Alex Yates

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Alex Yates

Alex Yates

@Alex_Yates_

Londoner. Occasional writer, mostly 🇬🇧 politics

London, England Katılım Haziran 2026
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Alex Yates
Alex Yates@Alex_Yates_·
@deuxvingarian I’m sure these people going on about how light hearted and fun British politics is were also joining in the hounding of Rob Kenyon for some of the private jokes he made which apparently should’ve completely disqualified him from public life.
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Deuxvingarian@deuxvingarian·
These people are po-faced puritan scolds about everything which is not serious, like jokes between friends and a pint at lunchtime, and then smugly mock the sincerity of people who try to address the very real, often existential problems which confront this country
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Alex Yates@Alex_Yates_·
@EulipotyphlaOG_ The DC story about being outwitted by Carrie always made him come across as incredibly unimpressive and a bit dim. How is this supposedly great strategist and Machiavellian figure getting outdone and sidelined by a yuppy Tory mum?
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Euli-🦔 Practical Zianist
Euli-🦔 Practical Zianist@EulipotyphlaOG_·
Still conflicted on whether Dominic Cummings was really a victim of Carrie Symonds or whether Vote Leave was just unprepared. After Boris' landslide, they put the Immigration Act 2020 in front of Tory MPs, and gave the government a blank cheque on immigration policy. Wth?
Euli-🦔 Practical Zianist@EulipotyphlaOG_

Also why articles of Young Reformer/Tories complaining about being "ostracised" at university are all insufferable. Were you REALLY a victim or did you annoy all your flatmates/seminars? Most of the time nobody falls out with you over politics, you were probably just tone-deaf.

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Alex Yates@Alex_Yates_·
@tomwhx @lucaajw Yes, they haven’t actively made the situation much, much worse, which can’t be said for when the Tories were last in office, hence them being preferable on migration.
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Tom@tomwhx·
@Alex_Yates_ @lucaajw So they have carried over the Tory policies which tightened all those things up, hence the numbers now being lower. (Except for visas where Labour have created new routes.)
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Alex Yates@Alex_Yates_·
The party that intentionally imported millions of low skilled workers and decimated entry level job opportunities for young people now want to “save summer jobs”. The cheek these people have
Conservatives@Conservatives

Everyone starts somewhere. Summer jobs give young people skills, confidence and a first step into work. That’s why we’re campaigning to protect them. We asked the Conservative Shadow Cabinet what their first summer jobs were. Their answers might surprise you 👇

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Alex Yates@Alex_Yates_·
@tomwhx @lucaajw No, the policy was to not actively increase migration by doing what the Tories did, such as creating new visa routes, loosening dependent restrictions, and lowering salary thresholds. The outcome was then to not have sky high migration like under the Tories.
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Alex Yates@Alex_Yates_·
@AaronBastani You think wealth taxes, tried and scrapped in various peer countries in the last few decades, are a new idea?
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Aaron Bastani
Aaron Bastani@AaronBastani·
“It’s claptrap” isn’t an argument. You would have heard the same regarding VAT, income tax, CGT…everything. Anything that’s new is ‘claptrap’ to a person whose job was helping people dodge taxes, sure.
Samuel Leeds@samuel_leeds

Gary Economics has just ruined its credibility and proven that it clearly knows very little about economics. The absolute tax legend @DanNeidle destroyed Gary in his own documentary. The very documentary just a compilation of Gary being proven wrong time and time again about his "solution" to economic inequality. Let me know if you have watched it. The Dan Neidle debate has gotta be one of the best moments in the show!! #garystevenson @Channel4 @garyseconomics

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Alex Yates@Alex_Yates_·
@tomwhx @lucaajw They didn’t actively increase migration to the highest level on record *by far*, which is more than can be said for the Tories. The Tories can’t claim credit for undoing policies that they never should’ve introduced in the first place that led to the Boriswave.
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Tom@tomwhx·
@Alex_Yates_ @lucaajw Which policies did Labour introduce which have caused those numbers to be lower?
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Dan Neidle@DanNeidle·
I don't usually write personal stuff, but a few words about my experience of being interviewed by Gary Stevenson. It started with a nice chat, comparing taste in hoodies... then the tone changed. He demanded to know why I'd deleted a tweet criticising him.
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Alex Yates@Alex_Yates_·
@tomwhx @lucaajw She was the Home Secretary responsible for introducing most of the measures that led to the Boriswave, which again, she has repeatedly stood by. Labour’s net migration numbers are far, far lower than under the Tories, so it’s not just a case of rhetoric.
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Tom@tomwhx·
@Alex_Yates_ @lucaajw Better on rhetoric, but they have watered down most of the improvements made at the fag end. She was hardly "chief architect" - the clue is in the name.
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Alex Yates@Alex_Yates_·
Dodgy foreign gangs are setting up money laundering businesses across the country, enshittifying vast parts of Britain, and what does the Right have to say about it? Zilch, complete silence. They’re just not serious.
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Aaron Bastani@AaronBastani

We know that, in some places, 50% (!) of these shops are connected to organised crime. That’s what CTSI says. And yet nobody on the right is willing to point a finger at landlords who price out everyone except people who are likely involved in dodgy dealings. Why?

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Alex Yates@Alex_Yates_·
@tomwhx @lucaajw Can’t imagine an option much worse than allowing Priti Patel, unrepentant chief architect of the Boriswave, back into government. Even Labour have been far better on immigration than the Tories.
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Tom@tomwhx·
@Alex_Yates_ @lucaajw Because elections are ugly baby contests and all the other options are worse.
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Alex Yates@Alex_Yates_·
@tomwhx @lucaajw Having booted them out already, why should the country welcome back the arsonists on the basis that they’ve only now realised lighting the house on fire doesn’t go down well?
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Tom@tomwhx·
@Alex_Yates_ @lucaajw It's almost like being punished with the worst result in a century has changed their perspective on things
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Alex Yates@Alex_Yates_·
People move to gentrifying areas DESPITE the local culture and shops, not because of it, which is why new businesses like Gail’s open up in these areas to cater to the gentrifying demographic.
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Alex Yates@Alex_Yates_·
Funny thing about anti-gentrification crowd is they claim their “authentic” wig and chicken shops are what draws people to the areas while simultaneously complaining that gentrifiers immediately replace these shops with Gail’s etc., not realising the obvious contradiction.
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Alex Yates@Alex_Yates_·
@JadeFrancesAzim Are you suggesting London belongs solely to the people born and bred in the city? In that case, you might want to have a word with 40% of London residents who weren’t even born in the country, let alone in London.
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Alex Yates@Alex_Yates_·
@nasscrave This is a ridiculous conspiracy theory that “gentrifiers” are engaging in a deliberate political project, rather than just living in places within their economic means and close to their jobs. No demographic has a god given right to live in a particular area.
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nass 🇲🇦@nasscrave·
gentrification is about little more than ‘rectifying’ the perceived error of post-colonial immigration. if the so called proud ‘gentrifiers’ really cared about regeneration they’d be talking about desolate fishing towns and former industrial towns, not the areas they do…
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Alex Yates@Alex_Yates_·
@Cobylefko Main piazza’s are often used for weekly markets or events such as concerts. They’re functional economic areas in the city centres, not purely leisure spaces to relax in, which is why most don’t have trees which would inhibit those activities.
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Coby@Cobylefko·
Italian plazas would be so much better if they planted trees. I'm sure there's some historic reason why many do not, but when it's almost 100 degrees, those reasons don't make much sense. No shade cover means no one spends time in what should otherwise be excellent public space
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Alex Yates@Alex_Yates_·
If it is Farage vs Binface, then Farage should ask exactly these kinds of questions. Stress how serious the UK’s decline is whilst MPs think it’s all a funny song and dance, making a mockery of elections and rallying around a new PM because he likes Oasis
LaoCaiLarry@Laocailarry

This is exactly the line of attack he is a 50 year-old BBC comedian come regime thug. Farage should agreed to debate him. “Mr Harvey where do you stand on the grooming gang inquiry?” “ Mr Harvey, where do you stand? On the farmers tax” “Mr Harvey, what are your comments Southport murderers”

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