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Stephen Smith

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Stephen Smith @gsds3.bsky.social · 2h

If it conflicts with their priors, longer than forever

Stephen Smith @gsds3.bsky.social · 6h

Thank you. Always useful to see our vacancy rates are low when seeing the ‘fill the vacant homes and we don’t need to build (m)any more

Stephen Smith @gsds3.bsky.social · 7h

How do we compare with similar countries? My vague recollection is that France is similar (though different tenure mixes make comparisons hard/not 100% relevant)

Stephen Smith @gsds3.bsky.social · 19h

Whilst they think the voters - other than the 16% saying they’ll support them now - are in Kemi’s fictional fairyland, they’re doomed.

Stephen Smith @gsds3.bsky.social · 21h

Tbf, he hasn’t realised the need to advocate for all his policies and, indeed, his government. It sometimes feels his previous career is a problem - you don’t have to explain to the judge your point countless times, you expect the jury to pay attention. The electorate on the other hand….

Stephen Smith @gsds3.bsky.social · 21h

You’d think that someone who talked about us being in a fight for the soul of the country might want to participate in that fight. But, Starmer experience says not

Stephen Smith @gsds3.bsky.social · 22h

You think they move quickly? This is the lot that happily let a round of mayoral elections take place on a system that did them no favours despite aeons of time to tweak it back

Stephen Smith @gsds3.bsky.social · 1d

With our working lives potentially spanning 50 years in the future, an adult careers service to help people switch mid working life to the best alternative would be great.

Stephen Smith @gsds3.bsky.social · 1d

I think it was The Pinch but it may have been somewhere else which had a fascinating graph of lifelong net (projected & real) contributions, which offered precisely zero surprise on which generation was the biggest net beneficiary of the UK welfare state

Stephen Smith @gsds3.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I suppose early retirement isn’t a binary thing. Just surprised there are appreciable numbers who can afford to retire in that cohort, but a) the ones who can pay lots of tax b) maybe the pension pinch is a bit younger

Stephen Smith @gsds3.bsky.social · 1d

Surprised the tax drop starts in the 50-59 cohort - is early retirement still a thing for them?

Stephen Smith @gsds3.bsky.social · 1d

Example n of a government that has no coherent vision into which its policies fit

Stephen Smith @gsds3.bsky.social · 1d

Complaining about her teachers is one of the things she has in common with Liz Truss

Stephen Smith @gsds3.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the parallel to the BBC doing something wrong meriting wall-to-wall coverage on the BBC

Stephen Smith @gsds3.bsky.social · 2d

They clearly haven’t integrated well

Stephen Smith @gsds3.bsky.social · 2d

It’s just such a terrible shame for Kemi Badenoch that there was someone with exactly the same name as her who served in government for a sizeable part of that period.

Stephen Smith @gsds3.bsky.social · 2d

Would they have to find Nandy to sack her?

Stephen Smith @gsds3.bsky.social · 2d

Do you think Lab would go into coalition with the others, though? There is a strain of Labour thinking ‘better opposition than compromise with others’

Stephen Smith @gsds3.bsky.social · 2d

Isn’t this British political journalism in general? Everything is either a bit of fun, or super dramatic. If it was serious, people wouldn’t read/click/watch/listen

Stephen Smith @gsds3.bsky.social · 2d

So brave of those people to only speak through their solicitor. Normally they’d be up for standing wifh their arms folded looking disgruntled

Stephen Smith @gsds3.bsky.social · 3d

There are dragons the wrong side of the Pennines so this is just protecting you from your own intentions

Stephen Smith @gsds3.bsky.social · 3d

Not even the compensation element?

Stephen Smith @gsds3.bsky.social · 3d

When will the Moneybox live on train company service and compensation be?

Stephen Smith @gsds3.bsky.social · 3d

A phrase about a dead sheep springs to mind

Stephen Smith @gsds3.bsky.social · 3d

‘If there were a general election held tomorrow, which party would you vote for?’ Is the question (that’s yougov, others are pretty much the same)