Jack 📈

Policy and economics wonk • Computer Scientist 🤓 • Social liberal • Employed - unlike some • Bent 🏳️‍🌈

[Jack 📈 @totalwonker]

@HermeticHaven Oh that's well understood, you don't grow up in this country without observing that shit

[Jack 📈 @totalwonker]

People in this country are so f*cking miserable.

What, you expect the Prime Minister to wear a shirt from Primark, a jacket from TK Maxx, and a pair of secondhand Skechers bought from Vinted?

Get a grip of yourself, park your Tall Poppy Syndrome, and reconsider your priorities.

[Tui of Aotearoa ( new acc was Tui @moon_treacle) @Treacle723364]

‘I wanna live like common people…’

[Jack 📈 @totalwonker]

Tony Blair when he signed the Good Friday Agreement

[Gerry Adams @GerryAdamsSF]

Im crying my eyes out.What a win.

[Jack 📈 @totalwonker]

teun teun teun sahur

[otto 🇲🇦 @ottoeatsplywood]

ah I see lmao

[Jack 📈 @totalwonker]

@rj_abel I swear all you people do is lie.

[Jack 📈 @totalwonker]

How you getting emails in solitary bro

[Andrew Tate @Cobratate]

[email protected]

Email me in prison here.

[Jack 📈 @totalwonker]

@0Yamman0 @Tomki076 They shouldn't be miserable either, but then again I suppose we all have our preferences.

[Jack 📈 @totalwonker]

@TommiPitknen1 As a wise man once said - twice the pride, double the fall

[Jack 📈 @totalwonker]

Hey I just realized something: most of us have better living standards than Andrew Tate now.

That's pretty funny.

[Andrew Tate @Cobratate]

I am in Special Housing Unit (SHU).

My water faucet is broken.

I am not allowed bottles of water in SHU.

I have nothing clean to drink.

My only water comes from the shower, warm and from a brown and filthy faucet.

It has given me persistent stomach problems.

The water I am drinking is not clean, I am an American.

Innocent until proven guilty.

But I am forced to drink poisoned water.

Where are my rights?

[Jack 📈 @totalwonker]

Minister comes out in favour of mayonnaise. Ketchup thought to be distraught.

[Pat McFadden @patmcfaddenmp]

Congratulations to Mayo. A long time coming.

[Jack 📈 @totalwonker]

As long as our MPs don't oppose them first...

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: The Lib Dems have called for all new homes to be built with air conditioning amid the constant UK heatwaves

[PoliticsJOE @PoliticsJOE_UK]

"The British government has never had any right in Ireland, and never will."

Gerry Adams has some advice for Andy Burnham: Prepare for the breakup of the United Kingdom as we know it. @GerryAdamsSF

[Jack 📈 @totalwonker]

@0Yamman0 @Tomki076 Keyjangling is when occasional non-misery. So true, so true.

[Jack 📈 @totalwonker]

This account deserves nowhere near as much success as if has.

They can't even get basic facts right.

[GB Politics @GBPolitcs]

🚨NEW: The NHS is considering making attending Premier League football games an official treatment option for depression

[@SkySportsNews]

[NHS England @NHSEngland]

This story has been getting a lot of attention, but it's not true. There was a local pilot in Gloucestershire for lower-league football, but not for Premier League tickets.

[Jack 📈 @totalwonker]

I think it's actually pretty stupid to mock anybody, even Boris Johnson, for exercising.

Regardless of whether you like that person, they are doing something positive for their own health and it's pretty needless (and a bit cruel) to target them over that.

[Just Dave now @justdavenow89]

the people mocking Andy Burnham running are the same people that voted for and trusted this

and stayed silent

[Jack 📈 @totalwonker]

Yes. That is their job. Stupid question.

[Cllr Sean Matthews - Reform UK @seanmatthewsRUK]

This is a worrying development. The Met Police’s Special Escort Group (SEG) are not a national squad. Very, very rarely are they seen outside London. To pick up the PM from an airport and escort him to no10 north is ridiculous. Will this be every Friday?

[Jack 📈 @totalwonker]

> Cuts business rates for pubs, clubs and music venues.
> Involves said places in comms output, which are quite clear.

So you're either:
A. Incapable of making a very basic, logical link between X and Y

B. Or pretending to be stupid so you can performatively whinge

[Andrew Lawrence @andrewlawrence]

He's out for a run, he's DJing at a music venue, he's making TikTok videos, he's at the pub eating crisps. Say what you like about Burnham, but he's very good at doing fuck all work.

[Jack 📈 @totalwonker]

Rediscovering the Laffer Curve from first principles.

[GB Politics @GBPolitcs]

🚨NEW: Scotland's tax increase to a 48p top rate on incomes over £125,140 has led to a £22 million loss in revenue in year one, HMRC data shows

High earners' average tax bills in Scotland fell by around £3,000 per person while rising in the rest of the UK

[@thetimes]

[Jack 📈 @totalwonker]

@antonerable Ideally you want to restore state capacity, reduce friction points in both governance and growth before doing anything of that scale. It could make it substantially easier to absorb the administrative burden and any subsequent public sector demand shifts from making cuts.

[Jack 📈 @totalwonker]

Then maybe he should cut spending. Before people get mad at me:

We spend approximately £391bn per year on Arm's Length Bodies - many of which execute important functions, but many don't.

Even a modest consolidation programme could free up tens of billions per year.

[James Heale @JAHeale]

Headlines straight outta 1976:

[Jack 📈 @totalwonker]

@antonerable It will likely have to be changed, but it takes a lot of political capital so I'd not touch it first if I were him.

Do the boring stuff that generates savings, use those savings to create tangible improvements for voters, and build up enough trust to reform it.