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Ben Watts Stanfield

@ben_pwatts

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Katılım Temmuz 2012
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Claire Coutinho
Claire Coutinho@ClaireCoutinho·
Today @neso_energy published the advice that @Ed_Miliband commissioned on his target to decarbonise the electricity grid by 2030. I am disappointed but not surprised that he has not come to the House to answer our questions. Because it poses very difficult questions for Labour…
National Energy System Operator@neso_energy

We’ve published our independent analysis to advise @energygovuk how to achieve Clean Power in 2030. Read about the challenging hurdles that need to be overcome and the benefits to consumers, the economy and society, including our energy security that doing so could deliver. 👇

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Mara Yamauchi
Mara Yamauchi@mara_yamauchi·
At least six males ran in the Female category in UK parkrun today. One got 1st Female. In one year of running in the Female category, he’s got 1st Female nearly 40 times. In nearly five years of running in the Male category previously, he got 1st Male once. Clear evidence of…
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Ben Watts Stanfield
Ben Watts Stanfield@ben_pwatts·
@CdnMnrchyRspctr You can’t see the issue is that it’s both? They gets handouts from the government and make their own money. I’m pretty sure HMRC wouldn’t be so happy with benefit recipients renting out property.
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Canadian Monarchy Respecter 🇨🇦👑🍁🇻🇦
Canadian Monarchy Respecter 🇨🇦👑🍁🇻🇦@CdnMnrchyRspctr·
"WAAAH the king costs us eleventy bajillion tax dollars! (He doesnt btw) He should make his own money" "Waaahh!!! The king is using his land to make money!!" These are not serious people.
Channel 4 Dispatches@C4Dispatches

The Royals make millions in profit each year, but this has always been shrouded in secrecy, until now. A joint @C4Dispatches and @thetimes investigation reveals that the King and Prince William are receiving public money through leasing property to public services like the NHS.

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Ben Watts Stanfield
Ben Watts Stanfield@ben_pwatts·
@markjenk @bbclaurak It’s paid over 10 years. If someone offered me a £100k interest free, 10 year mortgage to take over a £3m farm, I would be pretty happy with that deal.
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Emma 💛💙🇩🇰🇬🇧🇪🇺
Emma 💛💙🇩🇰🇬🇧🇪🇺@MonkEmma·
And why can I find all this out with literally one Google search and yet @PolitlcsUK report it as fact? And everyone in the comments falls for it and bleats the same nonsense about Labour…… I wish we had a more objective Press! 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️ 10/10
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Emma 💛💙🇩🇰🇬🇧🇪🇺
Emma 💛💙🇩🇰🇬🇧🇪🇺@MonkEmma·
Explain this to me like I’m a child 🙏🏼 How is adding £2 to the cost of a flight going to lead to a fall of 10% in passenger numbers?? Oh wait…… Nevermind, just found a fascinating article that might shine a light on this🧐 #Ryanair 1/10 🧵
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Henry Hill
Henry Hill@HCH_Hill·
Isn't sympathy striking illegal?
Steven Swinford@Steven_Swinford

Great exclusive from @breeallegretti A cabinet minister has refused to work from his Whitehall office in a show of support for striking staff who work in the building Ian Murray, the Scotland secretary, missed a meeting with senior business leaders this week at his Dover House office in Westminster He skipped the event on Tuesday, which was organised by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), on the eve of the chancellor’s budget Murray believed that crossing the picket line would undermine security guards thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

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Ben Watts Stanfield
Ben Watts Stanfield@ben_pwatts·
@adb0wen UK public spending on healthcare as a % of GDP is almost the same as Americas. Private and public combined it is lower. If we privatised the NHS, our healthcare spend wouldn’t suddenly drop to zero - people still need to be kept healthy. This is a moronic post.
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Ben Watts Stanfield
Ben Watts Stanfield@ben_pwatts·
@93vintagejones UK public spending on healthcare as a % of GDP is almost the same as Americas. Private and public combined it is lower. If we privatised the NHS, our healthcare spend wouldn’t suddenly drop to zero - people still need to be kept healthy. This is a moronic post.
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Tom Jones
Tom Jones@93vintagejones·
Britain is a healthcare system with a country attached.
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Ben Watts Stanfield
Ben Watts Stanfield@ben_pwatts·
@sturdyAlex The media stopped us having honest conversations about taxation during the election, and now they’re unable to normalise to international markets or judge reactions over a time period longer than 30 seconds. So so dangerous.
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Ben Watts Stanfield
Ben Watts Stanfield@ben_pwatts·
@GoodwinMJ Except, they told us everything. Pretty poor coverup, to publicly reveal info you’re trying to keep hidden.
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Ben Watts Stanfield
Ben Watts Stanfield@ben_pwatts·
@OllyMetcalfe Literally your first tweet says what we’re getting for £770m of the revenue. How have you forgotten that by the last tweet? Absolutely addled.
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Olly
Olly@oIIyjm·
13/13: When all things are considered, from the government's original £1.7bn, we are left with tens of thousands at best, although more than likely zero or a net cost. That's £0 for our ~25k+ state schools despite all of the upheaval. How ridiculous. 🧵🔚
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Olly
Olly@oIIyjm·
🧵1/13: This is how @UKLabour's estimated £1.7bn raised from private school-VAT quickly becomes £0 ⬇️ Today, the OBR has revealed that Labour's estimate does not include any additional state spending resulting from the policy. That means it does not account for additional...
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Lewis Goodall
Lewis Goodall@lewis_goodall·
JD Vance on: “I’m not going to comment on the specifics of the joke [about Puerto Rico], but I think that we have to stop getting so offended at every little thing in the United States of America. I’m so over it.”
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Ben Watts Stanfield
Ben Watts Stanfield@ben_pwatts·
@kallashnykov @K8wxyz What a dumb take. None of those dishes are processed. Denmark has one of the highest rated restaurants in the world, Noma, that exclusively uses local ingredients. You are so completely unaware.
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Internationalist ☭
Internationalist ☭@kallashnykov·
@K8wxyz The meat in the first image and the pie tbh. It's just objectively true that nordic countries have worse food because of material conditions, it's not hating on the food cultures there or something.
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Ben Watts Stanfield
Ben Watts Stanfield@ben_pwatts·
@JonTolleyTweets TBF, what I wrote may be utter rubbish. I think all political parties failed us by not having honest conversations about what taxation would be needed during the election. Now we are fiddling at the edges with unclear outcomes because straightforward changes were ruled out.
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J O N _ T O L L E Y
J O N _ T O L L E Y@JonTolleyTweets·
@ben_pwatts not heard it explained like that so thanks still find it hard to take but appreciate I’m too involved to see it from that perspective
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J O N _ T O L L E Y
J O N _ T O L L E Y@JonTolleyTweets·
staff costs are our biggest cost other than stock lots of mooted proposals in the budget I agree with, some I don’t but that’s life, but I don’t see how an Employer’s National Insurance rise can tie in with a government whose main priority is Growth. show me I’m wrong
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Ben Watts Stanfield@ben_pwatts·
@JonTolleyTweets I don’t think it’s the aim, but I think that saying it is an anti-growth policy ignores second/third-order effects. Long-term growth = higher wages. In my mind, the NI giveaway was “fake” money in my pocket because it would have a greater negative impact on my long-term wages.
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Ben Watts Stanfield
Ben Watts Stanfield@ben_pwatts·
@JonTolleyTweets Also, the NI cut was unsustainable. Growth needs a stable state, especially health, transport and housing. You can’t have growth with broken foundations, and the 4% NI cut was a jackhammer. It’s just the Tories and MSM didn’t allow an honest conversation about taxation.
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Ben Watts Stanfield
Ben Watts Stanfield@ben_pwatts·
@JonTolleyTweets Employer NI increases, wage growth decreases, inflation decreases, BOE drops the rate quicker, borrowing becomes cheaper, companies borrow more and growth increases. I don’t think that will happen, but each step follows what people say does happen.
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Ben Watts Stanfield
Ben Watts Stanfield@ben_pwatts·
@karunchandhok Surely once you’re off the track, you can be overtaken off the track? That would solve this issue and seems most fair to me. Go so deep you can’t make the turn in time? Lose protection that being on the circuit off you’d.
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Karun Chandhok
Karun Chandhok@karunchandhok·
IMO if the driver on the outside is more than 75% alongside - as Lando was - then they should be entitled to 1 cars width on the exit of the corner, but currently that is not in the rules. The way the current rules are, Max pushed the boundaries but he’s allowed to. If there was gravel or a wall along the outside of the kerb, then Lando wouldn’t have tried to hang on for so long out there. Fundamentally, he overtook another car while off track and should have given the place back straight away
Brad Philpot 🏎🏁@BradleyPhilpot

@karunchandhok Lando only went off because Max went 4 wheels off. The “ahead at the apex” rule is irrelevant if the defending car forces the attacker off and himself can’t stay on track. Otherwise every overtake can be stopped this way. Do you have a different angle on that?

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Ben Watts Stanfield
Ben Watts Stanfield@ben_pwatts·
@SW_Help hi, my MIL is on a train at Waterloo waiting for a driver to go to Petersfield. The previous one was cancelled. Do you know when it will be leaving and if she can get home tonight? What options are there? Will SWR pay for a taxi?
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Ben Watts Stanfield
Ben Watts Stanfield@ben_pwatts·
@youngvulgarian @RMCunliffe I disagree with this - London is teaming with great things to do for <£25pp. Check out Top Secret Comedy, DICE for gigs, smaller theatres like Kingston Rose or Wilton’s, BBC Proms standing, women’s football matches, audience tv shows and 100s more.
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