Robert Yeo

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Some very sad news to bring you. Liverpool and Portugal footballer Diogo Jota and his brother Andre Silva have died in a car crash in Spain. Our thoughts are with their family and friends.

BREAKING NEWS: Desperately sad news coming out of Spain that Liverpool and Portugal star Diogo Jota, 28, has died, along with his brother, in a car accident in Zamora. He only got married 2 weeks ago. Heart-breaking. 💔

@FT It’s a start. But clearly doesn’t go far enough. We need to ask what incentives are guiding the people who are updating the rules and allowing a lot of these roles to remain on the list.

UK visa revamp allows lower-skilled office workers to come to Britain on.ft.com/44oxT3K

This is going to be incredibly unpopular with the chattering classes but this entire Rachel Reeves sop fest is exactly why this country is screwed. We used to have politicians who fought in wars like Churchill or faced relentless criticism for making important and difficult decisions with grace and charm like Thatcher. Now we have people crying on the front bench because "according to several of her allies the Speaker had been abrupt with the chancellor in a meeting before Prime Minister's Questions." Oh God, he wasn't "abrupt" with her, was he? Fuck my life. I do not want people holding the great offices of state who can't handle the pressure. This is absolutely pathetic and all of you who are encouraging this are complicit in the continued elevation of mediocrities to positions of power.

@tomhfh @the_tpa @thetimes These are symptoms of shoddy legislation. In this case isn't it The Care Act (2014) and ‘parity of esteem’… the Uniparty in action and the Tories complicit.

Enhanced PIP payments for autism 2019: 26,256 2025: 114,211 Anxiety and depression 2019: 23,647 2025: 110,075 ADHD 2019: 4,233 2025: 37,339 'Obesity' 2019: 2,346 2025: 11,228 Via @the_tpa in @thetimes

@NJ_Timothy @CharlotteCGill We are witnessing The Peter Principle in real time action across the cabinet.

I feel sorry for the Chancellor - but she is the author of her own misfortune. In the Budget she increased spending eight times more than she had promised. She gave herself no fiscal headroom. The emergency welfare cuts were written on the back of an envelope. She’s finished.

@RichardJMurphy Tbf with the humidity over night in the south east no one slept well!

Wow. Rachel Reeves has obviously either a) not slept or b) has been crying all morning or c) both. She really does need to ask why she is doing this. She looks broken.

LinkedIn. A new message notification. Nick, 30 ans, clicks it open. "Nick hi! It's Mick, 30 ans, calling from a recruitment agency here in Dubai! "Thanks for accepting my connection request. Have you got a moment to talk?" 1/7

A direct comparison of the house building rules and regulations by country is an obvious next step. My hypothesis is that we have far more of them and hence the comparison would allow us to use the 80/20 rule to great effect. Obviously with the necessary political will to deliver follow on execution: repeal, revise legislation, delete the 20% of rules and regulations causing 80% of the problems and delays.

The average European country has almost 100 per capita than Britain. In fact, among comparable European countries only Ireland has fewer homes per capita than the UK.

Every year for the last 40 years, France has built more homes per person than England. If England built at French levels, it would have almost 3 million more homes. French homes are, on average, a fifth bigger that English homes.

@ZiaYusufUK If it encourages more people to invest in cheap global equity trackers in a stocks and shares ISA then it is ok. Cash ISAs are not the way to generate wealth at scale.

Unbelievably stupid from Reeves. Punish the segment of society who are actually saving so they won’t be a leach on the state. She is the worst chancellor of all time.

Watch the jobs disappear - outsourced, automated, or never created in the first place. Who on earth would want to invest and employ staff in Britain under this socialist, anti- business government?

Six games. Five goals. 👏 What a tournament from Harvey 💎

The rise of socialist politicians is not the problem, it's a symptom. And until the real problems are addressed, it’s Mamdanis all the way down. konstantinkisin.com/p/the-real-rea…

@bindelj I’m really confused. Am I supposed to feel insulted? That’s the coolest I’ve ever looked in my life.

Keir Starmer u-turns on disability benefit cuts

Londoners are paying an estimated £216 extra a month in rent because of immigration levels since 2001. Across England that figure is approximately £132. Mass migration is making young people poorer.

@MichaelAArouet is this a true apples to apples comparison that includes 401k pensions in the US and private defined contribution pensions in the UK?

One of the reasons why Americans are wealthier than Europeans is that they invest in equities. Europeans keep their life savings in bank accounts earning them negative real interests, but then complain about inequality. Folks, you need to take some risk if you want to get wealthy

Higher taxes do not solve fiscal problems, they just reduce growth potential. Structural reforms and deregulation reduce fiscal imbalances. Why do socialists always choose higher taxes?

isn’t this a somewhat inevitable unintended consequence of the “broken social contract”? a consequence Peter Thiel highlighted in 2020 in dialogue with Zuck and co. Here in the UK we have had (and it still continues at pace): 1) the Uniparty politicians bribing elderly voters 2) unfetted spending on immigration 3) the incumbents (boomers) blocking new entrants at all stages of their lives

The fastest rising age group on sickness benefits is 25-34 year olds: up 69% in just five years

This sums it up. The welfare reform plan doesn’t do enough to help people back into work - or anything to stop the calamity of 2,000 a day being signed on to sickness benefits.

@thetimes This smacks of the managerial class saying we know how to fix the system because we were once part of it.

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