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Joined April 2009
Matthew Dicks CIHCM retweeted
Who can forget this famous reenactment from Don’t Look Up via @gbnews in 2022
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Matthew Dicks CIHCM retweeted
Almost 10,000 likes for straight-up lies by Annunziata Rees-Mogg, quote: "Asylum seekers make up 0.08% of Dorset's population and 44% of alleged sex offences. So unbelievable I had to check. It's true." It's not true, it's utter garbage. I'll go through facts and figures. /1
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Matthew Dicks CIHCM retweeted
A reminder. Only 6.9% of people in Wales were born overseas. Just 2.9% of people in Caerphilly were born overseas. Whereas 38% of medical consultants in Wales were born overseas. Immigrants are not holding our NHS back, they are propping it up.
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Matthew Dicks CIHCM retweeted
Reform UK are pushing immigration hard as an issue in the Caerphilly by-election. Just for context, Caerphilly has the THE LOWEST, immigration rate of all Wales' 22 councils. 97.1% of people there were born in the UK. Only Cardiff and Newport have move that 10% born overseas and even those figures are low.
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Matthew Dicks CIHCM retweeted
It feels timely & appropriate to post this magnificent beast ... the ultimate vox pop! ✊️🫡🤜🤛
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Matthew Dicks CIHCM retweeted
Fraser Nelson
@FraserNelson28 Jul 2025
Nigel Farage today opened his 'Lawless Britain' press conference saying he now rejects the Crime Survey of England & Wales - the only validated crime level measurement. The 35,000-households Crime Survey is fatal to anyone wanting to present a picture of immigrant-driven crime surge...
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Matthew Dicks CIHCM retweeted
What we are watching is Trump’s tariff-induced crash turning into a Truss-style fiscal crisis. The collapse in US government long bonds, Treasuries, is startling, scary. It is precisely the opposite of what Trump and his advisers expected and wanted. It partly reflects heightened fears of US recession - which would see ballooning of US deficit - and may also be revenge selling by sovereign holders in tariff-hit countries. This bond market turmoil also increases risk of margin calls and forced sales by over exposed institutional investors. Another huge day. If the US government struggles in its auctions when selling new government bonds to fund its current deficit, at that juncture surely Trump capitulates to market pressure. The other actors to watch are the central banks - the Fed, Bank of England, Bank of Japan, European Central Bank - and whether they are obliged to act intervene by cutting interest rates and providing liquidity
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Matthew Dicks CIHCM retweeted
Dan Snow, "If you're worried about the rules based order, it turns out getting an internationalist lawyer in charge of your country, Keir Starmer, is the right man for the job" "He's been sober, he's said the right thing, been strong about Ukraine" "Not annoying the Trump administration while also trying to form this coalition of the willing" "And I'm very glad I'm not a diplomat or a politician at the moment" "What if they French say that to be part of this new procurement process we need to build closer links with the EU?" "What do we do about whether we buy from America or whether we buy from German or other EU countries" "This is Churchill sayings we're fighting on the beaches.. The next bit is how do we deter Putin" Very good from @thehistoryguy 👏
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Matthew Dicks CIHCM retweeted
If Trump was President in 1940
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Matthew Dicks CIHCM retweeted
Re: Home Office guidance supposedly issued in 2008 advising police not to intervene in child grooming cases because victims had ‘made an informed choice about their sexual behaviour’? BBC Verify carried out extensive searches of HO guidance across that period & found no evidence any document containing that advice exists 1/2
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Matthew Dicks CIHCM retweeted
"These girls are being exploited all over again. Politicians jumping on the bandwagon after years of silence is 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭." Andrew Norfolk, who exposed the grooming gang scandal in 2011, condemns the reuse of the abuse for political gain. @maitlis | @lewis_goodall
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Matthew Dicks CIHCM retweeted
New year, new adventures We are now sharing our latest news and updates on Bluesky. Pop over and give us a follow to keep up to date with all things housing bsky.app/profile/cihcymru.bs…
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Matthew Dicks CIHCM retweeted
A pretty damning first five years of Brexit, quantified here rather neatly.
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Matthew Dicks CIHCM retweeted
2018: Richard Tice, "George Soros doesn't live here, he doesn't pay taxes here, what right has he got to interfere with our democracy with donations?" 2024: Richard Tice, "If Elon Musk can legally donate and he feels that's the appropriate thing to do, we'd be delighted" Clips were found by @AdamJSchwarz give him a follow 👍
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Matthew Dicks CIHCM retweeted
Left: Boris Johnson tells a nationwide radio station in New Zealand that we got the vaccines first because of Brexit Right: Dr June Raine, CEO of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency explained that the UK got the vaccine while we were still following EU laws
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Matthew Dicks CIHCM retweeted
We have now published our member exclusive briefing on @WelshGovernment draft 2025/26 budget. Click to read: bit.ly/3ZxtclJ
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Matthew Dicks CIHCM retweeted
🎉The winners of the 2024 Welsh housing awards have been announced🎉. Click below to find out more and access our good practice compendium ⬇️⬇️⬇️ bit.ly/3ZTkgIZ
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Matthew Dicks CIHCM retweeted
We have published out initial response to @WelshGovernment draft budget for 2025/26. We welcome the increased level of investment in SHG but the 20,000 target is still at risk. Click here to read ➡️ bit.ly/41t9s5p
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