Chris Wilson

@RobertJenrick @Telegraph 1 tax cuts for the rich 2 benefit cuts for the poor 3 tax cuts for the rich 4 privatisation of public sector 5 tax cuts for the rich 6 deregulation of private sector 7 tax cuts for the rich 8 performative cruelty for the poor 9 tax cuts for the rich 10 culture war for everyone

Our party is a broad church, but we need a common creed. In the @Telegraph I set out 10 principles around which I believe our party can unite👇 telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/1…

@SeanSpurr The library of babylon

I'm opening a secondhand bookshop in Stoke Newington at 213 High St, but we haven't yet been able to decide on a name - any suggestions? So far we have Bookopolis, Book Spines, Abney Books, High Street Books. Anyone got any creative inspiration to help us?

@Noahpinion That hissing sound? That's the air being let out of Noah's credibility as he turns openly fascist (ie supporting burning down hotels while asylum seekers are still inside). I live in Britain, and I don't want violent thugs on my streets. Why do you?

Between Britain throwing people in prison for tweets, Canada recommending suicide for the disabled, and Australia...well, being Australia, I'd say the Anglosphere is looking decidedly wacky these days.

@TomTugendhat Why do you support austerity? What empirical evidence do you have that it was justified? Why do you support Brexit, yet refuse to say what it was intended to achieve? What problem do benefit sanctions address? What empirical evidence do you have?

@ElliotHammerSR If we're enjoying a golden era of post Brexit prosperity, doesn't that make the Tories electoral humiliation all the worse? How do you explain it ?

What did the Tories ever do for us?

Great thread. Thanks to all the unsung heroes and heroines behind the scenes. It’s not their fault, this is how IT is hanging together the world over

Improvement toolkits & good practice databases are useful but they only take us so far. As much as 80% of the knowledge in an organisation isn't written down. It's not a failure of documentation. it's to do with the nature of the knowledge and the way it gets spread. That's why it is critical that we make time & space for networks, communities of learning/practice, huddles & sharing conversations if we want change & improvement to happen: #ixzz7BiPRbJ7X" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nickmilton.com/2021/11/why-yo…. Thanks @nickknoco

You’ll find this interesting ⁦@AdamBalfourLang⁩ ⁦@Chris_Creegan⁩ - “We need a more holistic approach to addressing people’s fears and anxieties.” The Death of “Deliverism” : Democracy Journal democracyjournal.org/arguments/the-…

@jonburkeUK It may work better in the original Russian

I get this all the time from weird men on Twitter, even though I walk 7km every morning and play footy twice a week. Does my profile picture make me look fat or something? It’s so weird! 😂😂😂

@afneil Yes we should.

By that logic we should make a homeless person housing minister.

@timothy_stanley Hey Tim, just wondering. How people in this country are destitute: "struggling to afford to meet their most basic physical needs to stay warm, dry, clean and fed"? Do you or Fruit-Norton have any responsibility for this ? jrf.org.uk/deep-poverty-a…

Jacob Rees Mogg will be missed. One thing I know: he’ll bear no ill-will. The man is a model of humility and decency.

@Sathnam Dorries or Kwarteng?

@RishiSunak 2.98 million people are now using food banks, up from 60,000 in 2010 approximately 3.8 million people experienced destitution in 2022, including around one million children; this is almost two-and-a-half times the number of people in 2017, and nearly triple the number of children

Families can't afford a Labour government.

@youngvulgarian What makes you think he doesn't read? Do normal people have favourite books? Being able to come up with an answer when asked isn't the same thing.

@GavinBarwell Can you explain why people vote Reform? Why is Farage likely to win in Clacton?

I get that many former Conservative supporters are very angry with my party. Indeed I share many of their frustrations. But take a look at the people Reform has standing for it - no decent person should have anything to do with them

@innes_abby @JDaviesPhD Are you familiar with @tobyjlowe and Human Learning Systems. Appears to in the same space

No society in history has ever professionalised the management of emotional distress as thoroughly & excessively as our own. We have stigmatised self-trust, scoffed at lay wisdom, & stripped local & grassroots knowledge & support of its value & legitimacy. And for what in return?

@NotTheTimCurry Outstanding

I’m finally ready to tell the world about my private life. This has taken a lot of courage and a lot of thought. But here we go. shorturl.at/nENOY

@Samfr What public service reform is needed and why? What's the thing that's missing ?

Plenty of ambitious and detailed stuff in that manifesto. It's not just more of the same. But there's a gaping hole where public service reform should be and no money identified to pay for it.

Good thread...

@CJFDillow He's been told his whole life that he's special. He imagined he'd be David Cameron, who looked like a success to a Tory. He never imagined that Brexit was going to make everything harder, and possibly still doesn't understand that's what's happening.

Sunak is the most intriguing PM of my time. Why did he go into politics given that he's little sense of public service; no ideology to push; is uncomfortable in the public eye; and is no good at it? Class - for once - is not the answer, but I don't know what is.