Public Sector Lawyer @publicsectorlawyer.bsky.social · 14/06/2026The Tommy Cooper School of political commentary. www.thetimes.com/article/beca... 4621830
TwitRuss @twitruss.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Why haven’t they pressed the button on the government dashboard marked, “Brilliant!”? 000
Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 14/06/2026I love how this bit implies that Tony Blair is some incredible distance from the Institute for Fiscal Studies. 2131
Dr Cinzia Yates 🇮🇲🏴 @manxinwales.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Well, it is easy. Open safe routes and implement a higher living wage and UBI. They're always so close - they can see the problem is there, but just refuse to see the actual solution. Just make it safer to come here and pay everyone more! 010
Gary Carter #FBPE 🇬🇧 @garycarter.bsky.social · 14/06/2026I’ve just read the rest of the article. The trouble with changing anything is that it creates winners and losers. Take his throw away line about merging Income Tax and NI. Assuming that the overall fiscal impact is neutral then the basic rate of income tax would increase significantly. 110
Clarissa Oakes 🇺🇦 @clarissaoakes.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Our national economy is like having a credit card. Fixing national productivity is as easy as pissing straight. Voting for ReformUK makes sense. 🤪 000
Memnon of Rhodes @johngage1.bsky.social · 14/06/2026This is precisely the well thought out plan based on solid and verifiable data points that I was looking for. Matthew Syed has my vote. 010
Kathy Hirst @hirsty21.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Can't read due to lack of free Times access but I am guessing he also champions monorails 1200
ian-medgett.bsky.social @ian-medgett.bsky.social · 14/06/2026For his next trick, he will also 'do Brexit properly'.. 0260
Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Did you get to the end of a Syed article? Possible to do it, but no-one has ever bothered. 100
Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 14/06/2026"We should reform welfare to make benefits more conditional on looking for work." Where does Matthew Syed - who never appears to have had regular employment - think that all these jobs are going to come from. This is what happens when you work for the Times - you are removed from the real world, 100
Lyndon Rosser @lyndonrosser.bsky.social · 14/06/2026"I wouldn't besiege Leningrad, I'd take it immediately" 0240
Jem @jemc.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Syed has simple solutions to everything. I’m surprised he hasn’t got his own show on GB News. 070
Cheeses Of Nazareth @cominagetcha.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Dunning Kruger has never been demonstrated so effectively. Easy to do, but no one has dared to do it properly. 010
Agata @agatakobe.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Once he sorts that easy problem out, he should have plenty of time to ensure the education system is healed. It’s a doddle to ensure teachers are paid well and attainment results soar. It’s a surprise nobody thought of it until now, to be honest. 020
Stephen Smith @gsds3.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Oh, to have the self confidence and lack of interest in reality of a Times columnist. Does he proffer views as to why no one has done something that’s so easy? 4290
Jason Edwards @ghiberti.bsky.social · 14/06/2026"The smallest of changes can yield huge results." appaz 000
Transfergraeme @transfergraeme.bsky.social · 14/06/2026I've never understood why right-wingers insist that we should keep all the low-wage low-skill jobs for "native" UK citizens but should allow immigrants to take all the "good" jobs. Is it their underhand way of ensuring that we reduce education and hence produce more citizens likely to vote for them? 010
BradipoWayway @alanwayman.bsky.social · 14/06/2026I'm going to be that guy who points out that this is an insult to Tommy Cooper, who in reality really did have expertise in what he was doing 1270
stercus-uk.bsky.social @stercus-uk.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Apart from anything else, we’re not short of high skill workers: we’re short of low skill workers whose children will take advantage of opportunities here to become high skill workers. 000
eXecrable @execrable.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Do I detect a distinct hint of sarcasm in the 'article'? Or Itsjustfuckinguselessclickbaitinnit? 000
eXecrable @execrable.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Syed has a canny way of picking the most astute analogies. From a fly-etched piss-pot to running the taxation system. The parallels are so so profound it must be obvious to all but the most brain dead. /s/ - for those who need it. 000
Jamie Baxter @jamiebaxter.bsky.social · 14/06/2026I would have Scotland win every game at this World Cup and become champions. Easy to do. Nobody has tried it properly yet 120
Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Soon as I saw this my thought was "which white man is this?". But yes, unlike all previous Prime Ministers I would have the courage to press the "fix everything with no political or economic cost" button that definitely exists in Number 10. 020
Kirstie Best @kirstiebest.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Without opening the link I knew it would be Matthew Syed, with his blithe 'it's quite simple' solutions to everything. 1410
mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 14/06/2026So Syed wants immigrants to take the high-paying jobs your graduate kids want, so they can harvest the sprouts for your Christmas dinner. Great idea! Syed is the ultimate faux-intellectual prick; Tommy Robinson with a better dictionary. 020
Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 14/06/2026They say that there isn't a magic money tree but there is nothing to stop us just taxing all foreigners living abroad. This is literally a no brainer! 020
Tom Pearson @tom7p.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Think Blair also said he would stop the boats, without saying how. 000
Jep @nsarbutts.bsky.social · 14/06/2026The comments will all be "My God Matthew, you should be PM, just do it" 050
Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Yes, we should indeed adopt the Australian style points system. Sorted! 010
Wokey42 @wokey42.bsky.social · 14/06/2026The drivel from Syed misses perhaps the most important aspect off these riots, the origin and motivation of rioters. Failing to call them out as loyalists, and understanding the reasons behind the riots is to miss the point by a country mile. Ballymena last year was exactly the same. 0253
Christine Green @whitehorsemews.bsky.social · 14/06/2026It’s very simple, really — as I keep telling those footballers. All they have to do is kick the damned ball into that netted thing. That’s all they have to do. I mean, how hard can it be? 070
The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 14/06/2026I would also just make changes to the economy so that we were all richer and make changes to the NHS so that people got better healthcare for less money. Easy to do do, but nobody has dared to do it properly. 725714
James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Surely the Monty Python “How to do it” school? youtu.be/tNfGyIW7aHM?...youtu.beMonty Python - How To Do ItYouTube video by feraldarryl 0442
sky2b.bsky.social @sky2b.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Another GB news style article from Murdoch's shit rag 040
Lord Dimonic Raabovitch of Brexshitia @deearghbee.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Arrogant simpleton with (arguably despite) an Oxford education believes his simple solutions will solve complex and contentious issues. Where have we seen that before? 000
