James Pickles

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James Pickles

James Pickles

@PicklesJames2

United Kingdom Katılım Ocak 2020
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James Pickles
James Pickles@PicklesJames2·
@JamesMelville Someone on question time last week said reducing speed limits in Wales from 30 to 20 mph was worth it even if it saved just one life. So by that measure she would also reduce speed limits to zero. i.e. no cars at all. Many people lack an understanding of risks vs benefits.
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James Melville 🚜
James Melville 🚜@JamesMelville·
“Thousands of Brits have backed a call to halve the national speed limit from 60mph to 30mph on single carriageway roads.” This is absolutely ridiculous for so many different reasons.
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Sonny
Sonny@rawespresso·
Your council tax just went up another 5% this April. Average band D in England is now £2,280 a year. For that you get bins collected once a fortnight, a library that shuts at 4pm, potholes nobody's filling and a leisure centre with the pool closed for repairs. Genuinely — what is the £2,280 actually paying for?
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Joe
Joe@_StoicJoe_·
@PicklesJames2 @StoicRocky @PensionsMonkey @JuliaHB1 Of course there's balance this other guy is just a free market loon I personally think 10x is too low but that a limit is needed A club that brings in billions but can't pay a living wage to the dinner lady is shameful. Also last I checked the players were employees not execs
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James Pickles
James Pickles@PicklesJames2·
@_StoicJoe_ @StoicRocky @PensionsMonkey @JuliaHB1 You're making the assumption that an unregulated market means one not bound by the law. A company cannot break the law, regardless of whether it's regulated or not. Some regulation is good but the green party (and labour) intervene in areas where it doesn't need to.
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Joe
Joe@_StoicJoe_·
@StoicRocky @PicklesJames2 @PensionsMonkey @JuliaHB1 Regulations protect you from bad actors In a 100% free market I can offer to sell you ice cream cheaper than my competition because I use slaves You can decide freely to do business with me I can send you tubs of water instead of ice cream because.. Who are going to complain to?
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James Pickles
James Pickles@PicklesJames2·
@_StoicJoe_ @StoicRocky @PensionsMonkey @JuliaHB1 Surely there is a balance to be had. The argument being made is that the proposal by the greens will do more damage than good. Will footballers have their pay limited to 10x the lowest paid in the club?
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Joe
Joe@_StoicJoe_·
@StoicRocky @PicklesJames2 @PensionsMonkey @JuliaHB1 If the labour market is completely unregulated then people would have slaves. A free market incentivises cheats, liars and violence just look at unregulated markets like the drug trade. Humans have been regulating markets for thousands of years, please educate yourself properly
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John Stepek
John Stepek@John_Stepek·
Parliamentary time is a limited resource. So we should ask of any policy proposal: what problem is this trying to address? Do we have evidence that the problem even exists? Will this solve the problem? What second-order effects might it have? Is there nothing more pressing? Etc.
YouGov@YouGov

The Greens have proposed capping top wages in a company at 10x the level of the lowest wages - a move that 65% of Britons would support Strongly support: 41% Somewhat support: 24% Somewhat oppose: 10% Strongly oppose: 7%

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James Pickles
James Pickles@PicklesJames2·
@_StoicJoe_ @PensionsMonkey @JuliaHB1 Market forces should determine what people are paid, not government interventions. Time and again whenever governments intervene with markets it causes distortions and a lack of price discovery, which causes more harm than good.
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Joe
Joe@_StoicJoe_·
@PicklesJames2 @PensionsMonkey @JuliaHB1 You've asked a leading question There's no guarantee that capping exec pay would cause talent flight Pay your admin staff 35k & the boss can take home 350k a year. Plenty of room for growth. Execs should earn through raising the share price not skimming more than the fair share
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James Pickles
James Pickles@PicklesJames2·
@_StoicJoe_ @PensionsMonkey @JuliaHB1 The trouble with the original question is that the majority of people's salaries don't come close to CEO salaries, and so the natural answer is to support the suggestion without thinking about the economic reality of what supporting it would mean.
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Feelings ღ
Feelings ღ@anxietymsgs·
You meet your 18 year old self, you’re allowed 3 words. What do you say?
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The Away Fans
The Away Fans@theawayfans·
You’re playing football with your mates as a kid... Score and you go through to the next round... but miss and you’re out. What did you call that game?
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Nostalgic Football
Nostalgic Football@FtblNostalgic·
All Time Best XI Do you agree? 🤔
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Paa Manuel
Paa Manuel@PaamanuelUtd_·
Chat: what stops this team from winning the treble next season
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James Pickles
James Pickles@PicklesJames2·
@JillBelch It would create jobs, get money moving in the economy, generate taxes, help balance the budget and strengthen the pound, helping keep a lid on inflation at a time of high energy cost, which lifts prices of food and other imported goods.
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Dr Jill Belch
Dr Jill Belch@JillBelch·
We don’t own it. We’d pay same price as currently. It’s causing climate change. Renewables don’t get involved in wars. Renewables are cheaper. Renewables don’t pollute. No brainer.
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James Pickles
James Pickles@PicklesJames2·
@ret_ward But it would create jobs, get money moving in the economy, generate taxes, help balance the budget and strengthen the pound, helping keep a lid on inflation at a time of high energy cost, which lifts prices of food and other imported goods. Why do you ignore this?
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James Pickles
James Pickles@PicklesJames2·
@HumanityChad I seem to remember this was during covid. It was exactly the laughter we needed at that time.
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Restoring Your Faith in Humanity
Teacher farts on Zoom call, can’t help laughing.. students shout & giggle together. The most adorable classroom chaos ever 😂
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James Pickles
James Pickles@PicklesJames2·
@colinwalker79 It would create jobs, generate tax revenue and strengthen our currency, which would help reduce inflation, especially important at a time of high oil and gas prices.
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James Pickles
James Pickles@PicklesJames2·
@jruddy99 @DeborahMeaden But it would generate create jobs, tax revenue and strengthen our currency, which is vital for combating inflation.
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John Ruddy
John Ruddy@jruddy99·
If we drilled for every single one of those 7.5 billion barrels today, they would all be sold for $100 each - because that is the international market price. There is no guarantee a single drop would even reach the UK's petrol forecourts.
Ben Graham@BenGrahamUK

Today oil is sitting at $100 a barrel. North Sea = 7.5 billion barrels of black gold. Britain bans new licences & begs foreign regimes for energy. We are sitting on treasure and letting this opportunity slip through our hands.

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