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Pip Gradgrind

@PipGradgrind

A boring old social democrat who likes cricket, public transport and books.

North East, England Katılım Kasım 2021
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Pip Gradgrind
Pip Gradgrind@PipGradgrind·
@an0n_Nic Tom posts incessantly about how North England is subsidised by the south in large part due to the lack of investment in the productive economy - transport infrastructure, R&D etc. Our “industrial strategy” for the north is to pay our benefits rather than improve transport.
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Nick, 30@an0n_Nic·
Cool story Tom now do the welfare state
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Aaron Bastani
Aaron Bastani@AaronBastani·
@PipGradgrind Same way a reform led Senedd will reduce immigration into Wales I imagine!
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Aaron Bastani@AaronBastani·
Picked this up in Birmingham and it’s a terrifically structured bit of election literature. Bold, bright front. Little text, first names and smiling faces. Inside very clear lines of attack on two primary opponents. Stellar leaflet. Much better than I see from Tories & Labour.
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Pip Gradgrind@PipGradgrind·
@AaronBastani How is a green councillor going to “save the NHS”, increase the minimum wage or put in place rent caps?
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Aaron Bastani@AaronBastani·
Green message is: Labour are shit, Reform are nasty, we’ll stop fly tipping and save the NHS. It’s incredibly elegant and simple.
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NPRG@CptHastings1916·
What is the counter-argumemt to the view that mass immigration has seriously raised the threat level to British Jewry, by importing millions of people from countries where Jew-hatred & anti-Jewish conspiracism are common and normal?
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Pip Gradgrind@PipGradgrind·
@Samuel_Lloyds @AaronBastani Circular, nonsensical argument. Not only do I not think you know much about this stuff, I think you quite literally don't know what you are talking about. Not as in "you don't know what you're on about" - you do not know what it is that you are talking about.
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Samuel Lloyd
Samuel Lloyd@Samuel_Lloyds·
@PipGradgrind @AaronBastani Effectiveness is irrelevant if it's not sustainable, and it clearly wasn't sustainable because it no longer exists. It no longer exists because it relied entirely on central government support.
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Aaron Bastani
Aaron Bastani@AaronBastani·
Just looks like a waste of £5 billion. That could completely transform the direction of 20 medium and small cities. Crazy!
Paul Powlesland@paulpowlesland

@AaronBastani Yep, same in Barking. Was really excited about the money and then found it will only be spent in a couple of tiny parts of the borough. Combined with the chronic overcharging for physical improvements in local government, it’s likely it won’t make much impact at all

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Pip Gradgrind@PipGradgrind·
@Samuel_Lloyds @AaronBastani Compares very well internationally too. You could perhaps read some of the evaluations and come back with an informed view.
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Aaron Bastani
Aaron Bastani@AaronBastani·
The more I learn about the ‘pride in place’ programme, the more the cash seems a huge waste. Near me *one part of one ward* is going to get £20m! Ditto another part of another ward. £40m altogether. I think, for £100m, you could reinvigorate Portsmouth and its economy: fix 3-4 major streets, fix the train stations - and catalyse development around them - have local authority owning some space as an anchor landlord, conservation work, invest for tourism and SMEs. But that is too much like a plan. So instead we get Whitehall looking for disadvantaged places on a map and putting a pin in them “send £20 million there!” For what? They don’t know. It’s confusing national leadership for a spreadsheet. I BELIEVE in effective state investment. But when it’s scattergun, like this, and a poor social and economic return inevitably ensues, you undermine credibility of social democratic and socialist politics.
Steve Reed@SteveReedMP

Clacton has £20m to spend through our transformational Pride in Place programme. The local community has stepped up to decide how to spend the money, but the local MP is awol as usual. What a surprise.

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Pip Gradgrind@PipGradgrind·
@Samuel_Lloyds @AaronBastani There should be. Obviously PiP wouldn't fall into that category, as it's based on the principles of the New Deal for Communities. One of the most successful and rigorously evaluated area-based initiatives ever delivered.
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Samuel Lloyd@Samuel_Lloyds·
@AaronBastani There needs to be a name for nice sounding policy, probably invented by a special advisor, that's completely designed for ministers to talk about, while providing little to no actual benefit.
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Pip Gradgrind@PipGradgrind·
@AaronBastani Long-term funding focused on individual areas, based on the New Deal for Communities programme (very very successful for actual life outcomes)! Scattering £20m over a whole town does nothing but hang up a few hanging baskets etc. NDC is one of the most evaluated programmes ever.
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Pip Gradgrind@PipGradgrind·
@paulpowlesland @AaronBastani Hi Paul, I asked for some details about this the other day but no response. A key part of the Pride in Place programme is that interventions are decided by a local governance structure/board. But you said the council had directed spending to specific projects.
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Paul Powlesland@paulpowlesland·
@AaronBastani Yep, same in Barking. Was really excited about the money and then found it will only be spent in a couple of tiny parts of the borough. Combined with the chronic overcharging for physical improvements in local government, it’s likely it won’t make much impact at all
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Pip Gradgrind@PipGradgrind·
@northumbriana Such a great building. Great shots from so many different angles. And President Carter isn’t bad by me either!
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Dan Jackson@northumbriana·
Howay the lads!
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Dominic Cummings
Dominic Cummings@Dominic2306·
Hey @Morrisons I will never buy ONE thing from you ever again unless this guy, trying to stop shoplifting, is reinstated. RETWEET IF YOU AGREE
Good Morning Britain@GMB

A Morrisons store manager says his life has been completely 'devastated' after he was sacked for confronting a repeated shoplifter.  Sean Egan - who had worked in the Aldridge Morrisons in the West Midlands for 29 years - was escorting the shoplifter out of the store when the thief turned aggressive.

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Pip Gradgrind@PipGradgrind·
@gm_stone Lockheed Martin are investing millions in the region - this is exactly what the mayors should be doing.
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Greg Stone 🔶
Greg Stone 🔶@gm_stone·
Having gone to Japan and come back with sweet FA, the Mayor has gone to Washington to meet Goldman Sachs and will come back with predictable results. She is going to find life significantly harder after May.
North East Updates@NEenglandupdate

🚨Chancellor Rachel Reeves joined North East Mayor Kim McGuinness in Washington DC this week to promote investment in the region at the IMF spring meetings. They met major investors including Lockheed Martin and Goldman Sachs, highlighting opportunities in manufacturing, green

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Paul Powlesland
Paul Powlesland@paulpowlesland·
The government gave millions of pounds of ‘Pride in Place’ funding to my town, Barking. I was genuinely pleased about this as there are so many parts of the town that desperately need money to make them better. I then found out that the local Labour Council had allocated the whole lot to a couple of favoured projects/organisations in only a couple of locations in the borough, without even asking local people what they want the money to he spent on. Much of the money is then likely to be misused or wasted like it had been for many projects in our borough and other adjacent London boroughs. Labour needs to learn to trust that ordinary people know better what they want money spent on in their area than professional politicians do.
Steve Reed@SteveReedMP

Previous governments have given money to deprived areas and told them how to spend it. We are giving them the money and the power to change their own communities for the long term.

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TheHorrorThonk@TheHorrorThonk·
@Johntheduncan Insane that they're equating sex criminals with left wing women. Completely awful that it got published
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John Duncan@Johntheduncan·
God that New Statesman article comparing radical young women to "the manosphere" is truly vile, toxic shit
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Pip Gradgrind@PipGradgrind·
@kitchentowel @Paul_Swinney I don’t think that’s entirely fair though. Don’t know how recent reforms will change things in practice, but under the recent system the strategic case can never, or hardly ever, overcome a “weak” BCR. East-West rail one of the only examples I can think of?
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Ben@kitchentowel·
@Paul_Swinney They keep changing what they say about bcr. As per Lord Hendy at the tsc, bcr is what is used to decide the best way to achieve a strategic aim, it doesn't incorporate effects on housing, business etc, only things directly attributed to transport. In that way, we miss a lot of...
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Ally Fogg@AllyFogg·
@Layo_FH What reasons do you have to believe any Muslims in the Green Party are Islamists?
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Aaron Bastani
Aaron Bastani@AaronBastani·
Seeing fellow brown people successfully hit F-15s and F-35s completely undermines the Saudi worldview, and self image. Such things are meant to be impossible. Hence people in the Middle East are only good for building theme parks & tax havens.
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Pip Gradgrind@PipGradgrind·
@Alex_Niven The Civic Centre is a remarkable building. I get excited whenever I'm inside. Not enough municipal buildings have both a space-age aesthetic AND wood-panelled corridors.
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Alex Niven
Alex Niven@Alex_Niven·
Newcastle's gawky, mostly popularly reviled old Victorian Town Hall (left), demolished to make way for the new Civic Centre in the late 1960s/early 1970s (right). Apropos of absolutely nothing.
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Sandy Tregent
Sandy Tregent@SandyofSuffolk·
So people on benefits get a 6.2% rise. While pensioners who've paid into the system for 40, 50, or 60+ years only get a 4.8% rise. Socialism: rewards the feckless while the contributors suffer.
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