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@RishiSunak the NHS doesnāt need more money ā¦ it needs to better manage/better spend the money it has.
@DHSCgovuk planned spend for 2021/22 on England = Ā£190.3bn - majority (Ā£136bn) passed to NHS England & NHS Improvement for spending on health servicesā¦ š°
@RishiSunak the NHS doesnāt need more money ā¦ it needs to better manage/better spend the money it has.
@DHSCgovuk planned spend for 2021/22 on England = Ā£190.3bn - majority (Ā£136bn) passed to NHS England & NHS Improvement for spending on health servicesā¦ š°
2/7
How is that not enough for Englandās 56m population? š¤Æ
c.40% of this is spent on treating preventable conditions! Yet the NHS fails to execute a strategy that truly prioritises preventionā¦ š¤¦š½āāļø
How is that not enough for Englandās 56m population? š¤Æ
c.40% of this is spent on treating preventable conditions! Yet the NHS fails to execute a strategy that truly prioritises preventionā¦ š¤¦š½āāļø
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Take CVD as an example: economic analysis suggests that if all detected individuals were managed according to NICE guidelines, the total saving would be Ā£61bn & 5.2m CVD cases prevented!
The amount of waste in public services is criminalā¦ š
Take CVD as an example: economic analysis suggests that if all detected individuals were managed according to NICE guidelines, the total saving would be Ā£61bn & 5.2m CVD cases prevented!
The amount of waste in public services is criminalā¦ š
As someone who has managed 5 prisons the main thing I learnt during my career is that prisons don't reduce crime, they don't rehabilitate & they don't make the community safer.
The solutions need to be community-designed and driven, with govt support.
The solutions need to be community-designed and driven, with govt support.
Australia cannot afford the social, health and economic costs of over-imprisonment. Strong, healthy & connected communities are the most effective way to prevent crime & make communities safer.
Research has found a large portion of prisoners come from and return to a small number of inadequately resourced neighbourhoods and communities.
Last election, Australians emphatically voted for change. But #Budget2022 ā the first budget from the Albanese Government ā gives us more of the same old shit that fails to address the issues that matter the most. Hereās a bit of a breakdown: (š§µ)
TAX CUTS āļø Labor had a choice: deliver tax cuts for the rich or immediate cost of living relief for the rest of us. They know wages will go backwards and flatline, and unemployment, rent and bills will all rise, and they still gave billionaires and politicians a $9k/yr tax cut.
HOUSING š One million homes? Hardly. Laborās big new budget announcement only funds 10,000 new homes, with the mere *hope* that private developers will essentially build the rest š
Families with young children are among the big winners from tonightās budget š§µ #Budget2022
Progress toward better outcomes for Australian children and families has begun with the budget delivering an increase to the child care subsidy and a phased increase in paid parental leave, providing six months per couple and assessing combined incomes to test eligibility.
The early childhood education and care reforms in the budget will fuel better child development, improve the wellbeing of families, boost workforce participation and the economy.
The unwinding of @budget2020 continues. The situation demands the whole package to go, not just bits here & there. The creeping U-turn just encourages MPs & others to demand more. And it is unlikely that the markets will respond well to the uncertainty created by slow change.
Will the reversal of the Corporation Tax reduction effect growth? This question is difficult to answer because it involves comparing anticipation in 3 periods, before @budget2022, up until now, & after the reversion.
However, what stands out is the volatility of policymaking, which damages govt credibility & is likely to lower expectations for investment and lower economic growth.
The crisis is upon us. The PM & Chancellor have provoked the interlinked financial markets & the bear has woken, angry & hungry. What should the PM, with power, do? Remove the dart that wounds the beast. Calm & if necessary subdue it. Convene wise & experienced councils.
Combat climate change. But now, today: 1. Replace Kwarteng by Sunak, & cancel #budget2022. It has been an unmitigated disaster, politically & economically. 2. Reappoint a previous respected mandarin to head @hmtreasury to reassure the public & the markets.
3. Convene an open public meeting of the PM, the Chancellor, the Governor @bankofengland , the head of the @OBR_UK & the head of the @TheFCA to further reassure the markets. The turmoil must be stopped urgently before bankruptcies overtake policy. The markets take no prisoners.
[Media Release] Australia is subsidising fossil fuels to the tune of $11.6b a year. Hereās what we could buy for that instead.
#AusPol #budget2022
climatecouncil.org.au/resources/one-ā¦
#AusPol #budget2022
climatecouncil.org.au/resources/one-ā¦
How about:
š Free rooftop solar for 1.5 million low-income households.
š 15 massive pumped hydro facilities.
š One EV charging station per 12km of road in Australia (72,500 of them).
š Replacing every public bus in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne with electric buses.
š Free rooftop solar for 1.5 million low-income households.
š 15 massive pumped hydro facilities.
š One EV charging station per 12km of road in Australia (72,500 of them).
š Replacing every public bus in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne with electric buses.
Conference ends. Truss at a twisted podium paints #TheGrowthPlan in more, unconvincing detail. @Conservatives turned into a pale, English version of MAGA neocon extremism. First they were infiltrated by the Brexit Party, now theyāve been taken over by UK followers of a US elite.
Itās as if the UK economy were a plaything for a right-wing experiment, enacting tax cuts and deregulation, attacking the woke, politics as entertainment. They donāt need any data or economic expertise. They know it all. Disrupt and hope for the best. #PostTruthEconomics
The UK establishment has been systematically undermined and damaged by these neocons grabbing the levers of power. Whitehall mandarins sacked, mocked, or broken. Lickspittles promoted as negotiators. The unwritten constitution tested and twisted to malign ends. Brexit. Clowning.
Unbelievable cod economics being spouted by Truss and Minister Paul Scully. This is boned-up #PostTruthEconomics. Scrap economic orthodoxy, he is saying, and disrupt (what? the economy? society? the woke, whoever they are?) Ah, itās the EU regulations to be scrapped. š”
Minister Scully is giving the justification for #TheGrowthPlan on @BBCRadio4 World at One. Mainly spin, clearly a qualification for the job. Heās good, smooth, well-spoken as mum would say. āA different strand of Conservatismā he says. šNeoconservatism, I say. Smooth as treacle.
So what are the economics of the half-baked plan enacted in #budget2022 & explained by sloganeering Truss & smooth Scully? Radical policies are necessary to respond to 1) events, eg energy price inflation & 2) the fact that the economic orthodoxy has failed. So far I agree 100%.
#PostTruthEconomics aka Trussonomics or Trumponomics is the economics being followed by #PostTruth governments that ignore economic expertise and formal forecasting & scenario analyses in favour of evidence-free policies based on ideology or populism - a thread
In the UK, the #budget2022 is a prime example: no @OBR_UK costings with scenarios based on alternative assumptions; policy changes based on wishes & hopes, rather than evidence; facile & ad hoc justifications (trickle-down economics); bluster & mis-speaking arrogance; and lies.
One feature of #PostTruthEconomics is the co-option of non-mainstream, outlier, ideological, or dead economists to provide confident justification, at least of aspects of the policies, e.g. for #budget2022 Prof Patrick Minford @JamesVa72538332
Great presentation by @IBPKenya to CSOs and citizens on how to analyze the Program Based Budget. KGBN members are attending and keen to contribute towards making budgets gender responsive. #budget2022 #Genderbudgeting 
#Budget2022. A missed opportunity to reduce child poverty. The major investment in healthcare services needed to go hand in hand with efforts to reduce poverty.
Poverty is a major determinant of child health. Investing in one without the other is ambulance at the bottom stuff
Poverty is a major determinant of child health. Investing in one without the other is ambulance at the bottom stuff
Child health is exquisitely sensitive to child poverty. We canāt achieve child health and well-being without tackling child poverty. /2
In terms of #Budget2022, if the governmentās figures are taken at face value, one in ten children are in material hardship, and one in seven are in income poverty. Poverty rates for MÄori and Pacific children are much higher, as well as for disabled children. /3
š§µ1. There is no #coalition as the NDP MPs are not in the Liberal cabinet., instead there is a supply and confidence agreement to provide stability and an environment to get important work done #supplyandconfidenceagreement
2. During a time when transitions from a pandemic financing to normalcy must take place Canadians will benefit from what the supply and confidence agreement provides. Federal #COVID19supports expired on May 7th. cbc.ca/news/politics/ā¦
3. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canada's surging job growth and record-low unemployment rate is evidence that ongoing pandemic support will not be needed. Those applying for workers' benefits have 60 days to submit their claims, while businesses have 180 days.
The recovery of unmarked burial sites at former residential schools is a reminder of the shameful legacy of residential schools and colonialism.
We must ensure continued support to communities as they respond to and heal from intergenerational trauma and the ongoing impacts of residential schools. The #GC is committed to undertaking this work in partnership with Indigenous peoples and communities.
To support the appointment of a Special Interlocutor who will work collaboratively with Indigenous peoples and make recommendations for changes to strengthen federal laws and practices to protect & preserve unmarked burial sites, #Budget2022 proposes $10.4 million over two years.
I find it interesting that for someone who has worked on a few budgets, in fiscal policy at Finance Canada, and an economist, I got one media spot for #Budget2022. Just goes to show that Black women aren't called to talk about important matters like money in #cdnmedia or #cdnpoli
If #cdnmedia really wants to diversify then they need to rethink what "experts" look like. And #cdnmedia has determined that people who can speak on issues of finance and economics aren't Black women like myself. There is no representation there #Budget2022
I've even done budget lockup 2 or 3 times. Did @CBCNews @CTVNews or @globalnews reach out?
NOPE.
Apparently Black women can only talk about Black things and not about "serious" topics. That is the media bias some of us talk about and it's discriminatory
#CdnMediaFailed
NOPE.
Apparently Black women can only talk about Black things and not about "serious" topics. That is the media bias some of us talk about and it's discriminatory
#CdnMediaFailed
The focus on the costs of @cafreeland #Budget2022 copyright term extension has rightly focused on the lost generation of Canadian authors. As noted yesterday, no public domain for McLuhan, Laurence, Roy, etc. for an additional 20 years. 1/4
But the historical impact canāt be underestimated. Canadians will lose public domain access to the works and papers of some of Canadaās most notable leaders and figures of modern times: two former Prime Ministers in Diefenbaker and St. Laurentā¦ 2/4
ā¦Provincial leaders including LĆ©vesque, Lesage, Robarts, Hatfield, Smallwood. Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Bora Laskin and a myriad of others who helped build a country. No public domain access for 20 extra years. 3/4
Copyright term extension may have been buried in an annex in #Budget2022, but @cafreeland has been grappling with the issue since her election in 2015 from the TPP to USMCA to recent trade battles over electric vehicles. A threadā¦ 1/7
In 2015, the Liberal government inherited the Trans Pacific Partnership, which included term extension. @cafreeland was International Trade Minister. Canada consulted and delayed deciding whether to move ahead with the agreement. 2/7 michaelgeist.ca/2016/06/democrā¦
In 2017, Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the TPP, which opened the door for Canada to suspend some provisions. At the top of the list? Copyright term extension, which was quickly out as a requirement to ratify the newly named CPTPP. 3/7 michaelgeist.ca/2017/11/rethinā¦
Hard to think of a worse week in Canadian digital policy. First, Bill C-11 continues to chug along with the government relying on cartoons to misleadingly claim that the bill wonāt touch user generated content (it clearly does). 1/6
Meanwhile, the Chair of the CRTC implausibly claims independence while actively supporting Bill C-11, legislation that would govern the Commission. The lack of public trust in the CRTC is well-earned with the Chair still facing charges of bias. 2/6
The government follows up with Bill C-18, which features massive government intervention into the market alongside mandated payments for links and āfacilitating accessā to news. CRTC to decide who qualifies and if licensing deals are ok. 3/6
Canadian governments have long resisted copyright term extension for obvious reasons: real costs and few benefits. Canada caved in the USMCA and now @cafreeland buried implementation in #Budget2022. What can be done about this ātax on consumersā? 1/5 michaelgeist.ca/2022/04/budgetā¦
The opposition to term extension is universal outside a handful of lobby groups. Australia, NZ have studied the costs and @pauljheald has conducted research that found it reduces publication and access. #Budget2022 2/5 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfā¦
Australian professor @rgibli studied the Canadian market on e-books and found a positive effect of public domain: more availability and a significant impact on consumer cost. With millions at stake this is a tax on consumers. #Budget2022 3/5 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfā¦
"Nobody gets left behind."
The. Liberals. Left. Disability. Funding. Out. Of. The. Entire. Budget.
#CanadianDisabilityBenefit #DisabilityTwitter #Budget2022
The. Liberals. Left. Disability. Funding. Out. Of. The. Entire. Budget.
#CanadianDisabilityBenefit #DisabilityTwitter #Budget2022
I've said this a thousand times but I need to state it again after #Budget2022 was officially revealed.
The lack of the #CanadianDisabilityBenefit being on the budget not only breaks promises (Liberals promised to make the CDB, NDP promised to lift disabled folks from poverty) ā
The lack of the #CanadianDisabilityBenefit being on the budget not only breaks promises (Liberals promised to make the CDB, NDP promised to lift disabled folks from poverty) ā
It shows that the coercive amendments to MAID in which the Liberals led the rushing through of are meant to be there. It shows that the government is willfully offering disabled people only two choices: forced poverty, or death.
It shows šØš¦ is attempting to thrive with eugenics.
It shows šØš¦ is attempting to thrive with eugenics.
"Housing that is affordable for everyone" eh?
I'm Chrystia's constituent (Uni-Rosedale)
My income on ODSP is $1169 per month for *all costs*
The shelter portion is only *$497*
Can you help find me affordable housing for $497 per month?
#CanadianDisabilityBenefit #Budget2022
I'm Chrystia's constituent (Uni-Rosedale)
My income on ODSP is $1169 per month for *all costs*
The shelter portion is only *$497*
Can you help find me affordable housing for $497 per month?
#CanadianDisabilityBenefit #Budget2022
The #CanadianDisabilityBenefit was not in #Budget2022,
It was in the campaigns, the throne speech, the mandate letter ā but not the budget.
Perpetual studies still to come stalling the creation of the benefit, that's where Canada is at.
It was in the campaigns, the throne speech, the mandate letter ā but not the budget.
Perpetual studies still to come stalling the creation of the benefit, that's where Canada is at.
Provinces have already dropped their responsibilities re: disability supports admittedly waiting on the CDB which the Liberals made a big deal out of.
Disabled folks in legislated poverty now have no chance to be lifted from poverty for the next year. Provincially or Federally.
Disabled folks in legislated poverty now have no chance to be lifted from poverty for the next year. Provincially or Federally.
Youāre going to hear a lot of things about #Budget2022, but hereās the bottom line: Itās a plan to grow our economy and make your life more affordable. Itās a plan that invests in people, in a strong economy, and in a clean future. Let me break that down:
Weāre going to invest in housing. Over the next ten years, weāll double the number of new homes built across the country. Weāll invest in rental housing, weāll make the market fairer for Canadians, and weāll help young people save for their first home. #Budget2022
Weāre also going to invest in workers. Weāll make it easier for skilled immigrants to do the jobs theyāre trained for, weāll make it more affordable for skilled trades workers to move to where their jobs are, and weāll invest in the skills that Canadian workers need. #Budget2022
Voici ce que vous devez retenir au sujet du #Budget2022 : cāest un plan pour faire croĆ®tre notre Ć©conomie et rendre votre vie plus abordable. Dans le cadre de ce plan, on va investir dans les gens, dans une Ć©conomie forte et dans un avenir propre. Je vous explique :
On va investir dans le logement. Dans les 10 prochaines annĆ©es, on va doubler le nombre de logements construits au pays. On va investir dans les logements locatifs, rendre le marchĆ© plus Ć©quitable et aider les jeunes Ć Ć©conomiser pour acheter leur premiĆØre habitation. #Budget2022
On va aussi investir dans les travailleurs pour aider les immigrants qualifiĆ©s Ć occuper des emplois dans leur domaine et permettre aux travailleurs de mĆ©tiers spĆ©cialisĆ©s de dĆ©mĆ©nager prĆØs de leur lieu dāemploi. On va investir dans les compĆ©tences prisĆ©es au Canada. #Budget2022
GDP growth forecast at 6%, the Finance Minister says, citing agriculture as one of the key drivers.
Curious. Weāre smack in the middle of a nasty drought, so what underpins that expectation of agriculture being a key growth driver?
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Curious. Weāre smack in the middle of a nasty drought, so what underpins that expectation of agriculture being a key growth driver?
#Budget2022KE #BudgetKE #Budget2022
5.1 million jobs, cumulatively, created in formal & informal sectors, Finance CS says, since 2013.
What heās not saying: bulk of those jobs have been created in the informal sector, where job security is scarce, earnings are often lower.
#Budget2022KE #BudgetKE #Budget2022
What heās not saying: bulk of those jobs have been created in the informal sector, where job security is scarce, earnings are often lower.
#Budget2022KE #BudgetKE #Budget2022
The 'jobs created' line here from the Finance CS is not really the flex the Executive reckons it is. Also, the pace of job creation in the formal sector has been in decline.
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