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Richard Musgrave retweeted
Proud of England for taking a stand and pointedly refusing to play any cricket at all against the cheats.
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Brother Burnham flew all the way to Cop meeting in Turkey to make a six-minute speech to an almost empty hall. No other G7 leader has bothered witt it this year.
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The grown up approach from David Cameron 👇
"If you look at the economic problems we have today, I don’t really think they’ve got anything to do with Brexit at all. I mean, our economic problems are we are overspending, over-borrowing, over-taxing, over-regulated, and far too much being spent on working age welfare. Those are a set of problems that have nothing to do with Brexit."
***EXCLUSIVE by @MishalHusain***
David Cameron says Britain should NOT rejoin the EU
The former prime minister warns Andy Burnham that starting a conversation about rejoining would be “very long and painful”
Speaking in a Bloomberg interview, Cameron urges Burnham not to trigger another “decade-long debate about whether should be in or out.” He also says the UK should not enter a customs union with the EU
As the PM who led the Remain campaign in 2016, Cameron’s intervention will be seen as significant. He says Britain’s economic problems aren’t due to Brexit
“Today, instead of launching an argument about rejoining, which I think would be a very long and painful argument, and who knows where it would end up, instead of that, focus on how do we be the best friend, best neighbour, best partner,” Cameron says
The former PM also warns Burnham that talking about Britain rejoining could hamper future negotiations
“If you start endlessly producing this idea that we’re actually on a path to rejoining, I think you’re in danger of getting a less good partnership deal because of course the EU countries will just think: well, these guys are gonna rejoin anyway, so what’s the point in giving them a good partnership deal… If you’re not going to, you know, commit to trying to make the partnership stronger because you’re flirting with rejoining, I think there’s some dangers there,” Cameron says
“I don’t think actually necessarily joining a customs union is the right answer. If you look at the economic problems we have today, I don’t really think they’ve got anything to do with Brexit at all. I mean, our economic problems are we are overspending, over-borrowing, over-taxing, over-regulated, and far too much being spent on working age welfare. Those are a set of problems that have nothing to do with Brexit. We need a government that actually gets spending under control, gets taxes down, helps entrepreneurs, deals with our borrowing problem, reforms the welfare, and massively deregulates so we can build houses, build infrastructure. None of those have got anything to do with Europe. So that’s sort of, in a way, that’s my point. Do we really want to go into another decade-long debate about whether we should be in or out, when actually we should deal with our own problems while making the partnership model work?”
“I fought the campaign to stay in on an amended basis, and I obviously wanted to win that campaign. I was desperately disappointed that we lost that campaign. But I’m a democrat, a believer in democracy. We voted to leave, and I think the right thing now is to try and become, you know, not just neighbors, partners, and friends of the EU, but the best friends, the best neighbors, the best partners. And I think we can make that work”
Story by @ChaplainChloe: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Richard Musgrave retweeted
The CEO of Motability is paid: £924,000
You really don't need to look further than that.
Richard Musgrave retweeted
Imagine the stink Labour would be making if it was any other party.
I first met @andyburnhammp 10 years ago & I was so impressed by him, I told him then that he would be #Labour Leader one day. #andy4leader
Richard Musgrave retweeted
The answer to “why is my £775k new build flat so small and crappy?” Is simple: the money left to actually build it after the government has took their £442k share is only £178k - less than some spend on their kitchen extension
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The most staggering indictment of public sector employment practices you will ever read… this section a particular gem dailymail.com/lifestyle/arti…
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The government's new energy bill paper says 9 times that support costs should fall on those "most able to pay" or on higher incomes.
In its own words, a "transfer from primarily high-income households to low-income households". Which makes your energy bills a second tax system.
Richard Musgrave retweeted
Best description I've heard of Labour's tax on private schools:
"A tax that raises less than it costs isn’t a tax.
It’s spite with a spreadsheet.
Aimed at the parents who sacrificed, and dressed up as fairness."
Businessman Alex Lovén in Times interview.
Richard Musgrave retweeted
Admission was never meant to be a lifetime claim on the taxpayer.
A public-burden test, modelled on Denmark: revoke residency for prolonged welfare dependency and failure to reach net fiscal neutrality over five years.
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💙 The Henry Nowak Foundation 💙
Born from unimaginable heartbreak, founded by Henry’s mum, Lucy Ross, to support families grieving the loss of a son or daughter.
Tomorrow, Lucy shares her story and the purpose behind the Foundation.
Please follow, repost 💙
Richard Musgrave retweeted
No. Freaking. Way.
Next thing you’ll be telling me that wasn’t even the first and only match they did it.
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Sir John Cowperthwaite ran Hong Kong's finances from 1961 to 1971 and treated regulation like a tax on discovery. Nobody in government can know which business will work, so he refused to pick, plan, or protect.
Whitehall sent officials to Hong Kong to push for economic statistics, and he sent them home. When Milton Friedman asked in 1963 why he collected so little data, Cowperthwaite answered: "If I let them compute those statistics, they'll want to use them for planning." Numbers give planners a reason to act, and every plan arrives as a rule that tells entrepreneurs what they may not try. Asked what poor countries should do to grow, he said they should abolish the office of national statistics.
He rebuffed tariffs, opposed corporate subsidies, and refused London's push to raise taxes. When a legislator proposed that the government back promising industries, he asked how the government could possibly know which ones those were.
The results arrived without a plan. During his decade as Financial Secretary, real wages rose 50% and the share of residents in acute poverty fell from 50% to 15%. When he took the job, the average Hong Kong resident earned about a quarter of what a Briton earned. By the early 1990s, Hong Kongers out-earned Britons. Britain, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, planned its economy with ministries full of statisticians and fell behind a rock with no resources except a harbor.
Every regulation assumes a regulator who knows which experiments to allow. That regulator does not exist, so each gate he builds blocks the ideas nobody in the room could have predicted. Hong Kong's most valuable policy was the absence of a gatekeeper.
As far as civil servants go, this guy is the GOAT.
Richard Musgrave retweeted
Paying homage to the ball! A life long partner in crime that has a way of rewarding us with endless discovery!
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Is this Ramallah? Gaza City?
No, it's Birmingham.
Where bins go uncollected, more than a quarter of the adult population is economically inactive, and the benefits bill is higher than anywhere else in the country.
I will never tire in fighting this disgusting sectarianism.
Richard Musgrave retweeted
Vickrum Digwa’s minimum sentence for murdering Henry Nowak has been increased from 21 to 25 years after the Court of Appeal ruled that the original sentence was “unduly lenient”. Good. But it is a total disgrace that his mother might be released early.
Richard Musgrave retweeted
A hotelier could face up to 14 years for evading Labour’s tourist tax.
A pensioner’s killer, sentenced yesterday, could be out in under four years.
The wrong priorities, at every level.
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If a hotelier refuses to implement Angela Rayner's holiday tax, they could face 14 YEARS in prison.
That's the same amount of time that Shabir Ahmed, the ringleader of the Rochdale grooming gang, spent behind bars.
Everything about this is completely despicable.
Tourism is vital to our economy and our communities, and I want to make sure the cultural institutions welcoming millions of visitors can feel the benefits too.
That’s why the government giving local leaders the power to introduce an Overnight Visitor Levy - to raise and reinvest money in much-loved high streets, public spaces and attractions.
I spoke to @TristramHuntVA, Director of the @V_and_A what the levy could mean for tourist destinations across the country.