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Andrew Jones

@arj2024.bsky.social

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Programmer since the ZX80 days when a computer came as a kit you had to solder together yourself (and so long ago it was in black & white). Never been to pick up my A Level results, only ever worked for my own company.🇪🇺 ⬆️ Front garden, FR ⬇️ Cambridge

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Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · Feb 10

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Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 5h

That's the problem with a bunch of ex-civil servants in government - they have no idea what businesses need to help grow the economy.

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Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 5h

Exactly! Nice work for some but it's doing little to improve transport infrastructure in Cambridgeshire.

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 5h

I don't know how Labour have the audacity to put up taxes when there is a blindingly obvious solution for getting the economy growing - EU SM+CU membership.

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 5h

In other news they apparently have money to spend £29m on the C2C Public Enquiry.

Maybe it's about priorities?

It looks like defending a poor decision made by GCP a decade ago is taking precedence.

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Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 15h

new grid-scale electricity storage technologies.

However, developing and then scaling into production this new storage tech is unlikely to happen in the next 49 months.

However, this is what politicians claim will happen.

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 15h

Electricity storage is absolutely critical to reduce our reliance on gas as the UKs main form of energy storage.

Lithium-ion might be a quick fix built on familiar phone batteries but is unlikely to be the long-term solution for grid scale storage.

We need to scale up development of...

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Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 15h

Miliband is sadly setting himself, and the whole green agenda, up to fail.

Getting to 95% of electricity from renewables by 2030 (just 49 months time) isn't going to happen thanks to global manufacturing and installation capacity constraints.

Why can't politicians just be honest?

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 1d

It's absolutely delusional to believe the UK-EU reset or trivial trade deals with countries on the other side of the planet are making any difference whatsoever.

It's simply not good enough.

We need some honest politicians who'll ensure we join EU SM+CU to get UK growth started.

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 1d

In 25ish years I don't think we've ever been into Bedford town centre although it's almost equal distance to Cambridge/Bedford. We've visited friends for dinner but never to the town centre. I used to traumatise the kids taking them to the wave pool on Sunday morning if that counts.

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 1d

Bedford sounds like a tricky one and has certainly become an unattractive shopping area.

It will be interesting to see how the private security force experiment unfolds as it replaces or supplements the largely unseen police presence.

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder if the Prof dislikes cash too? It can also be used for untraceable, and sometimes illegal, transactions.

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 1d

If the Greens weren't so fixated on the gender identity politics I think they would do much better still.

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Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 1d

Look how the imposition of a £1 parking fee at the Cambridge Park & Ride decreased bus use by 30% (if I recall correctly) - a decision later reversed.

It's not logical that such a small fee should have any impact but the phycological "nudge" factor has weird consequences sometimes.

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Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 1d

Is it simply performative cruelty that, I guess, is supposed to appeal to the flagger types and attract them back to Labour?

Yet again it shows the total inability of Labour to do comms properly.

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Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sure rural drivers would be willing to switch from road tax as long as the cost per mile of driving was inversely proportional to the reliability and frequency of public transport.

They could take it a step further and start charging the self-righteous cyclists as well!

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 2d

A-level English

#bbcpm

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Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 2d

Labour's silence on Brexit helps Farage enormously and means he's never held accountable for his disastrous project.

I welcome a change in direction given EU SM+CU is the only way we'll ever get the UK economy growing again.

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 2d

I think we might be better off if MPs had to take A-level Politics!

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 2d

I think we might be better off if MPs had to take A-level Politics!

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 2d

If the UK is freaking out about ID cards, I doubt they’ll be thrilled with the idea of 24/7 car location tracking (even though the mobile connection in all UK cars already enables location tracking for the emergency call function).

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 2d

After persuading people to give up their rights to live, study, work, or retire in the EU, Farage is now pushing for the abandonment of fundamental rights like the right to life, freedom from torture, and freedom of expression and assembly.

How can people be so stupid to fall for this stuff?

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 2d

The flood prone Tempsford will be in Bedfordshire and we've already heard from councillors that there is currently very little coordination between Huntingdonshire DC and Cambridgeshire CC and Bedfordshire.

It already sounds messy.

www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk/migrated_ima...

www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely. By staying silent on Brexit, Labour allows Farage to escape any responsibility for it.

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 2d

Growth is crucial for saving the economy and the Labour Party, so they should replace Starmer and Reeves with a pro-EU team ready to move past anti-business policies and Brexit red lines.

Farage will ruthlessly exploit the recession that Labour are currently creating.

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Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 2d

I couldn't agree more - the Tories need to return to a pro-business and therefore pro-EU party to survive.

Considering that flaggers appear to be the target audience for the Tories nowadays, it's hard to believe they are successful businesspeople or significant wealth creators.