SquareLeg50

@markrwilliamson Hi Mark. Any update on where you got the 25.5 million litre figure from?

@markrwilliamson Where do you get the 25.5 million litres of water figure from, please?

@SamuelVimes10 That's certainly a *very* curious friendship.

Amazing he's still hanging around with Dalrymple considering his recent derangement

@DRJO1965 @DanielJHannan @RhonddaBryant @BrexitStewart That's very misleading. The Johnson quote you're referring to was actually him quoting the words of the German version of the CBI. Read for yourself here: telegraph.co.uk/politics/2016/…

@DanielJHannan @RhonddaBryant @BrexitStewart "But by 2016, people plainly WERE talking about leaving the single market." Another lie:

A blatant lie from @RhonddaBryant. No one argued that we could leave the EU and remain the Single Market.

@Run2Swim50 @afneil He had *pulled his own teeth out with pliers* prior to his death. I think he may have had rather bigger problems than not being able to feed himself.

@SquareLeg50 @afneil "The medical cause of death was recorded as starvation." bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Not a single piece of data in this to substantiate the starvation claim.

@PaulMaddison121 @afneil Congratulations, at least you've conceded that people who use food banks are not in fact "starving".

So the fact they had to use a food banks is not data ? To use a food bank you have to approach someone for help who assess you and give you a voucher if you are in need So the data on foodbank, whilst not suggesting actual starvation, does suggestion that there where 2.6 million people who needed food support to stop them going hungry

@saebruary @afneil Are fifty-five million people starving in Britain?

@afneil If the stats are invisible, the empty stomachs aren’t, 55 million people can’t hide hunger behind a missing spreadsheet.

These stories are about (1) someone who had a diagnosed personality disorder who killed herself; (2) a very ill man who used pliers to pull his own teeth out; and (3) a woman who killed herself when her benefits were stopped. What does this have to do with starvation? These were all very, very ill people who were failed by the mental health system. None of them were involuntarily starving.

@afneil BBC: "Deaths of people on benefits prompt inquiry call" bbc.co.uk/news/uk-568197…

@ADavies61517 @afneil Funnily enough, that's exactly what the MMT idiots do too!

@afneil You never produce data to substaniate your statements.

@PQuestion24804 @afneil Starvation strikes me as a gigantic failure of the British state. Malnutrition strikes me as a parental failing. But very glad to see there's no starvation in Britain!

@afneil Malnutrition would be more accurate.. there is lots of evidence of lots of that. Shameful right?

@DamCou Clowns, all.

@GoldRobin_11 @afneil Nowhere in that report is starvation mentioned. What it does mention is that those people who experience "severe food insecurity" are those who feel hunger as a result. Hunger is not starvation.

@afneil publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cm… I know you’ll ignore me now

So no evidence …

@julianHjessop @DavidGHFrost Wow! That crowd is almost one-deep in places!

Literally dozens on the Rejoin EU March in London today... 👍🇪🇺

@Glinner Every time I see one of these creatures properly interrogated on their beliefs, I am reminded of Werner Herzog's observations on chickens. Every time. youtube.com/watch?v=QhMo4W…

I'd love this guy to interview Sally Rooney.

@IanDalton91488 @Handre Insulting to whom? It's a frequently used phrase by the Irish themselves every time new GDP figures are released.

@Handre Leprechaun economics? Do you understand how incredibly insulting that is?

Two small island economies blew up in 2008. Iceland and Ireland. Their names differ by one letter, and their handling of the crisis differed by everything that matters. Iceland's three big banks, Kaupthing, Landsbanki, and Glitnir, had grown assets to roughly ten times the country's GDP by 2008. Pure credit-fueled madness. When the music stopped, the Icelandic government did the unthinkable: it let them fail. Bondholders ate the losses. The state refused to socialize private bank debt onto 320,000 citizens who never signed up for it. Capital controls went up, the króna collapsed, and the politicians actually prosecuted bankers. Twenty-six of them went to prison. Sigurður Einarsson and Hreiðar Már Sigurðsson, the men who ran Kaupthing, served real sentences. Ireland took the opposite road. In September 2008, the Irish government issued a blanket guarantee covering the liabilities of its major banks, including Anglo Irish Bank, a property-lending casino that should have been allowed to die in peace. The taxpayer absorbed the bill. By the time the rescue ended, Ireland had poured around 64 billion euros into its banks, roughly 40 percent of GDP. The state took on private gambling debts, then went to the Troika in 2010 hat in hand for an 85 billion euro bailout, and accepted years of austerity to pay for losses it had no business owning. Both economies recovered. Both eventually grew again. The difference is who paid and who learned. Iceland made creditors and reckless bankers bear the consequences of their own decisions, which is the entire point of capitalism: profit and loss, not profit and bailout. Ireland protected the people who made the bad bets and handed the invoice to schoolteachers and shopkeepers. You will hear economists call Ireland's GDP rebound a triumph (much of that "growth" is multinational accounting fiction, Leprechaun economics, but that's another lesson). What they skip is the moral architecture. When you guarantee bank liabilities, you abolish the discipline that makes markets work. You tell every banker in the country that downside is optional. Iceland jailed its bankers. Ireland reimbursed theirs.

He takes it from anywhere. Defence is the sine qua non, the one utterly non-negotiable responsibility of the state. Everything else is secondary, including welfare, education and the NHS. We understood this once. Alas we no longer remember it. It will be a very expensive lesson to learn again.

@SquareLeg50 @timothy_stanley But where does he take this money from? Education? Health? There are no easy options in this game unfortunately

Once again - here in his refusal to bankroll whatever gold plated death ship the military asks for - the PM rises in my estimation.

@PolemicTMM That was a lovely read, thank you.

Today's post. Notes from the Sporades polemicpaine.substack.com/p/notes-from-t… On sailing, boats, crew dynamics and the public exam of mooring.

@hiltonholloway @DavidGHFrost Same in Godalming. Most amusingly, it's the same story round Fraser's way in Twickenham where Waitrose now routinely protect steaks. The kicker is that Twickenham no longer has a nick. Maybe that's why Fraser's stats are so dodgy?

The odd thing is, that even here in sleepy Midhurst, Sainsbury's is being fortified. M&S Haslemere moved the steak well away from the entrance. I can even smell cannabis at night now. No graph will convince me enshittification is not rampant.

@queeraye @it_is_fareed They take their children out of school after primary. The only people denying them opportunities are themselves.

@it_is_fareed Damn it’s almost like being constantly criminalised and having all opportunities and support due a citizen denied to you make you disinvested in behaving well in society or something. Crazy.