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@hoodwild_ At lunch my son took his sauce, and rubbed it onto his face like its his skincare regime!

this is 100% accurate 😭😭

@andrew_lilico I blame Made In Dagenham. Genuinely

This Asda-Next-Birmingham-Tesco thing with "Equal pay for work of equal value" - surely no-one actually believes that's how things should work? I've never seen a single attempt to defend it. So why, given everyone agrees it's unutterably stupid, doesn't someone act to stop it?

@ChrisNewsR @LabourGrowth I thought this! I hope they mean the mess ridiculously low interest rates made of asset prices. I totally agree, ownership should not be vilified. Even those who passively benefited from asset prices werent in control of that, they didnt do anything wrong. That was policy makers!

@LabourGrowth "Owning things pays better than building them" What does that mean? If I own a small business that I built, should I be taxed into oblivion? You just pump out buzzword garbage that does not even make any sense.

This is for the people who do the work. The nurses doing double shifts. The teachers who stay late. The plumbers, the carers, the small builders, the people running shops. The graduates trying to build a life. The founders who chose to build something here. Britain has stopped being a country that backs them. Over 40 years of political choices Britain has built an economy where owning things pays better than building them. Holding scarce land. Holding protected market positions. Holding the right credentials. Holding the right postcode. Gaming process. Capturing public money meant for someone else. These have become safer routes to reward than working, investing, teaching, caring, manufacturing or taking productive risk. This isn't a conspiracy. It's the predictable result of a state that has lost the ability to build, decide, enforce and shape markets in the public interest. The planning system rations land. The energy system rations power. Capital fails to scale British firms. Regulation protects incumbents and crushes challengers. Tax falls hard on work and lightly on position. Government compensates people for the costs this creates. But in rationed markets, that compensation is often captured by the same scarcity that made it necessary. Public money flows through broken systems and strengthens the very interests that broke them. Fiscal space shrinks. The state becomes more cautious, less capable, more dependent on the processes that created the failure. The loop tightens. An Honest Day is a new economic settlement for Britain. The shift required is from a distributive state to a capable one. Support people now. Reform the scarcity that makes support necessary. Reward action, not position. Read it now labourgrowth.co.uk

@DailyMail Something I agree with him on. Life is full of surprises!

Fury as Green councillor proudly posts footage of himself driving gas guzzling Lamborghini days after his election - despite his party's 'war on motorists' trib.al/DHknOiX

@ThatEricAlper “Have we got time for a cuppa” - we’re about to leave the house any second but there is always time for a cup of tea!

@cjsnowdon The only difference between this & all the rest is nobody offered Starmers lot £5m!

There are some stories that just don’t land with the public, no matter how much the BBC goes on about them. This is one of them.

@AndrewB95142494 @worstall @FT Not quite, indeed it's even sillier than that. Warehouse Roles: 52.75% male, so plenty of females happily working there!

@worstall @FT Indeed. Didn’t Next actively try to get women into the distribution centres and got only a handful. Women preferred work where being social was important over higher wages. Now they get both. And more unemployment as Tesco puts more self service tills in.

Tesco argues equal pay claim disregards ‘economic reality’ ft.trib.al/k5n8n5E

@worstall @FT This is actually a brilliant idea! They should do this!

@FT So, stick the cashiers in the warehouses two days a week, the warehousers in the shops. Equal pay my arse.

@JohnRentoul I miss you on the radio, any plans to return, now Mike Graham's moved on?

I’ve got a credible plan to run a sub 2-hour marathon

@YisraelChaiAdam Many are blaming Jews themselves, so this isn't even the worst take on the issue!

That feeling when you’re about to blame the price of butter for the reason Jews are being attacked rather than Muslim extremism-

@davidburchael @MerrynSW Some of what she said was indeed v positive. Simultaneously cutting taxs and ramping upr'revenue needs', with uncapped spending promises for fuel subsidies, didnt help. The trick is to do both: cut tax and revenue needs!

@MerrynSW Liz Truss tried that and the blob went into meltdown.

“We need lower taxes because the tax system must serve growth, not the revenue needs of whoever is in power.” Javier Milei

@watling_samuel See also: "stop building houses no one can afford!" It should be fairly obvious why developers dont need to be told that

"Stop luxury empty buildings lining the pockets of property developers" Literally how do you make money by keeping a building empty? I dont understand how its lining anyones pockets.

@MerrynSW Possibly not. According to the A/c info 'One of our partners has indicated that this account may have used a proxy — such as a VPN, which may change the country or region that is displayed on their profile.' Its by the name change bit of Ac Info

Debate in Scotland.

@John_Stepek Oh my God, this explains everything!

Had a minor lightbulb moment: this is the desired outcome. Subsidising demand and constraining supply is ideologically consistent with a fundamentally anti-growth worldview. You ban supply, then use redistribution as a backdoor rationing tool. The pie shrinks. Job done.

@JaneGinger50 @s8mb Yes, it has crossed my mind that rent controls could be a nice little increase! All v silly

@BandoraLaura @s8mb I increased rent for the first time in 10 years in April. I suspected something like this would follow. Like you if controls are introduced I’ll follow and increase each year in line with controls. It’s a win for me I have a good excuse. Labour did it.

If you're a landlord, sell while you still can. Take the loss. The only way these rent controls can "work" is by legally stopping rental properties from exiting the market. Once those rules are in place your property will have basically been expropriated from you.

@JohnRentoul Ah, good spot!

@BandoraLaura It is wealth, not income

Wealth is more equally distributed in Britain than in Sweden, Germany or the Netherlands – UBS Global Wealth Report 2025 ubs.com/global/en/weal…

@ShippersUnbound WWII but cranked up to 11!

Astonishing

@TheTVGrump @ShippersUnbound Genius!

@ShippersUnbound x.com/koshercockney/…

@Kilted_Sailor @ChristianJMay @Madz_Grant Brexit sent them mad, they haven't recovered (said as a remain voter)

@ChristianJMay @Madz_Grant I’d be more surprised these days if an FT journo *didn’t* promote price controls…such a weird publication in our age.

At Treasury questions Reeves was urged by Labour MP Yuan Yang - a former FT journalist, no less - to impose a rent freeze. Reeves said she will use every power she has to help in cost of living crisis - 'including for people in the private rented sector.'