JT

27 independent business woman

[Tom Chivers @TomChivers]

the mental thing is: British electricity demand is highest in winter. We have spare capacity in summer PLUS that's when solar panels work best. So air conditioning should be fairly easy to accommodate given current supply! We should ENCOURAGE it!

[Asmongold Updates @Asmon_Updates]

Asmongold explains Keir Starmer's resignation using a WoW raid strategy and it makes perfect sense

"Labour just performed a tank swap. Starmer had too many debuffs so they pulled him out and brought in a new tank."

"The new guy is going to do the same thing for the same raid. They're tanking the same boss in the same way."

"You're Onyxia. Don't fall for the tank swap. He's not the organization. You didn't win, they just reset your aggro."

[Dan Salt @Danjsalt]

When the Boris wave is discussed you always see politicians wringing their hands and talking about how unfair changes would be to the migrants however they never talk about the unfairness to the British public

That there is a good example of revealed preferences

[Adam Johnston @adamkjohnston]

"Democracy" is when the people vote for Brexit because they want less immigration, but they get exponentially more immigration as punishment.

[Burnside @BurnsideWasTosh]

Enjoy your second day of popularity Burnham, it's all downhill from here:

Call an election or not - legitimacy against losing a lot of colleagues that just backed you

Appoint a Chancellor: appease the left who got you elected or appease the bond market you're borrowing £280bn from this year.

Call Donald Trump: do your Hugh Grant and worsen the special relationship without a State visit up your sleeve or snivel like a toad and piss off your party.

Tack left or tack right: do you care more about Green lunatics or the red wall

Net zero : retain a pointless target or risk the wrath of Miliband and the truant.

Gone in 6 months.

[Dr Lawrence Newport @lawrencenewport]

Bully XL owners no longer have to insure their dogs.

Why?

Because the Dogs Trust stopped offering the insurance and no one else will... so DEFRA is just cancelling the requirement.

Why won't Dogs Trust insure them? Too many claims, the insurance wasn't viable.

I wonder why.

[Reg @RegHumber]

I had a conversation with a Labour supporting friend at the weekend. She’s far from nuts, not overly political, just instinctively pro ‘being nice’ and ‘looking after the unfortunate’.

The long and short of it is that she has no understanding whatsoever of business or the economy. She sees Britain as a very rich nation but with almost all the wealth trapped in a vault somewhere, with ‘billionaires’ controlling the keys. The government’s job, in her eyes, is to unlock that vault and shovel as much cash to ‘unfortunates’ as possible.

When I point out that crippling taxes on businesses and individuals inhibit growth she just agrees with me and suggests those taxes would be better if they were only aimed at the really wealthy. It’s incoherent but most of all it relies on a worldview that the left have carefully constructed so that they can give money to their clients. It’s going to end in disaster. Arguably it already has.

[max tempers @maxtempers]

80%+ of the Boriswave was either explicitly unselected (asylum, family/chain migration) or state-driven (NHS, care workers, student visas, etc). Dependents were given full rights to work. Post-study visa holders had full rights to work. People could switch visas in-country.

[max tempers @maxtempers]

There is this idea that the Boriswave was some Neoliberal Plot concocted by the top-hat-wearing Monopoly Men class, when in reality almost all of it was tied to some element of the public sector. The absolute worst horrors were in health-related and student visas.

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[JT @shutdownJFT]

@JohnnyFoxhole @technopopulist An aura completely manufactured by a media who needs a new character for their psycho drama.

[Aylmer @AylmerTH]

How the Boriswave happened, according to Alan Manning

[Sam Bowman @s8mb]

I don’t have any sympathy for Keir Starmer whatsoever, after as Director of Public Prosecutions he allegedly personally intervened to prosecute someone for tweeting a completely innocuous joke. I hope he spends his life in misery over what an abject failure he has been.

[JT @shutdownJFT]

@granawkins Finely distilled.

[Grant♟️ @granawkins]

Someone, please, tell me whats wrong with this:

> Aging population
> Not enough workers
> Wages go up
> Young people make more money
> Start families

> Aging population
> Not enough workers
> Import cheap labor
> Wages stay low
> No one can afford to start a family

[Nick, 30 @an0n_Nic]

This seems to have aged well if I may say so

[JT @shutdownJFT]

@KassidyGHill Big if true.

[Tom Jones @93vintagejones]

Why am I suddenly seeing wretched hand-wringing about how Starmer was "a good man"?

He wasn't. He was soon locking up people for tweets & pursuing further censorship of free speech. If he'd have been able to, he would have made right-wing politics illegal like he did Corbynism.

[Capel Lofft @CapelLofft]

Maybe if we had a Prime Minister prepared to stop such insanity he or she wouldn't be at a lectern resigning after 2 years of fruitless gridlock and failure. Just a thought

[Capel Lofft @CapelLofft]

So Starmer's resignation was made a clownshow by...human rights law. The ECHR as a 'living instrument' where human rights can be interpreted as endlessly malleable tools to promote progressive aims, is why yobbos can drown out PM's statement. It's their 'right to protest'

[max tempers @maxtempers]

This is a particularly important development for GP training posts because, under the previous regime, GPs were being recruited from all around the world without even an interview.

People who had never worked a day in the NHS, or stepped foot in the country before, were being recruited ahead of UK-trained doctors. Led to huge cultural compatibility issues with new recruits at times not even being able to communicate in English very well!

And obviously, because it was all based on qualifications acquired abroad, it was rife with abuse. It's utterly insane what we were doing.