Our welfare state should be for native Brits but we have opened it up to the 3rd world. Hardworking UK taxpayers should not be paying for "new arrivals" to get free social housing, benefits, healthcare, education, legal aid and more. #UKIP will stop the madness. #VoteUKIP
🚨Tories alarmed by threat from the far right as #Reform UK focuses on pro-Brexit seats🚨
Oh dear... 😳
Reform’s level of support in both by-elections was greater than the #Labour majorities.
⚠️ #Tories: “Whips have had lots of messages saying we need a tone that doesn’t make us look like a rightwing sect. Lurching to the right to pick up the 5% Reform Party vote will be a negative in Tory heartlands. Elections are only won from the centre ground.”
This is brilliant. Simon Harris invented a mock campaign to build a wall in the English Channel to stop the boats. Now #UKIP have adopted it as official policy. #Zoomers
The #BBC has apologised to the batrachian #Farage, but the sum total of it is: "We reported you lost your #Coutts account because you don't have the money. This was not entirely accurate. You also lost your account because you're a bigoted shit."
Farage and his fanbois are gloating. But he's still gunning after someone senior in the bank, because it was never about money or 'spree feach'. This is about revenge and intimidation, and always has been.
While everyone's focussing on one seedy little creature turned moral entrepreneur (#RussellBrand), another development today bodes ill for my favourite seedy little etc, #Farage.
"#NigelFarage fury as regulator finds no evidence of bank account closures due to political views
"The one-time #UKIP leader hits out at the #FCA's findings following an investigation into the so-called de-banking row that cost the chief executive of #NatWest her job."
It is a fallacy to assume #Bregret is a new thing. It has been a feature of the data for a long time. The data has just been misread by many political commentators, political scientists and media.
This is also a means of #introduction. I am a Professor of Economics at University of Warwick studying the #PoliticalEconomy of #Brexit, among others. My work particularly focuses on understanding the role that #Austerity played in bringing about #Brexit.
Did #austerity cause #Brexit? In the past weeks there was much talk in the UK on a return of #austerity. I am a Prof of Economics at Warwick University and I wrote a paper in 2018 that shows how #austerity was instrumental to bringing about #Brexit. This is a means of #introduction on here.
The paper shows that #austerity was a pivotal driver of #Brexit result. But that is only half the story: most likely there wouldnt have been an #EUReferendum...
In the paper, I use individual-level panel data and data on all electoral contests in the UK to document that places and people more exposed to #austerity were more likely to vote #UKIP or express views associated with #protestvoting.
This was a perceived threat to the #Conservatives as it involved numerous defections resulting in the #Tories internal struggles to arise.
Due to the loud voices in the Tory party, this resulted in the demand for an #EUReferendum to become louder....