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Please read: The Welfare Deck-Building Game
A post on welfare reform by me
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@lunaperla @NicholasTyrone The investment will all be private - this is just about govt giving permission for private companies to do it all. They take all the risk. We just get taxes and more energy supply
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@abworkoutguy @NicholasTyrone However, seeing as £ is a scarce resource, we should invest it where it gives us the biggest bang for each taxpayer £. Looking at Return on Investment, investing in renewables would cut people's energy bills by more than 4x the amount that increased drilling is expected to yield.
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This is a simple thing Starmer could do to help the British economy. And seemingly, the only reason he won’t do it is because he’s scared of Ed Miliband.
The Times and The Sunday Times@thetimes
North Sea gasfield ‘could supply UK by winter if drilling block lifted’ #Echobox=1774979174" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
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@DickyWoodbine @sarah_go_green @OctopusEnergy They’ve fixed that with the new cheaper model ys, I’ll probably get one used in a few years.
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@sarah_go_green @OctopusEnergy If I bought an EV it would probably have to be a Model Y, but group 50 insurance!!!
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Stopped to have a wee on the way down to Portsmouth from South🏴
I paid £6.42 to top up at Membury.
I paid £5.20 at home for a full charge overnight.
I'll pay roughly £7 on the way back to top up. (10 minutes max charge)
£18.72 for 320 miles. (6p ish a mile)
Today my rates dropped now i'll pay £3 to fully charge at home and that's fixed for the next 11 months.
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@lunaperla @NicholasTyrone If we allow people to dig up sell a valuable thing and tax the profits we can use the extra tax revenue
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@NicholasTyrone It also takes up to 5 years for new wells to come online, so even if this fairytale were true, it wouldn't be ready by winter.
The other point Tories are ignoring is that not all oil is the same. The type of oil in the NS doesn't meet all of our needs. Hence, we import oil.
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To the right wingers who keep responding to this, purely economic arguments would be fine if climate change wasn't a very real thing meaning that, alas, hydrocarbons will have to be kept in the ground
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This is the best thing i've read on *why* the British right are still so hung up on oil and gas, despite the North Sea's increasingly diminishing returns. There is something about fossil fuels that is inherently more amenable to nationalist imaginaries
break-down.org/return-to-trea…
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Dear Parisians:
On Thursday, April 16, please join Works in Progress and Stripe for an evening of conversation about how France can capitalise on its existing successes – good infrastructure, abundant clean energy and some of the best people on Earth – to prosper economically once again.
The evening will include remarks on innovation and progress from @a_bergeaud, as well as a comparative look at the French and British economies from Works in Progress's @bswud, @SCP_Hughes and @pietergaricano.
We hope to see you there!
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@WataMelonX @mindofprospect Example
Council flat in London, rent £700 but really worth £1500 a month, UC housing element covers it all
Free council tax saves £200 a month
Couple standard allowance £639
2 kids £600
To have a lifestyle like this (£3000 a month costs) with a job you’d need to earn £50k.
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The only people that can enjoy London properly are those on £80k+ and those on benefits. Everyone else is fucked
Dan Salt@Danjsalt
London is dying The wages offered just don't make living in the city worthwhile
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"Almost 40% [of children in poverty], or 1.75 million were in families where both parents were born abroad" - what??
max tempers@maxtempers
Amazing going through IPPR reports. They produce in-depth, meticulous reports - more detailed than your average rw publication - of migration stats and how many migrants, especially ‘skilled’ ones, are in poverty (low earners), only to conclude with “we should pay more benefits”.
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@femceleras @watling_samuel @NewLeftEViews What offends me is seeing young management consultants living like animals in cramped bedrooms while phone snatchers get their own free flat 😞
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@watling_samuel @NewLeftEViews iwhat offends me is seeing people on the street reduced to living like animals. sorry if that doesn’t bother you 🤷♀️ but you’re studying econ at uchic so we already knew that
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“more productive prospective tenants who can pay more.”
Samuel Watling@watling_samuel
Aside for the serious political economy problems (rent control aligns renters preferences with homeowners) rent control also maldistrubutes the housing stock by permanently giving the housing to incumbent residents rather than more productive prospective tenants who can pay more.
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@DailyMail 60% of people on UC are working, the government are subsidising billionaires and large corporations paying poverty wages. Actual in work disability benefits PIP has been frozen for this parliament and the severe disability element slashed by 50%. So actually most are worse off.
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Betrayal of the strivers: Fury as benefit claimants get 6.2% rise this week, MPs receive £3,300 'cost of living' handout and the two-child cap is scrapped trib.al/9Xtqiz4
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Rent on all social housing which is near 20% of Englands housing and 40% in inner London is set centrally by the social housing regulator. The result is inefficiently distributed housing which increases rents in the private sector. We still have rent control and its terrible!
Gareth@g_f_red
We had rent controls in Britain until 1915 to 1988 and during this time housebuilding regularly hit over 300k per year. Since they were removed, the house price to income ratio has gone from 4:1 to around 8:1, and housebuilding numbers have collapsed.
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@Jonathan_Hinder @FairerShare Jonathan I think you are one of the good ones but I pay more than my fair share through every other tax ?
All you do is promise to take more of my money so that you can give it to people on benefits. I don’t think I’ll vote labour again at this rate
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Social care (and a good chunk of policing, actually) is paid for by this extremely regressive tax.
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Resolution Foundation@resfoundation
The totality of direct taxes in the UK is progressive; the very richest pay more than five times more in income tax than the poorest. In contrast, Council Tax remains strongly regressive, absorbing only about 1 per cent of income at the very top, against nearly 5 per cent at the very bottom.
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@AaronBastani @Sargon_of_Akkad Energy bills doubled betwee 2005 and 2020 in real terms, while gas prices fell
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@Sargon_of_Akkad Wind and solar is deflationary. I would bet my house that you, personally, will have PV cells and lithium ion battery in your own home in a decade.
We should use nuclear for guaranteed cheap industrial energy certainly.
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We live on an island full of coal and have huge amounts of oil offshore. The only reason we are energy insecure is green ideology.
Aaron Bastani@AaronBastani
Yep. The right’s obsession with renewable energy as ‘woke’ is only going to look more stupid with time. Electrification is perfectly sensible from perspective of energy security. Cars, train, buses.
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Ramadan is becoming a lot more Christmassified. British Muslims used to do a “poor me” act every Ramadan but now now it’s all Eid goody bags and Iftar parties
I think this is probably a good thing
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@Steven_Swinford all this from a few lines on his linkedin?
The costs he is talking about is running, maintaining and upgrading our electricity grid. That isn't a policy cost.
I guess the policy costs could be renewables, but that is investing in something which will bring down prices in future.
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The head of M&S has accused the government of driving up the cost of energy bills for businesses amid mounting concern about the impact of Iran war
Stuart Machin said government levies now account for half of his company's energy costs
'Over the last few years the 'policy costs' on our energy bill have skyrocketed
'These are the tariffs that government place on our bills to fund their policies, and have nothing to do with the price of oil or gas. They now make up over half our bill. It's just not sustainable for UK businesses'
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@BardlordMike3 @Chrimms2 @TempletonPeckJr @Steven_Swinford @MaxKendix This isn’t true I have more in common with the billionaire
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@Chrimms2 @TempletonPeckJr @Steven_Swinford @MaxKendix Because society should be built on the basis that the poor and the downtrodden will always receive the help they need.
Pulling others down to stand on their backs doesn't help anyone.
You'll never be a billionaire you share more in common with those on benefits than the rich.
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Exclusive from @MaxKendix
Rachel Reeves is expected to limit an energy bill bailout to people on benefits after warning that giving support to every household because of the Iran war would be irresponsible and unaffordable
The Times has been told that the planned support will be directed instead at about six million people who claim benefits such as universal credit and pension credit
While Reeves has asked about a potential “income threshold” to support lower-earning households, officials have said they are unlikely to be able to develop the system in time. Treasury sources emphasised that several options were being looked at but that no decisions had been taken
Officials have identified several barriers, including the fact that HM Revenue & Customs records the income of individuals, while an energy bailout would have to focus on households. A project to link up the information started in January and was due to take more than a year
Reeves will therefore have little choice but to give support to people claiming benefits, using the warm home discount, which reduces electricity bills for poorer households by £150, as the model for the scheme
“The methods of targeting are imperfect,” one government source said. But another said there was “a lot of defeatism” about what systems could realistically be introduced in time.
thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
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“WE’RE NOT YOUR FRIENDS, PAL!”
Locals in Carlisle are sick of seeing men from the nearby migrant hotel congregating outside the Lidl while old women shop.
I have many friends from some rough parts of the city.
They won’t tolerate this.
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@KieraDiss Let them work then you won't get so annoyed .
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Reform desperately need an election before people realise the Brexit wave has been brought under control.
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@BucketsOf_Rain Isn’t falling prices proof that they were a good thing ? 2016 London property prices were awful
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