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Phillip Fayers retweeted
There’s a VERY good reason asylum seekers get circus tickets and Amazon parcels.
But the Mail on Sunday was never going to tell you that.
Here’s the crucial detail they left out: 🧵
Phillip Fayers retweeted
Our letter to MPs calling for an opposition to the proposed Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill
disabilitylabour.org.uk/blog…
Phillip Fayers retweeted
It took eight years of determined fighting by her mum but today a coroner rules that benefit cuts error led to Jodey Whiting’s death bit.ly/3HB6x2t she was deemed fit to work by @DWPgovuk having missed an assessment because she was in hospital with pneumonia.
Phillip Fayers retweeted
Local government core spending fell sharply during the austerity years and has not yet recovered.
While there has been some recovery in core spending power since the mid-2010s, this has been primarily driven by increasing Council Tax - which is highly regressive.
ALT Since 2010-11, in real per capita terms, core spending power of local authorities is down nearly 20 per cent. The effect of the austerity years on local government has been well documented, and the 30 per cent fall in real terms per capita core spending power from 2010-11 to 2017-18 puts this in sharp focus
Phillip Fayers retweeted
The problems in our society are not caused by migrants or refugees.
They are caused by an economic system rigged in favour of corporations and billionaires.
If the government wanted to improve people’s lives, it would tax the rich and build an economy that works for us all.
The "strangers" here are Starmer and the cabinet who have become strangers to the Labour party as we know it.
Reading the white paper on immigration, it's not specific proposals that are the most difficult to digest - as I can always see the pros and cons of any policy and the trade offs and discuss those- it's the tone of this discussion.
"Island of strangers"... "incalculable damage"
Visas creating exploitation, poor workers' rights, not building enough affordable housing, pressure on local services due to years of cutting budgets to local councils - all those political choices were not designed by migrants.
Imo all this rhetoric does is shifting the progressive vote from Labour to Green/LD/Ind and making people who made their home and "contribute" to the UK feel less welcome.
And I am not sure it is "persuading" Reform voters as why would you go for a lighter version of a more restrictive immigration policy instead of an even more restrictive one if you were supporting Reform.
Phillip Fayers retweeted
Benefit cuts cost money in the long run, says @TrussellUK bit.ly/42RSLQ4 govt doesn’t seem to realise that relieving poverty is investing in the future and good economics
Phillip Fayers retweeted
A new Universal theme park is coming to the UK.
We have closed the deal on a multi-billion-pound investment that will make Bedford home to one of Europe's biggest theme parks.
Creating 28,000 jobs, boosting our economy, and driving local and national growth.
ALT Keir Starmer meets Comcast President Michael J. Cavanagh in 10 Downing Street in front of the conceptual artist's rendering of the new Universal theme park in Bedford.
Phillip Fayers retweeted
The funniest part isn't what they have done, but the fact that they don't even understand what they did.
They set ε at 4 and φ at 0.25 which results in them effectively being removed from the equation by equalling 1 when multiplied.
Then it just becomes trade deficit/imports.
No we literally calculated tariff and non tariff barriers.
ustr.gov/issue-areas/recipro…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
1) xᵢ = total exports
2) mᵢ = total imports
3) price elasticity of import demand, ε= 4
4) elasticity of import prices with respect to tariffs, φ = 0.25
Hence,
∆τᵢ = (exports-imports) / (0.25*4*imports)
= deficit/imports
ustr.gov/issue-areas/re…
Phillip Fayers retweeted
Research shows hybrid working from home good for workers and their employers bit.ly/423EQWC “employees are taking fewer sick days, managing stress better, and adopting healthier lifestyles. Meanwhile, companies are enjoying higher levels of productivity and lower costs”
Phillip Fayers retweeted
So it looks like most of my books (and foreign editions in several languages) are among the millions that #Meta has stolen in order to train its AI. Writing those books took twenty years of my life. This is piracy and theft.
theatlantic.com/technology/a…
#AI #Booktheft
Phillip Fayers retweeted
Very interesting - this is the new EU defence procurement cooperation project that for now the UK is not joining, but Canada is joining, after new PM Carney diplomatic push…
Phillip Fayers retweeted
Dear @wesstreeting,
More people are diagnosed with mental illness because growing up in austerity increases mental illness rates—then a 2 million-strong waiting list cements disability.
Stop making people who already feel like a burden feel even worse.
Best,
Dr Jay Watts
Phillip Fayers retweeted
This, from a DWP press release yesterday (gov.uk/government/news/almos…), is outrageous
In two short paragraphs it peddles multiple falsehoods about the current system that will be used to justify upcoming cuts & changes
Here's what MPs & journalists should be challenging... 🧵
ALT Text from a DWP press release: In the current dysfunctional system, a person is placed in binary categories of either “fit for work” or “not fit for work” through the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) – an assessment the government has said it will either reform or replace, so it no longer drives people who want to work to a life on benefits. Through this process, those not fit for work are told they have Limited Capability for Work Related Activity (LCWRA) – meaning they won’t receive employment support or further engagement from the system at any point following their assessment – effectively abandoning and locking them out of work indefinitely.
Phillip Fayers retweeted
We think we might have the biggest trove of material about the VIP lane. But we’ve not been invited to give evidence at the Covid inquiry.
@JolyonMaugham asks six questions about the PPE scandal that need answers:
Phillip Fayers retweeted
You don't. You internalize the brutality and never recover your enthusiasm. Then, when a new VC comes after the last one laid waste, they'll point at you and say how awful you are. And so it goes on until there are no more academics. Then they'll lose their jobs.
Phillip Fayers retweeted
The funding model for higher education is broken and the Welsh Government has the ability to fix it.
Hand-wringing over job losses simply won’t cut it.
