Kevin Findlay

@thatginamiller Gina, tell me the EU has been an economic success and I'll call you a liar. We need to do something different to the failed single market that has created low growth and no major globally dominant firms in the last 25 years and to some degree since it's 1970s start.

Baby steps to repairing Brexit damage - need much bolder strides that will benefit all generations To all the Brexiteers who are up in arms - you won but turned out to be a very hollow victory! Britain should be ambitious enough to give its young people the same opportunities they had before Brexit, not less. Rejoining #Erasmus+ is a practical, pro-growth decision that restores access to study, training and work placements for students from every background, while rebuilding the international links that make our universities stronger and our economy more competitive.It's common sense. Before we left, Erasmus+ widened opportunity, improved employability, and helped 10,000s of thousands of young people build skills, confidence and networks employers value. It also gave less advantaged students a chance to study abroad. At a time when Britain needs to invest in skills, openness and long-term growth, and our universities need to attract talent and deepen partnerships, turning our backs on one of Europe’s most successful programmes, which is outside the EU, was a mistake. Rejoining Erasmus+ signals that the UK is serious about fairness and future prosperity, and that we will not keep denying the next generation opportunities that were once theirs by right.

@GuyLambertUK But getting stuffed by Netflix, Amazon etc

One of the most successful media companies in the world. Generates £5bn for the U.K. economy. 94% of the U.K. access it every month. Yet it’s underfunded and collapsing. Utter disgrace that the Government haven’t intervened to help as they would any other major U.K. company.

@MerrynSW Hallucinations are inherent to the way both people and LLMs learn

What if the whole LLM thing is a false start? If the flaws are inherent systemic problems - if the compounding of hallucinations/errors can't be sorted out? If the capex build out is one of the biggest misallocations of capital ever? Then what? bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

@L__Macfarlane Your missing the point. Reducing our exports by restrictions on investment mean less wealth for the country, lower taxes for the government and a worse trade deficit for no apparent benefit. As the UK is a small emitter on the global stage, what we do doesn't matter.

The only way new North Sea drilling cuts energy bills is if the UK: – Nationalises the rigs – Bans exports – Sells at cost-price None of that is on the table. It will be sold on global markets to the highest bidder. Bills won’t move an inch.

@StephenFlynnSNP Oh alright then, how much money do you need to run an unprofitable business

Grangemouth produced jet fuel for all of Scotland. The UK Government let it shut. Surely people are realising that outsourcing jobs, investment, emissions and energy security leaves us weaker, not stronger. Scotland’s resources should be controlled by Scotland.

@paulmasonnews Paul nobody is in favour of hate - ridiculous generic concept concept

I was on this demo and it was not "for Palestine" - it was for a Britain free of hate

@BrianMcDonaldIE So why can't it roll over Ukraine

Nominal GDP is a terrible way to measure a state like Russia, and it's one of the reasons poorly informed Western pundits keep misreading the country. On PPP, it’s the world's 4th largest economy (over $7 trillion) and bigger than Germany or Japan, with full-spectrum industrial capacity. That’s not a "middle power." Russia can build nuclear submarines, icebreakers and nuclear power plants, launch people into space, produce advanced weapons, export energy at scale and, perhaps most crucially, feed and fuel itself. Italy can’t.

@ZackPolanski A nicer party than the other nice party , the Labour party. Lovely

Looks like people want to tax billionaires, low bills and protect our national health service. A party that puts compassion and kindness at the centre. Join the Green Party. Join.greenparty.org.uk

@AaronBastani @chrislhayes Amazing 'boomer' bigotry, what would you say if I said "Don't believe the NEEts"

Britain is presently generating 71% of electricity from renewables and is exporting some to boot. Nuclear plus renewables is presently 85% of all electricity being generated. Good things are possible. Ignore the boomer Murdoch press.

@MarinaPurkiss Have you got any idea about how businesses work?

When are we gonna admit that billionaire‑ism is an illness? They’re hoarders No control, insatiable greed & their hoarding just drains every one of us They cut wages, buy politicians & bleed the planet just to watch a number tick up that they’ll never spend Sick in the head.

@David__Osland Because they already are paying most of the tax. Your average 25k person isn't going to create Google

@polcurrency Just listening to the latest. Good topic but might be worth talking about why there isn't an EU or UK robotaxi company. Particularly since they're are UK cos (Wayve) that can do it. Wayve may be making the same mistake ARM did in semiconductors in addressing the smaller market

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@Aidan_Regan Nope, the only priority should be to build competitive large scale businesses such as Google, openai, etc. something that it has failed to do for 50 years. Nothing else matters to avoid global irrelevance

There should be one overwhelming priority for the EU — financially and politically: Get the fuck off fossil fuels. The security hawks obsessing over a Russian invasion are a distraction. The focus should be a Green Energy revolution.

@BernieSanders So is productivity a bad thing, say clearly if you believe it is, otherwise I can only conclude you don't believe in efficiently doing things

Jeff Bezos, worth $234 billion, plans to replace 600,000 Amazon workers with robots. Now, he wants to spend $100 billion to fully automate not just his warehouses, but factories in the U.S & other countries. Oligarchs are waging all out war against workers. FIGHT BACK.

@terrychristian Lack of competitive EU cos to compete with the US and China, slower growth all leading to lower wealth. Finally you need to be honest and actually say, even campaign for an EU superstate.

So closer EU alignment then a full rejoin. For you brexiters - which tangible benefit of brexit will you and your family miss the most ?

@s8mb Amazing argument and completely ridiculous. We have massive trade deficit paid for by government debt. You want to make it worse.

There's really no point having a domestic car manufacturing industry in Britain. The price of cars is set on the global market - producing them in the UK doesn't reduce the cost of cars here at all. And cars produce CO2. Why would we want this?

@williamnhutton Sorry welfare cuts ( or actually reduced increases) are what we should do.

Britain has to raise defence spending an extra £30bn by 2030. Defence bonds are the obvious answer. By making them inheritance tax exempt, a new market for bonds would be created and at such low coupons the savings would pay most of the foregone tax. A price worth paying .

@HarryStebbings That's what happens when you are a mid ranking country. The only thing we should be concerned about is building a free market economy to get bigger. Forget foreign adventures

Keir Starmer has done worse than make us a laughing stock; he has made the UK totally irrelevant.

@paulmasonnews Yes but the real reason is that we wanted to spend the money on health and welfare while pretending that we didn't need an army

The availability of UK military force is sub-optimal. Why? In 2021 the Conservatives signed off an over-ambitious tech transition, where we abandoned legacy stuff for future stuff, while accepting there would be a "capability gap" in-between... here's the DSC...

@morganhmoore1 No we want less on welfare and ineffective health care and more on defense

People complain about this and then don’t want to pay their fair share of tax. How do you think this is funded?