Tim Edwards

Rugby, cycling, law, politics, and theology

[Tim Edwards @TheLegalGremlin]

@MeidasScotland @ForWomenScot "Im sharing this to post to highlight the hypocrisy of Reform" but also I demand FWS prove their innocence in this game of guilt by association. If you have a criticism of a group why not just say it directly?

[Tim Edwards @TheLegalGremlin]

@BarbaraRich_law @tlitb You should've seen the crowds with their placards outside the lecture series on the Roman law concept of the Paterfamilias

[Steve Loftus @LoftusSteve]

This is the chef's kiss of Reform policy ideas.

The perfect example of public appeal vs retarded policy. Which is really what Reform is all about.

There are so many ways this would will be abused or backfire so I will list them all.

1. I said last night, company directors/owners will suddenly be earning 60 hours weeks every week (but not really).

2. Employee collusion - Business convert salaried roles to lower rate hourly pay, but pays fake "overtime". The employee gets more take home pay but the employer's payroll costs reduce.

3. Diversion - Many jobs don't pay overtime. Teachers for example. If they did, we'd be bankrupt. Why go into teaching on £35k a year when you could earn that on less hours with overtime elsewhere?

Efficiently run company don't have overtime opportunities at all, making them less attractive than those that do.

4. Unfair advantage - Let's say your a small landscaping company employing 5 guys by gaming the system above. You have an unfair advantage over the bigger company playing by the rules. Jobs will be lost as smaller, less scrupulous companies gain advantage over those that play by the rules.

5. It shrinks the job market - Offering overtime becomes a recruitment advantage. In which case employing 5 people to do a job with overtime is better than employing 6 with none.

6. It can shrink productivity - It's now in your interest to stretch your workload over more hours or game the system. Which means more hours worked for the same production.

7. If you think the answer is that there will be increased compliance enforcement and auditing from an already overwhelmed HMRC when Reform want to cut the civil service I'm afraid you're mistaken.

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

American far-right, assisted by the British far-right, spent the last week asserting three young women were "murdered" in Brighton.

Many of the posts suggested an "illegal immigrant" did the murders.

I'll go through how they exploited the information deficit to sew division. /1

[Tim Edwards @TheLegalGremlin]

@MrAshCunningham I mean who amongst us hasn't had to clarify that the massive golden statue they're praying to/for isn't a golden calf

[Tim Edwards @TheLegalGremlin]

@Broonjunior @Jebadoo2 Wouldn't you need full reasoning so you knew whether or not you could appeal?

[Al Murray 🇺🇦 @almurray]

What if I want to divorce Death?

[Tim Edwards @TheLegalGremlin]

@joshsimonsmp @kitmalthouse Which proposed amendments in the Lords do you think were purely delaying tactics and not valid concerns?

[Tim Edwards @TheLegalGremlin]

@BarbaraRich_law @leo_leo_X Is it common for groups like GLP to have in house defamation lawyers ?

[Tim Edwards @TheLegalGremlin]

@megbasham @Ameen_HGA But then can't you say the same thing about voting Republican? "Saying I am going to vote for a candidate who starts unnecessary wars leading to the deaths of innocent civilians (or insert any other moral policy failure), no that's not acceptable when there are other options"

[Tim Edwards @TheLegalGremlin]

@stellacreasy @timothy_stanley So if someone was arrested for praying in a buffer zone would that prove that Buffer zones ban prayer?

[Tim Edwards @TheLegalGremlin]

@glenscrivener @RationalityRule At one point he said "Even if one glass of water is clean you wouldn't let your children drink from the well". Isn't that how you test water though? You take a sample? Surely to refute the claim that religion poisons everything one clean glass of water is enough

[Tim Edwards @TheLegalGremlin]

@drantbradley "I know it's not skin colour alone that creates difficulty" implying that skin colour does create difficulty ���� If his point is that cross cultural marriages have specific challenges then why mention race at all?
Also, notice the shift from "the ideal" to "aren't always ideal"

[Tim Edwards @TheLegalGremlin]

@TheBird696969 @mrdavidrowe It is. Dale made an argument based on culitral differences. I addressed that. You are making a different argument, the argumental goal post has shifted. I'm going to go out a limb here and say neither of us are biologists so I'm not going to argue biology with you.

[Tim Edwards @TheLegalGremlin]

@TheBird696969 @mrdavidrowe This is a massive goal post shift away from what Dale was talking about

[Tim Edwards @TheLegalGremlin]

@MrAshCunningham I wonder how much of the criticism is from folks in the states. Cross cultural critique can be very important but when the critique is on the style rather than content then more grace ought to be given to accommodate for cultural differences

[Tim Edwards @TheLegalGremlin]

@ColinEdwards22 @michaelpforan "Some others" being me... the lawyer who didn't know of the above mentioned case law also me

[Tim Edwards @TheLegalGremlin]

@SVPhillimore It's just obfuscation. Keep the debate on every small irrelevant detail so you don't have to address the relevant details you don't want to. It's why she gets so hung up on the other person's wording (like "identify as transgender") instead of addressing their actual point

[Tim Edwards @TheLegalGremlin]

@BarbaraRich_law State policy inspired by Dreamworks: