Tim Siddle

Architect with Microsoft, interested in cloud led transformations , IT Strategy and Automation. Big Man Utd supporter! Views are my own...

[Tim Siddle @tim_siddle]

@bphillipsonMP It isn’t free.

It’s paid for by tax payers.

It’s not thanks to Labour. It’s thanks to working people.

Perhaps you can start showing some gratitude to those of us who actually pay for this stuff.

[Tim Siddle @tim_siddle]

It's perverse. I am, by most measures, "well paid". I lose my personal allowance & my childcare allowances (Wales). My monthly childcare bill is ~£2k - 2 young kids, one PT, one FT.

Someone on £99,999 salary keeps the PA & has a £0 bill. It's not a progressive system.

[Trader_007 @Trader__007]

Millions going out to work, small businesses struggling to survive, for this !
Despicable

[Tim Siddle @tim_siddle]

Wes Streeting losing support step by step. It’s a shame as he was a superb Minister.

[Wes Streeting @wesstreeting]

Your tax isn’t fair. So here’s what I would do about it. A wealth tax that works👇

[Tim Siddle @tim_siddle]

@VideosIrish This gent has a very limited vocabulary.

[Tim Siddle @tim_siddle]

@CarolineLucas He didn’t say they were cheaper. He said renewables and electrification were the future.

His gripe is with the policy which is based on fantasy economics and has downstream impacts on business and industry, therefore on jobs and livelihoods.

[Tim Siddle @tim_siddle]

@beemyli How do you u-lock headphones? There’s a large gap where your head goes.

[Tim Siddle @tim_siddle]

I can’t help but feel Labour just don’t get it. People don’t really want left. They want rid of incompetence.

For all the rhetoric about inequality, when you actually talk to people what cuts through is “the *Government* is making my life harder”.

https://t.co/nnCrF9YsDp

[Tim Siddle @tim_siddle]

@kevinhollinrake No one in Reform cares whether this is a good idea or remotely affordable. It’s a headline-grabber.

And they want opponents attacking it because it reinforces their message that they stand for “alarm clock Britain”, while everyone else looks out of touch.

Walked right into it.

[Tim Siddle @tim_siddle]

@emaann28 @JamieMi14887544 @XFreeze That literally makes no sense. Congestion is a function of two things by definition - how many things and in what space.

If you increase the space, congestion decreases.

What causes congestion is limited space and increased “things” or cars in this case.

[Tim Siddle @tim_siddle]

What is it with recent media companies and journalists restricting replies on their X posts. Making statements they don’t want scrutinised? Unwilling to engage in debate?

There’s an increasingly fine line between propaganda and journalism today.

[Tim Siddle @tim_siddle]

@adavies4 @WelshGovernment Might want to mark that one in the diary as Tentative/TBC.

[Tim Siddle @tim_siddle]

@tweetwatcher761 @patrickkmaguire @MrHarryCole The G&D vote was a protest against the status quo.

The vote with Burnham will be closer. He’ll run as the “I’ll get rid of Starmer” candidate.

It might still be tough, but you can’t directly apply the G&D result. Different scenario.

[Tim Siddle @tim_siddle]

@Hawkeye_74 Underpay next year then claim you weren’t careless or deliberate. Seems it’s ok for our politicians.

[Tim Siddle @tim_siddle]

Baroness Jenny Chapman tells the BBC after the cabinet meeting: "there was not one dissenting voice" around the cabinet table............. hmm

[Beth Rigby @BethRigby]

EXCLUSIVE: Jess Phillips, safeguarding minister, resigns from govt. “The desire not to have an argument means we rarely make an argument..."

[Tim Siddle @tim_siddle]

And so it seems it's not just the PM who's out of touch with reality, but the entire Cabinet.

That explains it.

[Tim Siddle @tim_siddle]

👏 absolutely spot on. This guy gets it.

[Tim Siddle @tim_siddle]

Starmer is tone deaf.

Working people: "We would like more money in our pocket. Life is too expensive. Reduce energy prices"

Government: "We plan to nationalise British Steel and start the process of rejoining the EU or aligning more closely to it"

[Tim Siddle @tim_siddle]

@ShippersUnbound It continues to baffle me that consecutive governments fail to do the most basic prioritisation activities.

Of all the things burning in our society, they choose the most inane things to focus on.

[Tim Siddle @tim_siddle]

@mrrobosborne @ITVWales Definitely lacks self awareness.

[Tim Siddle @tim_siddle]

Another example. In a scenario where there are multiple crises, why did they not focus on them?

Of course, crises can be subjective……. One man’s crisis is another’s norm.

[Nation.Cymru @NationCymru]

There are multiple crises all happening at the same time, and the Welsh Government has neither the levers, capacity, nor financial firepower to make more than a dent in any of them. But don’t worry, this is not a counsel of despair. It’s a case for focus ✍️ Lee Waters https://t.co/3JsEFOzNCV