Scraf - recently retired planning and development consultant (well, mainly retired). Grandad. Family, travel and Imps. LCFC Supporter Elected Director.

Joined January 2011
Phil Scrafton retweeted
The FAB are looking for new members, It would be great to have people applying who feel they can add insight to the board or believe there are ways that the Club can continue to improve the fan experience and ways of working. Please reach out if you have any questions!
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Sur mon dernier post sur les émeutes en métropole, certains m'ont répondu que le problème était plus profond qu'un manque de respect de l’autorité. Qu'il fallait parler d'inégalités, d'injustice sociale, de manque de moyens. Alors parlons-en, chiffres à l'appui. La France est le pays de l'OCDE qui dépense le plus pour le social. 32 % de notre richesse nationale part chaque année en dépenses sociales publiques. La moyenne des pays développés tourne autour de 20 %. Elle fait mieux que la Suède, mieux que le Danemark, mieux que l'Allemagne. Et ce modèle a un prix. Si les Français sont parmi les plus taxés d'Europe, sur le podium avec près de 44 % du PIB en impôts et cotisations, ce n'est pas un hasard. C'est d'abord pour financer cette dépense sociale. À elle seule, elle représente l'équivalent des trois quarts de tout ce que l'on prélève. Chaque travailleur, chaque artisan, chaque entrepreneur, chaque agriculteur paie pour ce système. Les dépenses publiques dépassent 57 % du PIB. Et cet argent est redistribué. Avant impôts et aides sociales, les 10 % les plus aisés gagnent 22 fois plus que les 10 % les plus modestes. Après redistribution, cet écart tombe à environ 6. Le revenu des 20 % les plus modestes augmente de plus de moitié grâce aux aides. Logement social, RSA, APL, prime d'activité, CMU, école gratuite, politique de la ville, plans banlieue à répétition... Depuis 40 ans, gouvernement après gouvernement, de gauche comme de droite molle, on a répondu à chaque crise par un nouveau chèque et un nouveau dispositif. Résultat ? Les violences n'ont pas reculé. Elles ont empiré. Donc non, le problème n'est pas un manque d'argent, ni d’écoute ni de compréhension. Aucun pays au monde ne met autant de moyens sur la table que la France. Si le socialisme achetait la paix sociale, la France serait le pays le plus apaisé de la planète. Le problème plutôt, c'est qu'on a remplacé l'autorité par l'excuse. Qu'on a expliqué à des générations entières que la société leur devait tout et qu'eux ne lui devaient rien. Qu'on a laissé reculer l'ordre, le respect du policier, du professeur, du maire. Qu'on a cessé de transmettre l'attachement à la France et à ses valeurs. La République, ce n'est pas seulement des droits et des allocations. C'est aussi des devoirs. Le socialisme à la française a eu 40 ans pour prouver que la dépense sociale réglait tout. Il a échoué. Il est temps de revenir au bon sens. Aux fondamentaux. À ce qui a toujours tenu une nation debout. Le travail, parce que c'est lui qui rend digne, pas l'assistance. L'effort et l'abnégation, parce que rien ne se mérite sans peine. Le respect de l'ordre et de l'autorité, celle du policier, du professeur, du maire, du père et de la mère. La responsabilité, parce que chacun répond de ses actes, quel que soit son quartier ou son histoire. L'amour de la France, de son histoire, de sa culture et de ses valeurs. Ce ne sont pas des valeurs ringardes. Ce sont celles qui ont fait la richesse de la France sur laquelle tout le monde se repaît aujourd’hui.
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Not the usual @AndysBus destination. #TateModern 😉
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Two reckless challenges ruined the game as a football match. BUT, we came into this promising to enjoy the ride. That is clear, the fans last night - AMAZING! The journey continues. Dust down, Millwall away.. 🔴⚪️ #ImpsAsOne #UTI
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The UK taxpayer has footed the bill due to government mismanagement. Over 10 years here are some of the worst cases: 🧵
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I’m sure there are so many examples but these are just ludicrous!
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The more I read about this the more crazy it seems. Wtf are ‘we’ doing!?
Is it really true that a thousand people a day are being put on to sickness benefit? A few people are asking. The Times welfare inquiry will be publishing all of its research on the website as we go. But here's the chart. From DWP StatXplore:-
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Seems that nobody ‘in charge’ is listening the the warnings that grow louder by the day 😔
“The fasten seat belts sign is on”. This is a message I received early this morning from one of the UK’s most experienced, savvy and respected financial traders. Someone I have come to know and trust for the last 25 years. 10-year bond yields are now almost 4.5pc - up some 50 basis points over the last month. 30-year yields this morning went above 6pc - a 28-year high. Yet the UK’s political and media class continues to focus on party posturing and folksy rhetoric, ignoring the slow-motion disaster that has been happening on the UK’s sovereign bond markets for at least the last 18 months - a disaster that will inevitably, unless we drastically change course, turn into a fully blown market meltdown. At that point, the UK government won’t be able to borrow enough money to finance our already spiralling debt interest bill. Britain’s financial management will be taken over by overseas technocrats - that will be the condition of additional borrowing, to maintain the basic functions of the state, as happened in Greece and Italy back in the early 2010s and here in Britain 50 years ago this year (when we were forced in 1976 to apply to the IMF for a bailout). The austerity then imposed on Britain would make 2010-2019 feel like a picnic - far, far worse than it would be if we took serious action now to control our public finances. Lower-income households would suffer most - and there would be serious damage done to the UK’s already rapidly-fraying social fabric …. I have been warning about these looking fiscal dangers publicly, in my newspaper columns and elsewhere, since at least early 2024. Doing so hasn’t been easy or fun. I have been dismissed and derided by numerous economists, “economists”, officials and policymakers - as well as lots of journalists. I absolutely don’t want a disastrous 1976-style outcome - which is why I’ve taken the blows and issued the warnings. The state is too big. Public spending is out of control. Our fiscal rules are a convenient nonsense - designed to kick the can of financial reality into the future. We need to get real … and take bold action to tame the growth of spending, push back a now totally over-bearing state and snap the British economy out of today’s high-tax-high-borrowing-low-growth doom loop - the result of myopic, counter-productive policy-making by successive governments for the last decade and more … Other prominent economists who agree with me - ie who are financially-literate, can read a yield curve, have a passing interest in economic history and who understand the dangers of some 80pc of UK government borrowing going on debt interest as it currently is - need to chuck “career risk” in the bin, and start saying publicly what so many of them have, for quite a while now, only had the bottle to say to me in private … Remember: “The fasten seat belts sign is on”
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#AD "I will never be able to convey what those gentlemen did for me" Kev's remarkable tale of football, friendship and survival ❤️ If you watch one thing today, make it this. @SkyBet | @TheBHF
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The NHS are spending our money on this case. Perhaps @Channel4News should be focusing on this rather than investing how nurse Sandie Peggie is funding her own personal legal costs?
The Darlington nurses case could cost the NHS over £1.5m. NHS Fife’s legal costs in the Sandie Peggie case had already exceeded £400k — and that wasn’t the final bill. What could nearly £2 MILLION represent? 🩺 Around 39,000 GP appointments. 39,000 opportunities to assess symptoms, diagnose illness, manage long-term conditions and reassure patients. When people struggle to get a GP appointment, £2m sounds rather different. @NHSEngland @NHSResolution @DHSCgovuk @SexMattersOrg @JournalismSEEN @NHSScotland @NHSWales @ScotGovHealth @WGHealthandCare
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Mum’s birthday yesterday. Son’s birthday tomorrow. So, big family 🇨🇳🧧🥡🥢 tonight.
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Phil Scrafton retweeted
One of our group has a spare upper tier 🎟️ for Millwall 🏟️
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If you aren’t already then follow this guy. Brilliant stuff. 👏🏼
RAPPER’S DELIGHT • The Sugarhill Gang
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Some legendary folks in this pic. #Lindos #Wedding 🇬🇷
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Morning all. #WeddingWeek #Lindos 🇬🇷🍻🥂😎
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😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
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Have that Skoobs! Fantastic away support again Imps. All the noise, yet again. 👏🏼🔴⚪️
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