@MattZeitlin Last time it happened. Bill Clinton basically picked the closest thing to himself.
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Liberal 🇬🇧 | YIMBY 🏘️ | Views my own ✍️ | 🌹
London, England Katılım Eylül 2016
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One day the democrats will ignore identity considerations and pick a vice President candidate that would be the best governing partner and future nominee
James Lynch@jameslynch32
Tim Walz: "I could code talk to white guys watching football, fixing their truck doing that...I was the permission structure to say 'look you can do this and vote for this.'"
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The Act has now received the Assent, but because English Law is fantastic the Assent legally is effective from midnight today, not tomorrow
Or, in other words, whatever these officials did in advance of the Assent is now retroactively lawful.
This is Parliament :-D
Kate Ferguson@kateferguson4
NEW - hearing that British Government officials are now at Scunthorpe to take control of the steel plant
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Tell you what, let’s just build stuff without every bloody public agency being able to stick their oar in. telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…
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@ArmandDoma At what point do congressional republicans step in ?Think we're already there with the Senate but the House....
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The problem for the UK is that Trump does not see 10% tariffs as a base to negotiate down from. He sees 10% tariffs as a great thing, because he bloody loves tariffs.
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@Geiger_Capital Calling a balance of payments deficit a ‘tariff’ when you’re disproportionately the richest country on Earth is a stretch at best.
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Let’s be clear…
Using this calculation is batshit insane.
Geiger Capital@Geiger_Capital
This guy cracked the tariff formula: @orthonormalist It’s simply the nation’s trade deficit with us divided by the nation’s exports to us. Yes. Really. Vietnam: Exports 136.6, Imports 13.1 Deficit = 123.5 123.5/136.6 = 90%
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@pursuitofprog Double down on Free Trade. No retaliatory tariffs. Tariffs are nearly always bad, even if we were tariffed first. Sign as many free trade agreements as possible, liberalise overburdening regs.
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What is the best strategy for the UK given US tariffs?
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🚨 BREAKING: Donald Trump has imposed a 10% tariff on the UK
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@si_rubinstein Literally the only party that even speaks positively about house building. Lib Dem’s and Greens are just left-NIMBYs | Conservatives & Reform boomer-NIMBYs
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Reinforces what I've thought for a long time: if you're young, Labour's your only hope. The incentives for all the other parties to bend their knees to the boomers are just too strong.
Sam Bowman@s8mb
Reform's think tank's first campaign: “countering housebuilding”.
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Just subsidise demand one more time, please bro just one more demand side reform will surely fix the problem man, please bro just one more
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: Treasury Ministers are supporting plans to make it easier for banks to lend money to first-time buyers [@thetimes]
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@AdamWagner1 Hermer is relying is putting a non-binding judgment written by Russian and Chinese judges over our direct national and gassing explicit wishes of Chagosian people. What would you call that…
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This is getting out of hand - predictably - turbo charging of attacks in recent years on lawyers generally and especially lawyers who sometimes represent clients against the state.
Lord Hermer is a politician now and should not be immune to public criticism for that reason but referring to him (and Starmer) as 'traitors' and spreading the nonsense that Hermer "hates our history and our country" is well beyond reasonable especially from a senior politicians.
Words have consequences - and riling people up on the basis that lawyers and politicians are 'traitors' can lead to worse things than critical posts from me.
Nigel Farage MP@Nigel_Farage
Lord Hermer hates our history and our country. His role in the betrayal of our national interest over the Chagos Islands is unforgivable. Starmer should fire him. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/0…
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Look at that civil service pension though.
Absolutely ludicrous
MTZ@Tobeech
£36.5K for a Data Manager at the MOD
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@AaronBastani Problem with the Green Party is that they’re neither Green (oppose every home, renewable & train building plan) or a Party (they don’t whip votes).
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More of Labour’s 2024 vote is going green than Tory. BIG problem. Why?
Firstly, strategy to squeeze left of Labour vote is ‘don’t let the Tories in’. But the Tories won’t be let in, so..?
Secondly, the Labour front bench doesn’t have a single person who can reach these people.
Steve Akehurst@SteveAkehurst
‘Where has the Labour 2024 vote gone?’ latest: still Labour: 57% Don’t know 13% Lib Dem 8% Green 5% Reform 5% Conservative 4% Would not vote 3% SNP 2%
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My only question now is how much starmers mate hermer is set to make from this deal. It’s the only rational explanation for this insanity. The £18bn we’re offering them is more than their GDP
Yuan Yi Zhu@yuanyi_z
After “renegotiations”, the UK is going to *double* its payments to Mauritius to an effective £18 billion and give Mauritius a veto over the renewal of the lease. Who negotiated the last round? The ubiquitous Lord Hermer, of course. Chagossians? They can get lost.
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Absolutely nuts. How do you possibly steelman this?
Steven Swinford@Steven_Swinford
Exclusive from @georgegrylls Sir Keir Starmer intends to 'push ahead' with deal to cede sovereignty to Chagos Islands and has offered significant concessions Navin Ramgoolam, Mauritius's new prime minister, said his country has been offered 'complete sovereignty' of Diego Garcia, home to a critical US military base He claimed that Starmer has effectively doubled the £9bn originally offered to Mauritius and weakened the British lease for Diego Garcia He said the new deal will frontload instalments and link them to inflation. He also said that Mauritius will now have a right to veto extending the lease He also revealed that Lord Hermer, the attorney-general, was involved in the latest round of face-to-face negotiations
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After “renegotiations”, the UK is going to *double* its payments to Mauritius to an effective £18 billion and give Mauritius a veto over the renewal of the lease.
Who negotiated the last round? The ubiquitous Lord Hermer, of course.
Chagossians? They can get lost.
Steven Swinford@Steven_Swinford
Exclusive from @georgegrylls Sir Keir Starmer intends to 'push ahead' with deal to cede sovereignty to Chagos Islands and has offered significant concessions Navin Ramgoolam, Mauritius's new prime minister, said his country has been offered 'complete sovereignty' of Diego Garcia, home to a critical US military base He claimed that Starmer has effectively doubled the £9bn originally offered to Mauritius and weakened the British lease for Diego Garcia He said the new deal will frontload instalments and link them to inflation. He also said that Mauritius will now have a right to veto extending the lease He also revealed that Lord Hermer, the attorney-general, was involved in the latest round of face-to-face negotiations
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@ArmandDoma 2008 Blue Wave incoming hopefully then. SS is an absolute third-rail and those boomers absolutely vote.
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on his DOGE space last night, Elon explicitly kept going about going after “fraud in entitlement payments,” which means…Social Security checks
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Utterly insane. Shop floor jobs are determined to be ‘equal value’ to warehouse jobs by fiat.
While the government’s busy trying to talk up growth our judicial communism wage-setting system continues to whir in the background imposing massive costs on companies.
ITV News@itvnews
Tens of thousands of Asda's checkout workers, most of whom are women, could be in line for historic payouts after the biggest ever private sector equal pay claim, ITV News @AnushkaAsthana reports itv.com/news/2025-02-0…
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