Brendon Boshell
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Founder at Recoreo - Operator of online brands. Founder at Gym Geek (https://t.co/M0SXJAkSa8) - calorie calculators, free workout routines and exercise guides.
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Joined April 2008
@gunsnrosesgirl3 He's doing "point and call" - a Japanese system that reduces mistakes by 85%.
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The government released a report showing that skilled migrant households contribute £16,400 more than UK born adults in their first year. But at least £5,000 of that is because the report assumes only UK born adults pay government debt interest. Look at the differences in
The average skilled worker immigrant made a net contribution of £16,300 to the UK economy last year, @NatashaC reports. James O'Brien notes that the average Brit contributes £800 a year - 20 times less. 'Some food for thought, for those who are capable of thought', he says.
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@PolitlcsUK @RossLydall We shouldn't be paying people more to do less in the middle of a productivity crisis.
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@jessphillips You posted earlier that you were aware of this "all day". Yet it appears no policing provision was made. Can you detail what steps were taken to *prevent* the outbreak of disorder?.
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@PolitlcsUK The fact the family sought to extend the reporting restrictions tells you everything.
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@wilburnda4th @LouisStaples I think it's supposed to read "Your Pay-them-back-before-it-gets-awkward Pal". (Which is totally stupid!).
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Presumably this means that migrants don't use any national infrastructure or services that are funded by the government debt on which interest is being paid.
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@theJeremyVine @Ocado If you can't stop your penny farthing in 10 seconds, maybe either it or you as a cyclist are not suitable for the road.
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@PippaCrerar People are looking for a leader with substance, not one who can land the most blows. Rishi will alienate people with that performance.
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@RichardJMurphy If smoking didn't cause disease, why would you worry about it? Indeed, many people smoke for pleasure.
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@SDreams107 @BladeoftheS Buying houses is not boosting the economy. Unless you are economically productive and earning a top quartile income, you are not contributing to that country's economy.
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Saying that migrants aren't responsible for government debt interest is equivalent to saying I don't need to pay mortgage interest because my house already existed before I moved in.
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@PolitlcsUK Aren't the numbers under this prime minister the highest they've ever been in history?.
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@PolitlcsUK @SkyNews If the Equality Act can be used in this way, it should also be used to assess the impact of the triple lock on working age adults and children, where rates of poverty are much higher than the group benefitting from the policy.
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@oliviazao On the other hand, she owned a £600k property for £430 a month for the past 16 years. She's had a good ride thanks to quantitative easing.
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@PolitlcsUK @thetimes When he's defending his 5 year record 8 weeks into the job, you know there's a problem.
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@FullFact @Conservatives @CCHQPress The @ElectoralCommUK should also investigate this, it's disgraceful deception.
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@PolitlcsUK @thetimes Only the public sector are considered workers. True communism, well done.
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@JonnElledge It's most efficient to lay solar panels in grids/arrays and wire them in parallel. Otherwise you are pushing large amount of current through a single cable. That cabling and metering cost would be prohibitive.
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@DanielPriestley Also the top 5% has been paying more and more every year since 1999, while the bottom 50% now pay around 8-9% (down from ~20% in the 80s). People love to clamour "tax the rich". But we already have been. Where to stop?
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@JolyonMaugham Can you point to a time before puberty blockers were invented (in the 90s) where trans children were dying?.
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@MPSWestminster No drinking. No gathering. Trains turn off at 11pm so you can't get home. Welcome to London.
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@PolitlcsUK £250 per household and it's coming mostly from tax avoidance and loopholes. It's a drop in the ocean.
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@jakeperry97 He attacked an armed officer and touched his waist. If the officer genuinely believed he possessed his gun, all force would be reasonable including deadly. In that context, a kick in the head is the non-lethal option and keeps the airport safe. I can't see a jury convicting.
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@mikegalsworthy I'm not even sure what point you are trying to make here, but it's not only billionaires that wear expensive watches.
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@dreymen1 @northolt3103 Motorists are taught to wait until pedestrians are CLEAR of the crossing.
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@labourlewis "Careful, clinical provision is the way forward". The Cass Report: "The Review found that not enough is known about the longer-term impacts of puberty blockers for children and young people with gender incongruence to know whether they are safe or not.".
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@mattjay Reading the incident, it sounds like they were using Bcrypt which truncates inputs. You should always prehash with sha256 or similar first, before inputting into bhash, as best practice.
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@ejrosetta @Tinder It's mad that the same company lets you filter out ethnicities (on Hinge) but claims that filtering on gender identity is bigoted.
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@NadiaWhittomeMP The independent review group led by Cass already met with the affected groups as part of it's process. Anecdotal trans parents and the prime minister are the least informed people on this issue. You cannot just set the Cass review to one side.
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@PolitlcsUK @Telegraph So they forced us to do it to keep their base. And now we pay inflation-linked rent to Mauritius for the next 100 years? . A very "special" relationship, indeed.
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@Sandford_Police Dear sirs, I have an exclusive contract to sell PPE at reasonable prices. Please contact me at your earliest convenience. Kickbacks available.
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@timfarron The IHT for agriculture can be repaid over 10 years and the tax rate is only 20%. That's 2% a year and can be funded out of the farm's yield.
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@SimonScarrow Those are probably Russian-operated bot networks. They play both sides of the debate to stoke division.
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@guardiannews Did Elon really put Trump in the White House and half your staff into professional therapy?.
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@Peston We need radical economic reform. The country is way past the point of adjusting taxes to keep an equilibrium in the budget. Since 2008, since Brexit, we have become poorer. The economy is in relative decline. Tweaking around the edges isn't enough.
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@PolitlcsUK @MailOnline Arms by the side, clear distance between the two men, no gesticulating, nothing on the audio. There's nothing threatening about this encounter.
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@PolitlcsUK People got too used to changing the prime minister every 49 days. We're bored of this one. .
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@AndyBurnhamGM @FraserNelson Council tax has gone up by 73% in real terms since it was introduced.
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@PolitlcsUK It's not discriminatory as 18-20 have no experience or working skills. Having no skills is not a protected characteristic so employers will naturally just hire older workers. Completely legal.
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@BareLeft A woman is fighting for her life and you're concerned about statistics being racist?.
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@jessicaelgot Bear in mind that AI can do this work in 60 seconds. The police should be adopting better tech rather than having officers watch hours of tape.
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@MahyarTousi Always present budget figures per capita. £250 per household . And mostly from tax avoiders. Far cry from Rishi's £2,000 claim.
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@PatrickChristys The Secretary of State is a legal "personality" that is when the government owns assets. NESO is owned by the government.
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@NeilDotObrien 11% own UK stocks, compared to 62% of Americans. The Prime Minister's priority should be getting these numbers up, not demonising those who are prudent and invest.
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@Peston How can betting on your seat be insider information? The election date is understandable, but surely the rest is fair game until the election is held.
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@_joebelcher How can you support ideological nonsense policies like phasing out nuclear because it's "unsafe"? Complete lie.
The @TheGreenParty want to get rid of nuclear because it's "unsafe", despite it killing 100x fewer people than gas. Peak stupidity.
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@PolitlcsUK @BBCNews Nicely setting the stage for further online regulation and restrictions on free speech. Queue a statement from the prime minister in 3, 2, 1. .
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@ChaponaBike123 @Scartoons1 He's not driving, he's stopping. No judge would consider this to be "driving".
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@OpheliaWight @NadiaWhittomeMP The Cass Review met with over 1,000 people. The meetings have already happened, the recommendations have already been made. You may not like them, but we can't just dismiss the findings.
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@PolitlcsUK A welcome decision. But all the children already mistreated by the "healthcare" industry need justice and redress.
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@anon_opin When we release prisoners we should add up the total cost and levy a "prisoner loan", repaid as a 20% payroll deduction until the full repayment is made. Like student loans, but for prisoners.
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@johnmcternan No it's not. That's a cute trick the government plays to get the tax off the payslip, so people don't know what the true tax take is. We both know it's a tax on employees at the end of the day.
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@PolitlcsUK @BBCNews So they are not happy with it, Donald Trump is not happy with it. Why the pretense? Tear up the agreement.
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@IGMansfield This is just the list of in-scope categories. Then you have to calculate the "NPM score". Porridge oats are not banned, but golden syrup instant porridge oats will be.
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@PolitlcsUK It's not a family farm tax, it's half the rate of IHT the rest of us pay. It's actually a family farm discount.
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@JoolsJuevans @timfarron You mean even Clarkson, with no background or experience in farming, can turn a profit on it. This only proves the opposite point you are trying to make.
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@AsterOlsen Wrong. That's not how the regulation is worded. Trans children with precocious puberty can still be prescribed the drug. You're twisting things to create a discrimination that simply isn't there.
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@GMB How can the information prejudice a fair trial when it's been released this week prior to any trial taking place?. The information about terrorism wasn't prejudicial.
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@BeckettUnite This is what balanced and impartial reporting looks like. There has been plenty of coverage of the far-right rioters, too.
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@PolitlcsUK @Moreincommon_ Surely "None of the above" and "Don't know" are the same thing? 🤔.
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@simonjedge He's a director at "Gender Plus" so that's immediately a conflict of interest in expressing an opinion.
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