Excellent 💚

I'd love it if every time Reform talk about asylum seekers being a "danger to women and girls" someone could point out that 20% of Reform MPs have a conviction for assaulting a woman, so are statistically a FAR greater danger.

Going to leave you with a Home Office chart from their most recent asylum stats so you can decide whether the UK is a magnet for asylum seekers with a uniquely generous asylum system www.gov.uk/government/s...

Wait - no Green Party candidate? Which constituency are you in?

Why are they all just so bad at this?

Also - even if it does get watered down, the damage will already have been done for those repulsed by it, and they'll get nothing but contempt from the right.

Any politician who is taking seriously that the next election might be lost to a far-right populist party, should be doing all they can to strengthen protections for vulnerable people. If this is lost, it will go down in history as a moment where everything collapsed.

Underrated tweet. 👆

To be fair, misunderstandings are easy in short text form! I didn't think we were substantively disagreeing.

Dear lord, that was harder than it needed to be! 😅

I'm glad we got there in the end.

You're the only one here talking about "affordability limits".

I'm merely saying that recurring is different from one-off, because, well, one is recurring and the other isn't.

That matters when it comes to how you work out whether a thing is affordable, but it doesn't determine it.

I'm unsure what point you're making here, beyond desperately trying to mansplain economics to me.

Accounting treats them differently because they are different. If only for the very basic reason that recurring costs are costs you need to keep paying.

And I wasn't applying "business logic" or making a point about whether or not we should be borrowing. MMT is a whole other conversation.

The point was that capital investment is different from operating expenses - which is true whether or not you have your own sovereign bank.

I was, you're just confused... 😂

In a figurative sense yes, but in a literal accounting sense, no.