Michel De Lecq

@DrunkDividends Did your father not tell you a fool and his money is easily parted.

I HATE YOU ELON MUSK I HATE YOU SPACEX I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOO I HATE EVERYONE SAID IT WAS GOING TO THE MOON SO I PUT 18K INTO CALLS THAT WAS MY LIFE SAVINGS AND THE MONEY I WAS GOING TO USE FOR COLLEGE I DONT KNOW WHATCTO DO ANYMORE

@nfergus Asking what did Brexit achieve is like asking what did my divorce achieve. The future depends on your own choices . The UK has made generally poor decisions over last 10 years, these choices are the problem, not the divorce.

Ten years on, what did Brexit really achieve? "This is not the first time in British history that the stability of party politics has been disrupted by a big and divisive issue. But, unlike the others, Britain’s battle over Europe appears to have shattered completely the old two-party system." Why?

@shouq_al90149 Water bottle

Can you spot it??

@Neets21 The Labour Party got rid of him. The people would have had to wait another 3 years.

After a 14 year Tory circus where they turned Britain into a joke, finally the grown up was in the room. It seems Brits have got so used to jokers they can’t recognise the real deal, aided and abetted by the worst hounding of a PM I’ve ever known. Embarrassing 🙄 #Starmer

@gorbalsgoebbels Tell that to the fathers of the 14 year olds being penetrated with baseball bats as a consequence of highly organised gangs across the nation.

This all started with Musk & grooming gang bullshit he stirred up. Then our media ran with anything making mountains out of molehills. It was a witch-hunt. Never seen anything like it. They will be celebrating. The media won. Who will be next? Our democracy is under threat.

@SophieP25397 Not new ground at all. Margaret Thatcher was challenged & removed by her party in a similar way and was never involved in scandal.

Whatever one thinks of Starmer, a prime minister being forced to resign simply for being unpopular, rather than as a result of any scandal or specific or policy disaster, breaks new ground. But this is where we are now.

@matthewsyed Everyone loathes lawyers!

Starmer was hated. Says far more about the electorate than the man. Impossible to govern when people want welfare, triple lock, tax loopholes, NIMBYist vetoes, while also hating the low growth, high debt economy this entails. Starmer was a good man leading an ungovernable country

@Frockbird People are unhappy because they are getting ever poorer. The gov of the day panic, replace the leader so they can get re- elected. Con/ Lab etc same. To reverse this, you’d need very bold / hard changes, not happening - so expect the pattern to continue.

I just don’t understand how this has happened.Starmer doesn’t set the world on fire as regards to charisma. So what! I don’t need Boris johnson mark 2, looking like a clown and behaving like a clown. I want a serious PM, respected internationally and quietly getting things done.

Genuinely, socialism is the best sounding system. It makes perfect sense for a society to work together to elevate the living standards of everyone together. It makes sense that if someone builds something of enormous value, we accept that it was inevitable that it would have been created at some point and that it was society as a whole that went into the discovery. It seems fair that we would all accept that people have vastly different abilities that yield very different commercial value. How unfair that the person who is naturally good at negotiating a roll-up acquisition strategy is wildly more rewarded than the nurse who returns someone to health or who allows someone to die with dignity. Honestly, I see it. I understand it. The issue is that we are primates running on ancient software. We don’t do stuff for the collective good, we do stuff for our kids. The person who strives for an A on the exam doesn’t study if the grades are equalised. The entrepreneur doesn’t start the company when half the rewards are redistributed to those who didn’t - even though they couldn’t. We’re happy sharing to an extent but we’re not content to put it all in the pot. We’re happy to help those who clearly cannot survive on their own but we’re not happy supporting those who don’t want to work or who struggle to get motivated or focused. Socialism is the smartest system but it doesn’t actually work and has never worked. Really smart people like socialism because they can see how much better society could be … if only it worked. Even John Lennon kept the royalties to Imagine. His heirs will never need to work again from that one song alone. If he truly believed what he was saying, he would declare that it belongs to “all the people living for today”. Capitalists accept human nature. We know there is a better way but we know it’s out of reach. We understand that if you can harness self interest in a pro-social way you will lift living standards enormously. The restaurant owner will feed the village not because it’s good for society but because it’s good for his kids… either way the village is fed. John Lennon will write uplifting songs … but only if he owns the rights. The most important part about capitalism isn’t that it’s better - it’s not. It’s that it actually works in the real world.

@georgebernhard @JohnCrookes7 Worse only from the perspective that had they not been so pathetically weak, they would not have ushered in what we have today..

@de_lecq @JohnCrookes7 Hogwash; we all remember the Sunak, Truss, and Johnson administrations.

Everyone with more than a modicum of intelligence can see that Starmer is far from being Britains worst Prime Minister. He has made very few mistakes of any consequence and has achieved a great deal, turning round the mess left by the Tories. He is one of the best the UK has had.

@ArmchairAdml We have become completely hopeless at risk & reward. Who says 0.05%? A group of statisticians with PhD’s making data assumptions in a vacuum. Momentum- and balls what UK needs. Concord next gen should still be flying.

A third runway at Heathrow would only add 0.05%, so let’s not bother, ignoring all the companies that would benefit. Building nuclear power stations takes too long, let’s not bother and continue buying Russian gas. This mentality is why we’re in the shit. Build the sodding runway.

@ThatG4m China?

Which football club is this?

@ABridgen Sure, something to blame for the the decline that has no relevance to it. That’s politics in a “ democracy” today, it’s become so dreary & predictable- what’s the point.

💥Huge demonstration in London demanding the UK rejoins the EU. There are literally dozens of activists attending lol. 🇬🇧

@newstart_2024 Anyone who is religious - and applying everyone and to all religions, requires belief in the supernatural.

JD Vance just made a striking point on Steven Bartlett’s podcast: He fully believes that Jesus Christ, a Jewish man 2,000 years ago, was crucified and rose from the dead… and he also thinks aliens could be real. He’s spoken to people involved in exorcisms, had unexplained experiences (like a lightbulb exploding right after his grandmother died), and says there’s “weird shit out there” that pure hyper-rational thinking can’t explain. I absolutely agree with him. Do you believe in the resurrection of Jesus, the existence of aliens, both, or neither?

@RuthMayorcas @Nicklezard You’re fundamentally mistaken Ruth, broadly speaking this century alone about 1.4b people have been lifted from extrem poverty via systems of capitalism & enterprise - nothing like that in human history . That is not a failure is it?

@de_lecq @Nicklezard If you don’t know without having it explained you’ve clearly no idea that the so called trickle down theory has been a failure. To help you think rise in food banks alone. Or universal credit.

Could someone explain to me, as if to a child, how and why Starmer is a worse PM than - to go with recent memory - Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, and Sunak

@Jassmini2 Remote

Something is wrong in this 1960s living room. Can you spot it?

@wireinthebrain @Nicklezard Born and grew up and worked there. I have a love for the country and want to see it thrive.

@de_lecq @Nicklezard You live in Bermuda. What do you know about the UK?

@RuthMayorcas @Nicklezard Why is economic inequality between people in itself relevant?

@de_lecq @Nicklezard ‘Broadly the systems that have historically brought power, influence, prosperity, and individual freedoms to the same top millionaires and billionaires.’ There fixed it for you. equalitytrust.org.uk/scale-economic…

@sleazypigeon @Nicklezard Please define “social justice”.

@de_lecq @Nicklezard Modern Fabians believe in social justice. This is not anti- capitalism. Brexit removed more freedoms than any public act in history.