Simon Partridge

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Simon Partridge

@SimonPartridge

Writer/Researcher. Psycho-social effects of boarding schools; adverse childhood experiences; group conflict resolution; inter-national green social democracy.

London N2 Katılım Aralık 2013

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Simon Partridge@SimonPartridge·1h

@redrumlisa I observe the professional middle-class from upper-class perspective. "Hate" seems too strong a word to describe their emotional reaction. Many make a living caring for damaged w/c. Only the w/c can put the labour back into Labour (or a new party). Stop dining out. @TimPendry

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Lisa Mckenzie@redrumlisa·4h

The British left hate the working class they do. They wasted 10 years on Corbyn in the Labour Party while the Torys wrecked the Country the left were fighting each other over Corbyn & identity politics ratger than being an effective opposition- 10 years. Where are the British bourgeois left now down the rabbit hole of Palestine & doing exactly the same thing in the Green Party which they will satisfyingly destroy.

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Simon Partridge@SimonPartridge·5h

@Ezquid Bizarre. It's as if they're already singing from Farage's playbook. Why no question about state education?

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Lord Barham The Wake 🇾🇪🇵🇸@Ezquid·6h

Who the fuck thinks the NHS makes a profit? Who did the IEA ask? x.com/iealondon/stat…

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📊 On average, Brits think the NHS makes a 34% profit. It doesn't make any. Supermarkets profits are estimated at 50%. The reality: 2–4%. Voters think energy companies make 57%. The reality: -5% to 15%. We are significantly overestimating how much companies profit.

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Simon Partridge@SimonPartridge·6h

@ProfHall1955 @JamesRenquist @SexOffenderX @baylissbaghdad @PMarlowe1939 @ProfSteveKeen BANCOR - please tell us more.

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Steve Hall@ProfHall1955·6h

@JamesRenquist @SexOffenderX @baylissbaghdad @SimonPartridge @PMarlowe1939 @ProfSteveKeen Tend to agree....

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Chris Bayliss@baylissbaghdad·2d

This is a highly original, brilliantly written and disturbingly persuasive piece by @PMarlowe1939 about bond markets, and how nations 'in hock' to them have to navigate fiscal policy differently. Highly recommended reading. thecritic.co.uk/im-worried-abo…

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Simon Partridge@SimonPartridge·6h

@OBEhizele All new technologies are potentially harmful - e.g. the motor car; mobile phone. Perhaps need to be more careful with AI because it appears to encroach on our species' thinking & reflecting capacity. Though judging by a lot on X that's not v good, it might improve it 😉

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Zelex@OBEhizele·6h

@SimonPartridge Yes. AI is no inherently "wrong" but it's about how, where and when one uses it. It can certainly help, but I also think it requires one to be "formed" to get the best use of it. If you haven't developed critical thinking skills etc, it may not be the best.

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Zelex@OBEhizele·7h

Early last year, I led a workshop at a theology conference on this very issue. I genuinely believe it is one of the most profound challenges facing the Church this century. It is forcing us to ask what the human person is made for, and what true flourishing actually looks like.

Pope Leo XIV@Pontifex

As evidenced by the unbridled promotion and implementation of technology at the expense of human dignity, we are truly experiencing an eclipse of the sense of what it means to be human. It is imperative to recover an understanding of the true meaning and grandeur of humanity as intended by God. It is in this sense that the challenge we currently face is not technological, but anthropological, and it is my hope that the Encyclical Letter to be published within a few days will contribute to answering this challenge.

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Simon Partridge@SimonPartridge·8h

@meadwaj Could the Co-op be helped to buy them?

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James Meadway@meadwaj·9h

Nationalise Morrisons, use it as the foundation for a new, publicly-owned grocery store selling high quality, affordable food. National-level version of the Mamdani plan in New York. Need to think big in a world with repeated, major shocks to essential supply systems.

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Simon Partridge@SimonPartridge·9h

@ProfHall1955 @IsabelPat1886 @baylissbaghdad @PMarlowe1939 @ProfSteveKeen Yes, I see. 1886-1961! I think OfCom should insist that false name posters are banned.

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Steve Hall@ProfHall1955·10h

@SimonPartridge @IsabelPat1886 @baylissbaghdad @PMarlowe1939 @ProfSteveKeen Simon, this 'Isabel Paterson' is a troll/bot account. Just block.

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Simon Partridge@SimonPartridge·10h

@IsabelPat1886 @baylissbaghdad @PMarlowe1939 @ProfSteveKeen @ProfHall1955 None. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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Isabel Paterson@IsabelPat1886·11h

@SimonPartridge @baylissbaghdad @PMarlowe1939 @ProfSteveKeen @ProfHall1955 It's a good analogy. Instant gratification, followed by "I don't want to be dominated by the utterly predictable consequences". Like blaming the barman for your hangover and bar tab. How many analogies do you want?

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Simon Partridge@SimonPartridge·11h

@TimPendry Thanks for clarification. Can you indicate what the State should be doing better. Like, do you mean strategic investment...

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Tim Pendry@TimPendry·11h

@SimonPartridge @UnionJacked__ Not taking on the unions ... I did not say that at all. Taking on the maladministration at national and local government level ... you are not listening but presuming. The problem lies only a little with bureaucratic unionism. The bulk of the problem lies with the State mechanism

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Union Jacked 🇬🇧 💪 🌹@UnionJacked__·2d

Aside from the leadership there are still a lot of good people in Labour who would encourage radical lefties like myself to rejoin. Not everyone is a Labour right headbanger. Most members are actually on the soft left or left. That’s why Streeting polls at 4% with the members. We’re not actually a right wing party. Just the leadership and control of the party needs a clear out. 🌹

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Simon Partridge@SimonPartridge·11h

@TimPendry @UnionJacked__ "Taking on", yr words. Didn't Heath try this in the 1970s & was scuppered by the likes of Scargill? The then powerful CPGB seemed to think it could bankrupt UK into socialism. So it seemed to me. The Strategy is...

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Tim Pendry@TimPendry·11h

@SimonPartridge @UnionJacked__ There is no need 'to take them on', far from it ... they are demoralised already. Public sector workers can be brought into the strategy. The problem lies with an inept corporatism that by-passes ordinary workers - the legacy of Blairism which Burnham represents.

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Simon Partridge@SimonPartridge·11h

@TimPendry @UnionJacked__ Yep, buying a bit of public approval before the bad news really lands. Do you really think taking on white collar unions will solve our socio-economic problems?

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Tim Pendry@TimPendry·13h

@SimonPartridge @UnionJacked__ He can't ... did you see last month's ridiculous borrowing figures while the Government panics with short term state subsidies ... to theme parks! The only way forward is taking on the white collar inefficiencies of public service but Labour cannot do that.

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Simon Partridge@SimonPartridge·11h

@IsabelPat1886 @baylissbaghdad @PMarlowe1939 @ProfSteveKeen @ProfHall1955 Why is X the home of false analogies? The late capitalist system is nothing like a "hill". I just pointed up our UK politics is dominated by bond markets which call the shots. It doesn't matter who the electorate vote for.

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Isabel Paterson@IsabelPat1886·14h

@SimonPartridge @baylissbaghdad @PMarlowe1939 @ProfSteveKeen @ProfHall1955 There are choices. They involve cutting spending. Your question is like "I slid down a hill. It was fun. Now I'm blaming the hill because it's not giving me the choice not to climb back up, which won't be fun". Climb the hill and don't do it again. Don't elect incompetents

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Simon Partridge@SimonPartridge·22h

@UnionJacked__ In that case rather like the Reform candidate.

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Union Jacked 🇬🇧 💪 🌹@UnionJacked__·23h

The Green candidate had been retweeting neo Nazi accounts and positing anti semitic conspiracy theories. That’s genuinely why he’s had to resign immediately. You couldn’t make it up 🤦‍♂️ 🤦‍♂️ But good news for Burnham!

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Simon Partridge@SimonPartridge·22h

@w_s_gosset @baylissbaghdad @PMarlowe1939 @ProfSteveKeen @ProfHall1955 You said it: Actually, they're just along for the ride. I think in your heart you know it's a big con. There's a whole bunch of financial manipulators whose time is nearly up. A few bold politicians & the house of cards collapses. Nationalise Thames Water - it's coming...

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W.S. Gosset@w_s_gosset·23h

@SimonPartridge @baylissbaghdad @PMarlowe1939 @ProfSteveKeen @ProfHall1955 Your statement is equivalent to sneering that Formula One Pit Crews are jobsworths, because "they're just holding a spanner. Or a fuel nozzle. For god's sake, *I've* got a spanner I can hold. *I* fill *my* car up *routinely*. IT'S EXACTLY THE SAME THING."

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Simon Partridge@SimonPartridge·1d

@UnionJacked__ Possibly, Iraq, PFI & Gaza.

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Union Jacked 🇬🇧 💪 🌹@UnionJacked__·1d

Still struggling to understand why Polanski who was a right wing, pro austerity Zionist liberal NOT THAT LONG AGO gets a free pass from the left. Whereas, Burnham who was a minister in the Blair and Brown government 20 years ago doesn’t!!! And that’s despite 10 years as a left wing mayor doing left wing stuff??? MADNESS 🤪

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Simon Partridge@SimonPartridge·1d

@w_s_gosset @baylissbaghdad @PMarlowe1939 @ProfSteveKeen @ProfHall1955 In other words a bunch of jobsworths.

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W.S. Gosset@w_s_gosset·1d

@SimonPartridge @baylissbaghdad @PMarlowe1939 @ProfSteveKeen @ProfHall1955 Another way of looking at it: Read Aesop's fable of the fly sitting on a chariot, boasting about how much dust he's kicking up. The fly is the bond traders. If you just listened to THEM, you'd think they're the ones kicking up the dust. Actually, they're just along for the ride.

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Simon Partridge@SimonPartridge·1d

@Baron_Douro @baylissbaghdad @PMarlowe1939 @ProfSteveKeen @ProfHall1955 Come on, Baron (of whatever). The game is nearly up. It's basically a Ponzi scheme for traders - mostly AI run now.

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Baron Douro@Baron_Douro·1d

@SimonPartridge @baylissbaghdad @PMarlowe1939 @ProfSteveKeen @ProfHall1955 and (2) BoE actually deals with a much smaller group of banks who then sell bonds on to others who want to hold them. The bond market as such is a secondary market organised by investors, not the government. But without it they couldn't borrow so much, so easily and so cheaply

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Simon Partridge@SimonPartridge·1d

@RichardJMurphy Fiddling while the UK burns... @ProfHall1955

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Richard Murphy@RichardJMurphy·1d

We're heading for economic meltdown, and Reeves is fiddling with the VAT on museum visits. As exercises akin to rearranging the deckchairs go, this one takes some beating.

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Simon Partridge@SimonPartridge·1d

@Baron_Douro @baylissbaghdad @PMarlowe1939 @ProfSteveKeen @ProfHall1955 If that's the case, how about cutting out the middle man?

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Baron Douro@Baron_Douro·1d

@SimonPartridge @baylissbaghdad @PMarlowe1939 @ProfSteveKeen @ProfHall1955 The bond market is basically your pension fund manager lending your savings to the government in return for interest which pays your pension If a government spending spree will cause inflation they ask for higher interest to keep ahead of inflation Pretty much, that's it

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Simon Partridge@SimonPartridge·1d

@ProfHall1955 @nicransome @baylissbaghdad @PMarlowe1939 @ProfSteveKeen @Ezquid In Lady Windemere’s Fan, Oscar Wilde has Lord Darlington say a cynic is "a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing".

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Steve Hall@ProfHall1955·1d

A bit of both, I think. Enough functional intelligence to perform minor roles on trading desks but not enough for broad systemic understanding. Evil, yes - some are just amoral c*nts while others see the social world as naturally brutal in the Hobbesian sense - but of course they don't want his state authority.

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@redrumlisa @TimPendry @Ezquid @ProfHall1955 @JamesRenquist @SexOffenderX @baylissbaghdad @PMarlowe1939