concerns, says Liz Kendall"

Today, "No 10 considers further concessions on welfare bill just hours before vote"

FGS @UKLabour Pull the bill, ditch Liz Kendal, consult disability groups, and start again

[Disability Labour @DisabilityLab]

Our letter to MPs calling for an opposition to the proposed Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill

https://t.co/BJkbDzNWVc

[Phillip Fayers @phillipfayers]

@TomSwarbrick1 @NatashaC So, it joins other similarly unfair tax situations because no government has ever thought it worth working out how to measure household income.

[Paul Lewis @paullewismoney]

It took eight years of determined fighting by her mum but today a coroner rules that benefit cuts error led to Jodey Whiting’s death https://t.co/4TRna3i00g she was deemed fit to work by @DWPgovuk having missed an assessment because she was in hospital with pneumonia.

[Resolution Foundation @resfoundation]

Local government core spending fell sharply during the austerity years and has not yet recovered.

While there has been some recovery in core spending power since the mid-2010s, this has been primarily driven by increasing Council Tax - which is highly regressive.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

The problems in our society are not caused by migrants or refugees.

They are caused by an economic system rigged in favour of corporations and billionaires.

If the government wanted to improve people’s lives, it would tax the rich and build an economy that works for us all.

[Phillip Fayers @phillipfayers]

The "strangers" here are Starmer and the cabinet who have become strangers to the Labour party as we know it.

[Dr Alex Bulat @LabourAlexB]

Reading the white paper on immigration, it's not specific proposals that are the most difficult to digest - as I can always see the pros and cons of any policy and the trade offs and discuss those- it's the tone of this discussion.

"Island of strangers"... "incalculable damage"

Visas creating exploitation, poor workers' rights, not building enough affordable housing, pressure on local services due to years of cutting budgets to local councils - all those political choices were not designed by migrants.

Imo all this rhetoric does is shifting the progressive vote from Labour to Green/LD/Ind and making people who made their home and "contribute" to the UK feel less welcome.

And I am not sure it is "persuading" Reform voters as why would you go for a lighter version of a more restrictive immigration policy instead of an even more restrictive one if you were supporting Reform.

[Paul Lewis @paullewismoney]

Benefit cuts cost money in the long run, says @TrussellUK https://t.co/h5PaEWnbw7 govt doesn’t seem to realise that relieving poverty is investing in the future and good economics

[Phillip Fayers @phillipfayers]

@BestForBritain Finally, a Brexit benefit.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

A new Universal theme park is coming to the UK.

We have closed the deal on a multi-billion-pound investment that will make Bedford home to one of Europe's biggest theme parks.

Creating 28,000 jobs, boosting our economy, and driving local and national growth.

[Oliver Alexander @OAlexanderDK]

The funniest part isn't what they have done, but the fact that they don't even understand what they did.

They set ε at 4 and φ at 0.25 which results in them effectively being removed from the equation by equalling 1 when multiplied.

Then it just becomes trade deficit/imports.

[Paul Lewis @paullewismoney]

Research shows hybrid working from home good for workers and their employers https://t.co/h155mr75KD “employees are taking fewer sick days, managing stress better, and adopting healthier lifestyles. Meanwhile, companies are enjoying higher levels of productivity and lower costs”

[Frances Hardinge @FrancesHardinge]

So it looks like most of my books (and foreign editions in several languages) are among the millions that #Meta has stolen in order to train its AI. Writing those books took twenty years of my life. This is piracy and theft.
https://t.co/l8eYXGKYLa
#AI #Booktheft

[Faisal Islam @faisalislam]

Very interesting - this is the new EU defence procurement cooperation project that for now the UK is not joining, but Canada is joining, after new PM Carney diplomatic push…

[Dr Jay Watts @Shrink_at_Large]

Dear @wesstreeting,

More people are diagnosed with mental illness because growing up in austerity increases mental illness rates—then a 2 million-strong waiting list cements disability.

Stop making people who already feel like a burden feel even worse.

Best,
Dr Jay Watts

[Tom Pollard @PollardTom]

This, from a DWP press release yesterday (https://t.co/uIgTCv4EnC), is outrageous

In two short paragraphs it peddles multiple falsehoods about the current system that will be used to justify upcoming cuts & changes

Here's what MPs & journalists should be challenging... 🧵

[Dick Mackintosh🌹#StopTheWar @DickMackintosh]

The poorest pay the highest rate of Tax.. #pmqs

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

We think we might have the biggest trove of material about the VIP lane. But we’ve not been invited to give evidence at the Covid inquiry.

@JolyonMaugham asks six questions about the PPE scandal that need answers:

[Mary-Ellen #TU_Rep @HullLecturer]

@bingle_colin You don't. You internalize the brutality and never recover your enthusiasm. Then, when a new VC comes after the last one laid waste, they'll point at you and say how awful you are. And so it goes on until there are no more academics. Then they'll lose their jobs.