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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · 21d

(know that’s not the main point of your tweet, but I think the general point that gov having a record of the checks makes the substance it helping on illegal migration more likely)

morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · 21d

It is a different mechanism, but when we paired UC with hmrc data, fraud on earnings outside of self employment reduced to zero.

My (unsurprising!) bet is that this will help much more than you expect, and we should be thinking about regularisation etc

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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · 21d

I might be blind here, but I don’t see what is supposed to be the lie here.

Separately, my case is we require checks but have no audit trail of those checks. Doing that helps enforcement. I think this is most obviously clear in right to rent checks when paired with a national landlord database.

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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · 24d

JP Spencer @jpspencer.bsky.social · 24d

Yesterday, I published a report on restoring civic power to places so that we can regain pride and prosperity across the country.

I've summarised the argument here, including some @yougov.co.uk polling and pushing back on the idea of a 'postcode lottery'.

futurenorth.substack.com/p/pride-and-...

Pride and Prosperity

Restoring civic power

futurenorth.substack.com

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Abby Jitendra @abbyabhaya.bsky.social · 24d

Really like this from @morganwild.bsky.social.

Lots of attention on the immigration implications. But not enough on the radical potential on social policy - counting unwaged work like care as contribution, proper income protection, long-term care funding.

www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/...

The case for contribution — Labour Together

This essay, by Labour Together’s chief policy adviser, Morgan Wild, argues that this Labour government should root itself in an ethic and expectation of contribution : the actions we take that make o...

www.labourtogether.uk

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · Sep 15

This from @morganwild.bsky.social and @peterhyman.bsky.social is excellent. Was waving a lighter in the air while reading.

www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/...

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JP Spencer @jpspencer.bsky.social · Aug 7

🚀 Introducing Future North - a Substack exploring the people, projects and ideas shaping the future of the North of England.

First post below - please subscribe to get new posts directly to your inbox!

futurenorth.substack.com/p/why-future...

Why Future North

Now 80%, soon 100%!

futurenorth.substack.com

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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · Jul 11

sorry - missed this reply in my response. amen to experimenting with rooftop solar if we can!

morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · Jul 11

I guess not even about meeting the target - just we're accelerating towards clean power a long way, and so (I hope!) domestic energy consumption should be less carbon constrained reasonably quickly

morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · Jul 11

We just got an aircon unit for our bedroom - part of why I was comfortable with it was confidence about Lab's clean power plan. It's carbon intensive now, but it won't be soon. Obviously politically, I want energy abundance & clean power to be consistent. Am I kidding myself?

morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · Jul 8

Polls which ask people to have opinions that they previously did not have for a small monetary prize where there is no downside to being wrong probably do more work to persuade policy wonks the public are stupid than any other single thing

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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · Jul 8

You've signed up to a polling platform in return for monthly entries into a £100 Amazon voucher prize draw.

Quick, rank these monkeys by their population size.

Primatologist: no wonder our orangutans are so endangered with a public thinking there's so many of them

Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · Jul 8

There's a single correct response to this kind of finding, which is utter despair

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Jul 7

More than a quarter of people think MPs expenses are one of the top three costs for government. A higher % than think the same for pensions or education.

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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · Jul 7

@britishprogress.bsky.social @labourtogether.bsky.social

morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · Jul 7

And you can read the full report here: www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/...

Getting Britain off the ground — Labour Together

A runway is a several kilometre length of reinforced pavement. Building Heathrow’s first runway took around a year. It is everything else that now takes time. This paper tries to answer a simple ques...

www.labourtogether.uk

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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · Jul 7

Great write up from @oliver_wright here: www.thetimes.com/article/42ff...

Labour considers fast-tracking approval of big projects

The move, which would take years off the planning process, is loosely modelled on a Canadian scheme developed by Mark Carney

www.thetimes.com

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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · Jul 7

Infrastructure boosts growth - but only when it’s built. Lots of this Labour government’s decisions are difficult. A larger economy makes all of these decisions easier.

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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · Jul 7

We could replace most of the report with a post-it note: Parliament is sovereign. MPs saved Scunthorpe steel in 9 hours. If we bring that urgency to building, we can bring down people's costs much quicker.

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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · Jul 7

But we can use the tools in the report to massively ramp up building. New homes means cheaper rent. New grid means cheaper, cleaner bills. New transport means access to better jobs. More runways means cheaper holidays. Labour can fix the cost of living crisis - but only through building.

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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · Jul 7

✈️ Britain’s talked about a third runway at Heathrow for two decades. Our new report with @BritishProgress shows how a flight could take off before 2029 - if Parliament chooses to speed up the process through a Public Bill.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Jun 21

Quite. The right is always setting the ability to speak English well as a test of integration and these children pass with flying colours.

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · Jun 21

If you read down this Mail article long enough, you get to this grudging admission:

"76% of pupils at Kobi Nazrul are meeting 'expected standards' in reading, writing and maths.

That compares with a local average of 71 per cent and an average of 61 per cent in England."
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archive.ph/wip/lmv8G

Mail headline: the school where NONE of the pupils speak English as first language

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JP Spencer @jpspencer.bsky.social · Apr 7

📣 New report 📣

In a volatile world, we need an economy that is firing on all cylinders - but regional imbalances are driving overheating and stagnation in different places.

www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/...

Nation Rebalanced: How do we create a country that works for all places? — Labour Together

This report, by Labour Together’s Director of Devolution, JP Spencer, sets out a bold vision for how to rebalance the UK economy and create prosperity in every part of the country. It outlines four k...

www.labourtogether.uk

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · Jan 16

In the last 5 years, there have been 23 mentions of Oasis tickets, 5899 mentions of Debt, 1634 mentions of National Debt, 1026 to British Debt, and 434 to Household debt.

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · Jan 16

She says one of the reason is politics is not serious. She said there have been more discussion in parliament of Oasis tickets than of British debt.

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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · Jan 17

This from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social on the big state capacity problems and where they came from is so excellent. I find it gives me an intellectual permission I didn't realise I needed to think past public choice theory:

hypertext.niskanencenter.org/p/taming-the...

Taming the unaccountability machine

“Public choice cybernetics” for the 21st century.

hypertext.niskanencenter.org

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Adam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social · Jan 16

when the abolitionist movement was gaining steam in Britain in the late 1780s, one of the pro-slavery lobby’s very first responses was trying to change the word “slave” to “assistant planters”.

West India lobby was the prototype of an industry under attack. One of its first impulses was to consider cosmetic changes.* "The vulgar are influenced by names and titles," suggested one proslavery writer that year. "Instead of sLAVES, let the Negroes be called ASSISTANT-PLANTERS; and we shall not then hear such violent outcries against the slave-trade by pious divines, tender-hearted poetesses, and shortsighted politicians.
On May 12, 1789, Wilberforce rose to make his first speech against slavery, in the famous voice that, as one observer noted, was "so distinct and melodious that... if he talked nonsense you would feel obliged to hear him." He spoke from

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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · Jan 15

Always thought there was useful think tank gap in the market for this kind of thing. Centre For Ruinously Tedious Policy Work

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