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Downbeat
@Record_Factory
NZ-UK / financial services change manager / ex-Immigration NZ policy advisor
Inscrit le Ağustos 2009
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Blimey! I for one am shocked. SHOCKED. theguardian.com/politics/artic…
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@technopopulist explicitly chooses how many people it wants to select each fortnight. It sets minimum points each selection. I.e. it throttles #s & chooses the cream of the crop. If #s get too high, just don't run a selection or set min points even higher. Govt retains total demand control.
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@technopopulist Tbf to people pushing a PBS system, it was more than a rhetorical device. They didn't actually implement a PBS. They implemented a standard visa policy & just tacked a nominal 'points' criteria branding to it. NZ's PBS has a pre-application 'Expression of Interest' pool. Govt...
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.@FUDdaily raises some important questions about the viability of Reform UK and the potential pitfalls they face in trying to replace the Tories as the leading right-wing party.
Pete is clearly very sceptical of both Farage and Reform, doubting their ability to realign British politics. I agree with some of Pete's points, but not others.
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Pete North@FUDdaily
What if the lack of vetting in Reform means there is no guarantee of right wing MPs, and what you get instead is crackpots, the intellectually subnormal, and chancers pushing their own agenda? And how sound is your long term strategy when it's entirely contingent on a man who'll be 70 in 2034, and the party falls apart without him? And what if Reform can't break the populism ceiling, remains at 20%, and only succeeds in ousting conservative MPs while not being able to score more than 8 of its own, half of whom will be disowned by Farage within six months because of their social media posts?
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@CSonic235 Most places are - esp Anglosphere - the US is one of the few notable exceptions.
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so any theories as to why the NZ economy is rebounding so slowly from covid? stuff.co.nz/business/35031…
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Generally skilled work is more comfortable and less tiring than unskilled work. But a surgeon can learn to pick fruit!
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I think the definition of “skilled worker” has now been stretched passed coherence
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@baylissbaghdad Yeah, my in-laws will no doubt out of instinctive aversion to Labour. For them there is no housing crisis and in the countryside with a decent pension everything feels pretty well OK.
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Mainly better-off pensioners if my social circle is anything to go by. Reform's average voter is likely be considerably younger than the Tories'
Dan 🏴@Kingbingo_
@Sargon_of_Akkad Who are the 18%?
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@squibulous2 @technopopulist This is what's going to be fascinating, the vote share on the right may be very similar to Labour's. But we will end up with Labour. This is going to be very frustrating for some people.
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It must be quite a luxury for a well-paid columnist living in an upscale Oxford property to dismiss the public's anger as an 'emotional spasm' and to condescendingly call patriotic voters 'lemmings' for voting Reform. Given the Tories’ appalling record on real wages, GDP per capita, homeownership, and immigration, I would argue that this frustration is not due to a 'moment's impatience.'
Peter Hitchens@ClarkeMicah
A moment’s impatience - a lifetime of remorse . The message of this safety poster very much applies to Farage Lemmings*, in the grip of an emotional spasm, preparing to put Labour into office for decades to come..
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@MusicalChairs14 Obv it's not good news & v hard for those ppl on an individual level. But given all the doom & gloom, it's kind of interesting how they aren't worse. When I was at DoL in the late 00s/early 10s we were dealing with much higher unemployment rates & still granting lots of visas.
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Happy Beneficiafriday to (more) folks this week. Summary 🧵
A surge in jobseekers in week 24 - driven by a big net increase in 'work ready' claimants.
The big numbers were in Auckland (402 souls), Bay of Plenty (198), Waikato (159) and Canterbury (156). Let's have a look... [1/n]
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@only_ohm_again @jamesjohnson252 It's obviously a hypothetical in terms of the integrity and standards under her. Not a literal example.
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@jamesjohnson252 In 2017, the PM didn't have the power to choose the election date unilaterally - there had to be a debate on it in an open session of parliament, so not so much risk of anyone having privileged information.
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There is clearly a rot in the Conservative Party that desperately needs fixing. Leadership matters. Theresa May had many weaknesses but I am trying to imagine anyone in her Downing St or CCHQ doing this before the election was called in 2017, and it’s unthinkable.
Jim Waterson@jimwaterson
Excl: Here's what happens if you scrape Betfair data for bets on a July election. This graph cuts off at the end of 21 May, the day before Sunak announced the election. There's a flood of bets that day - before Rishi formally told the cabinet and stood in Downing Street.
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@BishopDespenser @richardparke15 @TypeForVictory Policy/comms roles don't have targets, just like most knowledge-based roles in the private sector. Targets are for sales or service delivery roles.
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I'm convinced there's huge scope for "round the edges" improvements that would have surprisingly strong impacts on morale:
- Free tea/milk/coffee
- £100/hd for christmas/summer parties
- Aircon
- Modernised HR/Payroll
- Training budgets [esp medical]
- Bonuses for performance
Joe Hill@jo3hill
In Whitehall, not only is there very little air con, but you have to buy your own tea and milk. Small things add up to big inefficiencies.
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@BishopDespenser @TypeForVictory I moved to the private sector thankfully but used to work in immigration policy. Policy officials have substantial OKRs. Have they delivered on the minister's priorities? Have they produced policy advice? Have they delivered change? Have key metrics improved? Fairly straightfwd.
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@maxtempers Thought you might like to know your tweet gets referenced in this morning's Politico Playbook.
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Tony Blair vs a 36-year old Richard Tice on the Euro, during a 2001 election Question Time
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@technopopulist @JacquelBens Still planning on writing on their legal migration policy?
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As today’s Labour candidates gear up for an election largely focused on Tory misrule, it is easy to forget just how much immigration and asylum plagued New Labour when they were in power. Have Labour changed? The short answer is 'No'.
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@wasnt__me_ @AscendedYield Yep. True, would inevitably be a bit of leakage like there must be to Iran/N Korea etc.
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@Record_Factory @AscendedYield So retail level modern online cash transactions services would cease to be fulfilled?
You then probably have a crypto problem.
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@SRHNarborough @AscendedYield Easier just to put UK Government sanctions on them. A new tax would be messy for banks and MSBs to implement.
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@AscendedYield Don't be silly. We shouldn't ban remittances.
We should charge 70%+ taxes on them.
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@AltFemKG @AscendedYield This is also a good suggestion. Historically it's not unprecedented to effectively stop issuing visas routinely to countries that have low compliance rates and where people can't be returned.
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@AscendedYield ban any visas for countries nor compliant with deportation orders. make a treaty with other western countries to impose sanctions too
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@wasnt__me_ @AscendedYield Add them to the list of UK Government sanctioned countries. No banks or Money Service Businesses would be able to hold correspondent banking relationships with that country.
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@AscendedYield Is that possible with the various mechanisms of cash transfer now?
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@AlQuixote @AscendedYield There are UK Government sanctions against a load of countries. Would be easy for the banks to implement.
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@AremSeven @echetus This is true, the officials at Schiphol are young white Dutch blokes. Though I would say at non-Lon airports they look more like Britain.
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@echetus It’s striking when you pass through Heathrow and every passport officer is an overweight Indian with a lanyard and sloppy uniform. The border looks nothing like Britain. Definitely not the case in other European countries, it is a unique British phenomenon.
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The 5' tourist tackling the activists while the fat Lanyardite ineffectually waddles around is peak Bag-Check culture.
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Two Just Stop Oil activists have desecrated Stonehenge with orange powder paint.
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