Chief Executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance (@the_tpa)
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John O'Connell retweeted
210 Labour MPs represent constituencies where the number of PIP claimants exceeds their electoral majority. Meanwhile, 9 of the 10 constituencies with the highest welfare spending are Labour.
Neil Duncan Jordan, has a majority of 18 and 5746 PIP claimants in his constituency.
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There are an estimated 29,000 highly prolific repeat offenders who cost the justice system alone over £242m a year, committing crime with a socioeconomic cost of between £1bn and £5bn a year.
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The Byline Times is angry about a Spectator article criticising the government for giving money to the Bylines Network. Regardless of how closely linked they are (Peter Jukes is a director of both), should it be it getting taxpayers' money? 🧵
John O'Connell retweeted
Objectively very funny banner ad on the Byline Times website atm.
A group closely linked to hard-left conspiracy theorists has been given more than a quarter of a million pounds of public money to promote "trusted, high-quality local journalism.".
Bylines Networks Ltd is the second largest recipient of money from the Government’s new Local News Fund, receiving a total of £266,221 to "fund the future of local news."
Bylines Networks Ltd is closely associated with Byline Times, whose recent output is a mixture of hard-left attack, Jason Arday trutherism and the frankly deranged.
Byline Times and Bylines Networks Ltd are controlled by the same people, Peter Jukes and Steve Colegrave, who are directors of both. Bylines Network describes itself as a “partner organisation to Byline Times” and says that the two organisations “work closely together.“
✍️ Andrew Gilligan
Article | spectator.com/article/why-is… | @mragilligan
John O'Connell retweeted
This is an incredibly useful tool from @Ben_A_Hopkinson and Edward Donovan - see how much of building houses on greenfield/brownfield is due to policy costs, and what can be changed if you vary/omit all the various regulations we impose easing-the-burdens.cps.org.u…
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The British state is far more corrupt than people realise. This is banana republic stuff. spectator.com/article/why-is…
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>Announce you'll abolish NHS England
>18 months later fail to abolish it
>Rebrand it instead
>Spend on NHS bureaucracy goes up £300m a year
>Say you'll halve external consultancy spending
>NHSE external consultancy spend goes *up*
>Waiting lists also going up
>Total clownshow
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Labour MPs don't care about the public finances at all, so this isn't even an attack line which could rattle them. Open borders welfarism is their core ideology. Last year's flirtation with restrictions was thanks to their poor polling.
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If they were prepared to enter Britain without a passport, on what planet would they be even remotely perturbed by the promise of being allowed to spend decades here without permanent permission?
The Home Office's role as Europe's largest human trafficking enabler continues.
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"They won't reform welfare because it would cost them their jobs!"
@griffitha takes on Labour for the lack of welfare reform in the budget by using the TPA's benefits bill tool, which shows that over half of Labour MPs are in constituencies that have more PIP claimants than their electoral majority.
John O'Connell retweeted
As if we wouldn’t have cracked that open like a kinder egg by now
NEW
Britain’s missing sovereign wealth fund… Treasury officials have modelled that had the UK done what Norway did with North Sea revenues, there would be a £1 trillion fund…
As Chancellor sets up Energy Wealth Fund, a look at the long historical argument about where the oil windfall went, including from interviews with those who have run Norways $2.4 trillion fund, now the biggest in the world, filled from the proceeds of the same North Sea.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm4g…
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This is utterly insane.
This Labour government’s transformative Renters’ Rights Act empowers private renters to challenge unreasonable rent increases.
If a tenant believes a proposed rent increase is above the open-market rent, they can refer the matter to the First-tier Tribunal.
In a recent case in Manchester where the Landlord proposed an increase in rent from £1,650 per calendar month to £1,700, the Tribunal determined the open market rent was actually £1,450 per calendar month.
We’re standing up for renters and our reforms are working.
gov.uk/residential-property-…
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I remember when this was "scaremongering".
thisismoney.co.uk/money/mark…
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My usual (frustrating) chart on labour market report day. . . . this is totally unsustainable!
Who is better off since Labour won power?
#labour #ukeconomy #ukmacro
John O'Connell retweeted
Incentives and outcomes strike again.
FT decided to dig in to the biggest drag on growth this country has. We have a new record of a 72% marginal tax rate.
If you are evenly remotely above average, it increasingly feels like Britain is not the place for you.
I know many people caught in this. You either need household income closer to £500k or someone to stop working for this to make any sense. Yet again, the middle gets punished for doing the thing that the economy and country functions on (working, having a family).
I try to be optimistic here but I don’t see this being fixed. It’s too small of an issue to be a vote winner and high-risk for any politician who’s trying to appeal to the average earner in third world Britain.
Britain’s £100,000 tax trap ft.trib.al/PozWvDe
