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Fred de Fossard

@defossardf

British Prosperity | @prosperity_inst | 🦁 🇬🇧 🏹 | Views own, naturally

England Katılım Nisan 2024
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Wailway@BrokenBritain_7·
@ChillaxBcn @defossardf The EU's own long haul tourism from Asia and US is being shredded by this shit show. A US visitor to London can clear passports at Heathrow in 45 seconds. Rome, Zurich, Paris? They are spending half a day of their trip standing in a line.
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Paul Johnson
Paul Johnson@PJTheEconomist·
"You can’t keep responding to supply shocks by subsidising prices. That way lies ruin. The reason that people are feeling a cost of living crisis is that the economy and their living standards have failed to grow for so long". thetimes.com/business/econo…
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Fred de Fossard@defossardf·
@shoottheducks @LukeDyks I did think this was part of it when I used the machines in Madrid, the camera couldn't recognise me with normal glasses on and it got confused by people behind me in the queue.
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Tim@shoottheducks·
@defossardf @LukeDyks Greece is great, quick passport check, no stamps on our entry to Chania on Sunday. Meanwhile passports have biometrics in and they don’t need all this new equipment, just egates like the UK uses. It’s all about feeding juicy contracts to EU IT companies.
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Fred de Fossard@defossardf·
This was a long-foreseen disaster. The EU has chosen to implement a system it is not capable of implementing.
Miss Jo@therealmissjo

Gran Canaria passport control/immigration this weekend for those who don’t live in the EU. This is not about Brexit per se although you will find many who blame it. There are simply many non-Schengen (mainly non-EU) citizens arriving at the same time. Especially given the €395 million invested that has resulted in hundreds of machines not even working. The EU should suspend this system for the summer otherwise many nationalities will face longer and longer queues. Greece has already abandoned it. Others need to follow.

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Fred de Fossard@defossardf·
@Danjsalt I've been following this disaster pretty closely. The EU has been briefing various stories into the press covering the number of visa overstayers they've caught with the new system but none of it can outweigh the fact that it has simply broken airports in tourist hotspots.
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Dan Salt
Dan Salt@Danjsalt·
@defossardf And is utterly pointless when you have millions of illegals pouring into the bloc each year I don't know any EU people who are screaming for help against awful legal travellers
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Fred de Fossard@defossardf·
@adhib @dr____frog I don't think the failure of Arriva means the entire franchising model should be replaced with state ownership and management. I am very sceptical that the British state would be able to manage the system well, especially when it comes to the customer-facing end of things
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Adam Hibbert@adhib·
@defossardf @dr____frog How's your knowledge of how the rail franchise companies operate? I don't mean to be facetious. Why do you suppose the state-owned German franchise operator (DB) pulled out of three franchises?
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Fred de Fossard@defossardf·
I really hate posting about infrastructure, it doesn't interest me at all, but Britain is going to experience a hellish real-life experiment in the dangers of nationalisation in the next few years. Essential and functional lines are going to be cut and starved of money, performative ticket price cuts will not make up for a collapse in service, standards or reliability.
Murky Depths@TheMurkyDepths

Thameslink will be taken over by govt in coming weeks. Shortly after service cuts commence. It includes stations in areas of major housing growth. Just one direct train per hour from north Kent stations to the Elizabeth line will result. fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2026/05/24/tha…

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Reverse Salient@JaroslavH·
@defossardf 'I really hate posting about infrastructure, it doesn't interest me at all' Probably explains a lot.
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Fred de Fossard@defossardf·
@dr____frog It probably will. The maintenance of the stock and the management of the workforce and the customer service will likely decline.
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Dr Frog 🐸
Dr Frog 🐸@dr____frog·
@defossardf It’ll make barely any difference. Railways were already 40% subsidised, run on margins of 1-2% by private companies under strict guidelines by govt. Some lines have been nationalised for years. LNER service better since. Most European countries subsidise up to 70-80%.
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Oliver JJ Lane
Oliver JJ Lane@oliver_lane·
"I really hate posting about infrastructure, it doesn't interest me at all, but" I have no theory of mind for this
Fred de Fossard@defossardf

I really hate posting about infrastructure, it doesn't interest me at all, but Britain is going to experience a hellish real-life experiment in the dangers of nationalisation in the next few years. Essential and functional lines are going to be cut and starved of money, performative ticket price cuts will not make up for a collapse in service, standards or reliability.

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Fred de Fossard@defossardf·
It's twitter and the prevalence of the English language online. Britain is a very prominent country and there is a huge amount of international attention on the country's problems. That's ultimately a good thing as it provides pressure to fix them. I think Britain has by far the greatest potential for course correction than any other European country.
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Scott McConnell
Scott McConnell@ScottMcConnell9·
I've sometimes followed European politics closely, but not recently. My casual impression is that Britain (and perhaps Ireland) is by far the most aggressive at committing national suicide compared to other Euro countries. Is that so, or just an impression generated by my twitter feed?
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Fred de Fossard@defossardf·
@AndrewSabisky @favelaoverlord Yes and and one of the worst things I saw in government was how large companies and their trade associations (very guilty parties here) appear to go along with absurd government policies which destroy their business models - net zero obvious example - for fear of rocking the boat
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Andrew Sabisky
Andrew Sabisky@AndrewSabisky·
this is common wisdom but I think it's just so clearly and obviously wrong. The regulatory scope of modern states is so massive and their monopoly of violence so unquestioned that even massive companies and super-wealthy individuals are ultimately subservient
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Fred de Fossard@defossardf·
@Sai_Ishaya_ While members-only sandpit is a good joke, if it wasn't it would rapidly get swamped and rendered unviable by after school link-ups and people getting robbed. Running more frequent trains to the places you mentioned and building more hotels in them is definitely needed, however.
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Sai Ishaya
Sai Ishaya@Sai_Ishaya_·
London doesn't need an inner-city beach. It needs serious investment in places like Southend, Margate, Whitstable, Brighton, Ramsgate and Hastings, ith faster, cheaper, more frequent trains so Londoners can reach actual beaches. Build one on the Thames and it'll become a members-only sandpit with £18 chips, "a premium cabana experience," and endless culture-war videos featuring Ant Middleton about a beach invasion by foreigners.
Jon Stone@joncstone

London is the greatest city in the world but one thing it does lack is a good beach. If we're gonna have more days like this we should 1) clean up the water and 2) build a big beach in inner London accessible by tube. (NYC did this in the 1930s) How about along the shore here

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Fred de Fossard@defossardf·
@StefanReynolds @SimonCalder We take our family dog to France every year. It's more expensive than before but it's not impossible. There is a form that vets do on either side of the channel, or you can get your dog a French pet passport. It's a minor inconvenience.
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Stefan Reynolds 🇬🇧🇫🇷
Stefan Reynolds 🇬🇧🇫🇷@StefanReynolds·
@SimonCalder @defossardf And the EU no longer welcome us and our pets. We should have been in France this weekend for the nights, spending money in France. Due to our pet passports no longer being valid (despite me holding French nationality), we had a lovely long weekend in the New Forest…
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Simon Calder
Simon Calder@SimonCalder·
EU entry-exit system. The EES was never intended to contend with the British. Most of the “third-country nationals” crossing Schengen frontiers are from the UK. We add too much pressure in too many inadequate border locations. Europe must pause and reflect independent.co.uk/travel/news-an…
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Will Solfiac
Will Solfiac@willsolfiac·
Exactly this. There was a slew of articles around 2022 celebrating how "Britain is now fine with immigration", we were mid-Boriswave and public perception hadn't caught up yet. The fact that net migration is now lower isn't really that relevant. It's stocks as well as flows, and the asylum insanity continues.
thdhmo@t848m0

Was never seen to be such a problem when public perception was underestimating mass immigration, was it? And the impacts were not to be discussed, or even inquired about.

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Scott Goetz
Scott Goetz@ScottGoetz_·
Telling that the New Statesman could not commission an argument for actual existing social housing and instead just did abundance. What is going on is indefensible, if resources are scarce they should not just be handed out to the non employed before anyone else.
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The New Statesman@NewStatesman

Housing is only as scarce a resource as we want it to be. There is a choice for everyone here. We can accept the status quo of scarcity and fight over prioritising certain groups, or we can build more. Too many in politics choose the former. Choosing the short-lived dopamine of the reactionary, rather than building the case for something better. More than half a million Londoners now live in flat shares. The average private rent in London is nearly £27,480 a year. London is adding 33,000 homes a year, while its population is projected to rise by around half a million over the next decade. If tensions feel high today, imagine what they will look like after another decade of failure. ✍️@KaneEmerson newstatesman.com/housing-hell/2…

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