Tony Eagleton

Encouraging the return of respectful debate and the raising of standards on Twitter by avoiding profanity and abuse. Failure to reciprocate = lost argument.

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@SartorialThug Get the Merlin App and identify it from the call if you can hear one - absolutely amazing resource!

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@jimhamilton4 He’s never been in the position of judging whether to select his own, out of form son before, though, so he has no experience of this situation?

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@NewtonEmerson You’re obviously not familiar with Starmer’s negotiating skills

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@recouso @SuzanneEvans1 And the problem now is that, were the government to recognise the stupidity of its policy and reverse it, those people will not come running back. Our credibility is dented for decades. C’est la vie

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@Artemisfornow @MPerkins_UK I’d rather our national debt was paid down before our government, with its flawless track record, started trying to pick winners via an investment fund. Paying down debt = a guaranteed return, government picking winners = very high risk of losses

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@jimhamilton4 The degree of difficulty for what he did in that video is so far off the scale it’s on another planet!

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@GrantSceptic @MerrynSW Wait until just before the deadline for pensions to become taxable. They will be queuing round the block for this new service

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@DianaHarding7 @lisanandy @HackneyAbbott Yes, most millionaires are notoriously slow on the uptake and oblivious to those aspects of current affairs that completely dominate the news agenda for years and years, so they’ve probably only just realised that Brexit happened?

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@trevgoes4th @MerrynSW Er, no, without minimum wage legislation the distribution would be even more skewed towards the lower end. Anyway, I have work to do - have a good day

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@trevgoes4th @MerrynSW It’s theoretically (not practically) possible for everyone to have the same income so then it depends how you define high. But, for the record, it’s not a normal distribution - there are far more people on low incomes than high incomes

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@trevgoes4th @MerrynSW Depends how you define high. One thing is for certain, it would just lead to increased inflation unless it was accompanied by vastly improved productivity

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@rufc2022 @GiveUsAQuid Hopefully quite soon but I have my doubts because, as the viciously hard right Alice Cooper sang with regard to these people, School’s Out For Ever

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@GiveUsAQuid @rufc2022 Disbelievers in the Laffer Curve are about to learn a very harsh lesson

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@histevegray @andrew_lilico My father was Irish, my Mother English. Do I owe myself anything?

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@AllisonPearson An obvious question so it must have been asked before but does the PM have the authority to do this without reference to parliament or is parliament itself (i.e. the Labour Party) also behind this monumental act of self harm?

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@Keir_Starmer Not those who will shortly find themselves out of work because their employers can’t afford the NI and minimum wage rises or the cost of your increased regulations and therefore go bust

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@FlashForFreedom Surely, by the same logic, global cooling could lead to the UK getting warmer? I accept that these things are complex but why, if that’s the case, are some people so certain of the policies we need to adopt that they’re willing to bankrupt the country by enforcing them?

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@OurStIves Any pubs in St Ives, Cambridgeshire, showing England v Ireland today?

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@alextomo The government needs to change the law as a matter of urgency but they won’t. So we’ll have less investment, be poorer and less secure. But at least we can be virtuous in our impoverished misery, while more pragmatic nations look at us and shake their heads in disbelief

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@CPierceUK @johnredwood Clearly not everyone, I’m afraid!